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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
LABOR MEN DISAGREE
ON WATSON MEASURE

Washington, Feb. 5.-Representa-
tives Of organized labor disagreed to-
day at hearing before the house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce for the consideration of the
Watson bill which empowers the in
terstate commerce commission to en-
force certain safety appliance re-
quirements for railroads and other
common carriers. M. n. Goss, repre-
senting the conductors organization;
Fl. b. Perham, Of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, and F. C. Hawley
of Buffalo, president of the switch
mems union, urged favorable action on
the bill, while H. o. Fuller, who repre-
sented the engineers and fremen and
trainmen, opposed the bill. r. w.
Braier, an official Of the New York
Central railroad, also opposed the bill.
E. G. Buckland of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad, said the
Watson bill is defective.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
NEVADA'S ASSEMBLY
PASSES ALIEN
MEASURE
APPROVES BILL PROHIBITING
JAPS AND CHINAMEN FROM
HOLDING LANDS.

Carson City, New, Feb. 5.-The Ne
vada assembly this afternoon passed
the Griffin anti-alien land bill, which
provides that no Asiatic, including the
japanese, shall own land or land
mortgages in the state. The measure
passed in the lower house of the leg
islature without any opposition. but 1t
Is believed the senate will practically
kill the purposes of the bih so far as
it is aimed at the Japanese, by
the senate adjourned this afternoon
until Monday.
The anti-alien bill introduced by Mr.
Griffin is as follows:
Section Amy nonresident alien
person, or corporation, except sub
jects of the Chinese and Japanese en-
pires, may take, hold and enjoy any
real property, or any interest in lands,
tenements or hereditaments within the
state of Nevada, as fully. freely and
upon the same terms and conditions
as any resident citizen person or do
mestic corporation.
section 2-lhe rlgnt or eminent do
main Is hereby granted to such nom
resident or foreign corporations, upon
the same terms and conditions as the
same is granted to resident or domes-
tic corporations.
Section 3-Nothing in this act
should be construed as to confer any
further rights under the statutes of
limitation than those at present ex-
isting"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
DYNAMITE EXPLODES
AND MANGLES
FOREMAN
ACCIDENT AT LOWER YELLOW
STONE DIVERSION DAM RE-
Suits FATALLY.
naciaI m The Dajlv MisSOulian,

