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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
ProOision of Philippine
Land Laws Is
Set Aside
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Attorney
WI General Wickersham has rem

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Attorney
wv General Wickersham has rem
W dered an opinion for the war de-
partment that the Philippine govern
ment has the power to sell the "Friar
lands" in the Philippines in any num-
Der of acres desirable. notwithstand-
ing the ordinance act of the Philip
pine government, which limited the
sale Of the unapportioned public lands
obtained by treaty with Spain to 40
acres.
The opinion is in opposition to the
provision of the organic act OF the
Philippine islands government which
limited the sale of the unapportioned
public lands obtained by treaty with
Spain to 40 acres.
In developing the sugar industry
of the islands, individuals desired to
purchase the $4,000 acres contained
in the San Jose estate on the island
of Mindoro, which was purchased
from the friars by the United States
and which has never been occupied.
1t was argued that no attempt to sell
this land in 40-acre tracts would de-
feat the proposed use of the lands.
This decision does not modify the
law providing that no corporation en-
gagged in agriculture shall hold more
than $500 acres. 1t Is said the so
called sugar trust is the prospective
purchaser.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
Child Appears to Be
An IUeterdte
Thief

CT. LOUIS, Dec. 23.-An 8-year-old
girl is being held by the police
as the baby shoplifter." She is
Annie Pavlinski and has been arrested
three times for theft. She spent two
weeks in the industrial school and
escaped. She has run away from
home dozens of times and makes a
practice of slipping out of bed after
her family is asleep and pilfering
money from her father and her big
brother, Tony.
She was found asleep in a hallway,
scantily clad and blue with cold. A
policeman took her to the police ma
tron, where it was learned she had
run away from home Tuesday after
rifling her brothers pockets of $1.50.
Annie's first attempt was robbing a
notion store of so cents worth of toys.
She was arrested, but the proprietor
refused to prosecute her.
Two weeks later, on July 20, she
entered a grocery store, concealed her
self under the counter and stole $13
from the grocer's till. Her invest
ments in candy and toys caused sus-
picion. She was arrested again and
sentenced to the industrial school.
Fourteen days later she reappeared
at home, having escaped.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
nine DEAD
IN A Mine
Feared That Score or
More Are Buried
In Workings

A ARION, ILL.,, Dec. 23.-Nine men
WE are known to have been killed
-" and a score more are entombed
as the result OF an explosion in the
Squirrel Ridge Mine No. 4, near Her
rim, this county, late today. Parties
of rescuers are at work and exact
details of the disaster can not be
learned until they have reported.
The bodies of w. c. Pierce, mine
surveyor, Walter Rutledge and two
unidentified Italians have been recov-
cred.
Grave fears are expressed for the
safety of other workmen in the mine.
So far as can be learned the explo-
sion was confined to one entry. A
hasty roll call OF the mine employees
has accounted for nearly all the mem
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kIEW YORK, Dec 2S.-W Gould
IV Brokaw, whose wife is suing him
for separation with alimony OF
100000 year, took the stand in his
own defense today. He said that his
father-in-law, Joseph A. Blair, had
threatened to kill him because he
loved his wife too much. When he
told Mrs. Brokaw of this she laughed
and said:
Don't mind, father, Billy; he's
crazy"
Mr.. Brokaw described the night
when his wife took poison. In minute
detail his lawyer led him through the
two years of their married life, with
painstaking attention to charges of
drunkenness and abusive language,
brought against him in the testimony
of his wife.
Brokaw made a good witness. His
attitude was easy and his answers
were ready and firm. Occasionally he
peered daintily through lorgnette in
examining papers submitted to him.
Mrs. Brokaw was a little pale and
muffled in furs. Her head tossed
scornfully when her husbands testi-
mony contradicted her own and She
coughed constantly with a nervous
little hack
Brokaw said that he never had been
drunk in his life.
"The times when Mrs. Brogaw said
was drunk" he testified, my face
was flushed from long walk or
drive"
II never struck anyone in my life"
he swore. Mrs. Brokaw knows l
could not harm her"
He admitted that he had called his
wife liar.
YES" he said, Il called her liar.
but not until she had called me a
damn liar had been out, but when
came back, bringing her flowers,
she accused me of meeting some wom-
an. l denied 1t. She said l lied, and
had to tell her the same"
Brokaw said his wife had smoked
cigarettes before their marriage and
that she had promised him to stop 1t.
He had never seen her drink cock
tails, but he had understood from the
servants that cocktails were taken to
her room, on the sly.
will you tell the court OF your
drinking agreement with your wife?
asked John F. Mcintyre, his counsel.
YES" answered Brokaw. We
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
Counter Propositions
Made BY Parties in
The Controuersu
ASKS STATU QUO
Railroads Want Men to Go Back "a
Work, Agreeing to Accept Terms Of
Agreement to Be Reached In Chs.
cago, but Strikers Make Another
Proposition, Asking Arbitration,

~. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 2S.-At a con-
ference in the office of Governor
Eoerhart today, attended by reD-
resentatives OF the railway council d,
the American Federation of Labor and
OF the Twin City lines affected BY the
switchmen's strike, propositions were
made by both sides looking to the set
tlement of the strike.
No agreement was reached and il
was agreed to meet again tomorrow
The conference was attended by
Governor Eberhart, by his secretarv
Ralph w. Wheelock; by members of
the state railway commission and by
state Labor Commissioner McEwan.
The proposition of the railroads rs
TO employ as many former employees
as they have room for, under the
present agreement until the termina-
tlon of the conference now going on
between switchmen and railroads in
the Chicago district, when the Twin
City roads will agree to meet any wage
increase or any working conditions
granted the switchmen of the Chicago
lines.
In their proposition the sWitchmen
agree to arbitrate under the arbitra-
tion act of 1898, but insist that sepa-
rate negotiations be conducted with
the Twin City lines. The proposition
Of the railroads to Governor Eberhart
follows:
"A conference between representa-
tives of the railroads in the Chicago
district and representatives of the
swithcmen is now in progress to de-
termine a scale of wages and the es-
tablishment of working conditions for
that district
Rates of wages in the Chicago dis
trict and in the Minnesota cities for
switchmen have been identical and the
working conditions similar.
Representative of the Twin City
lines have confirmed by majority vote
the report to your excellency that the
roads affected will agree to e-employ
such of their former yard employees
as the roads may have places for, at
the rates OF pay and under working
conditions in effect Nov. 1, 1909, and
that at the termination of the Chicago
conference the lines here represented
will meet any additions in rates OF
pay or working conditions that may be
granted by the Chicago lines to their
switchmen, and that, as heretofore an
nounced, the differential of 2 cents
per hour in the wages of Switchmen
will apply in the territory of Billings
and west on the Northern Pacific rail
way and in the territory of Havre and
west on the Great Northern railway.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
Schley,s Bon1bsheN Stirs
Up Geographic Society
Scientists Wax Wroth at Suggestion
OF Retired Seaman That Their
Findings Need Very7cation

among the membership OF the Nation
al Geographic society, which gives
Peary a clean bill of health.
Leading members claim that the
scientists of the United States would
be demeaning themselves IL they ac-
knowledged that their findings needed
verification. There seems to be no
disposition to withhold from the Cop
enhagen board the data filed by
Peary, but there is a well-defined op-
position against turning it over to
the Danish scientists for verihcation.
The argument advanced by Admiral
Schley that such examination would
remove all question of doubt from the
claim of Peary is accepted as rather
gratuitous. The records of Peary
have been found unimpeachable by
American scientists and therefore the
question is not whether Peary is
right, but whether the scientists are
wrong.
Nothing can be gained by submit
ting Commander Peary's data to the
University of Copenhagen" said Pro-
fessor Gannett, chairman of the COM
mittee that passed upon Peary's
pIOOlSB dAu NOA oOS any USdoUn
why he should. The committee that
passed upon his papers is fully quail
fed to arrive at an unbiased conclu-
sion, notwithstanding that almost
every member is acquainted with
Commander Peary, and need not say
that the Investigations were carried
on along scientific lines, without re-
gard to the personality or the stand
ing of either claimant"
Rear Admiral Chester, who at
tackled Cooks data some time ago,
denounced the proposition of Admiral
Schley as absurd" He declared
that he did not believe that the Uni
versity of Copenhagen would consider
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
UNCROWNED QUEEN WINS 4
POINT OVER HER ENEMIES

PONTOISE France, Dec. 23.-The
court today decided in favor of Bar
oness Vaughan and orders the re-
moval of the seals which have been
placed upon her, property at Ballin-
court Attorneys for the daughters
of the late King Leopold had sought
to seize the residence given to the
baroness by their father and as a
first step had placed seals indicat-
ing the claim of ownership upon the
property.
At the same time the court ordered
that an inventory be made of the con-
tents of the chateau with the excep-
ton of the personal effects of the
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
BROTHERHOOD MEN FORCED
OUT BY THE BUTTE MINERS

BUTTE, Mont. Dec. 23.--All those
switchmen who are members of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
and who, in consequence of an order
from National Vice President McIn-
tyre of their order, returned to work
here a week since, are out here again,
local labor union committees, among
them men from the miners union,
having formally notified the men that
they would not be permitted to work
In the Butte yards while the switch
mems strike continues. The Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen is not in
the least concerned in the strike and
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
Supreme Court to
Pass on Question
VIII Determine Whether Conspiracy
to Violate Antitrust Law Is
Continuing Off@se.

