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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL TODAY'S NEWS TODAY. THE WEATHER. Local Snow nd Colder Tonight. Saturday Centrally Pair. VOLUME XXII. CALUMET, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 1913. NUMBER 56 $90,000 CARRIED AWAY BY BAND OF SMUGGLERS Daring Raid on Portuguese Span ish Frontier in Which Nine Are Killed CATTLE RAISER IS ATTACKED Escort of Forty Herdsmen Routed by Thieves Who Easily . Get Money CIVIL CUARDS START SEARCH Valenoa-do-Mlnho, Portugal, Jan. .1. A during band of smugglers on tho I'ortuguese-Spanls'u tKintier carried if ninety thousand dollars Unlay, af tr a fierce bull If with a cuttle raiser und forty of his herdsmen, in the course of which nine, cowboys were killed nnd fourteen severely wounded. Jose Murllhae, u well known cattle breeder in the province of Mlnho, Iiuh been for several weeks Kislng from f.ilr to fair and had opposed of three herds of bull. Then he Mturted home v.iih ninety thousand dollurs in cash and bank notes, guarded by fortv herdsmen. Karly thin morning wlille passing clone to the border the party was at tacked by a large band id armed smuggler, who tired from behind rocks and thickets. The herdsmen re turned the tire but were forced to flee. They carried off Murllhats, who was seriously' wounded, hut left the whole of the. money and 2 A comrade,, n the field. nine dead and mwt of the others fatally injured. The civil tfuurds of the entire prov irre are starching for th. smoKelera. SENATOR JEFF DAVIS DEAD. Well Known Arkansas Solon Sue cumbs to Apoplexy, l.lttle Rock, Ark.. Jan. 3. United States Senator Jeff Davis died .sudden ly at his home here at 1 o'clock litis morning as the reult of h it attack or "poplexv. Washington, D. (-'.. Jan. 3. The sud den death of Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas came as a distinct shock to is friends in the capital this morning. The senator left Washington Decern -ber 13 to spend the Christmas holidays at home nnd at that time appeared in the best of ppirlt. He had not been in Rood health for some time, although his condition did not occasion his friends much alarm. On one or two occasions, his friends say. he had suf fered from Uttuckx f dizziness. Since, taking his eat In (he Senate In 1!0, Senator D.tvls had grow n steadily In the esteem cf his fellow senators. He was nn ardent tariff reformer und his speeches attacking various crr pora Hons won r.lm the sobriquet of "The Arkansas trust battler." ' Strata. Takes An Adjournment. Washington, Jan. 3. Account of the death of Senator Davis, of Arkansas, the Senate udjourned after a six min ute session until tomorrow. MILITIA HAS IMPROVED. Annual Report Shows Increased Num i ber of Men. Washington. Jan. .1. The ttrength ft the trganiaed mlllila of the United Siates'at the time of the last annual Inspection was 9,142 officers atd 112, 710 elilie.led men, an Increase of 3,861, sriys Hrlg.-Uen. A. L. Mills, chief of the division of militia afYalrs, In his annual report today. He finds existing organizations bet ter armed, uniformed and equipped, better Instructed and belter flhered than ever" before. The Infantry of the organized mili tia consist of i.2I officers and 91.67 enlisted men .organized Into 1 2 regi ments, eight separate bittall-ns und 14 separate companies, 1en. Ml!) asserts that there are too many Infantry regiments main tains In an Incomplete state of or gunlxatlon through the permanent lac1; of one or more companies. SLOT MACHINES ARE SEIZED. Deputy Sheriff William II. Vivian, acting- under Instructions from the county officers, this morning seised a number of slot machines that were heated In public places In the city of Hancock, and transferred them to the herlfT office. . The exact number of confiscated machines Is not known, but It constitutes start in the gen ual "clean-up" in the county. Paris policemen have been provided 'tli acttjhna torches lor use in dense fogs. BRIEF ITEMS HOT OFF THE WIRES Burns Will Meet McCarty. Calgary, Jun. 3. Richard Ielgun, a Parisian tight promoter, I as made terms with Tommy Hums of this city to meet .ii,er MeCurty in Paris next June. I.egan has wired MoCarty for terms. Roswell Miller Is