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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
SALOON CONTEST BITTER
BULK OF ILLINOIS CITIES VOTE
TUESDAY ON QUESTION.
"Wets" Struggling to Regain Nine
ty-Seven Townships Lost Two
Years Ago.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 2.-Il1inois goes
Tuesday to the stiffest test which has
been made UP to date in the state be-
tween the liquor interests and the anti
saloon forces In nfnety-seven townships
where there are cities or villages which
were voted anti-saloon territory two
years ago at the first trial of the then
new local option law the liquor people
are trying to reverse the vote of 1905
and convert the townships into saloon
territory once again.
In 136 townships where the larger
cities of the state are located, and which
were saved to the vets two years ago in
most instances after desperate fighting
the saloon opponents once again are en-
deavoring to convert them into anti
saloon territory.
Reports from all over the state indicate
that this is by far the most bitter strug-
gle which ever has occurred in Illinois
over the saloon question. Practically
every city of Importance in the state with
the exception Of Peoria and Quincy are
involved in Tuesdays contest
The failure of the anti-saloon element
in Chicago to get the anti-saloon question
upon the Chicago ballot for TUESDAYS
election resulted Immediately in the food
ing of the critical points in the state
with the oratory and campaign supplies
which had been prepared for the Chicago
campaign.
Springfield. Decatur, Danville, Nom
mouth, Aurora, Elgin, Joliet, Rock Is
land, Meline and, in fact, nearly every
city Of Importance in the state is wit
Messing the closing of bitter campaign
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
STATEMENT BY MAGE.
Pittsburg Mayor Says He Was Led
Into a Trap.

PITTSBURG. April 2-Mayor William
Magee today issued a statement In which
he says that he was led into trap last
night when he attempted to address a
mass meeting of citizens gathered at Elk
position Music Hall to protest against the
prevalence of vice in. Greater Pittsburg.
He did not know. he says, that he was
to be questioned by his auditors, and did
not come prepared for the questions OF
the crowd. He says he was simply asked
to address the meeting In answer to the
attacks made upon his administration by
previous speakers.
The mayor makes a general denial OF
the charges made against his adninistra-
ton last night, and welcomes the com
mittee which will wait upon him next
week and confer with him on the vice
question.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03

In fact on one of Lord Roseberys farms
In England they are reported to raise
200 bushels per acre. 1t Is thought, how
ever, that this is some special strain OF
potato, possibly that used on the CONT
nent as stock food. There is a very large
potato that is raised In Germany az
stock food and for the manufacture of
alcohol. and this Is now being tried in
this country. but the results have not
vet been made public.
There is a very large annual importa-
ton of potatoes here and the Department
of Agriculture wants to see whether with
improved seed and better methods of
cultivation it will not be possible to
largely stop this leak in agricultural
finances
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
SHORT REST SPELL
President of Mine Workers
Says Strike Win Be Brief.
HIGHER WAGES ASSURED
Early Agreement Between Operators
and Employees Predicted-Sit.
uation in Six States.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 2.-Advices
from the bituminous coal fields Of the
United States received by Thomas L.
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers, when he returned to the head
quarters of the organization in this city
today, satisfied him, he said, that the sus-
pension of work in the mines pending the
signing of a new wage contract between
continued.
Lewis Is Optimistic.
Operators and miners in Indiana, Iowa,
Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, western Ken
cussing means of settlement OF the CUES
tions between them next week. said
President Lewis. THE matter will work
out TO the end that we will get the de-
manded wage increase of o.55 per cent,
whether on work by the day or the ton
In Illinois, the southwest and in west
ern Pennsylvania the conferences will
take longer in reaching conclusions than
In the other states. but / cannot believe
there will be a final break.
Plain Object Lesson.
IF the operators Of Pennsylvania and
Ohio feared that the operators in the nom
union districts of West Virginia and that
nejghborhood would undersel them that
objection to increasing the wages of union
miners has been swept away by the news
that in practically all of the non-llnion
coal fields of West Virginia, Maryland
and southern Pennsylvania the operators
have come out with a raise of the wages
Of their unorganiZed workmen. This is
also a plain object lesson that the union
man benefits the non-union man."
Mr.. Lewis will spend tomorrow at his
home at Bridgeport, Ohio and Monday
will go to Dubois, Pa, or to Pittsburg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
AVIATOR IS KILLED
lie BIon of France Dashed on
Rocks in Spain.
FAILED IN EFFORT TO GLIDE
Motor Broke Down When 40 Feet
in Air and Machine Turned
Over.

