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SHIP OWNERS CAN'T
OBEY SEAMEN'S LAW
Unable to Install Apparatus
by July 1. as Required
Must Tie Up Vessels.
ACT CRUDELY DRAWN UP

wAsniNGToN, March 25.-A COM
mittee representing the American
Steamship Association Informed Assist
ant Secretary Sweet Of the Department
Of Commerce to-day that Il would be
impossible for American vessel owners
TO comply with section IA of the law
which requires revolutionary changes in
the matter OF lifeboats. RATS and other
safety equipment on or before July T.,
1915.
The committee told Mr.. sweet that IL
strict compliance with section ~ of the
law is enforced many vessels will have
to be tied up on July /. thus entail
ing enormous loss on ocean and lake
traffic.
The seamen's law appears to he one
through Congress. In one place IL IL
provided that the law shall become or
%erative in the case OF American ves-
sells eight months after its passag e. or
on November I next, and in the case
OF foreign vessels twelve months after
ihSFht's W ~ v lFiOs
Section ~ specifies tina its provisions
should become effective July | next
and Solicitor-General Thurman of the
Department holds that on that date
the requirements IS 20 safety apparatus
shall become operative.
The act is Inconsistent in other re-
spects and those charged with the duty
OF enforcing II are very much worried
over the situation. II is the opinion OF
Inc authorities that If the law is en-
forced as written IL will not only cause
great loss to American steamship com
panies, but possibly involve the United
states in difficulties with foreign
Powers.
Drastic provisions for the equipment
or foreign and American vessels with
safety apparatus arc written in tho law
Steamship men dsrlarc that i, would he
mechanically Impossible for any owner
To comply fully with these regulations
10y Iuly l..
cnlctals Of tho Department confes.
that drawing up regulations under ,hc
sesin"n'S act T. tho hardest Job the, ever
tackled. and steamship men declare that
much of the trouble thus far encoun-
tered could have been averted II con.
gress had Sc"n NJ to seek the advice OF
the Department officials with rxp.riepcs
and technical knowledge As a result
Attorn"N-C"ncral Gregory has beer
asked q" interpret the law as A whole.
Anon steamship mon who conferred
with Assistant Secretary Swec, wer,
howard 9. Higgins and James LeyIsnd
or tho Old Dominion steamship com.
pany, j VI. Bliukonshin. Merchant. :, nd
A1S
Gardner. New ENGLAND Navigation COM.
pahy " > li"hhlo Southern PACING
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OPIUM SMUGGLER SENTENCED
Gets Yea IN Prison
Term for Informcr.

Tonko L. Millic. the Austrian chemi.,
and promoter arrested recently in a
sensational raid on his apartments al
SO Riverside Drive, was sentenced BY
Judge Edward Cushman in the United
states District Court yesterday to one
year in the Federal penitentisry at AT
lanta for conspiring to smuggle cocaine
and opium in from Germany.
Gustave Waldeck, Miles coconspira
tor. whose testimony made possible thu
conviction Of Mlllic, was sentenced (
three months or Blackwells Island. II,
had already served nine months for re
failing the cocaine on a convection IL
the county criminal courts.
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WILSON TO SET BARRON FREE
Prisoner Was sent 10 jail tor Thrr,
Years for swtndiine Investors.

WAsuINGToN, March "a President
Wilson announced to-day that he hrd
committed tho term of Elwyn A Bar
ron. sentenced by the Federal court ~
New York or trril 6. l"lt % thro"
years IN Atlanta prison for drfraun :
Investors by selling stock IN fake lln"'.
mills controlled hv the Sterling De
honturc Company, to ono year.
Under the Presidents order Barron
will he released on April II
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WOMAN BEATEN BY BURGLAR.
Tier Brought Helm aud
Thief Was Captured.

ATLANTIC CRY. y J.. March ?5--
Mrs Marie llen"r. who is reputed TO
be wealthy and lives a secluded lie in
% villa at l4l7 Emerson @ Venice
Park. a suburb OF mis- resort. was beaten
and bound early to-day by q burglar
WHO had entered hcr home. Before n.
colSd gag her she mad an outcry that
attracted n~eighbors and they sent for the
police.
Police Sergeant Holmes found tho
burglar on the top floor.
NJ police headquarters he said he
Was Emil Van Heller. 81 years old. OF
Camden. ilc was he'd without bail on
q chat . % burglary.
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NrP>NY. March - The senate Com.
mtiteo on Privileges and Elections to.
dtN d"oId,I mat bernard NJ ratt"u ~
the Second senate district. Long Island
CltN, l. entitled to his seat IN the SENATE"
g. VI W Gland = Republican. contested
h.- election ou tho ground that Mr. Pat
ten H. not q citizen
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HID DRUG UNDER NECKTIE.
Barber Charged with Trying "a
smuggle Powder Into Tombs.

