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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
CLAWS cENTERS HIS ATTACK
UPON LAND OFFICE OFF,
ciAL IN TESTIMONY.
ALSO RAPS BALL|NGER
resentative kincaid of Nebraska and
McLachlan Of California Were inter
ested in Land Claims and That Bal.
linger Was Attorney for Former.

Washington, Jan. 2s.--Leuis Il.
CLAWS concluded his testimony before
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. congressional
investigation committee late today. lie
will be recalled at the resumption Of
the hearing Monday afternoon for
cross-examination ny any persons
against whom he has made charges.
CLAWS last day on the stand was full
of interest. | developed that animus
long existed between the and offica
and the forestry bureau and the re-
sentiment the land usfice people felt
when Galvis called In the forestry
as they termed 1t.
The witness also declared that Rep
rcsentative Kincaid of Nebraska and
McI.achlan of California were inter-
ested in land claims and that Mr. Bal
linger, after being commissioner of
the land office had acted as attorney
for Mr.. Kincaid. CLAWS asserted Mr..
Ballinger had suggested to him not to
pursue an investigation against Con-
gressman McLachlan. saying there
had been too much OF that sort of
thing in the past.
When CLAWS was asked the direct
question If he thought Secretary Bal
linger and Commissioner Dennctt
were in league to do wrong in Alaska
cases, he replied:
We'll. l thought the cases would be
better protected with them out of the
way
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
OBTAINS RELEASE.

Memphis. Jan 2s,--w- { Hays. ar
rested last night at the instisatlon OF
the police of San Francisco. where he
is said to be wanted for violation Of
the state banking laws, obtained his
release tonight through writ Of
hahaas corpus, He said he would
start af his own valitian II answer any
charge pending
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
TO RETURN TO
WORK

Minneapolis. Jan, 2a.-on Feb
ruars switehmen in the north
west who have been on strike since
November 80. will return 10 work.
Practically all strikers viii be ir
their old places. They will resume
work with the wage question un-
settled. but they will be governed
: by figures agreed upon in the Chi
cago compromise conference
This information came today from
4 source close To the heads Of the
switchmen's union. Unless there
should be hitch next week this
program will go through
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
AGRICULTURAL LAND
TO BE ELIMINATED
Arabic Ground in kootena River Reservation Will Be
Subject Entry Under Certain
Conditions.

Washington,D. G., Jan. 29.-tSpe-
cial)-Secretary Wilson today all
dressed Il letter tn Senator Dixon in
response To the latter's request
that action be taken toward the elm
ina,ion Of agricultural lands from the
kootenai forest reserve in Lincoln
county. averaging six miles wide and
100 miles long,
The secretary says that from the
persona, examination made by Dis
triei Forester Greeley. there are lands
in that section which are of nnaues-
tionable agricultural value but ,tnat
much of ii is heavily timhered. rang
ing value for timber alone. from $40
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
BILL CARRIES FUNDS
FOR NEW FORT
WORK

Washington, ID. G. Jan. ct Spe-
ciaD-The military appropriation
bill was completed today by the
senate committee and vii; De re-
ported IL the upper house IN Mon
day, II carries the following ap-
preparations for Montana points.
Fort MiSsoula. waterWnrks plant.
$4,000; sewers ana water mains.
s2o.9oa: roads. sI5.a0a: hospital
building. $4,000; for Fort Harrison.
water supply. s4n.naa. Fort As
stnmahaine. water supply. s-o.6na
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
SAVES CAPTAIN.

Washington. Jan. 2a-President Taft
has saved Captain Frank Nickham,
Twelfth United States infantry. from
dismissal from the army. Captain
Wickham recently Nas convicted hs
eourtmartlai in the Philippines of
drunkenness on duty and sentenced to
dismissal. On thu recommendation Of
Secretary Dickinson the president has
commuted the sentence To a reduction
of 81 points in rank on the line list
Of captains Of infantry.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30

to $50 per acre and that he has
ordered eliminated all agricultural
lands where the merchantable timber
does not exceed 1000 feet per acre. He
further states that where agricultural
land exceeds that amount the timber
will be cut, under forestry service
sales, as rapidly as possible and when
such land Is cleared II Will be elm
mated from the reserve.
The secretary further says that II
heavily timbered lands were immedi-
ateiy arenea t" entry he believes the
same would be entered under the tim
her and stone art fnr Speculative par
poses to the .s"lus;sn al boa fIae sa.-
tiers.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
BUSINESS MEN EAT
VEGETABLE DINNER

