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new GERMAN ROW?
Reported She VIII Levy Heavy Tarif
on American Goods

Washington, Dec. Eff Germany,
as reported, intends to refuse Ameri-
can exporters of tool steel and hard
rubber the benefit of the low duties
on those comm odities accorded to
Sweden and Japan in recently nego-
tiated trade treaties, the state depart
ment has not been informed of that
fact Consequently, it has been i'm
possible for the department to make
any satisfactory response to various
anxious inquirers in the steel and rub
Der trade.
When Germany was accorded mini
mum tariff rates on her goods enter
ing America, that government agreed
to grant American exporters the con
VentiOnal rates of tariff on their goods
shipped into Germany. So far this
agreement has been respected. If Ger
many intends to make an exception
now in the case of tool steel and hard
rubber, on the ground that America
Is denying German paper makers free
entry for their goods on terms of
equality with Canada there will be
nothing for the state department to
do, it is declared, but await the issue
of the routine proceedings initiated in
the appeal of the paper and pulp i'm
porters from the decision of the
American collectors assessing duties
upon German pulp and paper. Mean
while, the American steel and hard
rubber exporters must continue to pay
the present rates on goods shipped to
Germany.
That Germany viii feel disposed to
go further in this matter and extend
her policy of retaliation generally to
Am erican products is doubted here.
The reason for this doubt is that the
paper and pulp issue is likely to be
adjusted in a manner satisfactory to
Germany in the admission of her
claim to the Canadian preferential
rates within the near future.
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NIPPED IN THE BUD
Dynamiter Arrested With Suit
Case Full of Dynamite.
Believed He Had Designs on Nom
union Men at MOnessin, Pa.

Pittsburg, Dec. 27.-"Tm going to
clear myself. I will not take all the
blame for this and the rest of them
will have to take their medicine along
with me-" is the utterance credited
today TO George Bridges, a stranger ar
rested at Monessin, Pa, while carrying
a suitcase containing 72 sticks of dyn-
amite and a roll OF fuse.
Bridges weakened under police uues-
tioning, and the authorities declared
he would make a clean breast of it when
taken before a magistrate for a pre-
lininary hearing late this afternoon.
Little is known Of the man. He APP
peared at Monessin several weeks ago.
ployed in the mills of the town.
More Dynamite Found.
Twenty sticks of dynamite, II
of fuse securely packed in a case evil
IDENTIFY made for the purpose and re
sem bling an ordinary travelling bag
were found in the barns of Mcdonald
& Hartman, dealers in contractors sup
plies today by Albert Wilhelm, a clerk
in the firms employe. The find was
turned over TO the police who discovered
the case also contained a long paper
knife bearing the name of a PhiIadel-
phia company. The police recognized
the bag as one they had seen in the
hands of a stranger in the streets sew
eral days ago.
Since the discovery of a quantity of
explosive near the end of the Pittsburg
& Lake Erie railroad bridge across the
ago said to have been planted there by
agents of the McNamaras, the police
have been active and the bridge has
been guarded night and day.
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INSIDE HISTORY.
Story Of the Formation of the
Reef Combine
Is Told on Witness Stand by At
tOrney Veeder.
PUT UP A MILLION.
Each Member Deposited Sum as
Evidence of Good Faith.
The Concern Was Capitalized at
$5OO,OOO,OOO
PUT UP A MILLION.

Chicago, Dec. 27.-Further details
of the $5OO,OOO,OOO corporation
planned by the packers in 1902 were
recited today by Albert H Ve'eder, at
torney for Swift and Company, who
continued his dramatic story of the in
side history of the Chicago meat pack
ers combination. For the first time in
the trial which is staged before United
States District Judge Carpenter
Michael Cudahy was named as one of
the four promoters of the colossal cor
pOration by Witness Veeder.
Mr.. Veeder produced a contract dat
ed July Is, 1902. by the terms of
which Michael Cudahy became a part
ner of ]. Ogden Armour, Gustavus f.
Swift and Edward Morris in the pro-
$1.0OO,0OO in a Chicago bank as an
evidence of good faith in carrying out
the plan. The contract, along with
half a dozen other agreements was
read to the jury and offered in evi-
dence by the government counsel. IN
ability to obtain a loan of $9O,OOO.OO0
from Kuhn, Loeb and Company was
responsible for the failure to organize
the merger. according to Mr.. Veeder.
The witness told of how the pack
ers' com binatiOn acquired by purchase
six competing concerns in 1902 and
Packing company was organized with
a capital of $15,0O0,00O to operate
these properties.
The government offered in evidence
the contract entered into between the
packers and Kuhn, Loeb and Company
were to advance $4,000, 900 for the
floating of the merger. 1t gave the au-
thorized capitalization of the proposed
company as follows:
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AIMED AT UNCLE SAM
Another Bill Is Introduced Into the
Russian Duma.

