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IS REASON GIVEN BY MICHAEL p. MALONEY FOR ATTEMPT
 ON MfTcHEL'S LIFE.
FIRED SHOT AT THE MAYOR
Which Missed It's Mark and Slightly Wounded Corporation Counsel Polk, Who Was in the Automobile With Gotham's Mayor and Party.

New York, April 17,-Jn an attempt to take the life of Mayor John Purroy Mitchell today, Michael P. Mahoney, an apparently irresponsible, elderly man, who later said he was a black smith out of work, fired into a group of three men seated in the mayors automobile at the east side of City Hall park. The bullet entered the jaw of Frank L. Polk. corporataion counsel, who was sitting next to thu mayor With blood squirting from his mouth Mir. Polk was taken into the city hall and afterward to a hospital, where it was said the wound would not prove fatal.
 Mahoney shot at the mayor, he de clared tonight, because he felt grieved at the city executives "e& travagant expenditures" and because he was incensed at being refused an audience with the mayor on two oc- casions this week when he came to apply for a municipal job.
 Mahoney fired only one shot Be fore he could fire a second he was overpowered by Detective George Neuen, who in the capacity of chauf. feur, was adjusting robes about the men in the automobile. The mayor sat in the middle of the back seat with Mir Polk on his right and George w. Mulan, the mayors former law partner on his left. The bullet passed so close to Mayor Mitchell that the left side of his face was scorched. Standing within a few feet of Ma honey was Police Commissiondr Ar the chauffeur to get into the car, in. tending to sit beside the driver To bystanders the sound of the re. yolver shot and the sight of the aged man who did the shooting sprawled on the pavement as he was borne down by Detective Neuen, seemed al most simultaneous. The sight oi Mayor Mitchell steadying the stagger ing figure of Mr. Polk then detached itself from the picture Within 3( seconds the city hall plaza and Parl Row were flooded with a surginl crowd and police reserves were callet out.
 l As soon as he had seen that NIT 1 Polk received medical attention
 Mayor Mitchell went to the police sta ] tioa and questioned Mahoney.
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MOST LIKELY SAVED MRS. CHRlSTENSON FROM BEING
 SLAIN BY HUSBAND.
CONTRACTOR PLANNED DEATH
Had Made the Statement That When He Went" He Would Take His Wife With Him But Two Days Be. fore She Left, Seeking Divorce.

When Robert Christensen, we'll known contractor of this city for the past twenty years, fired a bullet through his own brain at his home. 302 Jackson street. early Thursday night, he committed an act which had it been delayed much later wou d more than likely have resulted in his having killed his wife previous to the suicide
 Christensen had occupied the home alone for the two days previous, when his wife left him because of threats he had made to kill her and then him, self and "end it all"
 The body of the dead man was found yesterday morning about 10 o'clock when a milk boy called at the home. and found the electric lights still burning He thought somethine was wrong, and called in the neigh bors. No sooner had their attention been called to the fact that the house was lighted and locked, than they eN, pected to find within the house just what was found-the suicide body of the owner
 Coroner Dr. J. P Randolph held the inquest yesterday afternoon at the McCafferty parlors, where some thing of the detail of the cause of suicide were deve oped Mr. Chris tenson was about 55 years of age, His wife, whom he had married two years ago, was much younger. They had quarreled repeatedly recently, and only a few nights before neigh bor had heard Christensen say that everything was useless and that he would kill his wife and himself.
 Mrs. Christensen talked vita her friends about the situation, and alarmed at the threats, decided to leave the place, and two days before did leave. Yesterday morning she filed a suit for divorce. The papers were never served
 Mrs. Charles Ellis proved the most impoitant witness before the coro uer's inquest She was called Thurs day afternoon by MT Christensen who told her he had some important papers he would like for her to de liver for him, which would be fixed up later She did not like the idea so told him. He then asked her il she would send over to his house fol the papers. Mrs Ellis did not tel
 him she would, but she did send hei
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FARMERS WOULD ORGANIZE.

