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The Monroe journal., 1911-10-31
Only Playing With the Trusts.


/ his administration Is settling the
/ trust question. Ills real effort
4 is To divert the mind Of the pub
+ lie from has miserable record on
tariff legislation. No sensible
maui believes that there will he
one less trust ON account Of the
decision that Mr.. Taft is boasting
III ~ settlement Of the question
The real situation is well put
by correspondent who says;
The vital issue Is moi whether
f the trusts could be- reached.
The real important question is:
Why has Tot Il single g;'lt.,'
trust magnate been S,nt Il jal.
or even called to theGar q jus
I tiee The answer Is that tine
government does not send trust
magnates 10 Jail nor control the
trusts because the trusts control
the standpai republican machine.
and for fourteen years The stand
pat republican machine. in reeog-
milton Of campaign fund dona-
tions and other favors, has per-
mitted special privilege to name
the man 10 be in charge OF the
prosecuting machinery Of the
government.
! The present attorney general Is
George Wickersham. whose last
act before taking charge Of the
government prosecuting maehin-
cry was To draw down his share
of handsome fee paid his law
firm by the sugar trust When
Il movement was started Ia
bring about a Congressional i'll
vesligaiion OF the sugar trust,
Mr.. Wieker>bam headed ii off by
having President Taft send a
message to Congress advising
against the investigation on the
ground that il might give immu-
nifty to the men higher mp and
otherwise embaraSs the admins
tration. Although the trust
practically admitted having stol-
en- over $2.0e0.00o from the gov.
eminent by returning il after
/ the crime was discovered. not a
single one of the trust magnaies
| into whose pockets the S2.0O0.0ot
would have gone had not the
theft been discovered. was called
to the bar of justice, much less
punished. Mr.. Wickersham per
mitted an mderling secretary
and few dock hands alone te
stand the vengeance of the law
When American sugar interests
purchased vast tracts Of sugar
lands in the Philippines in vic
lation OF the law, Mr.. Wicker
sham again came to the rescu,
with an opinion upholding tn,
sale.
Mr.. Wickersham is now posing
as the great trust buster. III,
pretendS that he will drive tn,
trusts out of business, and som,
OF the trusts pretend that the,
take his threats seriously. Blu
the record OF the attorney gen
eral is not one that gives the pee
pie any reason to hope for en-
forcement of the law agains
criminal trusts or guilty trus
magnates. The first thing Mr.
Wiekersham did upon taking of
flee was to drop important suit
against members of the bee
trust. His explanation was tina
he didn t believe the trust off
cialS meant to do wrong.
The extent Of Wall street
great fear of Mr.. Wickersham j
indicated by the remark of j
p. Morgan, who. when he wa
asked by a newspaper man wha
he thought of the Attorney Gen
eral s great antitrust speecI
which had been delivered NOR
than a week previous, replied
II don I think anything abou
- la.an.n | ho..n, 4 rual IL -
The Monroe journal., 1911-10-31
ms. Dept.
The Savings, Loan & TT
N a. EnoIieb Mr.

Youth lives in tomorrow: man.
hood today; old age yesterday.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
SIXTEEN NEW TRUST
PROSECUTIONS BEGUN
IN PAST TWELVE MONTHS :
Acknowledgement Wickersham
Says Eleven Cases Are
Pending In Court.
DEPT. SHOWS A PROFIT.
Obtains 46 Criminal Indictments
Against Railroads and Ship
pers For Relating.
DEPT. SHOWS A PROFIT.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-In his an
nual report to congress today Atty
Gen. Wickersham states that he ran
his department last year at a profit.
He collected fines and settlements or
A,204,115.51, while the total expeneo
OF maintaining the department was
but $3,223.773.S9.
The attorney-general says he dis
missed the civil suit against the Ma
uonal Packing Co., when he learned
that the indicted beef trust officials
We're planning to base an appeal for
further delaying the criminal prose
cution against them on a motion to
wait until the civil case was dis
posed OF.
Eleven trust cases are pending I'm
the courts and 16 new trust prosecu-
tons have been started during the
last year. The department OF Justice
obtained 46 criminal indictments
against railroads and shippers for yio-
lations OF the rebate law in 1911.
There were las prosecutions OF white
slave dealers.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
DOCTORS NEGLECT TO
REPORT TUBERCULOSIS

