The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-06
Washington

Clarence 8. Funk, general manager
Of the International Harvester COM
pany, made good on his assertion that
he would bring one of the detectives,
who he charged with having trailed
him, before the senate committee in
vestigating the Lorimer case at Wash
ington. He not only got his man, but
corralled two others. The three detec-
tives were placed under guard by the
sergeant-at-arms of the committee and
will be placed on the witness stand.
The Cunningham coal claims in
Alaska, which were at the bottom OF
the famous Ballinger-Pincho contro-
versy, were held illegal by Fred Den
nett, commissioner of the general land
Office. This disposes of the contro-
versy, as the secretary of the interior,
Walter L. Fisher, has approved the
findings. There is possible only an ap-
peal to the courts on the law points In
yolved.
The Canadian reciprocity bill
emerged from it's first ordeal in the
senate unscathed. The Root amend
ment, proposing a modification of the
wood pulp and print paper section OF
the agreement, was defeated after sew
cn hours of debate by an overWhelm-
ing vote.
A sensational turn in the LOrimer
investigation was taken when Clar-
ager of the International Harvester
company, declared on the witness stand
that he had been followed for months
by detectives, and charged Edward
Hines, president of the Edward Hines
Lumber company, with putting the
"shadowers" on his trail.
Roger c. Sullivan, national COM
mitteeman from Illinois; E. s. Con-
way president of the W. W. Kimball
Piano company; one of the Weyer-
haeusers, and an unnamed man now
dead were named by Herman H.
Koh'satt, editor Of the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald, as possible contributors
to 100000 Lorimer corruption fund
of 1909 before the United States SEN
ate investigating committee.
Congress will be asked for $4,000
for the proper entertainment by the
United States of Admiral Togo, the ia
nous Japanese naval officer, who will
visit this country Immediately after
the coronation festivities in London.
Domestic
Sweeping down from an immense
height In a shower of rain, Lincoln
Beachey in his biplane passed over
the Horseshoe falls at Niagara, under
the steel arch bridge, on down the
gorge almost to the Whirlpool rapids,
then rose, mounted again and, shaving
the wooded cliff, landed safely and un-
concernedly on the Canadian side.
A combination of magazine publish
ers, organized in July, 1909, was sued
in the federal courts here under the
Sherman antitrust law. The petition
filed by District Attorney Wise alleges
unlawful combination and conspiracy
to restrain Interstate trade and for
eign commerce In magazine and other
periodical publications. Dissolution
of the combination is asked for.
While two men lay practically help
less in the Columbia shell Cornell
varsity eight pulled out a victory In
one of the greatest four-mile races
ever seen at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. It
was Cornell's race by scant length
and a half, with only six seconds to
spare. Pennsylvania was third. Wis
consin fourth and Syracuse fifth.
Nathan Allen, whose money is said
to have purchased the fortune in Jew
els possessed by Mrs. Helen Dwelle
jenkins, which the government alleges
were struggled into the country. has
quit active business. Announcement
was made from the Offices of N, r,
Allen & Sons company at Kenosha,
president and member of the board of
directors of the big leather concern.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bayliss, sixty-two
years old, wife of Rev. Edgar e. Bay
Hiss, prominent minister of Somer-
vile, Mass, who is serving a three
months jail sentence for libel, has
been forced TO become a scrubwoman
to support herself.
The American Medical association
meeting which began in Los Angeles
with President John b. Murphy OF
Chicago in the chair attracted between
three and four thousand physicians
and surgeons and their families to the
California city.