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GOLDBuRG ANSWERS ,u,rI,,.
Omcinl StenoRraphcr Denies s5.a,o
Could Have Been saved.

Criticism directed against tho a'rangc.
ment made for a stenographio repcri u'
the hearing before the Alderman con
mittee which is investigating the rcl.c,
Department brought reply yes'n,day
from William Goldburg. who has the con
tract. in which he states that lie was chosri,
because Of his superior ability.
"Why did the Mayor permit the state
ment to be made that my brother, Samuol
Goldburg, is a Republican district captain
in Alderman Folks's district without at
the same time making il known that my
brothers appointment was made mum.
Der Of days after my appointment as
stenographer?" he asks.
1T is absolutely false that there would
have been a saving Of $3.50 IL a lower bid
had been accepted, for Mr.. Rice secured
figures which proved that the entire hill
for reporting the hearings would not
amount to more than 5000 or $S00o. Nv
figures indicated that the cost would not
be more than about $500
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WHITMAN AGAIN DELAYED.
Prosecutor Waits in Hot Syringe for
New York Docaments.

Hot SPRINGS, Ark, Sept. 1s.-Exami-
nation OF witnesses in the Rosenthal
murder case before a commission in this
city was again put off for al least two
days by telegram received here late
tonight to the effect that the interrog
atorics were not prepared by the court
in New York until this afternoon and
will not he mailed from that city until
tomorrow morning.
They cannot possibly reach this city
until some time Saturday, and there Is
a possibility that the hearing will have
to go over until Monday.
District Attorney Whitman is con-
siderably worried over this further de-
lay, but says he will remain here until
the work of the commission Is finished
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UNABLE TO LAND AT KATALLA.
Alaskan Railroad Commission BUf-
feted About by storm.

TACOMA. Wash, Sept. ls.-Another
storm on Controller Bay, Alaska, has
prevented the Alaskan Railroad Commis
sion from landing at Katalla. The revenue
cutter Mccullough, bearing the com
mission. has steamed for Seward.
The commission goes to the knik and
Matameska coal field. returning via
Chitana and the Copper River Railroad
It's final visit will be to Katalla and the
Bering coal field.
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You call my attention to an attack on mo
by Rabbi Wise. ] have no III feelinr
years that although he is q preacher y,
seems 10 IA without charity or truthful
ness But we have to hear with such
people. He is mere rhetorician. and vp..
know that rhetoricians from the beginninl
of time have been designated as person
with the crooked mouth. ! snpl'",'
you have heard Rabbi Wise speak
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johnson Pcrturbed.
Then he went on with bis story,