New York. Jan. aa.-Six hundred
representative manufacturers. mostly
men of wealth. ate a dinner today at
the Mancherry club. of nothing but
vegetables and fruit. There We're no
speeches. but an informal discussion
of the advanced cost hf living indi-
Gated that the universal protest of the
nation has the support OF business
men as well as of laboring men. There
were further slight recessions in price
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
ARRANGEMENT MADE.

Washington. Jan 2s.-Unaer the
presidents guidance an adjustment
between friends of the postal savings
bank bin and the Alaska legislative
council bin has been arranged so that
II Is believed il will not be necessary
to dispiace the Alaskan bill as the nm
finished business of the senate. 10
permit the immediate consideration ~
the postal savings measure.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30

today in butcher shops. but quotations
on the whole seem to indicate that
demand and supply are beginning to
approach an adjustment
Wholesalers are agitating a repeal
of the duty on Canadian, Argentine
and Mexican beef.
Eat no meat in large letters was
pasted all over the west side today
on shop windows and in many private
houses
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
AGREEMENT LIKELY.

office is not in a position tn announce
that "A tariff arrangement with the
United States has been actually con-
cluded. the final negotiations are pro-
ceeding SO smoothly tina, an early
agreement is probable.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
HOGS ARE HIGH.

Ogden Utah. jan. sa--Hngs brought
the highest prize eyer maid in Utah
in the local market today. averaging
se5 a head The retail price af pork
chops WAS increased cents
pound Similar advances in the price
af faadsfnffs have been made during
the week
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
PR EACHER DIES.

Chicago. Jan 2a.-The Rev Thomas
Pope Hodnal. - years old. pastor of
the Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception. died today. For many years
he was treasurer of the Irish parlia-
mentary league in America
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
PARDON is WANTED.

Washington. Jan. ga number of
agents today began a house-to-k house
canvass in this city. seeking sunscr.p-
tions IL a monster petition to be pre-
sentad To President Taft for the par
don OF Banker Morse
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
WILL TRY TO BREAK
THE WORLD RECORD

uie. Weston proposes ta finish the
long tramp in II days. The pedestrian
will celebrate his I'D birthday en-
route IT, the east. During his journey
he will travel 1856 miles
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30

i.as Angeles Jan. -. Starring froT
Los Angeles next Tuesday Edward
Paysnn Weston. the pedestrian who
arrived. last night, viii begin walk
10 New York City on a ao-day ached-
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
MRS. PRICE VERY Low.

Mrs Jack Price was very low At an
early hour this tSundayl morning. \
sister. Mrs. George Mcleod arrived
from the coast Yesterday
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
"Crooked."

CLAWS attack seemed 10 center more
today upon Commissioner bennett. He
said he became convinced in the sum-
mer of 1909 that bennett was crook
ed and took steps to get carbon
copies of letters bennett was writing
hack 10 Washington. Several of these
letters were introduced in evidence.
One was from Commissioner bennett
to II. II. Schwartz. chief of the field
service. 1t was dated July 20. la09 ut
Seattle and sand among other things.
MY Dear Schwartz: The worst
situation on the line is that / find
here. Our friend, CLAWS. regarded
me with suspicion and. after talking n
while. showed me your telegram as
signing the coal cases In sheridan.
Now. | figure that CLAWS is preparing
Ia make a cushion for himself To fall
back ON and also putting himself in
shape to have great story in ease
Hermann does not make good and
succeed in cancelling the Cunningham
cases. While he looks in
naeently at me, yet | can see that his
heart is bad. though why il should be
l cannot tell. except that he wanted
10 drag the case out. He may be sin
eere. of course. in his idea that he has
not been given Time and opportunity.
He asserts that he viii do all he can.
hut it is human nature. or at least
his human nature. The atmosphere is
not good n ALL
THAT he is playing the forestry
there Is no question. the innocent
look he gave me when I told him he
was dragging in Shaw. etc. when
there was no necessity. was heanti
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Continued on Page Ten.p
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Talks Conservation.

