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DETROIT'S ONLY PROGRESSIVE DAILY * TWELFTH YEAR. NO. 127. PRIMARY LAW OUR GREAT NEED, OSBORN TELLS LEGISLATURE Proposition Is In Interest ol All People, He Says in Spe cial Message URGES DIRECT VOTE ON PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION Also Recommends Early Pas sage of Workmen’s Com pensation Law (Prom a Staff Correspondent). LANSING, Mich., Feb. 2fi.— "This proposition is in the interest of all the people ana gives equal rights to all parties and all factions of parties.” said Gov. Osborn in his special mes sage in which he urges the enactment of a presidential primary law ami which was read to special session of the Michigan legislature this after noon. Gov. Osborn added that the plan was for the purpose of extending the rights of all the people and giving greater assurance that the majority shall rule in the nomination of a presidential candidate, rather than that a majority by power, influence or other unusual intrenchment shall over ride and overrule. The governor quotes Abraham Lin coln’s words. "The life ot this natiou Is greater than any constitution, and says there are multitudes who right* firtlf demand a fuller opportunity *o participate in affairs of government without being watched by bosses. Gov. Osborn calls the attention of the legislature to the report submit ted by the Employers’ Liability aud Workmen’s Compensation commission and urges that a workmen's com pensation law' be enacted. The message follows: Td Hi** Forty-sixth Legislature of Michigan: . „ Acting under the authority of Se< - tion 7, Article 6, of the constitution of the Matn of Michigan, I. Chase S. Osborn, governor In un,| over the Mate of Michigan, have culled the Forty- Mlxth Legislature in extraordinary ses sion. for the purpose of giving it op portunity and authority to consider and enact a presidential preference primary law. . , This proposition is in the Interest of nil tiie people and gives e<|iiul lights to all parlies and al) factions of par ties. It Is for the uurposo of extend ing the rights of all the people and giving greater Insurance that the majority shall rule In the nomnaton of a presidential candidate, rattier than tout a miiihrtty by power. Influence, l-eeufiar-wtreustth or oilier unusual in lienotiment sgsll override and over-, rule. IT It Ik right and advisable to enact presidential preference primary law it Is proper to give it immediate effect. The constitution of the state of Michi gan empowers the legislature to give effect at once to ids making appro priation or to acts immediately neces sary tor lhe preservation of the public peace, health nr safety. I assume that the legislature Is the final judge of these conditions. At its regular session this legislature gave Immedi ate eiTcit to seventy acts. One-half these seventy acts were not appropria tion bills in the ordinary meaning of the term, and twenty-one of them car ried no appropriation provision what ever. Some of the acts given Immedi ate effect were so trlVlal as to make absurd nnv costentLon that such an Important law' as the presidential primary measure cannot be given im mediate effect. The Constitution was just as sacred lust year as this year. Any presidential preference primary law which the legi-duture may pass can with perfect Justice and propriety contain a provision for making an ap propriation to pay the expenses of delegates. The presidential primary law of the state of Oregon. I am in- CoKtlnued on Page Two. ANTHRACITE COAL STRIKE MAY FOLLOW TOMORROW’S MEETING ■b Y f • 'MBWpH „ Sk • “isijv Mfjg t gB Ta-.ifiBiMMWBWB mg hfTjjiM mrT "IP JHF s JL €*v »—*——— p j JOHN FAHY, ONE OF THE ANTHRACITE MINERS* LEADERS, AND (AT RIGHT) GEORGE F. BAER, PRESIDENT OF THE OPERATORS. . The conference between the antJ.ra-l cite miners and operators beginning at New York tomorrow may result in the signing up of another wage agree ment and then, again it may re sult in another such strike as was set tled by the anthracite commission ap pointed in 1N The fact that the anthracite miners may law down their nl Lh—aama.. time the soft coal mlifcrs walk out. throwing nearly a million of men and boys out of work April- 1. when the present agreements