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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
HUSTON ON TRIAL.
Designer of Pennsylvania Capitol
Charged With Fraud.

HARRISBURG, Pa. April 5.-The
states case against Architect Joseph
H. Huston, designer of the new state
capitol, charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the state in the furnishing Of
the capitol. was formally opened in the
Dauphin county court today by James
Scarlet, chief of special counsel for the
state The jury, which was selected
Yesterday, had been sworn, and no time
was lost in the presentation of the
charge to the twelve men.
Mr.. Scarlet's address reviewed the
entire capitol contract scandal. He de-
through alleged illegal connivance or
the architect with the furniture con-
tractor and state officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
TARGET PRACTICE BEGINS.
Atlantic Battleship Fleet Assemblies
Off Virginia Capes.

NORFOLK, Va, April 1.-The vessels
of the Atlantic battleship fleet today
began their tactical maneuvers and gun
merry record practice on the southern drill
grounds off the Virginia capes The
ships, which. for time were lost in a
dense fog following their departure from
Hampton roads yesterday, put to sea in
divisions as the fog lifted, but haze
formatio over the ocean today inter
tered materially with the exolutions
which are to precede gunnery work
The fleet will return to Hampton roads
for each of the week ends until the
completion of the maneuvers, probably
six weeks hence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
Operators and Miners Confer.

PITTSBURG, April 5.-The operators
and miners of the Pittsburg district met
again today in an effort to arrive at a
new wage scale for the ensuing two
years.
1t is understood that the five-cent in
crease per ton asked for by the min
ers will be willingly granted by the
operators II the miners will but arbi-
trate the new explosive clause of their
demands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
JACK JOHNSON GOES FREE.
Prize Fighter Acquitted for Speed
ing Auto by White Jury.

CHICAGO, H., April 5.-Jack Johnson
the prize fighter was not granted his re-
quest for two negroes the jury that
heard the testimony in his trial for auto
mobile speeding. yesterday. before Judge
Scovel, in the municipal court. But the
twelve Caucasians who sat in Judgment
proved satisfactory to the pugilist by
promptly returning a verdict of not
guilty.
They saved me the trouble of going
up to the Supreme Court with the case"
said Johnson. Il am not going to have
the police put it all over me all the time
Just because I'm a well known man.
IF / ran around and got drunk and
gambied the cops ought to pinch me-
But I'm a good family man and behave
myself. II every one was like me 1t
would be good world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
INDIANA FAILS TO
0. K. TARIFF ACT
Convention Cheers Beveridqe
When He Oenounces
Payne-AIdrich Measure.
PLATFORM DEMANDS A
SPEEDY MODIFICATION
Declares for Protection, But Against
Excessive Rates.
SUPPORT PLEDGED TO TAFT
Delegates Declare for Re- Election Of
Beveridge to the Senate.
Record Commended.
Declares for Protection, But Against
Excessive Rates.
SUPPORT PLEDGED TO TAFT
Indiana on the Tariff.

I'VE believe in a pro-
tective tariff, measured by
the difference between the
cost of production here and
abroad. Less than this is
unjust to American laborers;
more is unjust to American
consumers.
That difference should be
ascertained with the utmost
speed, and the present law
modified accordingly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
CHICAGO CHAUFFEURs STRIKE.
Taxicab Tire Slashed and Worse
Trouble Feared.

CHICAGO, April 5.-Chicago's taxi
cab service, suddenly demolished by a
strike of chauffeurs last night. was at
almost a total standstill today.
Seeking men to replace the strikers.
the employers declared themselves not
able to grant CLOSED shop"
Clashes between non-union men and
the strikers were feared. The tire of
one taxicab driven by a non-unionist
was slashed today with a knife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
ENDS LIFE LIKE FRIEND.
Poison Used by Two Young Woman
Suicides in Jersey City.

NEW YORK, April 5.-Inconsola bic
over the suicide of a close friend,
young Mrs. Margaret Clark took iden-
tical means to end her own life today
by drinking poison at her home in
Jersey City.
1t was only last night that Mrs
Clark returned from taking a last look
at the body of her friend, Kate Lee,
who had ended her life Sunday Oy
taking poison. She seemed utterly de-
jected when she retired and today was
found groaning on the kitchen floor. a
poison bottle by her side. She died
shortly after being taken to Q hos
pitaL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
Throttled and Robbed.

