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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-10-25
ROOSEVFLT'S SPIRIT
IS ADMIRED BY ALL
ROOSeveItS UtteranCeS While Bleeding
from an ASSaSSin'S Wound

Attempting to speak, just after a
would-be assassin had fired bullet in
to his body, this is what Theodore
Roosevelt said in Milwaukee. He said
it with possible death awaiting the re-
suit of his wound. How we'll he ex-
pressed not merely the spirit animating
him personally but the spirit of the
Progressive party. Here are his words:
Friends, shall have to ask you to
be as quiet as possible. l do not know
whether you fully understand that l
have just been shot, but it takes more
than that to kill Bull Moose. But
fortunately I had my manuscript hold
ing up manuscript, showing audience
where bullet had gone through, so
you see I was going to make long
speech.
''And, friends, the hole in it is the
one the bullet went through, and it
probably saved it from going into my
heart.
THE bullet is in me now, so that
I cannot make a very long speech.
But I will try my best.
''And now, friends, want to take
advantage of this incident to say as
solemn word OF warning as I know
how to my fellow Americans.
First OF all, want to say this about
myself: l have altogether too many
important things to think of to pay any
heed or feel any concern over my own
death.
Nov l would not speak to you in
sincerely within five minutes OF being
shot. I am telling you the literal
truth when I say that my concern is
for many other things. 1t is not in
the least for my own life.
II want you to understand that am
ahead OF the game anyway. No man
has had happier life than l have had
"a happier life in every way.
It have been able to do things that
1 greatly wished to do, and I am in
terested in doing other things.
81 can tell you with absolute truth
fulness that I am very much uninter-
ested in whether am shot or not.
1T was just as when was colonel
of my regiment, I always felt that a
private was to be excused for feeling
at times some pangs Of anxiety about
his personal safety, but I cannot un-
derstand a man fit to be colonel who
can pay any heed to his personal safety
when he is occupied, as he ought to
be occupied, with the absorbing de-
sire to do his duty.
81 am in this cause with my whole
heart and soul; l believe in the Pro-
gressive movement-a movement for
the betterment of mankind, movement
for making life little easier for all our
people, movement to try to take the
burdens off the man and especially the
woman in this country who is most op-
pressed.
IT am absorbed in the success OF
that movement. feel uncommonly
proud in belonging to that movement.
Friends, I ask you now this eve
ming to accept what I am saying as
absolute truth when l tell you l am not
thinking of my own life or of anything
connected with me personally.
81 am saying this by way OF intro
duction because I want 10 say some
thing very serious to our people, and
especially to the newspapers.
81 don't know who the man was
who shot me tonight. He was seized
by one Of my stenographers, Mr.. Mar
tin, and I suppose is in the hands OF
police now.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-10-25

J. B. Violette went to Wenatchee
Thursday afternoon and returned the
following day.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-10-25

Get butter wrappers at Echo Office. /
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
STRIKE OF TRAINMEN
IS EXPECTED TODAY
Pennsylvania Employes East OF
Pittsburgh Awaiting Word
to Quit.

PHILADELPHIA, June PA strike
of all the conductors trainmen, and
fremen employed on the lines of the
Pennsylvania railroad east Of Pitts
burgh is expected to be called today,
when all of the votes that have been
cast during the ten days canvass that
has been conducted since the railroad
refused the employees demands and the
men refused to arbitrate. will be
counted.
These votes have been coming in to
the general committee of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen. Firemen,
and Conductors by the thousand during
the past few days, and members of the
committee say that more than four
fifths favor a strike. The situation has
become so acute ana the strike is 30
likely that the Pennsylvania railroad
has made preparations to employ strike
breakers as crews for its trains in the
evenf of the strike becoming a reality
The company has intimated that 1t
will ask for another conference with
the general committee of the employes
before the count Is made IN order tc
avert the strike that General Manager
Long admits the men have voted for
About two-thirds of the members OF
the general committee have arrived II
Philadelphia. The rest will arrive to-
day. If they refuse the conference witt
Mr.. Long, or IL II is granted and end
In dissatisfaction, the strike of $500
men will be called as soon as the result
of the voting is announced late today.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
PRINTERS
MUST WAIT WHILE
FOR HOLIDAY WAGES
Shortage At G. P. o. May
Cause Shift In Funds
At Big Printery.