Failure on the part OF number of
physicians to report cases OF tuber-
culosis. was the main subject OF dis.
cussion in the regular meeting of the
Board of Health, Wednesday night.
Health Officer Kiefer said that, while
the board had discovered 20 new
cases of consumption during Novem-
ber, the physicians OF the city had re-
ported only 5S, showing that the medi-
cal profession was negligent in re-
gard to the matter of reporting the
disease. The board empowered DR..
Kiefer to investigate, II necessary,
prosecute the offenders.
Or. Kiefer reported that there were
only "a cases OF typhoid fever in the
city during August, September Oc-
tober and November. as against 70
during the same period year ago.
No case resulted from bad milk. nor
was there any evidence to show that
any disease came from the dredging
OF the Black river, Port Huron, was
freely predicted by certain health off,
GERS, last spring, that the cleaning out
of the river would contaminate the
water used by Detroit and other
places for drinking purposes.
The board approved the part DIR.
Kiefer has taken towards the estab-
lishment OF the open air school I'm the
rear Of Grace hospital, and a school
for little mothers"
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
NO OBJECTION FOUND
TO "THE SHERIFF" PLAY

Henry Van Slembrouck's much-ad-
vertised play, "The Sheriff, founded
on the killing of Sheriff Matthews, OF
Macomb county, by Benny Govare. an
ignorant Belgian boy. was rehearsed
in Turner hall, Wednesday night, to
give police officials opportunity to CEN
sor It, much indignation over its pro-
duction having been expressed by cit
liens of Mt. Clemens.
OF course. the dialogue is all in
Flemish and so far as Police Captain
Maruuardt, the official censor was
concerned it was all Greek to him.
However. there we're a number of ac-
commodating linguists present, who
translated the most important sec
tions of the drama.
The whole affair seems to be a
harmless sort of thing, and It's author
seems to have been impelled by an
earnest motive 10 liberate his people
from the bondage of ignorance and
destitution. Benny Govare, the Bel
gian lad who shot the sheriff, and his
ignorant mother, who drove him to
the deed, are not idealized so much
as they are held up as tragic exam
pies of the results OF poverty and
studied ignorance.
Police oficials are not held up in
an unpleasant light The crime Of
which young Govare WAS acquitted is
not condoned, but is rather explained.
Captain Marquardt did not desire to
make known HIS verdict, until after
he had informed Supt. Downey, but he
intimated that he found nothing OBJ
jectionable In the play.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
MEN HAVE NARROWING
Time PURSUING BEAR
SEVEN DAYS IN WOODS
Stave Off Hunger Best They
Could by Killing Birds
in Wilderness.
ARE GIVEN UP AS DEAD
Become Lost in Dense Forest in
Their Vain Efforts To Run
Down the Animal.
ARE GIVEN UP AS DEAD

MARQUETTE, Mich, Dec. H.
The families frantic with anxiety for
several days, because OF the combined
absence of two men, a telephone mes
sage from Little Lake brought Joy
In the homes of John Stackford and
john Stambaugh, of Carlshend. Stack
ford and Stambaugh had left the viii
lage week before in pursuit of a
bear whose tracks had been noticed
near their premises. The families ex-
pected them to return In few hours,
and when the hours dragged into days
and the days into week, the whole
neighborhood feared the bear hunters
had perished In the woods.
The news that Stackford and Stam-
baugh were missing was spread
among the railroad men and others
and the telephone was kept busy for
several days seeking tidings of the
missing men, but without result until
the men telephoned from Little Lake
that they were safe and sound and
would be home on the afternoon train.
While the men suffered considerably
from lack of food and shelter, they
are in fairly good condition and in
few days will be as strong as before
their narrowing experience.
From the story told by the men 1t
appears that they followed the bear
for several hours the first day, ex-
pecting momentarily to come upon
Bruin. without realizing how far they
had gone, and that night came upon
them before they knew 1t. Not know
ing just where they we're they de-
cided the best course was to follow
the bear tracks until they crossed the
railroad or some wagon road. The
bear, however, took circuitous
route, and the men declare that they
followed the tracks at least eighty
miles. going nearly as far south as
Escanaba. only to come back In a
circle and at last, after seven days
travel, strike the railroad track q
mile below Little Lake.
The coming OF the soft weather
made the.1position Of the two mer
more precarious than IL had been be
fore, as It was desperately hard tray
cling In the woods and the bear tracks
could be followed only with great diff
ficulty. They had provisions enough
with them to last only two days and
they STAYED off hunger as best they
could by killing birds and other small
game. When they struck the rail
road tracks, with clothing torn and
almost famished, they were pathetic
sights
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
GrandJury COnVenesfo
Probe Dynamite Gases

