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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
HOURS NOT TO Be INCREASED
NOR WILL SALARIES OF OF
FICIALS BE ADVANCED.
President Roosevelt Does Not Want
the Cost of Government Made
Any Greater.

Tie report published this morning that
the President is considering the question
of increasing the daily hours Of service
of government clerks by half ain hour
brought forth an informal denial from
the White House today. 1t was said in
this connection. however. that as a meas
ure of economy the President had d.
rected that in the annual estimates to be
submitted to Congress next month no
provision be made for an increase in the
salaries of government officers. This Or
der was issued to heads of the executive
departments two or three weeks before
the election.
The Fifty-ninth Congress increa sed the
salaries of senators and repres ,nta tives,
and at the first session of the Sixtieth
Congress increases were made in the
pay of army. navy. marine corps and
revenue cutter officers and in the sala-
rieS of several assistant secretaries of
executive departments. 1t was proposed
that a number of other salary increases
should be made at the coming session
of Congress, affecting other assistant
secretaries and certain bureau and di-
vision chiefs and other officers of the
government. The President has set his
foot down hard on this plan. 1t is still
In the power of Congress. of course, to
order increases, but the President has di-
rected that the executive departments
shall not include any of these increases. in
the annual estimates. The order was
given. it was explained today. as meas
ure Of economy There is large treas
ury deficit already in the current fiscal
year. and the uncertainties attending the
coming revision of the tariff and its
effect on the revenues of the government
make It advisa BILE. the President thinks,
to avoid as far as possible any increase
in the expenses of running the govern
ment..
course, have any effect on the regular
promotions of clerks in the classified civil
service
Reports of heads of departments We're
considered at the cabinet meeting today
and all Of these fail to make recommended
tions for increased salaries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
MAKES POLICE NAB THEM
Leaving Courtroom After Denying
Cleveland Forgery.
COULD UNDERSTAND LINGO
So He Saves District Attorney Mar
shall's Life-But Prisoners
Say 'Tain't So.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, November 17.-Broughton
Brandenburg, magazine writer, who sold
to the New York Times an article pur-
porting to have been written by the late
Grover Cleveland and now said to be a
forgery, was arraigned before Judge Ro-
salsky in general sessions this morning.
where he pleaded not guilty to the indict-
ment charging him with grand larceny,
second degree. The trial was set for No
vember 30
According to Brandenburg his knowl-
edge of the Greek language enabled him
to prevent a possible tragedy. While leav-
ing the court he had to make his way
through crowd of witnesses and others
clustered about the door.
AS Brandenburg passed by three men,
evidently foreigners, although dressed in
up-to-date American-cut garments, he
was suddenly caught. he says, by this
remark, which one of the trio uttered in
Greek in an undertone to one of his COM
panions:
I'll give him the knife and then you
give him the pistol
Brandenburg Plays Detective.
Brandenburg halted instantly and lis
tened. The three talked together in a
husky whisper.
BY gradually elbowing in closer and
closer he got enough of their converse
| lo bal;
derous assault was planned against Dis
trict Attorney Marshall. He thinks he
heard the name Marshall several times
Brandenburg slipped away to find help
Across the corridor he came upon sew
eral detectives.
By this time the group of Greeks had
been swelled by the arrival of fourth
man. who stepped up to the others jus,
as the detectives closed in and grabbed
them.
The prisoners were rushed to the dis
trict attorneys floor and searched. One
who called himself George kakalos had
under his coat huge dirk with twelve
inch blade, sharp as a needle. An older
man, who said he was Stephen karam-
hus, carried a big revolver fully loaded.
The third of the original group, Paul Ia
Falos, carried newly sharpened razor.
All Deny Wrongdoing.
The fourth man, John Bekus. was not
armed. He protested that he had never
seen the others before, but. recognizing
them as countress,.9, had s>s.oped for a
word or two just as the Etedases
swooped down.
The men could speak only fragments of
broken English. In the absence of an
Interpreter they were taken at once to
police headquarters to he examined. After
their first denials of any intention of
wrongdoing all Of them became sulkily
silent.
Mr.. Marshall knew of no reason why
any one should desire to injure him. He
Is an ex-foOt ball star. a champion at
hand ball and golf. and one of the best
prosecutors on the staff of the district
attorney.
He has handled some Of the biggest
criminal cases of recent months. Mr.
Jerome is personally devoted to Mr.. Mar
shall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
LORO FAIRFAX GETS TITLE
CLAIM UPHELD
BY BRITISH PEERS.
Was Commander of Com
monwealth Army and Defeated
Charles 7 at Naseby.

