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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-09-23

By taking half portion of the
double-header from the Cubs the
Phillies kept firm grip on second
place, and it now appears that Evers'
men are destined to finish perched
on the third rung of the champion
ship ladder. They still have a chance
to GUST the Dooinites, but it is slim
one. Had the locals copied both ends
they would have been only half a
game in the rear of the Phils.
All of which is sad, but Bert Hum
phries is the gent who should be COM
miserated. Until the dastardly Phils
upset him the Cub side-arm finger
had won fifteen games and lost three
against the flower of Mr. Lynch's or
ganization, and was tied with Al DEM
aree of the Giants for the lead in
percentage of victories. To have cop
ped yesterday would have given him
the edge on the New Yorker.
Bert would have secured consider
able satisfaction from leading the
league. Traded to Cincinnati by the
Phils because he did not possess
class, he was shunted along here in
the Tinker deal Garry Hermann did
not think highly of Bertram's f1ipper.
Now see what he's gone and done,
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FOR BRITISH POST
Wilson Said to Be Urging DIR.
Charles Eliot.
Reports That Henry Fine Will
Be Sent to Germany.

Washington, March 21.-Dr. Charles
William Eliot, former president of Har-
ward university. is being urged by Presi
dent Wilson to accept the ambassador
ship to the Court of st. James, which was
declined by Richard Olney, of Boston.
1t can only be said that DR.. Eliot has
not definitely declined to accept the post.
President Wilson and his assistants -e
fused positively to discuss the matter be-
cause of the embarrassing position i'll
which the administration will be placed If
two men should decline to accept this
most important diplomatic position at tie
disposal of the government.
He7ry Burchard Fine. former dean of
the faculty at Princeton university, who
is now abroad, has been offered the post
of ambassador to Germany, and it is un-
derstood that he will accept. 1t is under
stood that some official announcement re-
garding this appointment will be made at
the White House during the coming week
Professor Fine has a wide reputation in
the literary world and his friendship with
President Wilson is of long standing. He
is a member of the American Mathemat-
ical society and the American Philosoph1-
cal society His native home is at Cham
bersburg, Pa. and he graduated from
Princeton in 1880
The post at Berlin ranks third in point
of Importance. The diplomatic repre-
sentatives of this country in Berlin dur
ing recent years have been Charlemagn,
Tower, David Jayne Hill and JOHN Leish-
man.
There are no acute questions pending
at this time between the United States
and Germany.
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BROTHER IS FOUND
Story in State Journal Brings
Quick Results.
Woman Had Not Heard From
Relative in 30 Years.

Mrs. Carrie Austin. of Oklahoma
City, has succeeded in locating her
brother, Charles Timrod, of near Yates
Center, Kan, after a silence between
the two for more than thirty years.
Mrs. Austin wrote the State Journal
last week, and a story about the sep
Grafton appeared in this paper on Sat
urday last.
Remarkably quick results attended
the publication of the story, as only
a day or two elapsed before Mrs. Austin
received a letter from the brother. She
is elated over the success of her search,
and writes as follows to the State Jour
nal:
Editor State Journal-The article
you inserted for me in your paper
brought prompt results. L have located
my dear brother that 1 have not seen
for over 80 years. 1 feel SO grateful
ITO you that words cannot express it.
Respectfully,
MRS. CARRIE AUSTIN
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BR|STOW is BACK
Senator Will Get "Line on
Things in Kansas"
For Same Tariff He Stood for
Four Years Ago.

Kansas City, March 21.-Joseph
L. Bristow, United. States senator from
Kansas, was in Kansas City today on
his way home from Washington.
Mr.. Bristow is going to spend a
week at Salina, visiting with the
folks at home" and looking after the
Salina Daily Journal his newspaper.
Incidentally, he expects to get what is
known in the Kansas Vernacular as
a '1ine<on things in his home state
before going back to Washington for
the special session of congress.
"How's Washington he was ask
ed this morning when he left the
train. "Never mind that" he an
swered. "How is Kansas? 1 have
been away from the state so long,
want to hear the news from home''
Being assured that Kansas was all
right, the senator was ready to talk about
congress.
only one thing seems sure about the
extra session. he said, '-and that is that
we will have a new tariff bill.
THE tariff surely will be revised al
though it cannot be told yet exactly
what that revision will be.
so far / am concerned, 1 propose
to stand for the same kind of a tariff
measure that l stood for in 190S.''
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JOURNEY. over ice
Tale Told of HardshipS in the
Northern Seas.
Skipper Reaches Nome, Alaska,
After PeriIOus Trip.