PrTTSBURG. Pa, April 5.-James L.
Smith. a farmer. about fifty years old,
was held up and robbed by two highway
men on 1st avenue in the downtown sec
tion this morning. While Smith yelled
Murder. fire, help and .police!" the men
throttled him and relieved him Of $74 In
cash. Policemen caught one Of the hold
ups ~ he was running away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
Insurance Inquiry Postponed.

NEW YORK, April because of the
sudden development of important de-
partmental matters. Supt. William II.
Hotchkiss unexpectedly called off to-
days session of the insurance investi-
cation. He notified the witnesses sum-
moned to appear today that they would
not be needed until tomorrow morning
when it is expected the inquiry will
he resumed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
Republican Defeat in Montana,

HELENA. Mont, April 5.-In the city
elections in this state yesterday demo-
cratic and Independent candidates were
generally successful, though party lines
were not closely drawn.
majority of the new aldermen in
Butte, Missoula, Anaconda and Helena
are democrats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
Notice to the ub1ic

The Star has arranged
to go to press earlier
than in the past.
Classified advertise
ments cannot be ac-
cepted later than I2
o'clock moon and dis
play advertisements later
than 10 am. for publica-
ton the same day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
important Issues at Stake in
Chicago Today.
ACTIVITY OF REFoRMERs
Municipal Elections Throughout H.
linois-Contests in Wisconsin
and Other Western States.

CHICAGO. April 5-The polls opened
at 6 am. today for what was looked
upon as one of the most important alder
manic elections in Chicagos history.
Keen interest was centered in many of
the thirty-five wards, each of which are
to elect a member to the new city coun-
Gil
Reform organizations put forth efforts
to defeat alleged gray wolves because
the next council probably will have to
decide upon several great municipal
undertakings. Among these are regula-
ton of the prices of gas and telephone
service and construction of a passenger
subway
The saloon question was not put before
the voters in Chicago, the project to
have it placed on the ballot having been
knocked out on the ground that the pc
tition did not have enough signitures
More than 200 cities and towns in Illi-
nois. however, were called upon to vote
on local option.
Liquor Selling the Issue.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. April 5.-Munici-
pal elections are being held throughout
Wisconsin today. In many places the
wet VI uTy issue Is before the people
In Milwaukee a three-cornered contest
for mayor is being waged. all three par
ties standing for practically the same
platform-home rule, initiative, referen
dunn and regulation of the liquor traffic.
DR.. John NJ. Beffel is the republican
candidate for mayor. Vincenz j. Schoen-
ecker. jr., heads the democratic ticket,
and Emil Seidel leads the social demo
Gratis.
In. addition to mayor, a common council
circuit judge and seven civil judges are
being balloted for.
Elections in Two States.
KANSAS CITY, April 5.-Kansas Cit,
today is voting for full set of NUM-
cipal officers from mayor down. Tho
heads of the two leading tickets are
Judge Andrew +. Evans, democrat ,
Darius r. Brown, republican.
In Kansas City, Kan, the people are
voting for officers to make up their
first commission form OF government
Mayor-commiSsione and four comm.s-
sioners will be selected
Elections also are being held in To
peka, Hutchinson, Parsons, Coffeyville
and several other towns in Kansas.
Win Majority of Towns.
DETROIT. Mich, April 5.-Complete
returns from the thirty-six counties in
Michigan where local option elections,
were held yesterday show that twenty
counties voted dry" and sixteen wet ,.
OF the eighty-three counties in Michi :
gan, forty will now be dry" and for
ty-three wet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
CHAMPION Of NEGRO
Charles J. Bonaparte Defends
South Carolina Murderer.
PRINCIPLE Is INVOLVED
Former Attorney General Says Col
ored Man in Agricultural Case
Was Defending Himself.