Dead. New York. Jan. 3. Roswell Miller, chairman of the-Chicago, Milwaukee & rft. Paul railway, died suddenly ' here toduv. , He was found thud in bed this morning at his home iy a servant who tried to wake him. He apparently was In good health yesterday. Ha was about . C5. Will Not Nominate Coethals. Washington, Jan 3. President Taft has definitely (old Senator Hrnndagec, of Connecticut, chairman of the In-tr-oceunlc canal committeehe will not send to the Senate the nomina tion of t'ol. Oocthals' us civil governor of the eunal zone, because of the op position of the Democratic senators in his uppolntment. Suspect Establishes Alibi. Chicago, Jan. 3. Following ip the 1 1. iirnl prints clue in the mysterious I.ogue murder case, Robert Kitchen, Janitor of the McVleker's theater building, was taken ;nto custody to day. I.ogue's office was In the theater building. Later Kitchen established an ulibl when the. thumb prints were loiind dissimilar, atwl iie was release Madmen Kill One aid Injure Nine. Klivas, Portugal, Jan 3. One person was killed, ami nine others seriously injured this morning, by five terrified maniacs released by firemen from a n burning asylum on I lie outskirts of the city. The madmen secured iron rods iioiii a scrap heap and attack ed everyone they met. Altogether 3ii escaped, hut thirty were easily retak en. Bright Outlook for Home Rule Bill. Ijmd'pp, Jan. 3. The project of lm posing taxes on food imported into the llrltlsh Isles, put torward by some leaders of the opposition in the Com minis, has created such hopeless dis sensions In the Unionist party ns to render almost certain the ntentlon of power by the Liberal government for the two yean? necessary to overcom the resistance of the House of Imls to the home rule bill. Marvelous Medical Predictions. New 'York. Jan. 3. The possibility that the 1 9 1 3 will see the marvel of broken bunts repaired for use within four day, and wounds healed within one day, is a forecast by Dr. Ahxls Carrel of the Rockefeller institute "hf medical research, whose success last year won him the Nobel prize for medicine. The announoeiwnt of hid marvel-ms predictions appears in the current issue of the official organ of lie Rockefeller institute. RUMOR SAYS THE FORTRESS OF ADRIANOPLE HAS FALLEN Paris. Jan. 3. A rumor that th Turkish fortress of Adriunoph- had fallen Into the hands of the ledgers was current on the bourse here today. Allies May End Conference, Ixmdoii, Jan. 3. The liulkan peace envoys have decided, it was declared this morning, to put a direct question to the Turkish delcgution tonight whitlow the ottoman government I.s prepared to cede, the fortress of Adri inople forthwith. I'nlcss the Turks gle a favorable, answer In Z hourj the conference will be suspended. Will Pacify" Albania. Vienna, Austria, Jan. 3. -Hungary inl Italy me making preparations t land a lolnt expeditionary force in Albania, immediately after Hie. conclu rion of the Iondon conference, acecrd ing to the Wiener Journal bslay. Th sep will he taken to paciiy Albania and "establish the new condition o pffalrs" there. CHILD LABOR-DY. 6,000 Clergymen Asked to Observe January 25th and 26th. The ti.iMK) clergymen wfco last year observed Child Labor Day are being asked to speak out on that subject Sunday. January 2Cth r Saturday, January 25th. For sevin years the National Child Labor Committee has issued such an apical, and the interest aroused by the last Child Iahor Day lesulted In a general demand for tho passing of the Federal Children's ttu reuu I till. In Improved child labor laws In ! of the 14 stales holding leg. islatlve sessions, anil an Increasing use of lecture slides and exhibits about child labor. The day has never hen used as an Heal for funds and tfcls year special intention is called to child labor in tenement-house in.mu'acturlnR. Tin? National Child I-abor Committee also reminds clergymen that child laborers become unskilled a1ut workers, and the Chicago Vice Commission gives, J the second greatest isiisei why 40,001 Plrls are sacrificed annually to an Im moral life, "the economic stress of In dustrial life on unskilled workers, with the enfeebling lnflunces on the will power." This ca4ise In Commission gives as second only to