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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-03
FATHER OF EIGHT
WOULD SET ASIDE
"FATHER'S DAY"

Washington, October 2.-Representative
Moore of Pennsylvania, father of eight
children, introduced in the House a reso-
luton designating the first Sunday in June
Fathers Day." with the rose as it's en-
blem Mr. Moore said the resolution was
introduced at the suggestion of Char
lotte E. Kirbride and Carrie B. Stern
berg of Philadelphia, who have obtained
charter for Fathers Day under the
laws of Pennsylvania.
The resolution would not make the day
a legal holiday.
Jap Warships off Marking
Toxic. October 2.--The Japanese war
ships at present in Chinese waters off
Nanking are to remain there. according to
semi-official announcement today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-03
SAYS CONSPIRACY
STILL EXISTS

The conspiracy thought to have been
broken up by the conviction of Ryan and
others still exists, according to Davis
confession. With the exception of Harry
Jones, the men he mentions in connection
with his various dynamite jobs, already
have been arrested, although his confess
sion indicated that the government had
not obtained all the discriminating evi-
dence against these defendants when they
We're tried at Indianapolis.
The apprehen sion of this McManigal of
the east was due to Robert Foster, a
Louisville detective, who shadowed the
Iron worker through eastern cities Final
ly several weeks ago. when Davis was
displeased with his treatment by the
union. Foster persuaded him to make a
fun confession.
This was on September 16. Fol week
Davis had been working in Pittsburg for
the Thompson Starett company. Then the
local delegate of the Iron Workers union
told him he must pay a SIG initiation fee
to the local union quit work. Davis
quit. The detective told him he knew all
about his deeds. anyway. and Davis
feeling that the union had deserted him,
accompanied Foster to New York. Here,
in the presence of representatives of the
federal district attorney and, representa-
tves of the Iron Workers union he die
tated and swore to the long detailed con-
fession which was given out by the dis
trict attorney's office. today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-03
WAS CHOSEN MAN
TO KILL DREW

Davis says he was the man chosen to
kill Walter Drew attorney for the Ma
ttonal Erectors' association in December.
1911. after Drew was charged with kid
naping John j.. Mcnamara. II was sug-
gested also that he try to get" Will
liam ]. Burns, the detective employed
by Drew and his associates TO unearth
the dynamite conspiracy. The price on
Drew's head at that time. Davis said,
was 5000. Il told them" his confession
continues. that | did not want TO mix
up In such business
yfDavis consented to return to Indianapo-
,'lis without extradition. His bail was fixed
at $4,000
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-03
APPO|NTMENTS|N
ALABAMA EXPECTED
! TO Be MADE SOON
Wilson COnfers With Bank
head and UnderwOOd--NO
Surprises Expected as
a Result
nv HUGH w. RonEnrs

Washington. October 2.-(Specal)-Tha
in regard to Alabama patronage is gem
orally understood tonight. Senator Bank
head and Congressman Underwood con
ferred with President Wilson today at
noon. Following the conference no for
NAL statement was authorized. 1t is be-
lieved. however, that appointments will
be made in the near future and that no
surprises will result from the announce
ment of the appointments.
1t is confidently expected that Tyler
GOODWIN will be named attorney for the
middle district of Alabama and that
John d. McNeel will be named reve-
nue. collector for Alabama and MISSISSIPPI
pi. 7. ID. Sanford of Opelika, until re-
Gently considered the strongest applicant
for the attorneyship. announced tonight
that he would begin his return journey
to Alabama tomorrow.
Five Men Necessary
In regard to patronage, 1t becomes
known that for the purpose of collecting
income taxes in Alabama and Missis-
sippi' tht SoNerntneHl mas reached the
conclusion that five men will be neces-
sary, or sufficient. according to the angle
from which one might view the situation.
Up to the present moment it has been
more or less a mystery as to how the
government would proceed in its intention
of sharing in the profits of the wealthy
1t is learned that the collectors of in
come taxes will report to the internal rev.
enue collectors of the several districts
and will be by them assigned TO counties.
OF the five men to be appointed for serv-
ice In Alabama and Mississippi, two will
he office men and three will be given
field work The first collector will receive
a remuneration of 81 per day, and the
reward of others will range from SO to So
per day
Numerous Applicants
There are already on file numerous ap-
plicatons for the work in Alabama and
Mississippi. Three new names were wired
Senator Bankhead this afternoon. and it
begins to appear certain that for the
five positions there will be more or less
of general scramble Inasmuch as Ala
bama will in all probability furnish the
internal revenue collector. 1t is probable
that three of the income tax collectors
for Alabama and Mississippi will be resi-
dents of Mississippi while Alabama will
be permitted to furnish the remaining
two.
Including Mr.. Sanford who will return
to Opelika tomorrow, there are three
officcseekers from Alabama in Washing
ton at the present time. The others are
John ID. McNeel, who expects to be ap-
pointed internal revenue collector. and
w, II. Arlington, who would serve the
government as collector for the port of
Mobile.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-03
THOMAS TOSHESKY
MAY BE RESCUED
|NE|GHTEEN HOURS
But Is Feet of Solid Coal
Now Separates EntOmbed
Miner From Freedom
and Home

