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The Coconino sun., 1909-10-15

Mr. and Mrs. H. J Gicquelais of Washington, D. C., arrived in the city this morning and are the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Eli Giclas. The gentlemen are brothers. Mir. H. J. Gicquelais is a prominent contract or for the government at the na- tional capitol. He and Mrs. Gicauelais are returning home from trip to the Seattle exposi- ton. MT. Gicquelais was so pleased with the northwest that he is thinking of locating in Spokane.
 Frank J. Stein has bought the bakery and confectionery business of c. A. Keller. Mir. Stein took charge of the business this morn ing.
 Mrs. Dempsey Powell and her brother, Eugene Milligan, of Cher ny Creek, are in the city.
 Mir. and Mrs. Kisker and child arrived yesterday from Cincinnati, and may make this city their home. Mrs. Kisker is sister of Mrs. Phil Rickel of this city.
 A daughter was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. F. w. Payne.
The Coconino sun., 1909-10-15
SecOnd- Hand Store

lust got three complete house. keeping outfits, and the've got to new Bridge X Beach S36. stove at SI2.5o. Mary had little lamb,
 It's fleece was white as chalk Our suits are made from this same
 fleece
 They win out in a walk: And when we sell a dude suit He calls on Mary Ann The wedding bells they quickly
 ring
 The neighbors rush the can. Now is the time--this is the place-to buy heater.
 We went to Los last week bought all kinds of stuff
 Spent nearly all of our SI8.oo. The sand IS ankle-deep below Kingman; handouts scarce. We told the agent to make our fall announcement
 He wired: "One empty going East.
 Our suits suit the suitor. We want furniture all the time.
The Coconino sun., 1909-10-15
Goes to Soldiers Home.

Rev. w. w. Havens, formerly president of the Arizona and New Meixco Anti Saloon League. has been in such poor health for some time that he has decided to enter the Soldiers home at Santa Monica. Mir. Ravens has many friends in Flagstaff. who will regret to learn of his poor health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07
Goes Ashore at Fort De France.
on Martinique,
On Being Notified He Couldn't
Land at Trinidad.
OTHER PORTS BARRED
Steamship Refused to Take Him
on to Colon.
Denies That He Intended to
Start Any Trouble.

Fort De France, Martinique, April
1-Cipriano Castro, in rage against
the British government and the state
department at Washington, left the
steamer Guadeloupe at this port today
and has taken up quarters on shore.
Finding all ports In the West Indies
excepting Fort De France barred
against him, his present course was
the only one left open to the former
Venezuelan dictator.
Senor Castro's wife will continue ON
board the Guadeloupe to La Guaira-
The American cruiser North
Carolina came into port today.
c.Itre The Guadsioups. Qua s,o on boar. board which
France. March 26. after four months
spent in Europe, came into Fort De
France late last evening. While at
Pointe-A-Pitre. on the island OF
touched yesterday, Castro was notified
by the British consul that the British
government had decided not to permit
him to disembark at Port of Spain.
Trinidad: consequently Castro decided
to leave the Guadeloupe here.
The decision of the British govern
ment, acting on a request from the
state department at Washington, not
to let him land at Trinidad, was un-
officially communicated to Castro. q
second time this morning. The for
mer president of Venezuela expressed
himself as exceedingly annoyed and
angry at this decision, which he
characterized as violation of the
rights of man.
He is furiously angry with the
American government and the French
Steamship company. The latter has
refused to let him continue on board
the Guadeloupe to Colon. After ex-
pressing his annoyance. at this un-
expected turn in his affairs, Castro
disclaimed the belltgerent intentions
with regard to the existing political
situation in Venezuela with which he
has been credited. and he declared
that his only purpose in returning to
Venezuela was to give his attention
to his private business. Castro will be
attended during his stay here by his
secretary and body servant. He ap-
pears still to be in III health.
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ROOF RIPPED OFF.
One $50 by 40 Feet Carried
into a Field
BY Cyclone Which Struck Wa
bash, Ind, Last Night.
MANY ARE INJURED.
Property Damaged to Extent of
Thousands OF Dollars.
Streets Are Made impossible by
Fallen Trees.