A shortage in the funds OF the Govern
ment Printing Office to cover wages OF
the employees for holidays has resulted
in more than half Of the men and wom-
en- employed in that establishment hav-
ing to go without their pay for last
Memorial Day.
Until Congress acts favorably upon
the urgent deficiency bill now before
that body. which contains an item to
cover this shortage, the employees will
have to do without this amount unless
transfer of funds is made.
Public Printer Donnelly said today he
feared II would be necessary to trans
fer something like $500 from other
funds to that covering holiday salaries,
unless the bill in question receives i'm
mediate consideration by Congress.
large number of holidays have oc-
Cured during the current fiscal year.
the fund for paying holiday salaries
was depleted before half the Gov
ernment Printing Office employees were
paid for Memorial Day. Long before
May 80, the officials realized that this
diately called on Congress for as
distance. In the deficiency bill Mr..
Donnelly caused to be inserted an
item of $500 to be used for this
purpose. Thus far. Congress has
taken no action on the bill, and the
employees have suffered as conse-
quence.
''The employees will receive their
money, but they may have to wait
some time" said the Public Printer.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
SHOTS EXCHANGED
ALONG BROADWAY
New York Police Catch Alleged
Robbers IN Auto
mobiles.

NEW YORK, June 24.-Thirty shots
were exchanged between police de-
tectives and four alleged robbers in
lower Broadway today as the latter
were making Off in an automobile
with $4,000 worth of feathers and
plumes taken from the African Feath-
er Company's building. No one was
wounded, but the detectives succeeded
in halting the automobile in front Of
Grace Church, and arresting the four
men.
The police had received advance in
formation that an attempt was to be
made to rob the feather store, and de-
tectives, who were stationed in the
vicinity, discovered the men leaving
the building with suit cases and bun
dies.
Entrance had been effected boldly by
blowing a hole through the wall of
the adjoining building with dynamite.
In police court the prisoners were
held without bail. They gave their
| names as Morris Fishman, Joseph
Goldstein, Harry Cohen, and Joseph
Earle.
This is the fifth arrest in burglaries
of this kind made by Capt. Dominick
! Henry's men in the last month. In
| several of the other cases the bur-
glars used an automobile in their op-
erations.
The precinct is full of loft buildings,
and is a tempting one for burglars,
] especially on Saturday night and Sun
day morning.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
TWO SMALL FIRES
EXTINGUISHED TODAY
Engine Company, On Way To
One Blaze, Hurries To
Another.

Responding to an alarm this morning
for fire in the automobile repair shop
OF F. A. Acker, in the rear Of $40 New
Jersey avenue northwest, members Of
No. IA engine company discovered an
other blaze and stopped long enough to
extinguish It before going to the frst
fire.
The engine company had just started
for the fre in the automobile shop when
a man came running down the street
waving his arms. He told them there
was a blaze in the department store of
S. Kann, Sons & Co., Eighth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. Know
ing that three other engine companies
would go the fre for which there had
been an alarm. the driver turned his
horses around and went to the depart
ment store.
The blaze there was caused by a pan
OF grease catching fire and was ex-
tinguished before any damage had been
done.
The fire in the repair shop was caused
hv a can of gasolene overfowing. The
damage was SIS. BY the time No. Il
arrived the blaze was out and the other
companies on their way home.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
CONVENTION FUND
AIDED BY MAGNATES
Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Others
Contribute To Help Hygiene
Meeting.

Andrew Carnegie and John D.
Rockefeller are among the contribu-
tors to the expenses OF the Fifteenth
International Congress on Hygiene
and Demography which meets in
Washington September 1928. Each
has subscribed $4,000. Other we'll
known contributors in the list. which
is made public today for the first
time, are Cyrus Mccormick. OF Chi
cago; Jacob Blumenthal. Of New York
the Russell Sage Foundation, and
Col. II. l.. Higginson. Of Boston. Each
has contributed $1,000. Mrs. E. H.
Hartman has given $4,000 and James
II. Patten, OF Chicago, and Jacob
Schif, of New York. $1,000 each. An
anonymous contributor has also given
So, 900.
In all about $4,000 has been sub
scribed by private individuals. An
additional $4,000 Is being raised In
Washington for the entertainment OF
the congress and the convention OF
the American Public Health Associa-
ton. which meets about the same
time.
The expenses OF the congress are
estimated to reach $4,000. or this
the United States has appropriated
$4,000
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
ANACOST|A FIGHTS
TO OBTAIN BETTER
DELIVERY SERVICE
President Burr, of Citizens
Association, Is First Wit
ness Before Examiner.

