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MORE WITNESSES TESTIFY
IN CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY
Congressman Carter Introduces New
People in the Controversy and Gives
Damaging Testimony.

McAlester, related meeting with Nc
Murray two years ago, when Nc
Murray, he said, offered him a
present" of $4,000 if the old
tribal contracts would go through"
Another time, Latham testified, he
was offered a share of the $750,000
attorneys fees" that McMurray
subsequently obtained in the In
dian land deal after the amount
of the fee had caused much discus
sion in congress. The last offer,
the witness said, was made contin-
gent upon his aiding McMurray, who
was then trying to become dele
date to the republican convention
at Chicago McMurray did not go
as a delegate. Latham said he
never received anything.
J. H. Godfrey testified that he at
tended the war council of the In
dians at tn town of Robbers Roost,
to get them to sign contracts.
About 600 Indians signed the con-
tract. They also signed the tax
case contracts, by which McMurray
was to get $40 "a head" for fight
ing the taxation of the Indians.
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BY Associated Press.

McALESTER, Okla, August TO-
Congressman G. D. Carter of the
fourth Oklahoma district, today tes-
titled before the congressional in
vestigation committee, investigating
the Indian land contracts, that in
an interview at the home of Rich
ard Adams, an attorney of Washing
ton, Adams said he had an arrange
ment by which he was to secure 5
per cent of the profits" that were
derived from the McMurray certi-
ficates.
He also told me- testified Car
ter, that Congressman MCGUIRE
was in on the deal and would get
his share. He also told me that
DR.. Wright, delegate for the Choc-
taw Indians at Washington, with
a salary of $4,000 was in on the
deal. He also said, we have got
some others, but did not mention
any other names"
Adams also testified that Hamon
met him in Washington and told
him to go to Senator Gore and
get him to withdraw his bill against
the McMurray contracts.
E. B. Latham, an attorney of
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San DIEGO ISSUES
BONDS FOR MILLION
BY Associated Press.

SAN DIEGO, Cal, August TO-
Assured that two expositions will
be held to celebrate the opening of
the Panama canal in 1915, the
voters of San Diego municipality
at the election yesterday decided to
issue bonds for $1,000,000 for i'm
provements to the city, already Sc
lected as an exposition site, and
for the construction of perma-
nent buildings to constitute the
nucleus of the fair.
Representative of the San Diego
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BY Associated Press.

GALVESTON, Tex, August TO-
Senator Joseph W. Bailey was CIV
en- a monster demonstration at the
state democratic convention which
opened here today.
The demonstration came when
Clarence Ousley, temporary chair
man, in his address, sounded the
Keynote declaring that the conven-
ton should reaffirm the tariff plank
of the state platform of 1896,
which was a declaration in favor of
tariff for revenue only, saying that
this would be "a fresh encourage
ment to that matchless statesman,
whose name it is hardly necessary
to CALI
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BY Associated Press.

GALVESTON, Texas, August 10.
After endorsing United States
Senator Bailey for the Democratic
nomination for president in 1912,
and nominating a full state ticket
headed by Oscar Colquitt for gov
ernor and A. B. Davidson for lieu
tenant governor, the democratic
state convention adjourned this ev-
ening. Both Colquitt and David
son are ti-prohibitionists not
withstanding the fact that the plat
form declares for submission OF
the prohibition amendment to the
people.
The platform agreed on a practi-
cal reaffirmation of the Texas DEM
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SUSPECT THAT MURDERS
HAVE BEEN COMMITTED
Sheriff and Party to Visit Section Where
Peculiar Conditions are Said to Exist.

money which Withers took to the
hills to buy cattle with are missing.
Several men who are known to
have been enemies of Withers and
his partner, George Frost, are to
be closely questioned and some
startling developments as to a num-
Der of unnamed graves in the noun
tains are expected, it being charged
by Frederick Kiley, former cow
man, that there are a number of
murder victims buried in the hills.
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By Associated Press

