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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-07

\ trunkful OF dynamite. picric acid,
fuses and all the articles necessary in
bomb manufacturing. shipped by Frank
Holt under the name Of r. H. Hender-
son from Mlneola. was found last night
by capt Tunney and his detectives on
the fifth floor OF John ". Grifith's
warehouse, at 3i2 West Thirty-eigh;h
street
After opening the trunk. the detec-
tiv.s left IL in charge of owen Egan
of the bureau Of combustihles. and set
off to get another trunkful of explo-
sives they have traced Altogether
there are $50 pounds OF the explosives
that Holt brought into the city. The
trunk first found contained half of it.
The trunk was taken down into Grif-
hthess office and opened There wcr-
1874 sticks of 80 per cent. dynamite, three
tin cans for making bombs, two boxes
of electric fuses. one box Of No. blast
ing caps. one package OF white powder
supposed 10 be picr'c acid). a coil o..
time fuse, a dry battery. a package Of
powdered rus.n, matches
that can he III in a high Wnd. siN
wooden containers filled with illuminate
OF mercury. box Of Illuminating caps
ard a soldering iron.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-07
Osborne Lied, Says Riley;
Prison Reforms Are Nine
State Superintendent, After Conference With Whit
man, Declares Sing Sing Warden Repeatedly Ig-
nored His Orders and Mismanaged Affairs.


ference with his deputy. his secretary.
his chief clerk and with Charles IL.
johnson. who is chief clerk at Sing Sing
prison and practically deputy warden.
Mr.. johnson said afterward that he
would not discuss the Rileyosborne
trouble I'm any way. He declared he was
not In Albany on that matter. but had
merely stopped at the office OF an en-
tirely different subject on his way from
his camp at Saratoga to Ossining.
OsbOrnc's Two Visits.
Although Osborne has seen Gov Whit
man twice since the trouble began, the
prison difficulty was not discussed at
either conference. The warden saw tn.
Governor when the latter was I'm New
York to attend the civic celebration and
again last week. The latter visit was
made by Warden Osborne in an attempt
to obtain the communication Of the sem
tence Of David Dunn. condemned TO die
yesterday In Auburn prison for the
murder of a Corning express messenger.
In which errand the Warden was unsuc-
cessful
IL is expected that the Governor Will
see Warden Osborne on the prison
trouble within "A day or two because he
told the warden last week he would
see him later to discuss prison matters.
Gov. Whitman has been much inter-
ested in the work inaugurated by War
den Osborne at Sing Sing. Aside from
desire that the prisons should be run
in "A corrective spirit Gov. Whitman has
not been interested until now In the
apparent differences which have arisen
between Warden Osborne and the super
intendent. The latter before appointing
Mr.. Osborne AS warden of Sing Sing
had made Charles T. Rattigan of
Auburn the warden of the State prison
there at the suggestion of Mr. Osborne.
Mr.. Rattigan was Mr.. Osbornes political
mentor In that section of the State. II
was for his refusal to appoint Rattigan
as warden that state Superintendent of
Prisons Scott was removed.
Riley q Cleveland Democrat.
Supt. Riley has always been a Cleve-
land Democrat and has never traied
with the Tammany State machine. He
always followed the POLITICAL fortunes
of Smith VI. Weed in northern New
York, and Weed has always been one
of the most prominent Cleveland and
ant-Tammany men in the State
George VI. Weed, the son of Smith NJ
Weed. is the Deputy State Superntend-
ent of Prisons and acted as warden at
Sing Sing following the retirement of
Warden Clancy and pending the ap-
pointment of Warden Osborne
Gov Whitman has felt that as Riley
and Osborne are both Democrats and
that as Osborne is an appon;ee OF
Riley he uhe Governor) should no.~tnr
terfere in the prison administration
"
Continued on Eifth Pan,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-07
COntentiOns Of Friends.

