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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-01
CLAWS REPEA Is
HIS ACCUSATIONS
He Tells Of Secretary Ballingcr's
Attitude Toward Alaskan
Coal Claims.
SENSATION IS SPRUNG
Committee Hears Why Garfield
Was Not Retained in
Cabinet.
S sENsATloN is SPRUNG

Washington, d. c., January 3l.-
When the Baliinger- Pinchot Invests
eating Committee adjourned late to-
day until next Friday morning at 10
o'clock, Louis r. Claws was still on
the witness stand. He will be further
questioned at that time.
Mr.. CLAWS was cross examined to-
day. by several members of the CON-
mittee, the Democrats taking by far
the more prominent part in ne cues
tioning and framing their interroga-
tions In way which ELECTED answers
tending to accentuate certain parts OF
the testimony already given by the
witness.
Cross-examined by senator Fletcher
of Florida, Mr.. CLAWS sail to-day. that
Mr.. Bailinger. while Commissioner of
the Land Office, had appeared before
committees of Congress. and by his
testimony had favored a bill which
would have validated all of the Alaska
coal claims' He also said that an affi-
davit. filed September 4, 1908, by CIar-
ence Cunningham. had on it a backing
which bore the firm name with which
Judge Ballinger was connected. Mr..
CLAWS said that at the time Mr.. Ball
niger asked him not to proceed with
his investigation of the coal claims
until after election. because of the
slowness of campaign contributions.
No one was present to overhear the
conversation.
Tells REASON Why.
The name of Donald A. Mckenzie
was brought prominently into tho in
quiry this afternoon when CLAWS tes-
titled that Mckenzie had told him thai
the reason James f. Garfield was not
retained in President Tafts Cabinet
as Secretary of the Interior was be-
cause of his antaSonism to the Alas
kan coal claimants. Mr.. CLAWS said
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-01
BRING. Suit for slnnder.

Kansas City, Kan, January 3f.-A
sensational phase in the Swope case
developed this afternoon. when DR..
Bennett Clarke Hyde, highly connected
professions liz, and socially. fled SUIT
at independence. Mo-. against John
Paxton. an executor of the Swope es-
tate to recover 100000 for alleged
slander.
The petition, which was filed in the
Circuit Court. alleges that on or about
January IL Mr. Paxton falsely and
maliciously and intending to vex. OPP
press, lmpoverish and wholly ruin" DIR.
Hyde. made statements that DR.. Hyde
was guilty of poisoning Chrisman
Swope and Thomas II. Swope.
Mr.. Paxton has been the Swope coun-
selor for many years.
DR.. Hyde is related by marriage to
the Swopes. having married the daugh-
ter OF Mrs. Logan o. Swope. mother
of Chrisman swope. DIR. Hyde has been
associated win some of the leading
physicians of Kansas City.
The part of the petition in which Mr
Paxton's alleged statement is quoted
follows:
Il believe that Colonel Thomas II
Swope and Chrisman Swope were pois-
oned and did not die from natural
causes, anu hclieNe lHdt Ii. 1Suo
poisoned or caused them to be pois-
oned, and thereby caused their deaths.
And I believe that he (meaninE the
pIaintin) inoculated the Swope family
with typhoid fever germs and caused
several members of said family, in
Margaret swope and Lucy Lee
swope, to contract typhoid fever"
Stands by Her Husband.
DIR. 3. C. Hyde and his wife. the
niece of Colonel Swope, this afternoon,
for the first time since tho publica-
ton of the question regarding the
cause OF Illness and death in the
Swope family. broke silence. Each
issued statement, both of them
signed. DR.. Hyde's statement Is, in
part:
II feel that with the bringing of
these suits my vindication is at least
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-01
FRANCIS ACCEPTS OFFICE

Becomes First Vice-Prcsident of South
crn Commercial Congress-.
ST. Louis, Mo-, January 31.-Former
Governor David r. Francis to-day ac
cepted the first vice-presidency OF the
Southern Commercial Congress and a
on the executive commits
tee. after being waited upon by a spe.
cial committee from Washington.
G. Grosvenor Dave. managing di-
rector Of the. congress, and John A.
Rivers and Harb ors Congress. compos.
ed the committee.
The executive committee will meet
In Washington on February 10.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-01
"NIGHT RIDERS ON RAMPAGE.
Reign of Terror Exists In Georrin
County, and NeErOeA Are LcnxinS