Chicago April 17-Reslutions urg- ing amendments to the Sherman law to permit legitimate organizations of farmers were adopted today at the closing session of the Western Eco homie society held in conjunction with the national conference on mar keting and farm credits. A fight which the resolutions committee ex- pected to be waged against the reso- lution did not develop and only one person, E. R. Kone, commissioner of agriculture of Texas, spoke against it's adoption.
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HUERTA STILL
 IS HAGGLING
DEMANDS THAT THE SALUTEs TO FLAGS OF TWO NATIONS
 BE SIMULTANEOUS.
PROPOSAL IS TURNED DOWN

Fleet is Still on It's Way and Wash. ington Will Demand a Full Compli. ance With the Original Request as Made by Rear Admiral Mayo.
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MEET THE HIGH
 COST OF LIVING

One way 10 meet the high cost of living is to spend more time studying he advertisements in your morning newspaper In that way you will learn where to spend your money and xe, the best possible value.
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" E FATHER
 FOR E ( ST

Washington, April 17.--Forecast for Arkansas: Thunder showers and much cooler Saturday afternoon or night; Sunday fair; cooler east DOT ton.
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boy over later and Christensen gave the boy a package of papers and 25 cents, and told him to deliver that package the next morning to Fred Sammons.
 Yesterday morning Mrs. Ellis sent the boy over to Sammons with the package. The boy was also told to deliver message that Christensen would be out of town for a few days
 When Fred Summons opened the package he found that it contained all the bills which others owed Mr. Christensen, and all the accounts that he owed others, together with hia bank book. Within the package was note asking Mir Sammons to pay the sums that Christensen owed, and to collect the sums due him.
 "'The tools are yours
 BOB CHRISTENSON"
 That was the conclusion of the note, not designating that the writer had anticipated, but leaving the fu, ture very uncertain.
 Mrs. Bethel another neghbor, had some Knowledge of the trouble that had existed between Christensen and his wife recently. There was a wide disparagement in their ages, and they had quarreled frequently. She had seen Christensen talking with Mrs Ellis the evening before About 10:30 o'clock she heard a pistol shot, but did lot have any idea what it was.
 Christensen was a most popular worker about the city for a number of years. He was a most faithful workman, and seldom ever had trouble with either those to whom he had contracted work or with the men he had in his employ. He came to Hot Springs from Chicago, and has daughter by a former wife, who is now a grown young lady.
 The funeral arrangements were not announced yesterday
 In the suit for divorce filed yester. day morning in chancery court, Mrs. Hettie Christensen sets up in a rather lengthy complaint that they married on July 30 of 1912, and that they separated on April l5, of 1914, just two days before the tragedy.
 She makes complaint in the action that shortly after they were married Christensen began to show a most violent and ungovernable temper to- wards her, and that he used the most vile and abusive words to her in re- preaching her for imaginary things.
 She charges that she was made to stay at home al the time, and that she was denied ordinary recreations, and social intercourse, and that when she would go out with him, as to pie mre shows and other places, he would get mad at her and abuse her
 She sets up in addition that Chris tensOn had about $6,000 worth of property, and that his income month ly was more than $200. and that re- gardless of this, he only gave her the niggardly sum of Sl0 per month from which sum she was forced to meet all the household expenses and take care of herself, which was in- adequate to that end.
 The suit was filed yesterday morn ing, but service had not been had on Christensen at the time he killed himself. It is believed, however, that he was aware that the suit would be brought Immediately.
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JoHNsoNS WINS DOG RACE.

Nome. Alaska, April 1.-The Allan Darling team of IS malamuytes owned by A. A. (Scotty) Allan of Nome and Mrs A. Darling of Berke- ley Cal, and driven by Allan, fin ished second in the 412-mile all Alaska sweepstakes dog team race when they wearly dragged them selves into Nome at o'clock this morning.
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BOYS BURNED TO DEATH.

Plainyiew. Ark. April 1.-Two sons aged and 3, of John Harper, a farmer, living II miles west of here. are dead, and another. aged 5. may die as a result of burns received in a fire that destroyed their fataher's barn late yesterday Tie boys started the fire by playing in the hay loft with matches.
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Funeral Services.

The funeral service over the re- mains of Christensen will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, from the residence of Ed Mooney 302 Gaines avenue.
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TRAVEL AND NATURE.

