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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-16
Does Not Eliminate

Does Not Eliminate.
The elimination of Huerta appears
to grow in popularity with every
body except Huerta.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-16
McConf.k'ey & Son
Where Your Dollar
Goes the Farthest

Strawberries, quart box. ... zoe
Gooseberries, pint box. ;. 10c
Radishes, 4 punches. -. -. 25c
Tomatoes, fancy, 2 h.. -. 45c
Celery, large stocks. 15c
Pie Plant, 4 lbs. -. 25c
Large punches Leaf Lettuce, 6
New Potatoes, good size, 3 lbs. 25c
Queen Lii Syrup, 75c can for 40c
Queen ILL Syrup, 40c can for zoe
Mexcelled for sauces, etc.
Martha Washington Hulled Beans
with Chicken, 15c can, 4 for Csc
Finest make Of Dairy Butter to
be had, brought in regularly each
week, at
McConkey & Son
Phone POO
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
RETIRE EMERGENCY NOTES
$3,000,000 Redeemed 7
Save Further Tax.

In view OF the improvement in tho
condition Of the New York banks, rs
attested in last Saturdays statement
by the Clearing House. they have be-
gun retiring emergency currency: Inc
amount retired yesterday was y3,ooo,,
600, many Of the notes being redeemed
in other bank notes secured by de-
post of government bonds.
Emergency currency was issued 10
ths national banks Of the United states
last summer, soon after the outbreak
Of the European war. The notes were
issued under the Aldrich -Vreelsnd
measure, which authorized this means
Of conserving the gold supply OF the
banks in times Of financial stress IL
was announced that s100,0o0,00O was
available for the New York banks.
The act provides that national banks
having taken out emergency currency
shall pay for the first three months
tax at the rate of per cent per annun
upon the average amount IN circuia-
tion and afterward an additional tax
rate Of one-half Of per cent per an,
mum for each month until tax OF 8
per cent is reached. The first three
months period will soon expire, and II
is believed that the banks are retiring
their emergency notes now to avoid
paying the additional tax.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
CALL HUGHES GAS
INQUIRY A FARCE
Counsel for Edison Company
Say Work Was Full of
InaCCuraCy.

The Hughes investigation into city
gas and electric light rates in 1905 was
farce, conducted for purely political
ends, according to brief filed with the
Public Service Commission yesterday
by Beardsley. Hemmens & Taylor,
counsel for the New York Edison Com
pany.
The brief which is in answer TO an
application for lower rates by George
Stadtlander, asserts the application for
reduction should not be granted, be-
cause the Public Service Commissions
inquiry "did not call for many facts on
which rates are based and without
which rates cannot be legally fixed"
Chief of such facts, it continues, IS
the actual investment of the company.
In 1908, it alleges, the Hughes COM
mittee found or guessed at the value of
the compsny's property. Its findings,
however. "are not accurate or such as
could be used in fixing rates" The
brief says further that the Legislature,
when fixing rate, generally acts un-
der political pressure. We doubt very
much" it continues, "if any court or
commission would attach any value
whatever to these representations, as
it is known that they are hastily and
carelessly prepared under political
pressure"
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
SAY ACTRESS SET
; FIRES IN DAY
Police Hold Woman After She
Visited House and Flames
Were Discovered.

Mae Conley, an actress, blond and
TWENTY-FIVE years old, was locked up
in the West l25th st. police station
last evening charged with arson. Three
fires in three separate apartments in
the Clare Arms, at 1920 Broadway, all
set within a few minutes of the girls
appearance there yesterday afternoon,
are blamed upon her by the police.
Up to a month ago Miss Conley lived
at the Clare Arms. Tenants smelled
smoke one evening, traced it to her
apartment and there, they say, found
her sitting on a sofa laughing hilari-
ously while her bed in another room
was fast going up in flames. For this
piece of carelessness Miss Conley was
| dispossessed.
Yesterday afternoon she reappeared
at the Glare Arms and told Winfred
Rodriguez, the elevator boy, that she
was going up to see a friend. A few
minutes later Rodriguez smelled
smoke. He went up to the Office of DR.
Willis Cummings and found two sofa
( pillows ablsze in the reception room.
The fire was extinguished and Rodri-
ouez started on a tour of inspection
/ In Apartment %, on the second floor
/ he found a mattress afre, and in one
/ of the bedrooms In Apartment 81, on
/ the third floor, he came on another
| burning mattress. In another bed
room, he says, he found Miss Conley
/ lighting matches and trying to set fire
| to another mattress.
The boy took away the girls matches
he says, and called the police. She re-
fused to discuss her case and was pu,
in q cell for the night.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
ADMITS GIVING
JOBS TO KIN
State Civil Service Commission
Finds Justification
in Custom.