The contention OF some OF those who
profess to believe there Is a connection
between the death Of Rosenthal and the
death OF sullivan is that Big Tim had
he lived could have come forward with
facts which would have freed Becker
sullivan. 1t is said by believers in
Becker's innocence had convinced him
self that Becker would be acquitted
When a jury found Becker guilty, say
Becker's friends, the politician was
deeply shocked and steadily grievcd over
Becker's plight. Then when 1t seemed
that he might at any moment come for
ward with statements that would free
Becker up stepped say Becher's cham
pons. the men who would suffer tn! oug n
Sullvans statements and killed the Dig
fellow.
At the Sullivas clubhouse ?o7
Bowery. on the night before Big Tim
was buried the Rev. James +. Curry,
so Becker's spiritual adviser said yes
terday. was told by n relative of Sull-
van that the politician had been MUIR
dered. II was said Father Curry was
told also by this relative that sullivan
had been in good health up TO the time
of his death. but had been worrying
because some one had go, into trouble
indirectly through Big Tim.
Becker so Becker's friends now say,
was the man who had got into troubl"
and thereby had given Big Tim reason
for worry over the affaSr.
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The authorities found a lcttcr writ
ten by Holt, in the bed, just after Holt
was found ou the floor. The letter
indicated clearly that Holt had planned
10 end his llfe and was waiting only for
a favorable chance, Just Why this letter
was not found sooner is not explained
bv the Jail authorities. They stated dur
ing the day that although Holt spent
much OF his time writing they took All
the letters and other writing away
from him when he finished and read
them.
This letter was addressed presumably
to Holts wifi" and children, and read
MY pEARs | must write TO you once
more. The more think about It tLs
more | see the utter usel"ssDcsS Of living
under these circumstances.
Bring up thu dear babies In fear u
God and man, iood-by, my sweet
"Anectiouh'cly
"FEANk"
There was postscript which read
AN please pardon mo FOR al tho
heartaches I've brought YOU Pray win
me that the slaughter viii stop My
heart breaks 'iood-by'
This letter was turned over to- District
Attorney Smith.
Holt was beng watched ny Jerry
O'Ryan. a keeper, who sat I'm a 'htlr
outside the cell with his back POO tho
door The door had been left open ant
Holt, according to bRHau, was appa!-
entity asleep when nos" al the uth''
end Of the corridor attracted the guards
attention. ORyar got up and started
to see what was going on Holt jumped
off his bunk ran out Of his cell mo
,he corridor and Skinned up tho front x
the opposite cells to the top Of the t.r'.
Then he Topped backward and fcll %
the floor HE tell about twrutN-tiN" fee,
according to the county physician.
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one Of the things which especially i'm
pressed Father Curry in recent talk
with Becker was Becker's insistence that
he favors capital punishment when men
are justly accused of murder
1T Is not the thought OF death that
hurts me-" Father Curry quoted Becker
as saying, But N" thought that ! VIII
he put TO death as a murderer. ! want
vindication, not commutation of scn-
tence."
Il am absolutely sure Of Beckcr's in
nocence," concluded the priest.
Although Martin T Manton. asso-
cated with w Bourkc Cochran in
Beckers final fight for liberty. gave to
reporters last week an interview in
which Mr.. Manton said he had given
to Gov Whitman the names of men
implicated by Becker in graft distribu-
tion, despatch received from Albany
last night said Mr.. Manton has writ, n
the Governor letter In which Becker's
lawyer denies that ne ever had said the
Governor, ''in the interest of justice
should make the names public. The
Albany despatch follows:
ALBANY. y. Y, July 6.--Gov Whitman
to-day made public a letter written by
Martin T. Manton. counsel for eX-Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker, denying that
he made a statement declaring the Gov
ernor in the interest of Justice should
give out the names OF the men he (Man-
toni told the Governor that Becker could
implicate in graft deals.
Appreciation for your kindness and
consideration at our interview, if moth
ing else. requires me to write YOU and
say ! made no such statement" said
Mr.. Manton.
Gov. Whitman said to-day that the
various stories being printed in the
newspapers and purportlng to he new de-
velopments in the Becker case were all
old stories that have been floating about
New York during the last two years"
Last night and for several nights past
the newspaper wires have been busy
with assertions from Waterbury. Conn.
that "the hope of Becker's friends now"
Is James Mark sullivan. United States
Minister to Santo Domingo. Just why
the diplomat happens to he of SO much
importance in the Becker case and why
the value Of his services was not discov-
cred until the eleventh hour are not
made clear in the Waterbury dispatches.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-07
LAST HOUR RUSH TO
SAVE BECKER BEGUN
Lawyers Of Wide Reputation
Aid Him-Strangc Hand
Seen in Case.
NEW INQU1RY.IS OBJECT
Stress Again Being Laid on
Big Tins Possible Con-
nectiOn With Case.
NEW INQU1RY,IS OBJECT