Frank Polio, 30. a barber of ls4 Allen
street, was held In $500 bail by Magis-
trate Appleton in the Tombs police court
yesterday for examination tomorrow
charged with smuggling a drug IN his
recktie to r prisoner in the Tombs, This
was the first tim such a method was
tried.
when ne appeared at the prison HI
said he war Tony Carbone and wanted
10 see his brother, Michael Carbone
Keeper McCue searched the visitor and
found ten grains of a white powder in,
side ms nccktie.
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ALBANY. March 25.-The Assembly
Cities Committee reported favorably to-
lay on the McWhlnney bin granting a
city charter to the city of R~ockaway.
comprising the Fifth ward of the Bor-
ough " Queens. Favorable action by
the Senate and Assembly il expected
on this measure.
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Nico-Chanccllor Lewis IN the Jersey
citv 'han"ery Chambers yesterday de,
MED IN" motion of Charles II. kirchof
and other minor stockholders OF win,
lsm Necker, tho undertaking corpora
ton, 10 have A receiver appointed,
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Il certainly did" he replied. "and
the veto costs the city sl.t0o, 900 a
year. As "A measure OF economy the
bill was particularly important at a
time when "A direct State tax Is being
considered.
IL don't understand II The Governor
must have acted under a misdpprehen-
sion, although We did our best to en-
plain what We wanted
The city now pays 81. 100000 every
year to the contractors who take its
refuse. Under the proposed plan the
saving of this amount was assured and
the city would have received one-half OF
the profits.
The Governor is mistaken II saying
that We could have gone ahead under
the Charter. The present law permits
tive methods az handling the refuse
problem. First, the Department of Street
Cleaning may construct a disposition
plant on city land and operate II. Sec
oud, II can make a contract with pri-
Nate concerns for final disposition on
private property. but the contract may
not he for more than Ave years. The
latter IS the present method.
Under the proposed law two other
methods would have been open. First
on city land a plant could he constructed
to be privately operated. the contractor
and the city sharing the profits. the cor.
tractor furnishing the equipment, the
city furnishing the buildings. Second
the contractor would build the plant Of
private land and share profits with thu
city. In either case the whole plan,
would belong TO the city az the end oi
fifteen years
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Mayor Mitchell wrote a letter TO Sec
rotary Of the Navy Daniels Yesterday
promising the city's fun cooperation In
the plan for manpuvres and review of
the Atlantic feet in New York waters
in May
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LIMA. Peru. March -. IN" Rrltj>h
steamship kingsNHN. which went on tho
rocks recently ana was allowed to mtk"
repairs AZ CHllao, lcft tu-dH, Sh' Is an
AUXILIARY and was used as a collier lay
tho British navy.
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"When read in connection with exist
ing laws the bill would offer s,ill an
other method. in permitting tho opera
ton of "A private plant on property
leased 10y the city TO the contractor, the
profits 10 be shared In a ratio to he de-
termined by the Board OF Estimate.
II don't know whore We are TO get
any money for garbage disposition now.
! regret the loss of $1,000. 900 10 the
city. ard that's all there is TO say
about IT. except that there was a great
deal Of misrepresentation of what We
were trying to do
Commissioner Fetherston was equally
disturbed.
The Veto he said. leaves us Just
whore W. were. Without the power o.
making fifteen year contracts i' seems
impossible to make any provision for the
disposition Of waste which will profit the
city. The Mayor Is right In saying
that We lose at least 81 400, 900 a "a
10y the Governors action"
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DENVER. Ma 26.-The Denver School
Board has lifted the ban against the
marriage OF women teachers.
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ALBANY, March 25.-Mayor MitcheIs
pet bill authorizing the New York Ssree.
Cleaning Commissioner to make a fifteen
year contract with a private concern for
the disposition OF refuse was vetoed to-
day by Gov. Whitman.
The New York city administration
made a hard fight for the measure and
succeeded In getting 1t through the AS
sembly and Senate.
The meaning of the provisions of this
bill is hopelessly obscure" says the Gov
ernor in his veto memorandum. III the
city administration is in need Of new
and necessary powers their enumeration
in the bill before me is far from salts
factory. They are neither specific nor
Is their meaning manifest. 1t is stated
In the bill that the contract MAJ pro-
vide either for the payment OF "A stipu-
lated sum or a fixed unit price to the
city for the privilege Of the final dispo-
sitfon of refuse.
Uncertain ana Obscure.
The important subject OF the con-
II dtlOl y Nv tIN 10
clause in which II is stated that such
allowance shall he made out or the
gross receipts of the plant or plants or "A
stipulated sum for operating expenses
AS defined In the contract. or a sum 10
be arrived at as in said contract pro-
vided n for "A division OF the remain
der of such receipts between the city
and the contractor In such proportion as
may be agreed upon II would be hard
" -.~, aADtApNa in WniHh nnGpT-
tsinty and obscurity are more hopelessiy
interblended
The following clause further illu
trstes what | say when ] denoininate
the bill MS a very blind bill, TO W.T. the
clause In which Il is stated that a con
tract mas provide for the allowance 70
the contractor out of the gross recelnNs
Of the plant OF plants OF "A stipulated
sum for operating expenses as denneu
in the contract, or a sum to be arrived
at AZ in said contract provided, and ther
for III. yme to the city either OF 2
stipula ed sun, or of a sum Ia he arrived
A, as in said contract provided. n ioi
, division Of the remainder or sucn e.
rsipts between the city and the contrac'
tor In such proportion as may be agreed
upon.
This bill does not appear TO conte'
upon tho city administration power
not already conferred ny Sec'ion ~ v
tho Greater New York Charter. except
ING tho matter OF time for which IN
commissioner may enter into contracts
with private parties.
..Th,t change. II desirable, coul,
easily have been made by a Sigh
amendment to the section.
Money In Refuse
eft vas contended AT the hesrins
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WOMAN STOLE BROOKLYN BOY.
child Held Captive since Novem-
her, she Tells Police.

