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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-26
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Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
HAD BETTER REMAINED
 STILL A YELLOW DOG
The Quick Conviction of Coffey, Former Schmitz Supervisor.

San Francisco, Feb. 17.-After de- liberating for thirty minutes, the jury in the case of Former Supervisor Michael w. Coffey, indicted on a charge of receiving a bribe of $4OO0 to vote for a trolley franchise for the United Railroads, returned a verdict of. guilty, shortly after noon today. Three ballots were taken by the jury, two of which stood eleven for conviction and one for acquittal. On the third ballot, all voted guilty"
 Superior Judge Dunne fixed Satur- day, Feb. 27th, as the date for pro- nouncing sentence which under the penal code may be from one to four teen years in the state penitentiary.
 Coffey, who was one of the Schmitz board of supervisors all of whom except two, who were not in volved, confessed to having accepted bribes through the agency of Abra- ham Ruef, is the first member of the board to be prosecuted.
 In common with the others, he made an immunity contract with the district attorney on agreeing to tes- tify fully in regard to bribery trans actions in which they were involved. Later when called upon to testify against Ruef and others implicated in the bribery graft transactions he refused to repeat his evidence given before the grand jury. This caused a withdrawal of the promise of inn munity by the district attorney, the result being Coffeys trial and con- viction.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
THE HOUSE BLOCKED.
By an Effort to Secure the Abolition
 of Capital Punishment.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 17.-The attempt to abolish capital punish ment as a penalty under federal laws blocked the consideration of the penal code bill in the house, sitting as a committee of the whole. The most important amendment incorporated in the bill was one to regulate the in terstate shipment of intoxicating liq- uors.
 Representative Mccall of Massa- chusetts led the fight against capital punishment and when he was voted down he made a point of no quorum. Just before this, by a vote of 27 to 25, thes committee had declined to substitute elecrocution for hanging as a death penalty. A motion to take a recess was opposed by the enemies of the bill and a filibuster ensued.
 The doors were finally closed and the sergeant arms was sent after the absentees. Nearly two hours later, at 1850 p. m, when Repre- sentative Madden of Illinois answered roll call, a quorum was secured and the house was declared in recess until tomorrow at II a. m.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18

mailed in the box in the hotel not later than 7:3O p. m, an hour and a half before Miss Gingles said she regained consciousness.
 The name of Miss Agnes Barrett was brought into the case in the course of Captain O'Brien's talk with the patient. The latter said she rec ognized as Miss Barrett the woman who helped get her into the cab. The latter conducts a lace shop in the Well lington hotel building, and a few weeks ago caused the arrest of Miss Gingles on the charge of stealing $50 worth of lace from the store.
 Miss Gingles came to Chicago two months ago from Ireland, and being an expert lacemaker. found employ ment with Miss Barrett. This em- ployment ceased with the theft charged. MT. O'Donnell was retained to defend her, and she often called at his office and home. O'DonnelI's yer sion of his clients trouble is strange as ffction. O'Donnel outlined the story of how the girls youth, she is only nineteen, her virtue and her beauty made her an object of persecution on the part of man, who, he said, was well known in several states This man, he declared, was aided by at cure possession of the girl. O'Don- nell's view of the case is not fully. shared by the police.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
TARIFF COMMISSION
 URGENTLY DEMANDED
In the Meantime Business Men De-
 mand Best Possible Revision at Once