St Petersburg. Dec. PA supple
mentary legislative proposal of a
frankly prohibitive character was in
troduced by the nationalists into the
duma today. 1t is aimed directly at
the United States. According to the
terms of the proposed enactment,
American citizens of the Jewish reli-
gion are to be totally excluded from
Russia, and in the second place Gus
toms duties are to be raised by 100
per cent unless the Russian normal
schedule is lower than the American.
In that case a duty equaling the
American duty will be collected.
The author of the bill states that
the last provision is necessary in or
der to deal with the importation of
American agricultural machinery. The
remaining points of the proposed bill
correspond in virtually every particu-
lar with the bill introduced on De-
cember % by ex-President Guchkoff
providing for tariff schedules applic-
able to the United States. at the ex-
piration of the Russo American COM
merce and navigation treaty of 1892.
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WEATHER is COLD
Mercury Drops to Nine Degrees
This Morning.
Kept on the Slide All Night
Long.
Real winter is here.


The combination of a northwest wind
blowing II miles an hour and the mer-
curry standing at nine degrees caused
the people going to work this morning
to hold their hands over their ears
and their faces to become scarlet.
At o'clock Tuesday night the mer-
curry stood at the 27 degree mark, but
it was on the toboggan all night long.
The reading at midnight was Il degrees,
and the minimum-nine degrees-was
reached at S o'clock this morning.
1T lacked a degree or two of being
as cold as we predicted" said Sunny
Flora, the local government weather
prophet today, but l don't believe any
body is kicking. The indications are:
Fair tonight and Thursday; rising
temperatures Fifteen degrees is as
cold as it will probably get tomorrow
morning, and this should result in the
Ioosening uL of the snow to a certain
extent. although I do not believe it
will entirely disappear before another
drop in the temperature strikes To-
peka.
Thursday and Friday and there will
probably be drop Saturday or Sun
day. 1t sounds like real winter wealth
er for a while, but it is mild cold
weather that we are having-the kind
that makes people feel good. No rec
ords are being broken for this date.
1t was degrees below zero this date
in 1887, or "a years ago. This year
thus far the mercury has gone lower
on two occasions. Both on November
and November 20 the minimum was
7 degrees.
ssThe sky cleared last night at 7.45
O'Clock, and all night long a u mile
wind was blowing from the north
west
All over the western portion of Kan
sas the snow measures from S to It
inches in depth. Topeka was the spot
that was sighted in the deal. Here
of snow and sleet covering the grounf
Present indications are that the new
year will start with a blanket of snow
over all.
Tuesday the temperatures in the
western portion of the state were be
low zero. At Platte, Neb., the mer-
curry reached the below zero mark.
TWO Below Zero at Dodge City.
Kansas City, Dec. 27.=Bringing the
first old fashioned Christmas temper
ature of the holiday season, the ther-
mometer today showed a drop of from
Is to 20 degrees in the Missouri val
ley states and an average drop of
about 10 degrees in the southwest.
1t was six below at North Platte,
Neb., above at Omaha and Des
Moines, and II in Kansas City. In
the southwest the readings ranged
from 26 at Little Rock, Ark, Is at
Oklahoma City and 20 at El Paso to
at Amarillo, Tex, and below at
Dodge City, Kan
The local United States forecaster
predicted rising temperature over the
entire district tonight and tomorrow.
Below Zero Weather.
Chicago. Dec. 27.-A cold wave
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SIX MORE WITNESSES
Summonses Issued During Holiday
Recess in Dynamite Case.