WAYNEsPoRo, Ga. March GA
woman calling herself Mrs. Jane Reed
was arrested here to-day. She con-
fessed, the police say. that she KID
mapped John Allen Striker, the four
year old son of Mrs. w. G. Richter OF
Brooklyn, in November last.
Sheriff johnson said the woman
agreed to take him to the house near
here in which she asserted the child
was hidden. Mrs. Reed said she stole
the child from Mr.. and Mrs, Richter
while they were in ST. Petersburg, Fla.
The boy was awarded to Mrs. Richter
when she divorced her husband. j. A.
Striker.
William II. Richter of Al McDonough
street. Brooklyn, a former Manhattan
banker. received a telegram last night
from the police of Waynesboro, Ga, in
forming him that a woman arrested
there has confessed kidnapping his four
year-old stepson. Robert Allen Striker.
Mr.. Richter and his wife. Mrs. Ruth
Allen Richter. were visiting Mr.. Rich
tcr's aunt, Mrs. Charles T.. Brown. in
PETERSBURG, Ma. last November when
the boy disappeared mysteriously from
the front lawn Of Mrs. Browns resi-
dcucc. where he had been playing. After
a three months futile search u Florida
and Georgia the Richters returned to
BropklNu
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CITY'S LOSS, SAYS MAYOR
Must Have Acted Under
Misa apprehension.

Mayor Mitchels eyes flashed when
he learned that GOV Whitman had We
toed the refuse bill. lie regarded II
with especial pride as providing a
means not only of saving a great deal
Of money to the city but Of eventually
giving New York what 1t has never
had scientific, profit sharing sys-
TEN OF handling all sorts OF city waste
under which several features that have
long been a public nuisance would be
eliminated.
The bill was drawn in the Corpora
ton Counsel's office. checked by the
Corporation Counsel. COMMISSIONS
Fetherston and the Board of Estimate
and easily passed by both branches OF
the Legislature. The veto was not ex-
pected. although the relations between
the Governor n the Mayor are nons
too cordial. The bills chief opponen,
was William X. Hearst
The Mayor WAS asked yesterday II
he did not consider the bill one of the
most important of the administrative
measures.
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GRAND ATLANTIC

