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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-17
7 Az 7 BEGINNING
TO SEE THINGS
Believed That He Is Coming to
Realize Cause of At
tacks.
Especial to The Times-DIspatch.

Washington, d. c., January 16.---
President Taft is beginning to see
things. Southern Republicans who do
not think they are getting a square
deal at the White House. because OF
the interference of local leaders, arc
taking their troubles to him. 1t is
said here that he Is being
hoodwinked by Postmaster-G
Hitchcock and Private Secretary Car
lpenter. Several instances of this ma
ture have been brought up recently,
and Mr., Taft has shown considerable
interest in them. This state of af-
fairs has caused much comment and
some severe attacks on the admins
tration. congressman who felt that
they were entitled to fair hearing
have been turned down, and, when
such cases were thoroughly sifted. II
was. as rule, found that the two In
feriors mentioned above were respon-
sible, and their purpose seems to be
to build up machine OF thor own
The real situation. some here have
reason to believe. is dawntng on the
Big Chief.
The Virginia patronage situation Is
about the same. Tho illness and death
of Mrs. j. p. Edwards. of New York.
has kept her brother, Representative
Slemp, away from the Capitol for ten
days. Therefore nothing has been
done. National Committeeman Martin
has not been back since word to the
effect that the Pinchot matter had
caused all dates to be called off at the
White House was put out.
The contest for the marshalship of
the Richmond district is growing
warmer day by day. The Treat forces
believe that he will win. His indorse-
ments. they argue. are Of the best. The
organization. however, is with Smith
ers. This may prove test case.
may not be able to land the
Slemp- Martin man this time. Presi-
dent Taft may take a hand. This is
the state of affairs to-day.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-17
TO WATCH A PLANT GROW
Experiments to Show II II Can BE Re-
YcnIed by Moving Pictures.

Philadelphia, Pa. January 16.-Dr.
Lehman. inventor. chemist and ply
s;cian. has bSLetne Interested in NOV
ing ptcturesr aRa nov is experilnentin u
pictures of growing plant covering
a period of seven days. which when
thrown on the screen by the moving
picture machine will show the develop
ment of the plant from a bud until
1t is full grown. BY reversing his
string of pictures fantastic nictura
of a full-growu plant shriveling into
small bud Is made.
This use of the moving picture APP
paratus is somewhat new, and while
DR.. Lehman states that he Is not doing
anything wonderful other scientific
men say that 1t is of much interest
from scientific standpoint.
In his experiments DR.. Lehman is
trying to produce a picture of tho
workings Of nature too slow for the
human eye to catch. For this he is
using the pictures of growing plant
The other thing that DR.. Lehman is
working for Is TO get individual pic
tures of the workings of nature too
rapid for the human eye to catch.
For instance. in watching an explosion
The eye gets composite picture OF
smoke and air filled with flying debris.
With his moving picture camera. which
IN one second. DR.. Lehman Is able
to got the development of the explo-
sion from the first little puff of smoke
until the gases causing the trouble
explode BY running these pictures in
MS machine at the usual rate of speed
the composite picture that the eye
sees Is shown. BY running his film
slowly through tho machine each ster
IN the explosion, too rapid for the
naked eye, Is seen.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-17
GET NIGHT RIDER SECRETS
Government Agents Said to Have Proof

Agents Said to Have Proof
That Burnley Society Tx Trust.
Covington, Ky, January l6.-As the
result of Investigations by Fl. NJ.
Hoagland and several other Federal
Secret Service agents, 1t Is expected
by men prominent in the tobacco trade
Of this part of the country that prose-
cutions will be brought under the
Sherman law against the Burley To-
abacco Society and some OF tts men,
.bers
For three months Mr.. Hoagland and
his men have been almost lost in the
tobacco districts of kentucky. They
went In the gulse of farmers hands
to collect evidence not only against
the society. but against tho night rid
ers Mr.. Hoagand left Cincinnati to-
day for Washington to lay before At
Wickershanl the re-
suits of this investigation. Mr.. Hoag-E
land is quoted as saying that the
society, with It's $4,000 members. Is a
trust, and that it can be prosecuted
as such.
Hoagland recently has been In Gin
cinnati, at the Havlin Hotel, as II
.horse-buyer for the British govern
meht. He has received much mail and
many visitors, mon who had been pun
ished by the night riders. Details
Of barn burninss whipping. scrapings
OF beds of tobacco and the names Of
the men concerned in them have been
told to him,
Hoagland is said to have learned
that each county in Kentucky is d.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-17
7lSHOULD APPLY. MUSIC OF LABOR
| TO MONOTONY OF PRISON LIFE