the lack of ethical training and religious instruc tion. irins- fJeorire V.. of England, h3 been made on. honorary member of the Net York Yacht club. i TELLS WHY THE TURKS FAILED American College Head in Con stantinople Blames Lack of Organization VIVID STORY OF, CONDITIONS Soldiers Went Into Battle Hun gry and Confused OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT IS FIRM New York, Jan. 3. Scenes In and about Constant liwl and condition resulting from the. Balkan war are In terestingly described In a letter ad dressed f.: The. Associated) Press by Dr. Caleb F. Hates, president ' of Robert College, at the Turkish capital. The latter follows: This has been a war of surprises to most people. The- Turks themseltves Here among those most surprised. They had expended some forty-.two million pounds upon their army. They 'iipposed that whatever else, they had not done they had at least prepared army, but that army ha failed them. , The principal reason seems to be lack of organization. The officers of he army were not in touch with their men. The committee of Union .and Progress has gotten rid of the d officers, who hud risen from the ranks find who knew their men, .and substi tuted officers trained tn the military schools of Turkey and Europe. Un fortunately these officers have, been devoting too much time to politics and too little time to their -work with th army. So they (d not adequately know their men. ' . Commissariat Fails. Turkey at the opening of the war strained every nerve to bring her sol diers to the front. They came in by snips which passed down the Fosplro rus every day. the soldiers cheerinrf .ind the hands playing. The soldiers ere put into cars and sent to the front, often without their officers. When they arrived at the station where they were to leave the railroad officers were in waiting who took them nnd placed them in their companies. All coip and division formation was lost. It was confusion. These sol diers went to the battle under bad conditions. They needed a month at least to train with their new officers and ret to know one another and their leaders. Then the Commissariat fallr-d. It roon became evident to us here In Constantinople that the government was bringing In men much faster than food. They gave money to the soldiers and told them to go and buy food for themselves, but often they could not find food to buy, and many of I ho soldiers were suffering from hunger before they saw a battle or heard a gun. When fighting actually began all their difficulties were Increased. It I.s painful to contemplate. Order in the Capital. Pnder these conditions the Turkish army ought never to have advanced beyond the line of I-ule Burgas. They should have taken up strong positions there; waited to get all their army together: trained their men and put them Into sympathy with their officers. My this time nil the world knows that the Bulgarian army did not pur sue thei Turks beyond Tule Burga.i. They waited nearly a week before they made their demonstration to try tho strength of the Turkish army nt Cha talja. There has neyer beer, a pitched battlo there, and nowr peace negotia tions are going on. The Turk la not driven out of Furop. nor do I believe that he will be now. Constantinople will remain under the Turkish govern ment, and a rtrlp of territory the nl?. of which will be determined by nego tiations. While the newspapers have been fill ed with accounts of the condition of Constantinople, filled with refugees and soldiers driven back upon th city, and While they have been describ ing scenes here "only rivalled by the scenes in Dante's Inferno," we have been living In Constantinople in peace and quietness. There has been no bloodshed here, and the government has maintained order with great firm ness. We should remember that Kla. mil Pasha's government took up the work after the Committee of Union and Progress Cabinet had been turned cut. soon after the beginning of the war. The least that we can say about the Committee of Union and Progress In that Its name is a mlssloner, for the Committee stood neither for Union no, for Progress. Christians Still Safe. Kismll Pasha's Cabinet had a hard task. They Inherited the war, the ar my waa what the