Los Angeles, Dec. 27-When the federal
grand jury reassembled today it became
evident that the inquisitorS would con-
tinue the dynamite conspiracy investiga-
ton some time longer. It was learned
that six additional subpoenas had been
issued during the holiday recess, all for
persons residing in near Seattle.
One of the summonses was for George
Haley, business agent of the Pile Drivers
union of Seattle. The other five were to
be served on members of the Home Col
ony, a settlement in which Caplan and
schmidt, alleged confederates of James
B. Mcnamara, were said to have taken
refuge for time following the explosion
here
without having attempted defense.
counsel for Franklin allowed their
client to be committed today for trial
in the superior court. No bail was
given as Franklin already is under
$4,000 bond.
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BLOWN INTO THE STREET
Officers Searching n Building Are
Thrown Out by an Explosion.

Buffalo. Dec. 27.-Policeman VIM.
A Hearn and John Flynn were
searching a house in Fay street early
today for Paul Lutz. suspected Of hav-
ing committed a murderous assault on
a woman. when an explosion wrecked
the building and hurled the officers
into the street. Hearn was badly
burned and bruised, but Flynn es-
capped with a few bruises.
Half an hour before the police had
been notified that a murder had been
committed at y Fay street The Off
GERS found that Mrs. Ida Schultz. IS
years old had been beaten on the
head and was dying.
A search was at once begun for
Paul Lutz who had occupied rooms
in the rear Of Mrs. Schultz's house.
The officers were preparing to break
in his door when the explosion oc-
Cured A search OF the ruined build
ing revealed the body OF Lutz ia the
debris Lutz had been acting strange
ly Of late and the woman had or
dered him to vacate his rooms.
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SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
To Be Reviewed at the Annual Meet
ing of the American Association.

Washington. Dec. 27.-Scientifio
progress in the United States along
every important line Of endeavor win
be reviewed in Washington this week.
in the annual meeting OF the Amer
lean Association for the Advancement
Of Science. opening today over thir-
ty national societies covering all fields
of economic and scientific work are
in session and the program includes
among the speakers many Of the lead
ing scientists of the country
Civics labor legislation. chemical
progress. home economics and other
widely differing fields viii be COW
cred in the series OF conventions. The
National museum, Carnegie institute
and other centers of scientific activity
in the capital have been given over 20
the gatherings. President Taft is eX-
pected to address a general meeting
at the National museum tonight and
other government officials VIII preside
over many Of the meetings or deliver
addresses on special subjects.
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VIII Soon Issue Call for Repub-
lican State Committee.
Arrange to Select Delegation to
National Convention.
NO SPECIAL SESSION.
VOw Conceded That There VIII
Be None.
Lively Contest Between Reg
ulars andInsurgents.

State Chairman J. N. Dolley will call
the Republican state committee in ses-
sion next month to make arrange
ments for the state convention to Sc
lect the presidential delegates at large.
Mr.. Dolley has just received the call
for the national convention to be held
early in q une- The special session talk
has died out 1t is not likely that there
will be a special session just as the
State Journal has conJended all along.
The delegates to the national conven-
ton will be selected by convention in
the old way. The four delegates at
large, the big four, will be named at
the state convention. The 16 delegates
from the eight congressional districts
will be selected at the congressional
conventions. The Taft supporters are
claiming a solid Taft delegation, while
the LaF'ollette men are claiming a pro-
SreSSlVe delegation or at the worst,
a split delegation. The Roosevelt men
want an uninstructed delegation.
1t is likely, in view OF the turbulent
and unsettled state of Kansas politics,
that the delegation will be mixed.
DOIley Won't Talk.
State Chairman Dolley would not
talk. for publication. He will soon is
sue the call for state committee meet
ing, but he would not predict what that
committee would. do. He hopes that it
will set the date for the state CONVEX
tion early, so that it can be held be-
fore farm work opens up" he said.
Dolley is not a LaFollette man, but
is for Taft. Yet he is known to ad-
mire Roosevelt more than any other
public man.
Who viii the big four be? is the
next question. These will be the men
named at the state convention as del
egates at large. The progressive big
four are Governor Stubbs, Chairman
Dolley, Senator Bristow and William
Allen White. Two for LaFollette and
two for Roosevelt. The regular big
four are Senator Curtis. d. w. Null
vane, c. F.. Denton and Mort AIbaugh.
All for Taft
Maybe the convention will compro-
mise on two from each combination
OF fours. Anyway, it looks like the
delegates will be selected by conven-
tion and there il a big fight ahead
next year for nominations and offices.
The biggest contest Kansas has had
for many, many years. Seventy thou
sand insurgents (mOre or less), fifty
thousand regulars. (more or less). and
eighty thousand Democrats viii be
called upon to decide who is who in
Kansas. These figures may be wrong,
but they are the last obtainable until
the next counting of noses.
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INSURGENTS FOR 7. R.
Lucas County, Ohio. League Almost
Unanimous for the Colonel

