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Weekly Miner PKHIEEK PAPER OF ARIZONA. PRESCOTT, AMZOlfA, WEDNESDAY HORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1912. FORTY-NINTH YEAR. Journal- PERKINS SQUIRMS UNDER THE PROBE Angel of the P rogrefsive Cause Grows Indignant When Questioned by The Senate Committee. My Amoc4U4 frwi. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Em phatic denials that -a. huge fund had been underwritten to finance, the Roosevelt pre-convention campaign, or money was contributed to the fund by the International .Harvester trust or United StateA Steel trust, were entered .today- by George W. Perkins testifying before the Sen ate Committee. The testimony of Perkins, bristled with such expressions as "unmitigat ed lies" "absolutely false," "totally unfair," "mere hot air,." He denouue cd the charges made by Penrose and Hillcs and demanded Penrose be made to prove his assertion that S3.000.000 was underwritten for the Roosevelt, campaign, "or like a gen tleman, take it back." He said Hillcs i should prove his charge or "be dismissed from office." Through- out the. examination Perkins was in a wrangle with some of the mem bersv pi the committee. .Time and again lie waved a clenched flst in the air and declared the committee "couldn't gct away with it." Once the- coftmittee voted to expunge a remark, from the record. As he grew indignant under cross examination the witness would rise glaringt the '.committee and Kti cutating vdllctitjy. Perkins aeocunt cd to thev committee for $123,000 whichjio said he spent in the Roose velt campaign. "That was absolute by all 'my contribution," he declared emphatically. Kept a Double Set of Accounts Uy Associated Ft INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 21 Read ing from financial account books of the, International Iron Workers, Mary C. Dye, former bookkeeper for McNamara, testified in the dynamite irial that one record of money ex pended was kept for the union of ficials 'and executive board members, while a different record was kept public for the members of the union gcpcrally. A regular system of "Juggling" accounts the government charges was maintained to conceal the expenditures' for dynamiting. GREECE SPURNS OFFER MADE HER BY TURKEY Annexation to Crete and Other Propo sitions Turned Down Valor Of King George's Army Praised. I TITIKTCMIT TTTnr- A TPMO ATTORNEY ERBSTEIN Anrei When Attorney for the Mother Jt the Lnri tie Wronged Visits Cafe to Serve Subpoenas. HIRAM PRESIDENT By AtaoclaUd Preta. LONDON, Oct. 21. tt has just been -made known that. Turkey offer ed Greece annexation to .Crete, if fho would withdraw from, the Bal kan alliance and also offered other concessions. Greece refused point blank to accept the proposition. The British today issued a procla mation of neutrality in the Balkan war. Send Congratulations. ATHENS, Oct. J21. King George of Greece, received telegraphic re plies from his three sovereign allies to a message informing them that the Greek army had crossed the frontier. King Ferdinand of Bul garia, Nicholas of Montenegro, and Peter of Scrvia, all praised the val or of the Greeks and asked the gocls for help in the war with Tur key. Torpedo Boat Sunk. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 21. A specinl dispatch to a Co'nstantino By AaaeciatM Press. CHICAGO,. Oct. 21. When At torney Erbsteiu representing the mother ot Lucilc Cameron visited Jack Johnson's, cafe today in . com- pic paper says Turkish warships pany with U. S. Deputy Marshals sank a Bulgarian torpedo boat, while to serve subpoenas on witnesses another escaped by taking refuge to appear before the grand jury to rn the harbor oft Varna. The) lofts morrow the pgiBst became excited replied to the Turks, hut eveMfcttolly and threatened the lawyer personal silenced their fire. According; to In- injury. "Throw that lawyer out the formation received by the Pprtc 1- place or I'll kill him" shouted John banian volunteer, under ex-D'euty $on to one of. the bodyguard. The Hassan Bey of Pristine; Joined ythc Federal officers protected the at advanced body of Albanians march- torncy apd served the pugilist's ing on Kursumlija, Scrvia, thirty aged mother and nine employes of miles south of the -Nisli neighbor- the saloon with subpoenas. Several hood and fighting '5 progress. Must Aid in War. CHICAGO, Oct. 21. All