He has also talked conservation
very strongly. CLAWS talking cnnser-
vation. All round he is ugly and he is
preparing TO De as unpleasant as he
can. al least that is my solution of the
situation. CLAWS processes the great
est friendship to you and | think him
better than anyone else and this is
certainly the situation we have. He
will make about 40 favorable and
about 500 unfayorable reports: the
way things will cammensa to drop will
he amusing"
In a second letter from bennett 10
Schwartz. dated Seattle. July -. 1909.
occurs this paragraph:
CLAWS has these coal cases on the
brain and cannot see anything but
just one line. / have told him how il
looks 10 us and have reminded him
af everything that We have done for
him and that ii looks rs if he were
returning cur fayars BY not standing
by us as he ought to. He has not
acted as you or ! would act under
similar circumstances. 1t looks a lit
tie treacherous to me. this calling in
the forestry
There was also introduced In this
connection this telegram from
Schwartz TO Dement,. dated Washing
Ton. July el:
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
postponemsnt Asked.

Department has letter from secre-
tary of agriculture. originated in for
est service asking postnonement Of
the Cunningham hearings until No.
yember. Shaw says CLAWS wrote O.
wired him recentlc in matter. Re-
quest CLAWS To show you copy his
letter to Shaw. Il being necessary 10
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-30
THE WEATHER

Tnfay-Rain or snow.
Tsnnorrow-Tsain or snow.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-09
TRAMWAY WILL
BUILD AT ONCE
DENVER CITY TRAMWAY coMPA
NY TO ERECT IMMENSE Of
FICE BUILDING.
AT COST OF $4,000
EIGHT STORY STRUCTURE WILL
CONTAIN 200 OFFICES AND
HALLS FOR EMPLOYEES.

Denver. - Contracts have been
signed with the White Steam Con
struction Company. TO build the Den
yer City Tramway Company office
building at Fourteenth and Arapahoe
streets. The building is to be eight
stories high and will contain 200 of
nces. 1t will be made OF Portland ce-
ment. and everything that goes into
the building will be Colorado product.
The aggregate cost. including the
ground. will be $75O.0O0. With the
new car barns that are to be con-
structed the improvements will extend
from Fourteenth to Thirteenth.
A feature of the new building will
be the auditorium. This will be for
the use of the employees OF the compa-
ny. They will be allowed to hold all
of their meetings and entertainments
there. In the school for motormen
and conductors. which will be in the
building. instruction will be given stu
dent men as to the running of cars and
lectures will be given from time to
time to the old and new men by expe-
rienced tramway officials.
The contract calls for the building
TO be absolutely completed eleven
months from date. The architect who
planned the structure is William +.
Fisher.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-09
GENERAL NEWS.

Jose Domingo de Obaldia. president
Of Panama. died from heart disease
March LIST. He had been sick only
four days.
Herbert J. Gladstone. governor gen
eral OF United South Africa, who was
recently elevated TO the peerage. has
been created a viscount.
Colonel Roosevelt and his immediate
party have ended their hunt and sailed
from Gondorkoro on the 2sth ult.. ex-
pecting to arrive at Khartoum March
18th.
Convicted of bribery. former City
Magistrate Furlong of New York City
has been sentenced to Sing Sing for an
indeterminate term, the maximum of
which is two years and a month and
the minimum one year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks.
accompanied by Ambassador Reid and
the members of the embassy staff, at
tended court at Buckingham palace
and were formally presented to King
Edward and Queen Alexandra.
a bill has been introduced in the
Massachusetts Legislature providing
for the establishment of a system OF
state life insurance. to be controlled
by the insurance commissioner, work
ing through agents and backed by a
loan of 100000 to be made by the
state for three years to the insurance
department.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., has retired
from the directorate of the Standard
Oil Company to assume the manage.
ment of his fathers benefactions in
connection with the proposed new in
corporation for the Rockefeller Foun.
dalton.
Clifford B. Harmon. aeronaut. plans
an aerial voyage from New YORK to
San Antonio. Tex. and the establish
ment of a new worlds record for Ions
distance flights. lettering the record
of 1900 miles set by Count De La
Vaux last year in France.
w. ]. Arkell, New York publisher.
says that he tried to buy the New
York Sun, with the hope that he could
secure Theodore Roosevelt for editor.
He offered 100000 for the paper but
was informed that the owners had al
ready refused s3.500.00O.
A combined Oxford and Cambridge
rugby football team will visit the Unit
ed States this fall to play a series OF
games in Canada and the West.
Matches have been arranged with Nc
Gill university, the University of To-
ropto and with tho Iruivarsitiac nj No
vada, Chicago and California
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-09