NEW YORK, August 10.-Mayor
Gaynor, who was shot yesterday by
James Gallagher, still has segments
of the split bullet buried in his
neck and mouth, but he has shown
no alarming symptoms. The indi-
cations are that the wound is heal
ing satisfactorily, but there is still
danger of blood poisoning. The ma
yor continues cheerful, talks freely,
and confidently predicts he will be
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No Danger of Fatal Result Unless Blood
Poisoning Sets In.
SOUTHERN GOVERNOR
WILL CALL OUT MILITIA

CHARLESTON, w. Va, August
1O.-Upon being informed that ar
rangements are being made to ex-
hibit the Jeffries-Johnson fight pic
lures in Wheeling, Governor Glass
cock tonight appealed to the local
authorities in Wheeling to prevent
the exhibition.
The governor intimated that the
militia may be used if necessary to
prevent the showing of the pictures
in this state.
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CLOSE CALL AT
NIAGARA FALLS
BY Associated Press.

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, August
1O.-A sturgeon, weighing $50
pounds, nearly sent party of
three, who were in a motor boat,
over the falls late last night. OPP
posite La Sale, two miles above the
falls. the fish started for the search
light in the boat but missed it
and as it struck seriously injured
Miss Nellie Johnson and then
thrashing about the boat disabled
the engine. The fish. which meas
ured 6 feet s inches in length. was
finally subdued with oars welded
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BY Associated Press.

OYSTER BAY, August 10
Roosevelt held secret conference
todway with James Garfield and
Clifford Pinchot. Both visitors de-
clined to talk of the conference.
When asked about his California
trip, Pinchot said he had made
speeches there in behalf of Hiram
Johnson, candidate for the republi-
can nomination for governor, and
for William Kent, candidate for the
republican nomination for congress
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MAKING TRIP OF
WESTERN STATES
BY Associated Press

SEATTLE, Wash, August 10
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
left tonight for two weeks tour
through Oregon and California. He
is accompanied by Assistant Secre-
tary Finney and Private Secretary
McCabe. The tour is made chiefly
for the purpose of inspecting the re-
clamation projects and national
parks.
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by Associated Press

WASHINGTON, August TO-
President Taft has authorized the
use of troops to fight forest fires In
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Ore
gon and California
The war department has ordered
Major General T. H. Barry, COM
manding the department of Cali
fornia, headquarters at San Fran
cisco, Brigadier General M. H. Maus,
commanding the department of the
Columbia with headquarters at Van
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Patient is Resting Easy With Tempera-
ture at Less Than 1O1---Predicts He
Will Be Out In Few Days.
out in a few days.

out in a few days.
AS yet the patient has not dis
cussed in any way the tragedy, nor
is he even aware of the identity of
the would be assassin. The mayors
highest temperature during the day
was 100 As.
AS blood poisoning invariably in
dicates its beginning by rise in the
temperature, the nearly normal
standard maintained today is one of
the most cheering signs to the ply
Sicians
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By Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Cal, August 1O.-At
8 o'clock tomorrow morning the
sheriff and several armed deputies
will leave this city for the COW
country back of Mount Hamilton to
investigate the death of Oscar
Withers, wealthy cattleman, whose
body was found Sunday. The au-
thorities believe that Withers was
murdered A number of Withers'
cattle and a considerable sum of
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GARFIELD AND PINCHOT
PAY VISIT TO TEDDY
They Refuse, However, to Divulge Sub
jects That Were Brought Up for Con-
sideration.
from the Sacramento district.

from the Sacramento district.
He was told since his departure
from New York that Roosevelt had
received many inquiries from Cali
fornia as to whether the ex-forester
had gone there as his representa-
tive to support Johnson and Kent.
He replied that he had never had
such an idea, had given no such i'm
preston, but that he had gone to
California entirely on his own re-
sponsibility.
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ARMY PAYMASTER'S SAFE
MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS
BY Associated Press.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., August 10
The army paymasters safe, contain,
ing $4,000, was stolen from Ma.
neuver camp at Pole Mountain, %
miles west of here, last night, and
was carried away. There is no
trace of the robbers, although a
heavy guard was on duty.
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KANSAS INSURGENT
ENTERS THE CAMPAIGN
Dy Associated Press.

