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PRESIDENTS WIFE
is OUT OF SOCIETY

Washington, May 26.-Mrs. Taft. wife
of the president. will not participate fur
Their In the social gayeties at Washington
this season. Mrs. Lewis More, of Gin
cinnati, sister of Mrs. Taft, will remain in
Washington until May 80 to act as hostess
at the garden party next Friday after
noon, for which Mrs. Taft issued invita-
lions some weeks ago.
Mrs. More, who was Miss Illecnor Her
ron, Is a OUNCE sister of Mrs. Taft and
the wife of one of the most prominent edu-
Gators in Cincinnati, her husband being a
professor in the University of Cincinnati.
She has charmed society here by her gra-
ciousness and the extreme ease with
which she has fallen into the difficult po-
sition of hostess at the White House.
Mrs. Taft is not seriously i'll, but is "all
used up" Mrs. More was accompanied
to Washington by Judge Heron, her faith
err, who is still a guest at the White House.
Mrs. More will remain here until May 30,
by which time the social calendar at the
White House will have been exhausted.
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THREE BIRTHDAYS
In A SINGLE YEAR
Perennial Boy Immigrant, IL
Times Deported, Makes His
35th Transatlantic Trip.

New York. May 24.--That dist.n-
guished transatlantic tourist, Bennie
ANelrod, who has crossed the ocean IS
times, usually with iron shackled to
his wrists and ankles. is again knock
ing at Uncle Sans door. On Ii occa-
sions Bonnie has knocked. only to have.
the door shut in his face and with rude
commands from the immigration au-
thorities to begone.
There are some queer things. about
ennie. Last Year when he was over
here he was 13. Now he is 16. Hav-
Ing three birthdays in one year hasn't
strained Bonnie in the least. His
cheeks are rosy, his blue eyes are as
bright as violets in the early morning.
md his mouth is always ready to
stretch into a winsome smile.
The secret of Bennie's jump In aye
Is this: Since early in 1906 the boy
has been striving to enter this coun-
try. In that year he ran away from.
his fathers home in odessa. slowed
himself away on a steamship and
eventually landed in New York. He
got as far as Ellis Island and was
promptly deported.
Since then Bennie has been coming
back almost With the regularity Of
clockwork, and usually he got NO
nearer his goal han Ellis Island.
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OPEN THOUSANDS
OF ACRES OF LAND

Washington. May 25.-President Taft
today issued a proclamation providing
for the opening up to settlement and
entry OF about 440, 600 acres OF and in
the Flathead reservation, Montana;
200. 600 in the Coeur D'Alene reservation,
Idaho, and between 1000 and 100, 600 III
n Spokane. Wash. reservation.
Registration. which will commence
on July 10 and close August 5, must
be executed and sworn to at either
kalispell or Missoula, Mont, for the
Flathead lands; at Spokane for the
Spokane land. and at Occur D'Alene
for the lands in the Occur D'Alene res
ervation. Applications for registration
must be delivered through the mails
only to the superintendent of the OPEN
ing at Occur D'Alene. which will be the
point of drawing for all three r%eserNa-
tions. The drawing will begin at 10
O'Clock, August 9. and will continue
until completed. The time for making
entries has been fined as April 10, 1910,
for all reservations. i'm order to enable
the successful applicants to make per
sonal investigation of the lands which
VIII be subject to entry.
Regulations regarding the opening OF
the lands will be available about June.
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JUDGE I'M A GRAFT
WITH BOOTLEGGERS

Shawnee. OKLA. May 25.-Confessing
his own guilt and duplicating others
In a charge of grating in the protec-
ton of "b~ootlcggers3 and Joint" keep
ers. Virgil Biggers. recently suspended
as county attorney of this county. tes-
tilted here yesterday in a bribery case
i'll which William Maben. district judge.
is defendant.
Biggers declared that Judge Maben
himself and others met the bootleggers
in conference. agreed upon terms anG
later accepted money brought to them
by County Commissioner Robert HagaY
i3iggers said certain sums had beer
delivered to Hagar in an envelope by
Dat johnson and L.. r. Howell. Joint
lists. Johnson then took the stand ana
reiterated the story of the conference
and the passage of the money.
MIR. Ru!gin charged that in the ~ast
year s125,ooo had been paid for pro-
lection.
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MRS. c. d. GlBsON's
HAT is IN A NJ