Denver.-In handing down decision
to the effect that the Santa Fe must
allow mine operators in the Walsen
burg district the same rate to points
In the Southwest that the Canon City
operators have had the Interstate
Commerce Commission has given out
one OF the most important rulings
since Its organization.
II likewise is one OF the most not.
able victories for-the shippers that has
ever been won in a hearing before tina,
body. The order. which becomes ef-
fective April / next. will cut the rate
on ton of coal from Walsenburg tn
points in New Mexico. Kansas and
Texas in some instances 81 car.
The new order VIII open a field on
more than 1000 cities and towns
which II is claimed has been kept from
the complaining operators through
railroad discrimination.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-09
SENATOR PLATT
DIES SUDDENLY
NEW YORK STATESMEN sue
cUMBS TO ATTACK OF
eRIGHT'S DISEASE.
HEALTH WAS FEEBLE
MATRIMONIAL TROUBLE MAY RE.
SUIT IN LITIGATION OVER
HIS ESTATE.

New York-Thomas Collier Plat.
formerly United States senator from
New York. and for many years a ma
tional figure in Republican politics.
died at 3:45 O'Clock Sunday afternoon
in the apartment of Mr.. and Mrs. Gus
tav Adele. on West Eleventh street.
from whom he had rented three rooms
for the last four years. Mrs. Adele
had been his nurse.
DIR. Paul Auterbridge. his physician.
said tonight that the cause Of death
was chronic and acute Bright's dis
case. The body was removed to the
home of Frank II. Platt,. son, and
will be taken on Tuesday to Owego,
N. Y, the senator's birthplace. where
it will be buried. Funeral services will
be held Wednesday at the Presbyte-
rian church in Owego.
The end was startlingly sudden. An
hour before the senator died his two
sons. Frank and Edward. with their
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-09

A duel with pistols was fought at
Vienna few days since by two Aus
trian government officials, DIR. Oscar
Mayer and Baron Hermann Widenofer
Mayer shot Widenofer dead. DR.. Mayer
was griefstricken at the result of the
duel
W. Cameron Forbes, governor gener-
al Of the Philippines, intends to call
an extra session of the legislature to
meet at Baguio the end of March to
complete legislation on public works,
velopments.
The Royal Geographical Society of
Italy has bestowed a gold medal upon
Commander Robert E. Peary for the
discovery of the North pole and a sill
yer medal upon Capt. Robert A. Bart
lett. who commanded the Roosevelt on
the Peary expedition.
+. Hopkinson Smith. the noted auth
or, is quoted as saying that the man
ners of the people OF New York are
the worst in the world. The grea.
trouble" he says, lis that our young
men are coming back from the colleges
ignorant OF manners. II were put in
charge of college I should establish
chair OF manners"
The London Court of Common Conn
Gil unanimously conferred the honor
airy freedom of the city on Theodore
Roosevelt in recognition of the dis
tinguished services to civilization dur
ing his presidency and his efforts to-
wards the maintenance of the peace
OF the world" Mr. Roosevelt will Wis
it London the middle of May.
The balloon New York. aboard which
Clifford Harmon and his aide, George
b. Harrison, set out from San Antonio.
Tex. in an attempt to better the long
distance balloon record. landed near
Velonia. Ark on account of a storm.
The balloon made a remarkable aerial
journey of 100 miles. BY travelling the
distance Harmon lays claim to the
Lahm cup. the trophy for long distance
balloon flights
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-09
AN EPITOmE OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAYiNGs, NOS, ACHIEVE
MENTs. suFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

