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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
BANDITS ROB MAIL CAR
ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Searching for Shipment of
100000 in Gold Dust, They
Tackle Wrong Train.

GLENDALE. Ore, June 29.-Apparent-
ly mistaking the first section of north
bound passenger train No. 16 on the
Southern Pacific railroad for a south
bound train. said to be carrying q ship
ment Of 100000 in gold dust from Seat
tie to San Francisco, two robbers held
up the northbound train last night near
West Fork, an isolated station in Cow
Creek canyon.
The robbers ri1ed the mail car. blow
ing up the safe. and made away with the
registered mail. They tried to secure en-
trance to the express car but were foiled
by Messenger Robb. who refused to open
the door. despite threats that they would
use dynamite IL he resisted. The robbers,
after fruitlessly prying with a crowbar
at the side door of the car. finally de-
sisted and decamped with the loot Sc
cured from the mail car.
The amount taken by the robbers can
not be ascertained at this time. This
train carries in its registered mail the
cash from southern Oregon post Offices
to Eugene. Ore. which is their deposi-
tory. and this was probably included in
the mail stolen.
Forced Engineer to Stop Train.
The robbers boarded the train at West
Fork while the engine was taking water.
Soon after 1t had gotten under way they
crawied over the tender into the cab and
directed the engineer to stop the train.
This done, one Of the men kept the
engineer and fireman under the cover of
his revolvers. while the other went back
and uncoupled the mail baggage and ex-
press cars. Then the engineer was or
dered to pull these cars some distance
up the track. where he was again ordered
to stop. The robbers went back to the
mail car, and. lining the mail clerks up.
took the registered mail pouches and dy-
namited the mail car safe.
The noise Of the explosion warned Ex-
press Messenger Robb Of what was TAX
ing place, and when the demand came
for him to open his door he made no
response. The conductor Of the train, as
soon as he discovered what had taken
place, went back to West Fork. where
he notified Glendale and surrounding
points. Posses have been organized to
pursue the robbers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
GERMANY STARTS PROBE.
Wants to Know Why
Prussian Cutlery Was Seized.

SOLINGEN. Rhenish Prussia, June 90
The German government has Instituted
an investigation among the local cutlery
manufacturers to learn the facts con-
cerning the alleged custom frauds at New
York, where large quantities of cutlery
from this place have been seized on
charges of undervaluation.
The manufacturers here claim that the
action Of the American customs officers
was merely trick to aid American
competitors. All the government. it is
said. will gather information on this
point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
BAN JOHNSON LAID UP.
President Of American League Has
Inflammatory Rheumatism.

CINCINNATI. Ohio. June 29-President
B. B. Johnson OF the American League
was taken suddenly Ill with inflammatory
rheumatism while on his way to Cincin-
natl last night and is now laid up at the
home Of his brother in this city. Mr..
johnson Is suffering considerable pain
and may be disabled for a week or more
meeting Of the national base ball
commission which was set for today has
been postponed till he RECEIVERS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
MAY PHOTOGRAPH SUSPECTS.
Gov. Dix Of New York Vetoes the
Grady Bill.

ALBANY, N. Y. June 29.-The Grady
bill. prohibiting the photographing and
measuring OF suspected criminals. was
vetoed last night by Gov. Dix. on the
ground that it would hamper the po-
lice In securing the most usual and sim
pie means Of Identification OF suspected
criminals and add difficulty to secur-
ing evidence Of crime and clues to its
detection"
The governor gave a hearing on the
measure last Monday, at which Ii was
opposed by tho district attorneys and
police chiefs organizations OF the state
and representatives of thirty-seven So
cieties for the prevention Of cruelty to
children.
one section Of the bill made 1t felony
for an officer to hold q conversation with.
or question, any person under arrest,
further than to ascertain names. ages
and so forth, except on q court order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
Bars Down for Castro.

