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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
Inside History Of the
Coal Grab Is Related
Cost of Coal Lands in Big Horn
Basin Was Paid by Coterie
ofLong Island Capitalists

Anew YORK, Sept. 16.-Rufus J.
IN Ireland of Amityville, L. l.,
- jointly indicted with Wilberforce
Sully and George w. Daily of this
city, and Frank T. Wells of Amity-
vile entrymen, not by persons prom
fraud the government out of coal
lands in the Big Horn country, Wyo-
min, was recalled as a witness today
at the extradition proceedings before
United States Commissioner Hitch
cock.
1t is alleged that tine defense has
admitted that the cost of coal lands
was paid for by the coterie of Amity-
Vile entrymen, but by persons prom
inently identified with the Owo Greek
Coal company, which subsequently
acquired them. The witness is presi-
dent of that company. He told Of a
meeting of the board of directors in
1907, when he was v@ted an annual
salary of $2b00 and Samuel Hihreth
and Frank T. Wells, also counsel, ST.
600 per annum each.
About the time the officers of the
company were voting the salaries it
appears from Ireland's testimony that
the Union Trust company of Chicago,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17

~ HICAGO, Sept. 16.-A strong de-
Tense of labor's right to organ
ize in a lawful manner was the
feature of an address by President
Taft in Orchestral hall here tonight.
The president also said he would rec
ommend to the next congress the leg
islation on the injunction, as prom
ised by the Republican platform. He
insisted that the right of the non
union laborer be fully protected, say
ing nobody should be allowed to force
him into unions.
Mr.. Taft's address was the princi-
pal event of his visit to Chicago.
Before speaking he rode through
the South Park system and reviewed
100000 school children assembled to
do him honor, took luncheon with the
Commercial club and attended a ball
ais defeated Chicago.
Mr. Taft's address, in part, follows:
''It is just about year ago tonight
that made a speech in this hall to
some 1,S00 members of the railroad
labor organizations, in which l at
tempted to convince them that there
was nothing in my decisions as cir
cult judge in labor injunction cases
which ought to make them vote
against me for the presidency. 1t was
a critical time in the campaign.
"You will remember, perhaps, that
the head of the Federation of Labor,
who had declared for my opponent,
was anxious to carry the whole union
labor. l cannot sympathize with this
ground for his action was my deci-
sions as judge, I was put under
the burden which l think no other
candidate for the presidency ever had
to bear, of explaining and defending
in a political contest the decisions
which l had made as a judge upon
the bench. 1t was assumed by many
who thought themselves familiar with
the situation that I would lose large
part of the labor vote.
"The result showed that this as
sumption was incorrect and that la
bor men-union labor as we'll as nom
union labor men-thought for them
selves, voted accordingly to their own
Judgment and declined to be delivered
as a body to one party or the other.
On the whole, do not think | suf-
fered materially from the loss of Ia
Dor votes.
"In the discussions / asserted that
was as much interested as any one
in maintaining the cause OF labor,
when labor, organized or unorganlzed,
by proper methods, sought to better
its condition by legislation or other
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
Story of Death
Is 7 old BY
Girl

n Os ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 10
The 12-year-old daughter of
~ Harper E. Bennett, the real
estate man, on trial for the murder OF
his wife, gave sensational testimony
in defense of her father when she
took the stand today.
The little girl testified in effect that
her mother had put the poison in the
beer which both Bennett and his wife
drank, resulting, it was alleged. in
the latter's death and Benefits seri-
Gus illness. Further, the child said
that she had frequently heard her
mother threaten to kill herself.
Regarding what occurred on the
night of her mothers death, the
daughter testified:
Mamma took little blue paper
bound with rubber band and went
into the pantry and slammed the doc"
When she came out, she had two
glasses of beer. She gave papa one
of them and kept one herself. Papa
drank his right off, but mamma only
slipped hers"
This, the defense will contend, eX
plains how there came to be strycA
nine in Mrs. Benefits stomach.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17