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. IA
Workingon the theory that John j..
Mcnamara was the contact point De-
tween an inside circle" and corps
of dynamiters that operated from
coast to coast the United States gov
ernment today began the presentation
of evidence to federal grand jury
which is expected to return indlct-
ments against the "higher-ups."
Strict secrecy marked the delibera-
tions of the jury. No one outside or
the government officials and witnesses
was allowed to approach nearer than
500 feet of the jury room. Deputy
United States marshals rigidly en-
forced the order.
Questioning of the witnesses was
In the bands of United States Dis
trict Attorney Charles w. Miller and
his assistant, Clarence Nichols. IL
was expected that but little would be
done at today's session other than to
acquaint the members with the gen.
eral outline of the case which VIII be
laid before them.
Detective William J. Burns is ex-
pected to be among the first wit
nesses called. Walter Drew and j.
C. A. Badorf, of the National Electors
association, are also said TO be sched-
uled TO testify early in the probe. Of
ficials OF the International Associa-
tion OF Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers are expected TO testify later
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
Y. M. C. A. ROOMERS PEEvED
WHEN RENT is RAISED

Indignation is being expressed by a
number OF the roomers In the Y. M.
{. A. because of the management hay-
ing decided to increase their room
rent. They got their first intimation
OF the move, Wednesday night. and
they Immediately got together to pro-
test. The Increase in some instances,
they explain. will amount TO upwards
or % per cent. The additional charge
is to go into effect on Jan. /. and the
roomers are asked to give notice be.
fore that date whether they plan to
remain. Many Of them say they will
go elsewhere.
The increase was made, the officials
explain, to pay the operating expenses
OF the new addition to the building.
the entire revenue of which is to be
applied to the payment OF the debt
incurred In constructing and equip
ping II. The management admffs that
the rooms have been naself-supporting
in the past. There are now two sched-
ules of rates, roomers paying prompt
ly In advance escaping an additional
charge of 10 per cent.
According to the new schedule. 81
rooms are TO be $3.50 a week: Sc
rooms, $3.50 and 81; double rooms.
80; new single rooms in the new
building, 81.
Robert M. Zug, one OF the directors
OF the Y. NJ. c. A., said that. while
the letter, announcing the increases,
sounded harsh. ii was only intended
TO be explicit. He said that one OF
the purposes OF putting up the Y. M.
G. A. was to provide rooms for young
men who could not AFFORD to pay the
prices of regular rooming houses, and
to give them place of helpful en-
vironment. There is a long waiting
list OF prospective roomers. he ex-
planned, and there would be no diff
Guilty in renting any rooms which
might be vacated by discontented
roomers.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14

DETECTIVES ARE
ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING
Four Under Arrest For Drag
ging Woman and Child
From Home.

Four private detectives are under
arrest, charged with having conspired
together and combined their several
talents toward the kidnapping OF Mrs.
Yubica Krakow, who prior to her
forcible> removal by the squad OF self
constituted gendarmes, had apart
ments at No. 42O Frederick-st.
Sava Krakow, a wealthy Cincinnati
Servian, who insists he is the wom-
ans husband, was responsible for tho
affair, and he. likewise, is under ar
rest
Three of the men were arrested
Wednesday night. They are Joseph
NJ. Clinton, proprietor OF the City De-
tective agency, at No. q Champlain-
ST.; Sidney r. Jack, an operative for
the same concern, and Adam Momich,
who modestly declares that he Is a
representative of the National Secret
Service agency. A fourth detective,
whose name is given as Hugh W..
Schutt, No. 81 Myrtle-st., was arrest
ed later.
The woman, who is held in the ma
irons quarters in police headquarters,
says she used to keep house for Raz-
kow, in Cincinnati, but was never
married to him The four detectives
burst into the woman's room. We'd
nesday night, seized her and her
child, and bundled them of to the
detective agency on Champlain-st.
Detectives Golden and Steinhebel
traced them there, and found the
woman locked up in a room. The
whole party was taken to police head
quarters.
Chief OF Detectives Mcdonnell is
investigating
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
PLANNED TO SUBMIT BOTH
MEASURES IN JANUARY
Thompson Franchise and Gin
nan Amendment Likely To
Be Voted On Then.