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Atlanta. Ga, January 3l,--Accordins
to reports received here, reign ot
Columbia county as the result OF the
activities OF band of might riders"
Many negro property owners have ad-
yertlsed their property for sale, and
are leaving tho country. \
shot to death by tho band, others have
,been whipped. and still others ordered
to leave with u few hours time, Two
also have been burned.
NO arrests have heen made and
identity or the members or the hand.
Governor Brown to-day addressed n
lettnr to the officials or tho county,
askins. for information as to the sit
'1ntion. la 81 Ell
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-01
Paris Boulevards Once
More Gay With Re-
joici1lg Thousands.
FACING PROBLEMS
WITH LIGHT HEAL R1'S
Small Part of Horror and Agony
During Past Few Days Will
Ever Be Known-Govern-
mcnt May Build Conduit
to Avoid Repetition
of Disaster.

Paris, January 31.--The improve.
ment In the general condition con-
tinues and the spirits of the Parisians
arc rising as the waters fall. Street
hawkers are selling postcard pictures
of the flood. and the bouievards arc
once moro gay with rejoicing thou
sands.
With the crisis passed the NOR
curiai French temperament faces the
subsidiary troubles with light heart,
out the papers already arc sounding IL
note OF warning that the lesson must
not be forgotten: that measures must
be taken TO avoid a. repetition OF the
disaster. This can be done by the con-
struction of cut-off either in the
way of canal or large underground
conduit around Paris.
The Prcfcct of the Department OF the
Seine has issued instructions to the
owners of flooded houses to clean and
disinfect their premises to the salts.
faction of the municipal authorities
within twenty-four hours after the
subsistence of the waters. Otherwise
the work will be done at the cost and
FISK of the owners.
The government has ordered the fay
collectors to show the greatest leniency
to delinquents, and the Mont de Piete|
is extending pawn tickets for three
months.
Several steam trans to-day resumed
the work OF pumping out the subway,
and considerable progress is being
made In the sections whore the flood
is lowest.
Aid for Sufferers.
Public and private benevoIence con.
tinues to respond to the call of the
sunerers. All the theatres and musical
societies are organizing benefits, while
lhe various race courses are arranging
big meeting for the spring, the re-
ceipts OF which will go TO the poor
a resolution has been introduced In
the Chamber of Deputies asking the !
government to award special crosses Of |
the Legion of Honor TO those who have
bAen conspicuous In the rescue work |
although the bapers are printing!
columns of pitiful stories, a hundredthl I
part OF the horror and agony suffered
never Will be known. Many corpses
nave been swept down the river, and
occasionally coffin in boat which
probably had broken away from n
funeral procession.
scores of half-famished families
nave been rescued from their homes.
and there are hundreds still occupyinp
their half-submerged houses waiting
[or the water to recedc. A source OF
hanger is the starving dogs roaming
about, and many of these have been
sHot III the rear that they might de-
velop rabies. In several instances they
have made attacks upon human beings.
NJ. Millerand, Minister of Public
Works, says that SO soon as normal
conditions are restored the government
viii seriously consider the canal
scheme. The government has ar
,anged TO lend money to the ruined
louse and shop-owners to enable them
% rebuild Immediately. These loans
nay be refunded in instalments.
Some of the suburban towns which
lave been deprived of light were pro-
'ided this evening with gas from the
Paris mains. The work Of disinfection
n the streets has already begun.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-01
TclIs Renson Why,

Continued on Second Page)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-01
"DraeEcd" to Court.

The aHldavlt OF Senator Tillman
opens with T. the Senator saying, II
am now nearly sixty-three years old,
and this Is the first time that have
appeared in a court of justice as a
defendant or plaintiff; and I would
not be here now IL I had not been
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-01

In reply to the accusations OF hatred
against her husbands parents and the
Tillman family. young Mrs. Tillman in
troduced contradictory affidavits in
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-01

The return was formal, but the let
ter OF Senator Tillman, couched In any
thing but legal form, was very In
Tillman tinge. He disparaged her
ability to bring up and care for her
children, and his grandchildren proper
Evening journal., 1910-03-25
HIS NAME WAS EASY