Special Cablesram TO The Star.
LONDON, November 17.-The commit
tee on PRIVILEGES of the house Of lords
considered this morning the claim Of AL
bert Kirby Fairfax to the title, honor
and dignity of Lord Fairfax Of Cameron
After hearing evidence the committee
found that the claim was substantiated.
Albert Kirby Fairfax was born in
American in 1871 at Northamton. Va. He
is the son Of Dr. John Conte Fairfax, and
as such he is the twelfth peer of the line
of Fairfax, inheriting his title from his
father. For many years Lord Fairfax
was associated with the banking house
of Barring. Magoun & Co., in Wall street.
and IN 1902 he went to England as the
representative of an international bank
ing concern. He remained in England
until 1904, taking his place among the
other Scottish peers at King Edward S
coronation.
His petition 10 the house Of lords for
the right to assume his inherited title was
necessary for him to secure the legal use
of the title. Otherwise there was never
any question as to it's authenticity. rhe
granting of the petition does not, how
ever. carry with it the right to a seat IN
the house of lords unless Eord Fairfax is
legally elected as a representative peer
of Scotland.
The FairfaXes have been prominent in
English history since the second Baron
Fairfax. Ferdinando who was a parIia- =
mentary leader in the civil war and who
fought at Adwalton Moor Selby and
Marston Moor. Thomas, third Baron
Fairfax. was also parliamentary leader
and was commander in-chief of the par
liamentary army in l645, when Charles
was defeated by him at Naseby > On the
esta bliShment of the commonwealth he
was reappointed commander-in-chi Of
all the forces of England and Ireland, but
resigned in 1860 because OF conscientious
scruples about invading Scotland The
first Fairfax to come to America was
Thomas. sixth of the line, who was SO
fascinated by the estate of ), 400, ,OOO acres
lying between the Potomac and Kappa
hammock rivers in Virginia. an estate left
to him by his father who married the
daughter of Lord Culpepper. whose dowry
the estate was. that he left England and
settled In this country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
FIRE IN ARMY WAREHOUSE.
Medical Storeroom Is Damaged t,
Extent of $4,000.

NEW YORK. November 17.-The big
warehouse used by the United States
Army as medical supply storeroom for
the Department of the East. at 1898 to 3s5
Washington street, was seriously dam
aged by fire today. The fire was con-
fined to the sixth floor. where 1t started,
but fully $4,000 worth OF tents. .blan-
usets, cots and other bedding stored there
we're ruined. the building itself was
damaged and the fifth floor. which is
used for Offices, was flooded by water.
IT is believed that medical stores val
ned at S400. 900 in the lower floors OF the
building escaped damage.
The fire started in the bedding on the
sixth floor from some unknown cause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
TO RAISE NAVY YARD PAY
RECOMMENDATIONS APPROVED
BY ACTING SECRETARY.
Proposed to Increase the Salaries Of
About $50 Craftsmen, Clerks and
Assistant Inspectors. -

Acting Secretary Newberry has ap-
proved recommendations made by the
commandant of the Washington navy
yard for increases ranging from 4 to 10
per cent in the salaries of about laU en-
ployes at that yard. These employees are,
craftsmen. CLERKS and assistant in
spectors. and the increases in compensa-
tion are provided for by the lump appro-
priations for the various classes of work
in the several yards. The effect Is to
bring the rate of pay up to that of simi-
lar kinds OF work in the other branches of
the government service.
Similar increases in salaries have been
approved in the cases of about loo en-
ployes at all the other navy yards in the
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
RACING AUToIsT KILLED.
Stricker's Car Making Sixty Miles
an Hour When Wrecked.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, November lin
car making speed OF more than sixty
miles an hour in an effort to lower the
twenty fOur-hOur automobile record.
Emile Stricken a native of Alsase-I.or-
raine. was almost instantly killed on the
fair grounds track here today
Leonard Barrows of Birmingham. who
was also in the car. was seriously though
not fatally injured.
At clock last night Lewis Strang and
Emile Stricken began the effort to lower
the tWenty-fOur- ur-hOur record. Strang was
relieved by Stricken at 12:4s this morning
Stricken began making terrific speed al
most Immediately
The track was poorly lighted. When
the car dashed around the curve at the
west end of the track at better than a
sixty-mile clip, one-tire exploded followed
quickly by the explosion of second tire.
In an instant the car was wreck
Stricken and Barrows were picked up and
hurried to hospital. Stricken died before
medical aid reached him.
Stricken was scheduled to drive car
in the grand automobile races at Savan-
nah, Thanksgiving day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
NEW FISHING ENTERPRISE.
British Company to Equip Half Mil
lion Station at Prince Rupert.