REJECTED
Katherine Gould viii
Now Ask More
Ahmony

Anew YORK, Sept. 16.-Justice
IN Bowling, in the supreme court
today, passed upon the findings
submitted to him by counsel for Ed
win Gould in the suit brought against
him for separation by Katherine
Clemmons Gould last June, when,
after an exhaustive trial, Mrs. Gould
was granted a separation and $4,000 a
month alimony.
Some 200 findings were submitted
and most of them rejected. 1t was
suggested by one of the lawyers iden-
titled with Mrs. Gould's interests at
the time of the trial that whatever
further action might be taken by her
husband, she would ask the appellate
court to increase her alimony consid-
erably more than $4,000 year, now
allowed her.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17

NHlCAGO, Sept. 16.-The postal saw
ings bank question came to the
fore at the meeting of the saw
ings bank section of the American
Bankers association convention here
today In the midst of a committee
report, adverse to postal savings
banks and speeches deprecatirg the
entrance of the government into the
banking business, an open letter was
received from the Postal Savings Bank
league of the United States. The let
ter was addressed to George M. Rey-
nolds, president of the American
Bankers association, and was signed
by Julius Geiser, president of the Saw
lngs Bank league. The letter says:
The current expression of officers
OF your association tend to show a
spirit of opposition to postal savings
banks, which, while contrary to pub
lie opinion, is also, as we believe, con-
trary to the best interests of your as
sociation.
THE dominant party is most SOL
emnly pledged to the establishment or
postal savings banks, yet in the same
~ SNSAA JOu q p1OpOSlLlOu DG-
half of the money interests Ca central
bank under government SUPERVISION.
you ask the legislative and executive
powers to ignore and violate the
pledges given to the body of the peo-
pie in the platforms.
The league calls on the bankers for
assistance in securing postal savings
banks.
Mr.. Reynolds showed the letter to a
number of delegates today, but no ac-
tion was taken. Practically every
speech made SO far at the bankers
convention is concerned has been
adverse to postal savings banks.
Outside of the business session of
the convention, preparation was made
by the delegates to attend the chief
social function of the gathering. the
presidential reception and ball to-
night.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17

wise l said / expected to recon-
mend to congress, if | were elected,
that interstate railroads be required
to adopt any additional devices found
useful for the purpose of saving from
loss of life or limb employees engaged
in the dangerous business of railroad
ing. l also said l favored the adop-
tion of legislation looking to a proper
definition of the cases in which pre-
liminary injunctions might issue with
out notice and defining the procedure
in such matters.
''Now that the election has come
and gone, | want to take this oppor-
tunity of saying that l have not for
gotten my own promises or those of
the platform, and l propose in the
next session of congress to recon-
mend the legislation on the subject
of injunctions which was promised in
the Republican platform and to see
whether such legislation is not possi-
BILE to avoid even few cases OF
abuses that can be cited against the
federal courts in the exercise of their
jurisdiction
81 know that is an element among
employers and investors which is ut
terly opposed to the organization OF
labor. cannot sympathis with this
element in the slightest degree. l
think it is a wise course for laborers
to unite to defend their interests. 1t
is wise course for them to provide
a fund by which, should occasion
arise and strikes or lockouts follow,
those who lose their positions may
be supported pending an adjustment
of the difficulties l think the en-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
johnson S Condition
Is Not So Assuring
Governor Is Suffering Considerable
Pain as the Result of Operation.
Physicians Are Hopeful.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 16.-Al-
though the night was one of anxiety
at the bedside of Governor Johnson in
st. Marys hospital at Rochester, the
morning reports received here indicat-
ed that his condition is much more
hopeful.
Frank A Day, Governor Johnson's
private secretary talked with DR..
and quoted DR.. Mayo as saying that
and quoted DR., Mayo as sailing that
the situation was decidedly more
hopeful. He said the governor dis
played splendid nerve last night, that
his voice was strong and he was
cheerful.
A bulletin issued at noon by DR..
McNeven, house physician at St.
Marys hospital, says:
Governor Johnson's condition is
not so good. He is suffering consid-
cradle pain from an accumulation Of
gas. Pulse, sc; temperature, normal" !"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
DEFENSE OF THE RIGHT OF LABOR TO
ORGANIZE, MADE BY PRESIDENT TAFT
Great Speech to Working Men in Chicago in Which History
Of Campaign Is Revewed-WiI Urge Legislation
on Subject Of Court lnjunctiOns

