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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
DUEL TO THE DEATH
AT KANSAS CITY, MO.
w. G. Capper and Martin Donaldson
Fill Each Other With Lead; Both
Fatally Wounded.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, June l3.-W
G. Capper and Martin Donaldson en-
gagged in q pistol duel in the narrow
Hallway of Capper's home here to-
night. Both men were wounded IA
tally. The quarrel occurred when DON
aldson tried to induce his wife to leave
Capper's home, where she had been
employed as a domestic. Capper or
dered Donaldson away, and when the
latter refused to leave, both drew their
pistols. Mrs. Donaldson hid in an up
stairs room, but Mrs. Capper, who was
present, helped her husband in the
fight. Both men emptied their pistols
and each was shot four times, Mrs
Capper reloaded her husband s weapon
but he tainted before he could use it
again.
Donaldson accused Capper of trying
TO induce his wife TO separate from
him.
After both men were mortally hurt
Mrs, Donaldson jumped from a second
story window and escaped from the
house.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
WOMAN NOW DENIES
KILLING HUSBAND
Mrs. Ida May Kellar Declares
Police Scared Confession
Out of Her.

HARRISONvLLE. Mo, June 10
Mrs Ida May Kellar, who yesterday con-
fessed In the presence OF the sheriff,
county prosecutor and coroner that she
killed ther husband, Arthur Kellar, and
her eeven- -year-old daughter, Margaret
Tuesday with an ak. today called sheriff
Jim Prater TO her apartment In the county
jail and repudiated the confession, say
ing that the Kansas City detective who
investigated the murders scared 1t out
OF her
on the written confession signed by
Mrs Kelar the coroner's jury ordered
that tire woman be held for the murders
According to Sheriff Prater. Mrs Kellar
was In n violent rage when he entered
her apartment today.
AZ know who the murderer Is and he
will suffer for IT," she said, selling the
sheriff by the coat.
She then named a section laborer en-
ployed on the railroad here as the man.
She had mentioned him in her testi-
with her husband on the day before the
murders.
Mrs. Kelars surviving children a girl
8 years old and a boy OF ., have been
proper accommoda tons for women pris-
oners here Mrs. Kellar probably will be
taken to Kansas City after her arraign-
ment to await trial.
Harry Arthur, the detective who drew
the confession from Mrs. kelar when told
today that she had reversed her story,
said the confession had been elected
without compulsion and merely by con-
statements made by her.
Before she signed the confession. Ar
thur said. he told her 1t would be used
against her. and that II probably would
Mrs. Kellar will be arranged tomor-
row.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
MANY CHANGES MADE
IN HUERTA CABINET
Mexican Ruler Gets Rid of
General Mondragon, a Sup
porter Of Felix Diaz.
BLANQUET WINS POST
United States Troops TO Main
tain More Strict Guard
Along Border.
BANQUET WINS POST

MEXICO CITY. June ia general
shakeup in the cabinet Of President
Huerta occurred here today. General
Manuel Mondragon resigned as minis.
ter of war and was succeeded by Gen
eral Aureliano Blanquet. former mill
tary commander Of the federal district
Jorge Vera Estanol reluauished the
post of minister OF public instruction F;
Manuel Garza Aldape. minister of ag.
riculture, taking his place. Several
other cabinet ministers changed places.
Or. Aureliauo Urrutia, head OF the
national school Of medicine. has been
appointed minister Of the interior, a
post long vacant
General Mondragon was in charge
Of the Diaz forces during the ten daYs
battle which eliminated in the over
throw of Madero. General Blanauet
was in charge of the campaign in the
state Of Mexico during the last of Ma.
dero's term. His political affiliations
were doubtful when he came TO the
capital and until he effected the arrest
Of President Msdero and Vice President
Pine Suarcz
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Thought Matter Ended.