termjnate. adds much to the Interest In the meeting lead by John Fahy, of Shamokin. Fa., and John T. Dempsey, of Scranton, Pa., for the miners and by George F. (Divine Rights) Baer, for the oper ators. In the anthracite fields the condition mnnsroiTOwr' SPONGiiWIIL NOTTRf TO OPEN SALOON NEAR TIC,A, Writes Letter To Council With \ drawing Application For \ License Transfer IN WITH PROTEST Says He DoesrKt Think Proposed Place Was Loca tion Morally” # To the honorable, the cbm in on council of the city of DetroH- Gentlemen—At the time that I made application for a transrhf of my license from No. 30 Fort\ st. west, to No. 35 Clifford-st., > thlc city, I had received, ufter a thorough investigation, assur nuces that the address at No. 35 Clifford-st., was a proper place to establish a saloon so far as the law of the state of Michi gan Is concerned. However, In view of the con troversy that has arisen and the piolests that have been made, 1 am more than convinced that while No. 35 C|ifford-st. is legal ly a proper place I do not be lieve that morally it is the right location. v • l am strictly in accord with the protests that have been mad# by the Y. W. C. A-, and other citizens of this city, lieing in hearty sympathy with the princi ples and the good work that is being performed by the Y. VV. C. A., sympathizing in the chari table work of that institution, and not desiring to in any man ner infringe upon the rights of tho Y. W. C. A., or to be a party in the least to hinder the work of that organization, I believe that it is my duty as a citizen to re spectfully request of your liou orable body to allow me to with draw the application for a trans fer of license. In making this request I believe that I am sub servient to the best interests of the people of this city and to the V. W. C. A. Relieve me to be sincerely and cordially ycurs. LEVI COTTINGTON. Detroit, Feb. 26, 1912. As the above letter indicates the light to prevent Cottington from establishing a saloon at No. 35 Clif ford-st., in the rear of the Y. W. C. A. building, is at an and. The council will Tuesday evening, reconsider and rescind the resolution adopted a week ago. permitting Fottlngton to transfer his license. "1 was Informed by counsel,” said Mr. Cottington to The Times, "that the site was located within the legal boundstries, so I presumed everything was all right. I never gave the prox imity of the Y. W. C. A. building a thought. I certainly don’t want to antagonize the Y. VV. C. A., for I be lieve It Is doing a good work. The saloon might not have done any harm, but. then, it might have. I didn’t in tend to keep the saloon very long ray belf, having planned to sell out.” Before he had heard that Cottington had decided to throw up the sponge Prosecuting Attorney Shepherd sent a long letter to Aid. George H. Ellis, chairman of the council committee on liquor regulation, declaring that the Y. VV. C. A. building*is a church within the meaning of the law; that the council ’cannot grant a license to premises within 400 feet of the build ing. and that if arty attempt were Cob tinned rigr To*. of the workers Is far below that of the better organized bitiiifilnous miners. C’lUld labor laws are weak and poorly enforced, and the miner begins often at the early age of II to pick slate from the coal as it passes down the r.olay, dusty breaker. Then when he is too old to toil inside the mine he becomes again a "breaker boy" at the aamn wage he started with. The nine-hour day prevails in the anthracite region, and one of the prin cipal demands of the miners is » re duct ion to eight hours. The average wage Is said to be less than $2 a dav and an increase of 20 per cent is dc ! uianded. The operators Insist that | they,are now paying too much and that waxes should be cut. Recognition of the union as a party | to the contract is demanded. file fjetroiL fdiiues * The Moth and The Flame ;■■■ \ ■ \ • —From New York World THREATENS WIFE, THEN SHOOTS OIIASEtf'DEAD William H. Adams Had Been Acting Peculiarly For Several Days William H. Adams, 41 years old, shot and killed himself in bis home, No. 1445 Mt. Elliott-ave., Monday af ternoon, after threatening the life or hia wife, who fled to the home of neighbors across the street. As stie left