VICTORIA, u. G.. November IA
fishing business involving feet of half
a dozen small fishing steamers a fast
steel steamer to collect fish from the sta
tions to be established at Prince Rupert
Graham and Morris Bay islands and other
ers of the North sea type and the ex-
pc nditure OF half million dollars in
equipment generally will be established
next summer by tn. Canadian Pacific
Trading and Development Company with
Robert Burton of London. England at it's
head.
a representative of a group OF London
financiers interested in the project has
arrived from the Queen Charlotte Is
lands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
FIGHTING COAL TRUST.
Hearing Resumed in Government s
Suit Against the Anthracite.

SCRANTON. Pa. November 17.-With
independent operators as the principal wit
nesses to be examined. the hearing in
the suit of the United States government
to dissolve the alleged anthracite coal
trust was resumed in TINS city today before
c. II. Guilbert. who was appointed by the
federal court in Philadelphia to take tes-
timony in the case.
Rapid progress is now being made in the
suit, several hearings having been held
within the last few weeks. Among the
Independent operators to be examined at
the Scranton hearings is John c. Had
dock of Wilkesbarre. who gave evidence
unfavorable to the large coal companies
during the sessions of the anthracite coal
commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
NICHOLAS oFFUTT INDICTED.
Trial for Kretzemer Killing Set TO
Term Beginning Thursday.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, November 1.-THE
grand jury now in session here returned a
large batch Of indictments today, includ-
ing one against Nicholas Ofrutt for the
killing of Frank Kretzemer. The case
has been docketed for trial at the criminal
term which begins here Thursday and as
it is not thought a change OF Venue will
be asked. the case will probably be tried
at that term. recess may be taken to
enable the defense TO prepare its case.
The Indictment against Offutt was ready
TO be returned yesterday, but the court
was not in session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
Lawson's Daughter Narrowly Es.
capes Death.

CHICAGO. November 17.-Miss Marion
Lawson, daughter Of Thomas w. Lawson.
the Boston financier. and Mrs: Prentiss L.
Cooniey of Lake Forest. a Chicago sub
urb. narrowly escaped death early yester-
day morning. when the CoOnley automo-
bile. in which they were riding to the
Northwestern railway station lin Lake
Forest. was wrecked. hurting the, occu-
pants of the car to the ground almost i'm
front of the fast approaching train. <On
nearing the railroad tracks at high speed
the car skidded across the street. No
one was injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
EXPERT OPENS VAULT.
Receiver Secures 5000, 900 in Funds
of Defunct Finance COMPANY.

CHICAGO. November I1.-With a drill
and d Jimmy an expert cracksman en-
pioyed by Receiver Francis \. Peabody
Yesterday opened the vault of the Mer-
camille Finance Company which has been
under guard for four weeks. Securities
which are expected TO SATISFY claims
amounting To 100000 were taken from
he vault by the receiver.
The receivership was forced upon the
Mercantile Finance Company. a concern
Incorporated in New Jersey. because Of
the refusal of Thomas Rhoadus to give
up the. combination in compliance with
an order of the court.
The Mercantile Finance Company acted
as agent for the Central Life Securities
company and the Mercantile Securities
Company. the latter two concerns now
being in charge of Receiver J. c. Fetzer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
Two Die on Transport Buford.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 1.-Two
deaths during the voyage are reported by
the transport Buford. which arrived yes
terday from Manila and Nagasaki Ed
ward Morse. a private of cath Infantry.
died of Asiatic cholera September 49, the
ship being quarantined five days at Maya
saki; Lawrence FORSTER, private of the
2:;d Infantry, succunfbed to pulmonary
tuberculosis November I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
COL. w. L. CALHOUN DEAD.
Confederate Veteran and Once
Mayor of Atlanta. GA.