Charles r. Burr, president Of the Ana
costa Citizens Association, received a
lengthy cross-examination today by at
tcrneys for the railroad and express
companies which are resisting the effort
of the Anacostian association to get the
same freight and express delivery serv-
ice other parts of the District enjoy
Mr.. Burr was the opening witness In
the hearing before Examiner g. p.
Boyle, of the Interstate Commerce COM
micsion.
The Anaccstians seek three things:
"Store-door'' delivery of freight, free
express delivery from substations of the
express companies In Anacostia, and
trunk transfer service by the Union
Transfer Company.
"Sttre-door" freight delivery means
free delivery of freight to merchants, a
service given In Washington south of
Florida avenue. A hearing has already
been held by the commission on COM
plant of merchants on Fourteenth
street north of Florida avenue, Caesar
Cassassa, a fruit dealer being the com
plainant. The principal in this case is
somewhat the same as in the Anacostia
petition, so far as that relates to freight,
and the commission may rule on the two
simuts neously.
Mr.. Burr's testimony on direct EXAM
ination set forth mainly the facts al
legged in the complaint that Anacostia
people are not getting what other Dis
trict citizens are. with respect to ex-
press service he testified that unless
Anacostians go to the suboffices In per
son an extra charge Is made for de
IN tna
T. b. Harrison. attorney for the Adams
and Couthern Express companies, ask
ed Mr.. Burr II residents of Anacostis
are not in the habit of going to the
suboffice ito wait for their packages
just as in a country villagge people e
to wait for the mail"
mo indeed" replied Mr.. Burr with
| spirit. "Anacostia is a good deal more
| than a country village. I'll show yo,
! II you will come down.
II hope to have the pleasure" re-
turned Mr. Harrison.
B. p. Kerfoot for the United States
Express Company piled the witness
with many questions in the hope OF
showing that express business Is ir-
| regular rather than regular, that the
merchants of Anacostia get most OF
their consignments by freight or by
wagon delivery of wholesale estab-
| lishments.
| Anacostia Is represented at the hear
Ing by Attorneys Frank A. Bright and
A. f. Beck. Present today to testify
were J. w. Latimer. L. w. Thompson
and william Mushake. Mr.. LatimeI
| is in the District Surveyors office, and
Mushake and Thompson are merch.
| auts of Anacostia-
The plaintiffs will seek to show tha
the District Commissioners have held
Anacostia an integral part of the city
| of Washington.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
Realty Transfers

1888 and 1885 street northwest and T street
northwest. between Seventeenth and Etgh-
teenth streets-ViTginia w. l.. Brunetti
duchess D'ArcOs) to Woodbury. Bl1Lr, all
interest in lots l56 and l57, square lS2 and
north one-half original lot 19. square 1852.
$40.
Linthicum Estate-Edward s. McKnew to J..
Eakin Tadsby, lot 8. $40.
80 X street Observation-Disclosures TreneaT
to Galnel A. Jacobs and others (heirs OF
John G. Trenear). all interest in lot 8,
square ia, $4,000.
S75 Hoontoon court southwest-Glenn Brown
ct uX. to William b. Lord, lot a. square
50S. SO. william b. Lord conveys same
property to Mary f. Brown. $40
l24S Twenty-frst street nOrthwest-Maria
McDonough to Daniel McConville, lot %.
square 10, So
Randle Highlands-Roger Melting ct ux to
Nellie NJ. Estabrook, lot s. square 55S7, $40
lO1l Third street northeast-John J. Ash L.
Mary A. Murphy. lot II, square IA, $40,
326 Tenth street southeast-Roger Melting et
ux. to Nellie NJ. Estabrook. lot 2s, square
go $40.
sos c street southwestIMary c. Green ia
Giroamo Burruto and Teresa Buruto, paTt
original lot IS square $50 $40
Tennessee avenue northeast. between G and
d streets-James d. Burn ct ux. tC
Charles T Hobb, lots &c 81. 2S square
1882. so.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
ROOSEVELT'S WORDS
STIR THE HOUSE
Congressman Campbell and Heflin
Read Utterances Of Colonel
Concerning Taft.

There was a serious emotional dis
turbanoe in the House this afternoon.
occasic ned ythe reading of two utter
ances of Theodore Roosevelt.
Congressman Phil Campbell Of Kan.
sas asked that the clerk read the letter
Of Roosevelt written in 1905, in which he
praised William Taft. then only a can.
didate for President. The reading Of
this letter produced huge Joy on the
conservative Republican side. Although
the letter was long, no Democrat OBJ.
jected.
Immediately on it's conclusion, how
ever, the joys were chased away by
glooms on the minority side of the
House by the request of Congressman
Hef1in of Ala abama that a statement
made by Roosevelt at Chicago. This
statement tnveighed against the fraud
in the last Of delegates and declared
that he would not be bound by the
action of convention so tainted. The
Democrats found much satisfaction
in thus viewing Republican schism
while the Taft Republicans sat ST.
lently and smileless.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
H|LLES IS DOOMED
FOR GUARDIANSHIP
Of NEWCOMM|T
Believed All Roosevelt Sup
porters Will Be Forced
Out.