"Noue. 1 had not been looking for
burglars in my house and | had no rea-
son to suppose that any were there, -
replied the witness. 81 thought, Of
course, our general solicitor s office
had disposed of the whole matter, and
I have no doubt they thought so,
too. +"
"What disciplinary steps did you
take four years later, when you learned
your orders had been violatedG Did
YOU discharge anbody7'
"No; / used emphatic language, but
/ was thoroughly satisfied that the
thing would never occur again. OF
course, If they had offended again the
penalty would have been severe
The federal attorney put into evil
dence statement attributed to Judge
Gary, published after a meeting of
steel manufacturers in 1911. In this
the witness was reported as saying
that the subsidiaries of the corporation
proposed to meet the price reductions
Of the Republic Iron, & Steel company
and "'that it is believed these prices
will be generally followed" The
prices in question were quoted.
The witness said that he had made
the statement, but that "some one else
inserted the prices.
HNo one,'' he added, "was under
the least obligation to follow these
prices -
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between counsel. General Watts, rep
resenting the operators. wanted to show
that Roman was one Of the union men
indicted in the federal courts under
the Sherman law. Attorney Houston
for the union objected to the ques-
tion.
''If that goes in, said Mr.. Houston
to Attorney Jackson. for the operators,
in an undertone, 81 would like to show
who was behind those indictments. The
attorneys for the coal operators drew
those indictments,
"They did not" replied Mr.. Jack
son.
''Oh. yes, they did retorted Mr.
Houston 'Those indictments were
darwin in the Office of Brown, Jackson
& Knight"
Witnesses followed who told Of events
on Paint and Cabin creeks while the
mine guards were there. One witness
said the creeks had been quiet for ten
years until the mine guards were
brought in.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
TO HOLD CONFERENCE
ON STRIKE SITUATION
Continued from Page One.)

ers, because a very large percentage OF
them were men who have not even been
in the employ OF the company, He also
denied that the company Intended TO i'm
port strikebreakers. as intimated by one
OF the l. w. w. agitators. He added;
We are always ready 10 confer with
the men who are employed by US,
but nine out OF ten OF the men behind
this strike were never employed by
the company. We have not been
treating with them nor do we intend
to, because we have no rea son to
treat with them. The men working
for us can always get a hearing, but
we have absolutely no reason TO hold
conference with the agitators at
Tucker,
President Watts said that the situa-
tlon in the construction camps was well
in hand, with indications that there
would be no further trouble He cX
poets nearly all OF the men formerly en-
ployed to return 10 work within a few
days.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
RACE WAR AVERTED BY
ARRIVAL OF SHERIFF

LOUGHMAN, Fla, June ia clash
between whites, and negroes of this
place was averted tonight by the time
" arrival of Sheriff Logan and an
armed posse from Lakeland. A negro
was whipped here Tuesday for having
made an insulting remark about q
white woman. Negro sawmill en-
ployees, resenting this, quit work and
made threatening demonstrations,
Armed negroes appeared today in town
and defied the local authorities, where
upon Sheriff Logan was appealed to for
aid and responded promptly. Seven
arrests have been made,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
COMPROMISE FAILS
IN SAN FRANCl

SAN FRANCISCO. June ia:ZExn
compromise the police scanaah, -. n
Francisco by an exchange OF nsn,
tences for pleas Of gully Ien 4, %
ground today, Frank Bsola; a.. aireSl' s,,si'
,S,icted % of sharing profits with ounh'
Will, ne was all officer OF ihe
he ~ .'', sentenced tomorrow. and tns
seven policemen under indictmen.
fe,. CONSPIRACY. some for larceny si1
for fo both, Will plead not guilty sp'
trial. ia D,s,rlcf Afl
rSoHar, ,odav, ''has this oiiIss
p,edsed p,S TO any compromise: i Is..
Piedsuud n hand viii now be pressed ~
- - prosecution and the evidence ~
vi wiIl Se followed wherever II mss
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
INSANE MAN TRIES TO
HURL BABE FROM TRAIN

ST. LOUIS, June ia man, neatly
dressed, about % years old, who gave
his name as Charles Jones of Keokuk,
Ia, created a panic on an inbound Wa
bash train at the union station tonight
when he tried to throw baby through
the car window. The mother of the
child was Mrs. Solomon Dewhirst of
Paris, Mo Passengers subdued the
man after hard battle and turned
him over TO the police. He was held
for observation and Identification.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
Senator Newlands of Nevada
Gives His Democratic Col
leagues His View of Un-
derwood Tariff Bill.
WOULD GRADUALLY
REDUCE WOOL DUTY
Finance Committee Extends
Free List to Include Print
Paper Valued at Not More
Than q Cents a Pound.

