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New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
GEN. VERAND SHOT
MISTAKEN FOR BRUN,
VAR MINISTER.
Pdrisians Feared attempt to
Kill President or King
Manuel.

Paris, Nov. 2s.-An individual. believed
10 be insane and having an imaginary
grievance against the War Department
shot and seriously wounded Genera
Verand to-day on the steps Of the Hotter
Continental as the general was entering
the hotel 10 attend dinner. The man
was overpowered and placed under ar
rest II was learned that he had mis-
taken General Verand for General Brun
Minister OF War.
The attempted assassination occurred
a few moments after President Faliieres
left the Hotel Bristol. nearby. where he
was calling on King Manuel. AS four
shots rang out the people and policemen
in the streets first thought that IL was an
attempt against the life OF the President
of the republic or the King Of Portugal
Hundreds ran in the direction OF the
shots, and several Of the officers seized
General Verand's assailant. who proved
to be an Algerian. He was overpowered
with difficulty, and was found to be a
walking arsenal of revolvers and dag
gers.
General Verand was shot in the neck
and forehead. and his condition is con-
sidered dangerous
King Manuel of Portugal was cheered
by thousands OF Parisians to-day on his
way TO mass at the Church of st. Mary
Magdalen. In the afternoon the King
attended the races at the Auteuil track
with President Fallieres. and in the even
ing attended a dinner at the Elysee Pal
ace. cordial tOasts being exchanged
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
REICHSTAGS Plans.
Election Results - Discussion
of 4merican Tariff.

Berlin. Nov 2S.-The Relchstag will re-
convene on Tuesday. the Emperor return
ing to Berlin to open the session personally
The speech from the throne will be deliv-
cred in the White Hall OF the palace, and Is
expected TO contain some interesting fore
casts of the imperial policy. The session
will be comparatively quiet. II Is believed
although the bitterness between the various
parties growing out OF financial reform
legislation is still intense.
The Socialists are the only party satisfied
with the course Of events since the finance
bills were passed. The recent by-electiOns
for the Reichstag and the state and mu-
nIcipaI elections show that the drift OF po-
Htical tendencies is strongly toward The
Socialists All the bourgeois parties have
shown marked weakness before their con-
stituencies.
The deliberations in the Reichstag are ex-
pected 10 touch American affairs various
POINTS OF the American tariff are sure 10
be discussed In some form. even II no
treaty or tariff agreement is presented fer
ratification. The American exhibition IN
Berlin will also certainly be thrashed out.
In the wide range allowed In debates he
Pan-German members are likely 70 critieise
the recent declaration Of Count Won Bern
StOrn, the NIcfiiidli <AAuDehSSehSo- 90
ington. OF the aims OF German policy
which amounted to remuneration OF further
colonial ambitions.
American trade affairs will probably also
he brought up in the discussion over the
bill taxing potash exports below syndicate
prices, unless the American holders of con-
tracts with the independent mines in the
mean time compromise with tine potash
syndicate.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
L. S. EMPLOYS 9TO.O6j.
Increase of 4bOUt 20 Per Cent
an IzcO Years.

Washington. Nov 2S.-The personnel. OF
the governments establishme M is tncreas-
ing by leaps and bounds. the grand to-al
OF all federal employees az rresent being
approximately $40. O65. as against 306.1A
IN 1907. an Increase in the TWO years OF
about $4,000 persons OF about 90 per cent.
These and other facts are brought our in
the official register. or government Blue
Book" for 1909. which will soon be issued
by the Director OF the Census. Mr. purand
The new publication will show that there
were 2S.9f7 persons in the federal employ
IN Washington on July L last. the annual
payroll for them being S31.5+1.e25, an av-
erage OF nearly Sl10O each. This total
will be temporarily swollen next year ~
the addition Of about 5000 persons 70 tne
clerical force Of the Census Bureau. adding
nearly S5.OOO.0O in salaries durins tns
year or more OF their employment
The District OF Columbia leads all ms
states and territories in the number Of per-
sons working for the government ne
District has given the government S0sl
employees. who receive an annual compan-
sation OF S7.1s6.3.4 while New York fol-
lows with s.S23 employees. whose yearly
compensation aggregates SS.0ll.Sl2- AH-
zona is credited with the smallest number
Aineteen-whOse aggregate salaries amouh'
to s25,226.
The Treasury Department. with wv
persons takes the load OF al the govern
ment departments In Washington IN ms
number OF employees, while the eNecueN7
Office ends the list with only forty-thF's
employees.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
WHITRIDGE BALLS CHAUFFEUR.
Latter S Arrest First of Series at Same
Spot in Bronx.

