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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-27

'Batted for Donnelly in ninth.
Boston ............l.0 0 Gao 90 Ga
New York. Q o az o 0 al
Two-base hits: Donnelly. Miller ca,
Crandall 90. 6pratt. Three-base hits;
Devlin. Murray. Home run. Herxog.
Sacrifice hits: Crandall. Sweeney. Double
plays: Meyers 10 Doyle. Devore to Merkle,
Meyers 20 Merkle Bases on balls: OF
crandall 3; off Donnelly, l. Struck out:
BY Crandail. 4; by ponnelly, q Time:
Ito umpirNs: Rigier and E1nnaran
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-27
scHREIBER PUZZLES WICHITA
BeaIi Gets Two Home Runs for the
Grizzlies.

WICHITA. Kan. April 2s.--Inabllity 10
hlt Schneider caused Wichita to lose 10
Denver. jackson being hit hard at times.
Bealls two home runs over the senter-
field fence featured the game. being re-
sponsible for three r-ns. Score:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-27

PHILADELPHIA. April 81 stack
pitched fine game for Brooklyn today
and beat his old teammates. the Phillies.
TO ?. Score:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-27
Tug o. War IL OFF.


The tug-o'-war which was scheduled to
be pulled off between the Omaha firemen
and policemen has been called off. be-
cause Of the Intervention Of the chiefs
Of these departments. They said II would
require much time to practice and get
INTO condition and the departments could
not afford to have the men idle. In place
OF this event will be boxing match be-
tween J. J. Dudley OF the police depart
ment and r. Adams q fireman. A wrest-
ling match between C. r. Mccabe Of the
police force and Captain Greenman Of the
fire lads will also be In line.
In the bankers relay the First National
bank entered team at the last minute.
The list lie II. Weinberg. NJ. Dillon. R.
Wheeler and G. Holquist. This team
will compete against the Omaha National
and the City National In q relay race OF
one mile. -..
/, PUTTING Track In shape.
| The track at the Auditorium Ia being
put into shape for the meet. The stage
10 being taken out In order that the mile
will consist Of sixteen laps. The start
and finish will be on the south side of
the track near the eastern turn. An
innovation In announcing the winners of
the various events has been constructed
by J. 7. Maxwell. who Is promoting the
meet The names Of the winners of
first. second and third place viii be
| thrown on q screen with the use OF a
lantern. This screen is arranged on a
pivot. as Is the lantern. and viii revolve,
making II possible for any one In any
part Of the house to read. This will do
away with the mssaphone. which is very
unsatisfactory to the spectators and the
announcer alike.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-27

Bride, Coleman (D. Three-base hit:
aDniels. Home run: Chase. Hits: OFF
Walker 1, in two and q third innings; off
Becker, In one and two-thirds innings;
off csshIon. in four innings. Stolen
bases: Gardner, Flynn. Sacrifice fly:
Gardner. Double play: Martin 70 Chase.
Left on bases: New York, s: washing
ton, 4. Bases on balls: Off Walker. 4:
off Becker. 2; off cashion, 3. First on
errors: Washington. 2. Struck out: BY
Quinn, 4. by Becker. 2; by Cashion, !.
Time: zoo. Umpires: Connolly and
Hart.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-27
SIOUX CITY ourPLAYs ST. JOE
lecaIs hit In Piaches saa Make Use
| of Errora.

SIOUX CITY, IA, April s6-By hitting
in the pinclies and taking advantage OF
isl. Jossph's errors. Sioux City won the
last game OF the series here today.
slaughter, the new pitcher secured from
louisville. proved effective with men on
haas 9enre.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-27

WASHINGTON. April 8.-ouinn held
Washington to four hits today and New
York won handily, % 10 ?. as the local
pitchers were wild and Ineffective. A
honors with ouinn's pitching. Score:
NEW YORK WAEHINUTON
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-27
LNcoLN.s Rally usAvAILrNe

Topeka Takes Last Of series ny Hit
ting Tuekey Hard.
LINCOLN. Neb.. April S-Topeka
took the final game OF the series today
by batting Tuckey hard In two innings.
Lincoln punched hits in the NTH and
came within one run Of tieing the score.
but could get no further. Score:
TrNrnr NJ
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
INSANE POLE TRIES
To KILL BLIND
SENATOR
JUMPS ON PLATFORM IN WAu-
kESAA AND SWINGS CLUB,
BUTTS FRUSTRATED.