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Glendive, Feb. with work thereon
almost completed, the first real catas-
trophe in connection with the con-
struction of the lower Yellowstone ir-
rigation project, occurred about 10
o'clock this morning when Foreman
James Donaldson was killed and la
borer named w. NJ. Eissner was ia
tally injured by an explosion of dy-
Mantle.
The accident occurred at the rock
quarry about a mile from the camp
where the government employees are
constructing the big diversion dam
for the project. A fire had been
started to thaw out Is sticks of dyna-
mite, when one of the men called
Foreman Donaldson's attention to the
fact that some Of the dynamite was
burning. The latter ran to the spot
to save as much of the dynamite as
he could, and was bending over it
when an explosion occurred. Build
ings at the camp, a mile away, We're
shaken by the concussion.
Donaldsons face was blown away
and one arm and one leg torn Off
Eissner was running to help Donald
son, and was only a few feet away
when the explosion occurred. Flying
rock broke his collar bone, penetrated
his lung and inflicted abdomenal in
juries that render his recovery very
doubtful. He was brought to Grace
hospital in this city for attention.
Donaldson was unmarried and has
brother at Edgewood. ILL.,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
STRAY BULLET HITS
BYSTANDER
BUTTE MAN is WOUNDED BY
MISSILE INTENDED FOR AN
OTHER PERSON.
special to The Daily Missoulian.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Butte, Feb. 5.--In a revolver fight
this afternoon between E. ]. Bartells,
of the Union Coal company. and Louis
Kaufman, of the Butte Machinery
company, y. U. Huff, of the Western
Coal company, was wounded in the
wrist and Bartells had his coat pierced
by bullet. The principals in the
fight were both arrested, Bartells be-
ing charged with carrying concealed
weapons and Kaufman with assault
in the first degree.
From what can be learned of the
affair, Bartelis and kaufman had
had some misunderstanding and this
afternoon Kaufman requested Huff to
accompany him to the warehouse of
the machinery company to be wit
ness to what should take place there.
When they met, Kaufman and Bar
tells Immediately engaged in a wordy
conflict, which led TO scuffle. Bar
tells struck Kaufman a blow on the
nose and Kaufman Immediately drew
his revolver and fired two shots. One
of these went wild and the other went
through Bartells' coat and struck
Huff in the wrist.
Kaufman called for the police and
they We're both arrested. At the sta
tion a search showed that Bartells
was armed with .SS-caliber revolver,
and he was Immediately booked on a
charge of carrying concealed weapons.
but was released upon furnishing a
bond in the sum of SIS. Kaufman was
held on more serious charge.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
BUTTE BOY CHARGED
WITH ROBB|NC
P0STOFF|CE
RICHARD HOOKING ADMITS
STEALING FUNDS BY trim
MING" MONEY ORDERS.
Special to The Daily MisSoulian.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Butte, Feb. Richard Hooking,
employed as clerk in the Butte post
office, is charged with appropriating
to his own use funds which passed
thought that his defalcation will
the money order department. 1t is
thought that his defaulcation Will
amount to $4,000. To Postoffice In
spectors Charles Riddeford and A. A.
Paisley, Hooking is alleged to have
confessed.
Hooking was taken before United
States Commissioner Clarence N.
Davidson and his bail fixed at $1,000,
in default of which he was remanded.
Hooking is only 20 years of age. He
said this morning that the races were
to blame for his downfall, and that
most of the money taken had been
lost on the ponies.
Il had a system which defied de-
lection in the local office" said the
young man. I'm making up my re-
ports to Washington several months
ago 1 made a mistake which was re-
sponsible for them learning of the
matter" Hooking has the reputation
of being one of the fastest amateur
baseball players in the city.
The system by which Hooking looted
the cash drawer In the money order
department was exceedingly simple,
but one which made detection very
difficult, and which left absolutely no
way in which the shortage could be
checked up in the local office. When
an application for money order was
handed him, Hooking would make out
the order and receive the money for
it from the purchaser. The advice" !"
a duplicate of the original order.
made with carbon sheet and which
goes TO the office upon which the Or
der was drawn, would be mailed i'm
mediately. Then Hooking would doc
tor the application for the money or
der changing the figures to a lower
amount than that for which he made
out the original order. The advice to
the other postoffice and the money
order purchased would agree, and the
order be paid without question. The
application on file in the local office
was reported to Washington but there
was no way to check 1t in the audit
ing department until the original or
der found its way to the department,
which Is often months after the date
upon which it is issued
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
HASKELL is RECEIVED AT MUS
kocEE BY BRASS BAND AND
SHOUTING CITIZENS.
SIGNS APPEARANCE BONDS
Executive Affixes Signature to Paper
Guaranteeing His Appearance to An
swer Charge of Conspiracy to De-
fraud Government Then Makes ex-
pianatory Speech Blaming Roosevelt.

Muskogee, okla, Feb. 5.-Accordns
to the program of the government as
outlined by District Attorney w. j.
Gregg, the trial of Governor Haskell
will probably take place at Tulsa next
April. Both the government and the
attorneys for the governor are anxious
for a speedy trial.
Governor Charles n. Haskell was
given an ovation here today when ne
arrived from the state capitol at
Guthrie to make his appearance IN
the federal court and sign bond
under the indictment returned by the
grand jury charging him and other
prominent Oklahomans with consplr-
acv to defraud the government ana
the Creek Indians in the matter or
scheduling dummies" in the Musko-
gee town lot distribution. More than
a thousand persons were at the sta-
ton with a brass band, and the ap-
pearance of the governor was the Sig
nal for long and loud cheering.
Governor Haskell and his wife were
conducted to a flag decorated auto
mobile and other cars were filled with
prominent local citizens. With the
band leading the way and playing,
Hail to the Chief" and hundreds OF
citizens bringing up the rear on foot
the governor was escorted to spe-
cially reserved suite of rooms at the
Turner hotel. When the hotel was
reached the crowd clamored for
speech The governor responded from
his automobile.
In his speech Governor Haskell took
a new departure in offering an expla-
nation of his indictment,
He declared that he had incurred
the enmity Of the corporations, of
President Roosevelt and of the gov
ernment at Washington by champion
ing the cause of labor and by pre-
venting the insertion of a clause In
the Oklahoma constitution hostile to
labor in case of strikes and the mat
ter Of injunctiOns. He thanked his old
friends and neighbors for the express
sion of confidence in his innocence of
crime charged, and declared that he
would establish his innocence.
Later Governor Haskell signed his
bond. which already bore the sigma
lures of hundreds of Muskogee citi-
zens.
Governor Haskell held an informal
reception, shaking hands with hun
dreds Of persons.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
TENTH JUROR PASSED
BY ATTORNEYS
ANOTHER MEMBER Is ADDED TO
PANEL DESIGNED TO TRY
PATRICK CALHOUN.

