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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
GOV. SULzER BEGINS LEGAL
FIGHT TO REGAIN OFFICE
Courts Order to Comptroller
SChmer Opens Way
for Suit.

Albany, N. Y, Feb. 24.-William
Sul2er yesterday commenced legal
proceedings before Justice Allen Ches
,er of the supreme court, with the pur
pose of regaining The governorsh!p
rom which he was removed last
October.
An order was Issued by the court
commanding Comptroller Schmer to
appear and show cause why a writ OF
mandamus compelling him to pay the
former governor his full salary as the
occupant of that office should not be
issued. Mr.. Sulzer previously had
made a written demand on Mr..
Schmer for his salary. When Attor-
ley General Carmody notified Justice
hester that he would oppose the
granting of the writ, the court said he
intended to refuse it as a matter OF
Jaw, holding that the court of i'm.
parchment already had passed on the
contentious of Mr.. Sulzer.
An agreement then was made be
tween the attorney general and Colo
mel Alexander S. Bacon, counsel fol
Mr.. Sulzer, to facilitate the determi
nation of the questions involved by
he state courts. The appellate di
vision will be asked to affirm Justice
Chester's proposed order denying thu
granting of the writ and then the cas-
will be carried to the court of appeals
where a similar request will be rade
Thus Mr.. Sulzer will be able to fill
his case in the supreme court of thu
United States with little delay, it il
believed. Doubt is expressed, how
ever, if a final decision can be oh
tanned from the supreme court beforI
the term of Governor Glynn, successo
to MIR. Sulzer, shall have expired, De
cember 81, 1914.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
All cut One Per Cent of National
Institutions Obey New
Currency Law,
ON CANAL TOLLS
Henry White Says American Vessels
Should Pay-Mr. Wilson Presides
at Washington Birthday
Celebration.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Although Of
..cial taoulations were not completed
today. treasury officials estimated that
less than eighteen national banks OF
7,493 in the United States have not
made application for membership in
the ieueTal reserve banking system.
According to estimate, however, the
banks already in represent about 80
per cent OF tie national banking CAPT
al in the country. Under the law
national banks must subscribe 6 per
cent OF their capital and surplus to
stock OF a reserve bank in the new
system, so that the capital Of the en-
tire reserve system, it is estimated,
will be more than 500, 000, 600.
In an official announcement giving
these figures, the reserve bank or
ganization committee tonight said
that, although explanations had not
been sent with the notifications OF
non-acceptanCe by the eighteen, in sew
eral instances the records showed
that the banks had arranged some
time ago to 90 into liquidation, and
one bank had been absorbed by an
other. OF the ten not heard from, two
had filed papers asking permission tc
liquidate, and three had been too re
Gently organized to pass the neces
saTy resolutions of acceptance, so only
i've are really considered as being il
the class of those yet to respond.
The figures for the state banks anC
trust companies have not been tabu
lated, but sixty such institutions hav'
asked for approval of their applica
lions, and it was estimated tonigh
that their capitalization will be sui
ticient to put the total Of all bank
applying to date beyond the $1,1OOr
200, 900 mark.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
MURPHY OUT OF BASE BALL
Sells Controlling Interest in Chicago
Club to c. p. Taft of
Cincinnati.

Chicago, H., Fee. 23.-"I started in
baseball with a shoestring, and now
l am worth more than a million dol
lars" said Charles w. Murphy, who
has just sold under pressure the con-
trolling interest in re Chicago Ma
tional League club,
Mr.. Murphy chuckled and then
grew serious when he "a asked to
tell how much Charles P. Taft gave
him for SO per cent of the stock Of
the club.
q would be violating a confidence
to give the exact amount" he replied,
but estimated on the basis Of the
price I received for my interest, the
club is worth more than a million dol
lars. A half million or so is a lot Of
money, but the Cubs are worth it. In
the time l ran the club, l believe 1t
was the most prosperous organization
in the league"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
HONORS FIRST PRESIDENT
Wilson Takes Part In TWO Celebra'
tons to Commemorate Birthday
Anniversary of Washington.

