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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
SIEGEL co. BANK
AFFAIRS BEFORE
DIST. ATTORNEY,

New York, Feb. 6.-Facts relating TO
the bank of Henry Siegel and Co,
which recently went into receivers
hands, will be brought to the atten-
ton of United States District Attor-
ney H. Snowden Marshall, by one OF
his assistants, Roger B. Wood, with
whom Henry Melville, the receiver for
Henry Siegel & Co, was today in con-
ference for the purpose, it was stated
of determining whether or not there
was ground for action in the case By
the federal government.
1t is understood the conference be-
tween the assistant United States dis
trict attorney and Mr.. Melville was
the result of complaints made by de-
pcsitors of the Siegel bank. Mr.. Wood
said tonight that as yet he had not
made up his mind as to whether the
case, if one appeared to be made out,
came within the purview of the bank
ruptcy law, or the postal laws by the
alleged illegal use of the mails.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Announcement from
N. Y. Yacht Club
Period of Nearly
Three Months.
Thirty-tive Races Before Open
ing Of Final Contest.

New York. Feb. 6.-Dates for the
trial and tuning-up races of the trio
of yachts now building as possible de-
tenders of the Americas cup were an
nounced here tonight by Secretary G.
A. Cormack of the New York Yacht
Club. The dates are part of a sched-
ule of races prepared for the three
yachts by w. B. Duncan, covering a
period extending from June to Au-
gust %.
The actual trial races will be held
off Newport, r. l., August 10 to %, but
the showing made IN all the races
sailed after July 6 will be considered
by the cup committee In the final Sc
lection of the defending yacht to meet
the Shamrock " in the cup races
Sept. 10, II and 10.
Approximately So races are planned
before the beginning of the final trials
OF these % will be held before the an
nual cruise of the New York Yacht
Club and the remainder during the
runs and races under. the auspices OF
this club. In all races held by the
New York Yacht Club, the conditions
will be similar to those prevailing In
the actual cup races. and the regatta
committee of the other clubs on the
schedule will be requested to adopt a
similar policy. An important feature
of the schedule is series of SIX
match races off Newport, July 8, g. 10
II. 10 and IA, under the direction oil
the New York Yacht Club. In this
series the three candidates for defend
ing honors will be matched against
each other in rotation, in order that
the cup committee may have opportun-
ity to Judge the relative merits OF the
three yachts under conditions similar
to those that will exist in the interna :
tional contest off Sandy Hook in
September. No order pr meeting has
as vet been arranged, ~ the Defiance
will race the Herreshoff Yacht and A
s. cochran's candidate in turn and the
Round Robin series will be continued
until all three have raced against each
other.
In all races off Newport the contests
will be started from a buoy to the
eastward of Brenton's Reef iightshiI
and the starts in all the matches will
Continued on Page Column y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
BILL OF TRADE
COMMISSION IS
YET in MAKING,

Washington, Feb. 6.-That the pend
ing bill to create an Interstate Trade
Commission, the first of the measures
drafted for the administration anti
trust program, Is far from complete
was determined today by members OF
the Senate interstate commerce COM
mittee at long conference.
Though. in accordance with pre-
vious decree of the majority men,
bers of the committee all amendments
proposed In the nature of supplements
to the Sherman act were voted down,
careful study of the measure convinc-
ed all the committeeman that the bill
should be materially strengthened.
President Wilson's aid in perfecting
the measure is to be sought
c. II. Nixon told the House COM
mittee that cutting prices on patent
medicines was the club used by COM
bination of drug stores and cigar stores
to drive small individual retailers out
of business.
I'VE believe a monopoly Is being
started with the object of controlling
the retail drug trade Of the entire
United States he said.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
SNOW AND WARMER.