San Francisco, Feb. 5.--A tenth
Juror was temporarily passed today in
the trial of Patrick Calhoun and the
acceptance Of another was held in
allegiance pending a decision by Judge
William p. Lawlor, to be rendered to-
morrow. John Scollard, a retail shoe
dealer admitted a sympathy in favor
of the president of the United Rail-
roads, confessed reluctance to ac-
cept the testimony of the bribe-tak.-
ing supervisors, and did not approve
of what he termed extensive immun-
ity to criminals. Very much to the
surprise Of every person in the court
room, Assistant District Attorney
Francis ]. Heney, first ascertaining
that the Juror professed his willing
ness to try the case impartially, ac-
cepted him. Thirteen talesmen We're
examined during the day, leaving 16
citizens Of the eighth panel to await
Interrogation. A ninth venire Of rs
men was ordered returned next Mon
day.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
SEEKING TO SECURE
PORTION OF ESTATE

Reno, New, Feb. Sin his fight for
portion of his fathers estate, George
d. Winters. son of the former wealthy
horseman and rancher, said today that
he had worked 81 years superintend-
ing the farm and horses. during which
period he received but board and
clothing and an occasional -four bit
piece"
The estate approximates 100000. In
the will of his father, Theodore Whit
ers, who died last fall. he and his sis
ter. Mrs. Nellie Mccormick, wife of
Winters horse trainer, were COM
pletely ignored.
Winters owned many famous racing
horses, and made a fortune from their
performances. He was once candi-
date for governor of Nevada. and. ac-
cording to his son. spent $4,000 to
make an unsuccessful fight.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
ANACONDA WINS GAME
over LOCAL PLAYERS
pecial to The Daily Missoulian.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Anaconda Feb. 5.-A basketball
team from Missoula, composed of uni
versity men playing as independents,
was defeated by the locals this even
ing by a score of 26 to IS. The game
was fast and rough and was as spec
tacular a game as has been played in
Anaconda this season. Reid starred
for the local team, while Hamilton for
the visitors made many sensational
throws. There will probably be a
return game in Missoula within few
weeks.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
MURDERED BY SON
AND SON-|N-LAW

Colorado Springs, Colo, Feb. s.
That Charles p. Essick the aged
clerk of Pixies Peak camp No. 8,
Woodmen of the World, was murdered
by his 16-year-old son, Paul Essick,
and his son-in-law, Robert Edward
Piper, alias Arthur Davis, and that
Mrs. Flora Essick, wife of the MUIR
dered man, had guilty knowledge of
the crime, was the verdict of the cor
oner's jury reached this afternoon
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ONE WITNESS EXAMINED.

Special TO The Daily Missoulian.
Helena, Feb. 5.-Only one witness
y. E. Wells of Kalispell, was exam
ined at today's meeting of the spe-
cial legislative state land inquiry Mr.
Wells is general manager of the Som
ers Lumber company, one of the three
concerns which made purchases of
state lands. Mr.. Wells testified as to
the purchase and from his books
showed that the state had received a
larger average price for its lands than
private individuals.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
BIKE RACE EXCITING.