ST. THOMAS. D. w. l., June 29.-In ac-
ernment at Copenhagen. all steamship
agents of st. Thomas have been notified
that the government forbids the landing
on the island Of Gen. Cipriano Castro, the
daposed president OF Venezuela In the
event Of his arrival here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
REDUCED TO A SHELL.
Fire Clears Out Three Story Building
at Plainsville, Mass.

EVANSVILLE. Mass, June GA
three-story wooden building occupied by
three jewelry manufacturers and owned
by the Plainsville Land Company was
practically reduced o q shell by fire early
today A total loss Of about $4,000 was
sustained by the owners Of the building
and Schofolda, Melchef q 6chofolda,
Robinson Bros, and q. A. Gardiner q
Co, thu occupants. The nre started on
the first floor o1 the building from un-
known cause
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
Can You Beat It?

We refer to the list Of contents Of
our next Sunday Magazine. A
strong entry In our Ten-thousand-
dollar Prize Story Competition,
Shorty McCabe tale. sea story
by James b. Connolly, an illustrat-
ed song and a fine serial are
among the features.
.MOLLY DARLING"
BY Florida r. Sumervvell.
This story OF a West Pointers
love for an army veterans daugh-
ter and the complications caused
by a ri IN rivals sui! should win
many votes for first prize.
LINING UP WITH LADY ANN"
BY Sewell Ford.
Lady Ann was the sister of the
Rev. s. Cuthbert jerks, and how
she became Pie Missionary to All
Heathendom" is told as only Short;
McCabe can tell 1t.
"DON JOHN QUIXOTE, PUMPMAN,,
BY James b. Connolly.
The second part of this rattIing
tale of life at sea is even better
than the first. The mysterious
Herman does things TO the bully
ing boatswain that will make our
blood tingle.
"WHEN THE ELECTRIC AGE
ARRIVES"
BY Emil BeRliner.
A remarkable forecast Of civih-
zation q century hence by the in
ventor OF the disk talking ma.
chine.
"THE DESERT MINER,
by David G. Baillie.
A fine article about the perils
and rewards in the career OF the
knight Errant of Finance"
In the Next
Sunday Magazine of
The Sunday Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
CULBERSON IS VEXED.
Accuses Foreign Relations
Committee of Neglect.
PLANT AS TO PORTUGAL
His Other Grievance Relates to Rus.
sian Conditions.

The Senate foreign relations committee
was severely criticised in the Senate to-
day by Mr.. Culberson OF Texas. who
charged the committee with 'inaction and
inattention" on resolutions recognizing
the republic of Portugal and called at
.ention to alleged violations of the treaty
between Russia and the United States
Senator Culberson said his resolution
recognizing the new government Of Por-
tugal had rested with the committee
three months. Meantime the President
has officially recognized the republic.
Senator Culberson said the resolution for
an inquiry to see whether Russia's treat
ment Of Jews is a violation of the treaty
Of 1892 has been with the committee since
Apri, 10. without action, and he felt In
clined to take steps to make the COM
mittee act.
Bacon Explains Delay.
Senator Bacon, a democratic member Of
the committee, declared recognition Of
Portugal had been withheld because 1t
was admitted to be a temporary govern
ment that was first established after the
removal Of King Manuel. The committee
had instructed Senator Root, he said, to
investigate the matter, and passage OF the
resolution had been withheld because OF
the change that was going on within the
Portuguese government. Until Portugal
itself was ready for recognition, said
Senator Bacon, the foreign relations COM
nittee did not consider 1t proper to at
tempt to recognize the new regime.
Chairman Cullom said the committee
had failed to act on the Jewish exclusion
question only because It was impossible
to flnd out how far the Senate can go
without compEcating affairs between this
country and Russia He said conferences
are now being held with the Secretary Of
State and that some action will be taken
in the near future.
Fur Buyers Not Excluded.
ST. PETERSBURG. June 29.-The
American embassy has made representa-
tions to the Russian government regard
ing American Jews who are buyers at the
fur fair at Tyumen. and orders were sent
. today to the Tyumen authorities not to
exclude Jews from the fair pending the
decision Of the central government
A dispatch from st. Petersburg June
p stated that the ministry Of trade was
negotiating with the ministry OF the In
terror with the view Of a temporary
suspension Of the order Of the governor
of Tobolsk, Siberia, prohibiting Jews from
attending the fur fair at Tyumen. The
dispatch added that Premier Stolypin
recognized that the governor had acted
law practically was dead letter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
Should Be Removed.