When an elderly man and woman
who looked to be his wife, presented
themselves at the counter Of the hotel,
the man who presides over the regis
ter helpfully linked a pen and turned
the book around for the stranger to
sign.
IL was a cold evening and the mans
hand shook as he held the pen over
the page The man behind the counter
paid little attention when the writer
proceeded 60 draw a perpendicular
mark on the line where his name was
10 go. When the second line, parallel
TO the first, followed, the Boniface
thought the guest intended to print
the name out because his hands were
cold and he might not trust himself to
write
Imagine his surprise when the new
conner did not cease his labors until
six marks had been chalked up. The
man behind the counter wanted to re-
mind the writer that the register was
not a kindergarten slate or a joke book
but he checked himself when he looked
again at the mans gray hair. The
woman looked on with a matter-of.
! course air.
When a short lire with a dot abov'
| It and two more lines Of the sam,
| length as the first and parallel to then
I followed, the clerk did not know whai
sort of a man he had 10 deal with
When he recovered from his surpris'
the pen was being held out TO him. Th'
writer had evidently completed hi
labors.
The an. Y" was recognizable, a
were also the words land wife" !
horizontal line had been drawn through
the first six lines bisecting them. Thei
\ periods were placed after each of tn
first two pairs.
The man behind the counter turne'
the register around so that he Nigh
examine what was written there.
What might the name be?" he ven
, tured timidly.
III IL. HILL" was the reply.-AIil
waukee Journal
Evening journal., 1910-03-25
BLINDING THE
SONG BIRDS

The London Mail has the following:
The Magistrate at Lembeth Police
Court has sentenced Frederick Collins.
laborer at Sultan street, Gambler
we'll, to three months hard labor for
cruelty to two chaffinehes by binding
them.
$. q. Polhill, who prosecuted on be-
half OF the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, said
that the practice of binding was re-
sorted to because birds so dealt with
were supposed TO become better song
stcrs or warblers. He was sorry to
say that the practice had been going
on for many years but in such secrecy
that this was the first occasion upon
which the society had been in a position
To prosecute. The operation was carried
on with a needle, and was done skill
fully. so as not to burst the eyeball.
The birds adapted themselves to their
blind state in a wonderful way. They
fed and found their water and jumped
about the cage.
Arthur Wilmot, one of the society's
inspectors. produced the two blind
birds in court. He purchased them
for one shilling six pence from the
prisoner at his home. where one room
was full Of birds, at least ten Of which
were blinded chafinches. The prls-
oner said he himself had blinded them,
but that blinded" was a dangerous
word 10 .use, because If he were "given
away" It would mean three months in
/ prison for him. He had been at the
game." he said, 20 years.
Alexander Pearce. veterinary sur
geon. said that in the birds produced
he came 70 the conclusion that the
optic nerve and the artery in the CEN
tire Of that nerve had been severed
by inserting a needle at the bottom Of
the eye. This operation paralyzed the
sight and made the bird totally blind,
while leaving the eye to the casual OBJ
server the same as before the operation.
The suffering would be acute.
The Magistrate TO the prisoner): /:
"You knew what the penalty was It
is three months hard labor.
Evening journal., 1910-03-25
He NEVER MISSED.
A Well Paid, Fiery Job That Wears a
Man Out In Fifteen Years.

A Well Paid, Fiery Job That Wears q
Man Out In Fifteen Years.
The man who stood at the lever had
a story that Is common all over Amer
ica. Ten years before he had been a
peasant lad in a dull little village in
Ireland. Drawn up and along by the
emigrant tide. be had drifted to Chi
cago, and here in the works he had
caught the true spirit Of the place,
which is TO strain every nerve and
rise. He had risen. His pay was 500
a week. He worked every night from
D. N. TO 8 a m, twelve vigilant
hours. Watching those Ilree man.
moth tanks. by the tints and hues In
their columns OF flame he could tell
just when TO wrench back a lever.
This he did over a hundred times in
the night. and If he missed by so much
as thirty seconds he spoiled thousands
of dollars worth Of steel. He never
missed.
To bold this job is to jam the
strength Of a lifetime into fifteen
years--at 500 a week. The man recog-
nized this as a matter of course. only
qualifying II by the remark that he
knew Of a redheaded Scotchman at
Homestead who had held it seventeen
years before breaking. That his whole
life had been changed; that the little
Irish village. the misty bog and the
novels were back In another age. on
another planet-au this be felt vague
ly and summed it up. with a twinkle.
"Shure," be said. ats a terrible quick
spin this ould wurld is afther takin'."
But he loved the fiery Job. called the
huge tanks me darlin's" and said he
would rather be what he was than be
president - Ernest Poole In Every
body's.
Evening journal., 1910-03-25
coLoRs IN FLAGS.