Toledo. o.. Dec. 27.-Repudiating
Senator LaFollette. the Lucas County
Progressive Republican league at
meeting endorsed Theodore Roosevelt
for president by almost unanimous
vote.
At a meeting of the league several
weeks ago three delegates were ap-
pointed to attend the progressive Re
publican conference in the interest OF
LaFollette at Columbus, January i.
This action was rescinded and no
delegates Will attend the Columbus
Meeting.
The league will at once begin a
campaign for 5000 members and
President George f. Reiser was au-
thorized to appoint a committee OF
al district to elect two Roosevelt dele
gates to the Republican national con-
Ventfon
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The Senator VIII Speak at
Youngstown and Cleveland.
CLAPP AT ALLIANCE.
Speeches at NOrwalk, Toledo and
Ashtabula Tomorrow.
Insurgent Leader Says He Is
Not After Delegates.

Youngstown. O.. Dec. 27.-The real
battle Of the so-called progressive wing
of the Republican party against the re-
nomination of President Taft starts to
day with the coming OF Senator Robert
NJ. LaFollette to Ohio for speeches here
and at Cleveland.
Senator LaFollette's schedule for to-
day called for an address here at noon:
dinner and reception; arrival at CIeve-
land from until $3.50 o'clock an ad-
dress there at o'clock.
While Senator LaFollette Is delivering
his speech at Cleveland tonight Senator
Clapp, who opened the progressive cam
paign at Salem, Ohio, last night. win be
speaking in Alliance. Ohio. Tomorrow
LaFollette Will move on TO Norwallg
and Toledo. while Clapp will speak In
Ashtabula.
According to Senator IaFonette's
lieutenants here. he is coming to Ohio.
not with the idea Of making fight for
delegates for himself, but to discuss the
doctrines of Progressive" Republican
ism.
LaH'OIIette's Speech.
The progressive movement and what
1t has done I'm Wisconsin was discuss
ed by Senator LaFollette today before
the business men OF this steel and iron
community. He declared the progress
sive movement is a peoples movement.
and peoples cause. and that it took
root in the granger movement Of the
Northwest asserting that today the
Justice the wisdom. the economic
CT every Wisconsin law to
which the progressive movement gave
being. has conquered opposition and
compelled the approval OF every Ameri-
can community. The nation has pro-
flied by Wisconsin's civic evolution"
Mr.. L.aFollette declared aud continued:
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JUSTICE BARS BEER.
Woman Rules Exhibit A. Out of
Court Room.

Evanston, ILL.,. Dec. 27.-Although, as
justice of the peace, Mrs. Catharine
Waugh McCulloch has a court room IN
her house here she refuses to allow beer
to be exhibited therein.
Mrs McCulloch was asked to hear d
case which involved exhibit of beer
She refused to allow the beverage to be
brought into her house. The prosecution
insisted that the case could not go on
without the beer exhibit
Then the justice of the peace agreed n
ride in a wagon with the beer. A police
patrol was called. the beer loaded into it
and Mrs McCulloch then climbed into the
vehicle ana rode to the police station.
where the case was begun
-le case involved the arrest of a man
who had been accused of selling beer IN
the streets
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WRITING A MESSAGE
The President VIII Submit One on
Economy and Efficiency.