CHICAGO, June 24.-when the new
Republican national committee was
called to order at 10 this morning the
Taft members were slated todominate
all the action of the committee, and
prophesies were made that most, not all,
of the Roosevelt committeeman will be
forced out. The election Of Charles d.
Hilles, President Taft's secretary, as
the new chairman, was talked of by the
Taft men as a certainty Hilles re-
mained in Chicago today, as President
Tafts personal representative. Col.
Roosevelt planned to leave for oyster
Bay late today, but it was not expected
that his presence here would have any
influence upon the organization OF the
national committee.
OF the Roosevelt members of the COM
mittee, William Finn, Of Pittsburgh.
and william Allen White, the Kansas
editor, have resigned. Today there were
ten members Of the committee who IA
vored the Colonel.
Immediately following the call to
order, 1t was planned to ask each men,
ber to sign a pledge to support the
nominee of the convention. Because Of
the clause in the resolution adopted be-
fore adjournment Of the convention Sat-
urday night which gives the committee
itself power to fill all vacancies. Gre
ated by death or otherwise the ousting
Of the Roosevelt men was looked for
If they refused to sign the pledge.
The ten Roosevelt supporters still In
the committee are Russ Avery, Cali
fornia; Frederick Hale, Maine; l. a.
Casewell, Minnesota; Borden D. Whit
Ing, New Jersey; w. F. Brown, Ohio;
w. 8. Edwards, West Virginia; William
B. Jackson, Maryland: r. b. Dowell.
Nebraska Richmond Pearson, NORTH
Carolina, and G. c. Priestley, Okla
homa.
The committee will elect a chairman
for Massachusetts. The deadlock in
the Massachusetts delegation, Is eight
cen for Taft and eighteen for Roosevelt.
prevented the reelection of Senator
Murray Crane. The prospects were
early today that Crane would be re-
elected. and that Senator Penrose OF
Pennsylvania, Arthur l. Vorys, of Ohio,
and Victor Rosewater, of Nebraska.
would be given tteir old places as CON-
mitteenen.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
French Liner Arrives
Manned By Navy Crew

NEW YORK, June 24.-The French
from Havre manned by $50 men from
the French navy. including sailors, en-
gineers, and firemen. The unusual
crew was necessary because of the sea-
mems strike at Havre, which the crew
of La Provence recently joined.
The naval crew handled the strange
ship without mishap. but the passage
was slower than usual, as the firemen
were unfamiliar with the boilers and
We're unable to maintain speed
The delay occasioned by the strike
caused most of the cabin passengers
who had booked on La Provence to sail
by other steamers.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
PULLING WHISPERS
IS EXPENSIVE FUN
Youth Fined $40 For Enjoying
Sport At Aged Mans
Expense.

"Fun," which involved the pulling Of
an aged mans whiskers, caused Clin-
ton Wells. nineSa cen years old. to pay a
fine of SO in the Police Court this mprn-
ing.
Morris Garfield, an octogenarian. took
the witness stand and told the court
that the Wells boy and several compan-
ions crowded around him in II street,
near Fifteenth street northeast. Satur-
day night and repeatedly pulled his
lirsute appendase. Vixen asked IL he
considered the assault serious the old
man answered in the negative.
1t hurt a little,'' he said. "and l
asked them to stop" Witnesses for
young Wells declared that the boys
we've merely having fun" with the
old man. The cour. imposed the ffne
after giving Wells a reprimand on
showing disrespect to his elders.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
Alleged Embezzlement
Case Is Continued

Counsel for William T. Finn, the at
torney of 528 Twenty-third street north
west, who was arrested by Central Of
flee detectives yesterday afternoon
charged with embezZlement of money
from Miss Madeline Hewitt, of 2222 H
street northwest, asked for a continu-
ance of their clients case in the Police
Court today. The case has been set
for July 2.
Miss Hewitt declared to the District
Attorneys assistants, when asking the
warrant for the lawyers arrest, that
Finn embezzled $3.50 from an estate In
Martinsburg, W. Va, the rightful
property OF her mother, her sister and
herself. Mr.. Finn declares that his ar
rest is a mistake and that everything
will be proven in his favor when the
case Is tried
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
Looking For a Job
To Pay Wife Salary