Samuel Lewis. chauffeur for Frederick W.
Whitridge. receiver OF the Third Avenue
Railroad, was arrested for speeding at 233d
street and Jerome avenue last night, as he
was going south with Mr.. whitridge. by
Motorcycle Patrolman Zeh. In the Kings
bridge police station Mr.. Whitridge put up
400 bail for his chauffeur and continued on
his way downtown
Harry A. Steinburger. OF No. a West 4ith
street broker, was gathered In al the
same spot few minutes later by Patrol
man HasSerty, charged with speeding The
same fate at the same place overlook fred
c. Baker. of No. las Joralemon street
Brooklyn, a few minutes after Zeh mad
returned TO his post. &3Sd street and Jerome
avenue. Baker was plotting home his
mother. Mrs. Katherine Baker. who gave
No. li1 Joralemon street as security for her
sons appearance In court.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
AUTOIST SHOT WITH AIRGUE.
Pursues Boy Through Central Park and
Causes Arrest.

Robert l.. Rayner. of No. 25s Riverside
Drive. WAS driving his automobile down
Central Park West. past 9th street. yes
terday afternoon. when he suddenly felt
something sting him on the head. and upon
looking behind him beheld a party OF
youngsters with air rifles in their hands,
laughing at him.
Rayner couldn't see the joke. and. turn
ing the car around. he set out after the
youngsters. who were fleeing up Central
Park West. When he neared one of the
boys he jumped out of the car. in the back
Of which his wife was riding with a COM
Panion, and tried 10 close in on him. The
yOungster vaulted wall and Rayner fol-
lowed him. Through the park they ran
until the boy ran into the arms of Sergeant
Dunn.
The boy said he was Frank O'Neu thir-
teen years old. of No. 749 Columbus avenue
He denied that he had hot at Rayner. He
was sent 10 the Children Aid Society for
the night.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
EXPORT TRADE INCREASING.
Country Is Placing Credit on Right Side
of Ledger.

Washington. Nov 2s-Atter general
falling OF In the balance Of trade. tho
United States is beginning It's upward
climb again and placing the credit on the
right side of the ledger.
The Bureau OF Statistics OF the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor to-day made
public its report Of trade for october aud
The ten months ended with October While
II d!selosss the fact that the imports for
the ten months have risen from $3.50. .55s.2Ti
10 81. 23s ,2s2, and the goods sold 10 other
N,5ol, oOo.ssO, as compared with the corre-
spondins ten months OF last year, II also
holds out hope In the increases shown In
the export trade for last month, which
totaled S2oo,6ss,3t3. or more than IS. 500 90
more than the amount shipped abroad in
The imports for October OF this yea-
were NgI, I,6eS.6ss while for the correspond
Ing month last year they were sloc. .o4o,iia
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
NO TEST EXPENSES.
assistant Controller DisalIO7cs
Captain YOung's Claim.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau. J

lfEom Inc tribune bureau.
Washington. Nov. es.-Claims being fled
by the army and navy officers for mileage
or travelling expenses incident 10 the ply
sical tests instituted under the Roosevelt
administration will not be allowed The
Assistant Controller OF the Treasury has
declined 10 allow reimbursement, on the
ground that the travel necessarily per-
formed is not such as is contemplated by
the laws governing the payment OF mileage.
The case on which he was called 20 rem
der decision was that OF Captain Luclen
Young, L. ). ". on duty al the Mare Isl
and Navy Yard Captain Young decided
20 take his test on horseback, and. failing
TO receive any assistance from the govern
ment, ne procured his own mounts, paid
hotel and livery bills and submitted a
claim for the full amount. Captain Young
said that he took the test under an order
issued by the Navy Department. I'm the
usual form. aud that it was necessary for
him 10 perform the travel designated. He
submitted that 10 deprive him of the mile
age would, in effect, establish that he was
rot acting in line Of duty, and had seri-
Gus accident occurred, he would have been
deprived OF the benefits provided for in the
pension and retirement laws
The Assistant Controller holds that an
cfiieer is entitled to mileage when ne tray
els between given points under official or
ders, and that the order directing officers
a. take the annual tests was not such an
order as permitted the payment of mileage
for the travel thus performed. He shows
q al an officer could ride out into the coun-
try from his station and return AT night.
continuing such performances until he had
completed the test, or he might have found
a racetrack in the vicinity Of his station
and could have made the ride, going around
and around again. In the latter case "he
would not have been going 10 or stopping
at any place, and the only business in which
he Was engaged was making the test"
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
TELEPHONE WAR
INDEPENDENTS JOIN.
Large Ne1c York Company
Ertends to Other States.