Mr.. johnson was excited and perturbed
when got there because. as he ex planned 1t
he had had some trouble on Broadway the
night before and had been arrested by mis-
take. and among other things he told me
that he had not been treated courteously
hv the lieutenant. whose name was Downing.
Lieut. Downing. He asked me il I knew
Downing and told hlm Yes. that worked
with him. Downing incidentally is the
Lieutenant that always escorted tho Presi-
dent around when he came to New York
President Mckinley. | think | am not
certain about President Mckinley. but
Roosevelt. anyway
lie seemed anxious to get some sort Of an
apology from the Lieutenant and told him
! know Downing and if possible would get
the apology
Ny friend told him | was on the eligible
lls' 10 n Captaincv and he would appreciate
II If he would help me and a. the same time
eNhortcd mo If possible to get Downing 10
make he apology that Mr.. johnson wanted
communicated with Downing. ! don't
know whether h" ever made the apology or
not
Several davs aftervard | went down TO
Mr.. Iohnson's ONCE again and he intro
duccd me to Mr.. HasSrtt. Mr. johnson
asked me my name and how long had been
in the police business and four or flve other
things. He told mo he would try TO help
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here they say is crooked, and he is as
straight as a string. That is Frank
Peabody, There are rumors about
another detective
Tho witness, however did not tell
the name of this other detective.
., Who was II. in your opinion. YOU
thought was to get the 10000 A didn't
know
y And don't know yet? A couldn't
say for sure
u What was your idea; \ Somebody
who was close to Gen Bingham thought
II was to he given to somebody Ia stralghten
ont the knocks ! had. There was a lot Of
rumor about man by the name Of Ezro. |
never met him. All | heard was the rumor
that he was the straightcner out.
He did not think the captains who We're
appointed at the time he was passed over
paid money.
Reith was asked how he happened TO
talk 10 Commissioner Waldo about the
Incident of the $40 600. when he had not
told the three preceding commissioners
of it.
Told Dillon First.
4, was around the time that Gen.
Bingham had begun suit against the
Mayor and had subpPned me as a witness"
He told Fourth Deputy Commissioner
Dillon the story first and Mr.. Dillon I ook
IT to Mr.. Waldo. Mr.. Waldo asked
Capt. Reith if he could find ANYBODY
else who had paid any money" Reth
said he couldn't find any one and got no
evidence On that point.
Keith said he did not know what his
affidavit was to be used for whether il
was to he used al the trial of Gen. Bing-
hams case against the Mayor or not
He gave the name Of John Meehan. a
clerk III cigar store as the friend who
introduced him to Mr johnson.
Gen. Bingham. who followed Capt
! Reith on the stand, was asked. like the
| others, to waive immunity, and readily
asssnted.
He recalled having interviews with
Reith and then explained his system of
promotions and the operation Of the
bureau of Investigation which he estab-
lished to investigate the records of all
/ applicants
| The former Commissioner recalled that
Capt. Keith was very persistent" While
not remembering the specific reasons
for not appointing Keith to captaincy
he knew II was simply because | did not
think he would make good police cap
tain" He said there was such an inter,
view as that described in Reith's affidavit
hut that the language attributed to him,
self was not used.
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Commissioner Waldo said he had first
heard the substance OF the affidavit from
Capt. Reith at Headquarters on the day
the captain made it. He said he did not
send for the captain but that the latter
called on him and told him the facts and
told him he was willing to make affida Wit
10 them and hat he thought the Commits
sioner ought to have them in his posses
sion
Mr.. Waldo said he did not ask Capt
Reith whether he told these facts to Com
missioner Bingham because in the affi-
davit itself it IL explained that he visited
the Commissioner for that purpose. and
apparently did no; succeed in proceeding
further han stated in the affidavit" Mr.
Waldo said Re thought this matter was
covered fully in the affidavit Nor did
he ask the captain whether he had told
the things contained in the affidavit to
Commissioner Cropsev or Baker.
The Commissioner said that at the time
he sent for the captains appointed when
Reith was passed over. but could not
get any further corroborative or separat q
evidence He recalled Capt. Morris
and Capt. Barnes as among those he had
questioned on this point. The captains
questioned denied paying any money for
their promotion.
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Describes SIattcry's Work.

| MIR BuckHer then wanted to know the
| relations between Gen Bingham while
| Commissioner and his secretary. D. q.
Slattery. with reference 10 promotions
| The Gen eral said
Mr.. Slattcry was secretary, with all that
that word implies.
He as well as others had a great deal Of
conversation with me about promotions and
the consideration OF what we would do
Say an elegble list Of ten candidates was
going 10 be promoted would say, "Slattery.
get up II the records We have in the Office and
let me see them first" And then. as the
deputies came in they would he questioned
as to whether they knew these men per
sonaly
q. Did YOU hear rumors from time 10
time Of people on tho outside collecting
money ON the strength OF getting promo
tons: \. Oh. yes, and ! heard rumors
that men paid it, too. But knew Of no
cases whore the men actually paid. think
not
The General said he kept prospective
promot ions 10 himself. writing out the
list with his own hand. then got tho men
promoted together and told them they
were promoted solely by the Commis-
sioner on their records. without any in
| fiuence, and if they paid any money to
anybody they We're foolish.
hHren d. JohnsOn who was confident in
secretary to Mayor Hugh }. Grant and
later was secretary of the Building Do
part ment and under Sheriff, gave a
very different version of the incidents
| related in the Reith affidavit The can
tain. then a lieutenant, he said. came 10
him AT the Sherif's office, brought in by
some man johnson knew. and said he was
candidate for a police captaincy. but
that he thought he didn't have much Of
a chance.
"He said there was something about
his record, as recall it now" Mr.. John
son said,
Says Rrith Made Oner.
After talking to him il might have
been that day or "A day following he
hroached the proposition that these
things were bought and paid for and
that he had or could raise the money
-'Reith, ! said. why. Won are a fool
No one who had any weight with Gen
Bingham would take that kind of money.
Now am through with you
Several times after that he asked me
IL would not help him. He had an idea
because of official business I had had
with Gen Bingham that had some wei ght
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Beth Goes on stand.