Washington. Dec. 27.-For the next
week President Taft will work on a
m essage to congress dealing with
economy and efficiency in the govern
ment departments. The president has
received a preliminary report from the
economy and efficiency commission in
dicating that many millions might be
saved each year if duplication were
avoided and changes made in the
operation of the various bureaus The
full report will be made to the presi-
dent in time to be submitted to con-
gress next month with a message.
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from the northwest has caught the
lake region. Since yesterday noon the
temperature here has fallen from Al
to % degrees above zero. The wealth
er bureau says the temperature prob
ably would fall ten degrees more be-
fore tomorrow. Heavy SHOWS are re-
ported in Wisconsin and parts of
Michigan. In the Canadian northwest
the temperature ranges from 2 to 26
degrees below zero. Reports from
northwestern states show the range to
be from 6 above to Il below zero.
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PREACHER ON TRIAL
He Is Charged With Robbing the Till
in a Business House.

Eureka Cal. Dec. 27.-Rev. Henry T.
Adams, rector of the Episcopal church
of Arcata, was placed on trial today for
the alleged robbery of the till in a
business house he frequently visited.
Spectat tors crowded the court room.
One prospective juror asserted that
he would convict a clergyman on less
evidence that he would layman.
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Three Killed by one Auto.

Seattle. Dec. 27.-Eye Witnesses OF the
killing of Attorney Otis H. Ballou, for
nerly of Omaha last night by an au-
tonobile which slew three persons, say
that the car which was moving rapid
", dragged Ballou's body so feet As
soon as the wheels had thrown the dead
man aside, the driver put on full speed
and raced down town. Ballou's skull
was crushed and leg broken. Ne ar
rests have been made.
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WRECK ON THE U. P.
Fnrine Leaves the Track Owing to a
Broken Rail.

Laramie, Wyo.. Dec. 27.-Union Pa
cific westbound train No Z. running
- miles an hour, was wrecked Il
miles west of here today The engine
left the track owing to a broken rail
ane was followed by the first three
eaTs The dining car chef was seri-
o1sIv injured and a number Of the pas
ss7ears were slightly hurt
relief train with surgeons and the
,vrecker were sent from here
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IT IS WARMING UP
Mercury Is Still IA Degrees Below the
Normal Mark.

The mercury had risen 10 degrees
over the 8 o'clock temperature at 2
O'Clock this afternoon, but at that the
temperatures for the day are averag-
ing IA degrees below normal for this
date. The day is fair. and the pre-
diction is for a continued clear sky,
with rising temperature. The wind will
probably shift from the northwest to
the southwest. TIE velocity is IA miles
an hour The hourly readings.
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STILL HOLDS BONI
The Vatican Declines to AnnuI His
Marriage to Anna Gould.

Rome. Dec 27-The vatican has
declined to grant Count de Castellane
an annullment of his marriage with
Anna Could who is now the Duchess
of Talleyrand and Sagan. Countess de
Castellane was granted a divorce from
her husband and given the custody Of
their three children on November IA
1906 About a year ago Count Boni
applied to the vatican for annullment
of the marriage.
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ECHO OF SHIRTWAIST FIRE
Tr,aI Of Owners of Factory Com
menced in New York.

M YORK Dec. 27-Summing UP in the
Tria,,.-le Waist company fire cases in
which Max Blanck and Isaac Harris,
pronrfetor of he shirt waist factory, are
CHARGED with manslaughter. was com
rnenced today and the jury may render
its verdict by night fall
One hundred and forty-seven lives were
lost In the fire.
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WANT $3.50 FOR GIRL
Parents of Missing Violet BuehIer
Receive a Proposition.

Chicago, Dec. ga letter declaring
that Violet Buehier the missing heiress
was being purposely kept from her moth
er and that she would be returned on the
payment of $150 was received today by
Mrs. Buehler.
The police regard it as an attempt to
extort money.
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AssasslnatIon PIot DIscovered.

Annoy, Dec. PA plot has been dis
covered among the Honanese troops in
this city to assassinate Yuan. the tao
tai. and Choy the military commander.
The leader Of the plottcrs has been
arrested and beheaded, while several of
his followers are under arrest.
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WhiteIaw Reid Coming Home.

London. Dec. 27.-Whitelaw Reid, United
states ambassador at London will sail
for New York December 30 to take holi-
day in America
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Weather Indications.

Chicago, Dec. 27-Foreeast for
Kansas: Fair tonight and Thursday.
Warmer.
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