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kansas Coal Miners on Strike

Pittsburg. Kan.-Eight hundred coal
miners Of the r. J.. Crow company
have struck. The miners insisted that
an engineer be kept at the mine. which
was temporarily down. which the com.
pany refused. United mine officials
said that the company had declined to
submit the matter to arbitration and
the strike resulted.
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Aae>limlt Reduced.

Washington.-President Wilson has
issued an executive order reducing
from sixty to fifty years the maximum
age limit for admission to civil service
examinations for appointment Of un-
skilled laborers In federal offices out
side Of Washington, d. c. Veterans.
however, may continue to be exam
ined without regard to their age.
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Nebraska Newspaper Folks In

Nebraska Newspaper Folks In Session.
Lincoln, Neb.--The forty-second an
nual session of the Nebraska State
Press association was i~naugurated
Thursday night In what was declared
by old time members to have been the
most suspicious opening in the history
Of the association. The registration
was the largest Of any opening day.
All during the afternoon and early
evening cars and automobiles carried
the editors and members of their fam
lilies to the grounds. 1t was like q
homecoming. The parking in front Of
the registration and reception tents
was turned into q Quarterstretch. 1t
was the time for handclasps and greet.
ings. Editors. gathered In groups and
told yarns. Some Of them we're &C.
cused Of telling the same tales they
had spun one and two years ago, but
age put no damper on the applause.
Every one was In q happy frame Of
mind. -
TO ABANDON EOnEar aEsEavE
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Enough Harvest Hands for K.n,as.

Topeka, Kan.-"Kansas has enough
harvest hands. Between thirty and
forty thousand men have come to the
state In the last two weeks" says w.
l.. O'Brien. labor commissioner Of
Kansas. Mr.. O'Brien has sent tele-
grams to free employment agencies in
st. Louis. Omaha, Lincoln. Chicago
and other cities requesting that no
more men be sent to this state except
upon specific instructions.
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THE WHEAT CONTEST
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
items es interest Gathered from He
liable Sources and Presented In
CONDENSED Form to Our
Rsadsra.

Western Newspaper Union News cervie>
The cultivation Of the soil and the
work Of orcharding will never go
hand in hand. The two industries
need attention at the same time and
the practical farmer will not give up
his crops to spray and prune his or
chards. There must be a practical
separation of the two industries or
this state will v be a fruit state.
At the present time there are prac.
tically 1000, 900 apple trees in the state
which produced about an equal num-
Der Of bushels of the fruit last year,
which Is about one-tenth Of the
amount Of fruit that the number OF
trees should produce under the least
bit of cultivation, was the statement
of Prof. ]. X. Cooper before the Rural
Betterment society meeting at the
state farm.
The Red Cloud chief., 1914-06-25
TO vACATE FOREST RESERVE
VILLA INSISTS ON COMPLETE MIL.
lTARv CONTROL.
Government Asked to Throw Thomas
County Reserve Open to Settle.
ment-Nebraska Newspaper
Folks In Session.
Copyright

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Oficials Of the Wash.
ington government characterize the
Mexican situation as extremely dell.
cate. This comment referred particu.
larly to the mediation conference,
which has been resumed at Niagara
Falls. but 1t also applied to conditions
In northern Mexico growing out of the
action OF General Villa in insisting
that he should have complete military
control in the campaign against Gen.
eral Huerta. Hope for the success Of
mediation. however, was by no means
abandoned, according to persons in
close touch with the administration,
and this hope was said to be largely
based on the developments in the con-
stitutional ranks, the view being
held here that internicine squabbles
among Carranza's followers had been
nipped and that this enhanced the
chance Of an agreement being reached
upon a provisional president Of Mex.
leo and that internal Mexican hosltili'
ties might be checked.
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Clean the Separator.

No one should place any confidence
in an agents claim Of separators being
able to wash themselves by simply
running water through them, says the
dairy department Of the Nebraska col.
lege Of agriculture. "Such claims are
not made by men who have the dairy.
ment's interests at heart. Washing .
separator Is not a very difficult task
II done soon after separating. The
water for washing should be warm,
but not hot enough to cook the curd
on any Of the parts. II 1t is not con
v~en'ent to wash the machine immedi-
after separating, the bowl should
| ken apart and immersed In water.
This will loosen all the curd and make
washing comparatively easy. II the
parts are scalded with hot water o.
steam after washing and left In .
clean, sweet place to dry, no wipiAg
with q cloth will be necessary.
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Five.Aere Winter Wheat Contest.