Washington, Feb 6.-Forecast for
northern New England: Snow Satur-
day with rising temperature; Sunday
snow and colder; strong northeast
winds on the coast. Southern New
England: Snow Saturday, probably
turning to rain in south; Sunday fair
and colder; strong east to southeast
winds on the coast. Eastern New
York: Rain in south, snow in north
Saturday; Sunday fair and colder, high
south shifting to west winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07

Washington, Feb. 6.-Men involved
in some of the past financial perform
ances of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad were denounced as
criminals in the Senate today. Sem
ator Borah said they had been occupy
ing penitentiary cells if charges re-
lating to the corporations affairs are
substantiated.
There were limitations that the fed
eral government still contemplates in
shutting criminal action against GER
tain individuals engaged in transact
lions of the New Haven, which have
been investigated by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. The discus
sion arose when Senator Norris OF
Nebraska called up his resolution
which would direct the commission to
extend its inquiry into the New Hav-
enL affairs, articularly with view
to ascertaining what became OF mil
lions of dollars of the New Ravens
funds declared to have been fraudu-
lently withheld from the railroads
! stockholders.
Senator Norris insisted that further
investigation at least might furnish
basis for proceedings by the present
management of the New Haven to re-
cover something for the widows or or
/ phans who have Been "plundered." Re-
citing circumstances disclosed in the
Interstate Commerce Commissions re-
port on New England railroad condf-
tons, the senator declared that the
commission had not completed its In
vestigation as to the New Haven be-
cause it feared 1t might be compelled
to extend immunity to offenders. II
was his reading OF sections of this re-
port that prompted Senator Borah to
assert that these men. IL proved gull
ty Of the financial transactions descrfo-
ed, should be in the penitentiaries
Senator Borah declared his faith that
the attorney general would push prose
cutions OF certain men involved In al
legged crooked New Haven deals. For
him not to proceed on disclosures
made, If ground for the revelations
should prove sound, he said, would lay
the attorney general open to impeach-
ment.
Former Commissioner Prouty in a let
ter to E. E. Clark, chairman of the COM
mission, forwarded to Senator Newlands.
chairman Of the interstate commerce
committee. expressed doubt in the wis
dem of a further inquiry into the New
Haven. In this letter. which was read to
the Senate, Mr. Prouty asserted that the
commission had in its possession all In
formation 1t had been possible for 1t to
chtain with relation to the New Ravens
Continued on Page Column ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
SENTENCE DR.. DARBY
TO TEN DAYS IN JAIL.

Providence, r. l., Feb. Cdr, Thomas
f. Darby of Riverpoint was sentenced to
10 days in the Providence county jail
after a trial in the Sixth District court
today on a charge of having operated an
automobile while in an intoxicated condi-
ton He took an appeal and furnished
$500 bail.
The offence for which DR.. Darby was
tried is alleged to have occurred on Res
ervoir avenue at l A NJ. on Dec. 16. In
the car with him were two women and
a man. The automobile crashed through
a fence and went over an embanloment
The police were called and arrested Dr.
Darby for drunkenness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
.$1,079,S69 Claims
Against Siegel Co.

Boston, Feb. 6.-Claims against the
Henry Siegel Co. of this city amount
to SLOTS, 500 as far as they have been
ascertained according to the bank
ruptcy schedule filed today. Other
claims were mentioned such as those
of the Fourteenth Street store in New
York and the Henry Siegel Stores
Corporation, the holding company of
a chain of stores, but the amount of
these was declared to be uncertain.
More than $500 creditors, most OF
them New York firms, are named as
having unsecured claims. A national
bank and trust company of this city
with claims of 100000 and sS7,50O re-
spectively, are listed as the only Sc
cured creditors. Claims of Boston
newspapers for advertising foot up to
ST., 925.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
MINER WOUNDED
AT SEEBERv|LLE
GIVES TESTIMONY.