Protesting against what he terms an
attempt in some southern states again to
reduce the negro to captivity. Charles j
Bona parte. formerly Attorney General OF
the United States, today filed brief in
the Supreme Court of the United States in
behalf of Pink Franklin, South Caro-
lima negro under sentence to be hanged
on a charge of murder. The negro's ap
peal to the Supreme Court will be argued
orally in about two weeks. 1t promises to
bring to the fore the question Of the
status of agricultural contracts to
which objection has been raised.
The negro was under an agricultural
contract to work for J. d. Thomas in
Orangeburg county. S. c., in 1907. He
quit before the contract obligation was
completed statute had been passed
in South Carolina making it a misde-
meanor for a laborer to break such a
contract If he had become indebted to
his employer
Constable Entered Home.
On the ground that Franklin had vio-
lated the statute of the state, a warrant
was sworn out for his arrest. The con-
sta Die, II. f. dientlHe, III attempting u
arrest the negro, went to the latter S
house entered and was killed. Franklin
was convicted of the murder.
Mr. Bonapartes brief attempts to show
that the negro had right to resist ar
rest and protect himself, his family and
his domicile, because the statute on
which the warrant was based has been
held to be obnoxious to the state consti-
tuition and violates the federal Constitu-
ton, and that any attempt to enforce its
provisions by arrest of a person in the
situation Of Franklin constituted a crime
against the United States under the laws
forbidding peonage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
BALLOTS To DECIDE BANK SHUTS DOORS
State Official in Charge Of
Union, in Brooklyn.
ASSETS THOUGHT UNSAFE
Statement to Be Made After Further
Observation-Disclosures
Grout President.

NEW YORK, April 5.-The doors Of the
Union Bank of Brooklyn were closed this
morning The bank has seven branches.
o. H. Cheney, state superintendent OF
banks, has taken possession. The assets
and liabilities have not been made known.
Supt Cheney has issued the following
statement in regard to the closing of the
bank:
LAS a result of an examination of the
Union Bank of Brooklyn by the banking
held Monday evening at the Office of this
department TO consider whether the bank
was not in an unsafe condition because
of certain of it's assets, for the character
of which the present management is not
responsible.
After deliberation the board reached
the conclusion that the bank should not
continue it's business. The board ac-
cordingly requested the superintendent to
take possession. Pursuant to that re-
quest, and provisions Of the banking
law, the superintendent has taken pos
session of the corporation
Has 81 100000 Capital.
The president of the Union Bank of
Brooklyn is Edward NJ Grout. former
controller of the city of New York. The
bank has a capitalization of $1,000
with deposits of more than $5,OOO.OOO.
Supt. Cheney said that statement
would be forthcoming after further
examination of the banks books had
been made. The Union Bank took over
the business of the Mechanics and Trad
ers Bank of Manhattan, which closed
more than two years ago.
The banks predicament had only neg
lisible effect on the stock exchange, as
me institution was said to be only q
small lender of money on stock exchange
collateral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
Must Be Clearly Defined.

Concluding, Justice Van Orsde1 says:
Penalties cannot be inflicted at the dis
cretion of jury. Before the citizen can
be deprived of his liberty or corporation
of Its property by the imposition of fines.
the crime must be clearly defined by the
lawmaking power. If the Congress has
power to declare it a crime for the street
railway companies in the District to oper-
ate cars in a crowded condition, 1t must
in order to impart validity to the law de-
clare, with certainty, what constitutes
under the statute crowded car. This ii
has totally failed to do"
The appeal of the Capital Traction Com
pany from the Police Courts action on
the question of the use of fiat wheels was
dismissed by the Appellate Court in an
opinion by Justice Van Orsdel. The court
holds the case is not ready for review
because it had not proceeded to final
judgment in the Police Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
The Courts Opinion.

THE interstate commerce commission,
it is conceded, has made no rules or regu-
lations relative to the matters complained
of in the information before u.s. says
Justice Van Orsdel
The specific offense which the prosecu-
tion here attempts to fasten upon the
railroad company Is that it unlawfully
failed to operate sufficient cars on its
line of road to give passage to persons
desiring to ride thereon without crowd
ing. 1t will be observed that the principal
charge is the insufficient number of cars,
to be determined from the fact of
whether or not the cars are overcrowded
Hence, there cannot be said to be insult
ficient cars until those in use have be-
come overcrowded. The whole inqu ry.
therefore, resolves itself into the question
as to what constitutes, under the statutes,
an overcrowded car.
What shall be the guide to the court
or jury" continues the opinion, in ascer-
tanning what constitutes a crowded carp
What may be regarded as crowded car
by one jury may not be so considered by
another. What shall constitute a suff1-
cient number of cars in the opinion Of one
Judge may be regarded as insufficient by
another What may be SO regarded as
grounds for acquittal by one court may
be held sufficient to sustain a conviction
in another.
THE principle of uniformity. one of
the fundamental elements essential in de-
utes, is wholly lacking. There is total
absence of any definition of what shall
constitute crowded car. This important
element cannot be left to conjecture or
be supplied by either the court or the
jury 1t is of the very essence of the
law itself and without it the statute is
too indefinite and uncertain to support
an Information or Indictment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05
TERM NOT DEFINED
Statute Fails to Clearly Ex-
plain "Crowding" of Cars.
POLICE COURT SUSTAINED
Capital Traction Company Acquitted
of Charge Preferred.
VIEWS OF COURT OF APPEALS
Question as to Power of Interstate
Commerce Commission to Regu-
late Left Open.