Indianapolis, Feb. 1.-The demand for the immediate creation by con gress of a permanent tariff commits sion was voiced today in the resolu- tions adopted by the national tariff commission conference. To dispel any idea that delay in tariff revision is sought, a 2roYSiion was added urging congress during. the special session to revise the tariff to the best of it's ability under the present conditions
 It was Beveridge day in the conven- tiOn. and the speech of the Indiana senator stirred the delegates to much enthusiasm.
 Controller Herman A Metz of New York declared that the need of a tariff commission is so great that if an of ficial one could not soon be procured it would be wisdom for the business men of, the country to establish an un- official one. John M. Stahl, president of the farmers national congress, urged the formation of a commission
 The work of the national tariff convention was nearly completed at the night session after adopting reso- lutions seeking the creating of a per manent tariff commission and provid- carry on the work of education. After the morning session tomorrow the convention will adjourn.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
THE NEW BATTLESHIPS.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The senate voted down the amendment reducing the size of battleships below 26,O00 tons displacement, as provided by the house. While the provision was under discussion, Senator Perkins referred to the recent criticism of himself by the president, saying he did not believe the latter had wilfully violated the ninth commandment. MT. Perkins thought there was no danger of war with Japan. He believed in living up to the treaty with Japan under which the states retain all police powers.
 Senator Lodge made an impassioned appeal to the senate to reverse its ac- tion in reducing the size of the two battleships from the type costing s6,000.000 each to two of the type of the Utah and the Florida, costing s450O,000 each. He declared it would
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
cUMMINS ScANDALIZED.
The Senate's Action He Regards as a
 Slap at the President.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 17-Dis- cussing the act of the senate in re- storing the marine corps to the battle ships in connection with the naval appropriation bill, Senator Cummins of Iowa today in a vigorous defense of President Roosevelt declared that the provision would be accepted as a rebuke to the president. Senator Hale denied the right of the senator to declare that the purpose of the legis- lation passed here is to assault the chief executive He said congress simply exercised its natural control, certainly equal to the control of the president over the navy department
 Senator Cummins replied that he only called attention to an invasion by congress upon the prerogative, power and privileges of the comman- der-in-c chief of the army and navy.
 The people of the country l come from" he said, ''are free from the at mOsphere which reeks with criticism of the president"
 Senator Hale sustained his attitude and added: This thing was fought out two hundred years ago and Charles L lost his head for contend ing for just what the senator from Iowa contends for."(
 Senator Borah opposed the marine corps provision.
 By a vote of 51 to 12, the senate adopted the amendment restoring the marine corps to the ships of the navy.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
COUNCIL CONDEMNATION.
Of the Recent Messages by the Gov.
 error.

The other event was the report of Chairman Weedin of the ways and means committee on the governors s messages in objection to the anti rangers and anti-public examiner bills. The report said that the gov ernor had offered no legal objection to either measure; that they consisted of political arguments, recommendations of eXpediency, innuendos against the members, and islanders against the peace officers of the territory. The committee asked that the report be spread upon the journal in condemna- tion of these innuendos and islanders.
 MT. Finley moved to amend the re- port by including in it the speech of MT. Weedin at the time of the receipt of the vetOes.
 The report with the amendment was adopted, Messrs. Day and Breen voting in the negative. and MT. Weedin not voting.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
DALYWEST MINE.
A Stormy Meeting of Stockholders Is
 Held in Denver.

Denver, Feb. 17.-The fight for the Daly-West mine in Park City, Utah, ended this afternoon with the re- election of J. E. Bomberger as presi- dent of the company and w. s. Me Cormick treasurer. The result was a defeat for the faction headed by j. w. Daly of Cincinnati The Bomberger- Mccormick forces retain control of the board of directors.
 The meeting this afternoon was stormy, and the News tomorrow will say that the ruling of A. c. Ellis, Jr.. chairman of the meeting. who refused to allow cumulative voting, will be used by the defeated Daly faction as the basis of legal battle to be started within two weeks to determine the le- gality of today's election.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
CHICAGO HAS
 A MYSTERY FindingOf fan Unconscious Girl
 In Wellington Hotel IN INCONSISTENT STORIES The Young Woman Either Sought a Peculiar Method of Suicide or is the Victim of a Murderous Conspi- racy.
INCONSISTENT STORIES