ATLANTA, Ga. November l6.-Col.
William Leondes Calhoun. aged seyeny-
one. prominent Confederate veteran and
former mayor OF Atlanta. :;ed here to-
day. His father. James NJ. Calhoun, a
native OF South Carolina. was mayor of
Atlanta from ls62 To 1865,
Col. Calhpup was for many years prom
inent in Georgia National Guard circles
and was at the head Of the 18th Regi-
mcnt He was ordinary of Fulton county
for twenty years and was mayor of At
lanta for several terms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
OHIO TREASURER DEAD.
State Official Passes Away at Ash
tabula Today.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. November IL
William S. Mckinnon. state treasurer,
died at his home in Ashtabula, Ohio, early
today. Mr.. McKinnon was fifty-six years
old.
+ He had been in ill-health for more than
q year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
Weather:

Fair tonight: temperature
about 20 degrees. "Wednesday
fair: warmer. Light variable
winds. becoming southerly.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12
KILLED IN A
Mining SHAFT

John r. Walker, one of the best
known mining men of Western Ne
vada, was instantly killed in a sha t
at Reservation Hill, Walker Lake, on
Saturday afternoon. A dispatch con-
tanning the information received by
the Reno Journal, does not give any
particulars except that he fell down
the shaft.
Walker was at one time a rancher
at Lovelock. Later he was rail
road man and lived at Wadsworth.
He saved competency and retired
from the railroad. going to Kern
county, where he became engaged i'll
the oil business,
In fight over some oil ground
near Bakersfield one night, he and
another man were shot to pieces AMI
he brought suit for $4,000 damages
against some of the most prominent
oil men in California.
He returned to Nevada when Gold
field was struck and has been work
ing in various districts in this State
since that time.
Walker was a quiet man. wei
thought of by all who knew him. He
was about SIS years of age, unmaf.
ried, and at one time had sister
who lived on ranch in the Biz
J Meadows, at Lovelock
1t is stated his holdings at Reserv
alton Hill are valuable and he stated
a few days ago in Reno that he ex
pected to make fortune out of then
before the year ended
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12
finest SHOW in
BUTLER CAREER

The Butler theater has one of the
finest programs in its career this
week. The first picture, Animated
Snowballs," is very comical, AMI
shows the funny predicament that
father is placed in trying to stop his
disobedient daughter from skating
with her sweetheart. The illustrated
march song, "Floradora." is verY
pretty and Billy Walker renders 1t
exceptionally we'll The next pic
ture, "A Charmed Sword is view
showing a fairy with sword made
by her servants of the underworld
for a prince whom she has fallen in
love with. Caught is a very cool
representation of how a crook AMI
his pals loot a pawn shop. The de-
tectives are placed on the trail and
by some clever Sherlock Holmes work
they manage to catch the thieves.
Jim Calhoun, the funny coon,' does
a singing and dancing speciality that
pleases everybody. 'Aniamted Gar
bage" is view of tramp, after be-
ing elected from a lodging house,
concludes to spend the night in a
garbage can. During his stay he has
many unpleasant occurrences A rag
picker mistakes him for a bundle of
rags and finally he is picked up b.
the garbage man and put in the
wagon and hauled to the paper mill.
He manages not to be tangled up in
the machinery by getting out just in
time When the Harbor Lights Are
Burning" is an exceptionally pretty
ballad and Mr. Walker makes quite
a hit in his rendition of it. The last
picture, The Water Babies, or The
Chimney Sweep" is taken from that
famous story of Chas. Kingsley of til :
same name. The settings are excen'
tionally beautiful and the characters
we'll portrayed. The story is of q
poor little chimney sweep, who i
cruelty beaten by his father and fin
ally falls into the ocean and is drown.
ed. The mermaids take fancy &c
the boy and turn him into water.
baby. The father. while in drunke,
stupor, falls into the ocean and il
also precipitated to the bottom, whery
! he meets and recognizes his son. Tho
father attempts to again maltrea1
the lad and is turned into fish
Both performances were witnesse-
| by crowded houses and we'll the,
might be, for surely no one can speal
but in the highest terms of prais,
| for it,
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12
Tells OF STRIKE
At OPHIR CREEK