Nome, Alaska March 21.-Samue1
Gottschalk. of the whaling schooner
Moras, reached Nome last night after
a trip of 100 miles over the breaking
ice in Behring Straits, with news of
the loss of the schooners Kittawac and
Moras and the hardships endured by
members of the crew. The schooners
were caught in the ice near the ST.
berian shore last fall and the crews
landed boats to prepare winter quar-
ters. Before the men were able to
land all their provisions or make ex-
tensive preparations for the winter a
great storm arose, preventing their re-
turn to their schooners. During the
storm the ice caught the schooners
and crushed them.
The crews, consisting of Gottschalk,
Koren, a naturalist, owner Of the Kit
tawas; Albert Gunderson and Gus
Schroeder, started out in the remain
ing whaleboat in an attempt to cross
the strait through the open leads in
the great fIoes to the Seward penin-
sula. Captain Whiting F. Moras re-
fused to accompany them and started
south along the Siberian coast in an
attempt to reach Plover bay, where
there is an Eskimo settlement. Wheth-
er he reached there is not known. The
party in the whaleboat encountered
storm near Big Diamond island, and
their boat was smashed to splinters in
the surf and ice foes when they
landed.
For nearly three months the men
subsisted on walrus before they were
able to attempt the passage over the
broken ice to the Seward peninsula
and Nome.
The Kittawac was a small auxiliary
gas schooner of Is gross tons. She
en-, who went north in her to make a
Studv of Arctic wild flowers
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AFRAID OF LEPER
Smallpox Patients Revolt in
Quarantine Hospital.
f. II. Cradle Was Driven From
Town to Town.

Salt Lake City, March 21-A re-
volt was started at the smallpox
isolation hospital last night when the
health department assigned f. r.
Cradle, a leper, to quarters in the
hospital grounds. The smallpox pa
tients served notice to the health COM
missioner that they would leave the
hospital unless other quarters were
found for Cradle. AS there is no
other place available in which to
lodge him, a guard was established
around the institution to prevent the
patients from breaking quarantine.
Cradle surrendered himself to the
health authorities here yesterday. He
said he had escaped from the San
Francisco isolation hospital Decem ber
15, last, by jumping from a window.
According to the story, he has been
driven from town to town. Cradle
was a member of the First Wyoming
infantry in the Spanish American war
and is said to have contracted the dis
ease while serving in the Philippine
islands. He has a wife and child in
Ogden
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new CRAFT SOURCE.
Revelations Continue I'm New York
Police Investigation

New York, March 21.-A new
source of graft leading, it is said,
straight into police headquarters, has
been discovered by Assistant District
Attorney James Smith. 1t is the pro-
lection of wire tappers," those ex-
ponents of the cleverest of the many
bunco games invented to blk the un-
wary of their wealth.
From evidence already in the dis
trict attorneys hands, the total graft
paid for the protection of different
forms of vice in the tenderloin reaches
$4,000 month. The sources Of this
enormous sum are given as follows:
rs gambling houses. paying $1,000 a
month each; so smaller gambling
houses, paying $500 monthly; So
disorderly houses, controlled by the
trust and paying $500 per month;
forty Independents" S4OO; 20 small
er houses, paying $500 each; so dis
orderly flats, contributing $50 each;
1900 saloons paid $40 a month each;
20 stuss games, etc, etc, paid $3.50;
80 wheel houses were assessed $500
per month each; 18 all-night cafes,
$500 each; IL cabaret places, at 5000
each. Extra money given in the form
of gifts to extra collectors, or luck
money" as il is termed, is put down
as amounting to $4,000 month
This makes the total graft annual
ly from the tenderloin alone
$4,000
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county attorney took exceptions to re-
marks made by Schenck with refer
ence to Tom Lillard, assistant county
attorney and declared there is not a
fairer, squarer, more honest man in
the state than Lillard. He said it was
ridiculous to accuse Lillard of going
to Ohio and buying perjured testi-
mony. In this connection he explained
to the jury why Lillard went back to
Ohio in the first instance.
Mr.. Hungate and Mr.. Schenck
served notice that they would take
dispositions there in behalf of their
client" he said, "and of course it was
the duty of one of us to go back and
Lillard went. While he was there he
found considerable evidence of i'm
portance to the case. The matter was
presented to the county commissioners
and they agreed that, inasmuch as we
could not compel the attendance of
those witnesses, we should secure
them anyway if possible. We simply
secured them by paying them for their
time and their expenses.
1t is a strange thing if the state
has not been able to produce one wit
ness who told the truth" he added.
Mr. Schenck would have you believe
that every witness put on by US de-
lberately lied in an effort to send his
client to the penitentiary. You gem
tlemen know that cannot be true"
Concluding his argument Atchison
said he wished that the evidence
might have shown that Beers was not
guilty. He said he would have been
as sincerely glad as anybody if sucA
had been the outcome.
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Fierce Winds at Chicago.