The Nebraska Corn Improvers' asso
citation is again conducting a five.acre
hard winter wheat contest. The beau
tiful $500 Millers' club trophy will be
awarded for n year to the contest
ant growing the five acres Of winter
wheat scoring highest in yield and
quality. This five acres may be q
part Of any larger field. All that II
necessary Is to measure off five acres.
thresh and report the yield. A repre-
sentative one-half bushel sample must
also be exhibited at the show. A re-
port giving the yield, signed by the
contestant and two disinterested wit.
nesses, will accompany the sample.
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To XII All stray poas.

Health officers Of Cass county have
been ordered to kill all stray dogs
there and to muzzle all remaining
dogs who have owners The order
was promulgated by the state bao.
teriologist, following the report that
two cows, two steers, two horses and
twenty-five dogs have been killed there
during the past month on account Of
affliction with rabies. The disease
has been transmitted from Of these
animals to another through bites. Thus
far the disease has been confined to
Cass county, as far as the state health
authorities know. They believe that
by attention to their orders from now
On all trace Of It can be wiped out.
The Red Cloud chief., 1914-06-25

Half Of the swine pens at the state
fair grounds have been engaged by
exhibitors. Superintendent 4. z. Rus
sell Of Benson, who is In charge Of the
swine department Of the state exposi-
ton, has reported this rush of busj-
ness to Secretary Mellor. This Is an
unusual condition of AFFAIRS" said Mr..
Russell. "Three months before the
fair is scheduled to open half our
space is gone. We will be crowded to
the limit In the swine department this
year.
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s"S ANA IA suo owAno uoPossinouS luSo
year..
Under the blue sky law of NebraskY,
companies which operate under Il
must not only pay a fee Of $25 to the
examining bureau when they apply for
permits to do business. but must pay
a fee Of SO per year thereafter. 60
far, the bureau has not yet received
any payments for renewal Of the first
years certificates. These vii begin to
run out in July.
The enrolment OF the university
summer session has already reached q
figure which Is above the final enroll.
ment Of any preceding summer ses-
sion. and as q usual thing students
enroll for this work during the whole
session, SO that the final number 10
not known until near the close of the
summer. There are now $40 enrolled;
the largest enrolment heretofore has
been 511. This figure does not in.
dude 1876 students taking summer
r.ork in the Temple high school, forty
,r fifty Of which are teachers taking
-eview work.
Although 1t will cost In the neigh.
Sorhood of $4s. 900 for two regiments
Of the Nebraska national guard, to.
gether with the medical troops. the
hospital corps and the signal corps. to
go to Camp Dodge. Ia. in August and
participate in a ten days training
camp and maneuvers under the In.
%struction Of regular army officers,
only about one.sixth Of that amount
will be borne by the state OF Nebras.
ka. The remainder Of the expense will
com out Of Uncle Sam, through the
medium Of war department funds al
lotted TO Nebraska.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-03

An Indictment charging criminal
conspiracy to violate the sherman anti
trust law was handed down n the
United States District Court yesterday
against twenty-ore men. directors or
FORMER directors OF the New York New
Haven and Hartford Railroad.
Joined 10 these twenty-Ore are the
names Of forty-five other men. also d.
=ectors or former directors. who are
designated as "coconspirators,' but
they are not indicted. Among them are
the names of men long since dead.
summed up the men indicted and
those characterized are charged with q
conspiracy which began about the date
che Sherman law was passed and con-
tinued up 10 October 80 Of this year
whereby they obtained a monopoly Of
practically all the land and water trans
portation facilities Of New England and
s,ified all competition.
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An attorney who has bceu actively IN
teres;ed IN the New Haven case said yes
terday:
THE indictment charges that from 1890
IN the present date the directors o. the
New Haven company nave been engaged
I'm WI. ngrul conspiracy 20 mouopplze
tn" TRANSPORTATION facilities OF New Eng
land and between Sew York and Boston
81 violation OF the sherman aut-truss act
The theory 81 tho indictment is that
the scheme for the mouopo' iEatiOn ~
transportation In New England was
formed twenty-five years ago. and that
every person who became a director until
1919. for however short time, became a
participant In tho original offence and
liable TO Indictment therefor.
"oue popularity OF this case is that Mr..
Mellen. tho man who Is primarily re-
sponsible for whatevc- mas been done in
the way OF acquiring The controlling
properties by the New Haven company.
has been given immunity from prosecu-
ton by tho Government. while men who
were directors FOR few months only are
embraced in the prosecution.
Tho growth Of railroad systems -in'ila ?
20 that which characterized tn. New
Haven system during the period embraced
In this indictment has been common
throughout the United States and II the
indictment Is well founded. then the d.
rectors OF every large railroad system in
IT.. country are liable 70 Ike Indictment
al the discretion OF the Federal Depart
nent Of Justice"
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The Direct Charges.

