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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
SURVIVED ARCTIC SHIPWRECk
CREW THOUGHT DEAD Is
ALIVE AND WELL.
News of Safety Brought in Perilous
Journey Over Ice by Hardy
Young Harpooner.

ST. JOHNS, N. F.. September 1S.-The
pluck and hardihood of young Scotch
harpoOner. David Richie, who crossed
the stormy waters of Hudson strait
alone in an open boat to the MoravInn
settlements on nothern Labrador, were
the means of bringing, as from the
dead, word of the safety of the crew OF
eight of the Scotch whaling ship Snow
Drop. which was lost in Frobishcr
strait September Is, 1908. Further par
ticulars of the hardships of the crew
reached here tonight, the first since
definite news Of the Snow Drops loss
came Wednesday from Indian Harbor,
which Richie reached on DR.. Wilfred
T. Grenfelps missionary schooner,
Lorna Doone.
The Snow Drop was given up for lost
with all on board last December. when
a bottle was picked up off the coast Of
Scotland saying that the ship was sink
ing.
With eight men the Snow Drop left
Dundee, Scotland, early in June. 1905,
for seasons trading among the Eskt-
mos of Bafhnland. She made a good
trip and obtained cargo of bearskins
and walrus hides and one whale, and
was returning when she was wrecked
in Frobisher strait.
The crew managed to reach the coast
of Baffinland in an open boat, short OF
provisions. The arctic winter was ap-
preaching, cutting off the last small
chance of stray whaler coming along
to pick them up.
Desperate efforts were made to cross the
Hudson strait to the northern coast of
Labrador in an open boat, but each time
gales or big ice fields drove them back to
the barren shores of Baffinland. The men
were put on an allowance of one ships
biscuit day. and were suffering bitterly
when they reached an Eskimo settlement,
where they spent the winter. With the
coming of the brief summer of those
northern ATTITUDES, Richie decided to
make an attempt to reach civilization to
bring succor for his comrades. With an
Eskimo guide he travelled on foot and by
dog sled 500 miles until he reached spot
on Hudson strait favorable for crossing.
There he found a boat and fought his
way through drift ice and storm. single
handed, to the Labrador coast, where he
found a Moravian settlement.
7 Richie says that all the crew are well
except one, whose feet were badly frozen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
FIRE ENDANGERS MANY LIVES
ONE MAN DEAD, TWO SEVERE
LIZ INJURED.
Twenty-Five Seniors of Mount
Clemens School Narrowly Escape
Death Aboard Burning Yacht.

MT. CLEMENS. Mich, September 49,
Theodore Engiender. jr., eighteen years
old, son of the pastor of the local German
Lutheran Church, was drowned. Ray De
Kay and Ray Groesbeck were badly
burned and twenty-five seniors of the
Mt Clemens High School. many of them
girls, had a narrow escape from death
when the forty-four-foot gasoline launch
Saratoga, on which the party was return
ing from picnic at Tashmoo Park.
burned to the waters edge in the mouth
Of Clinton river.
Explosion Of Gasoline.
An explosion Of gasoline caused the fire
and a panic ensued. Young Highlander
jumped overheard in ten feet of water,
and his body has not been recovered
Dekay and Groesbeck. owners Of the
launch, fought frantically to prevent
some of the boys and girls from follow
ing their companion overheard to almost
certain death. They managed to keep
all hands aboard till the blazing craft
drifted onto a bar in the bottom of the
river in four feet of water.
When the craft grounded they fought
the panic stricken ones back from the
rail while they fastened a life preserver
about each of the girls and dropped her
overheard into the shallow water. Then
the boys were each provided with a pre-
server and Dekay and Groesbeck, after
having done all in their power, left the
boat.
The excursion steamer Palos. two miles
away, sighted the flames and crowded
on all speed to the rescue.
The survivors were nearly exhausted
from their experiences and the cold water
when taken on board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
REGISTERED MAIL STOLEN
Pouch Recovered After Letters Hai
Been Robbed of Money!.