Centralia, Pa, October o.-Separated
from freedom by Is feet of hard solid
coal Thomas Toshesky, the miner who
has been entombed in the Continental col
liery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company
since last Friday morning. must spend at
least IS hours more in his dismal cell 100
feet below the surface. He was so in
formed tonight by lescuers who are work
ing desperately to penetrate the wall of
coal surrounding him. Meanwhile his
wife and children remain at their home
hoping that something unforeseen by the
rescue party will aid In liberating the
husband and father in time for him to
Join the family circle at breakfast.
Notwithstanding that a powerful air
compressor, capable of doing the work of
six men, was installed in the heading to-
day, mine officials directing the work de-
clared tonight that it would be impossi-
ble to break the coal barrier until noon
Tomorrow and perhaps not them
When Toshesky was told the compressor
was in action he said he felt mucn ~
heved, as he knew it would have taken
days to release him with only one man at
a time-all that could stand in the narrow
passageway. digging into the hardest kind
of coal.
Does Little Work
Following the Instructions of p. ]. Heff-
ner, superintendent of the mine, to refrain
from exerting himself too much by pick
ing away at the coal in the direction OF
his rescuers the imprisoned miner did
little work today. lie conversed with his
tescuers several times through the 90
foot pipe that has been inserted from an
adjoining chamber and through which
his food is sent to him.
Toshesky told the physician who directs
his diet tonight that he was becoming
somewhat weakened because he has had
no solid food for nearly week. and said
that he was very anxious to ''sit down
to good substantial beef dinner" He
said that he had slept some during the
day and felt as we'll as could be expected.
under the circumstances. but as the time
drew nearer for him to be liberated he
grew more and more restless. He fire.
quently asks the time and passes much
of the time singing and praying that none
of the rescuers will meet with an acci-
dent in the attempt to free him.
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.SULzER DEFENSE IS
GIVEN TILL MONDAY
TO PERFECT PLANS
Brief Session of Trial Yes
acknowledgements Secre-
tary First Witness
for Defense

Albany, N Y. October 2.-Only brief
session of the impea chment trial of Gov
ernor Sulzer was held today, and then
an adjournment until Monday afternocn
was granted by Presiding Judge Cullen
This was done in order that the attor-
neys for the governor might have time
to perfect their plans for opening The
case.
Of the plans of the defense little is
known except that Senator Harvey d.
Hinman will outline the defense IL he is
able and that Louis A. Sarecky, formerly
the governors campaign secretary, will
be the first witness for the impeached
executive That the governor will testify
there is no doubt despite the fact that
some members of his counsel opposed
his taking the stand long confer
ence was held between the governor and
his attorneys tonight at the people $
house." Efforts by the governors attnr-
neys today to have certain testimony
stricken out of the record brought the
statement from the court that this motion
would have to be renewed when all the
evidence was in.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-03
HAD BEEN EMPLOYED
IN BIRMINGHAM