New York, May 26.-Mrs. Charles
Dana Gibson q a narrow escape
from serious injury at a lawn fete on
LeloX Library field. Fifth avenue and
Seventy-first street, for the benefit of
Hope Farm.
Mrs. Gibson was at the booth where
smokers supplies are sold and where
Mrs. Richard Stevens. Mrs. Joseph
Hartman and Mrs. Joseph s. stevens
were busy. A cigar lighter in full
flame, unnoticeable in the daylight.
came in contact with the plumes of
Mrs. Gibson's nat. In a moment the
handsome plumes We're ablaZe. and had
it not been for Mrs. Joseph Stevens
Mrs. Gibson would have been the loser
of more than a fine ostrich plume.
Mrs. Stevens beat out the flames With
no injury to herself.
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BOLD HIGHWAYMEN
HOLD UP and ROB
union PACIFIC MAIL
Escape Was Made in Automo.
bile or Express Wagon
Shoot at Brakeman.

Omaha, Neb.. May 26.-In spite oil
the vigorous search for the -four
masked men who held up and robbed
the Union Pacific train No. 9. Satur-
day night and took seven sacks of mai,
from the train, the officers have re-
ceived no tangible clews.
o p. Maurer. of New York city.
n passenger. had not retired when the
train was stopped. Expecting tina the
robbers would go through the cars and
rob the passengers. Mr.. Maurer
jumped to the ground and hid in the
weeds by he side of the track. He
witnessed the robbery of the mail car
He remained in the weeds until a
sherif's posse reached the place after
daylight. Mr.. Maurer heard an auto
mobile soon after the robbers disap-
peared. but did not see it. He sup
posed 1T belonged to the robbers. but
this theory is not accepted by the au-
thorities. who believe it was the one
In which the police made their first
search for the bandits.
John FaNille. an employee of a stove
factory at Ralston, vas walking to his
home in South Omaha and about mid
night was passed by four men in an
express ago headed for South Oma-
ha. and driving rapidly. 1t is the gem
eral belief that these We're the train
b Faville was unable to furnish
n defnite description of the men.
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POSTAL DEPARTMENT
AFTER THE ROBBERS

Washington. May 26.-Stirred up as
1t has not been yer a train holdup in
years, the Officials of the p%ostoff1ce de-
:,artment have taken prompt and Wig
Drous steps to capture the robbers and
secure the booty taken by the men
who held up and robbed the Union
Pacific overland limited train near
Omaha last Saturday night.
The Office of Chief Inspector Nc
MILAN, of the rostofhce department, is
today one of unusual activity over the
daring robbery, and the greatest in
terest Is being manifested in the case.
A force Of postal inspectors. men
picked for their known bravery and
nerve. are already on the scene Of the
holdup, working in cooperation with
the Union Pacific inspectors n au-
thorities in an effort to run down The
robbers. This force will be Increased
by tomorrow with several more men
in whom the chief inspector has every
e ,nfidence in their nerve and ability.
This force will work directly under
the chief inspector here.
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MRS. LONGSTREET IN
DUEL WITH BURGLAR
IN HER OWN HOME

Gainesville. Ca. May 26.-Mrs. Helen
Longstreet, widow of the confederate
general and postmistress of his place,
fought a duel with a man whom she dis
covered in her home about 2 o'clock In
the morning.
Mrs. Longstreet was awakened by a
noise. and, securing a pistol. went to in
~vestigate. When she entered the dining
room she saw a man trying to open a
closet In which the table silver was kept.
She called to him and the man turned and
ran for a window. Mrs. Longstreet fired
and the man drew a pistol and fired once.
Mrs. Longstreet continued firing at the
fleeing man until her pistol was empty.
She thinks she hit the man, as he stag
Rered and nearly fell.
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ROOSEVELT HUNTING
SECOND HAND LIONS?

Boston, May 26.-Two OF the largest
animal dealers in Europe. C~alisnari. of
Naples, and Hagenbeck, of Berlin. are
said to have been purchasing animals
from the menageries and Zoos of Eu-
rope for the last veal and shipping
them by devious routes to British East
Africa.
According to Giovanni Locatelli. ii
raine of animals. who arrived from
Naples On the Romantic. Ell route for
Canada, aged lions. decrepit hippopo-
tami n consumptivc leopards. which
had been in captivity SO long they
would feed out of the trainers hands,
and several gnus, all obtained from
the animal shows of Europe. in eX-
change for better specimens. We're
shipped to Malta. Locatelli estimates
that at least 100 large beasts have been
shipped to the neighborhood of Mom-
hasa by the two firms.
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E. F. SHAW BEGINS
ACTION FOR DIVORCE