No law Of the country prohibits the
exercise of favortism toward relatives
when political positions are to be
filled, points out the State Civil Ser
vice Commission, and the commission
has therefore felt free to exhibit that
favoritism, it asserts, just as every
other department in the state has ex-
hibited it.
That is substantially the defence. or
excuse, made by the commission to the
charges of the Civil Service Reform
Association. The commission yester-
day issued formal reply, admitting
all the charges of the association, made
some time ago.
AS counter charge the commission
hints that the association has been ac-
tive in it's criticism of the state board
because sit happened to be the mis-
fortune of the commission to differ
with the views of the representatives
of the association"
The association accused the commits
sioners Of exempting positions from
examination, or clogging its calendar
by the consideration of insignificant
matters and Of the appointment of
their relatives TO positions EXEMPTED
from examination. The commission
admitted the exemption of about 100
/ positions.
Some of the persons employed by the
commission were Alfred J. Gilchrist
law partner of the president of The
commission; a relative of Commits
sioner Wolff at So day, a brother-in-
law of Commissioner Wolff, the wife of
Commissioner Wolff, the son of Com
missioner Neu and the brother of Com
missioner Lavery.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
TO BUY FRENCH
TREASURY NOTES?
Reports That New York Bankers
Will Take 1O0,O00.000
Francs.

Unconfirmed reports were current in
the financial district yesterday that
local banking interests have been nego-
tiating with Paris bankers during the
last few days for the purchase OF
French treasury notes. Advices from
London mentioned the amount as 100,-
o00, 900 francs. but it was said here
that one-half this amount was the total
under consideration and that the notes
were to run for nine months.
In case this amount should be taken
by New York bankers, il was said, the
money would not leave this country,
but would be placed on deposit for the
purchase of munitions of war by the
French government. This would be
tantamount TO the establishment of a
French credit in this country for the
time specified. At the Offices of J. p.
Morgan & Co., where such financing
would likely be managed, nothing was
known Of the reported loan. It was
said that this firm has not been off
cially notified of q change of attitude
by the State Department on the mat
ter of foreign loans, and that until each
notification had been received there
would be no departure from the firms
policy Of holding aloof.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
VANCOUVER HINDU
KILLS INSPECTOR
Second Bullet Ends lmmi.
grafton officials Leap
at Assassin.

Vancouver, B. c.. Oct 21.-Willism
C. Hopkinson, Canadian government
immigration inspector. was shot and
killed in the Vancouver courthouse TO-
day by a Hindu named Mewa Singh
who was arrested.
Hopkinson was active in preventing
the landing some months ago of 800
Hindus who arrived here on the Jap
anesc steamship Komagata Maru. He
was chief assistant to Malcolm Reid in
the Dominion immigration Inspection
Service in Vancouver.
Hopkinson was standing in the main
corridor near the witness room when
a party Of nine Hindus passed. The
inspector was accosted by Mews Singh,
who fired at him. Hopkinson tried TO
grapple with Mewa at the first shot,
but a second bullet sent him to his
knees. He collapsed TO the floor and
there three other shots we're fired into
his body.
The inspectors life had been threat
cned before. He was at one time con-
nected with the Police Department in
Calcutta and he spoke the Hindu dis-
lects like native. He was shot at in
San Francisco last winter while talk
ing to Hindu.
Police tonight rsided the Hindu
boarding house here and confscsted
all weapons to prevent other possible
assassinations. Mews Singh was ar
rested at the time of the Komagsta
visit here on charge OF carrying fire
arms. He was freed on his promise not
to offend again. Eight companions we're
arrested with him to-day, but he was
the only one of the group that was
armed
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
COUNT HELD FOR LARCENY
Warrant Charges Him with
Swindling Woman.