Houghton, Mich, Feb. 6.-Stanko
Stepech, one Of the striking copper
miners who was wounded In the See
berville shooting affray, testified today
at the trial Of two deputy sheriffs and
three Waddell- Mahon guards that he
saw the officers assaulting John Kol-
Ian before q shot had been fired. Kol-
Ian was one Of the men they had come
to arrest. The witness said that Jas.
Cooper, a Waddell- Mahon man, hit him
|also, and pointed a revolver at him.
He then ran into the house and while
he was inside he heard a shot fired
|outside. he said. Stepech had started
|up stairs when he heard other shots.
He dropped at the foot of the stairs
with bullet wound in his side. 81
Where did the bullet that struck
you come from ?" was asked.
TT came through the window"
Seven witnesses were examined to-
day. None Of them saw the actual
shooting of Steve Putrich. whom the
1--WE men on trial are charged with kill
Ing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Three Lives Lost
In Michigan Wreck

Saginaw. Mich, Feb GA snow and
sleet storm which fell over large por-
ton of Michigan today is held responsible
for a railroad wreck near Saginaw which
cost three lives. g..
A Grand Trunk freight train collded
with a work train. Edward Lewes OF
Durand foreman of the work train
crew; Frank Kruger of Flint brakeman
on the freight train, and an unidentified
man. We're killed. Others We're injured
and taken to a Saginaw hospital
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Two Warships to Be Bought.

Two warships of not less than 15,-
600 tons displacement each are to be
purchased at once for operations along
the Pacific coast of Mexico. according
to a statement by Constitutionalist
Consul Leliyier today. 1t was limited
that these vessels were already Sc
lected and would be ready Immediately
after purchase to proceed against the
federal gunboats which are REIN
forcing the Huerta garrisons at Guaya-
mas and ManZaillo.
A war ship of $4,000 tons displace-
ment would be much larger than the
Oregon, the famous American battle
ship which raced around the Horn IN
1898 to help defeat Ceryera's fleet at
Santiago, and would be almost equal
in size to the big United States ar
mored cruiser Maryland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
RUSSIA FURTHER
CUTS DOWN SALE
Of ALCOHOL THERE.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 6.-The Council
OF the Empire today adopted drastic
clauses to the bill for the regulation
Of the sale Of alcohol. The new clauses
prohibit the sale Of spirits in towns
between IL o'clock at night and
o'clock in the morning and after 9
O'Clock in the evening in country dis
tricts. They prohibit entirely the sale
of liquors in number Of public estab-
lishments, including government Of
fees, refreshment rooms in theaters,
concert halls and moving picture
shows and in public gardens
Count Serge White, former premier,
recently made a dramatic appeal to
the Council Of the Empire to stop the
consumption of spirits which he de-
clared was leading Russia TO ruin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Texas VS.. Railway
Suit Is Settled.

Austin, Tex. Feb. 6-The $1o0,0O0o00
suit of the State of Texas against the
Missouri, Kansas &, Texas Railway
of Texas today was settled by COM
promise without a money penalty.
The suit was brought under the state
antitrust laws to prevent the railroad
merging several of it's branches I'M
der one management.
The compromise binds the railroad
to spend Sc, 00O,o 900 on improvements In
Texas, in addition to 100000 for the
repair of damage done in last Decem-
bers floods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
THE LATEST WAY.
Physical Test Imposed on Officers Of
Navy During Sea Trips.

Washington, Feb 6-The latest way
TO meet the physical test imposed on
officers of the navy is to walk 10 miles
on the promenade deck of steamship
while she is drumming out the miles
between Liverpool and New York. This
method was discovered by Captain
George F. Cooper, U. S. N, chief OF
the photographic office. Captain Coop
er was delegate to the recent inter-
national convention on safety of life
at sea at London and returned to the
United States on the Olympic. He
walked around her deck more than A
times on sunshiny afternoons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Steel Mast for
Bristol Defender.

Bristol. R. l., Feb. 6.-The mast of
the possible cup defender, now being
built for the Vanderbilt syndicate at
the Herreshoff yards. will be Of steel
instead Of wood. 1t was learned today.
Work was begun sometime ago on a
wooden mast Of the "stave" variety.
but this will be kept in the shops here
to be used in case 1t is shown in the
trial races that the steel spar is too
heavy for the boat to carry. Aluminium
will be used for decking and the metal
will be covered by coarse canvas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
CONSTITUTIONALIsTS
IN NORTH Mexico
RENEWING ACTIVITY.

culiacan, Sinaloa. Mex, Feb. g.
from all sides today came reports to
Constitutionalist headquarters of re-
newed activity Of the insurgent forces
in northern Mexico. General Carranza
was advised that all was ready for the
attack by General Villa on Torreon'
General Gonzales, commander or the
Northwestern zone, reported that eight
brirades We're moving by forced
marches toward the South to attack
the principal points Of Central Mex
leo.
Continued on Page 2-colurn 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
SWedeS to Settle
Defence Problem.