WICHITA, Kan, August TO-
Senator Murdoch will assist in the
campaign of Congressman Miles
Poindexter, of Washington, candi-
date for the United States senate.
He will begin his tour in one week
and speak at Spokane August 90,
and expects to speak every day and
night during his stay in Washing
ton.
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TEXAS DEMOCRATS WANT
BAILEY FOR PRESIDENT
After Endorsing Senator, Nominating Full
State Ticket, Headed by Colquitt, Conven-
ton Adjourns.

ocratic platform of 1896, but de-
claring against the policy of ad-
mitting raw materials free of duty
so long as there is a protective tax
on manufactured articles.
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fire AT Virginia CITY
ENTAILS LOSS OF $4,000
Hosting Plant and Surface Buildings
Destroyed, But Blaze Did Not Reach
Shaft.

unknown. During the fire che sage
brush caught fire and burned over
considerable area. The residence
of Senator Jones was ablaze several
times. A Virginia and Truckee car,
loaded with lumber, caught fire and
raced down hill. but jumped the
track.
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REDUCE EXPRESS RATES.
BY Associated Press.

HELENA. Mont. August 10
The state railroad commission today
issued an order which in effect re-
duees express rates in Montana
about % per cent. The action was
taken after a hearing on the sub
ject of the latter having been
sought by the carriers.
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HEAVY FLOODS WASH
OUT ARIZONA ROAD
by Associated Press.

DOUGLAS, Ariz., August TO-
Heavy floods south of this city in
Mexico today washed out portions
of the Nacozari railroad. Traf-
fic will probably be interrupted for
several days.
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REDUCES THE
TERRITORIAL LEVY
Ry Associated Press.

PHOENIX, Ariz., August 1O-The
annual tax levy this year for terri
torial purposes is 70 cents, re-
duction of 10 cents from last year.
Territorial valuation for taxation
purposes approximates SS5, 900. 900.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS
CAUSE POSTPONEMENT
BY Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August 10.
The scheduled six round bout be-
tween AL Kaufman and Sam Lang
ford was postponed tonight on ac-
count of weather conditions.
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TEXAS SHERIFFS HOPE
FOR COMPLETE RECOVERY
Bv Associated Press.

Ell PASO, Tex, August 10.-The
Texas Sheriff's association, in con-
vention here yesterday, sent tele-
gram to Mayor Gaynor expressing
horror over the attack upon his
life, and congratulating him that
he escaped death from an assassin S
bullet.
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Especial to the Bonanza. }

Especial to the Bonanza
RENO, August 10.-The fire that
started at midnight last night at
the Belcher mine, destroying both
and surface buildings, did
not penetrate the shaft. The dam
age was 100000. The origin is
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ORDERED OUT TO
FIGHT BIG FOREST FIRES

couver Barracks, Wash, and Briga-
dier General Walter Howe, COM
manding the department of Dakota,
at st. Paul, Mimi, to hold the
troops at all posts in their COM
mands in readiness to fight the for
est fires. Troops will be furnished
as they may be required by the dis
trict officials of the national for
ests.
Commanders of posts will be in
structed to give immediate assist
ance in case of call in their terri
tory.
by the men in the boat and mean
while the boat was being swept rap
idly toward the cataract. George
Allen, hearing the cries of distress,
sped out in a launch and towed the
party ashore.
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The Bonanza's S ruling and binding
plant is still running Bring in your
orders.
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DEMOCRATS WANT
NEW TARIFF PLATFORM

Mr.. Ousley had previously said
that Texas should send a message
to the democracy of the nation, and
Senator Bailey said something OF
the sort when he addressed the
convention after the demonstration.
In the meantime his friends in
the convention have been acclaim
ing him as the party candidate for
president in 1912.
1t is practically certain that the
tariff plank will go in this plat
form, with the idea that it will set
a pace for the democracy of other
states and put Senator Bailey prom
nently before the country as presi-
Dental timber.
exposition will visit San Francisco
this week to confer on the subject
of united opposition to the claims
of New Orleans and the advantages
of a joint advertising campaign.
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CITIES GROWING NoIslER
II ls One of the Penalties of civlIlxa-
ton, But No Man Could Endure
Continual Silence.