Count Msximilisn Lauder, who says
he is a civil engineer, was arrested yes
terday afternoon as he was leaving the
Hotel Plaza, on a warrant issued in
Niagara County, charging larceny in
the second degree. Lauder is also man
nger of the Haines Falls estate of
Princess Lwoff Parlsghy, the portrait
painter. in whose apartments at the
Plaza Count Edmond Gsllauner was ar
rested last March on charge of lar
ceny.
According to Assistant District At
torney Burt A. Duquette, of Niagara
County, Lauder is wanted for alleged
Misrepresentation by which Rose
OBrien, Of Albion, n. Y. was swindled
out of SS5. He also said that the count
is wanted for posing as an inventor and
inducing investors to put thei money in
company that was to manufacture
self-lighting lanterns. Lauder is said
to have overlooked a matter of $4,000
bail bond, when he left Niagara County.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
'SULLY MAY TRY
COTTON AGAIN
SpecuIator Hints He'll Be
Very Busy in a Few
Weeks.

Daniel j. Sully, who cornered the
cotton market ten years ago and later
lost the fortune he had won, may get
into the cotton game again. This was
indicated Yesterday. when he hinted TO
a reporter for The Tribune that he
would be very busy within few
weeks
II WAS plain that cotton was upper
most in Mr.. Sully's mind, and also evl-
dent that he has kept in close touch
with the market and crop conditions.
at is not the cotton growers who are
bowling about not being able TO dis-
pose OF their crop" said Mr.. Sully.
"The problem will solve itself, and it
will work out to the advantage of the
grower. The whole situation may be
likened to that Of bank with $1,000
900 capital and S10,00o,000 reserve.
"The people who have been making
all the fuss arc the middlemen and the
bankers who are holding their paper.
The middlemen have contracted for
crops. and are not able TO make turn
over, owing TO the cutting of OF the
European market.
paper held BY the bankers cannot
be taken up by the middlemen, because
they cannot clean up their usual an"
nuaI pront. nc bankerS ID the SOuIh
want their money. so that they may
send it to Wall Street and reap larger
returns. And there you are.
"For ten years the cotton growers
have been prosperous, and there Is not
one Of them Of Importance who cannot
afford TO hold his crop until conditions
become adjusted, as they arc bound TO-
The growers are not borrowers at tho
banks and do not need the money Tor
this years crop now.
"The movements to induce individ'
nails TO buy cotton will only help the
middlemen and Southern bankers, not
the man who raises the crop. You will
find that these things will be very ap'
parent before long and that everything
will como out all right
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
American railroad securities less and

American railroad securities less and
less attractive.
Mr. Strauss was followed by Mr.
Chamberlain, who produced chart
showing the trend Of bond prices ana
credit over many years. This he con
tended showed that the credit OF the
nation a. represented by its banks hsd
closely paralleled the price Of railroad
bonds uu 20 1910. Al that time, ne
said, the credit situation had broken
away from the railroad securities,
which were in a decline. He explained
this by saying that other securities,
such as public service corporation ana
municipal bonds, had been growing IN
popularity largely because Of govern
ment aid, either federal or state, e1-
tended to them. He instanced the sc-
eeptance of municipal bonds as secur-
ity for postal savings bank receipts
and exemption OF such securities from
taxation in many states as showing
this discrimination against railroad Sc
curities-
The results OF these factors, Mr..
Chamberlain maintained. had been
steady decline in the market price or
railroad bonds. He asserted that II
had eliminated in the inability OF in
VthiWSUL UdHhtIN " lNu dhs
for such securities, and that the coun'
try faced the prospect OF having q
food of railroad securities held abroad
poured on the market.
Counsel for various shippers organi-
zations and counsel for the commits
sion took sharp issue with the witness
or the question Of the relative attrac-
tivsness to foreign investors of rail-
way bonds and the securities of public
service corporations and industrial
concerns. Louis Brandeis and Clifford
Thorne drew from Mr.. Chamberlain
admissions that at present the yield
of industrial securities is / per cent
higher than that Of railway bonds and
of public service securities half OF l
per cent higher. The yield" IL was
explained, indicated the rate corpora
tions were compelled to pay for Dor
rowed money and showed the credit
of the railroads still 10 be better than
that of other corporations.
John +. Oldham. an investment
banker of Boston, read statement he
had prepared after an examination OF
the accounts of nineteen standard rail
roads. This. he said, proved conclu-
sively that the net earnings Of the
roads must be increased If they were
to protect their securities. He was on
the stand awaiting cross-exsminatlon
when the days session ended.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
Sfran.s Quotes Paish.