Wankesha Wis, March ~. United
States senator Gore " Oklahoma mar
rowly escaped death this evening when
a scraged pole Charles Schomulla, at
tackled him with cub while the
senator WAS speaking The Pole was
sitting near the stage ana IN the midst
Of the senator's speech suddenly
leaped to the platform taking club
from under his coat rs he jumped. and
swung Instantly nj the senator's head,
One OF the men on the stage, Judge
+ 4 HarminR. was quicker than the
maniac. however. ana With II blow to
the chin knocked Schomulla Off the
stage before the maniae's blow land
ed The senator. who could not sec
his danger, was unaware Of the trou-
BILE until the man was being over
powered by the audience,
Senator Gore had arrived here this
afternoon for one of half dozen
speeches he was making In II hurri
cane windup Of the campaign for Gov
crnor Wilson. The audience tonight
for the moment was panic stricken ms
the maniac marched toward Senator
Gore. shouting taat he was Jesus
After the incident the audience be-
came calm and the senator resumed
his address
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
MISSISSIPPI, OHIO, PLATTE, OES
MONIES AND OTHER RIVERS
ON A RAMPAGE,
SNOW IS MELTING FAST
All Of the Larger Streams Are at
Flood Tide or Near lt---creat Ice
Foes Threaten to Tear Out Bridges
and Dams--Lowlanes Residents Are
Warmed TO Prepare to Move.

Rapidly melting sdow IL making u
raging torrent OF every river and
stream In the upper haf of the Mis-
sissippi valley. wreck ing houses, inun-
dating lands and cndangering livs. No
relief is In sight. The weather grad
ually is growing warmer which Will
result IN further melting All of the
larger rivers are ut flood tide or with
in Il few inches OF H.
Ice Hoes constantly threaten dams
and htidges In many places dyna-
mite Is being used but the swiftly
moving currents. II Is feared. will car
rs away the huge gorges before they
can be broken into pieces small
enough to make them harmless
" ssissippi river cities are said to
he Ia the gravest danger. Al st Louis
the river IL at the danger mark and
rising rapidly Great fear Us en-
tertained for residents near the con
fluence Of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. Gangs of men are working
night ana day repairing the damaged
levpns
In the north the Platte river and
tile Des Moines river are causing
much damage The Platte IL filled
with Ice gorges which have ripped
away several bridges The Des Molnes
river ~ below flood stage. but ~ ris-
ing.
Ii gh water drove families from their
| homes In Rock Island. III. Waterloo
Neb., and Waterloo. Iowa: Yankton
| =. D.; Norfolk Ncb.. and Schneider
Ind, yesterday Near Schneider n
gorge In the kankakee river broke
releasing Is feet of water. Boat. are
being used in the principal streets oi
| Norfolk. Neb
Many other cities are threatened
by foods within n few hours
Warnings have been issued 10 all
residents Of lowlands to prepare Ia
| move.
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other hand does keep us sane and II
does keep ns In condition OF mind
whore We know that there Is no royal
road TO Improvement.
II don't moan 10 say that there may
not he Some machinery that IL better
adapted for the purpose than what We
hvae. bni what I do mean to say Is
that generally speaking, no new ma
chine II going Ia make progress that
might not be accomplished by existing
machinery IL the individual only grows
better and better 1t does not help
matters 10 transfer from one machinery
TO another when the same defects are
going 10 interfere with the second ma
chinery that now appear In the first.
And you ARE not going TO improve
your community by assuming with re-
spect to the new method that 1t Is
going to work better when that new
method IL going To require three times
as much popular attention TO govern-
ment ~ you give today.
An optimist.
Now | am not a reactionary, | am
n progressive. | am not pessimst.
! am an optimist and I believe that
we are going forward. believe we are
on the eve of good times. l believe
things are growing better and am de-
! lighted TO know that there Is solu-
! tlon OF the soft coal strike In the west
and sincerely hope and l believe (
| have some reason to hope, that tho
| hard coal strike In the east Is near
solution. or course, rs president |
| have no jurisdiction In such matter.
| 1t Is only as citizen interested
! deeply In the welfare of all com
munities that would have the right
at any time to offer suggestions to
help solve the difficulties and hope
know enough to know that 1t IL
better to wait and know you are wel-
come than to go 'butting in to q
matter between parties who know their
rights. are able to settle them and
! both OF whom. am sure. desire y
peaceful and satisfactory solution"
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|NSUBORD|NATE men
ARE SHOT DOWN
BY SERGEANT
NON. COMMISSIONED ARMY Off.
GER USES REVOLVER WHEN
THREATENED.