ployer who declines to deal with or
gandzed labor and to recognize it as
proper element in the settlement
of wage controversies is behind the
times. One defect which has been
pointed out has been the disposition
of majority members of labor unions
to reduce the compensation of all
men engaged in particular trade to
a dead level and to fail to recognize
the difference between the highly
skilled and very industrious work
man and the only less skilled and less
Industrious. l think there is a move
ment among trades unions them
selves to correct this levelling ten
dency and nothing could strengthen
the movement more than the adoption
of some plan by which there should
remain among union workmen the i'm
petus and motive to be found in
greater regard for greater skill and
greater industry.
Nothing l have said or shall say
should be construed into an attitude
of criticism against, or unfriendly to
the working men who for any reason
do not join unions. Their right to
labor for such wages as they choose
to accept, is sound, and any laWless
invasion of that right cannot be too
severely condemned. All advantages
of trades unionism, great as they are,
cannot weigh a feather in the scale
against the right of any man earnestly
seeking employment to work for
whom and for what price he will. And
say this with all the emphasis pos
sible even though were I working
man, and should probably deem it
wise to join union for the reasons
given.
Our friends of the great unions at
times complain of our courts, more
perhaps because of the decisions in
Injunction cases than for anything
else. I have already referred to this
particular phrase of litigation in
which they have an interest, but when
the subject of courts is mentioned 1t
suggests to me larger field for COM
plant and reform in which all citi-
zens are interested and have a right
to be heard.
"It is not too much to say that the
administration of criminal law in this
country is a disgrace to our civil1za-
ton and that the prevalence of crime
and fraud, which here is greatly in
excess of that in European countries,
is due largely to the failure of law
and it's administration to bring Grim
inals to justice. / am sure that this
failure is not due to corruption of Of
ficials. 1t is due to their negligence
or laziness, although. of course, there
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
WASHINGTON AFTER P1NCHOT.

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 16.-The
state legislative investigation commit
tee which is about to look into the
administration of the state band com
missioners office, is expected to make
strong representations to the interior
department regarding the states los
ses of school and granted lands. This
state has 100000 acres of school and
granted lands tied up in the forest re-
serves and Chief Forester Clifford
Pinchot has opposed all efforts to
procure either these or lieu lands.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17

is an extremely brief document, dated
June 8, 1908, and reads as follows:
Il, Edward H. Hartman of Arden,
in the state of New York, do make,
publish and declare this and for my
last will and testament; that is to
say, | give, devise and bequeath all
OF my property, real and personal, Of
every kind and nature, to my wife,
Mary w. Hartman, to be hers abso-
lutely and forever and I do hereby
nominate and appoint the said Mary
w. Hartman to be the executrix of
this will.
"In witness whereof 1 have here
unto set my hand and seal, this
eighth day of June, in the year nine
teen hundred and three. (Signed),
edward H. HARTMAN"
Signed, sealed and declared by the
testator for his last will and testa-
ment in our presence, who at his re-
quest, and in his presence and in the
presence of each other, have each of
us hereunto subscribed our names as
witnesses. (Signed),
CHARLES A. PEABODY,
&C. T. TEGETHOFF."
Mr.. Peabody is president of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance company. Mr..
Tegethoff was one of Mr.. Harriman's
secretaries.
Mr.. Peabody, who made the state
ment public, declined to make an es-
innate as to the value of Mr.. Harri-
mans estate
Goshen, N. Y, Sept. 16.-The will of
e. H. Hartman was filed here today.
No estimate of the value of Mr.. Har-
riman's property was given in the pc
tition for probate.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
american Husbandry
Marvel ofJapanese
Engineer Says Irrigation as Exempli-
fed i'm California Surpasses That
of Egypt or Other Countries.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 16-"Ir-
rigation as exemplified in California
is the most wonderful thing in the
world. The system in use in this city
surpasses anything l have seen in
Egypt or any other country"
This is the statement made today
by Tsuno Tokumi, Japan's chief irri-
cation engineer, in the island of For
mosa, who is here on tour of in
spection.
"Your rotation of crops to the hus-
bandmen of the orient is a marvellous
agricultural science" he went on. Il
have come to learn more of how you
cause two and three crops to grow out
of the same land in the same year"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
POWER SITES WITHDRAWN.

