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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-30
MOLASSES BLAMED
FOR DEATH Of CHILD
Little Colored Girl Dead, and
Eight III at Children's
Home.

BALTIMORE. Oct. 30.-Fermented
Porto Rican mOlasses Is said to be re-
sponsible for the death today of one
child and the serious illness Of eight
others at the Maryland Home for Col
ored Children, 1924 Druid Hiu avenue,
this city
Alice Green, three years old, is the
child that IL dead. Coroner Baldwin, OF
the northw. tern district, Is investi-
eating the % e.
nosed the case as being caused by the
feTmented moIasses and medical au-
thorities are paying a great deal of at
tention 20 the case The case is one
of the most unusual brought to the
attention Of local police.
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Young Lieutenant Shows
Nerve When Motor Fails
Suddenly.
LIEUT.. FOULOIS
is HIS PASSENGER
Broken Tooth in Cog Wheel Causes
Mishap-Aviators
Unhurt.

COLLEGE PARK, Nd. Oct. 30.-Lieut
F. 4. Humphreys showed his nerve dur
ing an early morning fight at the avia-
ton school at College Park this morn
ing when. by his cool handling OF the
controls, he brought the biplane safely
to the ground after the motor stopped
suddenly in midair.
Neither Lieutenant Pumphreys nor his
passenger. Lieut.. 3. D. Foulois, were
Injured, or even shaken up. The bi-
plane was not damaged at all. bet it
looked to the spectators as II the fight
would have proved much more disas-
trous If the machine had been up higher
broken tooth in one Of the cog
wneels of the magnetic caused the near
accident In some way or other one
wheel had Jared loose. Probably this
looseness caused the teeth. instead Of
slipping into place properly. to catch.
and one was torn out.
Mr.. Wright, back from a brief trip to
New York. was not worried by the acci-
dent He said that he can go up with
one tooth missing from the cog wheel.
He probably viii send to Dayton for a
new piece. but he put the old one back
on the biplane shortly after the trou-
bic. He expected further flying when
the wind went down.
After two false starts Lieutenants
Humphreys and Foulois got of at s:42
They were flying evenly and expertly
when the tooth broke. At the time the
machine was ct the west end OF the
field and was abut thirty feet in the
air. When the tooth broke the engine
stopped. Lieutenant Humphreys kept
his head. and. although il looked for a
second as If the biplane would crash to
the ground, he pulled the controls IN
time, and after one dip 1t scared Up
again and then settled with only a
little racket. If the machine had been
up fifty feet higher, so spectators
thought il might not have come down
so successfully.
Mr. Wright in his store clothes stood
over a work bench IN the shed after
wards and fixed up the magnetic IN the
best fashion possible. He had nothing
to say about the accident. except to say
that the magnetic was loose.
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NEW ORLEANS READY
TO GREET PRESIDEhTT 8
Thousands Throng Docks. and Warships Will b.
Out Welcome AS Taf's Ship and Others of
Fleet Round Into Sight

NEW ORLEANS, oct. 3o.-Half the
population Of New Orleans IS waiting
at the water front at the foot Of Canal
street. for the arrival Of the Presi-
Dental fleet today.
Upon the arrival Of the Presidential
feet, the reception committee viii at
once escort the President and his party
to the hall. where the first session with
the deepwaterway convention will be
held.
Lying at anchor in the harbor are the
warships North Carolina, Montana,
and New York. waiting for the PTesi-
dent The first Intimation the city wiIl
have Of the arrival viii be tae booming
of the Presidential salute from the big
guns Of the war craft.
with President Tafts 1,200-mile trip
down the Mississippi, the most remark
able of me great tasks OF his trans
continentu Journey will be finished He
has spoken on all subjects that he had
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in mind when he started. has familiar
lied with the irrigation. Industrial and
economic problems Of the West and paid
his long promised visit to Texas and
his brothers gre 1T ranch.
The concluding days of his journey,
which he will spend in the State OF
Alabama, Georgia. the Carolinas. and
Virginia, viii be devoted mainly to cor
dial greetings Of his Southern friends.
Including the speech at Baton Rouge
last night Taft has delivered 20 ad-
dresses to the people since leaving Bev-
erly September IA.
Boomers of he project, discussing the
trip before the fee- "a -ded, say that the
journey has not been an unmixed trf-
umph. Those who profess to know the
Executives mind declare that he has
been deeply impressed with the need
of the deepening of the channel, but
that he has not been convinced that
the plans suggested are feasible or that
the cost would be commensurate with
the results.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-30
GERMAN EMPEROR
HONORS EDUCATORS

