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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
s750,000 IN COLO INVOLVED
Head Of q Mexican Bank in
q Tanglo.
Accused or Borrowing Sum From
Canadian Bank A Few Days Be
fore His Own Bank Closed Also
Charged With Breach OF Trust
Over Disappearance OF Shares OF
Mining Stocks.

Mexico City Especially Abuse or
confidence in the handling of 1,500,-
600 pesos ($75O.O00 gold) was form
ally charged against George /. Ham,
president of the suspended United
States Banking Company. by Man
ager S.. G. Saunders, of the Bank OF
Montreal, before Judge Miramon.
At the same time negotiations for
asettlement out Of court of acclaim
of HarwOod A. Simpson, a mineown-
er, who had also charged Ham with
breach of trust in connection with
the disappearance Of certain mining
shares, were halted by the court.
AS a consequence of these negotia-
tons Ham was ordered again placed
incOmmunicado for 10 days.
Simpson and Ham and their at
torneys were in court. Hams attor-
neys we're prepared to hand over the
money in full settlement of the
Simpson claim when the transaction
was called to the attention Of the
court. Judge Miramon declared that
such settlement would permit the
arrest of Simpson for compromising
a perjury. 1t developed that Simp-
SON had once given Ham power
Of attorney which contained state.
ments contradicting testimony recent
ly given in the present case. The
court declined to permit the with
drawal of Simpsons charge and or
dered Ham returned to prison in
communicate.
The charge brought by Manager
Saunders alleged that Ham, by re-
sorting to Misrepresentation had
obtained from the Canadian institu-
ton loan of 100000 pesos few
days before the United States Bank
closed its doors. The money, it was
charged, was devoted to other pur-
poses than those advanced in ap-
plying for the loan.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH

The charges made by former Spec
iai Agent Thomas r. Dawley against
Commissioner of Labor Neill were
found to be without foundation.
A conference was held by officials
of the department to work out a
plan of action against the Beef Trust.
Historic letters were rescued from
a heap of rubbish in an attic in the
House of Representatives.
How severe a punishment Con-
gress has provided for railroads vio-
lating the so-called "Twenty-eight
Hour Law" by unlawful confinement
of live stock in transportation was
argued before the Supreme Court.
The House members of the Joint
Printing Committee of Congress tao
lily admitted the jurisdiction in the
Valley Paper Company case and ask
ed leave to amend their defense.
The Gallinger Mail Pay Bill, to
provide mail steamship lines between
the United States and South America,
the Philippines, Japan, China and
Australia, was ordered favorably
reported to the Senate.
Senator Cummins and Clapp sub
IulCl0u Inc uulHO4iy iSPOAS VA SAS
Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee on the administration railroad
bill, declaring that it would utterly
fail to accomplish its object.
The Legislative. Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill, carrying
$33,S95,765, was reported to the
House
Under the direction of the chief
entomologist a countrywide cam
paign is to be waged against the
housefly.
The Senate passed bill authoriz-
ing the expenditure of $10,00O,O00
for the purchase of land south OF
Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington,
as sites for public buildings.
President Taft has accepted an In
vitation to address the Presbyterian
General Assembly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11

yon by the avalanche escaped death
or injury. Eleven passenger cars,
three locomotives, four electric mo-
tors, one rotary snowplow, the rotary
shed and the sandhouse were swept
away by the slide
A member of the first relief train
returned to Everett and said that
when he reached the scene all the
cars we're buried. Much of the
wreckage was covered by 40 feet of
snow and all that could be seen was
part of an electric motor, two loco
motives and the wreckage of the ro-
tary snowplow.
All that could be seen of the
coaches was steel pipe sticking out
of the snow, where a Pullman car
was, twisted around stump, and a
curtain that lay on top.
Ray Forsyth, one of the injured
passengers, was in a car in which
there were five women and seven
children. Three women and two
children escaped, but the others per-
ished.
In telling 6f the experience For
syth said that it seemed as If the
car was lifted bodily from the tracks
r-NAN vas h~AN pOAScAA III LQlQd1T. SUD-
denly it toppled over the edge and
rolled down the embankment.
The air was filled with the shrieks
of the injured. A fearful storm was
raging. A high wind was blowing.
and there was a spectacular electrical
display.
The first men to extricate them
selves from the wreckage set to work
rescuing those less fortunate. They
had no lights and worked by the
flare of the lightning, which was all
most incessant
The severed hand of woman was
found On finger was a ring bear
ing initials. which led the workers
to believe that it belonged to Miss
Katharine O'Neill, of Spokane. 9th
er portions of bodies were also
found
Fireman s. A. Bates was buried
under snow for six hours. Survivors
heard his shouts and dug him out
before the first rescuers arrived.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
THE RIVAL CRoEsUsEs.
Carnegie And Rockefeller Getting
Rid OF Great Sums.