No doubt all cities are growing
noisier. This is one of the penalties Of
civilization. There is now no Sybaris,
where the sound OF a hammer was
never heard. Even Paris is said to be
as noisy as 1t is now dirty. But In the
Paris OF 90 years ago Mr.. Adolphe
Rette was so disturbed by the din,
which would now be considered in com.
parison only an agreeable hustle, that
he dreamed dream. There was a
singular silence. Men and women
moved as procession of shadows.
Cartwheels were inaudible The city
was under cotton wadding And the
thought came to the dreamer, Noise Is
dead! and he burst out laughing at
the deduction that the earth was hence
forth doomed to eternal silence. Then
came letter of ceremonial invitation:
You are begged to be present at the
funeral of Monsieur Noise, who died
this evening. Killed by contempt
raneous excess. he was held in horror
by the Eternal himself. On the part Of
his widow, Humanity"
Yet who could endure the silence
that crazed the man in Poe's tale, the
tale told by the Demon, the tale more
wonderful than any in THE iron-bound
melancholy volumes of the Magi" And
the Demon laughed but could not, and
the Demon cursed him because he
could not laugh. And even the lynx
that dwelt forever in the tomb looked
at the Demon steadily in the face.
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Their Sunday seance.

An Atchison man was sitting in his
own home last evening, quietly read.
ing, as a nice man should do Sunday
evening, when one of his wife's WON
en- friends dropped in. The man kept
on reading Gas men do on such occa-
sions), and the women paid no atten.
ton to him. (Women never do pay
any attention to the man OF the
house, The man could not help but
hear what his wife and her friend
talked about; at first they talked about
what a long day Sunday was, what a
disgrace 1t was they never went to
church, how they had given up trying
to make the children go to Sunday
school, etc. And the man kept on
reading his paper. Finally his wife
and her friend drifted into a real
talk" and the man thought to him.
eelf, This Is no place for a gentle
man." and went to his room.-Atchi.
son Globe.
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SHE SAW THE BIG SPARKLER
Shoe Clerk With the New Diamond
Ring Attracted Both Attention and
Reprinand From Customer.