The phase OF the Charles Becker case
which. during the last few days espe-
cially. appears to he ovcrshadowinG all
other public interest In Beckers affairs
about town Is the size and seemingly
systematic growth each day OF the move
ment to save Becker from the chair.
Becker hasn't cent left. say his
friends. His wife has to teach school
to support herself lie has no money,
the same friends have been insisting. TO
pay for even the first steps of bringing
his case before the Federal courts.
On the other hand during the last
ten days lawyers of wide reputation
have come forth with interviews and
legal services which are being offered
daily in Becker's behalf Men promi-
nent in other walks OF life are being
quoted In interviews In which they not
only give reasons why they think Becker
innocent but suggest procedure which II
listened to with sufficient attention by
the Appellate Court. may result in a
stay OF execution
As recently as laa Sunday a lawyer
described by Warden Osborne of Sing
Sing as man of big reputation in
criminal law spent a part ot his holiday
week end suggesting to the warden legal
procedure which Mr.. Osborne thought
well enough OF to impart to Becker In
the death house.
The Tim sullivan story.
The story that the late Timothy II.
sullivan was not killed by train but
murdered by persons responsible also
for Rosenthal's death Is being repeated
daily by several other friends of Becker
as reason for holding John Doe in
quiries into Zig Tins death. thus bring
Ing the informers who testified against
Becker to the witness stand again
John r. Mcintyre. Becker's counsel
In the ex-lieutenants first trial for
the murder Of Rosenthal. added some
suggestions yesterday to his recent adj
vocacy Of John Doe inquiry into the
whole Rosenthal murder case.
Mr. Mcintyre said he does not
advocate a new inquiry into the muruer
after the testimony has been passed
upon by the highest court In the State in
order to charge the informers with
murder. His reason, he says. ofenter-
ing the case unasked at this time is to
establish whether the informers con-
srired to bring about Becker's death.
The story that Big Tim sullivan was
murdered, story dwelt upon much dur
ing the last few days, was hinted at long
ago.
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Makes a Correction,

Mrs. Tnaw here said she wished 10
correct an impression that she ever had
given an interview to a morning news
paper in which she was made to criticise
Justice Hendrick. Justice Hendrick in
reproving the newspaper and Mrs. Thaw
said the Interview gave forth the impress
sion that she was instructng him and
the Jury in their duties in the present
Thaw hearing. That, said Mrs. Thaw
yesterday. was furthest from her mind
Continued on Fourth Page,
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Riley q Cleveland Democrat.

Continued on Fitth Page.
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Continued on Fourth Page.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-07
THE WEATHER FORECAST.

Fair to-day and probably tomorrow;
warmer in interior.
Highest temperature yesterday, IS; lowest, 6a.
Detailed weather mail and marine reports page 10.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-13

stead, they are intimate friends. When
House became candidate for mayor, he an
nounced in his column that if elected, he
would make Parsons chief of police. His
first announcement, after election, was OF
the appointment of Parsons.
For several years Parsons worked as a
police reporter in Topeka and what he
doesn't know of the inside workings of To-
pekas police department isn't worth while,
and he is equipped with mental gallery in
which he has catalogued all the Topeka peo-
pie who are likely to need attention from
the police 1t is not the purpose of this
writer, however, to indulge in prophecies as
to what either House or Parsons will or will
not do, but rather to throw few side lights
on the men themselves.
lay House began his newspaper career in
a country printing office in Neosho county.
With fewer opportunities for education than
were given to most men of his generation,
he has developed into well read, we'll in
formed, broad-gauged chap with unusual in
sight as to men and their motives. For
several years. he drifted over, the country,
working here and there, first as printer,
afterward as reporter. Part OF the time,
he might have passed as a specimen OF that
now almost extinct species-the tramp
printer.
At one period of his career, he engaged
for time in the pursuit of testimonials for
a then widely known patent medicine con-
Germ He has known what it is to be broke,
hungry and out of work, and is still able to
intelligently discuss the technique Of hit
ting rather" or Catching the rods" with
those knights of the road on whom the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-13