Billings. March 3o.-Sergeant Clar-
ence Britten. in charge of the sylvan
pass entrance to the Yellowstone ma
tional park. shot down two of the men
In his command. one being fatally and
the other seriously injured. according
to Cody (Wyo) special to the
Gazette. sylvan pass IL located 40
miles from Cody and between Novem-
ber and June Of each year the soldiers
stationed there. arc as. much cut Off
| the world as though they We're at the
| north pole
News of the shooting was taken
over the pass to Fahaska. Buffalo
| Bills hotel in the Rockies. by a mes
senger who telephoned to Cody for n
physician, who today started TO Sylvan
pass in an automobile.
| According to the statement of
Sergeant Brltten, he had given an or
der to Frank Carroll, one of his men
and the soldier refused to obey. be-
| ing supported In his INSTRUMENTATION
| by Frank Cunningham another soldier
Of the command. Cunningham Is Z
giant In size and threatened his Of
ficer. who drew his gun and in at
| tempting to enforce obedience was
forced to shoot Cunningham being
shot through the lungs and Carroll
In the arm and side.
Cunningham, one Of the wounded
men. while In Cody on New Years
| day, amused himself in a Cody hote
by shooting off the knobs on n bras.
bedstead and after punishment by tn,
local authorities. was sent to his post
/ where he was compelled to answer e
the military law.
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WILL CONTINUE SERVICE.

Bozcman. March 30.--Official In
formation received In this city this
afternoon is 10 the effect that the
train service on the Trail Creek
branch, which leaves the Northern PA.
eific at Chestnut To serve n number
OF small coal camps, Will be continued
until June l. II had been recently an
nounced That the service would be dis
continued on April l. on January |,
there was "A similar move to abandon
the branch, but 90-day stay was Sc
cured. This IL now extended by Gi
DAYS
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
ALL FOR ROOSEVELT
ARE CORVALLIS
|. PEOPLE
PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS OR.
oANlzE AND CONDEMN STATE
COMMITTEEMAN.

Corvallis, March 30. Especial "A
very enthusiastic meeting of progress
sive republicans was held at the COM
mercial club headquarters rfida5 even
ing resulting In the determination 10
take a very active part in the
ensuing county, state and national
campaign. The chair appointed the
following committee. Joseph Bowden
w. A. Bade ahd r. s. Chaffin. to draft
the declaration and resolutions a
straw vote taken revealed the fact that
TAFT supporters are very scarce In this
neck of the woods IN fact inquiry
throughout The week has failed TO
bring single one To light 4 straw
vote taken al the meeting was In the
ratio of two for Roosevelt TO one for
La Toilette Mr. Thomas was elected
chairman and Joseph coughenour, Jr .
secretary. Another meeting viii be-
held Saturday evening, April 9. at 8
o'clock. The following declaration OF
principles and resolutions were in
dorsed unanimously
We, the progressive republicans 4
Corvallis and vicinity, believing that
the issue has been forced upon. us ias
to whether the people or the interests
shall rule this county and state, have
organized 10 help In the movement for
placing the government OF the county,
state and nation in the hands of the
people so that said government may
be conducted for the people and not
for private interests We hereby de-
clare ourselves In favor of the follow
| ing measures and promise 10 DO every
| thing I'm our power to place such laws
upon our statute books as Will Put
such measures into effect.
I'VE favor Il statewide primary law,
and corrupt practices act along the
| lines advocated In the petitions filed
| with the secretary Of state. and
pledge ourselves To vote for these
measures when submitted at the en-
suing election.
We favor the direct election oi
United states senators.
I'VE favor the initiative, referendum
and recall.
we favor the removal from par
| tisan politics OF the nomination and
election Of judicial officers.
1--WE favor the physical valuation
and taxation OF all railroad properts
In tho state.
We favor real employers
liability act which will protect the lif'
and health of the workingmen Of this
state.
"Resolyed. That we heartily indors'
the course pursued by our progressive
senator, Joseph NJ. Dixon, In represent
ing the whole people OF the state o
Montana.
I'VE condemn the action OF the stat
central committee in refusing to gran
to the republican voters of this state
the right to Express their choice o
candidates by presidential preference
vote to be taken when delegates wer
selected.
I'VE condemn the action of the stat
committeeman from RaValli county II
endeavoring to create the impression
that the voters whom he Represented
were opposed to progressive principles
we recommend that the republican
central committee of Rayalli count
be requested to furnish ballots to tn
. precinct committeeman In order tina
/. the voters primaries may designat
their first and second choice for pres
ident"
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EXCEPTIONS ALLOWED.

