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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03
Startling Revelations on the
White Slave Traffic Are Made

conducting the inquiry. Following the
enactment Of the law bringing the
atrical agents under the restrictions
and inspections of a licensing sys-
TEN, it was hoped there would be a
diminution in the number of young
women decoyed to destruction under
the impression that they were securing
legitimate theatrical engagements.
Some of these men have been driven
out of business, but the recent investi-
CATION shows that the authorities
have merely been outwitted, and by a
new device that is proving more bane-
full than the old one. Continental
slavers, whom the fake theatrical
agents formerly for the most part rep
resented, are now advertising directly
for their victims. Tho young woman
who replies is offered a contract with
theatrical troupe, musical sketch
or a company OF dancers. Funds are
advanced to pay her passage to the
continent. She goes to Paris, Berlin
Marseilles, Munich, Vienna, Budapest
or Odessa-the chief 'centers of the
white slave traffic. The stipulated sal
airy seemed all right-at home. But
she soon finds that II is insufficient
for her needs abroad-or the 'im-
pressario' discovers that she doesn't
suit. The contract was one sided. II
protected the man, but not the girl
The inevitable follows.
Commissioner Bullock of Scotland
Yard, in charge of the investigation
says that with the assistance of the
Paris police he took census of Eng.
lish girls now members Of the under.
| world of that city, and found that 50(
Of them had first been engaged II
some capacity as stage performers
Reports of similar character have
come from British consuls In the Other
large cities Of Europe. !.
1.-THE result Of our research" sait
| Bullock. leads me to believe that
| out OF 10 girls who 30 to the continent
for stage careers are ruined. We have
| managed to deal with the local agen'
cies through which these foreign
| managers used to obtain their re-
cruits, but now that they are using thu
press to advertise directly the prob.
] lem Is beyond U.s.
| I'm our campaign Of publicity. II
which we hope to have the support o.
tthe British press. we shall aim to Inn
press upon English parents the abso.
lutte necessity of preventing theil
| daughters signing up with these for.
i Agn managers without first making
i t1puiriss through reputable agency
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03
BY Edward L. Keen

(London Correspondent of the United
Press)
London, Nov. I'm its renewed
investigation of the white slave traffic
Scotland Yard has dug up some amaz-
ing facts.
The inquiry, which was personally
ordered by Home Secretary Mcken-
ma, was inspired by the alarmingly in
creased number of young girls of re-
spectacle parentage reported miss
ing" In one week recently the serv-
ices of the police We're requested in %
cases of this kind in London alone. By
far the greater number, however. are
reported from the provinces.
Various and devious are the meth
DDS employed by the recruiters of the
TRAGIC. Here is a typical instance,
taken from the records of the Yard.
The 1s-year- old daughter Of a clergy
man in the west of England few
weeks ago Travelled to London alone
TO visit some friends. She was strik-
ingly beautiful. a musician of rare
ability. but utterly unfamiliar with
city life. Through mistake as to the
name Of the station her friends did not
meet her. While wandering aimsless-
~ about she was approached by a
benevolent appearing old gentleman
CARRIED in clerical attire. AS she APP
peared to be in trouble he-offered his
assistance. Gratefully. the young wo-
man told him OF her predicament, and
accepted his suggestion that he escort
her TO her destination. But, first
would she not have some refresh
ments? They stopped at neighbor
ing cafe. Two weeks later, the po-
lice found her In one of the most
disreputable dives In London.
Scotland Yard has discovered how
ever, that most of the white slave re-
crufting Is done by means or appar-
emily innocent help wanted" adver-
tisements inserted in the provincial
papers. Lady requires companion
preference to Church of England
Clergyman given); maid wanted fol-
town house," Accomplished house
keeper desired'-these are samples ~
Advertisements which. according to the
investigators, have been the means n
accomplishing the downfall OF hun,
dreds Of country girls, who upon thei
arrival In London were met b!
smooth tongued men or women. takei
to dubious houses. drugged and ruined
But, 1t is the lure of the stage tina
is responsible for the recent increase
IN the traffic. sax officials who ar
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

lotteries. Next month the govern
ment lottery holds it's fifth serial draw
ing, in which over $12,000,006 will be
drawn from the wheel of fortune"
The government takes Is per cent of
the winnings. Aside from the govern
ment lotteries, there are half dozen
lotteries every month, for which the
government gives a concession.
Churches are built by lotteries. ruined
castles restored from money derived In
this way and recently a lottery was
held to build a woman's club.
The Socialist papers, approaching
the effect that lotteries have upon the
working classes, are taking a strong
stand for their abolition as one step
for curbing the gambling mania.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