Kansas City. Feb. Sat the close
of the racing tonight the five leading
teams in the six-day bicycle race at
Convention hall had covered 932 mile
laps. Wiley and Cameron were 932
miles laps and Senhouse and Wilcox,
932 laps. Levonovitch, riding alone,
had dropped to s27 miles even.
The leading teams are: Kramer and
Moran; Hill and DeMara; Root and
Fogler; Mitten and Bardgett; Palmer
and Walker,
Late today Mackay quit the race
because of broken wheel.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
SUIT FOR DIVORCE.

Special to The Daily Missoulian
Wallace, Feb. 5.-Declaring that her
husband has beaten her at frequent
intervals during the last two years un-
til she is threatened with an nervous
and physical breakdown, and that this
morning he ordered her to leave her
home, stating that he did not want to
find her there when he returned home
tonight Mrs. Elna Johnson this aft
ernoon filed suit for divorce from Os-
car V. Johnson. a blacksmith en-
ployed at the Coeur d'Alene Iron
Works. Both parties live in Wallace.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
JURY CANNOT AGREE
IN THE Cow TRIAL

New York, Feb. 5.-The Brooklyn
jury before which William Cow, for
merly president of the International
Trust company and director Of the
Borough Bank of Brooklyn, was tried
on a charge of larceny of $145,O0O, dis
agreed early today, the vote standing
eight for acquittal and four for con-
viction. Cow was already held under
$4,000 bail, and this was continued.
The charge against Cow was based on
the withdrawal of $145,000 in the
Borough, it was charged. to finance
the organization of the International
Trust company. Another charge of
the larceny Of $250,O0O is also pending
against Cow, as are also three charges
of misdemeanor based on alleged over
drawal of his account with the
Borough bank.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
PIONEER MONTANAN
ANSWERS LAST CALL

Bozeman, Feb. 5.-Word was re-
reived in Bozeman this morning of
the death last night in Logan of w.
A. Roland, aged so, of Bright's dis
ease, one of the most prominent and
influential men in the state. Mr.. Ro-
land was one of the earliest settlers
In the Gallatin valley and for the past
20 years has been prominently con-
nected with the interests of Gallatin
county. He has lived at Logan prac-
tically all the time since coming to
Montana, and up to year ago had
been engaged in the mercantile busi-
ness there.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
kOLZAC FOUND GUILTY.

Butte, Feb. A Miner special from
Fort Benton. Mont, says: Wade g..
Hart. who has been on trial here for
the murder of John Kolzak at Ian
dusky, was this morning found guilty
of manslaughter, the jury fixing his
punishment at six years imprison-
ment.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
TORNADOES SWEEP OVER SOUTH
AND A SCORE OF PERSONS
MEET DEATH.
PROPERTY LOSS IS GREAT
Series Of Small But Destructive Cy-
clones Visits Sunny South Land
Razins Many Buildings and Crush
ing Out the Lives Of Their Tenants
Telegraph Wires Badly Crippled.

Louisville, Ky, Feb. death for
nearly score of people, losses of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in prop
erty and the gripping Of many tele-
graph wires, resulted between noon
and dusk today from a series of small
tornadoes that swept the south from
the Tennessee line to the Texas pan
handle. known deaths thus far:
Stuttgart Ark, Mrs. Garfield and a
child of Win Story. Mrs. Story Is re-
ported fatally injured.
sulphur Springs, Texas, Mrs. c.
Caldwell.
At Rolling Fork, Miss. Four were
killed and at Booth. Miss. six met
death.
At Ennis and Waxahachie, Texas.
and Boscoe. La, many houses were
demolished. Arkansas and upper Lou
isiana rice fields were damaged.
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TAKES HER OWN LIFE.