Wabash, Ind, April THE only
cyclone Wabash has known in 25
years, hit here last night, injuring
score of persons and doing thousands
of dollars worth of damage. The
storm struck the city at O'Clock,
passing through the northeast section
of the town. Dozens of houses were
demolished
The roof of the plant of the Mas
sillon Bridge company, $50 by 440
feet, was ripped off and hurled into a
field and 800 men were thrown out of
employment until the damage can be
repaired.
Pedestrians were injured by falling
signs and parts of the roofs, chimneys
and limbs of trees. Many women were
bowled over by the wind.
In small town smear Toledo con-
siderable damage was done. Many
houses were struck by lightning and
the occupants stunned, but there are
no reports of fatalities.
Mrs. James Hayes and four child
rem were pinned beneath the wreck
age of their home. which caught fire.
The mother was badly burned and
hurt. William Sheppard, wife and
two children were held beneath fallen
ruins until neighbors extricated them.
Wires went down and the city was
in darkness throughout the night.
the entire second story of the build
ing occupied by William Haines was
carried away. leaving the family in
their beds exposed to a drenching
rain. The wind was followed by a
cloudburst and the river rose, flooding
lowlands. Many bridges are washed
away The streets are impossible to-
day owing to fallen trees
-Four Factories Destroyed.
Peru. Ind. April IA tornado
struck this town at 8 o'clock last night
and destroyed four factories and sew
eral school buildings and wrecked
many small structures. Samuel Cornes
was caught under the wreckage when
his dwelling collapsed. He had three
ribs broken, a fractured arm and in
ternal injuries but may recover
Hundreds Out of Work.
Toledo, o., April Hundreds o1
men out of work, thousands of dol
lars damage and many persons slightly
injured are the results of a hurricane
that visited Toledo and vicinity today
Storm Reached Chicago.
Chicago, April IA gale averaging
4S miles with a maximum OF 90 miles
an hour. did much damage of a minor
nature in Chicago last night and to-
day. Several plate glass windows
were broken, trees blown down ano
sign boards, leveled. A portion OF the
roof of a West side school was loosen
ed and the slate shingles blown into
/ the street.
The fence around the new city hall
which is in course of construction
gave vay on the Washington street
Side. Although many persons were
na ssing none was injured. Work or
Pigb huiIdings was abandoned for e
time,
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STANDARDS DEFENSE.
1t Is Set Forth in the Argument Of
John G. Milburn.

st. Louis, Mo-, April John G..
Milburn senior counsel of the Stand
ard Oil company in the governments
suit to dissolve that concern for
alleged violation of the Sherman act.
resumed his narrative of the early
history of the Standard Oil company
today. 1t is Mr.. Milburn's contention
that the Standard has been a greatly
maligned corporation whereas as a
matter of fact, it had been the ma
tion's greatest developer of not only
local but foreign commerce.
Having told yesterday of John D.
/ Rockefeller's introduction to the oil
business through the acquisition of a
refinery in Cleveland in 1865, today
the New York attorney continued his
recital. He told first of the estab-
lishment of refineries throughout the
country, both prior and subsequent
to 1870 Mr. Milhurn said that these
investments had been very prosperous
at first, but later as a result of over
construction there had followed a de-
cline in profits
The rise and general development
of the Standard prior to the trust
agreement of 1882. was next taken up.
He told of the Standards early ele-
ments of stability, it's acquisition of
properties. including pipe lines down
to 1875, which he asserted had been
necessary to the development of the
corporations growing business and
also as one of the economies of the
new business Mr. Milburn next ex-
planned the organizatio and extension
Of the oil marketing business af-
ter 1875.
The Lubricating Field.
The lubricating field was then in
vaded. according to Mr.. Milburn, a
feature which the lawyer explained
with great care, especially as the ac-
ouisftion of 81 per cent of the coun-
try's railway fabrication by Stand
ard subsidiary company, the, Gaiena
Signal OIL company, through the
alleged weight of Rockefeller money
in the railway directorates, had been
one of the governments principal
charges against the defendants as
showing a tendency toward
monopolization. The defendants chief
counsel told of the establishment of
the mark citing stations for the lubrica-
tion business, and its causes and
effects
Mr.. Milburn discussed the facts
surrounding the Standards acquisition
of various miscellaneous properties
| which he said were only cidental to
| the corporations general expansion
and then took UP the properties prior
! to the trust agreement, narrating just
how and under what condition each
| concern was purchased or founded by
Standard OIL money
This is one of, if not the most I'M
! portant feature of the defendant
| cause, as 1t will insist that these
properties coming into the trust agree
ment were in no sense competing
I companies, and from the start were
/ com panies possessing distinctively a
| separate field in the oil world, and
therefore not competitive.
Smiling, Mr.. Milburn said:
"In all we have heard of the Stand
ard OIL we have never heard of any
standard Oil man being not loyal to
Il,
has there been a breath of suspicion
| against any of them"
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Query E,ro,n Venezuela.
HURT BY BL0ODHOUNDS.
Sheriff WfIlxerson Thrown Down Steps
by Man Hunters.