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain. April Am
other French aviator has met death while
making a flight in an aeroplane. Hubert
lie Blon, who prior to his taking up
aeroplaning was a noted automobilist,
was killed while making an exhibition
fight here today. He was circling the
royal palace of Miramar. at a height of
40 feet. when his motor broke down. He
attempted to glide back to the shed. but
the machine turned over and swooped
with terrific force against the rocks The
aviator was crushed like a she'll.
Nine LIE Blon witnessed the accident,
and when the body was recovered from
the sea she rushed shrieking toward the
ambulance to which 1t was being carried.
She threw herself upon the lifeless form.
Kissing It repeatedly and refusing to be
led away.
AS the weather was stormy, LIE Blon' S
flight was unexpected. and only few
persons assembled to see the start. After
the accident, however, an enormous crowd
to the police hospital. There an exami-
nation was made. but the doctors were
only able to confirm that death must
have been instantaneous.
Hubert lie Blon distinguished himself as
an aeroplanst by beating the record for
five kilometers at the Cairo meeting last
February, when he covered the distance
in four minutes two seconds. AS an auto
mohilist he took part in the Vanderbilt
cup race over the Long Island course in
1906. and was sixth when the race was
called. He took part in number of
other big automobile events and was
usually well up at the finish.
E. Lefebvre and Capt. Louis F. Ferber,
both Frenchmen. were killed last Septem-
her while making aerOplane flights and
Lieut.. Thomas Selfridge was killed the
previous year. also in September. in the
accident at Fort Myer to Orville Wright's
machine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
OVER A MILE HIGH.
Size Of Canal Locks if Piled One
Leaf Upon Another.

Some idea Of the magnitude of the great
looks to be placed in the Panama canal
can be gathered from the statement in
the Canal Record just received. that If
all the leaves Of the locks should be piled
one on top of another they Would make
a tower a mile and one-fifth high.
The canal commission has just placed
the order for some steel to be used in the
construction of these locks. which was
the largest order for material given since
the canal work started. This was for So, :
600 tons. out Of which it is expected to
construct forty-six mitering gates, one
set of which, at Milaf1ores. will be eighty
two feet high. remarkab BILE undertaking.
in hydraulic engineering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
NO FILIBUSTER LAWFUL,
Even IF United States Has No Dip.
lomatic Relations With Nicaragua.

NEW ORLEANS. April I'm a COM
received from the State De-
partment at Washington today the local
United States district attorneys office Is
upheld in its contention that the recruit
ing of men In the United States, to be
used in hostilities against g country with
which the United States is at peace, is a
violation of the law. no matter if there
happens to be no diplomatic relationship
with the country in question.
AS a result, it lis reported that the fed
ersl grand jury next Monday will take
cognizance of the rumors that an expe-
dition- is being promoted here TO go to
the aid of the Nicaraguan revolutionists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
THINK KIDNAPERs HAVE GIRL.
Letter to Missing Child's Father
Suggests Ransom Money.

NEW YORK, April 2.--kidnapers are
believed TO be holding Mildred Rudd, the
f1fteen-year-old daughter of George Rudd,
a wealthy merchant, strangely missing
from her Bronx home since last Thurs
day. Mr.. Rudd received a letter today
saying his daughter was being detained
pending his offer to pay a ransom for
her return.
The police have no further information
than that the child vanished after she
left two companions on the way home
from school Thursday afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
DAY SLAMS sENsATIoNALIsTs.
They Create Only Danger of War
With japan. He Saws.

POUGHKEEPsIE. N Z. April q
Chancellor James r. Day of Syracuse
University awoke the patriotism of the
ministers of the New York Methodist
Episcopal Conference today when he said
there need be no fear of trouble between
the United States and Japan If the sensa-
tionslists in this country can be kept
tied up.
His remarks were greeted with ap-
plause.
The cost Of living and the inability of
small communities to support many
churches and pastors was described by
P. NJ Walters, superintendent of the New
York district, as a crisis in the affairs
Of the conference. He urged some adj
justment and a commission was appointed
to work out some solution Of the problem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair Today and Monday, With Lit
tie Change in Temperature.

