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ill H-- SB? tiki i I fcODAT S SPORTING NEWS WILL BE FOUND ON PAGE 5. Make a Comparison Of The Journal today with any other northwestern news* paper. There's*such a ^4Wj difference I -i-^. ^lH PRICE TV^Q CENTS. A $25,000 ffif YORK LIFE'S HEAD ARRAIGNED JSAEUNdiver Declares McCall De bauched Public Morals and Corrupted Legislators. {Missouri's Superintendent of In surance Returns to the Charge Boldly. Asserts McCall Looted Funds of Policyholders for Reckless Speculation. Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 2.W. D. [Vandiver, state superintendent of insur ance, thru his counsel, Attorney General Hadley, F. W. Lehmann and John M. Life company to overthrow his order revoking its Missouri license. Superintendent Vandiver charged, at the time he ordered the company's li cense revoked, that the New York Life had forfeited its right to continue busi ness in Missouri. He cited the testi mony brought out before the New York legislative investigating committee, to the effect that President McCall and his associates -tfad, during four years past, spent large sums of money to secure de sired stato legislation and in campaign fund contributions. In the reply filed today, Mr. Van diver accuses President McCall of de bauching public morals, corrupting leg islation? and looting the funds of policy holders by extravagant ventures and reckless speculation. The answer fills ten typewritten pages. It contains direct and severe attacks on President McCall, Vice Presi dent George W. Perkins and other offi cers of the New York Life,' It directs specific attention to the charge that Mc $7,000,000 of the company's money. Superintendent Vandiver maintains that the Missouri insurance department has the right to require insurance com pares doing business in the state to manage their affairs in a proper man ner, and to insist on election of new of ficers and the adoption of methods that 'will insure the funds of the policyhold ers. The return* makes a general denial of the allegations made in tho petition for injunction filed by the New York Life company. By agreement among the attorneys, the case is set for hearine on Dec. 27. GOES TO SEE HAMILTON Young McCall Sails for Paris to Lobbyist. IV. See Y,X^ 7&SL3* fTn thousandsanof dollars, to.return to this country testify before the insur ance investigating committee. Mr. McCall, while a witness this week before the insurance committee, announced that he would go to Paris for this, purpose. Today he said that he very much doubted whether Mr. Hamilton would New York, Dec. 2.rJohn C. McCall, secretary of the New York Life Insur ance company, sailed today on thde pany" might be prosecuted with full war- steamship Lucania to go to ParisP+and ilton for John IVcCall, president of ffids the New York Life. Secretary McCall is the son of President McCall. Asked about a report that Mr. Ham ilton might not return to this country, Mr. McCall said: I don't think He will. I mean to try to do my best to bring him back if his health will allow. If Judge Ham ilton's health will not permit his re turn I will bring back anyway a state ment being prepared for my father." He waB then asked: "Will there be any changes in the New York Life or any contemplated in consequence of the Investigation?" I cannot discuss that," he replied. ".If I did tell you of changes I would have to tell you in confidence, and, of course, you could not print that." MOVE TO OUST McCALL Policyholders Have New Plan, to Get Jerome Interested. Journal Special Service- New York, Dec. 2.Disgusted with the indifference of the trustees of the New York Life Insurance company and their failure to drive out of the com pany President John A. McCall and vice President Perkins, several influ ential policyholders in the company haye practically decided to form a policyholders' committee,take command of the situation themselves, and make a clean sweep of all the incompetent and corrupt men connected with tho company. A subcommittee of the policyholders had a conference yesterday with one of the best-known corporation lawyers in the financial district. He advised them that the proposed move was feas ible and should be undertaken. He out that such a committee foulonpointetheirbring speedily matters to a head of number going before a police magistrate and asking for war rants for the arrest of the responsible }erson on charges of forgery, fraudu ent conversion of funds and giving of rebates. It was pointed out by the lawyer that if a policyholder took the step off going before a po]ice magistrate it would compel District Attorney Je rome to take official cognizance of the many evils in the management of life MISSOURI ACCUSES McCALL OF INSURANCE CORRUPTION ROOSEVELT WOULD BALK OIL TRUST Sees Menace of Money Power for Standard Oil Thru Insur ance Control. Federal Probe of Rockefeller In terests and Rebate Methods Is Probable Outcome. Journal Special Service. company, i'n' the injunction proceedings I discrimination made by writers in the recentlv instituted by the New York daily press and in magazines against the galiaa^Pfirk.juftJMige^in _had-&n/i quea^, .