Boston. May PA libel praying for
divorce from his wife. Nettie L. Shaw,
and custody of her son. I1%ldredge F.
Shaw, was filed at Salem today by
State enator James F. Shaw. of Nam
chester.
The libel alleges statutory ~orenses
with H. Keno Marble, the chauffeur for
the Shaw family, with whom it is al
legged Mrs. Shaw eloped to California.
Recently an attempt was made by
Senator Shaw to obtain possession OF
his son, who was with the mother and
Marble. in California.
Mrs. Shaw is now at Chatham, Mass,
where she arrived last Week from Cali
fornia With her son II her father, H
Fisher Eldredge.
Senator Shaw said today that every
effort would be made to obtain pos.
session of the child.
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she refused the escort of her brother.
and with the remark that it was light
and that she would 80 by the round-
about way, she started out alone.
h was the last the grieved parents
and family saw Of her alive. Eight
rived at the Nelson home. A hurried
telephone call by Mrs. Nelson to her
mother brought forth the information
that Clara had left home at $50
O'Clock, and terrified that some mis-
hap had overtaken her. the long. per-
gun. The progress of the dead girl
was retraced. all her girl friends had
been communicated with in the hope
that she had changed her mind about
accompanying her sister, and had
gone visiting. Nothing was left un-
done to fathom the mysterious dis
appearance of Miss Rosen.
The night hours grew into morning.
w O'Clock came, and the fruitless-
ness of the search prompted some of
the 100 searchers to repair to their
homes, but not so with Fred Rosen and
ms companion, Otto Johnson. They,
with Officer Charles Peterson, searched
on and on. and after securing the hills
in II vicinity of the crime, they re-
turned to the spot where the awful deed
was committed. Proceeding up the
slight incline to the vacant lot, corner
DYo.e ~ Said streets, tne horflfylnS
sight of the mutilated body of his sis
ter was first seen by her BROTH
er, Fred Rosen. Tenderly the body
was lifted from the excavation in
which 1t was secreted and laid upon the
grass above The rock with which her
death was inflicted lay beside the body
and near by were found hairpins. frag-
ments of clothes and other evidences
that a terrible death struggle had en-
sued.
Immediately following the murder,
Junken, with other negro suspects. was
placed under arrest by the Ottumwa
police, but failure to tighten the coils
February 16. Junken sold a diamond
stone to K. Redman. an Ottumwa
p~awrbroker, and when the police were
notified of this, Officer Joseph Beeman
placed the negro under arrest a second
time. Chief Peter Gallagher, Officer
through persistent sweating of the sus-
pect, gained several admissions, and
when h report that Mrs. c. NJ. John
ston was assaulted by a negro had
gained publicity on the following day,
February q, he was hustled to Abba
tumwa being such that the officials
feared mob violence. Two Pinkerton
detectives, b. d. Way and ]. o. Smith,
n latter a negro, We're secured to as
sist the Ottumwa police by the Ameri-
can Commercial Travellers. One week
in the Abba Jail, where a series OF
sweating was administered the negro,
resulted in his sworn confession, which
was mace public on Sunday, February
2S. Fearful that an Ottumwa mob
would visit the Abba Jail, Junken was
removed to Des Moines and held there
until Sheriff Jackson removed him to
%Sigourney and hence to the prison at
Fort Madison. where he remained unit
last Wednesday where he was secretly
taken to Centerville to face the accusa-
ton against him.
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FIRE BURNING so YEARS,
SUDDENLY GETS WORSE

Tamadua, Pa. May 25.-Despite the
fact that hundreds of thousands OF dol
lars have been spent in am endcaVor
to extinguish the fire burning for so
years in :he leEigh Coa & Navigation
oompanN's mine at Summit Hill. the
fire is nov spreading toward the Spring
Tunnel workings and 80 of the Read
ing c~onpany's carpenters and nlasons
We're sent from the Ashland to aid in
erecting concrete walls to check the
spread of the flames. Great quantities
of sulphur abound in the burning
shafts and the work is dangerous. II
may be necessary to fiji the shafts with
water in order TO continue the battle
With the spread Of the fire.
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WYOMING VS.. CANADA,
$4,000 IN DAT RACE
Contest to Determine Superior
ity in Raising Big Crops Is
on in Earnest.