Because Congress has failed to declare
with certainty what constitutes crowd
ing the District Court of Appeals today
affirmed the decision of Judge Mullowny
of the Police Court acquitting the Capital
Traction Company of the charge of over
crowding cars.
The court leaves open the question of
the power of the interstate commerce
commission to supply by rule or regula
ton what the statue lacks in the way of
defining the word crowded.
LAS no such attempt has been made.
says Justice Van Orsdel, who wrote the
opinion the question is not before U.S..
The railroads were charged in an in
formatio with operating their street cars
within the District in violation of section
Is of an act of Congress, approved May
q. 1908. which requires passage to be
given to all persons desirous of the use
of the cars, without crowding them.
motion to quash was filed by Attorneys
r. Ross Perry and Son for the railroads.
claiming that the statute was unconsti-
tutional and void.
Judge Mul1Owny sustained the conten-
ton of the railroads and Quashed the in
formation. From this decision the gov
ernment appealed.
Although many grounds were assigned
in favor of the unconstitutionality of the
act the court holds that the matter is to
be disposed of on the one question of
oyercroWdinR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05

CONTINUED on Eighth Page.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-04
VOX POPULI, VOX DEL.

In order that all getting
that The Advertiser
the Brazilian Danought mutny,
everlasting sarcastica
Marine Intelligence,
not worth reading by heading with lines
the which
Society all When
hospitality mentioned publicly;
And of
all whether
the decision of the umpire steamship
profitable lines waterfront reporter
beat hount know mast deck Charlie Ac and @
Fern and John Lane and Bob Single and John Wise and the then
entitled daily political Automobile accidents
black sefhm
breakers and lot hooking out the
cashier the long
I''o''-must be kept up
But the imnatons for
to see and read a whole of them
Let US from both the popneV ."
Ng up Manoa Valley each his the meaning OF the m
hNng and incidentally the definition of two oA
TERMS to wit Improvement 'Cub Far t w
letter viii be the smallest type likewise that it may
eng be half column order Lete from the fe
something Wyoming California QUIZ
Continued
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-04
SlDELlGHTS
GET YOUR MONEY S WORTH.

he moving picture Of Honolulu arc crear - .
concerned and always your moneys WORTH v @ admission
some II the vaudeville act,
night Thanksgiving went ii tr ,l as and watch
1iatey Chinese family family Inne
elder children. a u The husband
that evening, and all willing applaud crowd
STATIONS OF ds"' at the proclamation made to orchestral aceom Demon
lady that she was a,
half boy to her. lonely 0ps
OF course we all know the Unborn love Chinese for
appreciated the and apIud yoferousy as the ~ They
appropriate times When the slide picture represented the and
the curtain as wearing white princess dress expression and aust
head Of heaohed 1"ir THEN ubound splendid
But where came TO the confusion evening had mt
vain was when watched neghbors during nouoyue and spent
alleged by fellow intended as an ; one two
burr which has been copyrighted by like John N @ Of the
ney Chalmers several other ho ana the Ken
family seemed English girl Of , ons the
remainder exclusively vocabulary But ~ ~ The
up they and watched and t me same their
pedestrian the honc spend seven DAYS,
cabling New engagement it certainly ~ The
the enthusiasm did him beisi i"
entitled We spirit Notwithstanding + % vas
studied both English and Wellesley what was
but the Chinese did Our enthusiasm contagious theirs
The climax when joke told There wero h;
about expenditures Of money and hbeat and half was -,
joket everybody heartily incn ss
deraced one lota from her mermen But the
of the family evidently hearty @
apparently they called the eightyear old subs @
translation suppose the ansposion from English stage t
into the Celestial language blunt point Of m M
have been lost the deal The the family looked %
disguised, remaining children unperesa @
their yielded better diagnosis of the story
And were stockholier in moving vaudeville seoecmi
would Che Willie interpreter. legislature ~ want a.
and his services For the JAMS F
Maxine tap. terms since the drug business
health community fourng and M @
wage disbanded
properly presence many of our Eastern ns
by birth greatly HawaHa and
haos The remainder Of the nationale far booce
concerned negligible quantity. object anything
moving nature The Koreans can't get The Hnd
the board of health will interfere with their and judgment
rarely theirs, stay
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-04
Tribute to the American Soldier
By General Charles King.

