Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-07

Hanley was the man who received tn,
worst injuries. and Henry Dawson tn,
one who sustained the least injuries
and the woman. who gave her nam,
as May Burns, 81 years old, are belni
held pending the outcome of the in
juries.
DENVER. Jan. tom Richardson
the Portland booster, will not come tC
Denver for $4,000 a year, guaranteed
him to head the consolidated CONNER
cial bodies. Richardson, in letter
TO Samuel F. Dutton. says he canno,
accept the offer.
When Dutton and Thomas F. Walsh
were in San Francisco a few months
ago, Richardson was recommended as
a booster Dutton went to Portland
and offered Richardson $4,000 a year
to be head of the proposed consoIida.
ton OF Colorado commercial bodies.
The offer was renewed recently when
| Richardson was in Denver.
Richardson writes that the Port
land Commercial club stayed with him
in the panic and years and years of
! depression, and now that the Pacific
northwest is recuperating and times
are prosperous with a splendid outlook
for the future he did not think It would
be right to leave.
DETROIT. Mich, Jan. 4.-Henry C.
Potter, Jr.. of this city, vice president
OF the Peoples State Savings bank,
committed suicide at his home short
ly before 10 o'clock this morning Mr.
Potter had been suffering from nerv-
GUS prostration for some time.
COLUMBUS. o.. Jan 4.-The gen
eral assembly at the call of Governor
Harris convened today in extraordi.
nary session to consider the election of
a United States senator TO succeed
Joseph b. Foraker, state appropria
tions, the proposition of a new or re.
modelled penitentiary and the furnish
ing OF employment for the convicts
under the Wertz law, abolshing con
tract labor. The Anti-Saloon league
will ask nothing during the extra ses.
sion and the liquor men are of the
belief that the house at least is against
them. They, therefore, may make no
effort to secure the repeal of the
county option which has made over
half Ohio dry territory.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The presi-
dent sent two messages TO congress-
today. The first was brief, asking for
an appropriation of half a million dol.
lars for the relief of the earthquake
sufferers in Italy. The second, ad-
dressed to the house of representa-
tives alone, was elaborate, filling more
than six columns of space. 1t was In
answer to an inquiry of the house as
to the executive structures. In it the
president goes into great detail and
defends the secret service. The in
teresting feature of the message for
Colorado lies in the fact that Mr.. Roos-
evelt refers to the killing of Walker
and says of the killing of Walker.
Since 1901 the Investigations covered
by the secret service diyision-under
the practice which had been for many
years recognized as proper and legiti-
mate and which had received the sane
tion of the highest law officers of the
government-haye covered a wide
range of offenses against the federal
law. By far the most important of
these are related to the public domain,
as to which there was uncovered far
reaching and a widespread system of
transactions involving both
the Illegal acquisition and the lille.
in connection with both these offenses,
the crimes of perjury and subornation
of perjury. Some of the persons in
volved in these violations were of
great wealth and of wide political and
social influence. Both their corporate |
associations and their affiliations and |
the lawless character of some of their |
employees, made the investigations not |
only difficult but dangerous. In Colo
RADIO one of the secret service officers |
was assassinated.
OF work done by secret service, the |
president refers to the land, naturali
zation, lottery, silk. opium. ink and
other frauds. He recommends that all
the government detective services be
consolidated in single bureau to be
attached to the department of justice
and that Chief Wilkes salary be in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
He denies strenuously the allegations
made in certain quarters that he ever
used the secret service in purely pri-
vate or political matters. Incidentally
he charges that the agitation against
the secret service was begun by an
article written by L. w. Busber, pri
vate secretary to Speaker Cannon, for
Chicago newspaper. Altogether the
president presents a strong, though
calm argument, that he is exactly right
in making the criticism that enliyened
his message at the opening of the
session.
TULSA, Okla, Jan. IA passenger