SEATTLE, WASH, May 1.-THE
new strike on Ophir Creek on the
Inooko river, Alaska, is one of the
richest in the north, according to a
letter from Michael Connelan, writ
ten at Gerdi City, which is named
after Ole Gerdi, who made the dis
.covery The dirt on Gerdi's claim,
'Connelan says, averages from 81 to
$150 to the pan, and it is now i'm
possible to get a location nearer this
claim than fifteen miles Gerdi holds
his claim at 100000
The new discovery is no ''spot" de-
post, Connelan declares, but ricn
dirt is found at great distances
apart There is no opportunity to
acquire claims. as the owners are
excited and are demanding impos-
sible prices. Representatives of
Nome and Fairbanks capital are al
ready on hand and are acquiring the
best properties.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12
WILLING TO GIVE
UP Stolen ORE

CARSON, New. May 11.-Pray Il
l.angdon. the former residing in Ca ).
son City number OF years ago,
agreed to deliver alleged stolen or,
TO the Mohawk Mining Company. AMI
stipulation was entered into in the
suit filed in the Federal Court agoil 1
the TWO men tor the recovery of :,tc
ore The two men were conducting
an assay office in Goldheld and il is
alleged They purchased high grad
from thieving miners. who worke !
on The Mohawk property. The.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12
SOCIETY WOMEN
IN PANIC STATE

CLINTON, ILL.,, May 11.-Con-
sternation reigns among more than a
score of women well known in so
ciety circles of Clinton and Decatur
as the result of a rumor that the al
torneys for Richard Smell, the disir-
herited son of the aged millionaire,
Colonel Thomas Smell, who is fighting
for his share of his fathers 5000
600 estate. have unearthed a host of
letters written by women to the old
man, through which they preyed upon
his senile love mania to wheedle hin.
out of large sums of money.
The letters are said to be more
startling than those of Edna Hamii-
ton. the young girl whose ardent love
missives to old Smell were carefully
interspersed with requests for caS.e.
Efforts to prevent plans to read thest.
letters at the second trial of the case.
which has been set for May IS, hava
$50 far proved futile. Richard SHELLS
lawyers declare they are necessary to
prove the elder SMELLS insanity at thu
time he executed the will. and no
plea to save the regulations OF the
women concerned has had any effect
upon them
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12
GALLAGHER HAS
A TRYING DAY
CRY Associated Press,

SAN FRANCISCO. May 1l.-Jas.
Gallagher. chairman of the finance
committee and leading member of the
Schmitz board OF supervisors. had
another trying day ON the witness
stand in the trial of Abraham Rncf
for whom he confessed To having
acted as agent in various bribe...'
transactions Gallaghers examine
ton was concluded late this aztec
noon. Jennings Phillips. former su-
pervisor. whom Ruef through Gal
laEher, is charged with having offer
cd hrihe Of S1aoa. was placed on
the stand tonight
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
THE NEW CAMPS.

why rush into districts when the
TO
viii Mining Record replies
this question tell just why
fitting
branch There who
Astor fool to embark in the will
niss cities of today and his
lneas always tell
We do
will become world bonanza Sometimes the districts
solid
will into oblivion
the old trails of other and where
the of the pioneers posi-
rio and the later
its original discovery Every gold copper silver
who arisen
The hills
who that is not to have
back of all
the principle of do and try
chase Many
rather than condemn those who
that consideration that is
.aiwa in some the pioneer
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12
Judge 0'Brien Decides
Against BOtSfOrd
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
(By Associated Press.


GOLDFIELD New May 11.Superior Judge OBrien today
handed what is known the Botsford
j. Hutchinson l.. c. Van Ripper 10000
shares the of which
against Botsford part
him the sale the Combination
to He
Consolidated commission the stock
being Hutchinson and Van
twohrds commission claiming
partner transaction but by
broker Botsford the witness stand
the
O the option
combination He also to having parted with 5000
and paid engineer $4,000 for
The awarded Hutchinson Van
Ripper thirty the $4,000
paid the engineer.
n a "A a n -
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12

started with the booty to San Fran
cisco, but were caught at Hazen nd
placed under arrest, the ore also be-
ing seized by the officers. They were
tried and found guilty in the State
court in Chuchill county, but LAIR
the decision was reversed because the
proceedings should have been brought
in Esmeralda county.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-12
DIDN'T CARE mow HE WENT.

Would-be passenger (out of breath
from running) When does the half
past five train leave?
-Five-thirty.
Well, the church clock
MS twenty-seven minutes past, the
postofiice clock is twenty-five minutes
past, and your clock is thirty-two
minutes. Now, which clock am to
go by?
Porter-Yer can so by any clock
yer like, but the trains gone. Phil
:adelphia InQuirer.