Laramie, Wyo, May 26.-"Bet YOU
10000 1 can raise more oats per acre
on my Laramie plains farm than any
other man in the world can raise on his
farm" says Colonel Il. j. Bell, of
Laramie.
wen take that bet" answers "A syn-
dictate of western Canadian farmers,
headed by Professor w. III. f'airchild,
of I,ethenbridge, Alberta.
And the great international oat rails
ing contest is on. The contest is not
alone II of Canada against the United
States. but it is Il contest of two sys-
TENS Of farming as We'll.
The stakes have already been posted
and the oats are now being planted.
The harvest will come in September
and the championship award will be
made by the officials of the National
Corn association, Immediately after
threShinp
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effect of driving them to shelter. thus
breaking up the continuity OF the
crowds and hindering the spread of
inf1amed feeling.
Seneca Cornell, Of Ottumwa, is con-
Quoting the prosecution. and although
not o believer in capital punishment,
Will strive fort the death penalty In the
present case. Judge j. C. Mitchell is
defending Junken, but is making no
effort to secure a Jury that has not
heard of the crime.
Strategy was used in the convey
ance of Junken from the Jail
TO the court house early this
morning to escape the knowl-
edge of the crowds which were certain
to wait for his appearance. William
Bray, custodian of the prisoner, had
him moved from the Jail to the court
house before daylight and secreted in
an upper OF the building under
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Vulnerable friends. The father OF the
murdered girl will testify. and the
mother of the accused negro will be
called to plead in her sons behalf.
Judge NJ. a. Roberts. of OttuimTa,
who is the presiding judge at the term
now in session, is sitting in the case.
County Attorney Seneca Cornell is as
sisted by f. r.. Mitchell, assistant
county attorney, of Wapello county,
and Judge Mitchell, whom the court
appointed to defend Junken, viii be
assisted by f. NJ. Hunter, of Ottulnwa,
and JOIN r.. Price, of Alta.
The crime with which John Junken
is accused WAS the most brutal ever
committed in Ottumwa. ON the night
of the terrible tragedy, after dining
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Rosen, ST., and cheerfully passing
light remark to her OUNCE brother,
Fred Rosen, jr., Miss Rosen left her
home on Plum street to go to that OF
her sisters. Mrs. c.. o. Nelson, on
Dare street, from where they were to
go to an entertainment. Never think
ing that any danger would befall her,
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JUNKEN ON TRIAL FOR
MURDER OF CLARA ROSEN

Ce%nterville, Ia. May 27.-Under a
guard of officers heavily armed. John
Jnnken, h egr murderer of Clara
Rosen. was conveyed to the court room
at 1870 this afternoon, where he was
arraigned on a charge of murder.
Waving the right of three days time
before trial, the examination of 100
yeniremen specially was be-
gun after the opening statements.
Before the prisoner appeared Judge
Roberts gave orders for all spectators
to be seated and the halls cleared, and
officers stationed at the entrance to the
court room inspect all applicants for
admission to see that they are not
armed. The officers are instructed to
fire whenever there is a signal of any
hostile movement.
There is little danger from people
living in this vicinity, but there are
outposts of the advance guard from
Ottumwa here and many more coming
and it is from these hat hostility
Is expected. There was much mutter-
Ing among the crowds on h streets
this morning, but the rain had the
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HOW THE ROBBERS
HANDLED The LOB

Omaha, Neb. May 26.-The Linn
lted was coming into Omaha over the
Lane cutoff and had cached a point
this side of Seymour when two masked
men w over the tender into the
cab of the engine and forced Engineer
Ell1ck r. Micheljohn and Fireman Her
man Prawl to throw up their hands.
After they had searched for weapons
afley We're old to run the train a little
iurther and stop, the place of stopping
having been planned with reference to
the waiting automobile.
"A thlrd robber soon appeared on the
scene n was Joined by a fourth as
roon as the train stopped. Taking the
engine crew along with them the rob-
bers went to the mail car and found
the door open. They fired a couple
of shots and brought the eight mail
clerks to the door of the car where
they were soon confronted with guns
and lined up and searched for weap-
onS.
The robbers. after lining up the mail
clerks, forced the engine crew to carry
seven sacks of registered mail to the
waiting automobile, and as DON as the
jumped in the automobile and started
for the north.
M. G.. Wallace. known to his friends
as Pap Wallace. was in the back
to the robbers in the front of the
tram ecause of the fusillade of bull
lets which was sent toward the back
Of the train by the robbers.
Let Passengers Alone.
The train was not delayed more
h Is minutes by the obbery and
only three passengers, who We're still
up and expected to get off at Omaha.
knew OF the robbery, as all the others
were in their bed. The train arrived
in Omaha at 11:a5, and at 1920 w. II.
Canada and members of the Omaha
police force left the Paxto hotel in
the police automobile in search of the
robbers.
When the robbers climbed over the
tender they had handkerchief over
their faces and guns in their hands.
The engineer ordered them to put the
guns away, thinking they were ONLY
hoboes. The robbers soon convinced
the engine crew that there was no
foolishness about the affair and after
the train had been run to the street,
where the automobile was awaiting.
they were ordered to stop the train
and to jump off. The orders We're
obeyed.
Brakeman Crisis came the nearest
to any of he train crew to injury in
the mix up. He was on the rear end
of the train and when it stopped he
Immediately started to walk back from
the train with his lantern. He was
fired on a dozen times, and the bullets
whizzed close to his head, and tore up
the ground all around him, but none of
them struc him
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MISSOURI INSURANCE
SALARY LAW UPHELD