as few enemies by what he has written as
any man in America who has written so
many sharp things.
House does not take himself too seriously,
and he refuses to take other folks more ser
iously than he does himself. Always indif-
ferent to criticism, it has been his habit to
publish in his own column, most OF the
meanest things that others have written or
said about him Many of his readers re-
gard House as a cynic, but he is not He
has written cynical paragraphs, many OF
them, but those who know the man know
that down at the bottom he is as sentiment
tai as a girl Perhaps he will snort II he
ever reads the above statement, but ne
knows it is true.
Many people have picked up misunder-
standing of House because of his habit OF
jumping popular heroes heroes at whose
shrine he privately worships-just to start
something. Once he stirred John Dawson,
now associate justice of the Supreme Court
into indignant protest by poking fun at
George Washington At another time, he
made large contingent of patriotic women
mad by sharp, though humorous, reference
to Mrs John A. Logan. When Schumann-
Heinke visited Topeka several years ago
House incurred the lasting hostility of lot
of high-brow musicians by remarking in
print that the great singer "waddled like
duck" The thing the musical high-brows
didn't know was that Jay House is as fond
of music, real music, as Ed Howe, and that
he probably enjoyed the great singers
music as much or more than did the PEG.
pie who we're angered by his reference to
her gait.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-13

lsh paper in which he may print just what
he pleases, rather than what the boss wants
Perhaps it ought to be said though, in
justice to the publishers as a class, that when
one of these ambitious reporters does ac-
quire a paper of his own, he usually finds
good business policy demanding that he
keep out of his newspaper most OF the things
he was cock-sure he would print. But to
get back to our text-few city governments
are satisfactory to the newspaper men who
know most about their inside workings, and
most newspaper reporters have as well de-
fined ideas as to how they would run city
as they have as to how they would run
papers of their own,
Two of the best known newspaper men of
the state have Just been given an opportun-
ity to work out their ideas on the city gov
eminent at Topeka The success with which
the application of their ideas as to city govern
ment may be attended will be of interest to
the whole public but it will be of particular
interest to other newspaper writers with
ideas of their own, and this writer is par
ticularly curious to know whether Topeka
newspaper men generally are to be as criti-
cal of Jay House and Harvey Parsons as they
have been of the lawyers, doctors, merchants
and chiefs who have been running the city
in times past
House and Parsons hit Topeka, almost
coincidentally, some fifteen years ago. They
were employed by rival papers from the day
of their arrival until few weeks ago, when
they took the city in charge. For several
years past each has conducted a feature
column in the paper by which he was en-
ployed BY the old rules, they should have
been enemies. each jealous of the other. In
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-13

enactment of anti-pass
laws has had no financial
effect.
But all the time, Jay
House has been moved by
a modest ambition to get
on, and what success has
come to him has been due
to opportunities that he
either found or made for
himself. He came to To
peka a stranger. His ex-
perience had opened his
eyes to "the bunk" and
pretense so com m on
everywhere, and when he
began to edit his column,
Con Second Thought" he
brought to the work a
whimsical, and sometimes
c yn ic a |, knowledge of
men, and women too, that
made his column a sue
cess from the outset.
For fifteen years he has
been whacking away at
conventional shams and
foibles, and there are few
readers of his Column"
who have not been hit
more than once by his
darts. His keenest para
graphs have been tine
ture d with h u m or,
though, and he has made
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-13

7 A w Y Z X S, doctors,
merchants, and in
cidentally chiefs of
women's clubs, have tried
their hands, with varying
degrees of success, at run
ming the affairs of the
capital city of Kansas dur
ing the past fifteen years.
However, municipal ad-
ministrations at Topeka
have suited other people.
it is a safe bet that a poll
of the city during any adj
ministration in that fifteen
year period would have
resulted in a showing that
a majority of the men
who make the newspa-
pers, privately held the
administration then in
power to be a failure.
The newspapers m a y
not have reflected this be-
lief. M ore frequently
than most people guess,
newspaper judgments do
not reflect the personal
opinions of the men who
produce the copy that
goes to fill their columns.
In this fact lies the ex-
PLANTATION of the ambition
of every newspaper re-
porter to some day pub
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Continued on Page I3)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28

called Romanesque style. The stone
work was usually rock faced ashular;
the windows were large or were
placed in groups, the sky line was
broken by numerous small turrets
and pinnacles, the cornice consisted of
panels of patterned stone supported
on a shallow corbel sable or a heavy
string course, and there was much
really good carving on arches and
capitals of columns wnen the latter
were near the ground.
Then last of all came the age of fire
proof construction-of. steel skeletons
incased in concrete and covered and
adorned with terra Gotta and soft
toned pressed brick. Large windows
lent in plenty of light and air and re-
duced the wall weight, and there is
just enough ornament to relieve the
monotony.
The Romanesque style with its tur-
rets and arches has given way to the
classic, the windows have square
heads, and massive Greco-Roman
cornice made of terra Gotta fittingly
tops the walls.
Topekans along with the rest of
mankind are learning the lesson
that thing is most beautiful which
most perfectly expresses and indicates
the purpose for which it is intended
which has the greatest harmony of
proportion, and that ornament should
be used only to relieve and soften
what would be harsh and bare with
out it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28