Sheriff John NJ. Wilkerson is confined
to his bed as the result of bad fall
last Friday. The sheriff was leading
two of his dogs by a chain down
fight of stone steps at the county Jail,
when the manhunters decided on op-
posite courses, jerked the chains
around his feet and tripped him. He
paid little attention to the hard fall.
and on Sunday took a prisoner to the
penitentiary, 1t has since developed
that two of his ribs are broken and a
shoulder sprained The fact that the
sheriff did not take to his bed imme-
diately because of two broken ribs is
nothing unusual Last fall he walked
around on broken leg for two months.
presuming that his ankle was sprained-
When the injpry failed to heal in due
time, an X-ray picture showed that the
bone was broken
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CONDITION IS LOW.
Average of s2.2 Per Cent as Compared
With 91.3 Last Year.

Washington, April IA winter
wheat average of S2.2 per cent of nor
NAL against 91.3 year ago, and rye
average of S7.2 against s9.1 a year
ago. were announced in the report of
the department of agriculture issued
today.
Winter wheat averaged S9.9 on
April l. 1907. and S6.6 on April 1, dur
ing the last ten years. The decline in
condition from December / last to
April 1 was 81 per cent, as compared
with an average decline in the last ten
years of 6 points.
The average condition of rye for ten
years on April 1 was S9.2.
The comparison for important win
ter wheat and rye states, giving con-
dition April 1, 1909, and 10 year aver
age for April 1. respectively, is given.
Winter wheat-Kansas. Sc and So:
Indiana. 6s and 81; Nebraska, SO and
90; Missouri. 70 and SO: Illinois. 70
and SO; Ohio, 60 and 81; Pennsyl-
vania. 81 and 81: Oklahoma. SO and
IS; California. SO and go: Texas. Sc
and so; Washington. 96 and 90;
Oregon, 81 and 90.
Rye-Kansas, S8 and 90: Oklahoma,
SO and 81: California. 81 and 93:
Texas. so and 80; Washington 81 ana
81; oregon, SO and 81.
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Highest Point in Twenty Years
With One Exception
Is Reached by the May Option in
Chicago Pit.
EUROPE VERY SHORT,
Estimated the Continent Will
Need so Million Bushels.
Market Is Also Affected by the
Backward Season.

Chicago, April 7.-On a sensational
opening wheat on the board of trade
today touched the highest point with
one exception in more than 20 years
First sales of May wheat were at s124
to $1.25H. the latter figure being y
cents higher than the close Monday
Opening figures for July wheat were
i ss a " to 2as q NC higher, sales
being made at $1.10 a IL.
Excitement was seething in the pit
before the reverberating clang of the
great gong announced the beginning
of the days business. Yesterday was
a holiday owing to the municipal
election, but during the speculative
idleness bullish news accumulated at
a rate which insured a record break
ing advance today.
Liverpool advanced yesterday ana
continued today. being reported Y
% 3 u over Mondays closing prices.
An English authority startled the
trade with an estimate that Europe
would REQUIRE SO million bushels from
America within the next four months.
Where this is to come from no traoer
was found today to explain. AS mol
eating the shortage Of the domestic
crop it is stated that Kansas City,
great shipping point for winter wheat,
for her own mills
Season Is Backward.
Rain was reported quite general in
the southwest today, but although
beneficial It is declared doubtful II the
crop will be matured in time for the
delivery on July contracts, owing 10
the dry autumn which is said to nave
greatly retarded growth.
How much the congested condition
of the May delivery has to do with
present conditions can be explained
only by the man who controls the
market and his only word Is that sup
ply and demand and not manipulation
are responsible for the advance.
In any event If the estimate of so mil
lin bushels needed for European con-
sumption is correct. it is said to be GER
tain that the continent will have to
pay a pretty penny to the American
farmer to say nothing of the big trader
who for months has been accommodating
a line estimated at 25 million bushels.
The highest previous price for May
wheat within 20 years was passed, ex-
cept during the Letter deal in 1898
when the price reached $1.85. At thar
time the price of bread in Europe, no
tably Italy. advanced so that the peas
antry suffered. Letter. however. lost
heavily on the deal.
The market worked within the
opening range of prices the remainder
of the session until a minute before
the close when May jumped in a flash
from s1.24% to $1-25 q. at which 1t
closed
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MOTION TO QUASH.
Is Being Argued in the Haskell Case
at Tulsa.