Chicago March 21.-Only two tele-
graph wires connected Chicagowith the
outside world for several hours today.
The only practical relief from this
situation was by way of an under
ground telephone cable to Milwaukee.
Sleet, wet snow and occasional
dashes of rain, driven by a forty-mile
gale from the west. struck the city
and environS before daylight and
within four hours had prostrated the
telegraph lines in all directions. All
transportation lines were crippled.
One young woman was blown under
the feet of a team of horses and Sc
verely hurt.
The first effects of the storm were
felt south and east of Chicago. Wires
routed around the south end of Lake
Michigan went down within an hour
of the time the storm struck, then the
territory west of the city was cut off
and about two hours later the last of
the above ground wires along the
north shore Succumbed to the COM
bined forces of wind and ice.
The only lines which survived were
two lines to st. Louis. over these was
carried a very small part of the mass
of intelligence which normally is re-
ceived and sent out from Chica go.
The only crumb of comfort to those
charged with transmitting press and
commercial kilograms was that the
Good Friday holiday relieved them
from the usual burden of brokerage
and market report.
Six hours after the storm broke the
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WILSON in OFFICE
President Has Recovered From
Slight IndispOsitiOn.
Receives Message From Wild
owed Queen of Greece.

Washington, March 21.-President
Wilson received the following cable
gram this morning from Olga, Queen of
Greece:
81 beg to accept and transmit to the
government and people of the United
States the Greek nations, my famiIy's
and my own sincerest thanks for your
heartfelt sympathy in our most crush
ing grief.''
President Wilson was in his office
early, saying he was entirely re-
covered from his slight indisposition of
the last two days. Representative I'm
derwood brought former Representative
Nicholas Longworth. of Ohio, to pay his
respects to the president. National
Chairman William F. McCombs was
the first on the presidents engage
ment list. The president has arranged
to meet all the Washington cores
the east room of the White House to
have, as the president puts it, "a heart
to heart talk
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, the new
chairman of the foreign relations COM
mittee, today congratulated President
Wilson upon his attitude in the Chinese
loan situation. The senator said he re-
garded the presidents action as in sup
port of the fight he and his Democratic
colleagues had been making against the
ratification of the Nicaraguan and
Honduras loan conventions. The SEN
ator however, believed this government
would not relax its efforts to promote
trade interests in every country. This
was a regular cabinet day and before
the meeting began Secretary Lane of
tie interior department decorated the
president with the Indian headdress of
Chief Hollow Horn Bear, who died here
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Note Is Considered COncilia-
tory in It's Tone.
is PREPARING AN ULTIMATUM
Government Not Sat-
isfied With Answer.
Situation Regarded as Border
ing on Acute Crisis.