horseback, regular him today
Take all all and
phy
face Of he sailor
Of
omIlshes results He has patience mb face
OF pulls sudden
he
He presided
and anarchy He proud his flag and
lie
rule He to and a
football He
Prvatns trials
will
hold his logged
anda skill than other
arms Of al the wish be
he mig {
on in 0 all
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-04

A Word to the Wise Was Enough.
1t Is Better TO Give.
The Melancholy Days Have Came.
He Was a Stranger--.'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-04

50 small world
iIonou live
diIrve
practically all corporations
department which always well developed mainland
contribute literally public and ipubhc institutions
1t large
number
OF
rimeto begin pruning,
again. for indisc1minate giving.
opportunity
frm located Puncbbow
public building
is miubhc
contribution has asked
up
individuals the shareholders
lin literally
shareholders probably contribute total Of 100000
soues
hundreds Of thousand dollars
every for Of community
proclaim electorate that the plantations
only themselves pockets Of those who direct them
while arlox
n the h benefit
derive their incomes from the muchabusei
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-16
HIRIn .oT ,IIINs InENT
Er,ss-~ Haa NAas re Ehsh,. Nh~p
Narhlne urskr

zap Irt-b-. had great dtScul'v
10 qualfvtnE for q Pilo' uc~na~ az me
Hem, -t~sd Plains AV,ation hsld y~-,ss-
t.iy afternoon u ua- n-c~Nsary Tor
frt-hse 90 60 hts license IN order IN make
zn entry Tor ne International aviation
Ornament and ne tune for the entrs-
,lu.s~i a. ECHOES IN th- afternoon
N'rprding ~ ne r,Il~s 81 the Aero hlb ~
Nmsrt,a h~ had to make three hiGhts q
thr-- miles each Stth landings Isl yarts
frum the starting point Fnsbe~ made
100 ~ the Necessary Sights and had
started IN Tho third when he carns down
and brpks NJ running gear Another
tN tstor ~ once l~i ham have q machine
and irish-- made another rinsucves.f,l
tf'eup' - Ctryls ne hsld Aft-r this .
rorroW~d q -~cnnd machine aud again
fsll"-t THIS time - AS engine trouble
that brought ham down
T. lu"ss-i - II frisb~~ would not get
hi- license Wnen % Wa- Temernh-Te,t
that h" hal made a night earlier IN the
day that had b@~n Sitn@sssd by an Of
hCttl e MC Nv. chairman 81 me
AVIATION committee - the international
q, Iaion tuurna nsn' was called W by
phone anf Frizb.ae got hi- license
Charles Hamilton made three fightS
"a hI- llU horse poN"r htulan- and aver
agei SIXTY 80 s~veufy miles an hour
TIE la-' 40 f'ights Wcr" made M dri,-
yIng ram ard N" fog had become -
dsu~'. that ~" aviator Wa- forrest =, ,prrl-
down
tharls- ~ Cpoke 'ppk hi~ machine GUY
and had fnwn half way across N. course
when be attempted - turn aud met win
an aCCidciS Two - the Wheel- were
huckl'-t and number q wires Vsr"
broken. Mason Russell and Watson
were also On tho field. but did not make
flights e any length
Harry = Harkne~- announced last night
that he Nill qualify for pilot h,ensa
this morning Walker = Fairchilis and
Israel Ludlow will be the oficial repre-
sent ltIvssS from the Aero club 81 America
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-16
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