Boston, March 30--A bill OF excep-
tions asked by the federal government
in the criminal proceedings against
five officers of the United Shoe Ma
chinery company accused OF havng yio-
lated the Sherman anti-trn law has
been allowed by Judge Putnam OF the
United States district court. The
writ OF error on which the case pro-
ceeds to the United States supreme
court was signed today There are 10
assignments OF error Arguments bc-
fore the high court may take place be-
fore the summer vacation. z
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
RIO GRANDE TO BUILD.

Denver. March 3O,--Ahout 49, 200 900
viii be spent by the Denver q Rio
Grande railroad In the construction OF
liH miles of second track from Helper.
Utah. t. san Lake city. II at the
meeting OF the stockholders called for
April "a the issuance Of $4,000 900
adjustment bonds is authorized A
call for the meeting OF stockholders
was issued today The work from
Helper 10 Salt Lake city VII he to
reduce the grades on Soldier Summit
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
1,TUMiNous AND ANTHRACITE
COAL FIELDS WILL BE AF.
FEcTED az WALKouT.
MAY NOT LAST VERY LONG
indications Are That Hard Coal Work
ers viii Be Out About a Month
Men Expect Increase in Wages
Soft Coal Properties Will he Tied
Up Only Few Days.

Cleveland o.. March 90.-Whle
100000 anthracite" and bituminnus
miners prepared to quit work tomor-
row az midnight, when their present
wage agreements expire, the operators
and union officials took steps today 10
make ~ brief rs possible the stonplge
of coal production. Tho 1900 an.
ihrncitc miners III Pennsylvania ngn.
pared ta uait for an indefinite period,
hnt arrangements were completed 10
day for rcopeniug of negotiation t,
settle their wage dispute. The
operators and miners conference will
he held III Philadelphia April 10.
months suspension In the an
thraclte mines was believed probable
The bituminous miners. after an IL
day conference with the operators
here. have made ~ agreement which
viii give them slight Increase IN
pay As their agreement must be-
ratified by the unions policy committee
and then by referendum vote of tho
union, n suspension in the bituminous
mines will begin pending the results
of the final vote
Reports To the head of the United
Mine Workers of America Indicated
The hltuminous wage agreement would
be accepted generally.
II was stated that the suspension
In all the mines Involved would cause
a loss in coal production to the coun-
try Of ilaOO,O0o tons "A month and the
men would lose In pay 81 Ooo.n00 every
day they remained out
The Increase In pay 10 the bitu-
minous miners secured by their new
contract viii amount to more than
$4,000. 900 a year.
The union contracts in Wyoming.
Montana. washington and Colorado do
not expire on April l.
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Miners Expect Increase.

Philadelphia, March 3o.-That the
suspension of mining In the an
thrnctc coal regions viii not last
more than n month was the expressed
belicr Of coal operators In the hard
coal fields teday when they. learned
that the representatives of the miners
ana the committee of operators will
meet In Philadelphia April 10 to re-
sumo negotiations,
REPORTS from various sections show
the mine workers expect they will be
given an increase In wages, probably
about 10 per cent. and that they VIII
have To recede from some of their
demands,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
NO GRATING.

spokane. March sO.--At the close of
the hearing regarding conditions un-
der which work Is done for the city
today. the city council adopted res-
olution stating that the charges that
employees of the city had been Obliged
to pay for their Jobs and that politics
was being played on city jobs. had no
foundation In fact The charges were
brought by james q Broad. con-
tractor ana tn" taking Of evidence
occupied several days
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
WEST POINT REUNION.

