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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
Sailors May Be Smothering
in Russian Submarine Boat

sEBAsToPoL, June 12.-Hope, although
II is slight is entertained that the twenty
men who went down in the Russian sub
marine Kambala, which was sunk in coll
lisiOn with the battleship Rostislav during
maneuvers last night, are still alive. Des-
perate efforts are being made by the Off
GERS and men OF the Black See fleet, with
the assistance Of divers and salvage work.
men from Sebastol. TO raise the subma-
rins before the imprisoned men succumb
to the vitiated air.
Admiral Bostrem, commander OF the
naval forces in the Black sea, has taken
charge OF the pontoons one Of which is
equipped with a powerful hosting crane,
assembled at the scene OF the catastrophe.
All through the afternoon divers and tech
nichians were busy in an endeavor 10
fAstsn chains around the huh, which lies
In an awkward position about twenty
eight fathoms down. In order TO haul II
to the surface. So far their efforts have
not been successful. but reports reaching
shore indicate that there is a good chance
OF raising the boat Apparently the sub
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
NEW ORLEANS is HAPPY OVER
BOAT LINE TO PHILADELPHIA
whole city ReJOices over Re-EStab-
IiAhment of Service After
Fifty Years.

NEW ORLEANS, La, June n.-ln cele-
bration of a direct steamship service be-
tween the ports of Philadelphia and New
Orleans, after a lapse Of almost fifty
years a yacht bearing representatives OF
all the commercial organizations OF this
city today gave escort to the steamer j.
L. Luckenbach, when is started down the
Mississippi river on the return trip to
Philadelphia. At a banquet last night In
honor of the visitors from Philadelphia
Mayor Behrman and several thousand
merchants and business men OF New
Orleans pledged their support TO the line
and toasts were drunk expressing the good
will borne each other by the common
weaIths OF Louisiana and Pennsylvania
The steamer brought down a full cargo
and was unable to take back on this triT
all OF the freight which the New Orleans
merchants piled on the wharf and con-
signed to Philadelphia and other north
eastern points
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
Earth Fill at
Pathfinder Dam
Source of Danger
If Pile of Dirt Goes Out Floods Might
Sweep Down Platte River
Valley.

DOUGLAS, Wyo., June i2-(Special)--It
has been learned that although the mas
onry dam at the Pathfinder reservoir on
the Sweetwater river is In no danger and
will probably stand until the end OF time,
there is an earth FIJI on one side OF the
great pile of masonry that may go out,
and II It does, then the Platte valley will
be flooded and the towns Of Casper Doug
las and many valuable ranches will be in
danger.
This earth fill is at the mouth Of canon
running out from the big reservoir. Eighty
feet OF water twenty miles long Is pressing
against this earth barrier and the water
Is rising at the rate of eighteen inches
per day. Should the earth bank go out
this large volume Of water will be emp
tied into the canon, which in turn empties
into the Platte river, and this big stream
already overflowing its banks in many
places, could not carry the flood The
valley in many places lie narrow and at
these places the flood would be deep and
sufficiently swift to carry everything be-
fore it. Casper and Douglas lie directly in
the path Of this threatened danger, and
warned, as they are now, the people would
not have time TO get to places of safety
should this earth embankment give way.
Prof. F. II. Newell, head of the reclama-
tion service, and a number of celebrated
engineers have just returned from
visit to the big irrigation pro-
ject and report narrowing ex-
perlence, being nearly drowned in the
great inland lake Prof Newell, with sew
eral companions, set out in a naphtha
launch on a trip from the dam to the in
take, distance of twenty miles, and
while near the center OF the lake they
we're overtaken by a storm. They were
pelted with hail and their frail craft all
but capsised by the heavy seas" which
beat against IT, To make matters worse
the engine failed at the critical moment,
and, TO repeat Prof. Newelrs statement,
the were 'mArooned" on the lake
The engineers found the big dam to be
in first class shape. and the huge lake
rapidly filling with water. They had moth
ing TO say regarding the earth fill at the
mouth Of the gorge to one side Of the big
dam.
CASPER, Wyo., June l2.-(Special)-
Reports from the Bates Hole country state
that irrigation works have been washed
away, meadows inundated an ranch prop.
erty damaged No lives have been lost
Many small dams bridges and headEates
we're carried away and the loss cannot
be estimated.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
Woodmcn Will
Erect Building
in This City
Sovereign Camp at Detroit Appropri'
ates $75O,000 for New Head
quarters in Omaha.