WILMINGTON. Del, September ia
registered mail pouch thrown from a mail
car on the southbound New York and
Washington express on the Pennsylvania
railroad. which left New York at mid
night, was stolen from the station plat
form at Newark. Del. When the mail
carrier arrived twenty-five minutes later
the pouch had disappeared. Later in the
day 1t was found In a dense woods on a
farm one mile below Newark. The mail
bag had been cut open and al! the let
tiers. 800 in number. were rifled. A sum
of money was secured, but how much is
not known.
The robber had thrown away all lets
terc that did not contain money. The
rifled letters were taken to the Newark
post office, where Postal Inspector Max
well recovered 100 checks. some for large
amounts,
A negro. connected with a theatrical
troupe. was arrested on suspicion. but was
released
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
IOWA ."INsURGENTs'' ANGRY.
Presidents Winona Speech Stirs
Des Moines Republicans.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DES MONIES. Iowa, September IS.
President Taft's Winona speech was
a red flag in the face of Iowa re-
publican insurgents" and the day
has been one angry demonstration.
What adds to the delicacy of the situation
is the fact that President Taft will reach
Des Moines Monday morning at sunrise
and is scheduled for breakfast at the
home of Senator A. B. Cummns, leader
of the Iowa insurgents" and who is
plainly nettled at the bluntness with
which President Taft defended the Payne
tariff bill last evening and criticised those
republican senators and representatives
who voted against the measure.
Asked for an expression concerning the
Winona speech this evening Senator
Cummins declined to say anything be-
cause OF certain special obligations that
Monday he should probably lose no time
In answering the President. There are
threats that President Taft will be Missed
Monday IL he repeats his Winona speech,
and the regular republicans are challeng-
Ing the insurgents to do their worst.
The Des Moines News, Senator Cum
Minis official organ, tonight concludes an
editorial attack upon President Taft as
follows:
And now comes Taft and says in
substance 1.-The party. right or wrong:
but always the party
He praises Aldrich as statesman and
names him for leader of financial legis-
lation and speaks good word for Cam
non and Payne. He argues for the tariff
bill, admitting that he got his figures
from Aldrich and Payne, men who stand
elbow to elbow with Rockefeller and
Morgan. He attacks Gov. Johnson Of
Minnesota for arraiging the west against
the east and then make a sveech in the
west In which he places himself squarely
in line with the interests of the east and
tries to justify a tariff that was made ex-
clusively in behalf of the eastern interests
and In which the interests of the west
were ignored. Shades of Theodore Roose-
welt, may the ghosts of wild animals he
has killed in Africa ever haunt him for
having foisted on to the country this man
Taft"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
MIR. DIcKINsoN's PLANS.
Secretary Expected to Return I.
Washington September IS.

Secretary Dickinson is expected to re-
turn to Washington from his home in
Tennessee about the 18th instant. He
will remain on duty at the War Depart
ment until the President returns from his
trip through the west. when he will join
him and accompany his party to Ell Paso.
Tex. for the meeting between President
Taft and President Diaz.
The contemplated trip OF Secretary
Dickinson and Gen. Edwards of the in
sular bureau of the War Department to
Porto Rico will be postponed for some
weeks. Early In the season II had been
arranged that the Secretary and Gen. Ed
wards should go to Porto Rico this month
to investigate the political and business
conditions on the island. but 1t Is now be-
lieyed that II not abandoned altogether
the trip will not take place until late in
October or early In November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
WON BY COLUMBIA.
Nine Events Played With Lakeside
Golfers at Richmond.

RICHMOND. Va, September 1s.-The
Columbia golf team of Washington won
the meet of the Middle Atlantic Golf AS
ISOLATION from the Lakeside representa-
tives on the local links today by score
of to T. Six single matches and three
four-ball events were played. The scores
made were the best ever shown on the
turf here, and the defeat of the Rich
monders is largely due to an apparent
lack Of experience. The visitors demon
strated superior knowledge of the game
and the result by no means. indicates
the comparative strength of the opposing
players.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
SERIOUS IN MARTINIQUE.
fractional Feeling Runs High at
Fort de France.

FORT DE FRANCE, Island of Mar
Unique September 1s.-The local political
situation here Is serious and fractional
feeling runs high. Yesterday evening at
o'clock Frederick Norbert. mayor of
LIE Marin, town thirty miles from Fort
de France. was shot to death on the
street by q policeman. The elections of
members Of the grand council are set for
September 26, and further bloodshed is
feared then.
Men are threatening to go to the poll
ing places with revolvers in their hands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
SMASH THE CRoCKERY.
Sailors Wreck white City" Res
taurant at Pine Beach.