Commissioner Waldo was then excused
temporarily. Capt. Reith followed him
waived immunity in writing. He was
appointed to the Police Department on
January 8. 1895, remaining a patrolman
until January l. 1902 or 1908. On Febru-
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Tells Of $4,000 Episode.

Some time after that it might have been
= week or two weeks was on desk duty
in The West Thrty-Sevcnth street police
wanted TO see mo tina, night AT his house.
A soon as was relieved for dinner went
TO Mr- .fohnson's house. which was in
Central Park West. either Sixtv-Hrst or
SiXty-SeCond street. | saw Mr.. johnson in
his drawing room in his shirtsleeves He
told mo he had done what he could for me
and that well. he says. Anyway YOU won't
be passed over. But he saws. The people
that are 10 make the connection TO promote .
YOU want $4,000. or words TO that effect
Reith said this was not his first ex-
perience.
Il was not three months on the police
force before somebody came to mo and
wanted $500 to hav. me detailed to the
Harbor Squad" he said He did not pay
this and he was not detailed He con-
tinued.
Five or six months after that. he said
my grandmother died and lett a little
money to my mother. and the scout heard
about that and they came around and
wanted To make me "a rolindSman for
$500. ] paid the 5000 to Billy Casslne
and waited three or four months and never
heard Of it"
In the meantime. Reith. who saws he
is "a college man and an analyt ical chem
ist =" was transferred to the Central Ofice
squad and was assigned to the bureau OF
ident ntiiication. which was Just being or.
ganiTed. One dav. Reth went on, Chief
ConlOn sent for him.
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Cannot Rem m ber Name.

One captain" the Commissioner said.
said he had gone to see one of these
gentlemen, but he did not alleee any'
wrongdoing" Mr. Waldo could not
tell this captains name.
In view of tho fact that he did not
make any = atement of any ma erial
matter, do not remember VINO he was,
he explained.
Y. Didn't YOU regard it as material that
this other captain went to see one OF these
other men, 4 didn't, because he alleged
there was no wrong doing
q. But yon were seeking CorrobOratio ion
Of this afIidavits 4 | was and did not
secure it
q. And You didn't even take the state
mcnt Of the one man YOU found who stated
he had seen one Of these men; A. Because
il vas of no value in connection with the
case; I was unable to secure any further
Corroboration of this statement. and there
fore the matter was allowed to drop and
would have remained dead if il had not been
Tor this afid avit which you requested to be
furnished to you.
Q. You mean you intended for it to re-
main dead: 4, Absolutely. unless there
was some way OF proving that there was
some " RnS ,'oing, but I cannot see any
reason fr R8ang into the press the names
Of people Of.Dsre out of office and who have
no connect. .eu with the matter at present.
Q. You raked IL in, didn't you? A. No,
] did not, I thought I had an aff1davit to
that effect. and il had you asked me for II,
and there it is
Q. You surely think it matter OF value,
do you not? A II IL a matter OF extreme
importance and great value II 1t can be
proven, hut was unable to prove anything
further in the matter
Didnt Have Enough Data.
Q. Did YOU take the matter I'D with the
sufficient importance to take up with the
District Attorney.
. Didn't YOU think II sight be a good
thing TO let the District Attorney decide
whether it was Of SUFFICIENT Importance or
not? A. did not because I didn't have
sufficient data to take such action.
Mr.. Waldo said heldid not ask Capt.
Keith how 1t happened that he had waited
from May 20, 1911, until February before
taking up the matter with him.
O. Didn't it strike YOU as queer that he
waited all that time? A, He had to take
II up some time
O. Did YOU draw the arndsvit? Al
did not Relth drew 1t In my ONCE
Mr.. Waldo added that Reth dictated
it, "and | may have suggested to him
to remove imma terial matter or some
thing like that in his affidavit He did
not ask Capt. Reith who had taken him
10 johnson $ Office and could not tell
who the man was.
That is your expert knowledge as an
Investigator" asked Mr., Buckner.
~ am not an investigator. the Com
missioner replied.
But in attempting 10 60 TO the very
bottom OF this matter you didn't think
81 important enough to ask him who the
go-between was between him and John
SOM
II did not"
Beth Goes on stand.
Commissioner Waldo was then excused
yApVnora rtIy i'ant R>;th c,IIo-~l -.
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Got Part of Money Back.