Paris, Nov. 1.-The artistic struggle
being waged in France has become even
more bitter since the opening OF the
autumn salon. Not only are the paint
ers lighting among themselves, but also
the critics, and to a certain extent, the
public.
Unlike the spring salon. the autumn
exhibition of the fine arts is always
more or less controversial by the very
nature of it's contributions.
OF the 80 American artists represent
ed-15 of whom are women-practically
none comes under the more severe con-
domination OF the French critics. or
the South Americans. of whom there
are perhaps half that number, several
partake little Of the extremely radical
variety. But even their products do
not justify the inclusion of the western
hemisphere in the region denoted by
the critics as of the outer darkness of
barbarism."
Out of more than $50 artists exhibit
ing perhaps 80 fall within the terms Of
the censorship. The fact remains,
however. that public curiosity at the
works Of the 80 has drawn more pat
ronage than any legitimate interest in
the creations Of the remaining $50.
This year the presence Of an unusu-
ally large number of works by the
three leading modern radical camps
post impressionists, cubists and futur-
ists-has made the event even more
exciting than 1t was last year As a
matter Of fact only small proportion
Of the works Of painting or sculpture
exposed are by men belonging to those
schools, although their eccentric can
vases and statues get the lions share
Of attention from visitors.
!. The best critics Of the old school,
writing in such newspapers as lie
Temps" or lie Figaro" attribute q
new reason for the madness" Of the
three schools. It IL that the men who
are painting those queer works In Paris
now are not Frenchmen. blessed with
the excellence Of strict academic edu-
cation, locally derived, but barbarians
+: from the great outer darkness Of
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03
AMERICA may HAVE
ANOTHER Cardinal

Rome, Nov. Vatican authorities
now declare that the new red hat which
il Is confidently believed will go to
America at this falls consistory will
be conferred on a Canadian prelate
instead of one in the United States
In this event, it is conceded there is nc
question but the new American cardi-
nal will be Archbishop Bruchesi of
Quebec.
Should this elevation take place
Pope Plus will be following the prece-
dent established by Pope Leo XIII
who created Archbishop Taschereau OF
Quebec a cardinal. This was the first
and last Canadian cardinal. but this
precedent as well as the strength which
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03
FRENCH DIPLOMATS Blame THE
POWERS FOR WAR RAGING
IN BALKAN STATES
Il Warnings Had Been Sent to Constantinople
Instead Of the Allies, the Conflagration
Might Have Been Avoided

relations are too-well, let's say DELI
cate-to permit of sufficient harmony
among the powers to stave off the
trouble.
England and Germany, on the one
side, are bidding at auction for the
confidence and the friendship of Tur-
key. On the other. Russia and Aus
tria are seeing each others bids for
preference in the Balkans, each trying
to go just a little bit over the others
bid. That's the situation in nut
shell. The powers are willing to go
to Sofia and talk themselves hoarse.
but they are not willing to go to Con-
stantinople and make certain. very
needful suggestions. And until these
suggestions are made, and made firm
ly, in a way that Turkey knows they
ARE meant. the war-flames will mount
higher and higher in the near east and
sparks will fly.
The Armenian Massaeres.
THE Balkan governments say
Christians are prosecuted by Mos
lens. Everybody knows the terrible
massacres in Armenia in 1904, 1905 and
1906, when hundreds OF Christians
were cruely butchered by the Moham-
medans The powers put out a re-
straining hand, secured indemnities
! even. but Turkey was never forced to
| make any reforms. And these re-
forms are now what the Balkan states
are demanding.
England is afraid she will lose
something If she interferes. because
| she has so many Mohammedans among
her subjects. She IS eager, too, for
Turkeys friendship. Germany wants
| to be Turkeys best friend, and doesn't
care to act enersetically for fear Eng
land will get the better of her.
| And so there you are
| The agent observed that national
and international selfishness is to
blame for the war. The attitude is
one which, IL observed by. an indi-
viduar, would stigmatize him as a cow
ard and brute. willing to see butch
cries. massacres, anything, just so that
through 1t all, out of the rivers of gore,
he could pull out something which he
wanted.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03
BY William Philip simms.
paris Correspondent of the Unite'