New York Especially Star J.
Murphy, one of the incorporators
named in the Gallinger bill to es-
tablish the Rockefeller foundation,
said that he did not yet know what
endowment the foundation would
have.
"The bill introduced at Washing
ton" said Mr.. Murphy, sis intend
ed to broaden the scope of Mr..
Rockefeller's philanthropies and is
almost identical in form with the act
of Congress in 1903 under which
the Rockefeller Educational Fund
was authorized. The new bill makes
1t possible for Mr. Rockefeller to go
into any form of philanthropy in the
world, whereas the first endowment
was specifically limited. The fact that
the incorporators in both instances
are almost identical simply means
that Mr.. Rockefeller believes their
experiences will be Of benefit in fl
ture work"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
SIXTY MEN in TOMB OF snow
Caught IN An Avalanche on the Canadian Pacific
Rescqers Work in Of Another Slide.

Pass and at tie actual summit Of the
Selkirks.
AS soon as the news reached Rev
elstolze. a. relief train conveying
physicians and nurses and over 200
railway men and other citizens start
ed to Rogers Pass.
Calgary made an equally prompt
response. 1t also sent special re-
lief train with 125 workmen, as well
as nurses and doctor.
Railway officials expect that at
least 48 hours will elapse before the
line can be cleared. The work is
attended with great danger, as an
other slide may descend at any mo-
ment.
Little hope is entertained that any
of the men in the pathway of the
avalanche escaped alive. The bodies
of many of the victims we're proba-
bly, swept into the canyon and may
not be recovered until summer suns
melts the snow. Six hundred men
are now digging out the track from
under the snow and debris.
A report from the scene of the
disaster says the bodies of only five
men have been recovered The work
of recovering the dead and opening
the track is greatly impeded by a
blizzard now raging In the Pass.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
They Want Farming Taught.

Indianapolis Especially .-Primari-
ly to procure the passage of the Dol
liver bill now before Congress. and
secondarily to obtain agricultural
departments in State normal schools
throughout the United States, edu-
Gators from Is Middle West States
appointed a committee to work in
connection with the National Educa-
ton Association. The Dolliver bill
appropriates 100000 to pay sal
aries OF instructors in such normal
school departments.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
THIRTY FIVE BODIES
DUG OUT OF WRECK
Survivors tell Of Some Harrow
ing Experiences.
SEVERED HAND OF WOMAN FOUND.
Thirty-Five Bodies Have Been Re-
covered-Fifty-Three Are Missing,
Whose Names Are known, Be
sides A Number OF Laborers-
All In Wreckage Are Believed To
Be Dead,

Everett, Wash. Especially 1t is
now almost certain that the death
toll in the avalanche that carried
away the two Great Northern trains
and seven steam and electric loco
motives at Wellington will total more
than 100.
Eighty-six names are now on the
list of dead or missing passengers.
railroad and postal employees. State
ments of the number of laborers
fighting the snow who were sleep
ing on the Inflated trains vary from
20 to 80.
All the dead were residents of the
Northwest OF the injured, only
Rev Bishop Wingot, of Chicago, was
from the East
Thirty-tive bodies have been re-
covered. Fifty-three are missing.
whose names are known, besides a
number of laborers. All in the
wreckage are believed to be dead.
The first news direct from the
scene of the wreck was received at
midnight, when DR.. Cox, one of the
Great Northern physicians, who left
on the first relief train, returned
from Wellington, accompanied by
three of the survivors-Ray Forsyth,
r. M. Layelle and Fireman S. A.
Bates.
DR.. Cox said that none of the in
jured was in a critical condition.
Most of them were only slightly
hurt. When he left Wellington 16
were in the temporary hospital.
Forsyth and Bates estimated that
not more than 20 of the 10 per-
sons who were carried into the can
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
CONVICTED BANKER FIGHTS.
Objects To Taking $4,000 Estate
To Cover Defalcations.