Harrisburg, Penn. Nov. 3. - Announce
ment was made here to-day that the Amer
ican Union Telephone Company, which con-
trols practically all Of the independent tele-
phone business in the state outside OF Phil
adelphia and the territory Of the Pittsbrrs
and Allegheny Company. Of Pittsourg. had
been purchased by the new Continental
Telephone and Telegraph Company, Of New
York.
The transaction, which was completed
yesterday in New York. Is said 10 give the
new company immediate control. and will
enable IL 20 unite the American Union ter
ritory 10 that Of the company in Delaware.
Maryland. New York. West Virginia, Nir-
ginia and New Jersey, where the company
acquired the Interstate Company recently.
The American Union was formed several
years ago 10 take over the business Of va
rious Pennsylvania independent lines and
has an authorized capital OF s25.coOco0. OF
this sum t5.so0eO0 has been issued-S2, 10000
OF preferred and 10000 Of common stock.
The bonds outstanding amount TO ST. o,ooo.
The Continental Telephone and Telegraph
Company is the $50. .OOO OOO company which
was incorporated about two months ago oy
Philbin. Beekman & Menken. attorneys, Of
this city, under the laws Of New Jersey. II
j. understood that the organization contem-
plates spending $50 900. 900 in the next two
years in constructing a comprehensive sys-
TEN OF long distance telephone and tele-
graph lines reaching from the Atlantic
Coast 20 the Rocky Mountains. The Cont
entail company has established headquarters
al No. ll5 Broadway
Two months ago the Continental company
took over for cash the property OF the In
dependent Union Telephone and Telegraph
Company. The latter company operated ir
territory reaching from Newburg. on the
east and south, 10 Erie. Penn, on the west.
The Continental company. however, are
az present putting the property in shape 20
handle commercial telegraph we'll as
telephone business. The company Is also
building east and west out Of Buffalo heavy
copper lines for through business.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
sEAMEN TO ORGANIZE UNION
Ready to Call International Strike
Should Demands Be Refused

An international convention OF seamen
lasting ten days Will begin to-day in this
city 20 take measures for forming an inter
national seamen's union which will take in
the crews Of the steamships Of the Ameri-
can and European ports.
J. Hayelock Wilson. a labor member OF
The English Parliament who has been or
Sanizing seamen in American ports. New
York being his general headquarters, is the
originator Of this movement.
A demand r. uniform wage scale will
be made in this country and In Europe In
the month OF July, which will be followed
10y an international strike should IL be re-
fused
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
DROWNED M LITTLE HELL GATE

William Rascher, twenty years old. Of
40. Ssg East lSoth street. The Bronx. was
drowned yesterday afternoon IN Little Hell
Gate, ~ the foot OF East llsth street
RascI.er and his father. Jacob. We're IN a
gaso.cne launch when the power gave out
The swift current rendered the boat unman-
Hgoalle, and young Rascher sigualled 10
another motor boat, owned by Otto Weis-
ner, Of Astoria, Long Island. 20 come 10
their assistance. Neisner threw a rope 10
young Rascher, who caught il and was
drawn overheard. Efforts 10 ind his body
were in vain.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
CATTLE STEAMER MISSING.
Belief That the Maria Herrera Has
Toundered-A Search.

San Juan T. r.. Nov y 1t Is nineteen
DAYS since the Herrera Line steamer Maria
Herrera l@f, Santiago de cuba VITA
cargo Of cattle, bound for Ponce' r. X
where she was expected TO arrive on No
vember II. The steamer. however, has not
bsen heard from. and II is believed that
she has foundered. The Herrera Line Off
eisIs have sent out the steamer Havana
20 search for their missing vessel in West
Indian waters. whilc the Cuban govern
ment has instructed the coast guards TO
explore the coast of Santo Domingo
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
AUTO DAsHEs ON TO SIDEWALK,

Mrs. II. s. Van Ingen, OF No. % Anack-
assin avenue. Yonkers. while walking IN
Glenwood avenue with her husband last
night was knocked down by an automobile
containing five persons. which shot out of
the roadway on 20 the sidewalk. Mrs. Van
Irgen was cut about the head and face. and
pT. J. u. Kouwenhoven. who attended her,
fears she may be internally injured.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
LUMBER PRICES ADVANCED.