her home, she heard two shots, and returning with help, later, foujxd Adams in the bathroom, with a bul let through his heart. Adams quit his oosition as night watchman for the Packard Motor Car Cos., Saturday, and is said to have been acting peculiarly for several days. Patrolman William Kinsler was called, and guarded the body pend ing the arrival of a coroner. BOARD OF COMMERCE TO BOOST MEMBERSHIP The first step in the organization of a Board of Commerce membership campaign was taken in a meeting in the board rooms, Monday noon, at w hich 50 members were present. Sec retary Wilson outlined the plant* of the campaign which will be directed chiefly toward getting more members out of the big mercantile and manu facturing establishments, which, It la claimed, are not carrying their share of the burden considering the advan tages that they get out of member ship. Committees will be organized on the same busis as the committees which worked a year ago. but it is expected that the campaign this year will last only about six days instead of ten. The committees Will meet for luncheon in the board rooms every noon. The members of the committee pledge themselves to give »wu hours a day during . Uul cam paign. About ten committees will be organized aud It is expected that 600 members will be added to the board. The workers will be furnished a portfolio telling the aims * and idea’s of tho Board of Commerce, what the hoard has done and tire part that It plays In the activities of the city together with the reasons why tlte manufacturing concerns of the city should have more memberships. POLICE SEEK TALL, SLIM MAN WITH GOLD TEETH Detectives Heig and Gloshesgy, jt ('bene station, are looking for a slim six-footer, with a number of gold teeth, who stopped and had a °cba? ] with 14-year-old Ethel Desslnger, of ! No. 1074 Frederick st M as he was leaving the Desslnger home. Saturday afternoon. A lady's watch was miss | ing, and the back door was open, when members of the family came home a Utils later. Miss !>essinger saw the mail tty* the front door of her home as she was standing on the sidewalk near the house. When she approached to learn his mission, he had disappeared in the back yard. She went to a neighbor's, and with another young woman, was returning to investigate, when the supposed burglar emerged from the ;*ard. '1 am looking for a man named Senroeder." he said, politely. "Can yon tell me where he lives?” •No I can’t,” said Miss Desslnger with equal politeness, "but I live in that house ion just came from.’’ “There seemed to be nobody home. r there, and the back door Is open.” said the man. as be passed around the corner. Miss Desslnger describes him as about 32 years old. six feet tall, slim, with several gold-filled teeth and a short black mnsta; he. * Detective (lloshesk.V hsvs - there have been several "false key" bur glaries In that neighborhood, recent ly. Commercial C redlt to* Hot lava. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26/ 1912. NATS EENTEN SERVICES ARE SIGNIFICANT OF UNITY OF CHURCHES IN DETROIT Interdenominational Gatherings Unique in Country’s Re ligious Life BIG AUDIENCE PRESENT V Former Detroit Pastor Makes i Strong Address in First of Noon-Day Services Despite the unfavorable weather conditions the first service of the an nual noonday interdenominational Lenten services lu the Detroit opera house attracted a good-sized audi ence, Monday, with the Rev. Gaius Glenn Atkins, of Providence, R. TANARUS., formerly of Detroit, as the speaker. The Rev. J. Percival Huget, pastor of the First Congregational church, who succeeded Dr. Atkins, in that pastor ate, in a few words of introduction said that he commended the services to all and urged those present to at tend regularly aud to briug as many other persons as possible. “These quiet half-hours with God in the middle of the business day are good for the individual and for the community, and I hope to see liberal advantage taken of t*he privilege to attend these meetings,” said Di Huget. In beginning his short talk, Dr. At kins expressed his pleasure at having boen asked to come to Detroit as one of the speakers for the Lenten ser vices, and said that he held a very tender and sacred spot in hia heart for Detroit. "These interdenominational ser vices are deeply significant of the urritY of-the churehee «C Detroit are quite unique In the religious hie of the country,” said Dr. Atkins. ‘“The meaning of the gift within us.’ Is the topic I will take up in my week's stay with you.” he continued. ‘ Each of us has certain definite gifts —God given gifts, which we are ex pected to use in the way God believes best for ns. We are too often con cerned with what the world is going to be to us Instead of what we are going to be to the world. There is nothing to powerful as a flaming per sonality. There are flames that con sume and flames that empower. The personality that flames Into sacrlflcal tire does not consume but eni|>owers. Snclt flames mean life and power, iAll tho finer and bolter things within |us are gifts. We may itave the gift |tor music, for poetry, for politics, for business, for literature, for worship land for God. The best gift Is’ Ihe [thing which you can use for the I kingdom of God. *’o one may say who has these gifts, but all have within them one which they can use !in service for the Giver. No man has any right to say ’I shall live my life as I please and no one has any right to Interfere with me.’ Such a man and such a life denies a debt to God.” The services begin exactly at 12:05 o'clih k and close at 12:30 o'clock. There is congregational singing of I hymns in addition to the sermonette ami prayer. THE WEATHER. For Detroit and vicinity; Hala. lara-! In« to min thin nfteraooa nail bear*- j nuntt tiialßhtt collier i lurmlnj, »non and colder; brink to blab eaaterl> ' »* uUk. tbltllM lo ■li»lbwi«< wad iH- ■ ml n l«b Ina Tuenda* afternoon. Inn I.otter Mliblgani Heat) anntt tbU afternoon and toalnbtt itrnhal.it mi ted tt It b rala la aoatbeaat portion: colder tonight; Taendai, anntt and colder; eaat ahlftlnn to anrtbtaeat sale. TODAY'S TF.UrKft tTI RF.*. do. m. ..... 0. at Id a. at ; .<n 7a. SI II a. at ... . > . . ;w tn. m .*l2 1 2 noon Oft a a. m ns I p. m. a.-, One tear agv toda> I lllabeat ten* i peratare, tS; lota eat, SAi meaa. t»t ' eland} silk light rain amount law to a trnee. NEWMAN ERB, RAILWAY MAGNATE, VISITS DETROIT Confers With President Cotter Relative To Improving Ser vice on P. M. Newman Erb, the successor of Wil liam Hawley In the railroad world and the new-elected chairman of the board of directors of the Pere Mur quette railroad, is spending Monday in Detroit in conference with William Cotter, president of that road. Mr. Erb arrived in Detroit in the morning in his private car. It is expected that plans will be made for improving the condition of the road and meeting the agitation that has been raised by the people along the line for adequate ser vice. Mr. Erb says that the Pere Mar dpette has not yet begun to reap the benefits of the Improvements that have been made on the road and equipment. "ITfttil 1911,” he said: "The Pere Marquette had made no preparations whatever for the natural development of the business and was endeavoring to meet ahout 25 per cent traffic exten sion without increasing its facilities or making adequate improvements. During the fast year the road has spent 62,000,000 In improvements and 61,000.000 mote for additional equip ment and the results should begin to show soon.” In local financial circles little im provement is exp<*cted on the Pere Marquette from the accession of Erb to the chief place in. the management of the road. It Is stated that the en tire difficulty with the Pere Marquette lay In the attempt to make it part of a great transcontinental system when it was adapted only to handle local traffic. As the connection of Mr. Erb with the road means that it is to be hitched up with the Hawley lines, this Is not expected to Improve, local traf fic conditions. It is said that much of the run down condition ut the roadbed and equipment is due to the attempt to run heavy trains«over light rails. It is claimed that it is an injustice to the people who have to.use the road to call upon them to pay In terest on the bonds which have been put out by the road simply for the purpose Os paying off debts incurred lr. past operations. This is what was done in the-case of the recent issue of $10,000,000 In bondß. which was supposed to be put Into Mmprove* i.ieuts. Actually only 63,000.000 went Into the road, the rest going to pay interest on back debts. It is the gen eral opinion that the only, way that the peopleS)f Michigan can get ade quate service out of the road is to lave all the obligations cleaned up and < lea red of five present control. Mr. Erb will not make a trip over tho road at present owing to weather conditions. AWARDS VAST LAND AREA TO RAILROADS' WASHINOTON, Feb. 26.