Pittsburg Especially u. B. F.
Rhinehart, former cashier of the
Farmers and Drovers' National Bank,
of Waynesburg, who is serving a Is
year sentence in the Western Peni-
Tertiary, charged with looting the
bank, has begun action to fight the
effort of the bank receiver to take
his 100000 estate to cover part of
his alleged defalcations.
Rhinehart, in his answer to the
equity suit of the receiver. filed,
alleges that he was forced to sign
an assignment of his property under
threats made by former National
Bank Examiner John B. Cunningham,
who, he said, knew of the banks
weakness long before he took official
action.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
Girl Killed Under Auto.

Baton Rogue. La. Especially An
automobile in which six young men
and women were riding near Cham
berlain. 10 miles from here, skidded
across the road and overturned. Miss
Sue Devall was crushed beneath the
car and instantly killed. and Miss
Caroline Phillips was seriously injur-
ed. Her right arm is broken in two
places and she is also believed to
be internally injured. The other oc-
cupants OF the car were slightly hurt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
GIRL A FIRE HERO.
Rescues Father And Sister. Then
Falls Unconscious.

New York Especially. While
gas, paints and oils were exploding
in her burning home, on the ground
floor of an East Side tenement, Fan
ME Goldman, IL years old, CROPPED
her way through the flames and res
tcued her father, who had fallen
senseless in the blazing room. and
her two-year-old sister.
Running back, she again dared
the blaze and rescued ser little sister.
She fell unconscious and on fire as
she reached the street. Her mother
then dashed into the burning place,
passed through the flames, AMI when
she came out, carrying son, her
clothing was on fire. The father,
mother and three children we're bad
ly burned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11

Chicago Especially The Drama
League, which is to have for its pur-
pose the creation of an enlighten-
ed play going sentiment throughout
the United States. will have its birth
in the First Congregational Church
at Evanston, a suburb, Tuesday,
March %. At the meeting, it is ex-
pected, delegates will assemble from
some 165 clubs and women's organ
izations throughout the Central West
to discuss the best way to under
take the work.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
Coffee so Years Old.

New York Especially .-Commander
Robert e. Peary was the guest of
honor at the annual dinner of the
Canadian Camp and Cooperating
Sportsmen's Clubs of the United
States and Canada. given at the Ho-
tel Aston. About $50 guests were
present The menu consisted of bear
steak, hard tack from Peary's steam
er Roosevelt and coffee taken from
the cache established by Lieutenant
Greedy at Fort Conger. In 1881.
Commander Peary was presented
with 2 bronze wreath.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
RoCKEFELLER's COMMENT.

Augusta, Ga. Especially John d.
Rockefeller, who returned to the city
from New York at 8 o'clock, was
shown the dispatch regarding the bill
introduced by Senator Gallinger. He
smiled and said:
"Just at this time l do not care
to have anything to say. I'll wait
until see what they are going to
do up there. However, you may
rest assured it is not anything that'll
do harm to anybody"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
Have ss4.s7 In Your Pocket.

Washington, D. c. Especially -
Have you $34.S7 in your pocket or
in the bank? If you have not, then
you are shy on the per capita cir
culation of money in the United
States as shown by the books of the
Treasury Department. The depart
ment. in reaching this calculation,
estimates the population of the Uni
ted States at S9,8S3.000, and an
nounces the amount of money in cir
culation on March l as $3,134,093,-
ESQ. which, if equally divided. would
the country $34.87. There is in cir
culation today $49,315,244 more
than there was year ago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
Roosevelt,s Program In Rome.