BERLIN, Oct. S0.-Kaiser Wilhelm.
a brilliant suite of court officials, and
a distinguished company of German
educators, attended Berlin University
today to hear the New American ex-
change professors deliver their inau-
gural addresses.
The new Harvard professor is VIII
liam Charles Moore, and the new holder
of the Roosevelt exchange professorsh-p
is Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, presi-
dent of the University OF California.
I he Kaiser as usual, defied all court
precedence and tock a seat on the plat
form with the two professors. He talk
ed with them cor inually during the
formal program.
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Editors Views Find More
Favor With Public Than
in the Past.
GAYNOR FOR MAYOR.
WITH FUSION BOARD
Politicians Believe Tanmany Will
Lose All But Head of Ticket
in Coming Election.
By ]. c. wELLIvER.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3o.-With
the municipal fall campaign winding
up tonight, the summary of the sit
uation is about this.
Everybody" would 'just like to
see Hearst elected"
Everybody rather agrees that
Barnard is the best man running. +"
Everybody" strongly opines that
Oaynor will win.
Hearst doesn't stand to get any
thing like the number of votes he got
four years ago, and yet Hearst
stands vastly better with this town
than he ever did before.
CITY'S ATTITUDE.
New York is willing to admit that
he is pretty radical IL us public
views, hut then it has t6en growing
up to his radicalism. AS to Hearst
personally, nobody is now afflicted
with the curious old notion that he
is not a proper person to know, or
eligible to respectable society.
Hearst is universally acceDted
now as an honest exponent of the
cause of good government "They
say" that if elected he would make
a good mayor. Nobody worth while
said that four years ago.
Hearst the Gamer.
No matter what happens in the com
ing election. Hearst is the man who will
make a bigger gain out of it than any
other man; whether he runs second or
last. whether his candidacy serves the
purpose Of saving the board OF estimates
or not, Hearst viii loom UP as the one
man who offered to sacrifice himself for
the sake Of doing something for the
cause Of rescuing the town rom Tam
many and graft, and for the doing Of
that he has received the fndorse.asat of
the best element" 20 long aloof and
suspicious Of him.
The current forecast today is that GAY
nor will be elected mayor and that the
fusion board OF estimates will win. IN
that case Tammany viii get the form
but lose the substance OF victory. The
great Tammany fight is to save the
board of estimate. Tammany. indeed.
would trade on Gaynor 70 save its board
of estimate. If it dared or could.
Rouses Suspicion.
Charley Murphy's daily prediction that
Hearst will run second. has caused some
people to sspect that this
very thing was in consideration. But
the politicians all tell you that it is not
possible to make such a trade Tam
many must save the board of estimate,
II at all. BY dint Of an overwhelming
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MURDERER FOUND
DEAD IN A SWAMP
Miller Shot Himself Soon After
Killing His
Wife.

SOUTH BRAINTREE. Mass, Oct. 80.
The body Of James z. Miller. who
murdered his wife at South Braintree,
Thursday afternoon. and then fed. was
found this afternoon in a swamp not far
from the scene Of the crime. The mur-
derer had taken his own life. bullet
wounds I'm his head showing how he
died.
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Perkins Separated From
Place as Assistant Pend
ing Nagel's Return.
GILBERT LOSES
$1,000 YEARLY PAY
Refusal to Transmit and Act Upon
Charges Cause Coast and
Geodetic Changes.
By JAMES HAY, Jr.


