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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
HOUSE REFUSES
TOAPPROPR|ATE
NO MONEY ALLOWED THE IMMi-
GRAFTON COMMISSION - GRA-
HAM, DEMOCRAT, MEMBER OF
BALLINGER-PlNcHoT COMMIT.
TEE.
BY Associated Press.

Washington, Jan. 24.-Refusing to
appropriate any money for the ex-
penses of the immigration commits
sion, the house today passed the ,urg-
ent deficiency bill, carrying an ap-
preparation of five million dollars.
Hostile criticism Of the work Of the
immigration commission formed a
leading feature of the debate, which
was concluded by the elimination OF
the entire paragraph for continuation
of the work of the commission which
desired $125,000 to print reports.
Following the action taken by the
Democratic caucus, the house APPOINT.
ed Representative Graham, of Illi-
nois, to succeed Lloyd, of Missouri,
as member of the Ballinger-Pinchot
investigating committee.
In the senate Tillman criticised the
administration for failing to prosecute
suits against the Southern Pacific
railroad for the recovery of public
land granted to the railroad under the
condition that it be sold in small
tracts at not more than two dollars
and a half per acre.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
9. 792.990 BALES
COTTON G|NNED
REPORT OF CENSUS BUREAU
SHOWS THIS AMOUNT eINNEp
TO JANUARY f6, AFFIRMING
GOVERNMENT CROP ESTIMATE.
BY Associated Press.

New York, Jan. 24.-The report of
the census bureau showing 9,792,99O
bales ginned to January 16 was quite
generally regarded by statisticians OF
the local cotton trade as affirming the
governments estimate of the crop
Nevertheless it was followed by a
very nervous and irregular market,
opening easy at a decline of to II
points, owing to relatively weak
cables. y
The demand created by the bullish
census report quickly caused rally of
8 or 10 points, but it looked as though
a lot of last weeks buyers had been
waiting for the census figures to take
profits. Offerings became very heavy,
there was no aggressive demand and
before midday March cotton sold at
14.1S and May at 1923, or 80 to 81
points under the closing prices of last
week and about S1.70 to 81 per bale
below the high prices of Saturday.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
Quarter of a Million People
Watch Awe Inspiring
Spectacle on Seine,
WATER is RAPIDLY RISING AND
TERRIBLE TEMPEST OF RAIN
AND WINDS ADDS TO THE HoR.
RoR-WATER FAMINE THREAT.
ENED BY PARTIAL GRIPPING
OF SUPPLY STATION-TRAFFI
NEARLY SUSPENDED.
BY Associated Press.

Paris, Jan. 24.-The flood situation
in Paris reached the most critical
stage this morning. The Seine regis
ters 7.53 meters at Mont Royal. This
is the highest the river has been
since 1902, when it reached $50
meters. the highest point recorded in
the history of France, except in the
year 1915.
A terrible tempest of rain and wind
which broke over the city at daylight
only adds to the horror Of the situa-
tion and to the suffering of the poor
and homeless.
The river presents an awe-inspiring g
spectacle. A quarter of million of
people in a drenching rain throng
the stone parapets and quays, watch
ing the yellow tide, which is crowded
with driftwood, wine casks and other
wreckage rushing seaward. The wa
arches of the bridge.
Firemen, police and troops are
working like mad at all the bridges,
from the floating debris, and is hoped
that all the bridges will be saved
Traffic on several of the Trailer ones,
however, has been stopped. The
streets around the chamber of depu-
ties are considered unsafe and all
traffic in these thoroughfares has
been forbidden.
The tunnel through the .Quai dor
say and the Quai d 'Austerlitz stations
is rushing stream. The basement of
the Palais de Justice is full of water
and the first floor of the central police
station is untenahle.
WATER FAMINE THREATENED.
sfhe partiaf< gripping - the water
supply threatens the capital with a
water famine. The police are making g
a house toulouse canvass, notifying g
the inhabitants to boil all wafer used
for drinking purposes and !sthere5v
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
Report is Also That About
One-Half of Battleship
Fleet Will Come Here,
THE SHIPS 1T is SAID, WILL AR.
RIVE DURING THE MIDDLE OF
FEBRUARY TO GIVE THE MEN
SHORE LEAVE OF SEVERAL
WEEkS-BOARD OF SURVEY
WILL ARRIVE THURSDAY
MORNING.