DETROIT, Mich. June l2.-(speciai Tele
gram. THE Sovereign camp Woodmen OF
the World this morning by unanimous vote
appropriated S750OOO for new building in
Omaha The action was forecasted yester-
day by a report of the committee and the
proposition had little opposition this morn
ing.
The building will be from twelve to tif-
teen stories high, but detailed plans have
not been agreed on yet
The request of the Pacific Jurisdiction
that the territory Of Arizona and New
Mexico be added to that jurisdiction was
denied.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
DEATH CREATES A SCANDAL
Mrs. Ruiz's Suicide Attributed to In
fatuation for A. G. Vanderbilt.
BIG HULABALoo IN LONDON
Papers VenttIate Alleged Details and
Vanderbilt Disappears - BeIated
Report Given of Testimony
Brought out at Inquest.

LONDON, June 12.-Several Sunday
papers print long accounts of what they
call the mysterious case of Mary Agnes
Ruiz, who committed suicide In the city
on May Is. They lay particular stress on
the suppression of news of the inquest and
her relations with an American multi
millionaire. Lloyds Weekly News at
tributes the woman's suicide to her made
infatuation for A. G.. Vanderbilt" and
charges that the English reporters present
at the inquest were bribed to refrain from
mentioning the case.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was:
Suicide, while of unsound mind"
Charles F. Williamson of Paris, who
settled the affairs and paid a large staff
at Mrs. Ruiz's Grosvenor street estab-
lishment was the first witness at the in
quest He identified the body and tesu-
fled that he had acted as her agent She
was the wife of a wealthy Cuban from
whom she had separated. Lately, ne said,
she had been in ill-health and depressed
and had declared that she was tired of
life.
Her Companions story.
Miss Elizabeth Caney, who was the
companion of Mrs. Ruiz since last Janu-
ary testified that Mrs. Ruiz had been
very depressed at times and took the
tabloids for insomnia. She kept a re-
volver, according to the witness, who
further stated that her mistress was
looking very i'll on the evening of May
16. Miss Caney declared that she had
no Idea that Mrs. Ruiz had shot herself
until the doctor, whom she summoned,
arrived
DR.. j. B. Sutton who was the physi-
clan called, testified that he found that
Mrs. Ruiz had been shot in the breast.
revolver, with one empty chamber,
was lying on the bed. Servants testi-
fled that they they heard no shot There
was no doubt whatever that the case one
of suicide.
MIR. Vanderbilt Disappears.
Alfred c. Vanderbilt cannot be found
in London. He has not appeared at the
horseshow since the evening papers first
mentioned the suicide on Thursday.
Brother Leaves for London.
ST. LOUIS Mo- June 12.-Charles L.
o'Brien, brother of Mrs. Mary Agnes
o'Brien Ruiz, is in New York and viii
go on TO London TO inquire into her
death He has been in consultation in
New York with Edward Rymes, attor-
ney for Mrs. Ruiz. To Edward Lynch,
fireman, OBrien said his sister had
committed suicide in London and would
be buried there.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
Lutte LEADS SONS OF HERMAN
sioux City Man Chosen President OF
Iowa Division of the Order at
Fort Dodge.

FORT DODGE, Ia, June 12-(Special
Telegram. "A. A. Lutte OF Sioux City was
elected grand president OF the Sons of
Herman this morning W. Wietz of Maple
ton assumes the office Of past grand presi-
dent. exchanging titles with Lutz. Other
officers are: Vice grand president, lisa
Kramer. Council Bluffs; second vice grand
president, T. j. Thompson, Davenport;
grand secretary and organizer, Carl Meyer,
Sioux City: grand treasurer. Frank Naaron.
Sioux City; delegate to Denver to national
grand lodge, A A. Lutte and William
wtetz. The next meeting place is unde-
cided
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
Kansan Finds
Harvester Trust
Special Commissioner in Custer Case
Holds Merger Controls Retail
and Wholesale Prices.