(FarlS Correspondent OF tue OHitcu
Press.)
Paris, Nov. 2.-"On to Constantine
ple!" This IL the cry which French
diplomats are raising. for they say that
IL the conflagration in the Balkans is
to be quenched by the powers acting
in the role Of firemen, the water to do
it with is only to be had in the CAPT
tai of the Turks.
"All the world is ready to say to the
Servians, the Montenegrins and the
Bulgarians: Quit your rowing but
when it comes to telling the Turks to
be good and agree to reforms under
the control Of Europe, why, there is a
painful silence"
An Illyrian diplomat made this re-
mark at the dinner table of a French
statesman. He mada 1t in all polite
ness, observing the courtesies of men
Of his profession, but he was terribly
in earnest. And what's more, the
French statesman agreed with him, and
said so.
"At London and Berlin" the diplomat
continued, "the advice to Turkey is
particularly conspicuous by it's absence.
Had this not been the case. there would
capitals. especially, were guilty Of hest
tation and in cases Of this kind, to
hesitate Is to be lost.
Suggestions to Powers.
! France has more than once, in the
past, as well as upon this OCCASION
suggested to the powers that they act
in unison, demanding first that the
Balkan states forget all idea Of terri
torial expansion. secondly that Tur-
key furnish certain reforms desired by
the Balkans. And the powers have
always agreed as to the first point just
as they have failed to gibe upon the
second. This failure to agree has been
notorious.
] why? Simply on account Of the
ljealousness, not to say enmities. be.
tween the two groups which keep the
balance for peace in Europe. The lily
|rian peninsula has often threatened to
declare war on Turkey but the pow.
ers have usually succeeded In squelch-
+, ing the desire. This time. however
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

total disregard Of the provisions Of the
convention, all complaints from the
Portuguese government passing I'M
needed.
The result of this traffic Is that Por-
tuguese emigration to the two Ameri-
can continents, which a short time ago
averaged only 10000 to 10000 annually,
has now increased to over 1900. and
the country districts. especially in the
north, are threatened with rapid de-
population.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

the Catholic church has acquired In
Canada are declared to be sufficient
to insure that the present archbishop
of Quebec will fall heir to the purple
of his predecessor.
Pope Plus is also declared to be very
favorably disposed towards Monsignor
Bruchesi because of the services he
rendered in making the Eucharistic
congress at Montreal two years ago q
notable success
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

royalty may go to the front to nurse
the wounded soldiers of the allies in
the Balkan war. Queen Helena Of
Italy longs to be of service to her fell
low countrymen. the Montenegrin
soldiers. The queen is very practical.
humane woman, with a big heart, and
the people of Montenegro adore her She
Is as popular with the people of Italy
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

and there Is no doubt how the general
public would stand on the question OF
siding with Montenegro II that prob
lem arose.
Princess Alice Of Greece. who 10 one
Of the most popular members of the
royal family, has announced her inten-
ton of joining band of nurses who
will soon go to the front. She Is the
wife Of Prince Andre of Greece, who Is
the second son of King George.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

Roger Bresnahan's ST. Louis Card
mails were the only National league
team to win series from an American
league outfit this fall-and then Roger
gets the gate What's the use?
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

The Giants lost worlds series with
Charley Faust chasing the jinks. and
repeated the losing stunt without the
services of Charles That shows an
average of 500 per cent for the KAN
Sas bug
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03
To Discuss Security Of Air Craft.

Paris, Nov. 2.-The latest, models of
military and naval air craft form the
most conspicuous feature Of the avia-
ton salon which opened in Paris to-
day, to continue through the greater
part of the week. In connection with
the exhibition there is to BIO con-
ference Of aeronautical experts of all
nations to discuss the momentous
problem of security OF aeroplanes.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

Must Be Expensive.
That's very handsome stone, Mrs
Wopsley. What kind is it?" A lapsus
lazuli, I think"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

Beaten
Come on. Mamie. There's no uce
arguin' with her. She kin make twice
as bad faces as you kin.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

Uncle Ed-"Why, Johnnie, you don't
swear, do you 2" Johnnie-"No, / don't
swear, but l know all the words"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-04-29
DIR. PEARSONS DIED
AS HE HAD WISHED
Givsr Of Millions Comparatively
Poor When End Game.