guardian or custodian OF the minor
child or Children
"Furthermore. the law says. 1t shall
be the duty of the superintendent In
charge of the workhouse to
pay out of funds available, over to the
wife or children /. . at the end
DO cents for each days hard labor
performed by said person SO confined
ington.
Try 1t In Virginia.
Let US try 1T in Virginia, and lf
put such men on the roads ] would
like to see every ablebodied man In
a Virginia Jail put to work.
j, TO confine q man In jail with moth
ing. to do may add crime by the State
to the crime OF the individual. Fred
erich the Great by discovering and APP
plying the use OF the rhythmic step
increased their endurance and raised
the records Of forced marches. If our
Commonwealth will apply the music Of
labor to the monotony of prison con-
flnement and give the wages earned
by fmprovident husbands to their suf-
fering families we shall remedy a dis
tressing condition. Some may say this
is paternalsm, but as one who admires
the spirit Of personal liberty that how
cred over the constitutional conven-
tlons, and who suhscribes to the prin-
.ciple that the functions of government
are not to be lightly extended. I af-
firm that the enactment OF law maxi
ing wife-deserting. family
husbands the wards of the State in
them is public duty and moral ne
sceSsfty."l
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ROOSEVELT PRESENT
AT SPEARING OF LION
In at the Death, When Seventy Warriors Sur
round and Kill Their Prey---Kermit
PLAYS in e. rpa+ ,1cll
Playsin G reat Luck.

Eairobi, British Africa. December II.
"A long stream of porters came wind
ing across the veldt towards the sta
ton at Nairobi looking for all the world
like string of ants. The Stars and
Stripes were held aloft by giant ma
tive. and the sound OF horns made
strange discords with the chanting of
the weird and elusive safairi song.
Shortly. Colonel Roosevelt arrived on
the back OF his favorte horse, Tran
yquillity. It was the end of his last
rip in the British East African Pro-
tectorate.
This safairi, which was the fourth
to be made out OF Nairobi. gave Col
one Roosevelt and his party an oppor-
tunity to witness an exciting hunt at
A. E. Hoys's farm. at Sirgol. in the
Guasu Nguiso country. The spearing
OF lion by Nandi was feature.
Seventy of these spearsmen had been
asked to take part in the drive. and
they assented readily. for when y
warrior spears a lion he becomes a
leader of the fighting section of the
tribe, and may wear a head dress
formed of the lions name and walk
at the head of the file of Nandl war
;rtors when on the march. In these
hunts they display extraordinary cour-
age. w "a
CURRY Surrounded.
The band of seventy almost naked
men. with their long, sharp spears.
and attended by the chosen spectators,
the latter being mounted, proceeded
down long valley where the grass
was thick and thorn trees lined fits
edges. Very soon lion was observed
not more than 400 yards in front I'M
mediately the warriors gave chase
and in less than two miles they had
rounded up the king Of the wilderness.
The horsemen then approached, and
1T was seen that the lion at bay was
full grown. black-maned one. Tho
spearsmen began their task of sur
rounding the quarry. Every man went
to his allotted position, and the circle
slowly closed in on the snarling beast,
which swished his tail and kept up a
continual roaring.
The warriors drew to within somo
twenty yards of him, and the horse
men closed up to see the XIII, yet re-
manned at sufficient distance not to
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-17