For the District Of Columbia. Maryland
and Virginia, fair Sunday and Monday,
with little change in temperature; light
to moderate southerly winds.
Low pressure prevails west of the Mis-
sissippi river, but the center OF depression
still continues over the far northwest,
with no eastward advance of the rain
area since Friday night. The southwest
ern thunderstorm conditions, however,
have extended northward and northeast
ward into Oklahoma. southeastern Kan
sas. Missouri, Arkansas and western
Tennessee: elsewhere fair weather con-
tinues. High temperatures continue gen
orally and in portions of the plains states
and the northwest they are from twenty
five to thirty degrees above the seasonal
average.
There will be showers Sunday in the
middle plateau and the extreme north
west, and also local showers in the mid
die Mississippi and lower Ohio valleys,
Tennessee and western North Carolina !;
elsewhere generally fair weather will
continue Sunday and Monday.
Temperatures will rise Sunday in the
interior of New England and the middle
Atlantic states, and will continue high
else here, east of the Rocky mountains
1t will be cooler Sunday night in the
plateau region and Monday over the
states.
Storm warnings are displayed on the
north Pacific coast.
The winds along the New England and
middle Atlantic coasts will be variable,
becoming easterly and moderate; on the
south Atlantic coast light to moderate
and variable, except northeastery on the
North Carolina coast; on the east gulf
coast light to moderate southerly; on the
west gulf coast moderate southerly; on
Lake Michigan brisk southerly.
Temperatures.
Midnight, 90, am, 81: am. So; 6
am, 81; am, J5; 10 am, 81: II noon,
20; pm, "A: pm. IA; pm, II; 8
pm. 6S; 10 pm. IS. Maximum, rs; mini
mum, %.
Relative Humidity.
8 AM, q. pm. %; s pm, SO. Rain
fall g pm. to s PM, o. Hours OF sun
shine. 12.7- Per cent of possible sun
shine, 100.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum, Sc: minimum, Al
Temperatures in Other Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
STUDY OF POTATO RAISING.
Department of Agriculture Will
Send Expert Abroad.

Potato raising in Europe is to be in
vestigated by the Department of Agri-
culture. A special agent Of the depart
ment. Eugene Grubb Of Carbonate. Col.
is to be sent abroad to study the Euro
pean potato in all its aspects. The de-
partment has been interested in European
potato raising for some time and wanted
to know why so much larger crops could
be raised abroad than were raised here.
The average for the United States Is
only about eighty bushels per acre. while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
IS Badness DOOMED.
Baltimore Specialist Says 1t II In
necessary, and Proves II.

BALTIMORE, April 2.-The intense
interest in the wonderful work that Is
being accomplished in Baltimore and
other cities by William Chas Keene,
president Of the Lorrimer Institute. con-
ness and faded hair of years standing
have been remedied by the remarkable
preparation being distributed from Mr.
Keene's laboratory, and it's fame is
spreading far and wide and thousands
of persons are using this remarkable
hair food with gratifying results.
What makes this treatment more pop
ular is the fact that free trial outfits
are sent by mail prepaid. Those who
wish to try 1t are strongly advised to
write to Mr.. Keene at the Lorrimer In
stitute. Branch 607, Baltimore, Md.
They will receive the full trial outfit
free Of charge and much useful infor-
nation about the hair which will put
them on the road to rapid and certain
improvement-Advt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
OF BIG FIVE
Pittsburg CounciImen Reveal
Secrets to Grand Jury.
INDICTMENTS TO FOLLOW
Prosecution of the Grafters to Open
Next Week-Sensational Devel-
opments Expected.