Aid John Harpfer, chairman OF the
franchise committee OF the copmon
council, conferred with Mayor Thomp-
son and Corporation Counsel Hally,
Wednesday afternoon. relative to a
date for the special election at which
the Thompson street car franchise
aud the Gilman municipal ownership
amendment are TO be submitted to
the people. Jan 3, was the date
tacitly agreed on. and Aid. HARPER
offered TO circulate a call for spe-
tial meeting of the council, II 1t were
found necessary.
The Gilman measure will be taken
from the table next Tuesday night. 1t
will then be sent to the governor for
his approval. In Mr.. Hally's opinion,
there is nothing to prevent the coun-
Gil from ordering the special election
next Tuesday night, when the Gin
nan amendment is taken from the
table. This would give City Clerk
Nichols 21 days in which to prepare
the ballots, tally books, etc., and ar
range for the setting up OF the booths.
In the meantime the necessary for
malities in connection with the Gin
nan measure and the Thompson ordi-
nance could be disposed of.
Aid. Harpfer has called a meeting
of the committees on franchises and
city and charter legislation for next
Monday morning, at IL o'clock, to
draft a formal report to the council.
incorporating these recommendations.
There is q strong possibility that
some taxpayer will see fit to apply
for an Injunction restraining the sub
mission OF the Gilman measure at
this time, Just as was done when the
Moore plan was about to be submit
ted. II the Thompson plan is then sub
mltted alone. 1t is almost certain OF
defeat, for the municipal ownership
advocates will have the support of
many citizens, who, while they are in
clined to favor the ordinance for its
fare provisions, would vote against IL
merely as a protest, for the majority
OF the aldermen were pledged to sub
nit municipal ownership long before
the Thompson settlement was con-
ceived.
Mayor Thompson has given out fig
ures, purporting to come from the De-
troit United Railway, covering the
cost for paving for the years 1910 and
1911. For 1910, the figures are $780,
911.60, and for 1911, $202.563. Add
ing 10 per cent for the use of tools
and equipment, the city would have
had TO pay for the work, II done by
the company, under the proposed or
dinance, $166,002.76 and s222,S19.50.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
TRY TO SAVE S1,50O,000
FROM WRECKED SHIP

GIBRALTAR, Dec. 14.-Tugs are
attempting to approach thew rocked
steamer Delhi for the purpose of res
cuing the mails and $1,500,000 In bull
lion which are still aboard the ground
ed ship. The gale. after dying down
somewhat during the night, increased
in violence today and II is feared the
Delhi will break up.
Louise Victoria. princess royal OF
Great Britain and Ireland, and sister
of King George ". and her daughters
had a thrilling experience today when
the Delhi, on which they were voyag-
Ing to Egypt, strtck the reefs off
Cape Spartel, the northwest extremity
OF Africa.
While being taken ashore by the
longboat of the British armored cruis-
err Duke OF Edinburgh they were
thrown into the water by the capsiz-
ing OF the boat. one of the daughters
having narrow escape from drown
ing. she was rescued by sailor and
carried to Nland with the others, all'
suffering severely from the bitter cold.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
SUSPECT FARM HAND
OF KILLING FOUR

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 14.-Scores OF
detectives and volunteers today are
searching for Ned. Dennis, an ftal
ian farm hand. suspected OF having
murdered Mrs aMry Ann Morner, a
rich widow. and her three children,
Arthur 2S: Edith. 90. and Blanche, a.
Their bodies, horribly mutilated
with a hatchet, were found buried IN
a COW stable in the rear OF the Morner
farmhouse In Blooming Grove, last
night.
ON piano In the farmhouse the
police today found a note, scribbled
in poor Italian:
Italian make sausage out OF Amer
leans"
It was believed the murders had
been committed for robbery but the
police today found Mrs. Morner's
purse. containing 800 in money and
several checks, lying In plain view.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
DIR. OSBORNE REFUSES
TO QUIT ASYLUM BOARD

KALAMAZOO, Mich, Dec. 14.-While
in this city last night to address the
local lodge of Elks, Gov Osborn said
he had not asked Dr. II. ID. Osborne,
of Kalamazoo, TO resign from the
board of the Kalamazoo state hospi-
tai. but he inquired why, II the story
is true. he permitted asylum funds to
be placed in bank Of which he is an
official that pays only 1-3 interest
when other banks offer per cent.
The governor said DIR. Osborne re-
pIied that II pertinent questions were
10 be asked he would resign. The gov
ernor told him IL might be a good
thing to do but did not insist on It,
DIR. Osborne declares he Will not re-
tire from the board.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
WILLIAM H. GILLESPIE
is STRICKEN BY DEATH

Following long illness, William
II. Gillespie. for more than 81 years
connected with the Detroit Free Press.
died, Wednesday. In the family home,
No. 2S Ferry-ave. west. rM. Giles
pie entered the employ of the Free
Press when lad and worked himself
up 20 be head of the circulation de-
partment.
Born in Devonshire, Eng, 40 years
ago. MIR. Gillespie came To Detroit
whea an infant He is survived by
his mother. wife and three sons. Mr..
Gillespie was active in Masonry and
was a member OF Palestine lodge,
King Cyrus chapter. and Damascus
commandery. In May, 1909, MIR. Gil
lespie suffered stroke of paralysis
from which he never recovered. Flu
neral arrangements have not been
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
TESTIMONY FAVORS
ACCUSED PHYSICIAN
Sparkling Boy Says Three Broth
ers Took Large Amount of
Patent Medicine.