interfere with the spearsmen's move
ments. Three times the lion made a
savage charge at the now stationary
warriors, but stopped short each time.
with mane bristling roaring In impo-
tent rage at his tormentors. Again
the attacking party advanced to with
IN ten yards of their victim.
one last desperate effort, and he
drove directly at the line. only to fall
with ten spears quivering in his body.
But In that brief moment he managed
to drag down one of the natives, his
claws sinking into the mans flesh.
The death OF the king seemed to
awaken all the fire in the warriors
blood. They began to advance around
the body. waving their bloodstained
spears. some of which were bent from
the force Of the shock. holding their
shields above their heads and shouting
forth blood-curdling yells in the excess
of their savage JOY over the victory.
Makes Him Leader of Men.
In the meantime the injured man was
being given medical attention, and he
bore the pain OF his wounds without a
sign of concern. He who had first
jabbed his spear through the lion
joined in the dance at the start, but
soon retired at a distance. where he
seated himself, apparently Indifferent
TO the antics OF his fellows. He was
now u leader of men. and must there
fore not show sign that he had done
anything out of the ordinary.
The luck of Kermit Roosevelt has
been proverblal. While Colonel Roose-
welt was hunting with Lord Delamere.
Kermit went off with r. B. Cole and
his Wanderobo warriors. The Wan
derobos are adopts at killing bonEo.
which are very rare and only to be
found in the forests. In short space
of time the younger Roosevelt had se-
cured a large and fne. specimen Of the
female bongo and one OF the young.
immature bongo. This was a feat that
any old hunter might justly be proud
of. for no white man has ever before
stalked and shot bongo. There are
only two cases on record of white
man shooting bongo with the aid Of
the natives and their dogs. So pleased
was one of the residents here with the
success of the youth that he presented
Kermit with q. fine specimen of the
male bongo, and SO the Snlithsonian
Institution will have a complete family
group, the only one In the world.
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duces light and warmth. and the pris-
oners make bone buttons That jail.
nothing but bone buttons. ~
Give the inmates OF
the jail work to do instead of al
lowing them toQwallow In Incidence
and sink deeper in vice. Economy and
Justice alike should prompt our Coun-
ell to erect this Workhouse.
To Amend Code.
"2. The Legislature should SO amend
section 1895 OF the Virginia CODE as
to authorize the Judge to commit those
convicted under the net to the work.
houses, where established. or to work
on the public roads. and the State
should pay their families 50 much per
day for their services. The law as
It stands has some admirable features.
but it is not adequate. TO send q
for his family to jail does not bring
a penny to the needy family. Such
q man should be made the ward of
the State in the interest of his family.
In sentence, the state should compel
him to work and pay his famil0 his
wages. Our Judge of the Hastings
Court. Notwithstanding the wide dis
law, recognizes the necessity and JUS
tice of such an amendment as is here
suggested. In 1906 the Congress OF the
United States enacted a law for the
District of Columbia empowering the
court to fine any one wilfully neglect
ing his dependent wife and children
$500. or to imprison him for twelve
and the act says:
Should fine be imposed. 1t may be
directed by the court to be paid in
whole or In part to the wife or to the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-17
DARING T L|GH rs
IN WIND AND RAIN
Aviators Electrify Crowd With
Their Skilful Jockeying
During Storm.
DISTANCE EFF oRT TODAY
Paulhan Will Seek to Beat Re-
cord and Win Michelin
Cup.
DISTANCE EFF oRT TO-DAY