AT Chicago on the I'd inst, two car
loads Of hogs sold for 1910 per hun.
dred weight. the highest price since
the Civil War.
A joint committee of both branches
of the Denver City Council reported
that not enough protests had been
filed to defeat the proposed civic CEN
ter.
Sheep sold in Chicago on the Sd inst.
at $50 hundred weight. the highest
mark ever recorded in the history Of
the market The animals. it is under
stood, were purchased for the use OF
the British army and will be shipped
TO the Bermuda islands
Lieutenant b ID. Foulois, u. S. A
made two successful flights in .
Wright aeroplane at Fort Sam Hus-
ton, San Antonio. Tex, on the I'd inst
In the first flight he reached a height
of 100 feet and on the second 200 feet,
and attained speed OF forty-five miles
an hour against one-eighth mile wind.
Federal inquiry into methods of dis
posing OF oleomargarin was ordered by
JUICE X. NJ lands of the United
States District Court at Chicago. after
he had sentenced one of four dealers
indicted for violating the oleomargar-
inc regulations to six years in the fed
eral prison at Fort Leavenworth and
had fined him $4,000.
Governor Stubs and other Kansas
state officers will appeal to President
Taft to commute to life imprisonment
the sentence OF death. to be executed
March 2sth. which was imposed by a
jury in the federal court on Charles
O'Neil, an army officer. Kansas has
witnessed no hanging since It became
a state and two years ago capital pun
ishment was abolished.
A compromise has been arranged by
the American Fire Insurance Compa-
ny OF Philadelphia. with its San Fran
cisco policyholders, who brought suit
on claim that the original settlement
1T fifty per cent was based upon an
incorrect statement OF its financial
condition. Claims aggregating $780,
900 will be settled by the payment TO
the policyholders OF about $4,000.
For $40. or cents per mile. the
btANt'h HAaA'1 va
extended journey will be able to pur-
chase. after April l. a 2.000-mile book
which will be good on practically ev-
cry road in any OF the states in the
West. five counons for every four
miles, or PA cents per mile. will be paid
in Colorado. and the regular 2 cents
per mile demanded by law in Kan
sas and Nebraska
Judge Ben d. Lindsey of Denver and
Harvey o'Higglns have filed demur-
rer to the $4,000 damage suit brought
against them for alleged libel con
tanned in the Beast and the Jungle"
The demurrer sets forth that the com
plant does not set up facts sufficient
to constitute n cause OF action. that
there is a missioner of causes OF ac-
ton and that the complaint ~ ambigu-
Gus. uncertain and incomprehensible.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-09
Senate Passe. Postal Saving. Bill.

Washington. Dividing practically
upon party lines the Senate, at the
close of the third session OF the leg
islative day of March 3rd, Saturday.
passed the administration postal saw
ings bank bill. OF the ~ votes cast,
so were in favor of the bill, and %
against. All the negative votes were
cast by Democrats. even Mr.. McEnery
who had voted with the Republicans
throughout the consideration of the
bill. in the end deserving to his own
party.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon was
the only Democrat who stood with the
Republicans in favor of the bill.
AS it goes to the House the bill au-
thorizes the various money order
postoffice service to accept sums OF
81 or more from depositors and to de-
post these sums in the local banks.
where the money is to remain. unless
withdrawn by the President in case o.
war or other exigencies.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-09

families. and his widowed son. Harry.
with the latter's daughter. Charlotte.
and son. Sherman. had left the house.
after their usual Sunday visit The
senator said at that time that he felt
very well and thought he would read
the Sunday papers At o'clock he
was taken with a fainting spell and
DIR. Auterbridge was hurriedly called
The family was notified and returned
in haste. Mr.. Plat recovered from his
first lapse. but sank into unconscious
ness again at half past 3. and died fif
teen minutes later. The relatives were
all at the bedside.
Only last Wednesday, Senator Plat
was at his office down town. For sew
eral years he had been in feeble
health and latterly the use OF his legs
had almost deserted him.
The death of Senator Platt has given
rise to many rumors and has revived
discussion of his matrimonial ventures
in the latter years of his life. which
brought him a great deal of notoriety
and which may result in prolonged liti-
CATION over his estate.