Washington, Feb. 23.-President
Wilson was the central figure Sunday
at a mass meeting held in a down
town theatre here under the auspices
of the Sons of the Revolution in com
memoration of Washington's birth
day. Joseph w. Folk, solicitor of the
state department, in an address on
"Washington's Ideals" paid tribute
to the founder of the republic "as a
man imperfect enough to be intensely
human, and near enough perfect to
be an inspiration to all who honor
Justice and worship liberty"
President Wilson did not speak, but
he was the first to congratulate Clar-
ence j. Rammling, a high school
youth who received the gold medal Of
the Sons Of the Revolution for the
hest essay on the subject, "The Great
est Event Of the American Revolu-
ton"
In accordance with a c%entury-old
custom, a salute from an ancient can
non o Suffers hill, in Alexandria, Va,
across the Potomac, ushered in the
observance of the day in that town,
where a notable celebration was plan
ned for the day. President Wilson,
Vice President Marshall, cabinet OH
GERS and other officials i~ourneyed to
the old Virginia city to review a civic
and military parade which moved past
W%ashington's Masonic lodge room
and Christie's, from which the Father
Of his country was buried In 1893.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
MILLERS MAY BLEACH FLOUR
Federal Supreme Court Decides That
Alsop Process Is Not Prohibited
by Pure Food Law.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Western flour
millers won a victory over the gov
eminent when the supreme court de-
cided that bleaching flour by the AL
sop electric process is not an adulter.
alton and not prohibited by the Pure
Food Law, affirming the ruling of the
United States circuit court Of appeals
in the federal suit against the Lex
ington Min and Elevator Company OF
Kansas City,
The case was sent back to the dis
trict court for a new trial.
The government won its case
against the millers of the Southwest
in the United States district court
here. The millers, appealed to the
United States circuit court Of appeals,
where the ruling Of the lower court
prohibiting bleaching was reversed.
The federal attorney then took the
case to the supreme court where they
lost.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
WILSON AND BRYAN CONFER
President and Secretary Of State Dis
cuss Mexican Situation But
Make No Announcement.

Washington, Feb. 23.-President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan con.
ferred briefly on various phases of the
Mexican situation. No announce
ments we're made after the confer
ence, but It is understood a complete
report Of the killing at Jaurez Of VIII
liam S. Benton, the British subject,
is awaited before the view Of this
government toward the incident is
made known.
It is understood that Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice. the British ambassador
has expressed to the British foreign
office his pleasure at the promptness
with which the American government
has acted in seeking to learn the truth
about the killing Of a British subject
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
ILLINOIS SNOW STORM
E1R1OaS PASSENGERS
Hundreds Taken From Stalled
Trains TO Nearby Farm
Houses for night

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. 24.-Hundreds
Of passengers on trains in Central Hi
nois are being cared for in farm
lCuses and village hotels, while sec
ton gangs and crews Of rescue en-
Is mes are trying to dig trains out OF
%snowdrifts, some of which are twenty
feet deep.
So severe was the blizzard all day
and so relentless the wind, that the
snow filled in as fast as it could be
shoveled out. The situation became
so desperate on some roads that o2er
ations were abandoned temporarily.
and all attention directed toward car
ing for the passengers,
A Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis train
with twenty-five passengers is stalled
at Virginia and another is at Cantrall
with thirty-ive passengers. Farmers
are housing the passengers.
Peoria division, Chicago & Alton
trains, have been %annulled One train
is showed under at Green Valley.
Five engines pulled the Illinois Cen
trail Daylight Special out Of a drift
at Divernon.
Baltimore G. Ohio passenger trains
are stalled at Sharpsburg, Oweneco
and Virginia. The Oweneco train left
it's passengers at Pana. Passengers
Of other trains are being housed by
farmers.
Three Wabash passenger trains are
in drifts near Markham, with four ex'
ira engines and squads of men trying
% dig them out.
I%nterurban cars of the Illinois trac-
ton system are held by drifts in sew
eral directions out Of Springfield.
Volunteer relief has been offered by
farmers.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
NOT DR.. WINTERS DAUGHTER
Newcastle, lndy Physician Failed to
Recognize a Child Held at
%springdale, Ark.

