Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-14

nate. udteu january ~. lFi". ana
| codicile executed the same day were
| filed today in probate. While no spe
cific bequest to charity is made, the
sum OF 100000 is left to the widow
Mrs. Walsh, to be distributed in among
such persons and in such amounts as
she knows TO be his wish in refer
ence thereto Mrs. Walsh is account
able to no court or person in regard
to the distribution. To the widow and
daughter Mrs. Evelyn b. Mclean, an
equal share is left to each of all per
sonal belongings. the contents of the
Massachusetts avenue residence and
OF the summer home at Clonmet, Colo
They are to have the horses, carriages
and automobiles. the entire estate in
to the Mclean children.
PORTO MUARiZIo. Italy, April 12
Col Theodore Roosevelt today ac-
cepted an invitation. personally deltv.
cred by Clifford Pinchot, whom Presi.
dent Taft removed as chief forester of
the United States to address meet
ing of the National Conservation
league. The meeting will be held in
Kansas City in September.
The acceptance of this invitation
lets the first real light into the nature
of confidential interviews that were
begun yesterday between the ex-presi.
dent and Pinchot and were enthusias
tically resumed today. Both Roosevelt
and Pinchot continue their Sphinx-like
silence regarding their conversations
but in regard to today's developments
this silence is no longer battling cor.
respondents. In fact correspondents
were not baffled from the first, but
they needed some thing besides mere
conjecture on which to hang their con.
clusions and the acceptance of this
invitation has given them the needed
peg.
The significance of today's accept.
ance is apparent One of Roosevelt 4
per reforms was the conservation
movement Pinchot was his right
bower. Pinchot and Secretary Ballin
ger ran afoul President Taft support
ed his cabinet member and called for
Pinchots resignation. Roosevelt has
heard the Pinchot side of the con
troversy and has accepted his friends
statements, and without waiting tc
hear from the other side he has indi
Gated that his sympathies are all with
Pinchot.
CHICAGO. April 12.-Thirty-slx ad
ditional bodies of victims of the dis
aster of Nov 10, clustered in various
positions were taken from the lower
| level of the ST. Paul coal mine at Cher
ry last evening. Only seventeen remain
to be found.
From Cherry today ever came ru
mors of discovery of chalk records
showing members OF the little group tt
be alive on Dec. IA, thirty-one days
after the explosion. That the victim.
for some days. however. were subsist
ing ON corn intended for the mules
and water. of which they had plenty
| is certain. They lived long enough t,
consist by laborious application from
boards in the mulestabe a power far
with which they kept the air in mo
lion, driving off the black damp. The
spirit of the last survivor fled appar
emily while he was struggling against
the black damp. Like a faithful en-
gineer he died Eat the throttle" wher,
his body was found today upright, on,
hand still grasping the crank. In q
belt about his waist was found SI4C
, in currency. In similar belts on two
companions was found 1852 and $3.50
In the pockets OF some of the vic
pected will tell the story of their fight
for life.
SALTWATER, MINI, April 49,
Serving a life sentence for murder, q
convict in Saltwater states prison
known as Sinbad the Sailor, put away
all thoughts of escape during the ex.
citement of fire near the prison yes
terday and labored heroically to save
the prison from flames. That the
prison was not destroyed is said to
be due almost entirely 10 his efforts
and those of another convict whose
name Is not given out.
Sinbad was employed at the green.
house, and when the first signs of
flames appeared showed activity which
the calm routine OF prison life had
not curbed. Warden Wolfer's house
was saved and that the entire north
end of Saltwater is not in ruins is a
miracle. The fire swept district COY.
ers All area of three squares.
FAIRBANKS. Alaska. April 12.--The
Fairbanks expedition to Mount McKin.
ley. the tallest peak in North America
reached the summit April 3, after a
climb OF one month from the base
No traces of DIR. Frederick A. Cook IS
alleged ascent were found.
NEW YORK, April 12.-Tbousands
OF immigrants who went to Europe
during the financial depression have
begun to return in great numbers, and
with them. swamping Ellis island Off.
ciaIc are thousande mara uanv cf