PITTSRTRG, Pa, April All of the
present and former councimen who were
known as the big Five have told their
stories to the graft investigating grand
jury. The indictment of six banks az
corporations and other startling sensa-
tons are expected Monday as a. result
The graft prosecution is now busily en-
gagged preparing cases for the trials next
week.
Charles Stewart today told the whole
truth to the grand jury. Hugh Ferguson
made complete statement before the in
to have made a full confession and the
bottom has finally fallen out Of the al
legged grafters defense.
Bank Presentments'' Expected.
Grand jurors, after returning present
ments today recommending indictments
against Morris Elnstein and seven other
former counclmen on testimony received
from P. B. Kearns. spent an hour hear
ing more evidence and preparing the
bulky "bank presentment'' and then were
excused until Monday, after returning in
dictments ordered on their recommended
ton by Judge Thomas Carnahan.
In order to disprove any alihis such
d. nave beeH iSeu III the past Win telil1lS
effect in the trials of at least one graft
case, 1T Is known that the prosecution is
hard at work getting evidence to Show
up any abb evidence.
Sunday win be spent by the district
attorney and his associates in consulta-
ton as to the new developments In the
graft prosecution. The procedure of the
trial of the cases has not been determined
upon, but the district attorney stated
late today that the cases as listed for
trial next week will be prosecuted along
regular lines, and it is possible that
three Judges will sit in criminal court
during the opening days of the trials.
Confesses by Letter.
The district attorney today received
letter from George r. Bailey. now In
Pasadena, Cal, but former member of
common councils. in which he says he
wishes to plead no defense to having re-
ceived brides for his vote Bailey writes
that he has read of the graft investiga-
tons In the newspapers and at the time
of writing his name had not been men
declares he received a total of $751; 10
from John Klein for his vote OH ordi-
nances covering street vacations and city
depository selections.
Bailey says he will come to Pttsburs
any time he is wanted by the district
attorney
In the grand jury's recent present
ments, two indictments were returned
against Bailey. but this was after the
letter to the district attorney had been
received.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
CHURCH NOTICES.
UNITARIAN.

ALL SOULS CHURCH, COR 14TH AND L.
SITS. Ulysses G. 3. Pierce, n D.. minister
e:t5 m, Sunday school Glass for the Com
paratioe Study of Religion and Unity Study
Class: I O'Clock, morning service sermon by
Or. Pierce in memory of Edward Everett Hale
There is also kindergarten during the hour OF
morning worship: 80 pm. Young People &
Religious Union. address hy Mrs. Pierce The
Religious Instruction of YOUTH The public
invited 10 all services. ap2-2r
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Letter=P Books.
PALMISTRY.

..R pAOUD THE RENOWNED PIANIST,
will reveal TO you from your hand what you de-
sire TO know concerning all business or personal
Affairs 1922 Q st. Phone North 1130.
mho-tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03

SHERRY PRINTING MAKES GOOD IT'S REPJ-
tation as the best printing for business use.
IL has right to serve You because II proves
iu use every claim made for It, FRANC. z.
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Temperatures.

Midnight, %; am. 81; m. So;
am, 81; am, J5; 10 am, 81: IL noon
20; pm, "A: pm, "A; pm, II:
pm, 6s: 10 PM, 5s Maximum, rs; mini
mum, 90.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
$4,000 TROPHY MUST
BE WON THREE TIMES

The $4,000 Wheeler-Schebler trophy
of solid silver, won at Indianapolis iol
the first time by Ray Harroun ana ms
Marmon Wasp, as the car is Called
must be won three times peIofe per
manent possession is obtained ana tlle
trophy probably will be raced FOR again
at the big indianapolis speedway meet
ino 70 he held next September. 1t will
not he necessary for one car to win the
trophy three times consecutiVely III
makes no difference, according to the
specifications of the donors, II the three
victories come in row or cover
period of ten years.
The trophy is the most Valuaple ever
raced for, and it is of a marVelously
beautiful design. 1t is the intention OF
the Marmon company to put it on eXhl-
bition with their various agents
throughout the country.
IT is regarded as a singular colncl-
dence that the Marmon car should win
the trophy this year. with jackson
oar second. while a jackson car was in
the lead last year when the race was
stopped in the 235th mile. The race was
originally scheduled for 300 miles, but
the distance was reduced as result
Of numerous fatal accidents in 1903,
T'vnch drove the same Jackson car Sat
urdav with which he led the process
sion one year ago. The time Saturday
for the 200 miles was almost an hour
faster than one year ago, the increased
sneed being attributed to the superior
ity of the new brick track.
In addition to winning the Wheeler
Schebler trophy, Driver Harroun re-
ceived in addition the sum of $1,000 be-
cause his car was equipped with a
Wheeler Schebler carbureter. This
sum will go to the driver, although he
is employed by the Marmon company
by the year at straight, lucrative sal
arY.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
TAKES ISSUE ON
AUTO CRITICISM
Declares J. J. Hill Wrong About
Money That Is Tied Up
in Motor Cars