Chicago, April 29-Dr. Daniel X.
Pearsons, the aged philanthropist, is
dead in a sanitarium at Hinsdale.
He was ninety-two years old and in
recent years had given away more
than $4,000, 900 to small colleges, chief
ly In the Middle West. He died a
comparatively poor man.
Pneumonia, with complications due
to cid age, was the cause. For sew
eTal days he had been sinking, a pa
tient in an institution where he main
tanned himself on an income OF $4,000
year paid him by a college to which
he had contributed s250,000 on the
condition that he would be given
per cent of that amount annually for
the rest of his life.
DR.. Pearsons began giving money to
needy colleges in 1888 and he gave OF
his wealth in sums ranging from $10,-
900 to S495,00. To one institution,
Beloit college, in Wisconsin, he gave,
In all, about 100000
IL was DIR. Pearsons who declared
that giving away money was a greater
sport than baseball and more fun than
any other form of entertainment.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-04-29
HARVESTER SUIT TO
nr - STARTED SOON
Minnesota District AttorneySum-
mOned to Washington.

st. Paul, April 29.-Prosecution of
the International Harvester company
probably win be started in ST. Paul
within the next few weeks.
G. C. Houpt. United States district
attorney, left on hurry call from
Washington for a conference with the
United States attorney general. 9th
er officials in his office and at the fed
eral building refused to discuss Mr..
Houpt's business in Washington.
Reports came from Chicago that pa
pers are soon to be filed in the case
against the harvester company In st.
Paul, looking to the dissolution of the
alleged trust.
j. E. Leisses, general agent in Min
neapolis for the International Harves-
ter company, declines to discuss the
possibility of a suit, saying that he
knows no reason why such suit should
be filed
The Minneapolis Office of the Inter
national Harvester company, with the
Office and shipping departments in the
Midway district, handles the business
of about half the state. The company
has many important Offices In this dis
trict, reporting directly to Chicago.
those at St. Cloud, Winona, Eau
Claire, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot,
Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Aberdeen.
Watertown and Mason City being the
most important.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-04-29
ORIENTAL COMMERCE GROWS
koenIg Albert christened at Danzig,
Germany.

Danzig, Germany, April 29.-The
dreadnought battleship Koenig Albert,
named for a former king of Saxony,
was launched here. The present Sax
on king, Frederick August, was pres
ent and made speech and his sister,
Princess Mathilda, christened the yes-
sci.
The Koenig Albert practically Is
identical with the battleships Kaiser,
Kaiserin and Frederick Der Crosse. 1t
has q tonnage of 24,500 and Is armed
with ten 12-inch and fourteen 6-inch
guns. The specifications demand a
speed of twenty-one knots.
The warship's turbines are adapted
for the consumption OF either coal or
oil fuel. She has five turrets, three OF
which are on the center line, fore and
aft, and the other two amidships. The
cost of construction is $4,000 900.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-04-29
MAY KILL HOMESTEAD BILL
Senate conferees Fail to Appear to
Act on Borah Measure.

Washington, April 29-The con-
ferees ON the Borah three-year home
stead bill were unable to hold meet
ing because of the failure of the SEN
ate conferees to appear. The house
conferees met. The matter went over
until next week.
voicing the sentiment of the house
conferees Representative Mondell Of
Wyoming said:
'It must be remembered that both
the house and the senate have passed
reasonably acceptable three-year
homestead bills and 1t should not be
overlooked that it Is the insistence
OF the conservationists OF the retention
of the amendments already voted
down In the house that is responsible
for seriously delaying action on the
conference report. Not only is 1t de-
laying it, but 1t may ultimately result
IN its defeat"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-04-29
WILL TRY HIS HAND AT ALL
Cincinnati Executive to FamiIiarize
Himself With City Work.