The conclusion reached by your COM
mittee,' the report says. seems ire
sistible that this sum of ST 800 was jointly
misappropriated by Michael and Nor
rison, or individually by Michael. either
through the incompetence or the con-
nivance Of Morrison.
Michael, who is now holding the re-
Sponsible position of consul general at
Calcutta, India, and Morrison, who still
holds the perhaps still more responsible
position of disbursing clerk of the State
Department, should long since have been
removed from office, and even now 1t is
not too late to remove both of said Of
ficials for the good of the public service
and the integrity Of public officials.
In regard to the voucher for $3.50.
which, the State Department reported,
could not be found when the committee
began its Investigations, but which later
was discovered on the floor OF the dis
bursting clerks Office. the report says:
The circumstances under which this
voucher was discovered, especially after
the matter had been given so much pub
licity, are too simple for human credulity
The conduct of the officials of the State
Department In trying to conceal. and. in
fact, in concealing for about ten days
from the committee the fact that said
voucher had been found. does not COM
port with any honest effort on their part
to have all the facts known. and cannot,
therefore. pe commended by your COM
mittee."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
Nav Succeed Ambassador Rosen.

ST. PETERSBURG. June 29.-It is re-
ported that George Bakhmetefr. former
Russian ambassador at Toxic. has been
promised the Washington post In case
Baron Rosen resigns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
TO HIT TRUST HARD
Grand Jury Steel Report Ex-
pected Late Today.
SENSATION IS LOOKED FOR
Indictments Involving Prominent
Men Said to Be Ready.
EVIDENCE REGARDING POOLS
Formed, It Is Said, by Agreements
tions and Independents.

NEW YORK, June 2o.-What prom
ises to be the most sensational and far
reaching antitrust action Tie federal gov
ernment ever has undertake. is expected
to take definite form here late today,
when a federal grand jury which has
been hearing evidence against certain Off
cials of the United States steel Corpora
tion, its subsidiaries and many independ-
1t is known that the pending proceed
ings of the grand jury promise to be a
greater revelation than any of the pub
lished rumors have indicated Criminal
indictments charging conspiracy to con-
troll the prices of steel and steel prod
ucts the country over. involving men
high up in the financial world. are said
to be ready. The governments investi-
cations have gone even further and are
said to have reached a prominent law
firm of this city. which has for years
been commonly identified with many So
called trust contracts and pooling agree
ments.
Some of the evidence presented to the
grand jury is said to show that the steel
business in the United States has been
divided by agreement into about twenty
pools.
Testimony as to Pools.
The pools. it Is said. have been formed
by agreements between the subsidiaries
of the steel corporation and many Of
the Independents. Agents of the govern
ment in their Investigations have come
into possession Of contracts, agreements
and minutes of meetings of steel men.
The governments action 10 directed
more against the trust within the trust
than against the steel corporation alone.
the evidence laid before the
grand jury Is said to involve many OF
the officers Of the big company.
While the bureau OF corporations at
Washington has been making an investi-
CATION of the steel corporation for nearly
three years. this proposed criminal action
Is apart from that. The criminal case
win not have any connection with any
suit which the government may bring
against the corporation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
DESTROYER Ammen Hits Schooner.

SANDY HOOK. N. J., June 29.-The
United States torpedo boat destroyer
Ammen. from Philadelphia, reports being
In collision with q schooner at 2:46 this
morning. The damage was slight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
Termed Misappropriation.