S~pringdale, Ark, Feb. 24.-The child
held here as Catherine Winters, the
kidnapped daughter OF DR.. w. A. Win
ters OF Newcastle, Ind, was declared
by the physician not to be his child.
Doctor Winters arrived here to iden.
tIfy the girl found recently at Hunts
vile, Ark, in company of a man who
give the name of Edward Stuart, and
who was believed to be Doctor Win
ter's ~1O-year-old daughter, who has
been missing from her Indiana home
since March 20, 1918.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
ADMIRAL Won DIEDERICHS
SAYS Dewey is MISTAKEN
German Naval Officer Contra
diets Statement Regarding
Manila Bay Friction.

Baden Baden, Germany, Feb. 25.-
The controversy over the friction
between the American and German
admlrals in Manila bay at the time
of the Spanish-American war, revived
by the narrative of Admiral Dewey
recently published, was made the sub
ject of a statement to the Associated
Press today by Admiral Won Diede-
richs, commander of the German war
ships.
The German admiral took issue with
the statements made by Admiral
Dewey in his autobiography, and said
he felt himself forced to give his side
of the case out of consideration for
the honor Of his country and his
officers.
Mildly, but very decidedly, Admiral
Won Diederichs declared the account
of the incidents. as related in the
autobiography, contains many errors
which he attributes probably to de
fective memory of the events or tC
transformation obtained from subordi
mates. He expressed regret that the
Manila affair had been raked out Of
oblivion, hoping that the misunder'
standings had been smoothed over
He and Admiral Dewey were friends
and had exchanged visits, letters and
gifts.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
FOR TOLL EXEMPTION REPEAL
Diplomat Declares Makers Of Treaty
Intended American Vessels to
Pay Canal Fees.

Washington, Feb. 24.-American
diplomats who negotiated the Hay
Pauncefote treaty had no thought of
exempting the United States when
they agreed to the provision stipulat-
ing that "all nations should use the
Panama Canal on equal terms, &C
cording to Henry White, former am
bassador to France. Mr.. White was
secretary of the embassy at London
in 1898, and in the absence of Am
bassador Bay opened the negotiations
for repeal of the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty which the Hay-Pauncelote pact
supplanted. In an address on diplO'
macy before the George Washington
University students yesterday he de-
clared that there could be no doubt
that the words all nations was in
tended to include the United States.
Nobody" said the former ambassa.
dor, mot in touch with diplomatic af-
fairs, could realize what a d%eplorable
thing it was to know that this coun-
try was going back on its word. There
never could be any doubt that the
words all nations included the United
States. No one views with deeper
humiliation the fact that we have no
merchant marine. l would, therefore,
do anything that could be done, with
propriety, for the resuscitation Of our
merchant marine, but l do not believe
IN violating our pledged word
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
Supreme Court Decision May
ReVOlutiOnize Criminal
Procedure.
CHECK ON POLICE METHODS
Kansas City Express Messenger
Given New Trial Because Off
GERS Seized Private Papers
U~nlawfully.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Criminal
prosecutions in the United States nay
be r%eyolutionized by a decision yester.
day Of the supreme court restricting
the conditions under which prosecut-
ing officials may seize papers belong
ing to persons accused of crime. The
Immediate result of the decision was
that Fremont Weeks, an express mes
senger at Kansas City, will be given
a new trial on a charge of using the
mails to further an alleged lottery
scheme.
The point that the government i'm
properly seized papers in the "dyna-
miters' cases against Frank M.
Ryan and other bridge union officials
in a raid in indianapolis has been
raised and the decision today may
enter into that prosecution if a new
trial is granted, as sousht in an APP
plication for review, filed today with
the supreme court.
Weeks was arrested at a railroad
station by one group OF policemen,
while another searched his house. At
ter his arrest the United States mar
shall entered his home and obtained
more than coo letters, which were
used against him when he was placed
on trial. No search warrant had been
Issued.
Justice Day, in announcing the
courts unanimous decision, held thai
Weeks constitutional guarantee
against unreasonable search had beeL
violated.
IF letters and private documents
can be seized thus and held and used
in evidence against a citizen accused
OF an offense," Justice Day said, the
protection Of the fourth amendment
declaring his right to be safe against
such searches and seizures is of NJ
value, and so far as those thus placed
are concerned, might as well b.
stricken from the constitution. Tit
efforts of the courts and other officials
to bring the guilty to punishment
pTaiseworthy as they are, are not t.
be aided by the sacrifice of thosI
great principles established by year
of endeayor and suffering which hav.
resulted in their embodiment in tn
fundamental law Of the land"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
STORM SWEEPS WI STATES
Rain Turning to Sleet Covers Kansaa
and Missouri With Coat
ing Of ice.