NORTH YAKIMA, Wash, Sept. 10
Notice was received at the local land
office yesterday that all power sites
along the Yakima river in the vicinity
of North Yakima have been with
drawn from entry for the present. APP
proximately 6,253 acres of land are
involved, 531 acres being entered land
The land is included in strip about
Is miles long, starting just north of
the city. The reason for the with
draWal is not stated
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
CLAWS DISMISSED.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-L. H
CLAWS, chief of the field division OF
the general land office with headquar-
ters at Seattle, today was dismissed
from the service by telegraph by Sec
retary of the Interior Ballinger A
Christensen, chief of the field service
of the general land office at Portland
Ore, will probably be placed in tenn
porary charge of the Seattle division
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
JEROME NOMINATION.

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Six hundred
and fifty signatures were secured to
the nomination petition of William
Travers Jerome yesterday during the
first day of his open headquarters.
This number is nearly one third of
the 1000 names to make valid Mr..
Jerome's nomination for the district
attorneyship. He is running inde-
pendently and is in the race for the
third time
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
Chinaman Is Fined for Offering
His Umbrella to White Woman

CHICAGO, Sept. 16.-Yee King was
fined $50 and costs for offering Mrs.
Goldie Carter the shelter of his UNI
brella during rain storm. The Chi
naman pleaded that he had been
taught in the New York missions to
be courteous to white women.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-While the
north pole controversy is practically
at standstill in this city, barring
the unabated feelings evinced by par
tisans of Cook and Peary, plans for
a miniature Arctic region at the
American Museum of Natural His
tory are being completed. By the end
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
SOLDIERS BODY FOUND.
(SpeciaE 90 THE Gnxette.)

HELENA, Sept. 16.-The body of
former Sergeant Monroe of Company
G, Sixth infantry, was found this
forenoon back of the residence of Ser
geant Whaley of Company A, in the
non-commissioned officers quarters
at Fort Harrison, near this city.
Whaley is being detained at the guard
house pending an investigation.
Death was due to rife shot. Whaley
will not talk
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
DEATH IN FLAMES.

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 16-One
human life lost, 100 head of cattle
and 12 to Is miles of mountain land
burned over are the net results of
three forest and brush fires which
ragged yesterday and last night in as
many different parts of San Diego
county.
More than 200 men fought the
flames all night. They reported thai
the fire was under control today.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
A>DMMISsIONERS AT FARGO.

FARGO, N. D., Sept. 16.-The Japa-
nese commercial commissioners, VIII
are making a tour of the United States
are here and today visited the North
Dakota Agricultural college.
Baron Kaula, one of Japan's fore
most educators, made an address at
the college.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17

81 always consider it a diversion
tending to a breach of the peace when
any Chinese accosts a white woman"
said Judge Beirler yesterday in in
flicting the fine. THE Sigel murder
would never have occurred if Chi
nese were not allowed to address the
white girls"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
Estate Of Magnate
Goes to the Widow
Brief and Business-Like viii of
Great Financier, the Terms of
Which Are Very Plain

RlEW YORK, Sept. 16.-All of Ed
IN ward H. Harriman's property,
real and personal, is bequeathed
without restrictions of any sort to the
widow, Mary w. Hartman. The will
was filed at Goshen this afternoon,
but was made public in this city. 1t
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17

was demanding payment on a note for
$4,000 of the Owl Creek Coal COM
pany, which it held. In order to pro-
tect her interests, Mrs. Mary p My
ton, a relative of Sully, took up the
note and now holds all but four of
the nine issued of 100000 bonds of the
coal company.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
MRS, SANDERS I'LL.