Virginia ~ clos, 20 n','r '
MODERN and htcn-CId-s 900 fnnt.
Large rooms. with ,ouih"lu ',,n.
ana pub ir baths. cl'Na'p-, .r' .t
superior table and att,ntitr ."fN.T.
daily special weekly. WIZ" f'- r..
meets trains v
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>CASDIN \NIi> tMERI'N> LINE.
y. v, >pkM " Nv tDt>, MARK
A v Johnson & %, Inc ACTS, ! Reay, n y
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No use 70 Try a Wear Out Your Cold
II WIN wear You Ont Instead

Thousands keep on suffering coughs
Why make yourself an easy prey to se-
rious ailments and epidemics az the re-
suit of = nslected cold7 Coughs and
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loss account shows a balance on hand
of $S97,595, while the bank balance
shows $|1,0S6.536. Among the dis
bursements are shown: Mills, $4TS,-
SIS; shafts, S35S.660; dead wood.
$4,000; steam electric power plant.
$S1,263; electric operation. s25,492;
foundry. $S4.827; hospital. $42.345;
building and maintenance of recrea-
ton hall, S110,62S, which covers
only part OF the construction expense
mine expenses including wages for
miners, $~2,22s.245; water. S66.s77:
timber land. sS3,479: taxes. $685.
961; office. S17.120; property pur-
chase. $30.S95.
The principal item in the receipts
was $96,S36 brought in by the foun-
dry for work done for outsiders,
which Offset the cost of cyanide.
which was s94.69S. The general ex-
pense is given as s95,S76; salaries,
S2S,291; cost of operating regrind-
ing plant, ~S24.2SS; stable. S24.S56;
and survey. s32,579, while an impor-
tant announcement of the superin-
tendent is that the company is now
saving ga per cent of the values OF
the r treated.
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DIR. III. ID. Duncan Loses His Life
Near Dallas.

Dallas, March 10.-Plunging head
first into a huge snowdrift which
filled and obscured a deep gully. DR..
III. ID. Duncan of Dallas. the most
prominent dentist in the Rosebud
country, was smothered to death
Sunday afternoon before his body
could be recovered by those who were
with him. The accident occurred
about one and one-half miles west
of Dallas.
DR.. Duncan had been out watching
the Northwestern snow pillow at work
and was accompanied by Homer
Hetts, a local merchant, and Louis
Visha, cashier of the Bank of Dallas.
AS a side diversion they were coasting
down the heavily drifted hillsides.
While going across a drift which hll-
ed a gully DR.. Duncan broke through
and plunged deeply into the soft
snow.
Rescuers hurried to his assistance
at once, but the speed at which he
was going carried him forward far
Their than estimated underneath the
drift. and the excavation was made at
the wrong point.
After the body was recovered it
was apparent that his head struck
against the side of the gully, render
ing him unconscious. But for this
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J~OHNSON-WILLARD FIGHT
Arrangements Completed for Cham
pionship Battle April 3.

Havana, March 10.-A fight for
the worlds heavyweight pugilistic
championship will take place at Ha-
vana, Saturday, April 3, between
Jack Johnson and Jess Willard. The
last obstacle in the way of having
the fight take place here was remov-
ed late yesterday, when Jack Curley,
who endeavored to have the men
meet at Juarez, Mex, March 6, re-
ceived a ~cablegram from Willard.
saying that he would start imme-
diately for Havana, arriving here
from New Orleans March Is. The
terms for the fight are identical with
those which would have prevailed
had the encounter taken place at
Juarez.
Mr.. Curley will act as the chief
promoter and will be assisted by
Richard Clegin as managing director.
The site for the battle has not yet
been selected, but several excellent
places are available. johnson began
training today. willard will have
training quarters at Mariana.
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STATE NEWS.