A party of naval officers, compos-
ing the naval board of inspection and
survey, will arrive in Pensacola
Thursday on an inspection tour, and
will remain at the Pensacola navy
yard for about two days. proceeding
north from this city. The party Is
composed of Rear Admiral Aaron
Ward, as president, Capt. Reginald
F. Nicholson, Capt. Augustus F.
Fechtoler and Commander William S.
Smith.
The board is on a tour OF all navy
yards, and come here from New Or
leans, where the members are due to
arrive today. The inspection tour Is
part of the new naval plan of Presf-
dent Taft, who desires the members
of the board to have a thorough
knowledge of conditions surrounding
navy yards.
BATTLESHIP FLEET COMING.
An unofficial report, though one in
which much credence is put, Is that a
portion of the Atlantic battleship fleet
now engaged in target practice at
Guantanamo, will come here to give
the men shore leave for a period Of
ten days or two weeks. or possibly
longer. It is stated that the plans
contemplate sending one-haH of the
ships to New Orleans and the other
half to Pensacola SO as not to over
crowd either city with bluejackets.
This will be done, the report has it,
at the conclusion of the target prac-
tice.
The fleet now at Guantanamo con.
sists Of about fourteen tirst-class bat.
tleships and large. number OF
cruisers, all of which have now been
at practice about two weeks. The
statement was made last night by par.
ties in position to know that four or
more of the cruisers would reach Pen.
sacola.ahead Of the battleships. arriv.
ing about the middle of February, and
the battleships will join them week
or ten days later.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
BY Associated Press.

Washington, Jan. 24.-Callers at
the White House report that regard
less of whether the proposed voluntary
federal corporation law is passed, the
administration is preparing to put into
effect a vigorous policy Of bringing
big combinations within the provisions
of the antitrust laws.
The president has let it be known
that he is merely awaiting the de-
cision of the supreme court in the
Standard Oil and tobacco trust cases
before directing the attorney general
to begin inquiry into the more noto-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
BY Associated Press.

Chicago, Jan. 24.-The work of pre-,
pairing. the case of the government
against four big meat packing con-
Germs of this city to ascertain wheth-
er they have operated to control the
prices of fresh meat was begun In
earnest in the United States district
court today before Judge K. M. Lam
dis.
A special venire of jurors apeared
before Judge Landis and twenty.
three men were chosen to compose
the grand jury that is to hear the
evidence and decide whether in
dictments shall be returned against
the packers.
The firms against which the. govern.
ment will proceed are: Swift & Co.,
Armour & Co. and Morris & Co., who,
it Is alleged, control the National
Packing Company for their common
benefit.
Early today deputy United States
marshals were started out with more
than score of subpoenaes and writs
to bring before the grand jury en-
ployes and books of the concerns in.
volved.
Judge Kenesaw M. Lands, in his
charge to the grand jury assembled,
declared it was through information
furnished by him that the present
proceedings were started. He said he
notified the district attorney in Chi
cago on January 20 and was surpris-
ed two days later by newspaper ar
ticles coming ostensibly from Wash
ington to the effect that the govern
ment officials there had ordered an
investigation. The investigation will
be taken up as soon as the jury clears
some iocfeted cases.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
.HETT|E GREEN
CAN'T EAT MEAT
SHE DECLARES PRICES ARE so
HIGH SHE CAN'T AFFORD IT,
BOYCOTT OF MEAT CONTINUES
AND PRICES TAKE A TUMBLE.
BY Associated Press.

New York, Jan. 24.-Hettie Green,
worth millions, declared today the
present prices of meat are too dear
and she will cut 1t out OF her luncheon
order at modest uptown restaurant. 4,
The price of beef in the Brooklyn
wholesale districts declined twenty
per cent and pork slumped sympatheti-
cally. There are signs that the west
ern supply will be cut off to hold up
the price, although packers deny this.
The National Woman Suffrage Union
obtained one thousand pledges to abb
stain from eating meat and say they
expect to start an endless chain, which,
will finally line up million house
wives.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25

This photograph gives the reader i
striking view of an aeropiane ascaR-
sion. 1t was taken at Los Angeles
during the racord flight for height
made by Louis Paulhan, the moss
daring and successful of the men who
exhibited their machines at the first
aviation meet held n America. In the
flight illustrated by the picture Pau3-
han went up more than 1000 feet,
passing all previous marks. The air
course" was staked out by station.
airy balloons, one of which is shown
in the picture. To appreciate the ef
feet of the picture the reader should
imagine himself standing directly un-
der the aeroplane and looking up at
it. In the flights at Los Angeles two
machines were used by Paulhan. One
was the Farman biplane shown in the
photograph, and the other was a
monoplane similar to the one in which
Bleriot crossed the English channel
In the biplane the French aviator
broke the height and cross-country
records.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
BY Associated Press,