Tulsa. Okla, April 7.-When the
third days hearing of the case of
Governor Charles n. Haskell and the
half dozen other Oklahomans under
indictment charged with fraud in
Muskogee town lots began in the
United States court here TODAY.
Sylvester Rush, the special attorney
for the government made his argu-
ment for the prosecution. He directed
his argument against the motion of
the defense to quash the indictments
on the ground that he had conducted
the grand jury investigation at Mus
kogee improperly. Mr.. Rush severely
arraigned counsel for the defense and
denied that he had acted improperly
or attempted to bias witnesses that had
been called before the grand jury
He recalled that the grand jurors who
testified yesterday had said his con-
duct. had on the other hand been
proper.
Mr.. Rush was followed by Judge G..
D. Stuart for the defense.
1t was believed today that the argu-
ments would be concluded late in the
afternoon and that Judge Marshall
would hand down a decision tonight
on the motion to Quash.
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He ISLANDERS TOPEKA
w r. Sterne Credited With a Strange
Interview at San Diego.

c+arne who has served as
Tinted States marshal OF Kansas dA ~
as state senator from Shawnee County
and county Commissioners from the cieS
district, is credlteo VIII 1;ano cali
tonnding interview in San Diego, CaII-
fornia in which he misrepresents 10
neka his own home, and SlanderS the
state. His action is difficult OF com
prehension. In reply to a questloii
about the conditions in Topeha since ::
the saloons were closed MT oeetnH D;agn ~
Quoted as follows in the san Dlego
Union:
.srbev are most deplorable. as they are
in every other city in the state. ! 90 no not
want to speak disparaglngly OF ,,t ,e,
70 viii have nothing to say ABOUT men.
20 ~nIl are aware, the saloons for many
17eeTs were conducted under a system oI
ynonthly fines, in lieu of the liquor licenses,
MO- ai " the custom here. The enforcement
of the prohibitory law mas oeen 1 .ane,i a "a
of the hands of the county at.opnrs, sopnrs, 'f of
is lodged with the a'loi io'
the state.
11,fo,+unately Mr.. Sterne is not spe-
o;f;c in this instance. He says that con-
ditions in Topeka are depiorapie oue
does not say in what respect. me peo-
Me Of Topeka have been natterlns
themselves that conditlons IN AopeA"
arc the reverse of deplorable.
he saws that the law takes the en-
forcemerit of the liquor law out of the
hands of the county attorneys ano
! nIaces II in the hands OF the attorney
general 1t looks very much as II Mr.
Sterne is perverting the facts to make
a point No one has ever heard of the
attorney general taking any part In
the enforcement of the prohibitory law
l., topeka. County Attorney John
Schenck has proved himself fully ca
nabIe of handling the question and the
attorney general never takes any part
| in the enforcement of the law except
where county attorneys have refused OF
neglected to do so.
But here is the most astounding
| statement accredited to Mr.. Sterne:
"In Topeka we have seventy-two joints
| that know Of How many more there
NAV be I can not tell, but know they
exist These joints are the most disrepu-
| table places known to man. located in a
Cody city"
The charitable view to take of this
statement is that Mr.. Sterne was mis-
quoted There are not seventy-two
| Joints in Topeka nor half nor third o.
| that number Mr.. Sterne does not know
| of seventy-two joints in Topeka nol
| does any other man on the face of the
| earth for they are not here and 1t is
possible that the representative of the
| Liberal Alliance" who interviewed
Mr.. Sterne changed the figures in order
| to make the statement stronger.
/ But here is another Of these astound-
I ing statements which. however in this
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was much more than was expected
Captain Wintrode has been marshal of
the court of Topeka for number of
years and he received a good majority
at the primaries. William Van Ness as
councilman from the First ward has
done a great work for his people in the
city council and it was never thought
that he would be deserted in this man
ner. His opponent, D. B. Fink, has
been planning and campaigning
enough to get good lead before the
busy councilman was aware of his
danger.
In the vote for mayor Logan received
many more votes than the Democrats
had planned for him. 1t was known
yesterday afternoon that the druggists
and other people who have been an
tagonized by the square deal mayor
would line up with the Democrats but
it was not thought that the Democrats
would obtain such a following. The
town tellers'' of politicians have it
figured out this way: The Republicans
over the city thought that their party
was safe and sound and they paid lit
tie attention to the election. The
Democrats came out in full force and
TCoutfuuad On Pare EaGhtN
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HE CHOSE The LASH.
Man Preferred 1t to Jail as Punish
ment.