II. To secure by purchase all of the
capital stock OF some OF such other COM
mon carriers and the controlling portion
OF the capital stock OF others
"e To secure by leases tho use OF the
properties and facilities of still other OF
said other common carriers.
% To secure the making by some OF
said other common carriers with said
New Haven Company and Impose upon
the rest of said common carriers con-
tracts and working arrangements. and
induce and compel them to engage In
combinations. insuring the carrying on OF
said commerce OF all OF said common
carriers In harmony with the designs Of
said Conspirators In the premises and free
from the effects OF competition between
them
"i To prevent by contracts. combira-
tons, working arrangements and con-
spracies with common carriers not herein
named the carrying on OF the commerce
OF any OF the corporations above men
toned In competition with said New
Haven Company or In any way contrary
to the designs OF said defendants.
%. By use ri certain corporations. 70
wit the JOY steamship Company and the
United states TRANSPORTATION Company. in
fact controlled by eaid New Haven Com
pauy. although tho fact OF SUCH control
was concealed by said New Haven Com
pHuy. 10 engage In such destructive cou,-
petition. for limited times, with such
common carriers a. had not como under
the domination and control OF said New
Haven Company, chat such common car
riers would either be destroyed or COM
PEELED to come under such domination
and control
&c by the use OF steamboat lines con
trolled by said New Haven Company "a
wage destructive competition against said
other common carriers until they should
either come under such domination. con-
trll or ownership Of said New Haven
Company or be- driven out OF business
-. u" the maintenance Of such ma
RAISING litigation against such OF said
other common carriers Rs had not come
under tho domination and control OF said
Sew Haven Company ~ would 40 EN-
harrsss said other common carriers finan-
cially that they could not effectively COM
pete with said New Haven Company in
carrying on sliu commerce and would
finally be prevented from engaging IN
said commcrc" except in combination with
or suHorllua-i"u 'o sad New Haven Com
Dauy
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Mr.. Pratt Prsorcupied.

And then the clerk called:
Lewis CasS Ledyard! Charles NJ
Pratt"
Mr.. Ledysrd. smiling. came forward
with Mr.. Pratt at his side rather smaller
much more slender and pteoccupied IL
he was not worried
Their lawyers entered similar plea
for them.
When Il came 20 a question OF bali
Mr.. Stephenson asked for $4,000. Mr.
Lindsay suggested that II would be jus,
rs well to permit all Of them to go In
the custody OF their counsel.
1T does not make any difference. Of
course" said Judge Foster. but 1 un-
derstand the defendants will have no
difficulty IN procuring bail Of that
amount"
Even the defendants grinwd little at
this. but Mr. Baker said In an Under
tonc 70 Mr.. Bedyard YES. but man
does not like TO have TO say nc is otr
on ball" hut tho Judge thought thor,
should he ball, and the representatives or
about all tho surety companies IN Nt-S
York wero In the court room to talse a
chance.
There were no formal proceedings in
the case ~ Mr. Miller Hoffman Miller.
his son. stated tho situation in a low
voice 70 the court. with tn United states
Attorney at his side. His father. as Is
well known. suffers from "A weak heart.
and the attack Of the last two years
from all Sides has affected him do ply.
There was every willingness to accept
the assurance OF the aou, ana a plea was
therefore entered IN the absence OF the
indicted man.
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Tao Companies Included.