London, March 21.-King Nicholas
of Montenegro today replied to the
perem ptory demands made by Aus
tda yesterday in connection with the
Montenegro bombardment of Scutari-
Although the note is conciliatory in
tone, the king refuses most Of Aus
tria's demands. He says he has or
dered that the bombardment be di-
rected only against the forts and that
the rest of the city shall not be
Shelled.
Preparing UItimatum.
Vienna, March 21.-The Austro-
Hungarian government is preparing
an ultimatum to Montenegro, accord
ing to an unofficial statement today.
The ultimatum was decided upon, 1t is
said, owing to the unsatisfactory ma
ture of the reply to the Austrian
remonstrances regarding Scutari.
The Montenegrin reply is considered
here as creating a serious situation. A
lively exchange of views is proceeding
between the AuStro- Hungarian and
the Italian foreign officers in regard
to the possible joint action by the two
powers. Austria will insist on en-
for ing the decision of the European
powers that Scutari shall remain an
integral part of the future autonomous
state of Albania.
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BREAKS RECORDS
This Is Coolest March 21 of
Them All.
All Late March Records BrOk-
en- but One.

All cold weather records for this late
in the season with one exception were
broken today. The minimum tempera-
ture was twelve degrees above zero;
on March g. 1894, the mercury slid
down to the eleven degree point. It
might be interesting to note. also. that
this is the coolest March q on record
in Topeka since the government began
keeping records twenty-siX years ago.
This is the first day of spring. but the
temperatures are those of midwinter
The temperatures in the night averaged
twenty degrees below normal for this
date.
ported from all sections of the state.
In Topeka the depth of snow was 1.8
inches. When melted this made % of
water.
The telegraph companies doing bus1-
ness in Topeka experienced wire trouble
today on account of the sleet.
1t Continues Cold.
The sky is clear today but the
weather is cold. The temperatures
for the entire day have averaged 27
degrees below normal for the first day
of spring. The forecast calls for
continued cold weather tonight, and
a slight rise in temperature Saturday.
The sun will shine again Saturday.
The wind is blowing at the rate of Is
miles an hour from the northwest.
The hourly readings:
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NEGRO HANGED.
Slayer of Deputy Prison Warden in
Nebraska Pays Penalty.

Lincoln. Neb., March 21.-Albert
Prince was hanged at the state prison
here today for the murder of Deputy
Warden E. d. Davis, in the prison
chapel a year ago. His execution was
to be the last legal hanging in Ne
braska.
Princes crime was the killing of
Deputy Warden Davis, against whom
he entertained a grudge. 1t was on
Sunday morning, February II, 1912,
just at the conclusion of religious SER
vices in the prison chapel, as the men
were marching to their cells that
Prince, light-colored negro, stepped
from the line as he neared the depu-
ty, raised his hand as if to make a re-
quest and then several times stabbed
Davis in the abdomen. The deputy
died a few hours later
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TAKES OATH OF KING.
Constantine Becomes Official Ruler of
Grecian People.

Athens, Mach Fixing Constantine,
of Greece, took the constitutional oath
of office in the chamber of deputies
under auspicious circumstances in the
presence of the highest officials of the
state and the entire parliament. The
metropolitan of Athens, who was sur
rounded by the members of the Holy
Synod, in full canonicals, offered prayer
and then read aloud the oath which
the king repeated in a firm voice
The king then signed the oath and all
the cabinet ministers and the metro
politan countersigned it amid the
hearty cheers of the deputies. A salute
of 101 guns was fired when the royal
procession left the palace for the
chamber of deputies. Brilliant weather
had brought great crowds who cheered
the king on his way and military bands
stationed at intervals played the ma
tional anthem. The king will start for
SalOniki tonight.
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Commissioner finance-Roy L. Bone
and Thomas R. Pope.
Commissioner water-H. P. Miller
and F. NJ. Newland.
III. p. Dillon's Letter.
The letter written by H. P. Dillon
to Mayor Billiard follows:
Hon. ]. B. Billiard, Topeka, Kan.
My dear Mr.. Billiard: Though per-
sonaIly unacquainted with you, 1 have
become an ardent supporter of your
candidacy for mayor The people OF
this town should be thankful that a
man of your character and capability
is willing to accept so thankleSs an Of
flee. and that a large majority of the
taxpayers so feel is demonstrated by
an analysis of the vote in your former
contest. Your administrations have
been such that you will receive that
same vote at the coming election.
1t goes without saying that no man
can satisfy everybody in a town of
$4,000 inhabitants. Some refuse to
be satisfied for selfish political rea-
sons, but there is always a large num-
ber of impracticableS and Missionaries
who believe an Utopia is possible and
whose moral yearnings for municipal
perfection will be satisfied with moth
ing less. 1t would be a futile and
foolish task to attempt either to pla-
cate or educate these people-they
have always existed and always will.
The greater failure they have made
in conducting their own affairs simply
proves to them their transcendent
ability to conduct the affairs of the
public.
There is another factor which en-
ters largely into this campaign. There
is an underlying sense of fair play
among all classes of people which re-
sents the malicious and lying attacks
which are being made upon your char
acter as a man, and this resentment
will manifest itself on election day.
know of my personal knowledge that
you have gained many votes on ac-
count of the virulent attacks against
you.
That you will be reelected is my
sincere wish.
Very truly yours,
H. P. DILLON.
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Ordered From Court.