Chain lightning hit the coast, and
geodetic survey this afternoon in
the shape of suspension and demo-
ton of officials, and the formulating
Of charges against the general man
agement of the bureau.
Frank Valley Perkins, designated
assistant" and acting superintendent
of the bureau during the recent alb
sence of Superintendent Otto H.
Tittmann, is suspended without pay
pending the return of Secretary
Nagel, Of the Department of Com
merce and Labor, under which the
survey is nun.
John j. Gilbert, Inspector of Hv-
biography and Topography, is de-
NOTED from $1,000 to $4,000 a
year. No charges have been made
against Tittmann.
And the end IS not yet.
MOST SERIOUS CHARGE.
The most serious charge against
the officials affected by the action
taken by Assistant Secretary Mac
Harg, of the Department of Com
merce and Labor. who is acting
Secretary in the absence of Mr..
Nagei, is that of suppressing official
correspondence and running the bu-
reau as If it were pocket affair"
thus shielding certain employees when
they should have been reported.
Perkins is directly charged with
refusal to forward 70 the Secretary
Of the department certain charges
made against the management Of
the bureau and with making evasive
responses IN reply to the attempts
Of the department TO find out what
was the matter with the bureau.
Against Gilbert there is an addi-
tonal charge Of inefhciency.
In Bad odor.
Tne bureau iE In bad odor with the
dapArtment- Various stories Of bad
management and extravagance have
come out recently. There have been
reports OF commanders OF vessels under
the bureau having their wives ana
families living on these vessels. which
Is in direct opposition to the regulations
Aiso' rumors have been heard Of ex-
travagant management and disposition
OF these vessels
Inefhcieney IS alleged 10 have been
promoted through the bureau bv Some
OF the officials playing favorites yVItb
the clerks
For Instance. when a report was mad
against clerk, the official receivine, n
would not forward It If It happened ~
reflect on some person he liked: VouJd
not even put II on the files. but would
eonsign IL 20 the sweet Oblivion 80 .
pigeonhole in his own desk.
The last tine that Messrs perl,f,,s
and gilbert inquired in the public interest
was when they had a fist flgbt in one
OF the corridors OF the bureaus offices
on New Jersey avenue. II was two
summers ago IN the heated spell OF JuIv
when blood ran hot. The noon PONG
had just struck, and the two oficiaIs
3istoOk Il for the prize rinE bell sII11-
Soning them from their respective cor
ners 10 the middle Of the ring.
Meet In Corridor.
They met In the corridor and at once
proceeded 10 high and reverberatIng
words to a fare-you-wen. Each one
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WELCOME
DETROIT PLAYERS

HAVANA. Oct. 3G.-Cuban baseball
fans TO-DAY welcomed the a.ival OF the
Detroit slub to begin the series of twelve
games with Cuban clubs.
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LIVED WITH BROKEN NECK

URBANA, H.. Get. 30.-After playing
football with schoOlmates on October 70,
OrVilie Sullivan, thirteen, was said TO
be suffering from scarlet fever He died
and IL has been found that for sixteen
days he had been suffering from a
broken neck.
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WEATHER REPORT.

The temperature has continued 70 rise
in the central portions Of the country.
but unseasonably cool weather still pre-
walls Ia Eastern sections.
The temperature viii rise still further
IN the Middle States east Of the Mis-
gissippi and warmer weather viii over
spread the Atlantic States
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Doors, Like Everybody Uses, 81. so Apiece.
Frank Libbey 4 Co. 9th 4 N. Y. Ave.
r-AdVt.
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KOREANS ATTACK
JAPANESE GUARD

TOKYO. Oct 30.-Three hundred
Koreans attacked the railway depot
near Seoul.
There were q few japanese soldiers
there who resisted. The fate Of the
latter is unknown, but IL is feared
they have been slaughtered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-30