NORFOLK, Va. September 1S.-Consid-
cradle excitement was caused at the
white City," Pine Beach. today by an
attack on Charles Lees restaurant there
by a large party of sailors on shore lib
erty from the fleet in Hampton roads.
The place was stoned and practically
wrecked, beer bottles and other things
having been thrown through the windows
and much crockery and glass smashed.
The cause Of the attack by the sailors
Is not given. Many people visited the
scene Of wreckage after the sailors had
finished and taken their departure. The
affair was reported to the naval authori-
ties, and an investigation may follow II
the identity Of the participants can be
established.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
HIS EARDRUM SMASHED.
Saloon Keeper Injured in Barroon
Brawl and Negro Arrested.

During barroom brawl last night in
the saloon at 1910 7th street, in which
glasses. bottles and cuspidors played an
animated part. Peter Chaconas, the pro-
prietor. was smashed in the head with a
brick and suffered a fracture OF the ear
drum.
Several hours later Emmett Turner, a ne
gro, was arrested and held upon charges
of assault with a dangerous weapon,
meaning the brick.
Turner drifted into the saloon with sew
started q rough house. Chaconas took a
hand to quell the disturbance and was
hit with the brick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
ALIENS AT FULTON FETE.
Morocco eand Chile Representatives
Are Appointed.

Minister Dodge. at Tangier. Morocco,
has telegraphed the State Department
that the sultan has appointed his first
secretary, Sid Laarby' Zenhashi. and Sis
Mohamed Ben Abedeslam Ben Jelul as
his representatives to the Hudson Fult on
celebration. They will be accompanied
by three attaches, an interpreter and four
Moorish attendants.
The State Department has been inform
ed that Rear Admiral Lindor Perez, who
Is to represent the government Of Chile
at the Hudson-Fulton celebration. has
sailed from Europe for New York with
his secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
GOOD ROADS PARTY COMING
EXPECTED TO ARRIVE THIS
MORNING IN PRIVATE CAR.
B. r. Yoakum Of Rock Island and
Frisco Railway Serving
as Chaperon.

Chairman B. F. Yoakum of the execu-
tive board Of the Rock Island and Frisco
railway system will arrive in Washing
ton with his good roads party" at $3.50
O'Clock this morning, on the private car
Signet. The party consists Of representa-
tive citizens of the southwest whom Mr..
Yoakum has invited to make a tour of
inspection of the new roads OF the north
and east.
In the party are President G. A. Cole
and Secretary NJ. F. Dickinson of the
Arkansas Farmers Union. President j.
F. Harbert and j. NJ. McCollister of the
Louisiana Farmers Union, President J..
A. West of the Oklahoma Farmers
Union. President ]. P. Connors of the
state board of Agriculture of Oklahoma.
Clark Hudson secretary of the Oklahoma
Federation of Commercial Clubs; ]. K.
Armstrong and Samuel Hampton. of the
Oklahoma City Union-Advocate, Freeman
r. Smith, vice president of the Oklahoma
Farmers Union, and J. W. Thurman of
Gainesville, Tex.
They will begin their sojourn of two
days In Washington with a motor trip
to the principal points OF interest within
the city. At 1890 they will be entertained
Willard by Chief Engineer Vernon M
Peirce land Chief Of Maintenance ]. e.
Pennypacker, jr.. and Mr.. Jasper Wilson
In addition to the members of the good
roads party the Washington representa-
tives of the press of the southwestern
states will also attend.
Program Of Entertainment.
Chief of Highways w. W. Crosby Of
Maryland will come to Washington to at
tend the luncheon. At o'clock the
party will be taken by automobile for q
three-hour run over the Rock Creek Park
road, thence via Brightwood to Silver
Spring. where they will inspect the new
Blair road and other new sections of the
roadway improvements of Montgomery
county. working west toward Kensington
and .returning toward the city via Con-
necticut avenue extended They will
dine In the old Great Falls Tavern and
will sleep on board the Signet, which will
be parked at Union station.
Tuesday the party will spend the morn
ing In inspecting the Department of Ag-
riculture. where they will discuss good
roads with the experts Of that branch of
the government. They will dine at the
Columbia Golf Club. returning to Wash
ington In time to attend the performance
of THE Yankee Prince and will re-em-
bark on the Sigpet at midnight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
OFF FOR THE WEST
Secretary Goes to Join Taft on Trip
to Seattle.