Vancouver, April THE whipping
post as a punishment for a crime
against a young girl was brought into
use at Wattsburg. a milling town in
the Crows Nest Pass district.
A young man named Anderson con-
fessed to having attempted to entice a
girl of tender years. Mayor e. j.
Watts gave him his choice of a jail
sentence or the lash. The prisoner
chose the lash. He was stripped and
commanded to place his hands above
his head as leaned forward against the
Flagstaff in the front yard of the court
house The lash was then applied
vigorously on his back. Every stroke
brought forth cries for mercy. Ander-
son left the city later.
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1T is WARMER TO-DAY.
There Was Light Frost Last Night
-Another Tonight.

1t warmed up SO suddenly this
morning that only few early risers
saw the frost, but the frost was there.
The temperature on the ground was
at the freezing point. but registered
33 at the weather bureau. Another
frost is predicted for tonight, and a
near-freezing temperature.
The only weather station in Kan
sas to report any rainfall for the past
"a hours, was Dresden, in the north
west corner. A quarter of an inch of
moisture fell at that point. Seven
stations in the state reported a tenn
perature below freezing.
This afternoon the wind blows over
Topeka at the rate of fifteen miles
per hour from the northwest. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07
THE MAN IN THE CASE.
Has Made His Appearance in the
Testimony at Sampson Trial.

Lyons. N. Y. April Mrs. Mary E.
Allyn, mother of the defendant, testf-
fled today in the trial of Mrs. Georgia
Allyn Sampson, charged with the muir
der of her husband, Harry Sampson.
Before the opening of court it was
learned that the young man who wrote
Mrs. Sampson the letter which is al
legged to have precipitated a quarrel
between the Simpsons, just before the
shooting. was a resident of Niagara
Falls. and that his name was likely to
figure prominently in the case from
now on.
Mrs. Allyn has been ill for sometime
and she spoke in a weak voice. She
after her husband had gone to the rail-
road station. She heard Harry Samp-
sons cry of "Oh. oh, OH she said,
as he rain into the dining room. "as
Harry came in the dining room,'' said
Mrs. Allyn, "he had his arms folded
he had done but he did not answer" "
Mrs. Allyn broke down while tell
ing of the death scene and wept. Re
suming her testimony Mrs. Allyn said
her daughter Georgia came in the room
and after looking at her husband said:
1T can't be so. 1t can't be so.' The
mother said that Georgia and Harry
had some words the night before the
shooting.
THAT Sunday morning" said Mrs.
Allyn, Il went into their kitchen.
said to them that they ought to try to
fix it up. Harry said there was no use
of talking about it,
Mrs. Allyn testified that she had
burned the letter which caused the
quarrel 1t was postmarked Niagara
Falls she said, and was signed Rob
| ert Manson.
| Testifying as to the contents of the
letter, Mrs. Allyn said that the writer
had asked Georgia Sampson and a
agara Falls and spend a few days and
have good time.
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THEY CAN'T FIND HIM.
Crazy Snake Still Remains Successful
Iy Hidden.

Guthrie. Okla. April 7.-Crazy
Snake, the fugitive Indian chief, still
remains in hiding. Up to this after
noon nothing had been heard from
his son, who three days ago hSd
started in company with a deputy
marshal in an effort to locate his faith
eP.
Captain Han fitage of Colonel Roy
Hoffman's staff of the state militia, re-
turned to Guthrie today and reported
everything quiet in the neighborhood
OF Hickory Grounds, Crazy Snakes
old home
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OPINION IS FILED.
Attorney Generals Position on Ma
tionaI Bank Guaranty.

Washington. April ATTORNEY
General Wickersham in an opinion
submitted to the secretary of the
treasury, holds that national banks of
Kansas have no right to participate
in the assessments and benefits of the
bank depositors' guaranty fund under
the provisions of a recently enacted
law by that state, on the same terms
and conditions as apply to the state
banks. The decision says that onlv
an act of congress can confer such
powers upon national banks.