Columbia, S. c., Jan. 24.-In the su.
preme court this morning when attor-
neys for Mrs B. R. Tillman, Jr., made
application to be heard on petition for
writ of habeas corpus, Chief Justice
Jones stopped the proceedings by
citing a rule of the court requiring
such cases to be presented in the cir.
cult court.
The suit for the younger Mrs. Till
man TO recover possession of her two
little girls was the first intimation
that the general public had that there
was trouble between her and her hus.
band. Mrs. Tillman was herself the
granddaughter OF a South Carolina
govarnor. She charges tha. her hus
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
Government Preparing Vigorous
Campaign Against Combinations

rious of the other trusts and that both
he and his party are pledged to a
vigorous enforcement of the Sherman
act, and that he intends to keep the
pledge, but does not consider. it neces-
sary to climb upon the house top
every morning and shout about it. He
is said to be particularly well pleased
with the activity and earnestness OF
Attorney-General Wickersham He pro-
poses to strengthen the trust bureau
Of the department Of justice by the adj
dition of the best talent available and
probably will ask for an increased ap
preparation for this purpose.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
CANAL SCANDAL
WILL BE AIRED
JURY TENTATIVELY COMPLETED
IN LIBEL SUIT BROUGHT BY
GOVERNMENT AGAINST PUB
LISTERS OF NEW YORK WORLD
RY Associated Press.

New York, Jan. 24.-The jury was
tentatively completed in the Panama
libel suit today, brought against the
publishers of the New York World by
the United States government. Coun-
sci for the defense characterized the
suit as unprecedented and the defense
will plead justification and excusable
libel.
The suit was instituted by Roose-
welt and charges that President Taft,
Douglas Robinson. Charles z. Taft,
William Nelson Cromwell and Theo-
dore Roosevelt were criminally IL
belled in connection with the publica-
tions in the fall of 1908 relating to the
purchase of rights, etc, of the French
Panama Canal Company.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
RUN STARTED ON
MEXICAN BANK
1T STARTED AN HOUR BEFORE
BANK CLOSED FOR THE DAY
AND 1T is PROBABLE WILL BE
RESUMED THIS MORNING.
Bv Associated Press

Mexico City, Jan. IA run on the
United States Banking Company
started an hour before the closing to.
day. Twenty accounts, aggregating
two hundred thousand pesos, were
withdrawn. Officials of the bank de-
clare the institution is solvent.
The run on the bank started when
it became known that President Ham
had resigned. 1t is rumored that the
run will be resumed tomorrow. The
bank is capitalized at two million pc
SOS and has desposits of eight million
pesos. 1t is reported the local cor
poration will be unable to meet the
loan of five million pesos from the
bank. III
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
Mrs. B. z. TiLnan, Jr:, is Sueing
For Custody of Her Two Children

band is addicted to the excessive use
of intoxicants, that he has been guilty
of cruel and inhuman treatment of her,
and that he took the childrenfrom her
without her knowledge or consent. She
swears that she was i'll in Washington
when her husband turned the children
over 70 his parents, Senator and Mrs.
Tillmap; that when she demanded
them, he gave his parents a deed to
them, stating that she was not fit to
have possession of them.
Her petition was accompanied by
sworn statements from some of the
best people in the state, attesting to
her unimpeachable character, her
goodness as a girl and mother, and
her devotion and love for her little
girls.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
FLOOD SITUATION IN
PARIS NOW REACHES
THE CRITICAL STAGE
Good Looking Woman Touches
a Bank President For $4,000

Next morning Vannorden discovered
his purse with twenty-eight $1,000 bills
missing. Bessie Roberts, alias Kitty
Dowdell, and May Williams, alias
Chicago Maggie" were held today for
the robbery in fifteen thousand dollars
bail each:
The " liams woman admitted ac-
costing man she thought she knew
that night in front of the Waldorf,
but said: "If DowdeIl trimmed that
Guy she held out on me. I wasn't
wise" Bessie Roberts said: II never
speak to strangers on the street."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
REELFoOT LAKE TROUBLE
BREAKS OUT AFRESH
Ey Associated Pres.

Tiptonville. Tenn, Jan. 24.-Captain
F. w. Sparks, close friend of Judge
Harris, and who has kept in close
touch with the Reelfoot Lake trou.
bles, says the night riders have been
active again ON the lake bluffs. He
says he has it from good authority
that it was band of night riders
who recently posted the notices on
Burdick's fish dock at Samburg and
that there is no doubt but that ex.
tensiye riding" will be done as soon
as the weather permits, as the band
is fully organized.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
THREE KILLED
. IN AUTO Wreck
MACHINE CONTAINING SIX PER-
SONS PLUNGED OVER FORTY
FOOT EM9ANkMENT NEAR
KANSAS CITY,,
BY Associated Press.