Topeka, Kas., Feb. 23.-The most
severe storm that has visited Kansas
this winter came Sunday night. II
followed a light rain that started ear
ly in the day. All the northern part
of the state that could be reached by
either telegraph or telephone report
d a sheet of ice a quarter OF an inch
thick on the ground and sleet and
snow falling rapidly.
Scanty reports received from tho
western part of the state indicated
that u~nsheltered live stock is suffer
ing. Fear is expressed that the air.
tight coating Of ice may damage the
wheat fields.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
REBELS WRECK TROOP TRAIN
All On Board, Including officers and
Men and English Engineer,
Were Killed.

Vera Cruz, Mex, Feb, pa govern.
ment troop train, carrying a company
Of infantry from the City Of Mexico.
destined for Jalapa, was blown up by
rebels. The wreck occurred near the
Lima station Of the l%nteroceanic Rail.
way, 14O miles from Vera Cruz.
The entire train was demolished.
All on board, including SIS officers
and men and the English engineer,
were killed. A passenger train, fol
lowing the troop train, was fired on
by the rebels, but escaped by backing
rapidly.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
BECKER TO HAVE NEW TRIAL
Court Of Appeals Gives New York
Police Lieutenant Another Chance
For His Life.

Albany, N. Y, Feb. 25.-By a vote
Of G to /, the court Of appeals has
granted Charles Becker, convicted
New York police lieutenant, a new
trial.
Becker was convicted October rs.
1912, of the murder of Herman Rosen-
thai, a notorious gambler, and SEN
fenced to death at Sing Sing prison,
Justice Werner voted against a new
trial.
The convictions Of the four gunner,
who appealed with Becker, were unan.
imously affirmed.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
Henry M. Teller Dead.

Denver, Feb. 24.-Henry Moore Tel
Ter, ex-cabinet officer and for o
than thirty years United States SEN
ator from Colorado, is dead here. Mr..
Teller, who was SO years old, had been
III two years and his death was not
unexpected.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27

Washington, Feb. 24.-Admiral
Dewey remained silent today in re-
gard to the agitation created in Ger
many by the publication of his mem
oirs. He rests upon the statement
made in the introduction to his work,
that while for the most part the re-
cital was based upon personal recol-
lections, in the cast Of all Of the cir
cumstances connected with the battle
of Manila bay his statements were
based upon official reports compiled
at the time and hence of unquestion'
able accuracy.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27

Chicago, Feb. 24.-All available po-
licemen from the North Halsted
Street station searched the North Side
residence section for a timber wolf,
which was believed to have entered
the city in the storm in search Of food.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27

st. Louis, Mo-, Feb. 23.-Sleet drlv.
en- by a 25-mile wind began to fall
throughout Missouri early Sunday at.
ternoon and by night had coated the
ground with more than an inch Of ice
in many places. The blizzard was
accompanied by a drop in tempera-
ture of about thirty degrees in twelve
hours.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
nnhols 70 Elnht Mormons.

Washington, Feb. 2i.-Fred T. Du-
bois, ex-senator from Idaho, has IN.
nounced his candidacy for the senate
from Idaho on an anti-Mormon DEM
ocratic ticket.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
Offers 100000 for Cubs.

Chicago, Feb, 24.-An offer of $780,
600 for his stock in the Chicago Ma
tional League ball club has been made
to Charles p. Taft by a syndicate Of
six Chicago business men.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
Slams Eiqht.Hour Bill.