me a roundsman." he said 81 told him
atter tha. + rnt nart nr ,he m"nov nant
After Two years in tho nhot ogranh b,,-
reau he was transferred He said he did
not know why he was transferred but
guessed that some friends of ia wrote a
letters about him
- r, - ,.,, ...-,, ,-,
y men 90 you a'lr'p"'e your faiinre
10 be p'omo'eu IN part 10 'he letters that
your itl"hn7 sen' ABOUT you, or Wholly 10
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-02-02
SHRlvER THE 1O8TH
VICTIM OF AVIATION.
Of Tall, Angular Build, He Was One Of
Most Picturesque Fliers.

Tod Shriver, the aviator who was
killed recently in Porto Rico, was born
In Manchester, o., thirty-eight years
ago. He began to earn his living when
boy as a printer on the local paper
in his home town. This job he aeld
until one day a circus came to town
and he got an offer to go along and
look after the tents. For a nuinbe2
of years he stuck the circus business
and made trips around the world.
Drifting back to New York about sew
en- years ago, he met Captain Thomas
s. Baldwin, the veteran air man, who
engaged him to look after the Baldwin
airigible balloon. Later he went to
assist Glenn III. Curtiss in building
aeroplanes. He accompanied Clrtiss
abroad in 1909 and acted as his chief
mechanic at the international meet at
Rheims, when Curtiss captured the
championship trophy for speed.
Shriver was of tall, angular build
and was one of the most picturesque
among the fliers. On their trip abroad
Curtiss proposed that he go as a first
class cabin passenger, but Tod in
sisted that he was only c0mman man
and that second class ticket was good
enough for him. On another occasion
after he had made flights in a west
ern city a reception was proposed in
his honor. Tod told the receptioners
to forget about any social doings and
give him q good check instead.
After leaving Curtiss he built ms
chine and began making flights. he
was one of the first men TO fy by
moonlight and set up record at
the time by remaining up forty-nine
minutes. Later he gave exhibitions
throughout the country. Last Febru-
airy he accompanied Captain Baldwin
to Japan and was decorated. This was
the first time that an aeroplane had
flown in the land of Nippon.
Shriver broke his leg twice In flying
accidents. He had not fully recover
ed from the effects of the last fall. He
said that both accidents were the re-
suit of making ascensions from small
Enclosures.
Shriyer was married about three
years ago. and his wife had accompa
MED him on most of his flying tours.
His was the one hundred and eighth
death to occur as the result of an aero
plane accident. Seventy y-one of the ia
talities have happened this year.
According to recent estimate, the
aggregate distance flown In 1911 is al
ready five times greater than In 1910
and four times as many men are fly
ing. 1t is also found that out Of every
twenty accidents there is one fatality.
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-02-02
DRESSED BEEF AS A TARGET
Two Army Officers Suggest That II Be
Used In Bayonet Practice.

Used In Bayonet Practice.
Punctured steaks and perforated
roasts will be the fare of Uncle Sans
soldiers henceforth If the reeommenda-
tions of two army officers who have
been revising the manual of bayonet
practice are accepted.
These officers declare there Is too
little realism in the life of a soldier to
make him a good fighting man. and
therefore they recommend that they
use dressed beef as target in practic-
ing thrusts with the bayonet. Not un-
till the soldier has actually felt his bay
onet plunge into raw meat and learned
to withdraw it from real flesh in readi-
ness for another deadly job will he
be prepared to carve up the enemy on
the field of battle, these officers de
clare.
There would be no additional ex-
pense attached to this practice, Ii Is
argued. because the sides of beef used
for bayonet practice could be borrow
ed from the company kitchens and re
turned after the bayoneters had finish
ed with them. Clean bayonets, it Is
added. will be sufficient protection OF
the stomachs of the men who are to eat
the beef.
Thus far i'm their course through the
various offices of the war department
the suggestions of these two officers in
this respect have not met with any
markedly enthusiastic reception.
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CHESTNUT TREE PLAGUE.
Department Of Agriculture Starts Cam
paign Against the Disease.