Davis said he had been an iron worker
since 1900 and had been employed at Bir-
mingham, Denver, Pueblo, st. Louis, New
York, Washin gton, Providence. Cleveland
and Pittsburg. In the early days of the
troubles between the union and the bridge
builders he was a member of the enter
tainment committee, whose duty, he said,
was to assault non-union workers. He
began his career as a dynamiter at Tren-
ton, N. j.
In careful detail the confession de-
scribes how Davis blew up or tried to
blow up buildings and bridges in various
cities and towns Of the east 1t was
((Ontimred ON Pare Nfne)
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Motions Must be Left

II shall hold, Judge Cullen said, that
all motions involving the prohative force
OF competent evidence must he left until
the final submission of tho case
This ruling resulted in Austen c.. Fox,
one of Mr. Sulzers attorneys. not maxi
Ing motion to strike out articles three.
four, five, seven and eight, as he had
planned The motion will b. made later.
however. These articles deal with all
of the governors alleged iinDeachable
acts except those involving financial
transactions. A motion to strike out th',
.smoney articles already is hefore the
court. It. too, will be decided when all
the testimony Is in.
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Continued ON Page Eight
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-08-28
CHINESE BACkSuDE
ON OPIUM
Traffic Has Increased Since
Overthrow Of Manchu Dy-
nasty.

Picking. special-Tha report Of Sir
y. N. Jordan, British minister to China,
on the opium question indicates that
there has been some backsliding In
the effort to suppress the cultivation.
Of the poppy since the introduction OF
the republican regime.
The report declares that since the fall
OF the Manchus the policy OF suppress
sion agreed o between China and
Great Britain has been weakened, and
that there q been an immense re-
crudescence In the cultivation st the
drug. Ia The provinces OF Anhui, HUI
nan ana Shantung the campaign for
the suppression Of the cultivation Of
the unprecedented Indian opium con-
sequence the importation OF Indian
opium Into these provinces win cease.
But investigation In other parts OF the
republic tells q different tale. In many
OF the provinces the authorities are
powerless t prevent cultivation; in
Others there ts coilusion between the
powers and h growers, and In still
ctherH the officials are not inclined to
deprive themselves 6 q rich source Of
revenue.
The reports. however. are not all
from official sources. many being sup
splied&hy missionaries and travellers. no
exRct figures T Impossible. The min
sa1ter concludes with thASStatem1ent that
agreat dealsInust be done before the
work so1 suppression can b ;considered
aSgcompl0t0.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-08-28
.mpty carriage drove on.
CHAPTER VIII
THE PORTE ST. RERNAR1

- IT. 4I4E 1OINI u u. bl1tStN AI1D -.G .
To imagine that old jungle Of a Par
is In which De Lussac found himself
now, on foot, without friends, pursued,
or soon to be pursued by the police,
and all but penniless, one must look at
the Paris of the present day and con-
trast what is with what has vanished.
To the southwark beyond the bastile
the ~Faubourg st. Antoine stretched
toward LIE Trone in great space Of gar
dens and fields. Here one found the
houses Of religious orders: the Files
de Ia Croix, the Enfants Trouves,
Notre Dame de Bon Secours, Ste. Mar
guerite and half a dozen others; the
great glass mandatory Of the Rue de
Revilly; Revilly itself, with its gardens
and s grounds.
Casting ones ayes to the southwest,
one saw windmills twirling their arms
at Petit GENTLY, the Faubourg st.
Jacques, with it's great spaces destitute
Of houses, broken only by the Val de
Grace, h observatory and Saint Ma
glo1re, the Faubourg st. Michel, fields
and trees and windmills and country
roads.
Westward Paris ended, al far as the
crush of houses is concerned, a little
southwark of the Place Vendome.
Where the Faubourg st. Honore is
now alive with traffic and business,
then there was nothing but gardens,
plots of land, tree lined roads and the
mansions of the nobility. Some of the
most splendid houses in Paris were to
be found here: the Hotel Contad, the
Hotel Cochran, the Hotels de Charost,
Montbazon, D'Aguesseau, and D'Evre-
ux; the Hotel de Ruras, immense in
it's parallelogram of walled gardens,
n the Hotel de Chevilly in it's tri-
angular grounds at the foot Of the
Rue st. Honore.
Northward the heights of Mont
martre showed trees; the Faubourg
st. Martin, trees INT the roofs of the
Hospital st. Louis; the Faubourg du
Temple, Courtille, Pincourt-trees,
waste spaces, gardens, windmills.
CONTINUED next weekly
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-08-28
Bitterness of Cuban Politics.