^Charges .were made by these meA tionablereal estate Investments, lost New York. Dec. 2.Definite informa tion to the effect that a movement is on foot in Washington, backed by the president, to institute a federal investi gation of the Standard Oil company and its allied interests, was received today bv several prominent New, York finan ciers. __ More than a month ago President Eoosevelt is said to have expressed a desire that a thoro inquiry be made re garding the methods of the great Kocke feller corporation. The charge of rebating and -wholesale Standard Oil mangement aB well as the presentations of private individuals, greatly impressed the president. Still another development which at tracted his attention was the apparent effort on the part of the Standard Oil representatives to gain control of the three largest life insurance companies in the country. Fear Huge Money Power. The inference to be drawn in this con nection? is that alarm is felt in Washing ton lest the Rockefeller monopoly, pos sessed of the tremendous combined sur plus of these great institutions, should become strong enough to defy even the government in any effort it might wish to make in the direction of correcting abuses. It is toown that reputable citizens of the middle west, aroused by what they termed the criminal methods of the Standard Oil company, have been ac corded lengthy hearings by President Eoosevelt. knvestigation an ha to try to induce Andrewl Hamilton, to Lf for return to the United States/but that 3/Kwi he expected to bring back a statement Sf*"^ which was being prepared by Mr. Ham- !J^? J?nT .Continued en 2a Page, 4th Column. and broke many, windows. *l A.4* ^V,,r~.C^i^iffiS&j>. If $&- -^j- jiJo against the Standar Oi ih:~effeet that the corporation had caused the cor ruption' Of many state and federal of fice holders thru the payment to them of large sums of money and by other im proper means. These representations, in connection with the positive evidence adduced by the Armstrong investigation to the ef fect that thousands of dollars have been habitually expended by the insurance interests to influence legislation, have caused the president much uneasiness. Trusts and Lobbies. While there was no direct connection by the insurance companies "and the Standard Oil corporation as to the un due influencing of legislation, the reve lations brought out by Mr. Hughes are taken as indications of a general prac tice followed "by practically all of the great corporation's. The grounds on which a federal in of the Standard Oil corn- However that a desperate ef a ar Bai nenf i cer awyer tai promii- plentiful.n It representatives to prevent an inquiry, such asn outlined,e on thhee mad standard Oilk ground of lac of authority. Rebates as the Basis. The president is fully.^warneJ of thiee opposition and is preparetldC ba tn S meet itd B8pract 8 poS ^l eU flmil.a i Ji T5?' *"& J&f f.'-&ST tration, regarding its right to investi gate the Standard Oil company and all other corporations doing an interstate business. Just what effect the inquiry would have on the-present situation in insurance matters is unknown, but those who are well informed are confident that present conditions would be greatly altered. GOT $18,000, LOCKED SAFE, THEN VANISHED Journal Special Service. Caruthersville, Mo., Dc. 2.When G. M. Gwin, cashier of the Bank of Hayti, Mo., walked off with over $18,000 funds-of the institution last Tuesday, he met the president of the bank at the railway station and en gaged him in cheerful conversation on *j local affairs. Gwin set the time lock of the safe for seventy-two hours, and consequently had two days' start be fore the directors could get into the vault. In the safe he left two'letters, one to President Dorris, saying the rea son he left was personal, not for the sum taken, and the other for J. Franklin, the heaviest stockholder, ex plaining that he took the funds because Frankhn had sharply criticized his methods of conducting the bank a short a time before. FOLK'S DEFINITION OF GRAFT IN DICTIONARY Journal Special Service. Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 2.Governor Folk's definition of graft is to be used in the Standard dictionary. Governor Folk received a letter from the publish ers of that dictionary in New York to day asking permission to place his defi nition in that dictionary, which is be ing revised. DEATH IN GAS EXPLOSION. St. Marys, Ohio, .Dec. 2.A terrific explosion of natural gas last night in the Bieber buUding resulted in the death of William Smith, watchman, and the partial destruction of severe' O^T A -L. buildings. The explosion shook the entire town .-J r.*fi C# 3& W fe^lvki .-gL ,A RESIGN? ABSURD! DECLARES DEPEW New York Senator "As Good as Denies" Rumors He Will Give Up Toga. Albany, N." Y., Dec. 2."Persistent rumors that Chauncey M. Depew had resigned the United States senatorship to which he was elected by the legis lature of this state last January, was disposed of by Governor Higgins today when he said: I have not received the resignation of Senator Depew nor auy communication or intimation from him or anyone else indicatng that he ntends to resign." New York, Dec. 2.-United States Senator Depew was asked today as to the report that he had resigned as sen ator. He at first refused either to deny or affirm the report, but said finally: I have never given the matter a thought. It is absurd. That is as good as a scandal. I am tired of making dnials of unpleasant questions. I am resolved not to talk further to the newspapers. I will deny nothing nor will 1 affirm anything. I have learned a lesson from the past." Senator Depew was asked about the insurance investigation, but said he would not talk on that subject. HEIRESS WILL APPEAL ON EXCOMMUNICATO Omaha, Neb., Dec. 2.Bishop Scannell refused to talk further today concern ing the excommunication of Miss Ma Hamilton for attending the wedding of a divorcee, and Father Colaneri, chan cellor of the diocese, replied sharply that the incident was closed. Friends of Miss Hamilton, however, declare with equal emphasis that it is not. Said one of them today "It is not within the laws of# the church that a Catholic cannot assist at the wedding of a divorcee. Bishop Scannell simply overreached his juris diction when he laid down that rule in his pastorale Any Catholic has the right of appeal front the decision of a bishop, and Miss -Hamilton will most certainly carry the ease up to the arch bishop. On the other hand, other Catholics argued that the bishop has the right of excommunication, inasmuch as he holds jurisdiction over the members of the church in his diocese, and under the canon laws can excommunicate those whom he considers guilty of sin suffi cient to warrant such action. AHRESTED OK FORGERY CHARGE. Special to The Journal. Mankato, Minn. Dec. 2.B.. H. Wilkinson, formerly of Granie Falls, and now employed by the Citizens' Telephone' company, was ar rested today on instructions from United States officials, on the charge of forging a postal order for $25 and coUecting the money. He denies the charge. COACH McGUlOAN TO WED. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 2.Coach Dan Mc Guigan of the Vanderbilt football squad will b married here next Wednesday to Miss Virginia Fite of NashTille. Coach Tost of Michigan will he best man. SATURDAY EVENING, DEC&MBER 2, 1905. '"H*- *l n^i 'wi^mWlH '3*&W"J NEVER BEFORSlPUBLKHED TVS- YATES IS AFTER IflE CULLOM TOGA. Former Governor of Illinois Will Seek Election to United -States Senate.*/- i Journal Speojal Serrioe^' Springfield, 111., Dec. 2.Former Gov ernor Yates will be a candidate for Shelby M. Cullom's seat in the United States senate/" AltliS the official an nouncement of the andidacy of the for mer governor has not been made yet, a conference with & number of bis sup porters from all over the state has been arranged. An official announcementtw will be forthcoming within1 the next weeks. Yates' 'plan of campaign al ready has been outlined and, it is ex pected, will be pushed vigorously. 