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June A.-"Mar-
ried but week and being bossed al
ready" said Edmund Trowbridge Dana,
Harvard instructor. and grandson of
Longfellow, as he and his bride. the
heroine of Harvards socialistic we'd
ding, were enjoying an airing on the
Longfellow estate.
You're a bad boy" said the dainty
bride. and smiled. When asked about
the scheme of paying his Hilfe sal.
airy, Dana said:
Just at present l am looking for a
job, so the profit-sharing isn't causing
any serious trouble"
But We shall share and share alike
when Mr.. Dana gets a job," said the
bride of week. thus disposing of that
question.
How about the simple life business.
, with fewer servants much less furni-
ture, and one meal day." asked the
interviewer
There's no immediate danger of our
worrying about any surplus servants,
said Dana, with a chuckle.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
WHISTLER PAINTINGS
WILL NOT BE MOVED
Despite Protest of Biographer,
Collection Is To Remain In
the Museum.

paintings and etchings by Whistler,
part of the Freer collection in the Ma
uonal Museum, will hang indefinitely
the way they are now in spite of the
criticisms made by Mrs. Joseph Pen
nell. biographer of Whistler. Mrs
Pennelrs complaints are voiced in an
article written for a New York news
paper.
The Whistler paintings, by far the
most valuable modern works which
Washington has ever sheltered, are de-
clared by Mrs. Pennell to be hung in
bad lighting and she further charges
that their arrangement as respects
grouping is most inartistic.
Few persons were in the Museum to
see the pictures the day Mrs. Pennell
visited the collection and complaint is
also made of that.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
District Institutions
Lack Food Supply

The delay in making the District
appropriation hill a law is giving the
city officials considerable concern. The
Commissioners, under the organic act.
have no right to make or let con-
tracts for which the appropriation
has not been made.
George S. Wilson, secretary of the
Board of Charities. has turned in
reuuisitiuns for $4,000 for food sup
plies for the different penal and char
liable institutions which will be need
ed at the beginning of the month, but
the reQuisitions have been held up
until the bill becomes law.
Among the institutions, which have
to have food supplies the first of the
month. are the Washington Asylum
and Jail. workhouse at Occoquan and
the Home for the Aged at Blue Plains.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
Fan Goes Insane
Over Reds Losses

CINCINNATI, June 24-The losing
streak OF the Cincinnati baseball club
has impaired the mind OF Fred Schwarm,
2412 Miami Canal. according to testi-
mony in the probate court today that
resulted in his being sent to Longview
Asylum. Doctors believe rest will cure
him.
Schwarm told Examiners Kendig and
Davis that he had been secured to play
shortstop for the Reds because Man
ager O'Day believed he would bolster
up the team.
After the examination Schwarm re-
fused to leave until he had gained what
he imagined was a contract with the
Cincinnati team.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
Building Of Road
Is Voted Against

The Commissioners today reported
against the amendment to the civil
sundry bill providing for the grading
and construction of a macadam road
on Massa chusetts avenue from Nebras-
ka avenue, west to the District line
The Commissioners state the amornt
named in the amendment, $250OO would
not cover the cost of doing the work
as the estimated cost is $50. 900.
In report to Senator Gallinger the
Commissioners say they do not believe
there is any immediate need for the i'm
provement of the thoroughfare. 1t Is
pointed out there are no Improvements
abutting the avenue in. this section and
practically none in the vicinity which
are not served by existing streets or
roads.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
LOCAL MENTION.

Eastern Shore is now connected direct
with Washington. New rapid transit
See W., Il. & A. Electric Railway.
A tremendous 3 reel sensation. "The
Red Rose OF the Apaches," Today.
Virginia TheateT.
Cambridge is now onlC five hours from
Washington New, driect rapid transit
every day. See W.. B. & A. Electric
Railway.
Summer Rates, Stag Hotel. Investigate
Ocean City is now only six hours from
Washington. New, direct rapid transit
every day. Special excursions Sunday.
See W., B. & 4. Electric Railway.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
Pope Pleads For Jews.

ROME, June 24.-In an address to the
Catholic bishops of Central America,
Pope Plus today recommends that the
archbishops make every eXertion IN
favor of "unfortunate Jews in these
immense regions" and reproaches tho
Episcopate for neglecting this sphere
90 long.
The Washington times., 1912-06-24
Eagles At Baltimore.

About seventy-five members of WASH
ington Aerie, No. 125. Fraternal Order
of Eagles, were present In Baltimore
last night at the initiation of 100 candl-
dates into the order r. l.. Montague,
District deputy and William H. Clarke,
president headed the local party.