Pueblo, Colo. Feb. 5.-Mrs. George
V. Parks, a society woman of Pueblo
and wife of the assistant president of
the Pueblo Traction company. COM
mitted suicide at noon today. Mrs.
Parks had been in ill-health for some
time. She was 81 years old.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT VEToEs
BILL PROVIDING FOR TAX
ING OF CENSUS.
SENDS SPECIAL MESSAGE
Provision Prescribing That Appoint
ments Shall Be Made on Basis OF
Non Competitive Examination -
House Postpones Action

Washington, Feb. 5.-"The evil ef-
fects of the spoils system and of the
custom of treating appointments to
the public service as personal perqui-
sites of professional politicians are
peculiarly evident in the case of a
great public work like the taking of
the census, a work which should en-
phatically be done for the whole peo-
pie and with an eye single to their
basis of non competitive examina-
tions.
AS passed by congress the bill per
mits representatives and senators to
designate persons for positions after
they had undergone a simple examina-
tion.
The reference of the president to a
division of the spoils without a fight
by the professional politicians on both
sides" provoked general laughter.
After providing for a reprint of the
census bill as 1t passed the house. the
house adjourned, thus postponing ac-
ton on the message
In these words President Roosevelt
today summed up his message to the
house of representatives, returning
without his approval the bill providing
for the taking of the next census be-
cause of the provision prescribing that
appointments shall be made on the
interest"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
Much Damaoe Done.

Fort Worth. Texas, Feb. 5.-A heavy
wind of tornado proportions swept
over northern Texas and southern
Oklahoma early today, resulting In
considerable damage in several local
tiles
At Ennis, Texas, dozen residences
were blown down. Waxahachie was
also badly damaged. No loss OF life
is reported
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
Seven Are Killed.

Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 5.-Mayor
George II. Brier of Cullman, Ala,
wires that seven persons are known
to have been killed in that county
this afternoon by tornado, but that
wire communication is cut off with the
stricken locality. AT Kayosa, a min
ing camp west of birmingham, on the
Southern railway, today five houses
were blown down. Only one man was
injured, Mr.. Loga. The property
loss in the territory north of Birming-
ham is heavy.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
Four Meet Death.

jackson, Miss, Feb. 5.-A long dis
tance telephone message received here
this afternoon states that a tornado
Sharkey county, today, and that four
persons were killed. Property loss was
heavy
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-06
Storm Kills Two.

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 5.--A dispatch
to the News Scmtar from Stuttgart
Ark. says a storm struck that place
today killing two persons and injur-
ing a number Of others.
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THE WEATHER

Today-Rain or Snow.
Tomorrow-Rain or Snow.
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With Reluctance

The president says he vetoes the bill
with extreme reluctance, realizing the
value of time in beginning the census,
but declares that 1t Is of high conse-
quence that it shall be conducted with
extreme accuracy, that it shall not be
open to suspicion or bias on personal
and political grounds, nor to bring a
waste of the peoples money and a
fraud.
Section of the act" he says,
provides in effect that appointments
to the census shall be under the spoils
system, for this is the real meaning
of the provision that they shall be
subject only to non competitive exam
ination. The proviso is added that
they shall be selected without regard
to party affiliations, but there is only
one way to guarantee that they shall
be selected without regard to politics
and on merits, and that is by choosing
them after competitive examination
from the list of eligibles provided by
the civil service commission"
Continuing, the message says:
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CONTINUED on Page Ten.)
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Spoils System.

ITO provide that the clerks and
other employees shall be appointed
after non competitive examination,
and yet to provide that they shall be
selected without regard to political
party affiliation, means merely that
teh appointments shall be treated as
the perquisites of the politicians of
both parties, instead of as the perqui-
sites of the politicians of one party.
don't believe in the doctrine that to
the victor belong the spoils; but I
think even less of the doctrine that
the spoils shall be divided without a
fight by the professional politicians on
both sides, and this would be the re-
suit Of permitting the bill in its pres
ent shape to become a law. Both of
the last censuses, the eleventh and
twelfth, were taken under a provision
of law excluding competition; that is
necessitating the appointments being
made under the spoils system Every
man competent to speak with author
ity because of his knowledge and fa-
miliarity with the work of those CEN
suses has stated that the result was
to produce extravaganza and demoral-
ization.
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PEOPLE THINK

OF your store as your ad rep
resents 1t. Make It alive.
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CTyHt- TOUT Law,
T also recommend that If provision
is made that the census printing work
may be done outside the government
printing office, it shall be explicitly
provided that the government authori-
ties shall see that the eight-hour law
is applied in effective fashion to these
outside offices.
Outside of these matters, | believe
that the bill ison a whole satisfactory
and represents an improvement upon
previous legislation on the subject"