4 MEN LOST IN WILDS Of ALBERTA Election Office^, Candidate, Guide and Trapper Believed to Have Perished. Speoial to Tlw Journal. Winnipeg, Man., Dee. 2.No word has yet been received from George McLeod, the returning officer for the Peace river district, who left Edmonton six weeks ago with Lucien Dubuc, candidate for that district, to reach the polling place at Sturgeon Lake, 400 miles northwest of Edmonton. F. Marcony of Lesser Slave Lake has arrived in Ednjonton,-the trip taking nearly eight days. When he left, there was no sign of travelers, and it is feared in government circles that they were unable to make the dangerous passage at Athabaaka river. The fact that they would be short of food is causing iome apprehension, and. the government has decided to send out a rescue party. McLeod is a rancher and has been over the trail before. They had with them a. trapper named Donald and a guide, BelcourC Ashland Man Disappears. Special to The Journal. Ashland, Wis,, De| 2.James Darby, who left Ashland Tuesday morning alone, to hunt deeij, bas disappeared. Siriee he lef,t,J^inerJBJ*hing has been heard of htni'^id ^Stf^wife, and children are frantic withTief.ove his absence. It is thought "he rmy ftave, lost his way in the stcfirm and /ought re-luge in some logging camp. As it is not known in exactly which direction he went from here, it is practically useless to send out hi searching party. LORD'S SON SENTENCED James Leslie Goes to Prison for Steal ing an Overcoat. Special to The Journal. Racine, Wis., Dec. 2.James Leslie, a law student of Liverpool, Bng., and said to be the eon of an English lord, was today sentenced to one rear in the state prison for stealing an overcoat and a-pair of jrloves. He committed the theft because he was hungry and had no money. It Is said the man is a son of Lord Alexander Baldovvan of London, Stag. In the name of God he implored the judge to be mer ciful of his family. He refused to talk. A. postofflce has been established at Mercer, McLean county, N. D., and Nels Olesen commis sioned postmaster. ANOTHER INVESTIGATION. Uncle SamThat's bright, Teddy smoke 'enTbut! ^r'.VA onarrDoyle* MINE EXPLOSION KILLS 18IEK Accident in a Wyoming Mine Causes Heavy Loss of Life. Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 2.-An ex plosion late last nigh tin mine No. 1 at Diamondville, caused heavy IOSB of life. Eighteen' men, all who were in the mine, were killed. Nearly all of/these were English miners, who came to the Wyoming mines direct from England. At 11 o'clcok today five bodies had been recovered. Had the full night shift been at work in the mine, the loss of life probably would have been appalling. A "blown" shot was the cause of the disaster. The small shift of eigh teen men were working 4,000 feet down in the mine, knocking down coal to be taken in a bunch when the "blow" shot of giant powder exploded. At the mine offices it is said that the workings are not' materiall ydamaged and that the mine will be shipping its usual output within four or five days. GOPHER DELEGATION IS IN WASHINGTON By W. W. Jermane. Washington. Deo. 2.It is" expected that all the members of the Minnesota houje delegation will be on hand for the caucus tonight. Tawney, Davis, Pletcher, Bede, Steenerson, Volstead and Buckman have been here for sev eral days. Stevens arrived this after noon and McCleary is expected to ar rive before the meeting is called to or der by Chairman Hepburn. Kepresentatives Marshall and Gronna of North Dakota and Burke and Mar tin of South Dakota are here ready to take up the work of the session. Senator Clapp arrived in Washing ton this afternoon with Bepresentative Stevens, and Senator Nelson will be here by the opening of the session on Monday. Senators Kittredge and Gamble of South Dakota Sire on hand, and Mc Cumber of North Dakota has been lo cated for some weeks^ Senator Hansbrough has sent word that he will not reach Washington un til about Dee. 1(K JOHN MITCHELL BETTER. Spring Valley, HI.,. Dec. 2.John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, is better today, but it may be a week or more before he can return to his work in Indian apolis. He is suffering from nervous ness caused by overwork. PARTNER OF MORGAN DEAD. London, Dec. 2.Sir Clinton Edward Dawkins, a partner in the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co., died in London today after a short illness. Sir Clinton's heart had been weak for some time. HiSTORlCST *J&> CZARtS CAPITAL CUT OFF WIRES &MINOUSLY SILENT WHM AY TRACKS IN CITY'S HEART Walter L. Badger and Others Per fect Plans for Extensive New Trackage Property. Milwaukee Tracks, Seventh Av. S, Third and Fourth Streets/ Boundaries of District. Plans for the creation of trackage Property Sioneer in the busiest part of the West ide business district, on which Walter L. Badger has been working for a year, seem near culmination. They inyolve the expenditure of large sums of money for warehouses, buildings and equip ment, as well as a permanent advance in land values in the district. Success ful outcome of the project will result in immediate building improvements by the Kelloge-Mackay-Cameron company, Menzel & Jeffery, Schulman & Garber, and the K. C. Hay Press & Machinery company. The proposal is to make the blocks between the Milwaukee tracks and Sev