—'Title to thousands of acres of southern (.all fornia lands watt gained today by thr Southern Pacific railroad by a uo clslon of the supreme court holding that the ralfroad la entitled to certain land under the "main line" grant but nor under tne "branch line" grant The land watt claimed by the South* ern Pacific under Its " main line" add “branch line" indemnity grants, with in the grant to the Atlantic and Pa cific railroad, which was not bulb. The government contended the South ern Pacific was barred from taking iand within the territory of the At* i pMi-ifi* l aatieoadi though ! it was not constructed. A feature of the suit was the ba.- I tr.g of the raf I road's claim upon an old court record. Plug up by Attorney Maxwell Kvarts. In the dusty baee -1 ment of the supreme court. This rcc- I ord is the only one extant, all Others having been destroyed in the san Francisco fire. Axn nafSGAGB, Wale ar City 13. ANOTHER BLIZIO, ALMOST AS FIERCE AS IAST NEEL'S, DUE HIE THIS AFTERNOON Rain Will Turn to Heavy Snow, With Stiff Nor’wester and Temperature HAARER FEARS BIG FLOOD Extra Pumps Installed In Effort To Avert Trouble in Kairview Another snow storm, which turned Into rain shortly.after 8 o’clock, was added to Detroit’s weather troubles. Monday morning. The snow started during the night and the early Indi cations were for another blizzard, for the wind was in the east and fairly brisk. But after the ’’beauti ful" had reached a depth of about two inches, it changed into the nastiest kind of a drizzle. It was the kind of snow that clings to telegraph, telephone and electric light wires, and, in consequence, the public service corporations experi enced some trouble from breakdown. The weather reports were late com | ing on account of wire trouble. The [ railroads and the D. U. K. were more fortunate, as the snowfall was not heavy enough to interfere with traf fic, and there was no drifting us on the former occasion. But the department of public ■ works did not like the storm a little bit. Commissioner Haurer hud the flushers out in the down-town dis trict, Sunday, and the streets were cleaned ofT in good shape, but the work went for "naught. According to Weather Observer Conger's belated reports, the center of the storm was over Indiana. Monday morning, having moved over from Oklahoma, and It w’aa constant ly gathering energy. The center is due to reach Michigan late this after noon or evening, when the rain will turn to snow. With it will come lower temperatures and the snowrall is Fkely to be heavy. The easterly wind will veer to a stiff northwest breeze after the center of the storm passes, Mr. Conger says. Altogether the indications are for almost a duplication of Wednesday’s blizzard. Frozen receiving basins are prov ing a source of great annoyance to the department and responsible for cellars being Hooded in some sections of the city. There is more trouble from this source this year than ever before on account of the frost being ,so deep in the ground. I). P. W. 1 workmen were out all day, Sunday’, j wUh one of the big sixain rollers, jtMwing the basins out with Jets of steam, but It was impossible to rom- I plete the work, and the weather is [such today that the roller cannot be ; moved, except w ith extreme dlfil- I cutty. The department Is making ready for a llood in the FalrvleW district. Two auxiliary pumps are being Installed which, with the regular pumps, will make four In operation at the Fair view- pumping station. Rut even at that the men in charge are doubtful whether they will be able to keep the water within bounds if* it keeps on raining. Trouble is also looked for iu the north end. particularly In High land Park, if the precipitation should be heavy. Another storm is scheduled for about Friday, according to advices from the Washington bureau. ITALY DENIES STORY OF ATTACK ON BEYROUT WASHINGTON, Feb* 26—An of ficial cablegram from Home, received at the Italian embassy here today, fiat!y denied that Bey rout had been bombarded by the Italian fleet. The cablegram reads: "The Italian battleships have burn ed end stink a Turkish gunboat and a torpedo boat in the port of Bey rout No shot was fired against the HRSSEXUF.R-MAIX OR CITV— 33% ANNOUNCEMENT OF CANDIDACY WIDENS BREACH WITH TAFT Be? I it \ ■£ mto* « mt V*' I II • I II jj I-•• , ' j From a |iSolour«i»h inkru at Xrw V #rk a taw ba»»r» tjvfwt < •!. | itartrtl f»r Ulniabsa, U, !