In the details OF the indictment n
conspiracy Is alleged IN reference to
the purchase Of every lire OF any kind
since the earliest date, and that takes
IN about 100 companies.
Specifically. the earliest date men
toned Is the withdrawal. of the toint
business with the New York and New
England in 1892 and the latest the
scquisition % tho Metropolitan, Maine
snd Eastern steamship companies by
che Eastern Steamship Corporation Ia
December, 1911. which brings IL all, nc
cordlng TO tho Government theory,
within the three year limit required by
law.
Three OF the defendants Indicted ap-
pesred in court yesterday afternoon
and gave 81 600 bail each. entering pleas
OF not guilty. These three We're George
J. Baker. who became a director on
February II, 1910. ana resigned Sep
tcmber %, 1914; Lewis Cass Ledysrd
twice . director. VINO served a month
in 1907 and from February. :, 1908, to
Marcel 20, 1918, and Charles NJ. Pratt,
who became a director February I. 1905
and resigned June 10, 1913
George MacCullosh Miller. oldest of
eli the mon accused, who became a dl.
rector before 1890 and resigned more
than a year ago, was represented in
court by his son. Hoffman Miller. Mr.
Miller. past SO. Is IN at his homo IN
Morristown, y. j. and Judge Rufus t.
Foster permitted the son to eute. a
plea and to stand a. Legal sponsor for
Ills father.
That Indictments weTo 20 be handed
down around election owe has been pretty
we'll known about tho Federal Buildlns
FOR nearly week. A q matter Of fact
Z, was said yesterday, they were ready for
return a wee6 ago Yesterday, when James
Wosoorne. the Governments leading coun,
sci In tho matter, said Sood-by to the
Grand Jurors u was rot long. therefore
after the Grand Jurors had made thell
1resentmCnt that word was sent out ano
arrangements were made to save the &C.
cused men tho humiliation OF belng
Wrought IN ou bench warrants
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Mr.. Elliott silent.

As no statement on the case was given
! at tho New Haven Offices yesterday Il
could not be learned what effect the In
dictment will have on the personnel OF
the new board. Mr.. Elliott. In Boston
announced that he would make no COM
mert.
The growth OF the New Haven which
the Government charges was In violation
OF both branches Of the Federal law be-
gan March I. 1893. when the New Haven
leased the Old Colony Railroad for ninety
nine years II grew when an agreement
was entered into with the Boston and
Maine Railroad twelve days later. Then
before that time had begun the New
York and New England Railroad fight,
which illuminated In 1895 with the &C
qulsition of the Putnam division. The
New York and New England went into
the hands OF a receiver ana was sold
under foreclosure. In those days the
New Haven was buying and leasing rail-
roads through It's subsidiaries all Of
which are mentioned. The Rutland was
acquired by tho New Haven in 1911
Tie steamship purchases began tn 1898.
BY that time the railroad had acquired
the Providence and Stoniugtou, old Colony
and Norwich and New York Transports
tion Company. all operating on the Sound.
Between 1900 and 1903 II had acquired the
New Haven steamship companies. tho
New London Steamboat Company and tho
bridgeport Steamboat Company. Tho six
companies were sold 10 the New England
Navigation Company in 1904 and 1908,
which two years later sold out 10 the Con
solidated Steamship Company, which on
May 81. 1907. was merged with the New
Haven
Tho JOY Line. which tho New Haven
owned secretly. II Is ALLEGED. because It
wanted 10 drive out opposition, came ncXt
and finally there was the Metropolitan
steamship Company purchase Of 1911,
which IS the basis OF the governments
] case
Steamship companies after the eclipse
temporarily became the property Of the
Eastern Steamship Company, ana tho way
In which this vas done lG a strong point
in the @ 80
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WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER
Is READY TO APPEAR
CHARGES MADE BY
THE GOVERNMENT

Allegations are that the defendants
used the credit Of the New Haven
Company:
l. To secure BY purchase ell OF
the capital stock OF other carriers
or TO secure control Of the same
g To secure other properties
by leases
g. To compel said carriers 10
make combinations and enter into
arrangements to carry out eth.
designs OF said conapirators."
T. To prevent all competition.
s. To exercise secret control OF
she Soy Line and the United
States Transportation Company
90 that all independent steamship
companies had TO quit or sell out
20 them.
s. Same ae No. 5.
7. To maintain such hArsssing
litigation against other common
carriers until they could not e'-
fectlvely compete.
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Directors Alleged Designs.