Kansas City, Jan. 24.-Three were
killed and three badly injured when
an automobile driven by John Ma
honey, a contractor, plunged over an
embankment forty feet this afternoon
into what is known as "CIiff Drive
Canyon"
The deadF John Mahoneysand wife,
Thomas Mcclure. The injured: !:
John O'Conner, Nellie Mahoney and
A. ,Mahoney, the latter aged seven. :
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
INVESTIGATION BEGUN
IN THE CASES OF FOUR
PACKING CONCERNS
RY Associated Press.

New York, Jan. 24-Warner NJ.
Vannorden, president of the Vannor-
den Trust Co., is $2S,000 poorer in
pocket and correspondingly wiser in
judgment as to when to be polite but
cautious.
Wednesday night in leaving the
Waldorf, he stopped and picked up a
purse dropped by a pretty woman.
Another woman stumbled on his feet
and in regaining her balance threw
her arms about his neck. There was
moment of confusion and apologies,
then all went their ways.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
CHOSE GRAVE OF FATHER
AS PLACE TO SUICIDE
BY Associated Press

Cincinnati, Jan. 24-Because he
chose his fathers grave in a cemetery
near Bethel, suburb of Cincinnati,
as place to commit suicide, Earl
Kaufman. % years old, failed in his
purpose. Physicians who attended
him said that the action of the poison
which Kaufman swallowed was re-
tarded by the cold damp of the grave
yard and declared that had the potion
been taken in warm room death
would have come quickly. Kaufman
had quarTeled with a young woman.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
SMOKED CIGARETTES FOR
OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
BY Associated Press.

Patagonia, Ariz., Jan. 24.-Mrs.
Juana Corona, said to be the oldest
person in Arizona.ssd died here yester-
day at the age of s116 years. Her
youngest surviving child is so years
old. Mrs. Corona was born in Sonora
Mex, October q, 1894. She had been
married three times. From her tenth
birthday until her death she was a
constant user of cigarettes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
CATTLE PRICES TAKE
TUMBLE IN PiTTSBUR0

Pittsburg, Jan. 24.-Cattle prices
took a tumble here to-day, the result
of the meat boycott. Beginning to-
morrow six hundred thousand persons
in, the Pittsburg district will abstain
from eating meat for one month. No
reduction in the price has been made.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
TWO RAILROAD MEN ARE
KILLED BY DEPUTY SHERIFF
BY Associated Press.

Bluefeld, w. Va, Jan. 24.-Two
men. Ben Tate a locomtiye engineer,
and Wade Gillespie, another railroad
man., are dead as a. result of a shopl-
stone, Mcdowell county, last night.
John Waldron, deputy marshal, fir
ed both shots, it is said, Mystery
surrounds the shooting. All men
were in room and there we're no
witnesses.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
SEARCH CONTINUES.

st. Louis, Jan. 24.-Search for the
men who held up and robbed a Mis-
souri, Pacific train near Eureka, Mo,
Friday night, has so far been fruit
less. The total reward of $1,000 has
caused many amateur slenths to
search for the men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25
Judge Lands Charged Fed.
eral Grand Jury to Probe
National Packing Co.

IN HIS CHARGE HE SAYS THAT IT
WAS THROUGH INFORMATION
FURNISHED BY Hum THAT THE
PRESENT PROCEEDINGS WERE
STARRED - DEPUTIES START
OUT WITH SUBPOENAES AND
WRiTS FOR EMPLOYEES AND
BOOKS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25

(contlnued on Page Three.l
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-25

Continued on Page Four.
The farmer and mechanic., 1910-11-22

called Captain Walker by virtue, as
he said of having served in the army
of Her Maiesty the Queen of Portu-
gal An agent may be almost any
thing. or nothing, and the activ ties
Of Captain Walker were along line
which needed that comprehensive
term to define them. AS Hooker
Walker he had several times narrow
" escaped finding himself conv cted
of som ething worse than insolvency.
His father had intended him for tn
church. but Hooker had not taken
kindly to the clerical calling. and, the
old gentleman hay ng died in the
debtors prison at York. his hopeful
son had given up all thoughts Of the
professions generally called regular. to
enter l7ron earee~ of f~anoial nd
social adventure, in which he felt
quite at home and whose prosecution
he absolutely enjoyed, even IN its
hardest phases.
He knew everybody-that is to say.
everybody who were men of the world.
Of course. knew everybody" The
gallant captain could be seen any day
walking arm in arm with such gen
tlemen as my Lord Vauxhall or the
Marquis of Billingsgate and nodding
over their shoulders to young Moses,
the dandy baliff," OF Loder, tie
The farmer and mechanic., 1910-11-22