enth avenue S, Third and Fourth streets, into trackage property with Milwaukee road switching facilities and connec tion thereby, with the Rock Island and other systems. Eventually' the property will be built solid with business houses. Purchases of land have already been made by business firms in view of the extensive project for offering railroad facilities. Some which had been made independently of Mr. Badger's opera tions have resulted in heavy advances since the scheme has been bruited. George D. Dayton, who has been a in many a successful real estate uying movement, has made invest ments as a substantial recognition of the splendid prospects for the indus trial properties in the neighborhood. He owns considerable property at Fourth street and Seventh avenue. J. U. Barnes has showed similar foresight and has also made investments. S. T. Mc Knight is another. Business firms have bought heavily, too, for their own use. Right of Way Secured. Bight of way has bene secured thru three whole blocks and tbe portion of' a block between Teht^ aves*u anet iiffe Milwaukee main* line. It IS planned to h*ve a forty-footstrip thru witk a cen ter track for switching, and two, loading tracks on either side, to be laid this fall. This will give ample facilities for hand ling all freight, both in arid out, in car-, loads and less than carloads. The plan is considered by it backers to be the best trackage proposition in the city. One of the substantial features of the Badger scheme is the -fact that manufacturing and^ wholesale concerns have made plans' to go ahead with building improvements when the word is given. Two lots at Tenth avenue and Fourth street, which Mr. Badger sold to Stan ley Mitchell of Milwaukee thirty days ago for $13,200 have been bought by Schulman & Garber at an advance of $2,500 for extension purposes, and since then have been offered $2,500 more for the property. The offer was refused and the company will enlarge its scrap iron plant. Will Enlarge Foundry. Menzel Jeffrey, foundryinen, owned two lots at Ninth and Fourth street, and have bought a third on which they will build an addition to their plant. HHThe K. C. Hay Press & Machinery com pany, on Third street, are said to be planning for a large structure between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Moore Brothers & Sawyer have just made a sale in the rear of Labor Temple, at Eighth avenue, at $150 a front foot. Other sales have been made in the neighborhood. One of the heaviest investments will be made by the Kellogg-Mackay-Cam eron company, to reach at least $110,- 000. The company owns the double corner at Ninth avenue and Fourth street and the corner lot at Ninth and Third street. On the Fourth street corner they will erect a five-story brick and mill construction warehouse, 66 by 145 feet, after plans by F. B. & L. L. Long. This will cost about $70,000 and will probably be ready for use by Jan. 1, 1907. On the Third street lot the company expects to build some one story warehouses to store radiators and boilers. Business Expanding. The Kellogg-Mackay-Gameron compa ny, now at First avenue S and Second street, i smovod to make the change -because of the expansion of its business. The company is capitalized at $3,000,- 000, with headquarters in Chicago. It has factories in several cities east and west, and is affiliated with other manu facturing concerns. At its Minneapolis branch, Daniel Donovan, mangaer, it distributes boilers, radiators, pipes and .fittings, plumbers' suppliese, enameled tubs, etc., thruout the northwest. Branches are established at Omaha, Kansas City and Seattle. BRIGK G0H6INE, IS CHICAGO SUSPICION Journal Special Service. Chicago, Dec. 2.Is there a brick trust in Chicago? Investigation of charges that a com bination, composed of some of the larg est brick companies in Chicago was con spiring to injure and ruin independent competitors was begun yesterday by the grand jury. State's Attorney Healey and his assistant, Harry Olson, con ducted the examination of a large num ber, of witnesses, including many offi cers' and employees of Chicago brick companies. Members .of the bricklay ers' union were also among the wit nesses. Secrecy surrounded the inquiry, which, it is declared by people in au thority, will result in the finding of in jjg prominent and wealthy brick men. HT AND SUNDAY COLDER TO| 14 PAGESFIVE&O'CLOCK. BEGINS .II l^lf 'jrfg Bliss Carmatf $ Will be one of the contributori jpg to The Journal's Sunday Magazine. py-jr SUDDEN STOPPAGE AT MO LT CRISIS No Press Dispatches Received foi Hours, from St. Peters- burg. Last Details of Unrest the Storiesi&'r* of Distrust in Czar's Guards. Rumors in the Capital Involve Grand Duke in Plots Against Czar. London, Dec. 2, 4:45 p.m.Communi cation between London and St. Peters burg via the Great Northern Telegraph company was severed this afternoon. 