At IL O'Clock last night group of
the faithful, who had waited anxiously
for some word from the jury in the w.
l.. Beers murder case, were ordered out
of the court room that the room might
be turned into sleeping quarters for
tho jurors There was nothing to in
dicate how the jury stood, or had stood
since they retired about $50 O'Clock
with the case Judge George H. Whit
comb merely instructed the bailiff to
allow the jurors to go to bed, and de-
clined to quiz them any about their
standing, Or the likelihood of their being
able to reach a verdict
During the evening" the defendant sat
back against the court railing, part of
the time asleep, and the lines in his
face seemed to be much deeper than
they ever have been. The minister's
attitude was that of one who was very
tired and worn out. His face was
haggard, and he seems to have aged
twenty years in the last two weeks.
that have been terrible to him in their
uncertainty and possible outcome
Last night he had lost entirely his
genial attitude shown on the witness
stand when he was under fire of
questions, and spoke but seldom to
anyone He presented one of the most
pathetic sights ever seen in a Shawnee
county courtroom.
Among the group that waited for
the jury was Judge Whitcomb and
his stenographer, Don Wellman; Paul
Heinz one of the attorneys for the
defense; the minister and two broth
ers who have been here during the
entire trial. several newspaper men
and perhaps a score of friends of the
accused preacher who waited with
him.
At the conclusion of the argument
by John J. Schenck for the defense, in
which he accused practically every
witness produced by the state of per-
Jury, County Attorney William E
Atchison, in a talk that lasted over
two hours, closed the argument. The
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sun forced its way through the clouds
and the disturbance ceased almost as
suddenly as it had begun. The dam
age, however, had been done and
early estimates of the loss to wire and
transportation placed the figures as
high as 100000.
One Reported Dead.
Shreveport, La, March 21-One man
was killed, several persons were hurt
and much property was damaged in
Saline. La, a town of 200 inha bitants
in Bienville parish, by last nights Sc
we're wind storm, according to a re-
port received here today.
Several houses We're blown down at
Gibbsland. town in BlenvilIe Parish,
and several thousand dollars property
damage was done. The house of Joe
Randall, in Gibbsland, was blown from
its foundation, carried through the air
several hundred yards and deposited
outside the town.
Many Persons Injured.
Springfield, Mo-, March PA score
or more persons were injured, some of
ness district were wrecked and resi-
denceS unroofed late last night at
Hoxie, Ark, about 95 miles south of
here, by a wind of unusual velocity.
The loss to property, it is said, will
total thousands of dollars.
Telephone and telegraph commune
cation with Hoxie is cut off and it is
impossible to get details of the tor
nado No deaths were reported at 1
O'Clock this morning when commune
cation with the town was cut off, but
it is feared later reports will run up
a big total of fatalities.
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Picture Not Immoral.

-licago, March 1.-A jury in the
municipal court today, after hearing opin
ions about and inspecting September
Morn, a painting by Paul Chabas, de-
cided the picture was not immoral and
was not unfit to be publicly displayed IN
Chicago. The painting represents a nude
figure Of girl bathing out doors.
question in court while experts were testi-
tying was, What is the girl thinking
about2 The jury concluded thar the
thoughts of the girls were not immodest
Numerous witnesses had taken opposing
views as to the proprlety of the paintings
public appearance.