According to law, the Secretary Of State
Is not required to show the specific pur-
pose for which money for the purpose
Of intercourse or treaty with foreign ma
tons is issued.
But this authority, the report holds,
does not give either the President or
the Secretary Of State ANY power to pay
for portraits Of ex-Secretaries of State
and said payment out Of said fund was,
in the judgment of your committee, a
misrepresentation of said money"
The report, in summing up. says:
The undisputed facts show that this
sum of 1900 vas in the possession Of
Morrison, as disbursing clerk, and
Michael, as chief clerk, and its disposi-
ton is unaccOunted for, except by the
letter Of Michael to the State Department
in 1906 that he turned the same over to
Secretary Hay, who at the time of said
letter was dead
Your committee has not finished its la
an amount so small as $1,000 Is either
unaccounted for, or accounted for In
most unreasonable manner by officers
still holding responsible positions under
federal authority. it is deemed wise that
this report should now be made with the
hope the present executive authority may
relieve the public service Of such Off
Gals and restore TO the people confidence
In those who handle the public funds and
represent us In important positions
abroad
Amendments to Report.
The full committee today adopted two
amendments to the report OF the sub
committee. one Of them condemning 'the
practice of signing vouchers in blank as
not only unbusinesslike and inexcusable.
but as a virtual invitation to wrongdo-
Ing. Such practice, the report says,
cannot be toe strongly condemned
If any attempt is made by the State
Department to make a "scapegoat" of
Morrison by discharging him and leaving
Michael unmolested. Representative Ham
lin. chairman OF the committee. declared
today, after the report had been acted
on, he would report it to the House. He
expressed the opinion that Michael is
more culpa BILE in the affair than Morrison
I'm conclusion says the report, '.in
view Of the statute of limitations and the
dificulty Of proof resulting from deaths
and lapse Of time, your committee deems
it unnecessary to make any suggestion
or recommendation relative to criminal
prosecution of either Michael or Morri-
son."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
After Death Of Hay.

The late Secretary Of State, John
Hay. is completely exonerated from
any connection with the misappropria-
tion. In a letter to the State De-
partment in 1906 Michael declared that
he had turned the unaccounted-for
money over to Secretary Hay. When
the letter was written Mr.. Hay was
dead.
Your committee thinks it incredi-
ble." says the report. that the late
Secretary Hay either appropriated
this $1.600 to his own use or that he
personally and without the knowledge
and assistance Of some subordinate in
the State Department used the same
in payment for some matter relating
to intercourse or treaty with foreign
nations. either OF which he must have
done il the said $1,000 is to be ac-
counted for as having been actually
handled by Secretary Hay.
THE only intimation tending to re-
feet upon Secretary Hay comes from
the letter of Michael, and this we do
not believe. for. aside from Secretary
Hays high character. he could easily
have signed a voucher for this sum to
be expended in foreign relations"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and Friday; not
much change in temperature;
north to northeast winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29

sCout.nrsd on Ninth RAGe,l \
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29

81 offered TO debate this matter with
Mr.. Roosevelt in New York. He did not
accept my challenge and neglected an
opportunity to overwhelm me- Do you
think the people of Kansas will say that
the President did his full duty in neglect
ing that case? How are you ever going
to punish crime IL you are constantly
changing law ofhcers and do nothing in
the interim"
Mr.. Earle read again the letters that
(Cony,nued or Third Pa1s)
The Calumet news., 1911-02-08

guilty Of any such conduct as had been
imputed to him. After a sleepless nigl-t
she went home hoping TO learn some
thing of her husbands movements.
She was disappointed. The servants
only knew that he had gone away the
night before. The disconsolate wife
went to her husbands Office, but elicit.
ed no information there.
And now Mrs. Hardenburgh be-
thought herself 10 make inquiries Of
the informer as TO where she got the
information. The dear woman who had
so great an interest in her friends af-
fairs said that she had heard it as
coming from And Mrs. Harden
burgh's investigations never got any
further than las coming from"
After two weelo absence Mr.. Har-
denburgh returned to find his wife
waiting for him. very penitent wom-
an, not likely to make the same mis-
take again.
Strange to say, the young wife after
all did not appreciate having heard
what she ought to know and does not
speak to the info-mer.
The Calumet news., 1911-02-08
MAY SEND DELEGATE.
Greater Hancock Club Will Consider
Matter at Meeting February 16.