Aviation Field. Los Angeles. Cal.
January 16.-Wind and rain consvlred
to-day to teat tho airshlos flying on
aviation field. Tho result was q VIC
tory for Glenn FL Curtiss and Louis
Paulhan.
In half gale Curtiss rose to a
height OF more than 100 feet. and there
performed as pretty piece OF aero
plane jockeying as has been seen. He
described circles In daring fashion.
lifting and dipping and beating against
the wind. Pauhan strove TO Guido
this, going Up 512 feet and circling
about like a hawk.
Then Curtiss. Paulhan and Charles
K. Hamilton. each driving his own ma
chine. swung around In an aerial Mar
athon. At times they raced together
against the wind. They flew under ana
over and around one another.
The ayiators did not want to fly In
the wind. They knew that the wind
strains the delicate SILK planes and
pulls at the fastening. but the crowd
was there, and they had to amuse it.
Tho av;ators waited as long as pos
sible, but finally Hamilton awakened
cheers by rising In a short flight to
test the wind.
Paulhan was not long In following.
He came up with rush and sailed
past the grandstand in two qualifying
rounds He veered and shot out Of
the course. back OF tho grandstand 200
feet high. going over the field again
after a short drop. When he came
down he said that he had intended to
try ten laps for speed but found the
wind too strong on the westward
course.
BuckinE the Wind.
. los ~ y1l ~
liminary flight. Hamilton and Paul
han started together In wind-buck-
ing contest. but were sent out OF the
course, and they landed back OF the
grandstand. Paulhan, after finding
that his machine was standing the
strain we'll, made another trip for
speed. In four rounds his best lap
was 1888 3-5. Curtiss's record Is 2:l2
Finding that he could not win In this.
Paulhan tried to lower Curtiss's start
ing record. He made 1t on the soft
turf in 1883 feet. Curtisss record Is
ninety-cight feet.
Roy Knabenshue and Lincoln Benchey
brought out their dirigibles. They
went up and struggled hard against the
wind for half a mile. and then gave 1t
up, whlrling back over the grandstand
at high speed.
Charles f. Willard, in Curtiss ma
chine made a brief flight. AS the
spectators were leaving Paulhan ap-
peared on the horizon with two mech
anicians behind him-a dangerous feat
in such wind. After a short run
with them he took UP clifford B. Har-
mon, a New York balloonist.
Great interest centres In Paulhan's
scheduled attempt TO win the Mlche-
lin cup for long distance flight to-
morrow.
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been arranged ms yet. conservation. the
question OF water rights. habor and
river improvements and the income tax
amendment will be among those dis
cussed About thirty Governors are
expected to be present.
A reception to the Governors, to-rior.
row night at the home of Miss Mabel
Boardinan, dinner Tuesday night by
John Hays Hammond, after which the
Governors Will go to the judiciary re-
ception at the White House and a din
ner ut the White House on wednesday
night. Will constitute the principal
social activities interspersed among the
business sessions OF the State heads.
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GARY WILL HAVE TO STAY DRY
Majority OF voters at the Election In
l2OR So Decide on Petition Case.

Majority OF Voters at the Election In
1906 So Decide on Petition Case.
Laporte, Ind. January 16,-Gary,
with its 10000 people. will remain
dry for four months more. Judge
Henry D. Tuthill. of the Laporte coun-
ty Superior Court, ruled In favor of
the remonstrance In the suit Of the
Anti Saloon League against Theodore
Binzen and James z. Scanlon. who
OF business in May, 1908.
Under the Indiana law a majority
of the voters at the preceding general
election can force out Of business all
the saloons in township. In the
1906 election there were only s3e votes
cast, and the league obtained 229 sig
natures to the remonstrance. a ma
jority of sixty.
Judge Tuthill's ruling Is the OUT
come of the wave of reform affecting
the sale Of liquor that struck Gary
two years ago, a few months after
the start Of the new steel city and less
than year after the first election in
tho Infant municipality.
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GROUND TO DEATH
BENEATH { GIN {
William E. Sisson Is Killed on
Southern Railway at
Alexandria.
Especial to The Times plspatch.1


Alexandria. Va. January 16.-Wil-
liam E. sisson. manager of the Ma
honeysville dlstillery In Fairfav coun-
~, west Of this city. was struck. at
9:35 o'clock this morning. and Instant
~ Killed by northbound Southern
hallway Tight" engine over the South
ern Railway The body was horribly
mangled.
AT the time OF the accident. Mr.. Sis
son was coming along a narrow path
from the distllery. and the place
where ne met his death Is known as
the telegraph road crossing. opposite
the disullery. There Is a network Of
tracks at the point. although he had
just stepped on the first one When
ne ne 1alied to observe the light engine.
mere IS Waterman crossing at that
cried to him to Took out" He. how
ever. failed 10 hear. or If he did hear.
u was TOO late, for almost Instantly
ne was beneath the wheels Of the big
locomotive and literally ground to
The watchman and q negro We're the
only witnesses, It Is said. The engine
was running backwards from what is
known as Cameron Crossing to the
CoHlpahys roundhouse here. 1T was
IN charse of Engineer T. n. Walker
ana FIREMAN Iverton Miller. The
4speed, It Is said. was about SIX miles
Mr.. slsson was a native of Culpeper
county go. and was about thirty-hv years
oiu. BESIDES his wife, one child sur
o5se ne lived with his family at
is snn luke Street. extended. Mr.. Sis
1 : "a was member or AleXand ria
6tfoage, NO, 75S, Benevolent and Protec-
tive, Order OF Eiks. ~
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TROUBLE is BREWING