AS the man who writes little items
for the paper sat getting himself fit
ted with pair of shoes the other day
he saw this happen: A woman was
getting waited on by a clerk who
wore on the third finger of his hand
diamond twinkler weighing at least
a carat and quarter He hadn't al
ways worn a ring of that sort. 1t was
new to him. He took a great deal of
pride in his new ring. Oh, how 1t
sparkled when the light was just
right! Once or twice > g got so inter
ested in twisting it around on his
finger with his thumb to a position to
where 1t would be most easily no
ticed by the woman customer that he
forgot to finish lacing up the shoe
she was trying on
But he had succeeded in bringing
the jewel to her attention. She had
a sharp, leathery, suffragetish face and
a disposition to speak right out on
things.
Il see it." she remarked in a re-
frigerated tone, "it's very pretty and
attractive. You wear 1t with good
air Of abandon, too. / admire 1t ex-
ceedingly. After you've finished toy
ing with 1t, wish you would go ahead
and shuv me something else-some-
thing ~iu not quite such narrow
toe."-C,.:eland Plain Dealer.
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great trade which she is peculiarly
| fitted to handle.
| The Hudson river will never be bridg-
ed, that is, so far as New York city is
concerned. That is the verdict of ex-
perts which practically ends the dream
of a span from this city to New Jer-
sey for the realization of which vaRious
commits ions have been working for
nearly a quarter of century. A year
ago it seemed certain that the great
est bridge in the world would be built.
Now it is more certain that it will not.
The reason is simple, so simple in fact
that up to now it has been overlooked.
1t is not that plans have not been laid
for the site of the transporting mon
ster has been practically selected. Nor
is it the lack of the $25000,00 which
the structure would cost. The bridge
will not be built, say the experts, SIM
ply because such a feat is impossible
At no place for many miles above it's
mouth is the Hudson less than $500
feet wide, thus making necessary either
a middle support or two supports one
third of the way from each shore for
any bridge which might span it. I'm
fortunately for New York's dreams,
however, borings which have just been
made in the riverbed reveal the OBJ
structing fact that bed rock cannot be
reached, and therefore that such sup
ports are impossible. Likewise a sim
gle span is impossible, and for these
reasons travel between New York and
New Jersey must continue to be by
ferryboats or tunnels. Behring'S through
$50 feet of mud have failed to reach
bed rock and even at a lesser depth
than this it would be practically i'm
possible to place foundations But
while the worlds greatest bridge will
not be realized here, there is some con-
ISOLATION in the fact that for it's esti-
mated cost almost a dozen tunnels un-
der the river can be built, including
separate tubes for automobiles, wagons
and foot passengers.
Just what may be included in the
term necessities of life'' has long been
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New York, Nov. 12.-Now that it has
been officially announced that the
Panama Canal will be opened on the
scheduled date, the great manufac-
turing interests are beginning to be-
stir themselves and to cast longing
eyes toward the South American trade
which Germany. England and other
European countries have pretty well
monopolized in the past. UP to now
this country has made so little head
way in the commercial conquest of
South America, apparently because of
Indifference, that the products shipped
last year were only sufficient to sup
ply about two-thirds of the cargo car
rying capacity of the 900 cIearances of
vessels engaged in this trade. In spite
Of this, however, Uncle Sam has gait
ed at least a foothold on the southern
continent and 1t is expected that the
success of the present movement will
not only result in filing the entire
cargo capacity, thus enabling this in
ter American feet to operate on n
profitable basis, but also will warrant
the use of additional vessels to handle
the expected increase i'm South Amer
lean trade. Producers hereabouts,
however. are beginning to realize that
the conquest of this new market will
not be such simple matter. Although
In as good or better position to conf
pete successfully for this trade as Eu-
ropean firms and more naturally en-
titled to it, Americans have never vet
adopted the methods which have prov
ed SO successful abroad The German
method particularly of studying the
market, the needs and the people. as-
tablishing banks and identifying tenn
selves in every possible way with the
countries whose trade they seek while
It has in the past seemed too slow to
Americans has nevertheless proven so
successful that it's superiority is now
admitted by careful students of the
situation. Therefore it appears certain
that the old Slam bang method If
seeking this South American trade will
soon be abandoned in the place of
policy which brings to this country a
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a Statesman who eambIed HInh.

Arthur's, Almanack's, Bottles and
Whites were the chief clubs OF the
young men of fashion. There was play
at all, and decayed noblemen and
broken down senators fieeced the un.
wary there. Charles Fox, a dreadful
gambler, was cheated in very late
times-lost 100000 pounds at play.
Gibbon tells Of his playing % hours
at sitting, and losing 500 pounds an
hour. That indomitable punster said
that the greatest pleasure in life, after
winning was losing. What hours, what
nights, what health did he waste over
the devils books was going to say
what peace of mind, but he took his
losses very philosophically. After an
awful nights play. he was found on a
sofa TRANQUILITY reading an Eclogue of
Virgil.-From Thackeray's "The Four
Georges"
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First Telescope.


Very few people are aware that the
first practical telescope-the one
which Calico used in discovering the
satellites of Jupiter In January,
1910, is still in existence and pre-
served at the Museum of Physics and
Natural History in Florence. II Is
about 900 years ago since the instru-
ment was first turned toward the
heavens. Unlike the present astro-
mical type, II had concave instead OF
convex eyepiece. just like the opera
glasses now In use. When Calico
first exhibited his new telescope to
the doge and an enthusiastic assem-
bly,, he was overwhelmed with hon.
crs, because 1t was thought that the
instrument would give the soldiers
and sailors Of the republic a great adj
vantage over their enemies Strand
Magazine.