Red ls the Most Frequent. and After
That Comes Blue.
It is entirely appropriate. OF course,
that red, the war color. should appear
so frequently In the days Of the vari-
GUS nations. OF the flags of the coun-
tries Of the eastern hemisphere there
is only one-that of Greece-which
does not show the martial color. In
the western hemisphere. however. we
find several standards not showing
red. The hags Of the Argentine Re
public, Brazil. Nicaragua, Guatemala.
Uruguay and Honduras contain no
red.
In this country there is no red in
the union jack or in the flags OF the
secretary OF tho navy, the admiral Of
the navy, the rear admiral senior in
rank and the rear admiral junior in
rank Red appears in the pennant Of
the rear admiral second in rank and
the pennant Of the revenue marine.
The United States mail Gag also shows
red. and that color is also found in
the pennants for the vessels Of the
lighthouse service. the yacht ensign,
the ensign of the revenue marine. the
presidents and the secretary Of wars
standards.
The flags that are almost entirely
red. except for the devices shown
thereon. are those Of Austria-Hungary,
Egypt, Morocco and Japan. The iag
Of Turkey is practically Of a solid red
After red the prevailing color in fiags
is blue.--Harper's Weekly.
Evening journal., 1910-03-25
ID cure them for bay.
FRIENDLY OLD MExh,

This year Mexico win celebrate I,
centennial of its first struggle for in
dependence and Moody's Magazine puts
forth the eminently fitting proposition
that we should return to our neighbor
on that occasion the fiags and cannon
now at West Point which we took from
that country in the war of 1916. France
had offered to return the keys to the
city of Mexico which her soldiers cap
tured during the war of the interven-
tion," and it would certainly be right
for this country to make this signifi-
cant token of the amity now existing
between us and the weaker neighbor
who is now, Moody's declares, "our
faithful friend"
Evening journal., 1910-03-25

be put in large stacks in the open air. II
these stacks are well put up and the vines
are well tramped, decay VIII only affect
the surface to a depth OF few inches.
The United States department OF agri-
culture has recently made an extensive in
vestigation of this subject and published
the records in a circular.
The pea vines. can easily be cured by
spreading them on sod land. Pea vine hay
is considered better than clover hay.
Both the hay and the silage are excel
lent feeds for dairy COWS. They are also
satisfactory feeds for beef, cattle, horses.
and sheep. Tho hay sells at 50 to s. ton.
In some cases the pea vines are haued
away from the factory by the farmers
who supply the peas; in other cases they
are sold in a fresh state: and in still other
cases OF the factories either silo the vines,
Evening journal., 1910-03-25

II requires many hands to clothe the
New York women and some women out
side OF tho city. FOR there arc osl6a en-
ployes in the metropolis working on wo-
mems clothing and their yearly output is
valued at s2si .Ois2s7.
Evening journal., 1910-03-25
THESE RABBITS GOT
AWAY FROM ARTIST

At the Art CLUB in Philadelphia, a
millionaire collector talked about the
late William p. Firth. painter OF
"Derby Day" and other Victorian sue
cesses, according TO tho Washington
Star.
''When Mr.. FIRTH" he said. "sold me
my picture of child feeding white
rabbits he told me an amusing story
connected Herewith.
''He purchased for models" he said
"a dozen white habits from a dealer
and ordered them sent home, The mar
who brought them 20 him foolishly left
them in the garden--Mr. Firth lived in
the country at the time-and. natural.
ly, the little animals all got away
through thS fence.
Evening journal., 1910-03-25
GOOD HAY NOW
FROM PEA VINES

In the early history Of pea canning, the
pea vines we're treated as a waste product,
the disposal TO which involved consider
able difficulty and expense. Most COM
monty they were thrown out in piles TO
rot, the resulting manure being used for
fertilizer.
During recent years, the pea vines have
risen TO the dignity OF by-product, from
which the factories derive considerable
profit. They are now used for .silage. or
fed to stock in fresh state. or cured for
hay They make silage superior in value
to corn silage They may be preserved in
silos the same as green corn, or they may
Evening journal., 1910-03-25