Washington. March 3O.--Scores Of
West Point graduates from all parts
of the country assembled here tonight
for banquet and reunion The at
tendance included member ~ every
class since 1860, many OF the his,i, !;t
officers In the service being present.
One graduate of the class of lS47 was
also present in the person OF Brigadier
General III. q. Gibson
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
SUGAR TRUST JURY
DISAGREES

New York. March 3i.-The jury
In the case Of John r.. Parsons,
Washington r. Thomas. George NJ.
Frazier and Arthur Donner.
charged with violating the Grim
inal clause of the Sherman anti
trust law while directors Of the
American Sugar Refining company.
reported disagreement In the
United States district court shortly
before 1880 o'clock this morning.
The defendants were charged with
conspiracy in restraint of trade In
closing the Pennsylvania Sugar Re
filming company's plant
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
M liners OF BUTTE
ARE AGAINST
STRIKE

Butte. March 30,--Count or the
ballots east hy the Butte Miners
union No, |. western Federation OF
Miners. In Il strike referendum. pre-
cludes any chance of a suspension
or work. AT II o'clock tonight.
the election judges reported that
$500 votes had been counted. show.
ing e.4oD against striking and 400
for. Not quite half OF the ballots
have been counted.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
ALASKA DEMOCRATS.

Valdez, Alaska, March 3O.--The dem
ocratic territorial convention nom
mated Robert w. Jennings, an attor-
ney of Juneau, for delegate to con-
gress tonight: adopted platform
which indorses the Alaskan policy OF
Secretary of the Interior Fisher and
adjourned until Monday.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
HARVEY TO LECTURE.

New York. March 30.--Dr Harvey
w. Wiley closed a contract here to-
day to give 100 lectures In the United
States next season. The tour VIII
begin in October and will include
engagements from Maine to California.
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tion To disturb those things that have
been useful Ia us for 100 years, | am
nevertheless conscious that there IL no
duty heavier on the government at
Washington than that OF seeing to Il
that the government intnrferes ms
little as possible with the progress ~
the enterprises of the country and
assist the inspiration Of confidence in
those whose confidence Is necessary tn
make business 60 and 70 bring about
prosperity,
u am In favor OF the enforcement
of the law. but | believe the law and
business can be squared I'm such 4
way that those who violate the law
may be prosecuted and there may be
an absence OF persecution and no dis.
position TO run amuck for the purpose
of showing that the government al
Washington realizes that 1t has joi
and ls trying 10 make people think
II has.
Americans Conservative.
The American people are the most
conservative people IN the world
While II does seem from the headlines
Of the newspapers ns II they wish t.
discount everything In the future and
have all progress ready the next
morning for breakfast, on the whole
when you got down 10 the stratum ~
solid thinking Americans there are M
people In the world that are so con,
seryative. that recognize good thinl
with the certainty that they do an,
are 80 bound 10 adhere to that gooe
thing as long AS II serves them well
They talk about the present govern
ment and Its defects. We know thu
defects better THAN anybody else ant
we are wiling to point them out
but we also know ms we look about tn,
world that for 125 years we have hat
the best government ever created
That fact. however " not going I,
make ~ reactionary and sit back witt
Il Snug satisfaction that shall reiec
any movement for reform or an,
J movement toward progress. It, on tn
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
HOW THEY'RE STANDING

Washington March sospecialn order that republicans of the
Chicago Roosevelt
following vouched absolute
the delegates being given by
"a Toilette. Unnsruced
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-31
TAFT REFUSES TO INTERFERE
TO SETTLE THE COAL STRIKE

Philadelphia. March 3o.--President
TAFT Was In an optimistic frame Of
mind when ne faced several hundred
members of the Philadelphia Cham
Der Of Commerce. lie told them he
believed the people were on the eve
of better times That things were
growing better and that he believed
there would be no great coal strike.
He said he had no Jurisdiction ia
settling strikes and that he knew
come rather than To go Quitting in
on n matter between parties who
knew their rights, The president said
he was not reactionnry but was u
progressive, he was not pessimist
but an optlmist.
This speech was the first OF several
the president made here tonight. In
the bellevue -Stratfofd hotel he ad-
dressed the Society Of Philadelphia.
Later in the evening he went to Horti-
cultural hall nearby.
| In his first speech, tho president,
after touching on the proposed ma
tlona chamber OF commerce, said IN
part:
Aiding Business Prosperity.
There Is no office that the govern
ment performs more important for
the individual In the community than
the aiding Of business prosperity and
the removal from business progress Of
those obstacles that interfere with
prosperity. II IL when there IL lots
OF business doing, 1t is when every,
body has a job. 1t IL when the wheels
of industry are humming 80 loudly
that you cannot hear anything elst
that the poor and the wage Garner ars
the happIest. II IL when nc Is maxine
good wages and constant wages thaI
everybody In the community Is more
nearly happy than at any other time
While ! don't deprecnte In any way
the movement for real reform ant
lprogress. provided II Is sane and \
not affected with fads and disposi