gambling house keeper. The captains
age was indefinite. He was either a
young man with whom time had dealt
hardly or a middle-agsd man to whom
time had been kind. He sa he was
eight and twenty-whic;l is, of course,
evidence that this was not anywhere
near his true age, patrOniZed ESlan-
tine extens We and never paid. For
among his own industries Captain
Walke~ was so Oblig ng. when Occa-
sion served as to act as a mediator
between those who We're willing to
lend at an exorbitant rate ard those
who were willing to borrow at same
price Hence his patronage OF Eg.an-
tine Not only one money l-nder tut
several were possessed Of the signature
Of Mr.. Eglantine. He had borrowed
a thousand pounds twenty years ago
to purchase his stock and his shop
and had paid upwards of twenty thou
sand pounds s nee then for the use
Of the money and still owed the ORR
ginal debt.
In his outer shop sat a Mr. Moss
rose, who, while nominally an en-
ploye of Byzantine. was really there TO
watch the receipts in behalf Of the
various money lenders, who combin-
ing Their business Of selling money
Continued on Page Fourteen)
The farmer and mechanic., 1910-11-22

the firm could not get in thesr moneys
and had on their books an immense
number of bad debts. Mr.. Woolsey
said of Mr.. Byzantine that as for
Eglantine being his real name that
was "all in his eye;" that he was IN
the hands Of the money lenders ana
his stock and grand snop eaten up
hv usurv. AS usual there was a great
deal of truth and a great deal OF
malice in these tales. However, the
Gentlemen were both in very genteel
lines Of business and their SUITS wee
bacbed by Morg ana's parents Nj;
Cru,np championing the tailor aha
Mrs G. the perfumer. NOW II "aS
c1rious fact that both these seht'e-
noan were in need of the other ser,
vices Mr. Woolsey being afnlcte9 wlsn
premature badness ana MI. siai,
ne being q ve.y fat man Nho D.
cuired art to give him a hgure. Ds
as to ministering to eacn go
needs-each would have dled hiS''
Thus matters stood IN the
society Of which We WI le "hoh ~
dav there strolled into the gorgeous
shon of Byzantine one Mr.. How al :, ~
walker. a man who had MS ON
in the 'Vvindsor Cham bers Oppose.
with a big. brass plate on ms ooo.
"a heled Agency" Mr.. Walker WAS
The farmer and mechanic., 1910-11-22

,,l>he Ravcssswing'' was one of a Sc
r,c- which Tftackeray started under
ts,c General title Of Mems Wives. Al
though the story is not among his best
known. it is one which is so entirely
characteristic OF the author and his
-fyie that. aside from its value as a
talc. it should be read by every stu
dent Of Thackcray. All ThacEeray's S
propensity TO stop i'll the telling OF his
story and mediate and moralize is
rx,cjIentiy well illustrated by 1.-THE
RayCnSWing.' and in it he gives us
SOME Of his best writing of that kind
The persons iii the tale are, almost
without exception, persons in the low
ct middle class or the criminal class
and. while there are illusions to a
Icw titled persons, Thackeray contents
himself with the casual introduction
OF q musical knight as a character.
and with simply speaking Of Il lord or
tWo--wllich is rather reInsrlZabi for
ThaC Ckeray. THE RavcHs"in"'' IS Il
novel with q ''mOtiye,' which mo
tive is the blind faitI, that wives will
persist in keeping for their husbands,
no matter how big rascals husbands
may be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
STORM TO PASS OFF TONIGHT.
Driving Rain Made Umbrellas I'm.
inhabitable Today.

The driving rainstorm from the south.
which set in here this morning. made
umbrellas uninhabitable, as the weather
man expressed it. 1t was rain of the
penetrating chilling variety, notwith-
standing 1t was famed by south winds.
Prof. Garriot1 says it will pass off the
seacoast this evening. leaving fair and
cooler weather in its wake tomorrow. The
storm came over from Virginia, where 1t
was central last night, and it gathered
energy as it advanced.
There will be decided drop in the tenn
perature by tomorrow morning Is the pre-
dictiOn of the forecaster. when the mer-
curry will reach the freezing point or near
it. The minimum temperature at o clock
this morning was 80 degrees. which made
conditions soft and soggy. 4 fall OF from
10 to 20 degrees is expected tonight.