Stockholm, Sweden. Feb. 6.-Striking
success both spectacular and material
attended the demonstration today in
favor of the increase of the Swedish
ornaments. The $4,000 participants
were told by King Gustave that the
rcblem of Swedish defence must be
settled without loss of time.
The army of patriotic petitioners
which had waited on the outskirts of
the Swedish capital since yesterday
was greeted with enthusiasm by the
entire population of Stockholm as 1t
marched through the streets to the
palace where King Gustave was wait
ing to receive it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Grew OF the Warrior
Safe on Matapan.

Colon, Feb Ga wireless dispatch re-
ceived here today from the United Fruit
steamer Matapan said that 50 members of
the crew of Frederick w, Vanderbilt's
yacht Warrior were on board the Mata-
pan. The message added that the steam
err would take the sailors back to the
United States. She is due here on her
northbound trip Feb. II. A previous dis
patch from the frulter Santa Marta said
the Warrior was still aground but that
there were good chances OF saving her.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Will Possess Two Fighting
Vessels Of Power.
Ships to Compare FavorabIy with
Large Ones Of the q. S. Navy-.ln-
creased Activity Of Rebel Forces
In Northern Mexico-.M obiIlzlng
For Attack on Principal Strong
holds Of the FederaIs--Yaqui In-
dams Are Being Armed.

Douglas, Ariz., Feb. 6.-Statements
coming from sources friendly to Huer-
ia that the lifting of the embargo
would do the Constitutionalist cause
no good because the rebels had no
money were met today with declara-
tons by Carranza agents that they not
only had money enough to buy rifles,
by the hundred thousand, but that they
were financially able to purchase war
ships of sufficient destructive power
to blow the Federal navy out of the
water
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Celebrities Hear
Women on Reform,

Boston, Feb. 6.-Pure food, truthful
advertising, and milk legislation were
discussed at the mid-winter meeting
today Of the Massachusetts, Fedora
ton of Womens Clubs. w. Cameron
Forbes, former governor of the Phil
ippincs, and Norman Rapgood were
guests.
Two clubs were added to the organ
ization. Members were urged to at
tend the biennial meeting of the Gen.
eral Federation in Chicago next June.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Boston Employees
Lose High Salaries.

Boston, Feb. 6.-Several hundred city
employees, whose salaries were increas-
ed by Former Mayor Fitzgerald dur
ing the last two months of his term,
were notified by Mayor Curley that
their salaries would be reduced to the
original figures. The men in the police
and fire departments, who receive in
creases from 500 to 5000 each. and en-
ployes earning less than $1,000 year
will not be affected by the reductions,
the mayor announced.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Customs Officers
Seize Much Opium.

San Francisco, FEB. 5.-First appli-
cation Of new amendment to the
opium law found customs officers in
possession of $4,000 worth of the drug
today.
The law at present prohibits the i'm
portation Of opium under bond for
trans shipment to another country. In
spectors found 1900 tins aboard the
Pacific Mail liner Manchuria when
she docl1ed here yesterday, consigned
from Hong Kong to Manzanillo and
Mexico City. 1t is held in the customs
warehouse.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
A LEWISTON HORSE
BREAKS STATE RECORD

Lewiston, Ne, Feb. 6.-Ruth B..
owned and driven by George r. Pat
tee of this city, went quarter mile
on the ice today in S1A seconds,
breaking the State record and coming
within three quarters of a second of
the worlds record of So19 seconds,
made at Rockford. H., Feb. 10 of last
year, by Dean Oakley.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Two Die and Three
Fatally Burned.