Washington, Feb 25.-President
Wilson has signed a bill limiting the
hours of labor OF women In the Dis
trict Of Columbia to eight hours.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-02-27
Order of American Government
for BentOn's Body May
Not be C5eyed.
HOW ENCLISaMAN MET DEATH
Rebel Chief Again Pleads Self Defense
Former Statement Contradicted
Federal Troop Train Blown
Up With Dynamite.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Just what
General villa proposes to do about the
demand of the United States govern
ment that he deliver up the body OF
William S. Benton, the British subject
killed by Villa at Juarez, apparently
Is an open question.
Early in the evening Secretary
Bryan had accepted a message from
the constitutionalist chief to Consular
Agent Carothers at Juarez as a prom
Use that the body would be turned
over to American authorities as soon
as the matter could be arranged. This
message was translated to read that
the body would be delivered, but not
at this time"
Just before midnight State Depart
ment officials made public this an
pouncement:
American consul at Chihuahua re-
ports that Villa declines to deliver
Benton's body, but will permit widow
or relatives to visit cemetery with
American representatives.; that for
| their benefit he will order exhumation
of the body, which then will be rein
tered in grave from which it is re-
moved"
From the character of the wounds
discovered on Benton's body, physi
clans will be able to say whether
Benton was killed by a pistol shot, as
his friends claim, or by a firing squad
as Villa asserts. 1t is generally ad
mitted in official circles that such an
examination will be Of great value IN
either affirming or d%isproving an i'm
portant point in the general explana
tion Of the affair made by Villa.
News of the hanging Of ClementC
Vergara, an American citizen, by Mex
lean federals near Nuevo Laredo
Mexico, directed attention to tn,
Huerta government on the subject o
protection for foreigners. Representa-
tions in behalf Of Vegara had beel
made by the state department som
time ago, but no information abou
his whereabouts or the reported exc
cution have been received here at thi
time.
Tells Of Benton Killing.
Chihuahua, Mex, Feb 24-Genera
Villas story of the killing of Williar
S. Benton, told to reporters here tc
day, differs but little from the off
cial statement given out Saturday a
Juarez.
The Juarez statement given out dc
clared that when Benton reached 70
his hip pocket Villa knocked hir
down with a blow of the fist. VIII
said that when Benton made thi
move he poked his own pistol agains
Benton's stomach and then turne
him over to the guards.
Villa insisted that Benton came t
take his life and referred to Benton.
mission concerning the welfare Of hi
ranch as a "pretext" to gain admi
lance.
According to villa, Benton, after tn
verdict of the court-martial, confesse
his guilt and declined to ask fC
mercy. He merely requested that HI
property be turned over to his widow
villa contradicted his official repo,
to the American consul at Juarez thu
, Gustav Bauch, a German-American a
/, cused of being a spy, had been brougl
/, to Chihuahua. Villa said he kne
nothing of him.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-04
UNCLE SAINTS COOK BOOK.

Readers of The Argus will be inter
| ested in the new free price list, just
I issued by the superintendent of docu-
! Cooking" This pamphlet gives list
of government bulletins that have
been issued from time to time and
which collectively have been popularity
known as Uncle Sans Cook Book"
The new publication mentions a
great number of household pamphlets
issued by all branches of the govern
ment
The subjects Of the bulletins listed
in Uncle Sans Cook Book" range
from apple juice" to zinc" In the
price list there are over 20 pages of
titles such as the following:
Bread and toast.
Farm butter making.
Improved method of canning.
Cereal breakfast foods.
Cheese and its economical uses in
the diet
COrnmeal as food and ways of using
il.
Home manufacture and use of un-
fermented grape juice.
Economical use or meat in the home.
Digestibility of fish and poultry
Fish as food.
Maple sugar and sirup.
Care of milk and it's use in home
Preserving wild mushrooms Cby can
nirg).
Some forms of adulteration and sim
pie methods OF their detection.
Unfermented apple juice.
Egg-candling chart. and many other
publications OF special value in the
city or country kitchen and home.
In applying for the new price list.
housewives should send TO the super
intendent of documents, Washington,
d. c.. who will send the list without
charge. While the price list is sent
free. II must be remembered that the
pamphlets listed arc sent only in pay
ment of actual cost Of publication. In
most cases this amounts to only or
10 cents