5 Messages were received this morning, but nothing has reached here since noon. The company's officials in Lon don are' unable to communicate witht their office in St. Petersburg. They have no information as to the cause of the stoppage. The Associated Press, which always' has received dispatches from its St. Petersburg office each day before noon, New York time, has not received any thing from that office since about".: 11:80 o'clock last night. OFFICERS RrTBETJiKT) Arrested with Their Men for Standing^ Against the Czar. St. Petersburg, Dec. 2.-2:50 &.m. The guards, arrested at Tsarskoe Selo Thursday night and Friday morning numbered 250. including twenty officers. All kinds of rumors are curreWt, in cluding the assertion that one of the gran dukes is involved" in a conspiracy against the emperor, but none of- 'them can be verified. It only seems oertain that no confidence can be placed even OQ the guard regiments. Arrested sol diers are seen every day escorted by their comrades-with drawn swords*. St. Petersburg is swarding with Cos sacks, the only troops aganrtrt whom i there is ho suspicion of disaffection^ ~w It is understood that.the whole 'lUfcri sack forces of the empire, some 450,000, will be mobilized. Garrison Reinforced. The garrison of the Tsarskoe Selo has been reinforced by the Semionovka regiment. Grand Duke Nicholas Nieh olaevitcn, commander of the imperial guard, has decided to send in turn all the other guard regiments to Tsarskoe Selo. The deputation from the congress of zemstvos at Moscow has arrived at the capital to confer with Count Witte and to demand the execution of the program adopted by the congress. A conference was held at Count Witte's residence last night to con sider the demands of the telegraphers. Count Witte has declined to receive a deputation from the telegraph and postal strikers, on the ground that they are violating their duty to the state, but he sent a note to the deputation recommending that the strikers- ad- dress themselves to their immediate chiefs. ^i Father Gapon has fled to Finland. -''i It develops that during the mutiny at Sevastopol the sailors of the volun teer fleet at Odessa and the engineers of the Southwestern railway refused to transport troops and artillery to Sevas topol. Czar Seems Cheerful. Lewis Nixon of New York was re ceived in audience by Emperor Nicholas yesterday at Tsarskoe-Selo. The audi ence was unusually long for one of a Erivate character, lasting over half an our. Vice Admiral Birileff, minister of marine, was present. The czar displayed not the slightest trace of the gloomy dejection in which he is pictured as being plunged, but on the contrary showed tteither physical nor mental traces of the great strain he is undergoing. He wore the simple uni form of an officer of the imperial guards, without.a single order,of deco ration. Such references as he made to events in Russia indicated that his ma- _. jesty had a complete grasp of the situa- i tion. The opportunity of talking to a* American seemed to be particularly wel come to the emperor, who spoke in an extremely appreciative vein of the United States, its people in general and its great men in particular, linking the names of Lincoln and Roosevelt. CIVIL LAW IN POLAND Emperor's Ukase Repealing Martial Law Gazetted in Warsaw. "?$l Warsaw, Dec. 2. The emperor's ukase repealing martial law in Russian Poland was gazetted here today. Thei infantry and cavalry patrols have dis-, appeared from the streets, but some of the soldiery are still concealed in! courtyards and police stations. Military disturbances are occurring! in Lomsha. At Zambroff the army re-| serve men have mutinied, demanding to be returned home. The officers'club was .attacked and the windows were broken. Troops were sent from Lom Bha to quell the riot, but they declare! 'they will not shoot their companions if-erdered to do so. Serious disturb ances have taken place among tbet troops garrisoning the fortress of Oe-1 sowiec. EAiL SPENCEE SERIOUSLY ILL. London. Dec. 2.Thru an error dispatch laatj night referred to the political poaslbUittes ''sincai the death of Earl Spencer." The earl is not! dead, trot is seriously iU. K?-%RCHBI8H0P CHRISTIE LAMBS.' 2.Archbishop Christie of New York, Dec. Portland, Ore., and Bishop ^ictments against a large number Jt IcclSns, Ohio. a"rrivedter? today onHartley the steam-iIfo er Princess Irene from Genoa.