Committee of Union ind Progress had made It. and the country . filled with their appointees in office. There has been no serious disorder In thlc city during the war (Continued on Pag Two.) WEDEL1EYER ENDS HIS LIFE AT SEA MICHIGAN CONRESSMAN JUMPS OVERBOARD ON HIS WAY HOME FROM PANAMA. i ' Washington, Jan. 3 Representative Wedemeyer of Ann Arbor, Mich., who suddenly went insane at Colon, Pan ama at the. time of Taft's recent lslt, Jumped overboard last night from the ship on which he had been taken at Colon. His body haa not been recov .. fi-j . ...... .. ... . ered. Mr. Wedemeyer, wjio was a Repub lican, was f bom in Lima ' township, Washtenaw county, March 22. 1873. of German parents . Ills early llfo was spent on the farm and his education v. us acquired in tlu? district school. He later graduated from the Ann Ar bor high school and fiOm the literary nnd law derailments of the Univer sity of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar In 185. He served on tho board of school examiners ' and us county school commissioner of Wash tenaw county from lSSfi to 1S7; was deputy commissioner of railroads un der tiovernor Plngree, 1897 lo 18ft9. American Consul, Georgetown, British Guiana, 1905, but relinquished this po-( sition on account of sickness. In 190. he was a candidate for representative in Congress from the second congress sional district. Mr. Wedemeyer was elected to i-he 62nd Congress Novem ber 8. 1910, by a vote of 21.4SIi to lf.,12:; for John V. Sheehan. 725 for Edward P. Bates and 37!i for David J. Malloy. He was defeated for re-election last November. Campaign Broke His Health. Ann Arbor, Jan. 3. Although It was reported Congressman Wedemeyer's mental condition was due to a fall recently in Washington, local friends and associates attribute the congress man's breakdown to the strenuous campaign he went through last fall, which resulted In his defeat by S. W Brakes, Democrat, and enthusiastic congressional work In general. Mrs. Wedemeyer has not been told of his death, friends deeming it advisable to nwalt further details. PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION PLANNED FOR MINNESOTA St. Paul, Minn., Jan, 3. Members' of the Minnesota legislature are al ready putting In an appearance in an t let nation of the opening of the hi-c-nnlal session tl first of the- week. The general sentiment expressed bv thos already on the ground I.s that the session will be marked by the transaction of much lmwrtant busi ness, tine of the first Items of busi ness -will be the selection of a United Statea senator, but this will be a per functory task for the lawmakers, ss the preferential vote at the November election assures of the re-election of Senator Knute Nelson. A presidential preference primary law la likely to he passed at this sea nlon, and the initiative and referen dum and recall will be proposed In constitutional amendments. Other measures that are prttty mire to re ceive attention Invlude at employers' liability law, a "blue sky" law to pre vent the sale of worthless stock, re forms In court procedure, amendments to the State-wid primary law, and legislation providing for road Improve ments, the extension of agricultural education., woman's suffrage and coun ty option.' Ixmdan to exploit Bratli's coal deposits. SOME WILL BE DISAPPOINTED : 1 u mmmm ) j..ie or. pew imac. (J KEENE OWNED THE BEST RACE HORSES SPECTACULAR CAREER IS ENDED BY DEATH EARLY THIS MORNING. New York. Jan. 3. James H. Keene died at 2.1 H o'clock this morning, fol lowing an operation yesterday for ab dominal trouble. Ho long was fa miliar Is financial and sporting circles in this country and abroad. Keene was aged 74. and waa born in London in Ilia early lif he apeni in California, as a miner, where he made a fortune later in stocks. His teter career in Wall street came to a practical end with the collapse, in Jan uary, 1910i of the. Columbus and Hock ing Valley jkjoI, of which he was man iger. He has owned many, and at the time of his death still owned the most prominent race horses in this country and K'irope, His winnings for many years were the largest of any Ameri can in the horse, facing world. INVESTIGATING REPORTS WM. ROCKEFELLER HAS SAILED New York, Jan. 