WASHINGTON Dec. 23!-The ques-
ton of whether conspiracy to vio-
late the Sherman antitrust law is a
continuing offense, Is involved in the
case of the United States VS.. Kissel
and Harmed, which today was dock
eted in the supreme court OF the
United States.
The two men we're tried in the CIR
cult court of the southern district OF
New York ON charge OF conspiracy
to prevent the Pennsylvania Sugar
Refining company from doing busi-
ness. The trial court found that as
the alleged offense had been COM
mitted in 1904, the statute of lin
itations was bar to the prosecution
The contention of the government is
that while the violation Of the law
had its inception in 1904, It has con-
tinued since that time.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24

' when a guest had changed his wife's
glass SO that she got real champagne
and not the imitation. "If Mrs. Bro
kaw drank champagne she was the
only One who knew it," he testified.
Shown list of Objectionable names
which Mrs. Brokaw said her husband
had applied to her when angry, Mr..
Brokaw, scrutiniZing them through his
lorgnette, said:
"Of course, l don't use such Ian
guage."
Tell US what happened on the So
called poison night" directed Mr.. Nc
Intyre.
"On that night" replied the witness,
Il had the Marquis Hermose and 9TH
ers to dinner Mrs. Brol0aw did not
come down. After dinner l went to
her room and knocked. She did not
answer. Then said, Mary, | want to
come in She did not answer. FL
nally, | pushed in the door. She was
furious. / told her l only wanted to
kiss her goodnight and left.
When l came upstairs again, Mrs.
Brokaw was not in her room. could
not find her and got a nurse to help
me hunt. After a search the nurse
called to me from room at one end
of the hall. / got there just in time to
see the nurse struggling to take some
thing out of Mrs. Brokaw's mouth. 1t
was some kind of white tablet l
screamed, My God, she's dead!'"
Did you do anything to cause her
to take poison?"
Absolutely nothing"
From the fact that Mrs. Brokaw s
counsel for the first time bought a
complete set of the minutes of the
trial records, which they have hith-
erto said their client could not afford,
it is inferred that Brokaw will under
go rigorous cross-examination when
court convenes tomorrow.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
Is Informed That He
Must Protect all
Americans
TROOPS MISSING
Thousand Men Of Government Forces
GarrfsOning GreytOwn Cannot Be
Accounted for Little Opposition
10 Estrada Remains ON West Coast
Mexican Gunboat Appears.

VAl WASHINGTON Dec. 23.-Secretary
Knox has given formal notice
" to President Madriz OF Near
ague that the United States govern
men will hold him strictly accountable
for the safety OF American citizens dn
the western section of that country.
Instructions to this effect were sent
to the United States consul at Man
aqua with directions to Immediately
inform the Managuan authorities of
the attitude of the government. The
consul was also instructed to report
what basis there was for apprehen-
sion of trouble on the part Of the
American residents in that part of the
country and especially at Granada.
A telegram was received at the
state department today from Admiral
Kimball, in command of the United
States war vessels now in Corinto
harbor, saying that the commandants
of the port in Corinto, have made a
call on the admiral on board his
flagship, but the admiral was not sa-
luted.
Admiral Kimball also notes the ar
rival in the harbor of the Mexican
gunboat, General Guerrero
The state department is In quan-
Diary as to what has become of the
1000 men belonging to the govern
ment forces which at last accounts
were in possession of Greytown.
This section was until recently
commanded by General Toledo, who
recently was reported as having ar
rived at Managua.
The report received yesterday
from Captain Shipley Of the Des
Moines at Bludields, said that the
defeat and surrender of the Zelaya
forces at Rama, 1isposes Of almost all
resistance to Estrada on the west
coast.
MANAGUA, Dec. 23.-Ex-President
Zelaya will leavehere tomorrow and
probably will go aboard the Mexican
gunboat General Guererrox immedi-
ately. The gunboat is now lying In
the harbor of Coriato.
Following the prPmonitory warning
to President Madrz that the United
States will hold him personally re-
sponsible for the safety of Ameri-
cans in the eastern portion of Mic
aragua the state department tonight
extended more than moral encourage
ment to the revoltionists. Under
orders from Secretary Knox Ameri-
can Red Cross funds are to be ex-
pended in caring for the sick and
wounded of both armies, more than
1000 of whom are hcapacitated in
Bluefields.
This move on the pat Of the United
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
NOTED RUNNERS SUSPENDED.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.-Melvin
Chepard, champion middle distance
runner, and William J. Hayes, Of st.
Georges Catholic club of this city,
were indefinitely suspended tonight
by the governors of the Military Ath-
letic league of Philadelphia.
The men were scheduled for race
here on December IL, at "a meet ar
ranged by the league. Both refused to
run. The league is affiliated with the
A. A. u, which must also suspend
them under their agreement with the
Philadelphia body.
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WILL HOLD COUNCIL.
Especial to The Gazette