Cincinnati, April 29.-Mayor Henry
T. Hunt of this city proposes to famil-
iarize himself with the various public
service departments In a decidedly
novel manner.
The mayor will make most sweep
ing investigation or inspection, not as
O mere onlooker and recipient of infor-
nation such as his subordinates may
be able to tell him, but to mingle in
person with the laborers of the street
and the many other employees of this
city.
Cincinnati's chief executive will
travel a patrolman's "beat" for a
night, will don the garb of the white
wings" and assist in sweeping the
streets, and viii even go so far as to
try his hand at driving one of the ash
carts.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-04-29
WATTERSON FLAYS
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
Says Ex-President Is as mad
as a March Hare"

Louisville, KY, April 29.-Under the
Henry Watterson says in the Courier
Journal:
THE spectacle of president of the
United States engaged in an unseen
ly public quarrel with an ex-president
OF the United States may be, as the
saying hath 1t, a sight for Gods and
men, but from the viewpoint Of a
people proud equally Of their country's
dignity and power among the nations
of the earth, it Is tragical.
Zone is moved to ask, Is the White
House worth Ii to either of them?
IF that one of the Caesars who goes
by the name of Nero was insane,
Theodore Roosevelt, aspiring to be an
imitation Caesar, Is insane.
THAT is the long and the short OF
1t. The man Is maniac. He knows
not clearly what he does, or says.
Never an utterance Of his will bear
discussion or dissection. Never an act
of his can be defended. That he
should cast friendship to the winds,
intellectual dignity to the dogs. his
own antecedents to kingdom come,
were proof enough that he Is mad; as
mad as Hamlet.
THAT few self-seeking politicians
and traitorous newspaper editors
should follow him is proof only that
vanity and greed are still factors to
be reckoned with in public life That,
outside of these. he gets any votes at
all is proof of the adage that a fool Is
born every minute and that the poor.
est fake prophet can get up religion.
and any quack doctor richly profit
able patent medicine"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-04-29
VESSELS HELD
BACK BY ICE
Three Ships Close at Hand
When Titanic Sank.
CAPTAIN MOORE TESTIFIES

Commander of Steamer Mount Tenn
pie Tells of Intercepting Wireless
Calls for Help and Says He Imme-
dately Turned His Course Toward
the Crippled Liner.
Washington, April 29-Two steam
ers and schooner were only a short
distance away from the Titanic, ac-
cording to the testimony of Captain
James III. Moore of the steamship
Mount Temple before the senate COM
mittee investigating the tragedy. Ice
was the barrier that held back vessels
hurrying to the rescue.
The Mount Temple intercepted the
Titanic's calls for help, Captain Moore
said, and Immediately he turned his
ships course toward the crippled liner.
On his way he raised the light of a
schooner within few miles of the
scene of the tragedy and coming from
that direction
When day broke, to disclose a great
field of ice ahead, the Mount Temple
discovered tramp steamer close by.
The identity of neither schooner nor
tramp was fixed.
Captain Moore read a long list of
messages from the Titanic, intercepted
by the Mount Temples operator. 1t
virtually was complete record of the
wireless appeals sent out by the
doomed vessel and Senator Smith
cemplimented the witness for his
thoughtfulness in bringing it.
Survivors Will Testify.
Samuel Goldenberg and several 9TH
ers from New York, representing the
committee of Titanic survivors, have
arrived in Washington. Chairman
Smith said they came to testify as to
the whereabouts of Captain Smith of
the Titanic and j. Bruce Ismay, man
aging director of the international
Mercantile Marine, on Sunday evening
before the accident.
Second Officer Lightoller of the tt
tanic was recalled. Senator Smith
questioned him as to his knowledge
Of the crew of the ship. Mr.. Lightoller
said he knew them all
do you know Louis Klein asked
the senator.
"No sir. There was Klein, a sec.
ond class barber, on board. / knew
him personally"
did he survivor
"No, sir"
Louis Klein gave out statement In
Cleveland making sensational charges.
He was brought here to testify and
promptly disappeared Lightoller said
he saw Klein in Senator Smiths Of
fee and he was not the barber. The
officer then was excused.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-04-29
STEAMER CRASHES INTO DOCK
Wrecks Section of Pier and Sinks
Smaller Vessel

Seattle, April 27-Several persons
were injured, the sound steamer Tele-
graph was sunk and the Coleman dock.
one of the finest passenger piers on
the Pacific coast, was wrecked when
the Alaskan Steamship company's big
steel steamer Alameda got beyond con-
berth and plowed through the dock.
As far as known no lives were lost.