3. Notwithstanding reports from Brunswick, (5a, that Wil liam Rockefeller, whose testimony Is sought by the Pujo committee, had sailed from Jekyl Island Tuesday in a specially chartered steamer for u secret tlestination, the process servers did not relax their vigilance today. Sergeant-at-arnis Riddell of the House, his deputies and forty private detectives are Investigating the report of Rockefeller's sailing; but in the meantime they ure hopeful they have the millionaire bottled up in his homo here. Hiddell said: "If he bus sailed for lUrmuda, he Is out of cur Jurisdiction and I will not attempt to follow him." Definite Information Lacking. ltrunswhk. da., Jan. 3. KfTorts to ptt Information of the name ami whereabouts of the mysterious yacht reported to havo carried William Rockefeller to sea, brought little satis faction. It Is stated positively by sev eral residents of Jekyl Island that William Rockefeller has been there a week or more In eeclusioiv. It I.s re ported Rockefeller left on the aehl of C. K. CI. Hillings, u millionaire. Will Plan to Capture Him. WashinRton. Jafl. 3. The Pujo com mittee will meet tomorrow to plan ways to capture William Rockefeller. It may request that a peremptory at tachment be issued by the House, charging the oil magnate with con tempt. Pujo doubts the story that Ris-kefeller has left the country. CRUISER WITH REIO'S BODY ARRIVES AT NEW YORK New York, Jan. 3. Steaming slowly In a dense fog. the Prltlsh cruiser Na tala, bearing the body of the bite Whltelnw Held, passed Sandy Hook shortly after 8 o'clock this morning. Accompanying her as a guard of honor were the United States twttle rhlps Florida and North Dakota, and four destroyers. The body was borne to the cathedral of St- John, the Divine. Frisco railway system has adapted the old a Re pension plan. Some 25,000 employes, art affected. CONSPIRATORS TO GET OUT ON BAIL WRIT OF SUPERSEDEAS IS GRANTED MEN CONVICTED IN DYNAMITE CASE. Chicago, Jun 3. Attorneys Zollne and O'Donnell of Chicago. Harding of Indianapolis und Kruin of St. Iau1.s appeared In the f ederal circuit court of appeals today to ,rgu for a writ of supersedeas to stay th eexcutlon of the rentence of 32 of the 33 convict ed dynamiters, -and for bail, pending further action bv the couit of appeal. Judges Maker and Seaman were sit ting. District Attorney Miller, of InJlan apolls, spoke in opposition to the ap plication for the writ. When th arguments were conclud ed the counsel for the defendants said they were convinced the court would grant a writ In the case for at least one and mabe more of the convicted men. The arguments were concluded at 1 o'clock. Jiidgn Maker asked hov n.ueh bail President Ryan iould fur nish and how much the povemineiit would require. Miller said he would ask for SIO.immi on vach of the 2 counts 2ti0.000 in all This afternoon a writ of supersedeas staying the execution of the sentences Impose, l on the dynamjte conspirators, was issued by the court. Rail will be based on the number of years the I rlsoners were sentenced to serve $10,000 for each year. Says Labor Stands by Men. San Francisco, Jan. 3 In Jill or out. the California Ruilding Trades rtuncll will continue to support Its secretary, Olaf Tvletmoe and other men convicted at Indianapolis. Pres ident McCarthy of the council, will publish over his own name in the forthcoming number of Organized Iji bor. a rtatement. In part as follows: "Labor believes the jury erred In its verdict. A plain statement of the verdict stamp ns a miscarriage of Justice. The fact undoubtedly will b. driven home that while Indictment galore are brought against trust mag nates and that a monopoly Is ordered dissolved now and then, anil fines Im posed anil never paid onlv the work ers go to Jail. When this truth soaks in there will he a tremendous change. There will be no surrender on the part of organized labor." DEMOCRATIC RIVALRY FOR U. S. SENATOR IN DELAWARE Dover, Del., Jan. 3. Members of the legislature and other politicians i.f Delaw are are already much in . Idence it. the capital, although the legldtaure will not convene tint II next week. Tin early iri lval of the members is chiefly due to the keen Interest in the contest now on for the I'nited States senator