Urban. KY, Feb. 6.-Frank Pennington
and Robert Hayer of this city were In
stantly killed: Thomas Hayer, Daniel
Cox and Robert Hampton were fatally
burned, while John and Lincoln Hayer
were seriously injured when a boiler in
a saw mill exploded here today. The mill
was wrecked.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
FILES Statement OF
SUN--A. P. RELATIONS

Washington, Feb. 6.-The Sun Printing
& Publishing Association of New York
today filed with subcommittee of the
House committee on judiciary copies of
the statement recently presented to At
torney General McReynolds in regard to
the relations of the Associated Press and
the New York sun. Request was made
for hearing by the subcommittee which
will be given ON Feb. 1a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Captain Maine Man.

New Haven, CT, Feb. 6.-The schoon-
er Helen H. Benedict, ashore on the
North Carolina coast, belonged to the
Benedict Manson fleet owned here
Captain z. H. Weaver, managing az
rector of the company said today that
the schooner was 33 years old and
worth about $4,000. Her captain was
Windsor w. Torrey of Deer Isle. Maine
The crew were shipped at New York.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Crew OfSChr. Saved
By Brooches Buoy

Nagshead, N. c., Feb. 6.-The schoon-
err Helen H Benedict of New Haven,
ct. from Perth Amboy to Fernandina,
with a crew of nine, was driven ashore
near here today In a gale. Life saw
Count Romanones, a former premier,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
Boston r st.

Boston, Feb. 6.-Fcrecast for Boston
and vicinity: Saturday rain or snow,
clearing by Sunday morning; colder
Saturday night and Sunday; brisk to
high southerly winds, shifting to west
erly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
aLl.-wsAIME CIGARS

Made in Belfast from Cuban tobacco
grown in Maine. Ask for the Pearl
a B1Sok sis at dr stands. S C. e N s
fan22d3mna
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
1904

l0c Cigar. Thirty-nine years continu-
Gus increased sales tells its own story,
Factory. Manchester. N. H dit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
MEN INVOLVED in SOME OF
NEW HAVEN'S DEALS ARE
LABELLED AS CRIMINALS,

limitations in Senate That Government
Is Contemplating Important Action
Against Individuals Taking Part in
Railroads Transactions--Sen. Borah
Shows No Quarter in Sudden Attack
Friday--Trustees Named.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07
THE WEATHER

Snow Saturday with rising tenn
persture; Sunday snow and cold
err; strong northeast winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-07

Don't waste the days in wait
Ing for q tenant, under the inn
preston that classified advsr-
Using 10 EXPENSIVE. For
your REAL EXPENSE 10 to
own tenantless property.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-04


that magnates would do most any
thing to get the coin, and believed
baIlplayeTs were cut from the same
strip. So he posted the following
offer:
For finishing first, second or third
the Card players were to receive 20
per cent of their salaries. For finish
ing fourth they were to be handed Is
per cent of their yearly wages as a
compliment. Even should they
finish fifth they would be given 10 per
cent.
What would happen if they finished
below fifth is not recorded, but prob
ably Miller Higgins would be look
ing for job.
At any rate, spurred on by the
financial jingle, the Cards went out
to sting Britton in the vicinity of the
pocketbook. They had little hope of |
mailing the 20 per cent, but the Is |
looked possible, and the 10 was easy. |
1t didn't take the players long to |
get within the 10 per cent circle. |
Then they sailed along for the Is per |
cent notch, and reached it without |
undue exertion. With a startled gasp,
the St. Louis athletes awoke to the |
fact that the 20 per cent notch was
not beyond their reach, and they be-
gan to claw for the top.
They dreamed Of money, and when
they rolled into second place began
to figure on how much the 20 per
cent of their salaries and the losing
share of the worlds series coin would
make when Jumped together. They've
stopped thinking about the worlds
series cut, but that 20 per cent still
listens like the real mazuma.
To get it they have to beat out the
Cubs.
So that's the reason they felt they
had been robbed when the Cubs slip
ped past them yesterday.
Incidentally, those Cubs are at last