TOPEKA, Kan, June l2-State SEN
ator II. w. Gauze, who was appointed by
the supreme court as special commits
sioner to hear evidence in the case of the
state to oust the International Harvester
company from the state filed his report
today. He reports that the harvester
company is a trust He holds that the
effect of the harvester merger has been
to regulate and control the retail and
wholesale prices of harvesting machines
in Kansas.
Senator Gauze holds that the COM
pany is not liable for the $4,000 charter
fees claimed by the state.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
Harriman'S Illness
is Not Critical
Railroad Magnate's Physician Says
Only Trouble is Muscular
Rheumatism.

NEW YORK. June 12.-Dr. W. G. Lyle,
who is f. H. HaRriman's physician, said
today that Mr.. Hartman wes not oriu-
cally i'll in Europe with an organic trouble
as has been reported. Mr.. Harriman's only
illness was muscular rheumatism, the ply
sician said. He had advised Mr. Hartman
to consult an eminent Vienna specialist.
Dr. Lyle said, and Mr., Hartman might
afterwards take the baths at some German
resort. Mr.. Hartman is, at present visiting
James Stillman in Paris.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
Senator Dietrich
Will Wed with
Daughters Chum
Miss Margaretta Shaw Stewart of
Philadelphia to Be the
Bride.

HASTINGS, Neb., June 12.-(special Tele-
gram)-Mrs. William Shaw Stewart, of
Philadelphia, has announced the engage
ment of her daughter. Miss Margaretta
Shaw Stewart, and former Senator C. H.
Dietrich. Miss Stewart and the senator S
daughter now Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith,
were classmates at Bryn Mawr. Since her
graduation, Miss Stewart has been active
in charity and literary work in Philadel-
phia.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
Auto Misses Bridge,
Two Are Drowned
Man and Woman Are Pinioned
Under Machine in Deep
Water.

ST. LOUIS, June IA special TO the
Post-Dispatch from Bloomington, ILL.,, says
that Miss Abbel Leavitt and oscar Wahl
were drowned early today when an auto
mobile in which they were riding fell from
a bridge into a creek near San Jose, Mason
county. rhey were Pinioned under the
machine.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
RnshriIIe Nam InstantIy KILLED.

ALLIANCE. Neb., June n.-(Special
Telegram J-During severe electrical
storm, which passed northeast OF this city
this afternoon. George Carter, aged ~
years, whose residence is in Rushville'
Neb, was struck and instantly killed by a
bolt Of lightning The body was brought
to Alliance and relatives notified OF the
accident
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
Man Drowned Near Lead.

LEAD, S. D., June l2-Charles Snyder,
aged &c. was drowned while attempting
to cross a swollen stream at Whitewood
this morning. He leaves q vie and sew
eral children
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
LIMITS LOTTERY TO SUNDAY
Government at Colon shuts Down on
Three Drawings a Night.

NHFVN DFuWIHBH q NIsHN'
NEW ORLEANS, La, June IA spe-
cial from Colon says: A body blow has
been delivered TO the Chinese lottery. An
official decree has been issued limiting It's
operations to one drawing a week and
that on Sundays. At the present there are
three drawings nightly, The fact that the
government has finally taken a hand In
the matter Is considered by many to pre-
sage the ultimate abolition Of the lottery.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-13
WEATHER FORECAST.

For Nebraska-Ge fair
For 1owa-LoCal showers,
For weather report see page 2.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
THESE CITIZENS
WERE FIRED

The aliens on the trunk sewer
scored over citizen labor yesterday
because half dozen citizens on
the job observed Washington S
birthday as a legal holiday. For
this they claim they were dis.
charged and their places were fill
ed with foreigners or fioaters.
w. r. Owen, a taxpayer in Spo.
kane for the last 30 years, is one
of those discharged this morning
by Naylor e Norlin. and the only
explanation was the assertion:
To-day is no better than yester-
day. We don't need you"
AS the situation now stands, ac-
cording to delegation of common
laboring taxpayers this morning,
is that only five of the SO men
working at indiana and Stevens
street are citizens.
1t was stated this morning that a
citizen was discharged last Satur-
day because he asked for his time,
when his family was in want and
he had no other means of getting
food.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
TO SETTLE LABOR
TEMPLE FATE