C. w. Matheson, well known in the
automobile industry, takes up the cud-
gels of makers and users of motor cars
in no uncertain terms in resenting the
widely published allegations against
automobiling as a pastime and auto
mobile manufacturing as a business.
James j. HILL president of the Great
Northern and Northern Paclnc ralI-
road companies, has declared that au-
tomobiles are an extravaganza; promi-
nent bankers are credited with saying
the manufacture of motor cars is a
waste of capital, and bond dealers and
real estate men are attributing the tall-
ing off of the market for their wares
to the craze for automobiles. Mr.
Matheson thinks a great injustice has
been done the pastime and industry
as a whole.
THAT the public demand for auto
mobiles Is growing greater all the time
is sufficient answer to any criticism
from no matter what source" says Mr..
Matheson. 1T is quite possible that
the public has been fooled so often IN
the matter of eXtraVagances in the
way of stocks, bonds and real estate
that the opportunity of obtaining some
thing from which real, tangible enjoy
men at least can be obtained is a well
come sensation. Watered stock, un-
of doubtful value have never been
seriously criticised by those in high
places in the financial world as proper
channels for using up the surplus IN
come of many people. The novelty OF
securing something in return for an
investment of possibly greater intrinsic
value than a beautifully engraved GER
tificate or a deed must be strange IN
deed in some quarters
scale
of wages brought about by the manu-
facture of automobiles can never be
overlooked by anyone seriously study
ing the conditions as they actually
exist. A market for skilled labor and
all graded labor employed in the max
ing of motor cars was in a sense Gre
ated with the appearance of the first
automobile, and this market has in
creased by leaps and bounds with
wages being paid on a scale unknown
to the railroad companies
"The tremendous amount of capital
| invested in the manufacture of cars
tires, accessories, etc, the vast army
of labor engaged directly or indirectly
in the making and distributing and the
thousands employed in the distributing
of machines-all these details present
| figures which rightly enough place the
| industry so high on the list of our pro-
III
and extravagance then there is some
thing seriously lacking with the Ameri-
can public.
Surely the owners Of the 100000 au-
tomobiles that are estimated to be il
use at the present time are not al
guilty of wilful extravaganza. Credit
| the average purchaser is being the
possessor of common sense and his de-
cision in favor of a motor car as
against stocks, bonds, real estate, etc.
speaks for itself. As an industry the
automobile is in its infancy and pur-
chasers of cars, both for business ant
pleasure purposes will increase in every
section of the country. content in the
knowledge that the pleasure and bust
ness returns viii prove their invest
ment a sound one with manifold ad-
vantages accruing-all comments to the
contrary Notwithstanding"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
MOTOR GOSSIP

E. f. Biles and wife and e. A. Lewis
and wife are touring in a Doris car
through northern California, particu-
larly through the Yosemite, where sew
eral days ago they doubled up with w.
E. Bush and party. who are also on a
touring trip in a Pierce-ArroW.
Phil H. Lyon Of the Chanslor & Lyon
company left yesterday for a combined
business and pleasure trip to Fresno,
SAN Francisco and Seattle, where his
firm has branch establishments to look
after their great auto supply business
oscar Werner sold two large Simplex
cars last week. one to A. II. Braley'
the other to Mr.. Merritt, both of Pasa-
dena.
lowing sales of Oakland cars last week:
M r.. Mckinney, Artesia, touring car;
Albert ]. Russell, Long Beach, touring
car. 7. M. Smith, Whittier roadster;
A n. Sebastian, OXnard roadster;
Trusten Clark, Pomona, touring car;
Fred Shields, Long Beach, roadster;
Wallace Rountree, city, roadster and
the Globe Grain and Milling company
have now six Oakland roadsters in
constant use. All of these cars were
sold completely equipped
The Newell Mathews company has
nlaced two agencies for their trim
Whiting 400" model in the past week
between here and San Diego and has
disposed of ten of their machines. Mr..
Radbone drove a car through the
southern territory recently and reports
an exceedingly favorable outlook for
the sale of more cars.
Frank Howard, manager of the Los
Angeles branch of the Howard Auto
mobile company, made a trip to Po-
mona last week on Buick business,
The Stewart Fruit company of this
city has just purchased its seventh
Buick car.