Secretary Ballinger Of the Department
of the Interior left over the Pennsylvania
railroad at 5:45 o'clock yesterday after
noon for Denver. where he will join Pres
ident Taft on his western trip.
Unless the President urges him to do
SO. the Secretary will accompany Mr..
TAFT only as far as Seattle. and return
here toward the latter part Of October
Mr.. Ballinger is anxious to complete
much unfinished work in connection with
his recent Investigations of the various
reclamation projects and the national
forestry reserves before the converting
of Congress, and in order to do so he
will be obliged to return to Washington
in October.
The Secretary was accompanied by his
private secretary, Don NJ. Carr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
TARIFF TALK OVER.
Bernstorf Through With Confer
ences With German officials.

BERLIN. September 1S.-Count Won
Bernstorff. German ambassador to Wash
ington. today brought to a conclusion
the conferences with government officials
on the American tariff that he had been
giving here for the past week. Tonight
he left Berlin for his country place, near
Munich.
He Will return to the capital the mid
die OF October. when he will be received
In audience by Emperor William. He
will sail for New York October 20.
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Alaska Miner Charged With Perjury

NOME. Alaska, September 1S.-Jafet
Lindberg. California millionaire mine
owner, and discoverer Of Nome, was ar
rested yesterday on two indictments
charging perjury in connection with the
trial of the Bear Cub mining case. Lind
berg was released under 81, 600 bond. The
preliminary hearing will be held Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
Children Poisoned by Weeds.

JOHN DAY. Ore. September 1S.-Rod-
ney Williams, aged five. Is dead. and two
other children are at the point of death,
as a result of eating noxious weeds. The
children were playing in a sheep pasture.
and, it is presumed. mistook the weeds
for garden vegetables
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Porter Continues to Improve.

Vort0f Cont1nuea 60 Improve.
NEW YORK. September 1s.-Continued
was reported today in the
condition of William s. Porter. president
of the Associated Oil Company Of San
Francisco, who was stricken Thursday
with what his physician terms vertigo.
His physician said today that Mr.. Por-
ter's condition has never been critical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
Cincinnati's Bid for Aero Meet

CINCINNATI. Ohio. September 1s-An-
nouncement has been made by the Gin
cinnat, Aero Club that two wealthy men
Of this city have pledged themselves as
hackers to the extent of $1OO,GOO to secure
the international aerial meet for Gin
cinnati in 1910
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
Bench Warrants in Chicago for
Alleged Conspirators.
PICKED NAMES FROM LIST
Secretary Of Cook County Commits
sion One of Accused.
PANIC AMONG POLITICIANS
States Attorney Denounces as Rot
ten the System Of Selecting
Jurors-Judges to Meet.

CHICAGO, September 1s.-Bench war.
rants were issued today by Judge Jesse
A. Baldwin OF the circuit court for John
]. Holland. member and secretary OF the
Cook county Jury commission; Nicholas
A. Martin. secretary to Alderman kenna
OF the first ward. and Willis J. Rayburn.
real estate man. The charge against
the three is that they conspired to draw
names Of grand jurors In a manner other
than that required by law.
All three men were taken into custody
and released on bail Of 5000 each.
Announcement was made at the states
attorneys office that the charge will not
be placed before the present grand jury,
that body being involved in the COM
plants.
Announcement was also made that the
Judges Of the appellate, circuit. su-
perior, probate and county courts, oy
whom a jury commissioner is annually
determine what action they shall take
Panic Among Politicians.
Coming in the midst of the trial OF
| Inspector Mccain for alleged grating.
the news of the action based on alleged
| tampering with the jury lists caused
great excitement In legal and political
circles. The complaints on which the
| warrants were issued were drawn up
by a special agent Of the states at
torney. who had been investigating the
jury drawing methods for weeks.
When the warrants were issued SUBJ
poenas also were sent out from the
court for the production of all records,
documents and papers Of the jury conf
mission.
The states attorney remained silent con-
| corning the details of the allegations
against the men. but in criminal court cir
cleS the action was regarded as the fore
runner OF wholesale expose Of alleged
conspiracies which may have affected the
drawing Of other grand and petit juries.
Because of the sensational nature of the
charges against Inspector McCann. who Is
accused of accepting hush money" from
diSorderly houses in his district, especial
care was exercised, 1t was believed. in
drawing the grand jury which indicted
him and in selecting the members of the
petit jury now engaged in deciding on his
guilt or innocence.
States Attorneys Statement.
Commenting on the issuance of the war
rants and the cause OF the drastic action.
| States Attorney Wayman said:
I'VE propose to throw the light on the
| darkest hole in Cook county and clean
out the jury commissioners room. which
| is rotten. We have been working on this
for several months, and when the evi.
dence is produced there will be q COM
pete reformation in the manner OF Sc
lecting juries in Cook county,
Under the state law the names Of pros
pective grand jurors are selected at ram
dom from a sealed box containing the
names Of 1,5OO citizens who have been
examined for jury service by the jury
commissioners and their fitness certified.
A similar method is prescribed for petit
jury lists.
The three accused men are alleged to
have substituted other names for those
drawn In the regular manner.
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Moorish Commissioners Sail.