To try Piper Heidsieck chewing to-
bacco IS 10 understand why il is sold in
more stores than any other chewing to-
bacco.-AdVt
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Mantels, Hundred Styles, from s2.So
10 $3.50 apiece. ldbbey & Co.-AdYt.
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Mantels, Large Colonial, for $3.50.
Frank Libbey K Co.. 9th & n. Y. Ave.
s-AdYt,
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Doors, Ordinary Kind, for $3.50 Apiece.
Frank Libbey & Co.. 9Th & n. Y. Ave.
--AdVt
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Doors fer Oil Finish-Finest--S2.s
apiece. B-bbey x CO., eth x ~ Y Ave.
-Advt.
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Doors of Any Kind of Wood.
Frank Libbey x Co.. 9Th 3 n. Y. Axe.
,-AdYG
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Mantels, Neat, Pretty, for sa.so.
Frank Libbey Co.. 6th & n. Y. Ave.
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4oday-dlgh tide, . a. NJ and 9.l4 Z
M: Tow TIDE, 800 a. M and 2:14 D. m.
TOmorFoW-High tide $50 = m an,
1000 p m. low tide. 1854 a. m. and 40
p. m
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FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICT.
Fair tonight and SCuday; rising tenn
perature: light variable winds
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CONDITION. OF RIVERS
HARPERS FERRY. W Va Oct a0
Both rivers cloudy this morning.
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TEBIPERATUREs
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Records are Doomed.

When Knipper completed his third laD
in 1850 it was evident. however. that
the records were doomed to so by the
board.
The arst car 70 50 out Of the race was
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Meet In Corridor

They met In the corridor and at once
proceeded 10 high and reverberatIng
words to a fare-y0u-wen. Each one
Continued on Third Pagel
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
QUARREL OF DOCTORS.
Evidently That Is Tendency of Wing
field Damage Case.

Junction City, Kan, March 29.-The
court convened this morning at 9
O'Clock and the Wingfeld damage case
was at once taken up. DR.. Yates
spent all day Friday on the stand and
had been asked a long line of hypo-
thetical questions. He took the stand
this morning and his examination
will no doubt take the remainder of
the day. To each question asked an
objection was entered by the attorneys
for the defense and most of them
were overruled by the court but en-
tered in the record.
The asking of the Hypothetical
questions took over an hour and then
a regular line of testimony in regard
to his experience with the use of the
X-ray machine was begun. The testi-
mony of DR.. Yates was completed at
about IL o'clock and the cross ex-
animation was commenced by Mr..
Harkness, one of the attorneys for the
defense. DR.. Yates was asked how
long he had resided in the city, his oc-
cupation, etc. He was also asked if
he had any previous biased feeling
against one of the defendants in the
case, DR.. King.
He stated that he was a competitor
in business, but otherwise had none.
He was asked If last fall he had not
been a candidate for office of coroner
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
WANTS FREE TEA.
Taft Is Opposed to Placing Additional
Burdens on Necessaries

Washington, March 29.-President
Taft talked tariff today with Senator
Hale, Representatives Dalzell of Penn
sylvania and Hinshaw of Nebraska,
and John Barrett, director of the bu-
reau of American republics.
1t is said that the president is letting
it be understood that he strongly fav-
ors reduction of the tariff on all of
the necessaries of life. The Payne bill
repeatedly has been attacked in the
house debate as imposing too heavy a
burden upon the poor and as favoring
the richer classes. The impression
created by such talk has not been
gratifying to the administration. The
president has no information in sup
port of such a charge.
President Taft is known to be
strongly opposed to the proposed tax
on tea. 1t is stated that this tax would
yield about IS, 200, 900 annually The
president believes this amount could
be made up by an excise tax on the
dividends of corporations or by some
methods of stamp taxation.
He does not believe the burden of
raising this additional IS, 100000 should
be placed upon the rank and file of
consumers. The president also is said
to believe that the ways and means
committee of the house will not insist
upon the countervailing duty proposed
on coffee.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
GET YOUR "PLATE" NOW
Only Limited Number Can BE Ac-
comlnodated at Commercial Club.