Monday, March 80. the fifth, meet
ing night in the month of March
for the Central Labor sVnion, was
set aside at a meeting OLA that
body last night especially for the
Spokane Labor Temple associa-
ton. That night must decide, &C
cording to officers of the associa-
ton, whether the temple associa
ton will live or die. Matters OF
changing the incorporation papers
and the bylaws and all other de
sired alterations will be consider
ed at this time. ~
Some members of the association
are beginning to fear that the or
ganization is doomed to go tf
pieces simply for the want of sup
port and attention from the vari
Gus unions. go
A meeting of the trustees was
called for last Sunday, but only g
few of them showed up. Since thai
time other members of the boarf
are losing spirit. and, though de
termined to do their best with the
proposition until the last Monday
in March, they declare that the
whole thing can go by the boart
after that if the others don't show
sufficient interest in it to get bus,
and attend to business.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
v. v. P. FIGHTS
VERDICT

An effort Is being made by the
Washington Water Power Co. to
have Judge KEENAN, set aside the
verdict for s6,750 given by a jury
to Mrs. Franz Mueller and grant
new trial in the case on the ground
that Juror O'Connor had made the
statement that he would have
voted for the company had it pre-
scented certain evidence in the
case
The effort to secure a new trial
is based on H. d. Merritt, a wit
ness for the defense. Merritt was
called out of the city and returned
too late to testify. On coming
back. he said that if he had been
put on the stand he would have
testified that Mrs. Mueller tried to
leave the car while it was in mo-
ton, thereby indicating that her in
jury was the result of her own
negligence. Merritt is in the claim
and right of way department of the
Graves Traction interests.
j. NJ Hone. who does detective
work and serves papers for the w.
W. p, met O'Connor on a street
car and told him what Merritt had
said. whereupon Hone claims
O'Connor told him that if he had
known this he would have voted
for the w. w. P. instead of the
woman
H. M. Stephens, attorney for the
W. w. p, swears that O'Connor
made the same statement in his
Office, but that when an affidavit
containing the same was prepared
to aid in securing new trial,
O'ConnOr refused to sign it. Where
fore the company thinks new
trial ought to be granted, anyway,
on the showing made.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
.LETFRANCH|SES
END TOGETHER

1t is possible that the Spokane
charter commission will continue
the investigation of street railway
and traction franchises. The
management of the local street car
companies opened up this question
by requesting the adoption of
charter amendment which will
make the life of such franchises
80 years instead of %, as at pres
ent. A committee was appointed
to investigate the matter and re-
port back. This committee, in a
verbal report, stated that the prop
osition was so large and extensive;
that it would be impossible to
make a report before the coming
city election. The committee was
therefore discharged.
At the meeting Saturday night
Judge Huneke stated that he had
written several letters to different
parts of the country seeking in
formation as to how the traction
franchise problem had been nan
died in other cities. He said he
was just beginning to receive re-
plies to these letters.
Judge Huneke had suggested a
plan whereby all franchises could
be arranged so they would expire
at the same time and had done
considerable work toward working
out charter amendment which
would protect the corporations
owning the street car lines and
conserve the rights of the people.
and it was the opinion of some
members of the committee that a
committee should continue this
work in the interest of the COM
mon good.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
LAv|GNE AFTER
M0HR'S SCALP

BY tickling the pocketbooks of
the voters in the Fourth ward
Frank C. Lavigne has hopes Of
winning the nomination and cleo
ton to the city council on the
democratic ticket to succeed c. w.
Mohr, the republican incumbent.
In his platform on which he
makes the race Mr.. Lavigue stands
for lower water rates, fewer re-
strictions on the use of water and
the immediate action by the city
to secure a new water supply, the
immediate construction of a con-
crete bridge at Monroe street and
the placing of the old structure at
some point farther down the river.
Mr. Lavigne is a mining engi-
neer and has lived in Spokane %
years. His home is at 1920 Nora
avenue. where his family resides.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
RECEIPT BETTER THAN
CITY'S BOOKS

The finance committee this
morning took the short cut in set
Ting a dispute over back taxes. G.
w. Childs reported that he was
called on to pay taxes on lots Is
and II in. block 7 of Nettleton's
addition for 1892. To support his
claim that the taxes were paid, he
submitted receipt from j. s. Wat
son, then city treasurer, showing
the tax had~been paid, but in view
of the receipt the committee can
celled the taxes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
CITY CANCELS TAXES.