WASHINGTON. June Ex-senator
Newlends told his Democratic col
leagues today that the tariff bill might
go down in history as maintaining the
Atlantic coast and middle western
states on protective basis, while drift
ing the southwest and the west to q
tree trade basis. He pointed to the ac-
ton of the senate finance committee in
placing farm products. such as wheat,
oats, barley, hay, butter and eggs. on
the free list. leaving. as he said, citrus
fruits and the fruit products of CaJifor.
MIA as almost the only far western
products retained on the iutiable
list.
At the same time. he added, nearly
1000 articles competitive with the prod
ucts of eastern factories were put on
the dutiable list The senator insisted
he was for Democratic harmony and ex-
planned that his warmth Of express
slon - IN recent speech had not been
directed at the administration, but was
prompted by the uniustifiable conten-
ton Of Senator James of Kentucky on
the sugar tariff.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
MARTIAL LAW ORDER
IS ABLY DEFENDED
Continued from Page One0

mine guards in the pay of the opera
tors. He said that he did not know
how far these men had antagonized the
miners in their performance of guard
duty.
"Did you think these men in the
pay Of the operators were competent
police force to guard the interests Of
operators and miners alike?' asked
Attorney Belcher.
The governor could not say.
Representative S. B. Avis, who was
county prosecutor when the trouble
began, testified that iuries secured ia
the civil courts could not be depended
OH 20 try cases arising out Of strikes
because Of the widespread prejudice and
bias throughout the country.
"'Were the jurors secured any more
subject to this general prejudice than
the militia officers who made up the
military commission?' demanded Sena-
tor Borah.
HProbablv not replied Avis
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14

FORMER GOV. GLASS
H COCK of West Virginia,
who, as witness before SEN
ate inquisitors, upholds mar
tial law he declared during
reign of terror in mining dis
trict.
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Battle on Small Island.

The scene of the Moros last
was on the small island Of JolI
much larger than the District Z
lumbia, but the jurisdiction und|
sultan is divided among a nuinb|
lesser chieftainS. Datto Anil VI
OF the irreconcllables, He vas 4
gand and pirate. proving on the
full element of his own people an
especially dreaded by the farm "
of the north.
General Pershing's report was
before the end of the battle, ana
eral Bell has called for details
conclusion.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
ONE OFFICER SLAIN
IN THE MORO F|9|
Continued from Pag ons)

tentative. Anil and a relatively|
following occupying one ward d
island Of Jolo were the only Moro
refused to give up their arms PED
ly. Disarmament was generally d
by the Moros themselves. All d
rest surrendered their arms mont
without resisting. Under the q
stances. it was impossible and l
10 the disarmed Moros to permit
of them TO retain arms II
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|NFORMER STABBED
IN GANG VENDETTA
CONTINUED from Page One.)


were walking from Third avenue to the
Astor place subway station when the
stabbing occurred. Webber evidently
tried to hide his wound, but as he ap-
preached Broadway, a stationary police
officer saw him staggering and Webber s
friend was unable to support him ,
While an ambulance was being sum-
moned Webber sat exhausted on the
curb In front Of Grace church trying
to stop the flow Of blood The police.
man said Webber had a nasty cash in
the left shoulder.
Neither Webbcr nor his friend Mich.
aels would tell much about the stab.
bing, At first Webber said it was a
"boy who had stabbed him with a pen
knife 1t appeared, however, upon
first examination Of the wound at the
hospital that a larger knife had been
used.
Keeps the Secret.
''I don't know who stabbed me, -
Webber exclaimed, land [ don I want
to know be added. annoyed at the
detectives questioning,
Webber asked that his wife be no.
titled and she was summoned to the
hospital by telephone, A number of
his friends were quick TO learn Of the
stabbing and by o'clock twenty-five
or thirty Of them had gathered Mt the
hospital.
Webber admitted his identity before
he lost consciousness, but so far as the
stabbipg was concerned all he would
say was that his assailant was some
unknown boy.
He did not even admit his identify
until Detective Harvey, who worked
on the Rosenthal case and knew Web
Der well, surprised him by confronting
him as he lay on a cot at the hospital,
recorded there as tHarris. -
"Hello, Bridgie,' the detective ex-
claimed,
"Hello, Harvey" the wounded man
replied, and thereafter made no denial
that he was Webber.
The stabbing. it was later reported.
occurred just after Webber had kept
an appointment with Sam Paul, leader
of the Sam Paul association which fig
ured in the early investigations after
the Rosenthal murder. 1t was at an
outing of the association, according to
stories then printed. that there was talk
to the effect that Roseuthal would be
''croaked' because he had "souealed'
on Police Lieutenant Backer as a gam
bling protector and graft collector.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14