A motorists guide book with literary
trimmings Is Walter Hales "The Ideal
Motor Tour in France" ,Dodd, Mead.
Starting at Havre, the route runs south
through Roucn, Paris, Orleans Bor-
deaux and Bayonne; turns east through
Pau to Mines, Avignon, Marseilles,
Toulon, Nice; north past Besancon. AK
les Balns, Dion, to Nancy. and by
Bar 10 Due, Reims and Compiegne back
to the place Of beginning, as they say
In real estate. The Baedeker footnotes
will be found needful OF supplement,
but the text and the authors charming
drawings will give pleasure even to
gasoene tourists who do not care TO
have their itinerary selected for them
by others.
That age need not deter the ambitious
globe trotter is shown In Travel Notes
Of an Octogenarian," by w. Spooner
Smith tBadger), who records in vigOr-
Gus style tour that included Britain
Norway, the Mediterranean, Egypt and
the Holy Land, India, China. Japan and
Corea. Delegation TO the International
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relations are so fortunate In respect Of
alphabetio propinquity az Fellow Ser
want Doctrine" and employers Lisbll-
ity." DE Facto Government" ought
To have more than it's one short para
graph with signboards pointing to Con
federate States Of America, Recognition
of. "Dc lure Government and "Recog-
milton OF New States" Perhaps the last
Item. not yet available. covers the
ground satisfactorily,
There Is Significance in the length Of
articles. Alabama has three pages, "Arbl-
tration and Peace" three, Arbitration
of Labor Disputes" one and a half,
"Arbitrations. American three quarters
of page with references. The Consti-
tuition and the Declaration Of lndepen-
dence are reprinted. the former with
useful references interspersed through
the text, an excellent arrangement. The
Democratic party has twelve pages,
Congress, with various sub-heads. thir-
teen, commission government in cities
six and courts eighteen.
More important is the tone or the
articles, and here the practice of iden-
tifying the contributors will win praise
from the judic!ous. The article on
commission government In cities may be
considered representative. 1t is by
William Bennett Munro, professor of
municipal government AZ Harvard; ~
briefly historical, inadequately statis-
teal. and quite frankly an argument in
favor Of that system. Whether or not
the professor is correct In including the
hostile view is no concern OF the I'M
partial critic. but in fairness To the
consultant In search Of purely objective
information Il would have been emf
nently proper to balance this article
with one of opposite bias. Such a
symposium. inferior to a review I'M
colored by personal preference, would he
Infinitely preferable TO the actual dis
position of the subject. The list Of
commission governed cities will repeI
the thoughtful investigator by It's fail
urc 10 indicate the size and importance
of the cities named. 1t Includes, fol-
instance. in New Jersey those busting
centres of population Bordentown
Deal Beach, Longport, Millville, Wal
! lington and Wildwood, names familiar
to all who keep track Of the important
news currents Of the day.
Government departments are sketchec
historically by establishment Of bu-
reaus; a chart showing the 'interna
organization" Of the Department OF
Commerce will. unattractive AS 1t seems
at first blush, undoubtedly be genu,
| nely useful TO a great many citizen,
| afire with curiosity concerning the bust
ness of administration quite apart from
the spc!er details Of party management
Not until the complete work Is avail
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hooks Received.