Pierre-State Land Commissioner
Hepperlee formally announced the
resignation of Nels NJ. Hanson, dep
uty in the state land department,
who has held that position for many
years, and who drops out the first
OF April.
Montrose-Plans are being made
whereby a big light and power COM
pany of Hartford will extend wires
from Hartford TO Montrose and pro-
vide this place with electric lights
and power. Ii Is expected the lines
will be extended here this spring.
Parker-In state circuit court for
Turner county. Tom Hubbard, a
stranger who appeared at Marion and
pretended to be an examiner for APP
plicants for widows pensions, and
vas charged with criminally assault
ing several widows while pretending
TO examine them for pensions, was
found guilty and sentenced to an in
d~eterminate term of from eight to
twenty years in the South Dakota
~penitentiary.
Belle Fourche-Judg Will II. King
chief counsel of the reclamation
service; |. ID. ODonnell, supervisor
of irrigation; II. p. Seidermann,
chief accountant of the reclamation
service. and Attorney Robert p.
Stewart, United States district attor-
ney. met with the board of directors
of the Belle Fourche Valley Water
Users association at Newell. AS a
result of the conference the board OF
directors adopted a resolution recon-
mending that the shareholders of the
association sign the t~wenty-year ex-
tension contracts.
Canton-Charles W. Walrath. an
engine tender. was killed In the rail.
road yards here. While he was
working under a dead engine the
switch engine backed into the dead
engine and rolled him along. He
died instantly. The body was not
mutilated much. He leaves a wife
and two children. Funeral arrange,
ments have not been made yet.
neutrality-suspicious. of western
South Dakota have found rabbit
hunting on a large scale profitable a!
well as exciting during the winter
Tons of rabbits have been shipped BY
them to eastern markets during tn,
winter. where they command fail
prices. 1t is estimated that abou'
5000 rabbits have been shipped from
Owanka alone thus far this winter
and larger shipments may have beer
made from other towns. Single ship
ments of 1000 rabbits are not I'm
common.
Chamberlain-Harvey Big Eagle
a Brule Indian, some time & stole
a horse from a fellow Indian. A few
days ago he was arrested by the In
dian police and. rather than suffei
the penalty, conceived the idea o
committing suicide in an easy man
ner. Accordingly. he removed thu
shot from a shell and filled it with
wad of paper. Whether the soft pa
per felt easier than the shot only thu
Indian can tell. At present he Is II
the sanatorium and the last report
were that the doctor had been sue
cessful in extracting most of the pa
per, and the Indian seemed satisfied
with his job.
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STATE
Ninety Men Thrown Out of Employ
ment by Legislative Abolish
ment of Factory.

Sioux Falls, March 10.-Warden
o. s. Swenson of the South Dakota
penitentiary, is confronted with the
problem of the unemployed. The
question of finding work for approx
mately ninety men is one that he
feels he must solve.
The predicament of the warden is
due to the legislative abolition of the
shirt factory at the pe%nitentiary.
Asked what this act will mean to the
labor situation at the institution
since no appropriation was passed for
an enlarged Irvine plant. the warden
replied to a Press reporter that 1T
was very bad for discipline and IL
will be very hard punishment for the
convict to be shut off with nothing
to do"
When will you close the fac
tory" he was asked.
II can't TELL" he answered, I'm
going to keep running until / get Of
fetal notice to close down or until
the men who have the contract to
buy the output voluntarily close it.
The board of charities and correc-
tions meets this week. Contracts ex-
pire on the 10th of the month"
The warden was asked what he
would do with the men made idle.
II don't see anything else than to
keep them in their cells" he said.
I'VE a give them exercise of some
sort by marching them in the yard in
the forenoons. Eighty men from the
shirt factory and ten men from the
twine plant will be affected.
ut is possible that some relief will
be found in the fact that about
$4,000 was appropriated for a stone
quarry. This will afford work for
probably twenty-five men. More re-
lief will be felt in the building of
wall extensions. The stone taken
from the quarry will be used for that
purpose.
Some relief. ! think. will be found
when we get to farming. l should
say that the maximum of unemployed
this year will be ninety. but we al
ways have a bigger population in the
winter, and when the next cold sea-
son comes again we expect to have
more trouble.
las for the morals of a body OF un-
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HONlESTAKE NINE
Interesting Figures on the Worlds
Greatest Gold Mine.

Lead, March 10.-Some interest
ing figures in the operation of the
worlds greatest gold mine are given
in the annual report of the Home
stake Mining company by Supt. Rich
ard Blackstone.
The number of employees is re-
duced from about 2.700 to 1850.
The average value of the ore handled
was 1888 per ton of which there was
1,5S7,774 tons milled. Last year the
ore average was $4.O1 per ton, but
the total production was valued at
about the same figure, $6.160.160.
The mine work included 400 feet of
shaft sunk and nearly $4,000 feet of
drifting. The dividends for the year
were $2,210, 208. The profit and
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feature he would have been able to
help himself to some extent, at least
to the extent of making enough
struggle that the r~escuing party
could have located the body quickly.
DR.. Duncan owned a fine farm one
half mile west of Dallas and a home
in the city. He is survived by a
young wife and two small children.
DR.. Duncan came here from Iowa and
was a graduate of the Iowa univer-
sity. He had built up a very large
practice.