Winnipeg. Nov. eS.-Rough lumber was
advanced 81 a thousand feet all over West
ern Canada on Saturday. The mills are
calling in statesmen. owing 20 a rush OF
orders. Export mills In British Columbia
report a largely increased business in the
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29
SIX CHINESE IN CANAL BOAT.

Plsttsburg. X. Y. Nov. 2s.-Six Chinese.
hidden IN a canal beat loaded with pulp
wood, were found tonight al Rouse's
Point, ~. T.. by immigration and customs
inspectors All were arrested together
with the eaptuin of the boat. Otto Peter
sen. who Is charged with smuggling CHI
reese into this country.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-29

United States. this being one cause for the
advance Another advance In prices viii
take place before spring. IL Is said
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-24
woman, who presumably was not con-
nected with the kidnapping.
IDAHO ITEMS.

Lewiston has donned holiday attire
in readiness for the blossom carnival,
this week.
The Northern Pacific will construct
one of the largest stock yards on its
transcontinental line of railway in the
vicinity of Standpoint.
Improved conditions of the roadbed
between Vollmer and Grangeville will
soon permit the shipment of live stock
from the Camas prairie town.
An Idahoan by birth, Claude Mason
of Boise, has captured one of the plums
from the tree of state and will on or
about May IS, when the new pure food
quarters have been equipped, take the
office of state chemist
The cooperative method of selling
live stock has proven successful, accord
ing to the farmers on Camas prairie,
who have been shipping direct to the
Puget sound markets through an agent
who is paid by the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative union.
What is supposed to be a party of
engineers in the employ of the o. r. &
N. company has reached Spalding and
pitched camp. The crew is in charge
Of H. N. Jones, who refuses to say
whom he represents. The o. r. & N
has an old right Of way up the south
bank of the Clearwater river and it is
the belief that the party will again
locate this line
Carl NJ Rogers, general manager and
superintendent Of the Blackwell Lum-
Der company, and who has charge of
the construction of the new Blackwell
railroad, has begun the laying of rails
in the Mica bay district 1t is intended
to build about 10 miles of track at
once in order to afford an outlet for
several million feet Of logs which will
be foated to the mill at this point and
manufactured into lumber.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-24
NIAGARA FALLS, DRY
ice BLOCKED The CHANNEL
FORMING A Dam.
Great Easter Day Sight-Draws Great
Crowds-Waters of Famous Cataract
Back Into Power Houses-River Is
Frozen Sohd-Property Loss a Mil
lion Dollars.

Buffalo, N. Y, April 1.-THE voiea
of Niagara was made mute Easter Sun
day, for the second time in the memory
of man. The river is frozen solidly from
bank to bank.
On Wednesday the worst gale of
the season was recorded. The solid
ice fields of Lake Erie were churned
from end to end and piled in q huge
mass at the lower end of the lake.
At Niagara falls there had been a
heavy ice bridge in the pool below the
cataract since the middle of the winter.
Under the impact of the ice of the lake
above and the added foes brought there
by the wind the bridge gave way and
began TO surge down the rapids. But
before it could win freedom in Lake
Ontario the wind shifted to the north.
Instantly the moving foes packed at
the mouth of the river. The pack froze
steadily and each hour brought added
pressure from above.
Unable to traverse its natural chan
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-24
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PART OF The GLOBE.
Eastern and Western Homispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The Duke of AbrHzzi has started from
Bombay northward on his Himalayan
expedition.
Fire has destroyed the temporary but
terine plant of Swift & Co. at the stock
yards in Chicago.
For the first time since the Spanish
war the United States army is recruited
up to its full strength.
James r. Garfield, formerly secretary
of the interior, will again engage in the
practice of law in Cleveland.
Mrs. JEFF Davis, wife of United States
Senator Davis, died at Little Rock, Ark,
Saturday, after a month & illness from
stomach trouble.
w. l.. Harrison, a prominent oil man
of Los Angeles, was recently killed in
q collision between an automobile and
Southern Pacific train.
Thomas A. Edison has settled for
$450,O0O the suit for breach of contract
brought against him by the New York
Photograph company.
The house in Missouri legislature has,
the bill authorizing the state railroad
commission to fix passenger fares.
At Lyons, New York, Saturday, Mrs.
Georgia Allyn Sampson was acquitted
by a jury Of the charge Of numbering
her husband, Harry Sampson, a nephew
of the late Admiral Sampson.
The International League Of Press
Clubs has selected Bermuda as the place
for holding this year Is convention,
which Will be held from May p to
May &c.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
signed an order creating on July ], the
thirteenth division Of the railway mail
service, with headquarters at Seattle
The new division includes Montana.
Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has in
structed all postmasters 10 inform per
sons who mail packages TO the Philip
pines and others points that they should
be securely wrapped la order 10 have
them reach their destination la good
condition.
Through au adroit operation perform
ed by Los Angeles surgeon, Charles
Lawson, formerly San Francisco brok
er, has apparently regained his normal
mental poisc, after three years Of pecu
liar alteration following an injury ro
eeifed iu the San Francisco earthquake
and fire.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-24
MARION CRAWFORD DEAD
Noted Novelist Dies Suddenly At
Sorrento, Italy.