The matter of sending a delegate to
the meeting at Menominee on Febru-
airy 21. of those interested i'm the pub
licity campaign for promoting the in
terests of the upper peninsula, will be
taken up by the Greater Hancock club
at the meeting called for the evening
of February 21 at the city hall. This
meeting is for the purpose of discuss
ing the coming semi i-centennial cele-
bration and invitations will be sent to
all the members to attend and at the
same time the other matter will be
brought up for action. Postmaster
Rogers acting president of the club
does not consider IL necessary to call
a special meeting to select a delegate.
as the general meeting already PLAN
ned will be sufficiently ineadvance of
the Menominee meeting to make all
arrangements. From now on until the
time for the home coming date, meet
ings of the Greater Hancock club will
be held every two weeks.
The Calumet news., 1911-02-08
REUNION OF ALUMNI.

a movement has been started to
hold a reunion Of the alumni of the
Hancock high school during the week
of the home coming semi-centennial
celebration in July. A number of the
local members of the alumni associa-
ton have been interviewed by Jay
Lanctot president of the Alumni AS
sociation and general sentiments OF
approval of the project have been ex-
pressed. on account of the dates Sc
lected by the Home Coming committee
for the celebration, conflicting with
those fixed by the Copper Country
Chautauqua for the annual assembly
at Electric park, it is likely that a
change may be made to an earlier OF
later date for the semi-centennial cell
ebration.
The Calumet news., 1911-02-08
MAY TAKE PICTURES OF
COPPER COUNTRY SCENES

Manager Ray Kerredge of the Ker-
redge theater has taken up with the
manager OF the Lyman II. Howe NOV
ing pictures, the matter of having the
concern take some motion pictures of
scenes in Hancock and vicinity, TO be
shown i'm the exhibition given through
out the country. Among the sugges-
tions offered by Mr.. Kerredge is that
the quincy mine, with incidents of OPP
Grafton depicted, be taken, including
the man cars with men descending or
emerging from the shaft to and from
their work. the dumping of rock cars,
scenes in the rock houses, carrying the
rock TO the stamp mills, operations
In the latter and at the smelters and
concluding with the loading of the
copper ingots, bars and sheets on
board the lake steamers at the Quincy
docks in Ripley.
The copper mining industry is of
great interest to people living I'm the
east and throughout the country gem
orally, but to many the methods of
production and the life of the miners
is a sealed book Hancock visitors to
New York and Boston are always CEN
ters of interested circles of auditors
when relating matters pertaining TO
the production of copper and it seems
as If the thirst for knowledge on this
such persons the pictures that the
Howe concern could show would be a
treat and besides would make Hancock
known through the length and breadth
of the United States.
Another subject considered for pic
torial presentation is the wreck of the
steamer Moreland. When the matter
was brOached to n Howe representa-
tive it was pointed out that at the
present time there is about the wreck
moving pictures, but i'm the spring
when the Reid wrecking tugs resume
their work il is probable that a pho
tographer may be sent here TO take
some views. Duluth, Ishpeming and
the 500 are among the cities in the
Northwest where the Howe people have
decided to take some pictures, the ski
tournaments at the former places to be
among the scenes portrayed.
The Lyman II. Howe Travel Festival
drew a packed house to the Kerredge
theater last evening. every seat being
sold before the doors opened and
there will be an equally big attendance
on hand this evening when the exhibit
tion will be repeated. The views were
depicted with life-like distinctness and
realism, and included incidents of the
building and launching of the Olympic,
the new White Star liner, and the big
gest vessel ever built a trip in an air
ship, blasting the ruins of Messina af-
ter the earthquake a visit to London,
trip through Indo-China, and a num-
ber of comic scenes. SO pleased were
those who were present last night that
many will attend again this evening.
The Calumet news., 1911-02-08

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