And said co7sp!rato-s Sere 70 induce
and compel such sales ~ capital stock.
such leasing OF such properties and fac.li-
ties and such making OF contracts and
working arrangements and such engag
ing IN combinations. by using and threat
en!ug to use the advantage possessed by
said New Haven Company as aforesaid.
and. after said conspiracy should be In
part accomplished the accumulation OF
power arising from the control OF some
" said other common carriers TO grasp
the commerce, Tightrully and normally be
longing TO said other and remaining conf
mon carriers. and TO drive such other
common carriers out OF such commerce.
except as they might engage in Il IN
combination with and subordlnation TO
said New Haven Company and In accord
ance with said designs OF said defend
ants
And the Grand Jurors aforesaid. upon
their oath aforesaid. do say that said
defendants mentioned in opening para
graph AT the time and place and In
manner and form aforesaid unlawfully
have combined and conspired 10 monopo-
lie 4 part OF the commerce among the
several States OF the United States
against the peace and dignity OF the
United states and contrary to tho form
81 the statute OF the Same in such case
made and provided"
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appears the names Of 100 subsidiary cor.

ipiVhiS thu VI NV HuustuldFy CUT
porations).
said conspirators, during said period
or tine. being In the active management,
and control OF tho affairs of said New
Haven Company, were to use among 9th
ers certain companies controlled by said
New Haven Company. through stock
ownership and otherwise, to Wit
The New England Navigation Com
pauy, the Boston Railroad Holding Com.
pany, the Billiard Company, the New Eng.
land Securities Company. the Eastern Sc.
curlties Company. the Pacific Company
the Chlmark Company the Pacific Navi-
cation Company. the ST. Lawrence Securi
ties Company, the United states TranB-
portation Company. the New England
steamship Company and the Mllbrook
Company, corporations. and the New Eng.
land Investment and Security Company
voluntary association. and the proper
ties OF said concerns, and were 10 use the
influence, credit, funds and properties OF
said New Haven Company and their owr
funds and credit.
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Surrounded by Lawyers.

Az Mr.. Bakor, Mr. Ledynrd, Mr.. Pratt
and Mr. Miller arc New York city men
they were heard NJ once. The three first
named appeared 1T the building shortly
otter o'clock, surrounded by IA strong
guard Of lawyers John O. Milburn, John
j.. LINDSAY, Hoffman Miller aud a half
dozen more swung around the TANKS OF
the reporters and entered tho court room
Tho defendants did not appear 10 be
particularly disturbed, Mr.. Baker, who
was accompanied by his son, esp!ed large
heaps OF ornate looking books ON the court
room floor and became interested. II was
sss evidence in tho de luxe book mems
trial. now drawing 20 a close. Col. Rll
Hartley, tho leiter writer OF tho book
suens organization, was In tho bach
ground.
Then the court clerk cried
George +. Baker 10 tho barW
His tone was not different IA any way
from tho usual. more strident lf anything.
sna the fnanc!er, who did not understand
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Demurrer Expected at Once.

II was the consensus OF opinion yes
teraay that the nght OF the defendants
will begin with the Indictments There
will be demurrers filed almost AT once
which will take up every question
Among them. Il il said. will be whether
the agreed decree which was signed Oc.
toher 81 OF this year contains an injunc-
ton which prohibits the directors from
disposins OF the stock OF any OF the
companies, the holding OF which. accord
ing TO the Indictment. constitutes n crime
There will be also claims OF immunity
from at least four OF the defendants
They were sworn before the Interstate
Commerce Commission at Washington at
the TINA Charles :. Mellen began his gen.
sational declarations which ended with
his visit TO the Grand Jury room, where
he obtained sufficient Government favor
TO keep him on the indicted list. These
men are William skinner. James S. Elton
John l. Billiard and T. De Witt Cuyler.
In his speech at New Haven last
Wednesday after the election OF the new
board Howard Elliott. president OF the
New Haven, declared that IN his opinion
all ~ the men who had been under dis
cussion had left the board The Grand
Jury evidently did not think so, for OF
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a, nrst came forward with Mr.. Lindsay,

mis- counsel
Mr.. Lindsay waived the reading OF tho
Indictment and asked In n perfunctory
voice: How do you plead?' MIR. Baker
did not answer. as Mr. Lindsay stopped
him to enter the formal plea, with re-
quest for three weeks In which to with
draw II In order to demur TO the ndict-
n1ent. There was a little argument over
this. Assistant United States Attorney
Stephenson thinking ten days would be
enough, but Judge Foster decided three
weeks was not too much TO ask