when Thoughts VIII Soar" Baroness
Bertha Won Suttner. (Houghton Mifhin.D
NO. - Washington Square" Leroy Scott
tHoughton Mifrinl
"whitehead's Conventions OF Auction
Bridge" Wilbur e. Whitehead. tStokesD
canadian Nights" The Earl Of Dun
raven. (scribner)
'.ren Sex Talks TO Boys" !. ID. Stein
hardt. NJ. ID. tLippincott)
"The Woodneys; An American Family
j. Breckenridge Ellis. tThe Devin-AdaiI
Company
"The Democratic Rhine-Maid FRANKLIN
Kent clifford, tThe Devin-Adair Company.
educational Missions" James l.. Bar
ton. tstudent Volunteer Movement for Tor.
eign Missions, New York;
- shower OF Verses" Althea Randolph
lNovello and Company; The II. ". Ora,
Company. New York;
Hunt the Slipper" Oliver MADDOX Hueffer
tLane)
Louis Norbert" Vernon Lee. GaneJ
"Mrs yanderstein's Jewels" Mrs Charlie.
Bryce ULane.)
Faith Trssilion" Eden Phiilpotts
(Macmillans)
THE Peoples Law" william Jsnning,
Bryan. Dunk and Wasnalls Company
"The Standard of Pitch in Religion -
Thomas Arthur smoot, ID. ID. Funk and
wagnalis Company
THE Night Side Of Europe as Seen by 9
Rrohdwayite Abroad" Karl X. Kitchen
lThe David Gibson Company. Clevelsnd.)
News. Ads and Sales: The Use OF Eng.
lish for Commercial Purposes" John Baker
opdycke. tMacmilians)
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THE BEST PLACE TO SELL AuIoGpApHs
libraries. crude old cngravlngs OF WashlbIs~s
and othor Americans. naval and battle se s,ssi
American cities; Whaling scenes pictures Of
hrcs nles OF carly new spspers.. American nss al
zines printed before 100, book plates aho VA.
isrial is GooDSPEEpS BooKsHoP. SA P''
81. Boston. Mass.
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but is not O non -resister. That brings up
the matter OF defensive armament and
the expensive International competition
for superiority in equipment. The "fal-
lacy" Is in treatment Of bipartisan
matter In terms Of each party separately
America has In the last ten or fifteen
years IN the pacihcist's view, given
England much more cause TO think of
war than has Germany; particularly in
"this Panama business, this cynical dis
regard Of solemn treaty obligations"
since the time Of his writing happily
corrected. The cause" OF peace need
wish for no more argute spokesman
than Mr.. Angel; the weaknesses OF his
writings are those of the movement"
they represent. dealing In analytic criti-
cism while reconstruction necessarily
lays. The peace propaganda has "A
place, but not q leading one. In the
forces that are making naturally for
sensible settlement OF international DIFF
ficulties.
Miss Florence Kelley, general secre-
tary of the National Consumers League,
prints her lectures at Teachers College
last year with the title Modern In
dustry in Relation to the Family
Health, Education, Morality" uong-
mans, Green). Modern industry. she
says. Increases the supply OF food, cloth
ing, &C., "the materials and opportuni-
ties for subsistence" of the family, but
its influence makes for disintegration OF
the family: and by similar paradox
while increasing the facilities for
healthy living and for cure Of disease II
also causes u large part Of the distresses
..Ia Mt A.
author draws a narrowing picture of
home life used as an instrument OF OPP
preston by employers who are land
lords. She arraigns the commercial
zation" Of food and suggests municipal
milk supply. Miss Kelley il one Of the
rebels against the constituted order OF
things whose protests are useful in call
ing public attention to remediable bad
conditions. Her book is a plea for sys-
temstic procedure in codifying new
moral system. Industrial. to replace the
old system based on the needs Of an
agriculturally supported community.
There Is nothing new under the sun
and Prof. william Boyd OF the tniver-
sity OF Glasgow I'm From Locke to Mon
| tessori" tHolD shows how old are the
principles OF the latest system He
does not detract In the least from the
credit fairly due to the application OF
these ancient principles.
In "The Business of Farming tStew-
art Il Kidd Company, CincinnatD Will
lam c. Smith combines practical infor-
nation with preachments on the dignity,
happiness and material prosperity that
may be made part OF farm life. He con-
siders equipment. treatment OF soils. the
various processes OF cultivation. care of
machinery. farm sanitation. economics
Of agriculture. individual and general;
farm bookkeeping and farm credits.
Old fashioned farmers may not find the
book so appealing as will those who,
| laundering for country life. want In
formal ton on the possibilities of farming
as a business proposition" in which
ma ma cement Is the decisive factor, labor
simply commodity.
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BOOKLET BY AND
FOR "FORTY-NINERS'

Doubleday. Page & Co. are preparing a
booklet. which will preserve some Of the
most interesting replies received by them
from the surviving forty-niners. TO whom
they sent Stewart Edward Whites Cold
a story OF the gold rush. The pioneers
showed their appreciation In many ways.
One Of the most interesting relics re-
ceived by the publishers was the long
bucsskin bag in which one OF the forty
miners carried his gold dust. Pocket diaries.
kept from day to day during the long
journey to the mines, were sent In By
some OF the pioneers. who found In Mr..
Whites tale n vivid reminder OF their
own unforgotten hardships and adven-
lures.
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Congregational convention In Edinburgh
started tho journey, and IA succession
OF prov.dences" carried II on. Mr..
Smiths journal bespeaks a pleasant
personality and is not u religious chron-
icle.
In Where Rolls the oregon" (Hough-
ton Mifiiin) Dallas Lore Sharp sets
down his observations. Impressions and
experiences in a summers rambling In
the far Northwest. He Is u conserva-
ZIONIST and breaches the preservation
OF wild life In the desert and noun
tains. The coast birds, the fish In the
rivers, the comics in the rocks interest
him In turn. He tells some good stories,
as OF an antelope and her kids chased
by coyotes. Some of his pictures are
unusual. like that OF the top OF Mount
Hood, and another In which the author
has his hand on wild bird. a mother
murre.
An authoritative book on conservation
of wild life Is Game Protection and
Propagation In America" by Henry
Chase GLippincott), part fact, part phi
losophy. There is "a historical sketch of
American legislation for protection of
game and survey OF State laws, a
discussion of public versus private
rights Of property In game, directions
for the care against pollution Of fishing
waters and for feeding game in hard
winters The book should have interest
and value for the conscientious sports
man.
Sportsmen, whether 10y practice or
in Imagination only, will find in
Canadian Nights" by the Earl OF
Dunraven tScribne). sketches and
"reminiscences Of observation and adven-
ture in the Rocky Mountains. on the
Western prairies and in the forests OF
Canada. An odd character OF the wild
country, nicknamed Willie Whisper,
! crazy as a loon but no harm, just like
one child" so the voyageur described
him, contributes yarns of wapiti run
| ming and the chase of moose and noun
| tain sheep. Newfoundland "in the '70s''
/ Is recalled and described with the same
/ outdoor simplicity Of statement and
narration that gives the book real charm
| throughout. Buffalo Bill Cody and
| other old time plainsmen and woods
men cross the trail Of these recollec-
tons.
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A NEW POLITICAL CYCLOPAEDIA