Ottoman subjects in the United States must leave immediately for Turkey to aid in the war according to- instruc tion received by the Turkish Consul General here. ATHENS, Oct. 21. The Greeks by a flank movement occupied (lie Turkish trenches at Dissikata 'with trifling losses. The Tdrks stubborn ly resisted but eventually retired to the town of Scrviri, twenty miles northeast. important witnesses have disappear ed and could not be found. The police reported to Mayor Harrison that Johnson had violated the closing ordinance a dozen times in the month and recommended a revocation of his license. The mayor has taken the report under consideration. ENGINEER KILLED., WILLI AMSPORT, Pa.. Oct. 21.: The Buffalo Flyer on the Penniyl rania railroad " crashed into a box car this morning. David Getkin, the engineer, was killed. DRY FARMINO. LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Oct. 21. The Seventh International Dry Farming exposition opened here today. SEX NOT RESPECTED BY STRIKE LEADERS BIG BATTLE IS IMMINENT 'I; By AtaocUud Vrrmm. SALEM, Qct. 21. Descriptions of riots in yjhicli girls were assaulted by strikers were given by Fred T-l i'iL II L. ... .1!-.-!.. riynn oi 'inc jYians.icnuscus uisuiv-i police incite trial of the Lawrence strike leaders. , He asserted that Et .tor, one of the defendants was in the center of a mob that assailed a girl, tearing off part of her cloth ing. Both Flynn and Officer Bryoti tes tified that Giovanitti after his arrest admitted advising the strikers to "sleep by day and act like wild ani mals at night." toy Associated Tress. SAN JOSE, (Cal.), Oct. 21.-Bc fore a large crowd Governor Mar shall followed up his attack on Gov ernor Johnson, begun at Sacramento today, and declared after Johnson had visited Indiana lie determined Johnson was open to sharp criti cism. "After Governor Johnson came to my state and gave the vot ers a lot of superfluous advice I took my Bible and looked up the word 'Hiram' and discovered that 'Hiram' was a cunning worker in brass." By AniooUtod Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2I.-Grcat excitement is reported in Cuba on account of the presidential election on November 1. It is understood number of cabinet officers have resigned though only that of the Minister of the Interior was accept ed, SEMI-BISHOP. SIZE LIMIT TO IS "WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-Dr. Edward Hanna. professor of St. Bernard's seminary at Rochester, N. Y. has been appointed by the Pope n -.nvillnrv liishoti in San Francis- CO. NO DECISIONS. wActitNrvrnN. Oct. 21. For the first time in many years the su prcmc court today left the initial dc cislon day after the summer recess pass without a single opinion. MARTIN IS NOT HERO HE WAS PAINTED MEREDITH, N. H., Oct. 21.- Thc president of the company own ing the auto where Roosevelt wai shot, and an eve-witness, in an in tcrvicw says that Martin did not grab Schrank, but that a poor un nralsed laborer was the man wh took hold of him after the shot was CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 21. It is admitted tonight that the Bul garians arc twelve miles from Adrio noplc and that a big battle is immi nent. The Governor ol Aurionopic ssucd a proclamation to the people f the European provinces in the liapc of a reply to King Ferdinand's manifesto enjoining the Moslems to good bchavoir, assuring the Chris tians they have nothing to fear, pro- ided they remain loyal. It is as serted that in the fighting around BAGGAGE SUSPENDED By Awoclated Pn: WASHINGTON, Oct. . Kegu aiions further restricting the size of the baggage of travelers adopted bv almost all the railroads, were sus pended until August a, oy tne in tcrstatc Commission. WANT BORAH'S SEAT. NEW YORK, Oct. 21 Chairman W. F. McCom!) of the democratic committee has decided to send Gov crnor Shaffroth and ex-Governor Thomas of Colorado to Idaho to take part in the contest to name a i.rpcssor to the late Senator Hey- burn and try to capture Senator Borah'1 scat for a iemocrai. AERONAUTS KILLED. iiP.hUN. Oct. 21 Hans Gcrickc winner of last year's international inttnmt race and Lieutenant Stcler, his nidc, were killed yesterday when the gas bag of the balloon cxpioucu The balloonists were making a ina flfoht. orenaratory to entering in races which start from Stuttgart on q,.irdav next. It is believed that ( balloon was