ship. For the first time. In m.inv years the Democrats have captured the leg" islaturd and will have the privilege of choosing one of their party to suc ceed Harry A. Richardson, Republican, in the United States senate. The leittle is being waged between Willard Saulsbury, Iemocratlo na tional committeeman, and politicians rho are strongly apposed to the selec tion of Saulsbury for the senatorshlp. Friends of Saulsbury' argu that he Is tntitled to the senatorshlp because he was one of the original Wilson boom ers In Delaware. They also point to the fact that he has been spending hi money for many years to elect his supporters to the legislature. LIVES LOST IN GALE ON SOUTH EASTERN COAST Terrific Blow Sinks Small Craft and Destroys All Wire Communication THREE STORMS IN COUNTRY Many Teleraph Lines in Differ- ent Sections of the U.S. Are Down FEAR FOR TORPEDO BOATS Washington. Jan. 3. The south At lantic court states today are In th-? srlp of a terrific wind and rain storm. which has worked havoc to shipping and cut off the cities of Norfolk und Newpon .News. All land wires lead ing out of the cities have Lcn de stroyed The last word from the oper ator at Newport News waa th galj was so terrific that the waters of th; James River were surging into Mm lower part 6f the ctty with the vio lence of small tidal waves. Navy wireless calls to ships of the Atlantic fleet in Hampton Roads were unanswered. There Us great anxi.-ty for thf safety .f the torpedo boats In the narrow sea way. It i reported many small craft have sunk. The 1h or life is not known. Ir. Washington the. gale downed wire? and trees Three Widely Seriated Storms. New York. Jan. 3. Thre storms of extraordinary violence occurred al most simultaneously in widely sep arated sections of the country. Th first raged south of Washington. For a time there was but one wire from Washington to Atlanta. By noon not a wire was working south of Atlanta. A storm in the middle west levelled scores of wires between here, and Chi cago. At one time but fie- wire Were working between the two cities. The third storm was in tit- states of Washington and Oregon. Hundreds of wires are prostrated. CAMPAIGN MANAGER DIXON TO LOSE SEAT IN SENATE Helena. Mont.. Jan. C The Montana legislature, which will convene there Monday is e.vpected io make for it self an important place in the history of the state. Measures of much weight will be brought before the new legis lature, chif among which will be a woman's suffrage bill, a comprehen sive road law, provision for direct pri maries, presidential preference pri maries, and a limitation upon Uie ex-, penses of the candidates, and bill i dealing with reform in the methods of taxation, the conservation of water power, and a close supervision over mining and other investment enter I rises. The Democrats will be in control of both houses of the legislature, which means that a Democrat will elected to the I'nited State senate to succeed Joseph M. Dixon, the; Progressive Re. publican leader who directed th Roosevelt presidential campaign. Th choice for the aenatorshlp Is T. .1. WaNh. a wealthy Helena lawyer. Mr. Walsh u;.s aspired to the senatorshl: ever sine, the days of the late "Tom'" Carter. Several years ao he was an unsuccessful candidate for Contcress. $4C,000 COLLECTED SO FAR. Special Collection Fee to be Charged Beginning Jan. 10. Township Treasurer Anton Tomns si reported collections tip to today of $46,000. out of a total roll of almost $400,000. The situation is more fav irahle than It seems, however, for the amount collected represents a large number of small accounts. Th bulk of the taxes for Calumet town ship Is made up of the accounts of the various mining companies, which likely will be paid next week before the special 2collectlon fee of three per cent Is added to the one per cent collection fee now charged. It Is prob able that the collections of the early part of next week will exceed $300.00i which will leave but a small amount outstanding. An required by law, Township Treasurer Tomsssl Is preparing to charge a collection fee of four per cent commencing one week from to day, so It behooves taxpayers who wish to avoid this extra disbursement, to pay during the next few days.