.tI. t4VI1 liz 1$dltOlldl N1dRdZlle.
h last presidential campaign in Cuba
was very bitter, and even after the cleo
ton Zeyas,, the shrewd Talleyrand of the
u nos vote S 81, eSS f heru the e * a1iow u ms th party 5Gy
auguration of his successful rival. It was
a combination Of American politics and Of
OLD world intrigue and cabal played by the
combat and assassinations such as Dumas
loved to paint in his stories of the antique
1t a1 Whapo pnder the Fourteenth
words and his fists, the Latin. under the
tutelage of Castiltan tradition, too often
prefers the rapier or even the knife or
officers invited to visit the homes of men
of a rival party, being feted and toasted
with all the honors. cordially invited to
mated while presumably attempting to es-
cape" One could not but shudder. how
ever, to hear Of 5000 negroes killed in the
late uprising, and Of officers going out and
shooting down i~noffensive peasants like
game. One officer boosted that he had
killed from 60 to 100. Any negro caught
out after DARK on any pretense whatever,
basis for this apprehension, because limo
cent negroes were led by men who We're
the head ct the uprising, recalling the
This ,was most unfortunate In Cuba,s case
because in the war Of independence the
negroes were usually most valiant soldiers
under the revolutionary hero, General
Gomez.
tits difficult for the American to believe
In these. blood-curdling rumors, and Vet
it is nothing very different from what ia
going on in the United States. although
instead Of a~ssassipation men destroy char
acter by libel and recrimination, and the
tendency toward graft seems no more de-
yeloped in Cuba than In our own country.
It has been an eternal fight in ali ages
to keep down the avaricious impulses Of
humanity. Thousands Of men drawino-
pay without rendering honest services
the same things that are incidents in the
development Of more than one apidly
Cuba. The budget reported under the
Gomez administration called for nearly
$40. 600 COZ. and the aroused. people said il
was time to stop so they went about like
!, for their leader. General Menocal was
~inaugurated In May as president Of the
republic, holding firm against the on
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-08-28

| tome, free at last-for the moment.
De Lussac knew that at any minute
the jailer might revisit his Cell, find
the trick that had been played on him,
and then a cannon from the battle
ments would give tongue to the pursuit.
Guards. Swiss soldiers. h agents OF
De S%artines, all would be on his track,
r~ansacking Paris. turning out every
pocket of the city where mar might
hide.
1t was imperative to leave the car
rage and try to reach some place
of safety. The carriage was evil
IDENTIFY taking him to De Richelieu's
house, a place he dared not go. He
had only n louis in his pocket; his
face was known to 1000 men; he could
not walk the streets with the cloak
held to his eyes; he had no definite
plan to guide him. Never was man in
a more perplexing situation, yet he did
not despair, and the thing that gave
him confidence was the sword at his
side.
IF the worst comes to the worst, I
can only die" said he. when I leave
this carriage 1 must first seek Mon
sieur Blanc in the Rue Petit Versailles,
and Civ him these papers to keep.
Then-then where shall I go? To
whom shall I turn?"
He thought of Sophie Linden. Should
ne seek refuge at her house? Neverl
She was already attainted by him. De
Richelieu had aid that the Porcheron
contract had been stolen, but De Lus-
sac could scarcely believe that it was
her work. Were he traced to her house
and taken there, she would suffer as
Well as he.
He put the subject from his mind and
addressed himself to the problem of
how he was to leave the carriage with
out attracting the attention of the dri-
yer.
They were still in the Rue Saint An
tome, driving swiftly westward.
They had passed the Rue de Balais
on the right and We're drawing near
the church of Petit Saint Antoine when
several drays, laden with wood from
the wood yards Of the Rue de la Plan
Ghetto, blocked the way and caused the
carriage to slow. Instantly and
and like a discharging volcano the
~coachman of De Richelieu began
stormfng at the carriers, and cutting at
them with his whip as though they
We're dogs. The whole social condition
of France lay in that little episode,
n the salvation, for the moment, OF
De Lussac, who, opening the carriage
door and slipping out, closed the door
gently n made for the Rue de Four
CT, which they la just passed on thu
eft.
The empty carriage drove on.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-08-28
Actual Results Recorded.