BUTTE, Sept. 16.-Mrs. Sanders,
widow of the late former United
States Senator Wilbur F. Sanders Of
Helena, pioneer of the northwest, will
be operated upon in this city tomor-
row for gall stones. Her condition is
critical, and it is not believed she can
recover.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
PROCLAIMS HIMSELF SHAH.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. ia
dispatch received here from Teheran,
Persia, says the pretender to the Per-
sian throne, Abdul Hussin, has ap-
peared at Luristan and proclaimed
himself shah. He is receiving the
support of the local population. The
government has sent detachment of
troops with artillery to suppress him.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
BRITISH ADMIRAL COMING.

PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 16.-The bat
tleship Inflexible, flying the flag OF
the admiral of the feet, Sir Edward
H. Seymour. left here today for New
York to participate in the Hudson
Fulton celebration.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
Miniature Arctic Region Will Be
Exhibited by american Museum

of the week the public will be able
to view a wonderful reproduction of
the land of ice and snow.
With maps, boats, canoes, house
hold utensils for Eskimos, hunting
and fishing outfits, animals of the po-
lar regions and other specimens, the
Continued ON Page 8,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
PEARY GIVES DETAILS ABOUT
OBSERVATIONS AT THE POLE
Declines to Tell Who
Saw Him Deposit
His Records
WHITNEY EPISODE

Nothing Inconsistent i'm Statement Of
Cook That Whitney Has His Records
as Peary Saw New Yorker ON Jour-
ney to the North Submit Claims to
Arbitration.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17
BANKERS SHOW OPPOSITION
TO POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS
League Urges Thai
Favorable Action
Be Taken
is TURNED DOWN

Despite Fact That Position Of Repub.
hcan Party Is Pointed Out, Hostility
to Entrance of Government Into
Banking Business Is Pronounced In
Convention of American Bankers.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-09-17

Continued on Page 8.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-06-18
Special Prosecutor Will Finish His Argument
Today and the Case Nav be Given
to the Jury Tonight.
Says that Bosses are Not Created But
Merely Take Advantage of the Ex-
isting Conditions.
(By Associated Press. }

SAN FRANCISCO, 17-Francis Heney famous through
the prosecutor laid down his half the
peted Calhoun relating
become district attorney outlining
his disposition
tending the president the
the charge of bribery that had basis
trial Heney conclude
Judge Lawor after the submission the
his Instructions which
give the jury night
prediction the end of the trial Heney
demonstrate the jury that the
immunity supervisors
the direct testimony against the defendant every
the history of Ruef Schmz
brberies of
Stanley Moore interrupted Heney his address
disputed statistics relating earnings
contradictions
speech speaking of "bossism," Heney said
History shows that
cities where
They
there
election where
commit crime,
drunken hoping to that the
preys They people
They higher dividends
their railway and telephone privileges
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-06-18
MINERS STRANDED
AT ALLEGHANY

ALLEGHANY (calD. June IT,
Many miners are practically stranded
here and men seeking labor in mines
are advised by the operators to stay
away at least for the present. The
recent fabulous strikes caused
great Influx OF mining men and min
ers. For the former there Is stlll
room but for those who came 10
work here Is disappolntmsnt for the
reason that none Of the new proper
ties have been sutieisntly opened up
20 employ maay msa
living u very expensive and &C.
eemmodatloas are practically aapro-
carahle at anv price Ntshs~ y shls
meaRtstn climate are cold. ana sleep.
lax eat.lds has decided diacomtogta
Mea are sleeplux u stables ana az
maarrr ei plaers that ssosd aas
shelter
fhe ta1Fmersly fteh sfriket -
esatly Fepagtea Al ~ Lishgsass.
stsseee-se.0as ana Nsrngas Chs
l8.t aiiere fae 1fH stsslasf