Especial to The Gazette.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec.
23.-Russell w. Bear, of the
Crow Indian tribe who is here
opposing Senator Dixon's bill
for opening the remaining
lands of the Grow Indian reser-
vation to the public, has OBJ
tanned permission from Indian
Commissioner Valentine for
the Indians to hold a coun-
Gil and decide what they wish
done in regard to the DISPOSE
ton of the remaining land.
Bear will return to the reser-
vation to arrange for holding
the council and for sending
representatives from the tribe
to appear before the house and
senate Indian committees re-
garding the proposed legisla-
ton when the meetings are
held, which will be about the
middle of January.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24

in the face of McIntyre's order to
return to work, will lose their strike
benefits. But in view of public SEN
timent, they fear to return. Several
mines closed last night, throwing
hundreds out of work and traffic in
the freight yards is at a standstill.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24

baroness and her children which the
court directs shall be placed imme-
diately at their disposal
In addition to the $150,000 paid by
the baroness for the chateau, it is es-
timated that more than 100000 has
since been expended in making alter
ations and an equal amount for fur
nishings and treasures of art.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24

RAI IASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Rear Ad-
WI nriral Schley's demand that
" Commander Peary submit his
polar data to the consistory of the
University of Copenhagen for veri-
t1cation following that body's repudi-
alton of Dr. Cook, has raised a storm
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
ARTHUR BROCK DEAD.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.-Arthur
Brock, chairman of the board of di-
rectors of the American Iron and Steel
company and director in the Fidelity
Trust company and the Pennsylvania
Steel company, died today, aged SO
years.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
GINGER ALE WAS THE EXTENT OF THE
LIBATlONS OF ADMIRABLE Mr.. BROKAW
Dainty nspects Evidence Through His LOgnete and De-.
Cares That He Was Never Drunk in Ills Life and
lie Never Used Improper Language

wanted to mix gingerale with aerated
water, until it was the exact color of
champagne. l wished to appear to
drink with my guests and yet not
to drink. This mixture bubbled and
yet was harmless. / have used it for
years. l don't drink"
Mr.. Brokaw did not recall any scene
following an incident at the tables
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-12-24
STRIKE AFFECTS MILLS.

SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 23.-As a
direct result of the prolonged switch
mems strike the Hammond and the
Centennial hour mills, two OF the larg-
est on Puget sound, closed today.
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feet and two inches Her trial
draught will be 28 and one-half feet,
displacement OF 21,S25 tons, or 1000
tons greater than the Delaware and
North Dakota and her speed is ex-
pected to develop 20 and three -fourths
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-22
GIVEN NEW LOCATION.
School Business Depart
ment in Mott Building.

ment in Mott Building.
Following the recommendations of RIOS
coe c. Bruce. assistant superintendent of
principal of the Armstrong Manual Train
ing School, the business department Of
the Armstrong School has been trans
ferred to the old Mott School at 9Th and
Trumbull streets northwest, near Howard
University. The work will be carried on
by five teachers while DR.. Evans remains
the administrative head. The recon-
mendations were acted upon at a recent
meeting of the board of education.
Two courses are offered, one for
students who are unable to stay at their
desks for more than two years, and the
other q four-year course for more
thorough preparation for business. The
school will train boys and girls to be
and will endeavor to give the general
training which will enable the graduates
to go into business for themselves.
The business department has been sep
arated from the manual training and me-
chanical department at the Armstrong on
account of the good showing made by
the business department.
The requirements of admission are COM
pletion of the course OF study outlined
for the grammar schools. or its equiva-
lent. Already the enrolment has reach
ed eighty-five students and at least double
that number are expected to enroll be-
fore the end of the week. Students who
enrolled in the night course last year
have been advised that the work of the
business department of the night schools
will also be carried on at the old Mott
School.