The slogan contest of the Topeka Ad-
vertising club closes this evening. To-
days mails have brought in hundreds
OF slogan suggestions and from the
great bulk of suggestions the club
should certainly be enabled to select a
business battle-cry that may be ex-
pected to inspire the loyal boosters to
greater efforts for the advancement of
Topeka and all its interests. Tonight a
committee of the Ad club will get to-
gether in the Commercial club rooms
and select some of the most appropriate
suggestions and these will be consid-
cred and voted upon at the monday
luncheon of the members tomorrow.
The Ad club luncheon tomorrow will
be given in the dining room of the Com
mercial club and this affair will mark
the opening of the Commercial clubs
cafe. There. will be no speech making
at tomorrow's luncheon, but the time
will be devoted to selecting slogan
from the host of suggestions received.
Those desiring to attend tomorrows s
luncheon should have their plates re
served at once. The capacity of the
dining room is 20 plates and in order
to be sure of having a place at the ta-
BILE those intending to be present should
notify the club in advance. The price
of plates will be so cents each, luncheon
will be served at 12:15 and will be in
charge of A. F. Coulson. steward of the
Elks' club Those desiring to reserve
places at the table by telephone may
|caIl Independent 727.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
STILL A MYSTERY.

Sheriff John Wilkerson is at Della
today attempting to solve the mystery
of the death of a baby which was de-
voured by dogs after they had un-
earthed the remains. While digging
drainage ditch Saturday George
Olenic, a Bohemian farmer, unearthed
the half eaten remains of a new born
infant, which he hung in a tree while
he went to telephone the officers of
his find.
When he returned the remains had
been pulled down and eaten by dogs
which had returned during his alb
sence and only blood stains were left
to tell the story of a possible murder.
Gossip in the neighborhood has locat-
ed the mother Of the infant which is
said to have been alive for a number
of hours after its birth at least and
murder is limited at. A number of
residents of that part of the county
will in all probabilities be subpoenaed
to tell what they actually know of the
birth and subsequent death of the in
FAINT. Sheriff Wilkerson was accom-
panied by County Attorney John
Schenck and Coroner Keith, the trip
being made in the automobile
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

very ordinary locks. The Burket par
lors explain their escape by the fact
that the photographer in the rear of
the hall had his light burning all
night. Lyman & Lyman, after suffer
ing burglary several years ago had a
street door put at the foot of the stair
and have not been troubled since, for
thief will not stop and trif1e with a
would see him.
Wherever there were street doors
locked or where the offices had safes
they seemed to have been immune
from attack. That only the sure thing
offices were entered leads the police to
believe that a spotter has been on the
field. Any one with a knowledge of
the dental business could find the val
safe but they could not tell about that
from the street and it is unlikely that
a robber would enter a dozen offices
where it was no use, subjecting him
self to arrest.
A letter had come to Dr. Koester
secretary of the state society of dent
lists, about a week ago from Herington
that just such work was being done in
the smaller towns and that it might be
tried in Topeka. The letter was shown
but no one seemed to pay much atten-
tion to 1t.
There is little prospect of catching
the thief of thieves because. unless
caught in the act, there is no way to
prove that one is the right one. In an
hours time the gold can all be melted
into a nugget which would preclude
any attempt to identify the stolen
goods.
The police would have phoned to
Wichita yesterday for some clues
which they hoped to pick up there
from the recent similar thefts but the
Independent service which donates the
accommo cd alton does not reach Wich-
ita so they saved the money.
The dentists express no hope of ever
seeing their gold again.
Undesirable citizens would surely
include a citizen of Topeka named
Jess Steadman for who is more un-
desirable, reDulsive. and vicious than
a husband who would grovel to solicit
unlawful business for his own wife.
It's more of the white slave affair and
Jess is q cab driver.
A warrant secured the arrest of his
wife, Pearl Steadman, Bessie Reed,
Morril Thompson and George Reed
last night about $3.50 o'clock. Pearl is
charged with keeping a disorderly
house at 124 Madison street and the
others of being found in. As the four
were being registered at the Eaton
House and assigned to rooms, IN
walked Jess Steadman who had heard
of the affair and had come to secure
bonds for the people. whats your
name?" asked the sergeant and kept
right on. despite the protests. until he
had Jess booked also and led into the
pen-and Jess can't even get bond
for himself. George Reed, a decent
bond and fed, forfeiting the. same by
not appearing this morning. The
others remained in over night ana
were brought before the judge this
morning but said they were not ready
for trial and turned away with a surly
air. "Those girls sure do hate TO get
'pinched' " said an officer.