''woll. when Mr.. Firth returned and
found the rabbits gone he searcehd
the neighborhood for them manfully.
He got most Of them back. but not ALL
And. meeting the dealer the next day.
he said, angrily:
What did you mean by leaving tho
rabbits loose on my lawn as you did2
1 had a frightful task to capture them,
and, as 1t was, ! only got eleven
'Isut eleven was pretty good, Gov
ernor' he said. ia only left six ye
know. The rest was comm on to-
morrow"
Evening journal., 1910-03-25

The shores OF Lake Victoria are the
seat OF the sleeping sickness. Tho dis
case made its appearance in those regions
in 1901 and up 20 date has caused over
$4,000 deaths. The government is bend
ing iis efforts 10 stamp out the dis
ease
Evening journal., 1910-03-25
Something Wrona.

The balloon pilot landed in the little
backwoods village and told the loiter-
ers the thrilling story OF bis escape.
"And at one time" he related. with
dramatic force. "I was in a storm and
sweeping over a vast desert. There
was nothing to do but throw out sand
and prepare for the worst. Gentlemen.
at one time felt as IL had lost my
head and gone plumb crazy"
The oldest inhabitant slowly lighted
his pipe and drawled. with a sarcastic
smile.
"You must have been plumb crazy.
bub. to throw sand on desert. Didn't
you think there was enough sand
there already yy'-Chicago News.
Evening journal., 1910-03-25

A determined eftort will be made during
the year TO organize the municipalities
OF Manitoba in soSa roads movement
and TO this end an act will be submitted
al the next session Of the provincial leg
stature
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-06-24
WISE WORDS.

What else can joy be but diffusing
joy?-Byron.
No one really fails who does his
best.-Sir John Lubbock.
Doubtful ills do plague us worst.
Seneca.
For little mind courteth notoriety
to illustrate it's puny self-Tupper.
Riches and care are as inseparable
as sun and shadow.-Woman's Life.
To act with common sense, accord
ing to the moment, is the best wisdom
l know.-Horace Walpole.
We can finish nothing in this life;
but we may make a beginning, and
bequeath noble eXample.-Smiles.
He needs no other rosary whose
thread of life is strung with thoughts
and deeds of love.-P Proverb.
Books give to all who faithfully
use them the spiritual presence of the
best and greatest of our race.-Chan-
ming.
Let a man overcome anger by love;
let him overcome evil by good, the
greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.
--Buddha.
One of the mos unreasonable traits
of a woman is the way she can think
it isn't her fault when her husband
cuts himself shaving.-New York
Press.
In all the superior people l have
met notice directness-truths spoken
more truly, as if everything of OBJ
struction, of malformation, had been
trained away.-Emerson.
The moving Finger writes, and hav-
ing writ,
Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit
Can lure it back to cancel half line,
Nor all your tears wipe out word
of it.
-Fitzgerald's "Omar Khayyam.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-06-24
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS A HAMMOND idea
Would Succeed Department Of INSTRUMENTATION Draws
Bill President Will Study.

The proposed change in the system
Of government may be a matter of
years. It's authors disclaim any con-
nection of the Ballinger scandal with
it. The change, if it is ever made,
will probably come long after Mr.. Bal
linger has retired 1t is not advo-
Gated as means by which a substi-
tute Cabinet officer can be chosen to
supplant Mr.. Balllnger
One of the reasons urged for the
new department is the Panama Ca
nal. When that enterprise is COM
pleted it will have to be administered
by business men. The War Depart
ment and the Navy Department will
protect it, but when it comes to the
ezactions of ships tolls and other
business matters business men will
be called upon to take charge.
Mr.. Hammond said:
Il believe that Department Of
Public Works, similar to that which
is maintained by the English Govern
ment, wo lid conduce to a more eco
nomical administration of the various
Interests of the United States. A de-
Dartment which would take over the
control of the physical property of the
Government, which would supervise
and take care Of the expenditures for
buildings and other big improves
ments, such as the Panama CaLal and
other projects, would be the best BUSH
ress policy which could be adopted.
The various bureaus and other organ
izatons which now control these en-
terprises and this enormous wealth
are, by reason of their variety and in-
dividuality, unable to conduct the fis-
cal affairs OF the Government as ad-
vantageoLsly and eXpeditiously as
c0ula a department which would be
ia direct touch and have absolute con-
troll"