The orations of temperance workers are
often excited by zeal or wrath; the in
ternal returns Of the government are cold
and impartial records of facts and Of cash
turned into the treasury. The record for
the past fiscal year arouses wonder. The
people paid In taxes upon strong drink
for the past 12-month the sum Of $222,-
7SS, 900.
The people consumed 143. go, 900 gallons
of whisky n brandy, which Drought q
revenue of sl57, $4,000, and Ct, 246, 600 barrels
Of peer and ale; which brought a revenue
sums is often referred. to as the nations
drink bill, but 1t is, in fact, only the in-
ternal revenue tax on the enormous drink
bill.
The increase Of the tax alone during
the past year was nearly 81, 100000 for dis
titled spirits and nearly $3,O0O,O0 for fer
mented liquors, or a total increase in ex-
else alone of more than $40, 100000 within
on top Of cumulative increases year by
year, and for people who think 1t is to be
noted that the growth Of the liquor habit
hibition and local option campaign that
has covered q large part OF the territory
of the continental United States.
The truth Of what is happening within
prohibition and local option territory is
Illustrated within the state of Delaware
and in nearby Pennsylvania counties
where the saloons have been abolished.
The express companies are shipping
everywhere; the stclubs', are furnishing 1t
not anly to. men but often to boys, and
in many instances on Sundays as wen as
on week days. The shippers Of liquor are
likewise sending their wares in enormous
quantities into states which have adopted
restrictive avs that seem not to have
had the expected restrictive influence.
The men who are planning to curb the
liquor evil should look these facts SQUARE
ly and honestly in the face and remem-
Der hat a crusade against evil is never
to be Judged by the lofty professions Of
intent. but by the actual results.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-08-28
a City That Was = Failure.
From the Christian Herald.

OF. all the Seven Cities Of Asia, per-
haps Sardis has the. most interesting
and romantic history. and yet, with all
Its natural advantages. its wealth, It's
famous rulers. its wise c~ounselors, its
victorious armies, It was the greatest
In the world, Croesus. was king Of
Sardfs:sthe wisest q Scion, was her
guest, and yet. through overconadence
and lack OF watchfuIness, time and
again It was surprised. conquered and
all but destroyed. until at last the dis
i~ntegrating rock and soil form It's "
citadel, looseneds by tho winter rains,
SSauakes, buried the city 90 feet deer
from tho sight Of man. 1t became 3
dead city, and II was buried by Tho
Ifqfces@of nature.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-08-28
standpat Assistance.

The Senate was debating paragraph 146
OF the tariff bill last Thursday. The
Congressional Record reports:
Mr.. Galltnger-I cal the attention Of
eenators having charge OF that paragraph
70 the tact that the proper designation for
this produce should be s.alunainium'' and
not ..aluminum think. perhaps, when.
they look In the dictionary they win con-
clude to make an amendment to the bill,
Mr. Thomas-I think. h senator viii
changeably In all the standard diction-
aries.
Mr.. Gallinger-Y think the senator 10
wrong on that point.
h reading of the bill was resumed.
Thus do the forces Of s~tandpattsm UNI
Belfishly help forward the work of re-
vision. No n can say that Senator Gal
Mnger OF New Hampshire has not patri-
otical1y endeavored to save the democ-
racy from piungtng headlens Into error.