Mr.. Strauss quoted Sir George Paisn'
the English financial expert here TO ols- .t
cuss international exchange with
American officials, as authority for his
statement that English investors found
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
Edith St. Clair Out on Bail

Edith st. Clair, an actress, whose sui.
against Abraham Erlanger resulted in
her indictment on charges of perjury
and in disbarmcnt proceedings again ,t
Max d. Steuer, her counsel, was re-
leased from the Tombs last evening in
$1,000 bail furnished by the United
States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
Alfred Frankenthaler, of 80 Nassau ST
whom she now has as counsel. will
present motion to quash the indict
ments against her within the next week
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
IGNORANT OF WASH SALES
Jared Flagg's Margin Clerk
Denies knowledge of AL
legged Transactions.

Mrs. A. B. Childs, Of 126 Lexington
sv., who was margin clerk for Jared
Flagg, who is being tried in the Fed
eral Court for mail frauds, was the
principal witness yesterday. Mrs.
and blocked the investments into
$4,000 lots. She denied knowing any
thing about the alleged daily "wash
sales"
John NJ. Coleman, counsel for Flsgg.
tried TO have the case thrown out on
the ground that the prosecution OBJ
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
BANKERS APPEAR
IN RAILROADS AID
Change in Attitude OF In
terstate Commerce
Body Urged.
TOLD THE COUNTRY
NEEDS TO BE SAVED
investment Houses Unable 10
Market Carriers Bonds,
Saws Witness.

Washington, Oct 2l(-nvssSnsn,,
h.ntsrs are intervening In behai OF
.La Eastern railroads before the lnVe'-
sss.n Commerce Commission, urging
,het The carriers get a genersi pr
rsnt increase in freight rates, oeesuee
Of the psychological effect ehsne'
IN ths attitude Of the commission TOW
,rd ths railroads" would have on for-
ejgn investors in railroad seeurltcs'
Tbi. was declared to-day At the com
r,isxion's hearing on the carriers aP-
,licstion By Lawrence Chamberlain,
New York banker, who spoke for Vhs
investment bankers association
Mr.. Chamberlain said he knew notn-
ing about freight rates; his teS'ihol;
was devoted to q detailed DISCUSSION vi
the railway bond market. ..l
"This question ought TO be settie9
not on the basis Of the raliroaos anu
shippers." he asserted, but on the con-
,ertion OF the bankers that the country
moods saving. Raising rates is the
greatest thing that can be done TO re-
i;eve the situation psychologicslly.
The position of the witness was IN
..sntlv challenged by Commissioners
Clements and Clark: -,
"Is IL the general understanding OF
the bankers" asked the former, that
this commission has carte blanche to
do ANYTHING il wants TO do 70 meet
psychological condition? We had sup
nossd this wa. a government of Law,
rot of the caprice of commission
Circulars Criticised.
We will take no other position IN
anv brief we file in this case, nastiiy
interpossd Morris Rosenthal, eounSeI %
for the intervening bankers We
make no other contention"
"You will if you follow the ieso OF
,;rcnlsrs these bankers have been send
inr out" answered Commissioner Oisrk'
Commissioner Clements added that
many such circulars had gone out, CON
veving the impression that the commls-
sion only reduced rates; that one state
ment Of such a circular, he had Deen
informed. was that all the bankers OF
the United States we're appealing 10
Congress 20 compel the granting oil IN
creased rates.
that any banking house represented
before the commission had sent OUT
such circulars.
ave come before you when IN our
on;nion the credit condition OF the
country is paramount" Mr., CHAMBER
lain interjected. He added that the
bankers had taken no part IN the pre-
,ioua controversy between railroads
and shippers over rate advances.
The entire day was devoted TO hear
ing the testimony Of bankers, Ihe
cross-examinstlOn Of frederlcS W.
Stranss was finished. the witness re-
citing facts tending to show. that rail-
road bonds we're the standard of Amer
icsn securities abroad and that they
we're falling in favor because Of in
creased cost Of operation and taxation
n'L;cb made the margin OF net earnings
over net operating expenses too small
10 insure their msrketability.
Strauss Quotes Paish.
Mr.. Strauss quoted Sir George Palsh,
the English financial expert here to dis
cuss international exchange with
American officials, as authority for his
statement that English investors found
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22

tanned its evidence from papers illegal
ly taken, he asserted, from the pro
motors once two years ago. judge
Rudkin denied the motion.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22
Jury Trial for Becky Edelson