Naples Especially - According to
the latest arrangements as announc-
ed here, ex-President Roosevelt will
arrive at Naples the first week in
April and will remain few days
He win then proceed to Rome. where
he will be received by the King and
Pope. after which he will visit sew
eral italian cities He will arrive
in Paris April Is, delivering his lee
ture at the Sorbonne the following
day. He will go to Vienna and Chris
tianai, and is due in Berlin May 10.
From there he will proceed to Lon
don.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
'ADD" MARRIAGES BINDING.
Court Decides That They Are As
Legel As Any Others.

Washington, D. c. Especially -
Marriages brought about as a result
of advertisement are binding in the
eyes of the law in the opinion Of
Justice Van Orsdel, Of the Court OF
Appeals of the District of Columbia.
He held that Clyde l.. Williamson,
who won his wife by correspondence
begun through matrimonial bureau
and who married her within two
hours of their first meeting, must
retain her, there being nothing that
would in law vitiate the marriage
contract"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
PREFERs NO Stay m PRISON.

Washington. D. c. Especially -
Declining to take advantage of the
pardon granted to him by President
Taft, Thomas Taylor. sentenced in
this city to 15 years IN the Atlanta
Penitentiary for the murder of his
wife. will remain as one OF the
TRUSTEES" of the institution. Dur
ing his long Incarceration Taylor
studied pharmacy and was assigned
to the custody OF the prison phar-
macy He will remain in that capac-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11

Washington. b. @. Especially. 49,
Proofs of Commander Peary's dis
covery of the North Pole caused
row in the subcommittee of the,
House Committee ON Naval Affairs.
Two members of the National Geo
graphic Society appeared before the
committee with copies of Mr.. Peary's
proofs to urge the granting of a.
suitable reward by Congress to the
noted explorer, but the committee
declined to receive them in confidence
with the ultimate result that the
committee has made it known that
unless the Peary proofs are forth
coming to the full satisfaction of
the committee, every bill introduced
for the purpose of rewarding the
North Pole discoverer will be pigeon
holed.
Three members of the committee
were in favor of receiving the PeaTy,
proofs without making them public.
representative Macon holly objected
and after declaring his position
stalked angrily from the room.
II am against any legislation in
the dark Mr.. Macon sharply told
the committee. Furthermore. If
this committee decides in favor of
Peary without inspecting the full rec
ords and making them public, ] will
expose the whole business on the
floor of the House or in a statement
to the press. If we reward Mr.. Peary
the American people have right to-
know what we are rewarding him
for
Would Not Submit Proofs.
Professor Gannett, of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey and one of the
members of the National Geographic
Society, which accepted Peary's
proofs, told the committee that Mr..
Peary would not let the committee
have the proofs for public purposes
because he wanted them for use in
newspaper and magazine articles.
The Professor had with him copy
of the proofs, but he declined to sub
NIT them He told the committee
that he had not the slightest doubt
but that Peary discovered the pole,
and never had any, even before he
saw the proofs. He submitted to
lengthy questioning and answered
many interrogations about the Peary
dash to the pole. He told of the
tidal observations which Commander
Peary had taken and sent back to
the department from time to time,
which. he said, were of great value.
These filed 21 volumes, he said
Professor Gannett told of the sound
ings Mr.. Peary took in the vicinity
of the pole and of the explorer hav-
gone distance of 10 miles past the
pole in order to make sure that he
was at the extreme top of the earth.
A sounding was made 140 miles
from the pole at "a depth of 1,240l
fathoms. Another was taken within
five miles of the pole, but Peary lost
the heavy lead and a couple of pick
heads which they had let down to
furnish the necessary weight to make
the soundings.
Prof. Gannett said the committee
had examined Mr.. Peary's instru-
ments. Asked what they could tell
from an examination of such instru-
ments, the witness said nothing could
be told from them. They only show
ed, he said. that Mr.. Peary had the
instruments
1t was further stated that any
scientist who knew his business could
remain in Washington and fix up as
Economical observations and instru-
ment records such as a man might
make at the pole. These could not
be told from the genuine, it was &C
knowledged.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
Carriers Lost BY One Vote.