struck by lightning. Colonel on Way Elassona the Greeks lost 1,500 kll cd. Servian Army Advancing. LONDON, Oct. 21. The Servian army is steadily, advancing and now has its headquarters at Vranya in its movement against Uskup. The fleets arc active the Greeks block ading the Islands of Lcmmos in the Aegean Sea and the Turks bombard UK ...... ...... . w Aiuwhtrf Pra. uulgarian coast oi me imcK aca. pawic rw rPrf:rtr, ni .i The report of sinking a Bulgarian 1,, uct;rn,lnaton ,U)t lo re lorpcuo noai is av tHr to Mcx;co wns ,)nchnngcd. He Stantllioplc. .Imwril irrrat Interest in the news concerning His nephew, but said he was not connected with the move ment in any way, K5 FOR KILLING TO MEXICO ROSENTHAL 21. What friends at To Oyster Boy SOLDIERS STAY TO KEEP ORDER CHICAGO, Oct. 21. Col. Roose velt was taken from the Mercy hos pital in an ambulance at 7:20 o'clock this morning and boarded a Penn sylvania railroad train which started at 8:30 for New' York. He was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt aift the family 'physician. When he was ready to start on the trip the Colo nel said he was feeling well but was somewhat sleepy. He slept but four hours last night and frequently seemed nervous because of anticipa tion of the trip, it was said. There was a consultation and ex amination just before the starting. AT POLLS and the- following official bulletin was issued: "The patient's pulse, temperature and respiration are nor mal. The wound still discharges a little scrum. There is less infla mation at the point of the bullet location. The wound "is sensitive to pressure and 'the bullet can now be distinctly located. Koosevcit s gen- gy Aaioclated Preaa. cral condition is gool.' WASHINGTON. Oct. 21 Amcrl- Showa No III Effects. can marine's and Bluejackets may be PITTSBURG, Oct. 21, (Aboard retained in- Nicaragua to preserve Roosevelt's Car) Although Roosc- order at the polls when a President vclt was weary from his all day ride is chosen by direct vote soon. he showed no other ill effects upon Fly Asnoclnted TrcM. NEW YORK, Oct. Sam Schcpps told his Hot Springs, Ark., about the murder of Rosenthal was read into the rec ord today at the Becker trial. "I don't want you fellows to think we killed a man who was of any ac count," Schcpps told Postmaster Johnson according to the bitter's testimony before the commission sent to Arkansas to examine wit nesses." That fellow was a dirty cur and should have been killed and I don't want you fellows to think I am a common murderer' '' (Continued on page S) SERIOUS CHARGE. WOMAN CONDEMNS MEDICINE MAKERS By Associated Press. SAN BERNARDINO, Oct. 21. Former Pcputy County Assessor J. Blaine Mijlcr was arrested tonight charged t wMU the embezzlement o county fund,. W 1 u Than Highway Robbers And mpTyVrk, o"! 2i.-n.e si.cr oi 1 1 T T 1 1 U T1 iff stopped the fight of Gunboat Oiiouia e XJemna xarp jurepiarea SnlIlh am, Jim Stcwart at thc ctH "Kf A All.,.. of the seventh round after Stcwart orae By Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oct. 21. That thc manufacturers of many patent medi cines are "worse than highway rob bers and ought to be behind the bars" was thc declaration of Mrs. Martha Allen, superintendent of the TAKE TEDDY'S PLACE. department of Medical Temperance of thc National W. C. T. U. The Dv AwwclMed Prew. newsnaners that refuse to publish CAMDEN, Oct. 21. Governor fraudulent patent medicine advertise- Johnson completed a tentative schc ments were lauded by the speaker dule to substitute for Roosevelt am! who also administered a thrust at I make the opening address in the editors of church papers because (New Jersey of thc final two weeks' of drug and drink advertising. campaign in the. eastern Mates, COPPER. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.1. Lake. 17 'A, dull. Electrolytic $17.65 to $17.75. Castings $17.00 to $17.25. LEAD, NEW YORK, Oct. $4.40 to $4.50. 21. Lead SILVER. NEW YORK, Oct. 62. Mexican dollars 49. 21. Sliver COLORADO MUST MAKE ANSWER 0 COMPLAINT WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. The supreme court today declined to dismiss thc petition of thc state of Wyoming for an injunction to pre vent thc state of Colorado and cer tain Colorado irrigation companies from diverting the water from the Laramie river watershed. The court give Colorado thirty days to answer the complaint. fired. 0 S '