Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-07-24
.G8NFtREES AGREE
ON FREE LEATHER
At Same Time
Tariff on Shoes
Is Reduced
IS A COMPROMISE MEASURE
New England Manufacturers
Make Important Con-
cessions.

Washington, July 24-President
Taft was notified by the House and
Senate leaders today that hides will
surely go on the free list. AS a
rider to the previous free hides clause
will be a provision for material re-
duction of the House rates on shoes
and other leather products. This was
followed by statement that free
hides will only be had by an agree
ment of the leather manufacturers
that their goods will bear lower rates.
The Crane League told the President
that New England is ready to make
concession as a part of the bargain
for free hides. This opened the
way for an agreement in conference
as the western Senators said time
and again that the objection to free
hides will cease when the rates on
manufactured leather products are
correspondingly reduced. The rates
on shoes will be lowered from Is to
10 per cent according to the Presi-
dents advice.
Mail Robberies Checked.
Washington, d. c., July 24.-That
the postoffice department has effectt-
ally checked, if not finally stopped
series of daring mail car robberies in
the West, is disclosed in an official
report submitted today to Postmaster
General Frank H. Hitchcock by Post
Office Inspectors Hal B. Mosby and c.
NJ. Perkins. Since the Northern Pa
cific holdup at Hilliard, Washington,
in September, 1907, in which the ban
dts secured $4,000 from registered
mail car, no less than six train rob-
berries have been committed between
Spokane, Washington, and Omaha,
Nebraska. In all of these robberies
mail rather than express cars have
been attacked or seized by the out
laws. Recognizing that valuable reg
istered mail was the prize sought in
all of the recent hOld-ups, Postmaster
General Hitchcock issued an order in
May calling for vigorous action. Post
office Inspector Mosby and Perkins
were detailed to proceed to Spokane,
the scene of most of the hold-ups, but
while enroute the fast overland linn
tied on the Union Pacific was held
up and robbed near Omaha, Nebras-
ka. and their assignment was chang
ed to that point. AS result of their
work, in connection with Inspector c.
l.. Patterson and Ralph Smith, and
the Omaha police and Union Pacific
secret service officials, there Is little
doubt of the capture of four of the
band of train robbers responsible for
The numerous depredations since the
hold-up at Hiliard Those charged
with the Union Pacific robbery at
Omaha and against whom the post
Office inspectors have secured evil
dence strongly duplicating them in
the holdups near Denver and Spokane
are Bill Matthews, alias G. w. Mar
win, the alleged ring leader; Law
renee Golden, alias Jack Shelton, alias
J. G. Kelly; Dan Dover, alias d. w.
Wood; Fred Torgensen, alias F. w.
Derf, and Frank Grigware, alias
James Gordon. The suspects are
known to have lived in the vicinity
of Spokane all their lives. The post
office inspectors have worked up a
strong case against them. They are
held in the Douglass county Jail at
Omaha under $25,OOO bond. AS they
are charged with having jeopardized
the lives of eight mail clerks in the
Omaha holdup, if convicted the PEN
atty for their crimes may be life
Since the discovery
of revolvers, masks, cartridges and
caps buried in a hill side on the
campus Of Brown Park school house
in South Omaha and the finding Of
empty mail pouches and dynamite In
the attic Of that school house, the
postoffice inspectors have traced the
suspects to Denver and connected
them with the holdup of Denver and \
Rio Grande train near Denver on
February II.
Fish for Cimarron. ~
Washington, d. G., July 24.--At the
request of Representative Martin, Of
Colorado, the fisheries bureau will
stock Silver Tip lake, near Cimarron,
with trout
Will Reimburse Rangers.
Washington, d. G., July 24.The
government has set aside $4,000 as
allowance money to be divided among
the rangers Of the Western country
who have heen put to the extra ex-
pense of keeping horses. Eight thou
sand dollars Of this amount will be
in this district.
Big Postal Card Order.
Washington, D. O., July "a. THE
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