Jefferson City, Mo. May 25-The Mis-
souri, supreme court, sitting en- hanc,
today sustained the state law which
denies licenses to insurance companies,
which pay amy of their officers salaries
in excess OF $50, 600. The act was passed
two years ago and has been the SUBJ
ject of extended litigation.
TodaN's decision was on an applica-
ton from three large eastern compa-
mics for q writ of mandamus to compel
the state Insurance department to is
II licenses to them. The writ was
denied to the petitioners-the Equitable
Life Assurance society. the Prudential
Insurance company and the Metropolis
tan Life Insurance company.
While unfolding the validity of the
statute, the court declared that it was
repaal
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IOWA CLAIMS LAND
WITHIN OMAHA LIMITS

Dies Moines. Ia, May 27.-Attorney
General ". II. Byers, today argued a
case before the United States circuit
court Of appeal at st. Paul, the famous
case in which the state of Iowa lays
claim to a strip Of and within the city
limits Of Omaha.
II is commended this land formerly
belonged to Iowa and was lost to the
state when the Missouri river changed
Its course in 1878, and created a new
boundary.
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OVERTURNED LAMP
QuENcHEs THREE LIVES

Ottumwa, Ia, May 27.-John Carter
an old soldier, aged 75. and the three
children Of his daughter. Mrs. LEILA
Shaw. were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed the Shaw home al
Eldon, IL miles asst OF here, early to-
day.
Mrs. Shaw is employed during the
night n left tho children with their
grandfather. The nre was caused by
the overturntng OF n lighted lamp dur.
ing a storm.
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HUNT CONVICT IN
OHIO %PENITENTIARY
Harvey Johnson, Desperate
Burglar, Has Eluded Guards
Since Wednesday Night.

Columbus, Ohio, May o5.-The hun,
for Harvey Johnson, the desperate ne
gro burglar who escaped from his
guard "Wednesday night and is at large
ia the Ohio penitentiarN, continues,
and the guards ave been armed with
rifles. Warden Jones said today he
would purchase bloodhounds to be
kept in the prison for such emergen-
cies.
Search for the man continues in
every nook and corner, guards being
sent even to the top of a stand pipe
100 feet high.
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AGUINALDo takes TRIP.

Manila, May 26.-Emilio Aguinaldo,
commander-in-chief of the native
forces during the period of the insur-
r%ection, has left for Baguio. to pass a
week as the guest of Vice Governor
George w. Cameron Forbes. at the lat
ter's country place. This is Aguinal-
dos arst visit to the northern noun
tains since his memorable retreat in
that direction with several columns Of
American troops in pursuit.
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HISTORY OF REVOLVING
CRIME OF NEGRO

Ottumwa, Ia, May 27.-"Guilty of
murder in the Preparation Of robbery,
and we fix the penalty death by hang
Ing" or mo- guilty" These words are
the verdicts hat will be bitterly fought
for by County Attorney Seneca Cor
court room OF the Appanoose county
court house, beginning today, when
h fate Of John Ju-.ken. the self
confessed murderer Of Miss Clara
Rosen. will be declared by the jury
Whether or not John Junken will
be hung for the murder which his
written confession declares he COM
mitted, or whether he will go free or
be punished in a lesser manner for
the crime, is awaited patiently by the
relatives OF the dead girl and her in
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TRAVELLING TO RUSSIA
WITH HIS BACK o

New York, May A.-Alexis Laudent, who
started from Birmingham, Ala, two weeks
ago for his parents home in Moscow, Rus
STA, is resting in the Jersey City hospital.
He was nearly killed in an Alabama mine
several weeks ago.. his back being broken.
Doctors told him his recovery was i'm
probable, and he hopes to see his father
and mother before he dies.