GIBRALTAR. September 1s.-Three
Moorish commissioners. who will rep
resent Mulai Hafid. the Sultan OF Mo-
rocco. at the Hudson Fulton celebra-
ton In New York left here TO-DAY on
BOARD the steamer Canopis, which il
due at Boston September 81.
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SEARCHFORTWlN SISTERS ENDS
WILL MEET EACH OTHER FOR
FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS.
Were Born in 1883 in Station House
in Observation-Disclosures
Of Policemen.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, September 49,
After a search lasting twenty-five years.
during which time the eastern part of the
country was secured for traces of their
whereabouts, two twin sisters. born in
1883 in the 10th and Thompson streets po-
lice station house, and known as the
Twelfth District Twins have been
found, and will meet each other the early
part of next week for the first time since
they were adopted, a year following their
birth.
Policemen Of the station house, who
have always regarded the twins" as
their proteges, located them yesterday
morning, after one had appealed to Spe-
cial Policeman Brinton to find her sister.
While their movements were being
traced the sisters mourned each other as
dead. An appeal to find her sister. writ
ten by Mrs. Leona Fry Miller, whose
home is in Syracuse, N. Y, was handed
to Brinton early in August. Although the
men of the district have been strenuousy
endeavoring to bring the sisters together.
the search had waned when the special
officer received the message from New
York.
Long Search Successful.
Friday night he was rewarded after
days of unsuccessful search about the
twentieth ward. He learned the other
twin had married and was living at 3OiO
Mercer street, Port Richmond. Her name
is Mrs. Mary Kingsloe, and she is the
mother Of four children. The sister living
in New York state is expected to arrive at
the Port Richmond home either Monday or
Tuesday. The mother of the twins was
Mrs. Rudolph Biener of Camden. Decem-
Der %, 1883. she entered the station house
and was met by House Sergeant Ashton.
Shortly afterward the twins were born.
A christening was held in the station
house, and the house sergeant acted as
godfather.
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LIEUT.. JAMES N. PICkRElL DIES
RETIRED FROM NAVAL SERVICE
ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO.
Passes Away at His Home, Mill.
wood, in Powhatan County, Va,
Aged Fifty-Two.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, September 18.-Lieut.
James McCaw Pickrell,> U. s. N. (re-
tired). died last evening in his home. Mill
wood, near Sublett's tavern, Powhatan
county. He had been seriously i'll for
about four months.
Lieut.. Pickrell was born August 3, 1857,
in the house at WILDWOOD. the home of his
grandmother, Mrs Caroline Matilda Nc
Cav.
After spending his boyhood in Richmond
and attending the Thomas H. Norwood
University School. he entered the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis in
1874 as a cadet engineer After gradual
ing he continued In the naval service, hav-
ing in the meantime been transferred to
the line by the provisions of the naval per-
sonnet bill, and remained in the service
until about ten years ago. when he was
retired for physical disability incident to
the service, his trouble being heart dis
ease, contracted In the tropics.
At the time Of his retirement ne had
attained the rank Of lieutenant COM
mander. but was unable on account Of
physical disability to pass the examina-
ton.
Had Active Naval Career.
Lieut.. Pickrell had an active career in the
navy, full Of Incidents. and was commended
for gailantry on the occasion of the
wreck Of the United States ship Ashuelot
of the coast of China. when many lives
were lost and the vessel sank. He was
married In Honolulu. Sandwich Islands,
to Miss Mary Evelyne Putnam, daughter
Of the United States consul general at
that place, about twenty-five years ago.
His wife formerly lived In Chillicothe,
Ohio.
Lieut.. Pickrell leaves four brothers.
John Pickrell Of this city, z. w. Pickrell,
jr., Of Los Angeles, Cal; Percy Pickreil
Of New York and DR.. George NJ. Pickrell,
U. s. NJ, who is at Charleston, s. c.,
navy yard experimenting the fitting out
of the hospital ship Solace. The funeral
takes place Sunday at the old home in
POWhatan county.