Thirty-two years ago I.alor's CYCLIC
pRdia Of Political Science" was pub
lished in Chicago, a venture into unex-
plotted territory. Profiting perhaps by
the suggestion and experience of that
work. TT for its day but now pretty
well forgotten and out of date, the APP
pletons are getting out, under editorial
supervision of Andrew e. Mclaughlin
professor OF history in Chicago Uni
versity, and Prof, Albert Bushnell Hart
of Harvard, ENCYCLOPEDIA of American
Government" of which the first volume,
Abattoirs--Finality." Is to hnad. The
work is more restricted in scope than
its predecessor, though similar in make
up and inferentially In size. Among
the contributors are Miss Jane Adams,
A. Piatt Andrew, former director of the
mint; DR.. Angel OF Michigan, Prof.
Liberty Hyde Bailey of Cornell John
Barrett, Prof. Bingham Of Yale Ad-
miral Chadwick, Prof. Fly Of Wiscon-
sin, President Garfield of williams
College, Hamilton Holt, Prof. jeremiah
jerks, Francis T. Leupp. one time Com
missioner Of Indian Affairs DR.. John
Bassett Moore, DR.. North Of the Car
negie Peace Endowment, Melville f..
renee Neilcr--a list Indicative Of govern
mental and otherwise practical author
ty and sociological zeal: of practical
experience and of 'uplift" theory, the
pure objective and the psychological
view.
That the desirability and usefulness
of such work are at least open to
question Is shown by the eyestriking
decomposition into two sets of topics
turn to So specialized book and those
that occur unexpectedly. as Addresses
! Of Public Officials and Experts in
American Government" Biography is
apparently left to more general works
of reference, Samuel Adams gets about
500 words, But cross references, Of
which extensive use is made. supply
the deficiency In part; under the Adams
entry reference is made to continental
Congress" Massachusetts" and "Revo.
luton. American" The reader has t.
work for what he gets,
"Addystop Pipe Case" brief entry
sends the seeker to Interstate Com
mercc" sherman Antitrust Act
Under commerce Clause IL mere quo
tatlon Of the clause In the Constitution
and list Of references. well scattered
The chief objection to these cross refcr
enccs liz the too familiar inconvenience,
for unleisured ar impatient users OF hay
ing to jump from volume to volume, O.
from Employees, Accidents To-" (,
industrial Injuries" Not all topica
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OTHER BOOKS.

Intellectual Sanitation" 10 the de-
clared object of Norman Angel in
arms and Industry" tPutnam), a re-
newal OF the attack upon the mill
tary form Of international society. Mr..
Angels ideals are sufficiently high: to
correct "cannibalistic" statecraft, to
reconcile self-interest and morality, TO
bring peace on earth and establish good
will among men. Discarding certain
formulas OF the peace propaganda
which he believes to have lost their
residence. Mr.. Angel now seeks to
state more definitely the fundamental
fallacies Of conventional statecraft. or
war: he deplores "bootless' fighting,
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FICTION.

The life history Of an egolst is re-
lated by Margaret Blake in Matthew
Ferguson" Dillingham;, II is a story
not so swift as sudden. Success in the