World IS largest dance floor. "a
Park tonight. Largest band y
state. lhuSe'''s~
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
GARY IS QUESTIONED
BY JUDGE DICKINSON
Government Attorney Brings
Out Pertinent Fact Con-
cerning Wire Pool.
ORDERS ARE VIOLATED
Head of the Corporation,
However, Fails TO Disci-
pline the Offenders.
ORDERS ARE VIOLATED

NEW YORK. June l3.-'"1f the
United States Steel corporation paid
S35.000,000 for the Tennessee Coal Il
Iron company and $l4.o00,000 more to
put IL on it's feet, not because il
wanted the property, but in order to
save the firm Of Moore 6 Schley and
other banking concerns holding Ten
nessee Coal G. Iron stock, from ruin in
the panic Of 1907. wonldn t it have
been better for the corporation to
loan Moore & Schley $4,000, 900 or
$15,ooo,oOo, or give IL to them out
right?N
This, in substance, was the question
Jacob Nj. Dickinson, attorney for the
government in the dissolution suit
against the corporation, asked its
chairman, Judge Ebert r. Gary, to-
day.
Judge Gary had testified on direct
examination that he did not believe at
the time the company was acquired
that ITS stock was worth more than
500 share and that the money spent
IN it's acquisition and reha bilitatiou
could have brought far greater profits
If put into other plants The govern
ment maintains that the corporation
took advantage of the panickv condi.
tions of 1907 TO acquire the company
to suppress a competitor
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
Will Report June. 25.

- believe Senator Simmons said.
that the committee can conclude its
work by next Wednesday and that the
June % -
do not anticipate that the caucus
would be prolonged or that the caucus
Will materially change the report of the
finance committee, inasmuch as our
work has been almost unanimous"
Administrative features of the bill r
which have delayed the work of the
committee thus far. the senator said
would be solved by the committee with.
in 8, few days, as the subcommittee
would complete. It's work on these fea,
members tomorrow.
Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoo.
he stated. had submitted many verbal
suggestions, many of which would he
accepted.
Big pavilion big hand Ma;as+;o
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
Salt Lakers in New York.

Special 10 The Tribune,
NEW YORK, juno ls.--Herald Square.
H r. Young, J. C. Edwards; Park Ave-
nue.. f. l. Spaldng: Victoria. II. J. Hal
ton, Mrs. II. i. Halton; Waldorf. F. p.
CrItchlow.
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Outrage on American.

WASHINGTON, June 13.-The
state department. was advised today of
the arrival yesterday in Tampico of a
number of Americans forced to leave
the San Dieguito colony. John Gun
ningham, an American living in Con-
cepcion, San Luis ,Potosi, is reported
TO have been brutally assaulted by reb-
els, who took away most Of his belong.
ings and destroyed what could not be
moved
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
Will Fight Huerta.

EAGLE PASS, Tex, June 13.-Con.
stitutionalist headquarters at Piedras
Negras received official advices from
Governor Castillo Brito Of the state of
Campeche that he had taken the field
with 1000 men against Provisional
President Huerta
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
Gary Answers No.

81 will say mo, - was Judge
Garv's answer, ''We in the finance
committee had to give an account to
the stockholders and even In relieve
such situation | doubt if the stock
holders would have excused such ac-
ton. We had to do business 70 as to
work out Of that thing and get re
turn on the Investment And / believe
we did the best and most prudent
thing under the circumstances -
Turning TO tho question of the wire
pools, whose members were indicted
and fined in 1911, Judge Dickinson
called the attention of the witness to
his testimony that in 1904 he had
given orders to the corporation s sub
salaries to withdraw from all pools,
and had not discovered the participa-
tion Of the American Steel & Wire
company in the wire pool until 1908,
through an outsider -
"What steps did you take to inform
yourself that your orders had been car
ried out?''
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14

Don't think that piles can't
cured Thousands of obstinate
have been cured by Doan's Oirtn
90 cents at any drug store.
(AdvertisenI|
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
Reason for Changes.