Chicago, Feb. 1.-The most mys- terious case with which the Chicago police have had to deal in many years developed today in the Wellington ho- tel, a standard downtown hOstelry when the unconscious form of Miss Ella Gingles was found lashed to the supports of a bath tub. Whether she was the victim of a plot, as she in coherently alleged in her few conscious moments, or chose this fantastic means of suicide, to retaliate upon a woman whom she believed to have been her enemy, forms the mystery which the police have set about to solve.
 When the chambermaid of the hotel reached the bath room on the fourth floor she found the door locked from the inside with a bolt. Later the house carpenter, removing the tran som, crawled into the room, which was dimly lighted by a candle nearly burned out. Upon the floor he found Miss Gingles, clOthed only in a night gown. The bath tub was half filled with bloody water and the sink was in the same condition.
 On attempting to move her the car penter found her hands tied with a light binding cord and fastened to the legs at the head of the tub. A second cord drawn tightly about her knees held that portion of her body to the lower legs of the tub. Her face showed cuts and bruises and it was later determined that she had been mistreated. She was also apparently suffering from laudanum poisoning. A two-ounce bottle. which had contained the liquid. was found in the room and near it was an empty claret bottle. A towel was tied tightly under the girls jaws and a wet cloth was stuffed in her mouth. Her clothes, even to the little brown fur-tr trimmed room.
 Later in the day at the Frances Willard hospital she recovered con- scioUsness for several minutes. Chief of Detectives O'Brien was at her bed side and to him she told a strange tale of having been attacked near her home, No. 474 La Sale avenue, last night, by a man and a woman. One of them struck her and the other threw pepper in her eyes. She was then hustled into a cab that had ap- parently been waiting. She knew no more until she regained consciousness at 9 o'clock at night in a strange room. She recognized the apartment as belonging to the Wellington hotel, she said, and wrote a note to her friend. Miss Mary Joyce. She threw it over the transom, she added, with a penciled note on the envelope asking some bell boy to mail it. The letter ran:
 Mary. Twill be killed at Wellington hotel. Come quick. Ella
 Manager McClintock of the hotel de clared the girls story and the post mark on the letter received by Miss Joyce were inconsistent. The post mark showed that it had been stamped at 9 D. m. last night. Ac cording to this, it must have been
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
PANAMA CANAL LIBEL SUITS
Roosevelt, Taft, Morgan, Chas. P. Taft, Robinson and Cromwell Named as the Persons Injured by the Publications.

Washington, Feb. 17.-Bench war rants were issued today for the arrest of Joseph Pulitzer Caleb M. Vanhamm and Robert H. Lyman of New York, proprietors and editors of the New York World, and for DeIevan Smith and Charles R Williams, owners of the Indianapolis News. for criminal libel iii connection with the publica- tiOn of charges of irregularities in the purchase by the United States of the Panama canal property from the French owners
 The indictments were returned to- day by the federal grand jury sitting in this city. The warrants are di- rected against all five of the natural defendants. and the two newspapers. The summons requires the corporate defendants Ghe Press Publishing Company of New York to appear in court forthwith. Copies of the bench warrants and certified copies of the in dictments were placed in the hands of a United States marshal here, and he will proceed in accordance. with the directions of District Attorney Baker
 President Roosevelt, Mir. Taft, Elihu Root, J. P. Morgan, Charles P. Taft, Douglass Robinson and William Nel- son Cromwell are named in the in dictments as the persons villified.
 Copies of the summons and indict- ment were served this evening upon the Press Publishing company by service on Otto Carmichael. its agent in this jurisdiction. Certified copies with be filed with United States Com missioner John R. Shields in New York, who will issue warrants for the arrest of the natural defendants of the New York World, who will be brought before him to show cause why they should not be extradited to this jurisdiction for trial.
 The defendants may seek writs of habeas corpus in the federal district court for the southern district of New York and may appeal to the United States supreme court. If the defend ants should pursue the sourse outlined at least pear probably will elapse before they can be brought before the bar for trial.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18