Naval Onicers May Have to Walk 100
Miles In Six Days.
Washington. January 16.-Trouble
is looming UP before the hundred
naval officers, moro or less. who fall
ed to take the physical tests during
the last calendar year and who We're
not excused. The report has reached
some Of them that Secretary Meyer
is going to make the tests cumula-
tive. Hence. instead of being re-
quired to walk fifty miles In three
days, they will be required to walk
100 miles In six days, when they fail
to comply with the regulations for
one reason or another.
The question of some action in re-
gard to the physical tests. In view of
the largo number of officers. who fall
ed to take them, is being considered
by the Navy Department., but no ac-
ton has been decided upon.
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VEsUVIUs. BUSY IN 1911

So Says Schering, hut some yolcnnolo-
gixts Differ From Him.
Rome, January l6.--Dr. Scherng as
sistant at the Nesuvns Observatory,
predicts another eruption in 1911.
He says he has extracted volcanic
stones from the crater which show
that the volcanic activity of the erIp-
ton of 1906 continues, II IL now linz
tied ITO the interior. but is bound to
extend to the exterior, when an erup-
ton viii result, F
Italian volcanologists discredit Dr.
sSchering's theory.
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No LeKnl Ground.

Augusta, Ga. January 16.-In an in
terview at Aiken, S. c., where he Is
spending the winter, former Senator
George u. Edmunds. of Vermont. one
Of the highest authorities on inter-
national law in America, declared that.
In his opinion, the United States could
scarcely demand the extradition of
ZeIaya, as zelaya was guilty of no
crime. Even had tAelaya personally
executed Groce and Cannon. there
would be no reasonable legal ground
from Mexico. Diaz's asylum to He-
alaya is not San act unfriendly to the
United States.
Senator Edmunds would make no
comment on Secretary of State I<nox's
letter to the Nicaraguan envoy at
Washington. but held that In what has
so far been done In the matter Of re-
peared to be mistreatment OF Ameri-
cans In Nicaragua, this government
has proceeded withinL.it rights:
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sNoWPLoW KILLS TWO MEN

strn"k While Mt Work Mt DiTeTent
'heeS on Long Island Railroad.
~ ,ss'outnamnton, N. ", January ar
W. men We're killed hy a snow ploW,
snowplow first struck and lsillea
Wlnzetto saetto an italian sect!on
,whm, IN Tho Rridgehampton yard,
s ETtn ne was cleaning the switches,
n ri.S pooy was carried along BY INC 9
p thn ,n az me crew did not know y Y o :,
4 i've va, miles 70 Easthampton the same
Vow caught and killed lAntoniol
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100000 FOR SILVER MINES.
cusaenheim Smelling Co. said TO Have

Guggenhcim Smelling Co. said to Have
Nude Large Deal In Mexico.
Chihuahua Mexico, January lift
Smelling and Refining Company OF
the Gug gcnhcims has purchased prop
crty of he Potosi Mining Company and
the Chihuahua Mining Company In
tho Santa Eulalfa district. for sS.000.-
900.
Tho Potosl mine is said to be the
richest silver mine In the world. Both
companies were controlled by interests
headed by Grant e. Schley. OF New
York, and Dennis Sullivan. of Denver.
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5ygE RRADEzEZD CO., ATLANTA, Ga.

vided into halves by tile night riders.
and that In each section there Is Il
chief and lieutenant, with many men
under them He Is said to have evil
dence enough to prosecute the leaders
Of most of the counties.
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Ycggmen Crack SAFE.

big Erot safe in the Office at the
Cable Plano Company. In tho heart
of the city, was drilled open last
night. evidently by professional safe
There Is no clue to the guilty parties.
The burglars entered through hall-
Way door
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sTATE-WIDERs MEET
II AND PASS RESOLUTION
iIspecial to The Tiroes. pisnatcb1

~ q ISpeCIaI 20 TIE Tlfnes- 8@
Roanoke. Va. January l6.-The first
mass-meeting In the interest of State
wide prohibition In the history Of Roa-
noke was held this afternoon in the
First Baptist Church, A resolution in
ldorsing the Statewide movement was
adopted by a viva yoce vote There
was no opposing Voice when the cues
tion was put. Former State Senator
A. +, Thomas of l,ynchburg. and d. H.
Barger. of Shawsv!!le, farmer and
coal operator. delivered addresses and
were frequently applauded-
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Lavatino also section hand. who
was also cleaning switches.
It is supposed the men did not hear
the snowplow coming, because they
had their ears muffled to protect them
from the cold.