The reason given for the changes
in the cabinet is that they are the re-
suit of an agreement following the
overthrow OF Madero that a compro.
misc cabinet should be named upon
the fixing Of date for the presidential
election and that President Huerta now
considered himself at liberty to reform
his ministry.
President Huerta is currently report
ed TO have been dissatisfied with Gen.
eral Mondragon & political activities
which are alleged to have detracted
from his usefulness as the head OF the
war department. Mondragon ia re-
garded as the chief mainstay Of Gen
eral Felix Diaz in the presidential cam
paign.
General Garcia Cuellar, governor of
the federal district, has been made
military commander Of the district.
The cabinet is now made up AS fol.
lows;
Foreign minister-Francisco de la
Barra.
War minister-General Aurelano
Banquet.
Finance minister-Torobio Esquivel.
Minister of the interior-Dr. Aure-
liano Urrutia.
Minister Of justice-Rodolfo Reyes
Minister Of public nstruction-Man-
uel Cara Aldape.
Minister of commuuications-Da
de la Fuente.
Minister Of fomento-Alberto Robles
Gil
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14

Big pavilion. big band, Majestic
Park. Dancing tonight.
y advertisement.
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Favors Gradual Reduction.

AS TO sugar, wool and citrus fruits he
contended for gradual reduction of
the tariff and urged the authorization
of special commission consisting of
the secretaries Of the war, interior and
of agriculture to make an Immediate
study on the subject and report to the
senate
The duty on wool as well aa sugar
needed a gradual, rather than a total
reduction, extending, perhaps. over five
or ten years, Senator Newlands con-
tended. He claimed that the question
before the country was not only eco
nomlc but psychological.
9 4 state of mind may produce an in.
furious industrial DEPRESSION said he,
as well as economic changes, and it
would be we'll TO guard against such
depression in the west as in the east
by graduated process that would dis.
arm fear and inspire hope.'
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
Strict Guard on Border.

NOGALES. Ariz., June 13.-Stricter
guard will be kept on the border near
Sasabe, Sonora, sixty miles west of
here, where the state troops were sur
prised by an attack from the Arizona
side last Wednesday. Two troops Of
United States cavalry are on their way
to patrol the section. They must make
a two days ride from Nogales
Testimony has been taken at La
Osa, near Sasabe, by Sheriff Nelson,
Coroner Comstock and County Attor-
ney Hiliuger, who are investigating a
fight which occurred Tuesday between
Mexican, residents Of the Arizona side
and Sonora state troops who had
crossed into the United States. Two
Mexican farmers were killed and two
wounded in combating the invasion
from Mexico, the testimony shows
DR.. c. W, Kelly, called to attend the
wounded, declared that ammunition in
automobile loads is being smuggled
over the international line from Arizo-
ma into Sonora.
Officials of Sasabe. port of entry
for cattle, had complained Of an at
tack Wednesday night from the Arizo-
nn side Of the line by an unidentified
party. The attackers were driven off
only after two Of the Sonora state
troopers guarding the Mexican town
had been killed. The investigation at
La Osa, however, shows that the in.
surgent state troops have been cross
ing repeatedly into Arizona without
regard for the international line.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
COuntervailing Duties.

Although the word "CanadsD is
omitted from the amendment adopted
oS the committee, 1T would operate
against Canada because of that ma.
tion s restrictions on exports of wood
aud chemical pulp. Senator Simmons.
chairman of the finance COMMITTEES
said that other restrictive or PREVAILING
conntervaillng duties are made against
Canada which have been proposed and
not acted upon by the majority, and
that the matter would be taken UP
again tomorrow. He added that there
might be reconsideration of the action
thus far taken.
Under the reciprocity Arrangement
wood or pulp paper can come In free
from Canada when it is the product of
lands in Canada, unrestricted by export
duty or license.
II was Senator Simmons's opinion
that the Democratic caucus would NOT
be delayed on account Of the absence
of senators In West Virginia, if their
work should not be completed by that
time