of bill No. 25, his railroad commission measure, which he said had already been in the hands of the committee longer than the allotted ten days. He was not asking for the passage of the bill at once. but in view of late in formation he had received he wanted the bill in safer hands than it then seemed to be.
 He had seen a telegram from Dele gate Smith, received, as-was after ward explained, by several members, protesting against any anti-railroad legislation whatever, on the ground that it would be inimical to state hood. MT O'Neill said he did not be- lieve that railroad legislation would have any such efRct. By implication he questioned the ingenuousness of MT. Smith and called upon the council to redeem the pledge of the territorial platform. Are you for or against the people?' he asked.
 These remarks were called out by a motion by Chairman Norton of the corporations committee for the adop- tion of a majority recommendation that the committee be given more time
 The speaker said he had no desire to hamper the railroads and no wish to disregard the agreement made with the railroad representatives last Sat urday, but he wanted his bill where he could see it now and then and assure himself of its safety.
 MT Finley took exception to the lan- guage of MT. O'Neill wherein he had
 
 majority of the committee. He said that the bill was losing no time and moved that it be left with the commit tee until next Tuesday. the first legis lative day afer the hour set for the further conference with the railroad men. This motion was adopted, Messrs. Hunt, O'Neill and Weedin dis senting.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18

be necessary in eiSs future to keep a powerful fleet in theSPacific, and said the voyage of the fleet around the world had done more to promote peace than anything else that had been done by the country. The defeat of the amendment favoring the smaller type of battleships was on an aye and nay vote, 30 to 45.
 Senator LaFollette addressed the senate upon the amendment to create a commission to consider a plan for consolidating the work of the navy in a smaller number of yards. The La Toilette amendment providing for a commission, went out on a point of order by Senator Tillman. The sen ate then passed the bill
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
He Advises Members Against
 Any Railroad Legislation PACE BILL AT THE GATE
AGeneral Belief That It Will Pass the Council Today. The Early Success of De- Souza Railway Commis- sion Bill in the House.

If the local option bill had come to a vote in the council yesterday after noon il would have passed by a vote of seven, and at one time 1t looked as if il might be put on final passage though it had just been received by the house. Only four members were known to be against it. The fifth was uuulaced. Therefore, unless there are changes over night, the bill will be ready for the signature of the governor today.
 There had been an intention or amending the bill by a segregation provision. but 1t quickly was realized that that would only mean it's defeat and that the same responsibility, would be attached as if the defeat had been brought about by a direct vote. While the bill has perhaps not an enthusl- astic supporter in the council and not one who does not regret that t was ever brought up, there are very few who want to go back to their con- stituents with its blood on their hands
 The attitude of the committee to which it had been referred, after brief consideration of it yesterday aft ernoon. showed the impossibility of amending it or of effecting any sort of a compromise. 4 nasty poll of the council also disclosed sufficient strength to pass it The vote Wlll probably be taken on it at the morning session of the council.
 The first of the railway commission bills will probably be passed bv the house at the morning session, but early action on it will not be taken in the council, which has resolved to hold all rail- road legislation in abeyance until next Tuesday. There was a semblance of the effect of a bomb in the council in the morning when it was made known that some of the members had re ceived telegrams from Delegate Smith asking that there be no railroad leg islation, on the ground that it would be an obstacle in the way of admis- sion to statehood. Such a telegram had been received by a member Of the house, but as an advocate of such legislation he did not apprise his col leagues of it, so that they first heard of Mir Smiths position by the way of the council.
 The insurance bill yesterday after noon looked as if it had seen its best days, and the common opinion is that it will not pass. Even many of the friends of the bill displayed apathy on account of the amendments which had been forced upon it.
 Another eventful incident in the house was the passage of the first bill introduced there this session, MT. Bai- ley's primary election measure, which was immediately sent to the (council.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
NEW HAWkEYE SENATOR
Thinking He Has Discovered a Case of Lese Majeste, Explains How Iowa Feels About It and is Rebuked by Senator Hale.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 17.-The naval bill, carrying total appropria- ton of about $136,OOO,O ,OOO, was passed today by the senate after being un- der consideration for three days. The bill was changed by a restoration of the provisions for two battleships of 26,000 tons each to cost $6,000, ,000
 An intellectual effort was made to defeat the amendment far restoring the marine corps to battleships and cruisers. which was placed in the ,bill while the senate was proceeding in the committee of the whole.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
THE LATEST BULLETIN