• ■■h* M» fraswaalr* LAST EDITION ONE CENT* ROOSEVELT ENTERS RACE; HIS FRIENDS STARHMGN Headquarters Opened Soon After He Says He Will Accept Nomination HIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS HARD BLOW TO TAFT Former President* May Soon Take the-Field ,in ■», Person ROOUCVEI.T'S I.KTTRR. ’’New Yerk, Feb. 24. ISIS. Gebtle men—-I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realise to tbe full the heavy re sponsibility it pula upon me. express ing au it does the carefully consid ered convictions of the men elected by populur vote to stand as the heads of government in their several states. “1 absolutely agree with you that tills mattei is not one to be decided with uny reference to th« personal preferences or interests of any man. but purely from the standpoint of tbe interests of the people as a whole. 1 will accept the nomination for presi dent if it is tendered to me and 1 will adhere to this decision until the con , vent ton has expressed its preference. | One of the chief principle* for whi:..* I ha\ e stood and for which I now ! stand, ami which I have always en deavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people; and therefore X hope that so far as possible the people may ibe given the chance, through direct I primaries, to express their preference , as to who shall oe the nominee of the Republican presidential convention. “Very truly yours. “THJSODQJiE. KOOHKVELT. “The lion. WlLUaut K. Glasscock, governor of the nlaie of West Vir •'The Hon. Chest«*r H. Aldrich, gov ernor of the state of Nebraska, Lin coln, Neb. “The Hon. Robert P, Rase, governor of the stale of “New'Hampshire. Con cord. N.TT • “The lion. Joseph M. Carey, governor of the state of Wyoming. Cheyenne, Wyo. “The Hon. Chase S. Osborn, governor of the J«tnte of Michigan, Lansing, "The Hon. W. R. Stubbs, governor of the stnte of Kansas, Topeka, Kaa. “The Tion. Herbert S. Hadley, gover nor of the state of Missouri, Jeffercon. City. Mo.” NEW YORK. Feb. 26.—500n after Col. Roosevelt followed his hat into the ring his friends here started to corral delegates for him. Heafiquar lets were established in the Metropolitan building. Oliver Clin ton Carpenter, a local lawyer and former aide of George B. Cortelyou when the latter was chairman of the Republican national committee, was placed in charge. The local offives were established after Roosevelt had approved the pian. They will be the real head quarters of the Roosevelt movement, It was said, although branch offices are to be opened in Chicago, Inde pendent of ihcse already there, and possibly in San Francisco or some other Pacific coast city. The open ing ol the offices here today marks the first real split in the Republican party since that made on President Harrison in 1892. This flght, how evet, will be the biggest in the his tory of the party because never be fore lias the incumbent been opposed by his predecessor in office. Roosevelt will be ' back here on Wednesday. It was admitted by his friends that they did not believe tbe colonel would remain idle a moment hut that he would soon take the field in person. He has planned a trip to Phoenix, Ariz., where his son Archie la in sc hool and his friends here say that Coutlaurri on Png* Nlae. DIG THROUGH SNOW; DOCTOR SAVES MAN EATON RAPIDS. Mich.. Feb. 26. Alter neighbors within a radius of two miles dug through huge snow drills*, an Olivet physician was en abled to roach the bedside of Allen Fisher. who was stricken with ap pendicitis while visiting northeast of Amger station. The physician _ be came* stlick in ffie* s now. 'lie reached™ Fisher’s side in time to save his life-