The city sold lot at auction tC
P. A. Lawrence several years age
which was evidently not free from
incumbrance when the city pur
chased it. Lawrence notified the
city that he was called upon tt
pay back taxes on the lot for 1891
and 1892, and the finance commit
tee decided to cancel the taxes
The lot was bought for the crema
tory site, but was unavailable tC
the city through inability to secure
intervening property near the
crematOry site.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
MOCLIPS WASHED
AWAY BY SEA

HOQU1AM, Wash, Feb. %
Practically the whole north end of
Moclips, seashore resort on the
coast, was washed into the sea,
with several cottages and contents.
A high tide hammered down half
a mile of dyke. A strip Of land u
feet high 20 feet wide and 1,00G
feet long was washed away.
and a mill giving employment to
many men slowly pounded tc
pieces. The loss is $1,000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23

at London hospital, radium eff
fected the removal of a remarkable
growth on a woman's face, afte;
many of the usual operations had
failed. He used it on a child of IL
who had a cancerouS growth, and
cured her in a month. Eczema
itching had been curedly entirety
by it, the physician stated, and the
most stubborn kinds of ulcers have
been successfully removed after all
other treatments had betn found
futile.
, Most if not all. forms of birth
marq can be cured by this mar
velous Or" Radium.
Radium will be useful, too, in
aiding the blind to see. By its light
the surgeon can determine whether
the outer or inner eye is affected.
If only the outer, the radium ray
can be used as healing medium.
At the new London hospital,
which is founded under royal
charter rich and poor will be ad-
mitted. Those able to pay their
way will be expected to. Those
who cannot afford the treatment
will be given it without cost.
One use made of radium by DR.
Treves, which will be of the great
est use in the future, is the dis
covery that emanations of radium
have a power similar to the metal
itself. A tiny quantity of radium
can be placed in a sealed glass OF
water with copper coin at the
bottom of the vessel, and at the
end of "a hours, glass and coin
will be radio-active-that is, will
possess the powers of radium. In
view of the very limited amount
of radium there is. in the world
this discovery is of the utmost i'm
pOrtance.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23

A colony of basteria as partly
destroyed by the emanations OF
radium. The middle of the plate
where the emanations have been
is clea rof basteria.
the movement will probably be
taken up shortly in the United
States, which country contains
about one-fifth of all the radium
there is in the world.
Radium, at first only the wonder
of the laboratory, is to be used for
the cure of disease. Its properties
and possibilities are limitless," said
Sir Frederick Treves, even if mys-
terious.' .;-.
AS used by Sir Frederick Treves
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
1.-THE NEW MYSTERY CURE RADUM AND I1SIHEAlNG WONDERS
Famous DIR. Frederick Treves King Edwards Personal
Physician, Says Its Properties and Possibilities for
the Benefit of Troubled Humanity Are Limitless-
U. S. Has One-F Fifth Worlds Supply.

Radium the most wonderful valuable
world has the of which
in forever 1t will continue to give light and heat
through all time without diminishing Scientists
trace its origin back a
something like 50000.000
Worth 5000 times much gold weight for weight radium
is There
which this country contains little
chemical and college laboratories. The worlds
would make about heaping
NJ Cure the discoerer after work in which eight
tons uranium analysed puverized
and crysa1zed secured four
and sixty-sixth of pound.
Radum is extracted from chbend reddish vevety earth
found in Bohemia in Cornwall in Texas and Utah M Cure
established reducing at Paris
in the world where radium s produced
Radum solve the riddle perpetual motion 1t
is the only substance world
ed diminished
Radum have the property of the Xay in disclosing
phoographng
light Radium MANIFOLD than
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23

mfttee this morning by Comptrol-
Ter Farley. who asked for a ruling.
As result. the committee, decided
that the bridges must be maintain
ed out of the street department
fund, as the bridge fund was solely
for the construction of new struc-
lures and was not for maintain
ance. This leaves Mr.. Witherspoon
shy a few thousand dollars in the
street fund, which will have to be
paid for bridge repair work.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-23
SHORE LOSES RETRIAL

Judge Huneke has overruled the
motion for new trial in the case
of Walter f. Shore against the
Spokane & Inland for $4,000 dam
ages for the loss of one arm and
one leg while working as a line
man for the defendant.
The case was nonsuited at the
trial on the ground that the negli-
geDce of fellow employees rendered
the company not liable
After the nonsuit was granted,
Attorney Frank Graves for the
company arose ard in open court
said the company was still willing
to settle with Shore. The case will
be carried to the higher court by
Attorney Stern for the plaintiff.