Becky" Edelson. hunger striker, won
a point in Tarrytown yesterday, when
Justice Moorehouse granted her re-
quest for trial by jury on the charge
Of speaking in the streets without
hermit. The alleged offence occurred
on May 30, when she was arrested with
a dozen others. A change of venue
was denied and the case set down for
trial on October %. Becky" mean
while. is out on bail Of 5000.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-22

This is what happened to
the man who tried to write an
advertisement describing our
Fall overcoats.
After all, it takes a woman
to picture accurately to her
self the real appearance OF a
garment from it's printed de-
scription-men need the con-
crete example.
So well content ourselves
with inviting you men to see
for yourselves in our stores
the new lightweight over
coats.
$l8 to $42.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-11-19
Ell PASO CORN AND POUL-
TRY SHOW NEXT MONTH
CBY UNITED PREss.1

Colorado Springs. Nov. ia big
corn and poultry show will be held
here during the second week in De
eember. according to announcement
ry County Agriculturalist W. H.
Lauek. Preparations are going ahead
rapidly and a number OF exhibits have
already arrived from the outlying dis
triets. The poultry and corn exhibits
will be on display in the suratton
building.
December Is an opportune month for
such show. as most of the corn has
acen husked by that time.
Corn is the foundation OF agricul-
turs in FL paso county," said 1-aucls.
and the farmers are largely depend
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-11-19
FUNERAL OF MRS. SPRUU[
TO Be HELD THURSDAY

A brief funeral service will be held
over the remains OF the late Mrs. 5
u. sDroul at wilson's undertaking
chapel at o'clock Thursday morning
after which they will lie taken to her
gir.hood home at Paris. Missouri. for
DuriaL
Nr. sproal. husband of deceased
rrriyed here from ST Louis on a late
train Tuesday night and did not
know OF the death Of his wife until
reaching Canon City. although a tele-
gram had prepared him for such an
eventuaIity
The chiliren are Mrs. A. NJ. winn
w II. Dawson Of this city. and was a
most estlmahie lady. She leaves three
daughters and one son. in addition
to a wide circle Of relatives and
friends. to mourn her untimely death.
The childre mare Mrs. A. VI. VIM
OF Tulsa. Okla. Mrs. O. NJ. Downey
of St Louis. Miss Josephine. who was
AT the bedside OF her mother when she
hreathed her last. and Chas. Z. sproul
Of Lander. Wyoming. The latter lived
in Canon City for some time before
going to Wyoming.
The funeral service Thursday morn
ing will be conducted by Rev. Geo.
p Sewer of the First Presbyterian
church.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-11-19
THAhKSGIVIhG SERVICE
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH

The union IhankssiVing service
Of the evangelical CONGREGATIONS Of
canon City viii be held at the First
Baptist church at 1915 Thursday
morning. Nor. 2sth. The annual
THANKSGIVING sermon will be preached
by Rev. I. c. Rankin. pastor OF the
United Presbyterian church. There
win he special music and the usual
collection taken for the associated
charities. Arrangements fer this un-
ion service will be made by the min
isteriai association.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-11-19
THE EUROPEAN CONFLICT
HAS RESOLVED ITSELF INTO
WAR OF THE TRENCHES
with whom they have to deal.

with whom they have to deal
The German is different. The Ger
man trenches are made as invisible as
possible and in series. There is an
advanced trench two feet wide and
five feet deep. The excavated earth
is sprinkled about so that at a dis
tance of 900 yards the trench is in
visible. Back Of II. and connected by
zigzag runways, is a second trench,
the same size as the first. These two
trenches are 100 yards apart. A
third trence. 100 yards behind the
second. is carefully constructed In
it are the machine guns. under tur-
rets. 1t is usually covered with green
logs. placed crosswise. On the logs
earth and bushes are placed to con-
ceal the trench
But the German does not stop
even here. AS soon as this series
OF three trenches Is completed. even
though they are under fire at the time.
second series. far more elaborate.
is being constructed. This second Sc
ries OF trenches is skiilfuily and in
irieately protected. not only against
infantry attacks. but from exploding
shells as wen. so as to be almost
equal to cutter detenses Of a fortified
place.
It must be said. however. that since
the war besan the French have prof
tied by viewing the German trenches.
from which they have driven the en-
envy. For this reason the war has
developed into a series Of sieees. or
It might be called a var OF tho
trenches. for frequently these en-
trenehed rositions are so close to
each other that Gaelic and Teuton
soldiers pass many moments kid
ding" each other. ~sniplns~ has be-
come the pastirne Of tAs days.