On board the Flagship Connecti- cut, Feb. 1.-The position of the At lantic fleet at o'clock tonight was latitude 3427 north, longitude 57.57 west, 962 Miles off the coast of Cape Henry. The Maine, New Hampshire, Idaho, Mississippi, Admiral Arnold's squadron, joined the fleet at noon.
 The weather is good and the fleet is proceeding in formation of line squadron. If the weather is fair the fleet should arrive off the capes on the evening of Feb. 21.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
THE FLEETS VANGUARD
 THE TENDER, YANKTON
Yesterday Completed the Round the World Journey.

Norfolk, Va, Feb. 1.-The tender Yankton, preceding by about 700 miles the homecoming Atlantic battle ship fleet, passed in through the Vir- ginia Capes at o'clock this morning and anchored in Hampton Roads.
 The Yankton was buffeted about yesterday by one of the worst storms encountered on the world voyage. Lieutenant Commander McVey was on the bridge practically without relief for three days.
 The Yankton registers only 975 tons displacement and is undoubtedly one of the smallest vessels that ever made the circuit of the globe.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
ANTl-AllEN LEGISLATION RE
 JECTED.

Helena, Feb. 17.-The house by "a vote of 32 to 24 rejected today a bill which would prevent. after five years. the holding of lands in Montana by aliens. It is aimed at the Chinese and the Japanese and is said to be pat termed after the California measure which caused protest from President Roosevelt
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
NEVADA STUDENTS
Expect to Realize s2o,oCo From
 Banquet.

Reno, Feb. 17.-In order to raise $1.000 that they may secure $20,O0O, promised by Clarence Mackay, the stu dents of the University of Nevada will give a bulls head" breakfast at the university on Washington's birthday Plates will be laid for 1,5O0 people. The students dispatched a telegram to MT. and Mrs. Mackay in New York inviting them to be presnt
Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
MORE OR LESS ROUTINE eUSI-
 NESS.

Mir. Finley offered a concurrent res lution for the appointment of a com mittee of three. two from the house and one from the council. for the in vestigation of the books and the ac- counts of the territorial auditor and the board of control
 Mir Morgan introduced bill amend ing the law for the taxation of tran sient flocks of sheep and goats by including drifting herds of cattle.
 The resolutions approving the appli- cation of the boards of regents of the university flor participation in the Carnegie fOundaton fund was reported back and would have been adopted but for the objection of MT. O'Neill, who said he had understood that the ap- proval might involve the territory in obligations which should not be lightly assumed. The resolution was accord ingly referred.
 The bill requiring that the citizen member of the board of control shall be of the same politics as the governor was favorably reported. along with a minority report by Mir. Day recom- mending an amendment that he may" be of the same politics.
 At this point MT. St. Charles de- manded of the special committee re- port on the reform school. The de- mand was addressed to MT. Day, the head of the committee. who replied that he was waiting for the collection of certain facts which had not yet been available. Thereupon MT. St Charles appealed to the chair As the matter was not in shape for action, none was taken.
 A substitute was offered by the committee for MT. Days bill for the absolute suppression of gambling. The original bill was a model of what may
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Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
BOB BLEDSoE OF TEXAS Real Name of Man Who Held Up the
 Kansas City Merchant

Kansas City, Feb. 17.-C. NJ. Gar nett, who attempted to blackmail Lawrence M- Jones, local merchant out of S7,6OO here today, confessed tonight that he is Robert Benjamin Bledsoe, and that he lived on a farit five miles north of Dallas, Tex. He has a wife and two children living there now.