Increased and vigorous efforts to
stay the ravages Of the chestnut bark
disease, which already has destroyed
timber valued at S25,000,000 i'm the
eastern states, are to be made by the
department of agriculture. With this
end In view DR.. Haven Metcalf, in
charge of the work for the bureau OF
plant industry, is taking the question
up with the authorities in those states
where the disease has appeared.
So as to prevent the disease from
spreading down through the Appala-
chian region, where millions of dollars
worth of fine chestnuts exist, q strong
fght will be made in Virginia against
the infection.
New York, Pennsylvania, New J-r-
sey, the southern New England states,
Maryland and the Virginias are the
states in which the disease has appear.
ed. Fighting around 1t In an effort to
confine 1t to the territory already at
tackled is the method which will be
used in trying to save the chestnut
timber outside the infested belt.
"New Jersey, Delaware, Long Island
and the eastern end Of Maryland are
doomed" said Mr.. Metcalf "We must
try to stop the disease from spreading
southwark and westward. 1t has ap
peared only slightly as yet In Virginia
West Virginia, western Maryland and
western Pennsylvania, SO with the ait
Of these states we think we can save
the rest OF their chestnut timber. New
York also has, been attacked only alonl
the eastern side. At conservative es
innate the chestnut stand Of the coun
try is worth between 100000 900 ant
$4O0. .OO0, 900, and as the disease spreads
rapidly 1t would mean a great econom
ic loss to the country II we could no
check the Infection"
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PERSlA'S ARMY Is
OF ORIENTAL TYPE.
III Organized, Unframed and Irregular
Iy Rscruited-Eight Vessels In Navy.

Current statistics of Persia's defense
do not speak well for her army. The
Statesman's Year Book for 1911 says
that "the army Is of oriental type
that is to say, 10 is Ill organized, has
hardly any training and is irregularly
recruited.
"The regular troops consist, accord
ing to the official lists, of seventy nine
battalions of infantry, twenty three
batteries of field artillery and bat
TALON of pioneers. Whether all these
units actually exist is, however, un-
certain. The strength of battalious is
nominally from 600 to 500, and the
batteries have from four to eight guns.
The total strength of the regular
troops does not, it is believed, exceed
10000 men, of whom only about one
half are present with the colors,
much larger number. The irregular
troops amount to about $4,000 district
and tribal horse and an uncertain
number of footmen, all badly or indlf-
ferently armed and Of little value"
Besides this army there is a Cossack
brigade of about 1000 men, equipped
with six Krupp guns, which is quar-.
tered at the capital. They have been
trained by Russian officers, and the
commandant Is a Russian, who takes
his orders directly from the shah.
The last official lists gave the follow
ing figures as the strength of the
army: Infantry, 70 battalions, 63,S6E
men; artillery, IA field and mountain
guns. from 500 to 600 old muzzle load
ers and $500 men, irregular cavalry
1857 men; frontier and road guards
foot, horse and camel, 5,403 men; to
tai, 81 1884.
The Persian navy consists of eight
vessels of light tonnage. two built a.
long ago as 1894.
The population OF Persia is now esti
mated at about 9,5O0,0OO. The mum
ber OF European residents is not more
than 1900 Many of the inhabitants
are nomadics. OF these 100000 are
Arabs, 10000 Turks, 675,OO0 Kurds
and Lexis, 20,7OO Baluchis and gypsies
| and 234 900 Lurs.
Teheran is the largest city in the
| country, with population of 2S0,000
Tabriz has population of 100000. M
other city reaches the 100000 mark
The total public debt of Persia Il
about $27 $4,000. or this amount sh,
| owes S16,500,000 to the Russian gov
ernment and $5.s3o.Oo0 to the Russian
! bank.