Sorrento, Italy, April 12.-The flu
neral of F. Marion Crawford, the Amer
lean novelist, who died here, took place
today.
Mr.. Crawford IS physicians say he died
of sudden cardiac paralysis following
extreme weakness resulting from pleur-
isy. He suffered greatly from asthma,
but seemed to find relief in oxygen. Up
to the last moment Mr.. Crawford want
ed to put his papers in order, and almost
his last act was to read the manuscript
of an unfinished romance, fThe White
Sister" to a member Of his family
He leaves 40 completed works, and he
had gathere together material for his
masterpiece, an exhaustive account Of
the medieval communes of Italy, four
volumes Of which have been completed
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-24
MONTANA NOTES.

Governor Norris has offered a re-
ward Of $500 for the capture and con
vietion Of the murderers Of Mrs. /. A.
Crisp and +. A. Tear, in Madison eoun-
ty about February 20 last.
The second jury impaneled in the
case Of Bernard Kampsherer, a young
Wisconsin sheep herder. who was found
dead from a gunshot wound near Glen
dive, about two weeks ago, returned
a verdict 10 the effect that the rife
was in the hands Of parties 20 the
jury unknown.
Adyices from Senator Thomas III. Car
ter state that Secretary Ballinger Of
the interior has revoked the order made
la February withdrawing from entry
lands along the Madison, jefferson and
Boayerhead. The order was made lust
before Roosevelt 3 retirement, and 81
Is stated that II was made ID order 10
keep spectators from locating power
sites.
The receipts Of the United States as
say Office in Helena exceeded those ~
the Same month last year By s33. 10000.
ft' N'N"i i'''iIf" A'i iHf uioNLI NoIr
fl1O,tlllo NJ which Montana shipped
500 $50, Washington being responsible
for Che remainder For the quarter
ended March 81 there haa been gain
~ fios,al9 compared viii tAe same
period lasi year. This gain b attributed
~ numefous neB mines. bofh placer and
quart ~ usual Fergus county b flo
leading placer. lAouteau second, Aadi
aop thlro aud i.oHla and Clafk fourth
Bishop john fairlel Carroll ~ fle
Catholic diocese M liciena announeed
ffoW ibe eafAeafal pulpit Eastern sun
1a5 fliai 1bpmaf ffuso, Helena lani
er Aad sslser|lod az 900. az femain
ing amount NJ 100000 fsnf upon
nNp.e cohesion aaa dfpendeai Az glff
M fnnf n0nIaa|aenl ~ Montana
HmDHnilnF Az 100000 1lr lmpl0a.on
" fAai D.ihef lamN n h5an. M Oafl.
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-24

nels, the level of the river rose quick
ly. The highest flood level recorded
for previous years is % feet above
the normal Friday night the river
was 40 feet above normal. Water
poured over the window stills of the
power house of the Ontario Power
company and flooded the machines
The tracks of the Great Gorge route
were covered from the lower steel arch
bridge to Lewiston. Conservative esti-
mates place the damage at $1,OOO,0O0.
All day long a constant stream of
visitors poured down the railway
tracks and the trolley tracks, packed
the trains and the cars and even rode
and walked across country to see the
sight that is not likely to reapeat
itself within the present generation.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-24
NEW CENSUS BILL PASSED


1Ae biil ~ provide Cor taking of H.
neAf census Hae passed hy INC senate
Saturday ip % form which, ~ ~ under
stood nill meet tho fioHf ~ 49, pres
don't regarding fhe appolntmoutf for
cenfuf bork undor Fegulatlone ID the
civil foffIee commission. lnoria ~
aome SENATOR NJ alloN fhofe appoinf
monte ~ le madf upon reoommenda
fIana ~ aopaiar and FeproaoniaUsos
nltlpsi eHamlnailon Feeeited hut ~
auppsn.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-24

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