BAD AXE, Mich, Dec. 4.-When
the hearing Of DR.. Robert A. McGreg-
or of Ubly, who was arrested on a
charge of homicide after coroner's
jury returned verdict that two sons
of John Wesley Sparling died from
arsenical poisoning, was resumed this
morning, the defendants counsel we're
pleased over the testimony yesterday,
by Ray Sparkling, the only surviving
son.
He said that his three brothers
were suffering from a hereditary dis
ease and had taken a large amount
of patent medicine. Young Sparkling
declared his brothers decided to take
out the life insurance policies and
elected a Canadian company of which
McGregor's father Is agent after a
conference among themselves. The
insurance first was made out to the
boys personal estate but was later
changed to the mothers name.
Prosecutor Boomhower, is asking
the warrant for Dr. McGregor's ar
rest claimed the insurance was a
possible motive.
Books introduced by the Ubly bank
show that Mrs. Sparkling, who still re-
sides at Ubly, received $4,000 insur-
snce after her husband and two sons,
Peter and Albert died. She paid DR..
McGregor $1,000 of this amount, his
accounts showing that he rendered
services valued at $1,000 to the Spar
ling family. Cyril Sparkling was the
last son to die, the coroner's jury
declaring that he and one Of the other
hova diad from araonipal nOiaoninQ
The prosecution announced today
that r. w. Pryor, assistant in hygiene
at the University of Michigan, wso as
sisted in the examination at Ann Ar
bor, will testify.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
THOMAS DIXON'S KIN
KILLED BY ROBBERS

WINSTON-SALEM, N. c., Dec. IA.
Armed posses today are pursuing
two masked men who murdered
Charles Dixon and his wife In their
nome at Fallston, Cleveland county.
A lynching is sure to follow the cap
ture OF the men.
Dixon. who is a relative Of Thomas
Dixon, the author-playwright, was
called TO his barn by masked men,
who killed him. Returning 10 the
house. they cut Mrs. Dixon's throat
and left her for dead. Then they
ransacked the house, but found only
$50. NW
Mrs. Dixon was able to give an ac-
curate description Of the men before
she died.
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
COMPERS SENDS OUT
APPEAL TO UNIONS TO
STAND BY FEDERATION
Says Enemies Are Using McNa-
mara Affair To Crush
Organized Labor.
PLEADS FOR SUPPORT,
Maintains Workingmen or Their
Leaders Should Not Be
Blamed For Dynamiting.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.--Com-
planning bitterly that It's enemies are
making the most of the Mcnamara
aftermath TO crush union labor, Presl-
dent Samuel Gompers and Secretary
Frank Morrison have sent to all union
locals copies of the statement MADE
by the Mcnamara defense fund com
mittee. In an accompanying letter
they say:
I'm the recent past the good name
and high ideals of our great LABOR
movement it's men, and the cause OF
humanity II and they represent, have
been attacked as never before. Every
enemy, every interest arrayed
against the organized workers have
howled.
Labor resents the insinuation that
because one OF two union members
became criminally fanatical, or fan
atically criminal that the rank and
file and the officers OF the labor MOVE
nent, are responsible either legally,
or morally"
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
WOMAN FOUND DEAD;
BOARDER Is ARRESTED

CADILLAC, Mich, Dec. 14,-Earl
Bliss, 29 years old. who is employe ed
as a fireman on the Ann Arbor rail-
road, is being held by the police. fol
lowing the finding OF the dead body
Of Mrs. Fred Poster on the kitchen
floor OF her home with a bullet hole
through her head. Bliss is boarder
at the Poster home.
He told the officers he returned
from Recreation park yesterday and
found Mrs Poster dead A jury will
hold an inquest Thursday
The Detroit times., 1911-12-14
THE WEATHER.

For Detroit and vicinity, Thursday y
mig mt, cloudy and unsettledi Friday,
unsettled, and probably rains no ma
teriai change I'm temperature. moder-
ate east winds.
Lower MIchIgani Fair tonightt FRI
day. unsettled, probably local snow or
rain On south portion.
For Detroit and vicinityi Thursday
night cloudy and unsettledG Friday,
unsettled, probably rninf no material
change ~ temperatureJ moderate east
eriy winds.
For Lower Michigani Fair tonight :
Friday unsettled. probably local SHOWS
OF rains In south portion.