He built of wood, and for the time
being only. His business undertaking
was an experiment. If he failed he
went back to his wife's folks in
Ohio or Massac husetts or Tennessee.
About all he needed in the way of a,
store front was a space above the
door large enough on which to paint
his namc and the nature of his bust
ness. Such buildings are now seen
only in the suburbs and even there
they are rapidly giving way to a more
attractive type.
Next you Will note the two-story
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
AN UP To DATE ELECTRI-
fled RESTAURANT

Ed Schmit, of Quinton Boule-
ward, who conducts a restaurant
near the Rock Island depot,
now has one of the most up to
date places in the city. 1t is
we'll lighted by the latest Mazda
lamps and this week he pur-
chased an electric Thor washing
machine and an electric Thor
Ironer, with gasoline attach
ment, an electric burner and an
electric iron.
Mr. Schmidt says electric con-
VenienceS mean so much both
in business and in the home that
he can't afford to be without
them. His new home on Quin-
ton Boulevard is complete with
electricity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
To PROTECT BIRDS
Federal Regulations for Hunt
ing Will Be Enforced.
Although State Game Laws
May Not Conform.

Washington, d. c., Aug. 2S.-With
the approach of the open season for
shooting wild fowl, the United States
department of agriculture is warning
sportsmen that the federal regula
tons as amended October 1, 1914, will
be strictly enforced. Some misunder-
standing has arisen from the fact that
the various state laws do not always
conform to the federal regulations.
The department will consider any
recommendations submitted in good
faith for amendment of the regula-
tons, but will hold no public hearings
thereon, nor will it amend the regu-
lations prior to October Is, 1915. 1t
is the purpose of the department to
conform the regulations to the wishes
of the majority of sportsmen so far
as it can be done and at the same
time give wild fowl the necessary pro-
lection.
Federal regulations divide the
United States into two zones. Zone
No. 1, the breeding zone, includes the
states of Oregon, Idaho. Colorado,
Nebraska, Iowa. Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
and all states north of them. Zone
No. ., the wintering zone, includes all
states south of those named.
The regulations for the second
zone, including Kansas, are as follows:
Open Seasons for Birds in 1915.
Waterfowl-Oct. Jan 16
trict of Columbia. Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana-Nov.
Florida, Georgia, South CaroIina-Nov.
Missouri, Kansas, oklahoma-sept. 10
Feb. 1.
Arizona, California, Texas-Oct. 15-Feb. 1.
Rails. Coots, Gallinules-Sept 1-Dec. 1.
Exceptions: Tennessee, Utah-Oct. l.
Dec. 1.
Missouri-Sept. 15-Jan. 1.
Louisiana-Nov. 1-Feb. 1.
Arizona, California (coots)-Oct. 10
Woodcock-Nov. 1-Jan. /.
Exceptions: Delaware, Louisiana-Nov.
15-Jan. 1.
West Virginia-Oct. 1-Dec. 1.
Georgia-Dec. Liam. 1.
Shore Birds-Black- breasted and golden
Exceptions Florida. Georgia, South
Carolina-Nov. 20-Fe l..
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
Nov. 1-Feb. L.
Tennessee-Oct. 1-Dec. 16.
Arizona, California-Oct. 15-Feb. l.
Utah (snipe)-Oct. 1-Dec- 49,
Utah (pIover and yellowlegs)-Sept- l,
1915
Insectivorous birds protected Indefinitely.
Band-tailed pigeons, cranes swans. curlew.
and smaller shore birds protected until
September l. 1918; wood ducks in Kansas
and West Virginia, rails and wood ducks
in California, and woodcock in Missouri
also protected until September 1, 1918.
Shooting prohibited between sunset and
sunrise; or at any time on the Mississippi
River between Minneapolis and Memphis,
after January 1, 1915.