Washington. D. G. Especially -
BY the narrow margin of SO to ca
the House voted down an amendment
to the Postoffice Appropriation bill
offered by Representative Goebel, Of
Ohio, providing for the promotion of
all letters carriers in large cities to
the 81 200 grade.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11

A Junior league of the New York
State Association Oppose to Woman
Suffrage has been formed at Albany
with Mrs. N. H. Henry as president
The membership is said to have
reached already in the neighborhood
of 100 and to include young women
of every social grade in Albany.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
|R0cKEFEIlERG GETTING RID
Of some OF HIS SURPLUS
Endowment Of Many Millions
Likely to Be Made.
he MAY DIVIDE His VAST FORTUNE.

Bill introduced In Congress For The
Incorporation OF A Foundation
10 Promote The Well-Being OF
The People OF The United States
And Its Possessions In Foreign
Enthusiastically Between The Iron
Master And The Oil King In Get.
ting Rid or Their Swollen For
tunes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
Three Dead In Wreck In Fog.

Decatur. Ill. Especially - Three
men were killed, one fatally hurt
and seven others severely injured on
the Illinois Central Railroad, one
mile south of Oconee. when two
freight trains collided in heavy fog.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11

Bowie County, Texas, Goes Dry.
Texarkana. Texas Especially In a
local option election Bowie County,
Texas. went dry" by majority of
sal votes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11

WdSHlHSIOus ~. Z. skopSCldl So
The Postal Savings Bank bill passed
the Senate by: vote of so to 22
along almost strict party lines.
Every Democrat who voted. with the
single exception of Mr.. Chamberlain
of Oregon, was recorded against the
measure upon its final passage.
Every Republican present voted for
it.
The humanity of this vote, how
ever. was based upon changes made
in the bill in order to satisfy the
progressive" from the West. The
thing which saved the day was the
presentation of an amendment by
Senator Borah, of Idaho, "progres-
sive,'' providing that when the money
is withdrawn from the banks for use
in supporting the credit in time of
war or other national exigency and
invested in Government bonds, it
shall not be invested in any Govern
ment bond bearing interest at less
than 2 Il per cent. interest.
The adoption of this amendment,
as an afterthought to the compro-
mise amendment which the Presi-
dent demanded in order to make the
bill constitutional, strikes a blow at
the aims of Senator Aldrich. to link
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11

Vancouver. B. c. Especially six
ty-two men who were engaged in
clearing the Canadian Pacific track
in Rogers Pass at the summit of the
Selkirk Range were entombed by an
avalanche and all, are probably dead.
The men were working in clearing
away a small slide that had come
down early in the evening. They
were working a rotary engine over
it when an immense mass came down
and carried some Of them to their
death in the canyon below.
All passenger trains on the line
are safe, though 1t will probably be
a day or two before they are able
to pass the place when the slide oc-
Cured.
The accident occurred near a
snowshed one mile west of Rogers
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
VOTES FOR POSTAL SAVINGS BANK BILL
Senate, so To % Passes the Bill Providing for New
System The Insurgents Get Into Line.

Adoption OF An Amendment Forbid
ding Investment In Two Per Cent.
Bonds Gives Them Opportunity To
Vote With Their Party-The House
Likely To Eliminate It--Provis-
ions OF The Measure As 1t Finally
Went Through.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11

Bodies OF Some OF The Victims
Probably Swept Into The Canyon,
There TO Lie Until Summer Sum
Melts The Frozen Mass Or The
Great Ayanlanche Carries Down
Telegraph Poles and Wires--R
lief Train Sent To Scene-May
Take Two Days To Clear Tracks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
WANT COMMANDER
PEARY'S PROOFS in FULL
Otherwise Committee viii Pig
eOnhole All Bills.


subcommittee OF House Will Not
y Pass On Measures Rewariing Exc
plorer Unless 1t Is Allowed To
Make Proofs Public-Peary Is OPP
posed To This Plan. But Is Will
ing To Submit Them In Confidence.