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CABINET WRANGLE
OYER RATE BILL
President Meanwhile Waits for
Light on Review Feature
of Measure.
ROOSEVELT ANNOYED
AT PRESS STATEMENTS
He Has Not Yet Yielded, Nor Has
He Forced the Senate to
Its Knees.
By W. W. Jermane.
"Washington Feb 13President'
RoS^elt^ somewhat aSiyeWthS J1s8
Jnabihtv of the American press, speak
tng bioadlv, to represent correctly his
friendly to the administration, an
nounces that the president has not sur
rendered but that he has issued an
ultimatum to the senate and has that
august body on its knees. Neither of
these statements is true nor will it ever
be true during the rate controversy.
Chief Issue at Present.
The chief subject of rate interest at
present is whether or not it will not be
wise to give the courts a large author
itv over the acts of the commission.
On this question the president at pres
ent has no opinion. He is listening to
the advice of his cabinet and to the
arguments, pro and con, as offered bv
members of the senate. Presently he
will make up his mind what to do, and
if it should be deemed wise to permit
the courts to exercise some power of re
view as to the reasonableness of the
commission'8 orders, it will* first be
clearly understood that the main pur
pose of the legislation for which the
president has been contending so ear
nestly has not been defeated by that
permission.
The president will not oppose the
amendment of the Hepburn bill by the
senate and is not certain that the bill
ought not to be amended.
fcepencs on Acvisers.
If the president's cabinet advisers
fuggest that the bill should provide
for large review power by the courts,,
the president will accept what they
Bav. In all his messages and public
addresses he called for proper judicial
review, and the point now is to de
termine just how far that review ought
to go. "Various review amendments to
the Hepburn bill have been submitted I
to him, but none of them has yet been
approved.
The president is simply waiting to
Bee what should be done. Out of the
mass of advice he is receiving he feels
that ultimately there will come some
thing satisfactory.
Meanwhile, the cabinet is divided as
to the effect of the proposed amend
ments, and so are his friends in the
senate. There must be substantial har
mony before any further steps are
taken.
Taft's View of Bill.
Secretary Taft holds that the Hep
burn bill is not a great advance upon
the present interstate commerce law so
far as rate regulation goes. He believes
the courts, under it, would be at liberty
to issue stay orders against any rate the
commission might name, and that such
oiders would supersede the order of the
commission and leave the old rate
effect pending decision on the merits
f the case. Thus the commission would
be as helpless as at present. The presi
dent is disposed to agree with Taft, but
his attitude is not fixed. The question
is one of abstruse legal technicality,
and as he is not a trained lawyer he
wants to be sure of his way before going
ahead. .He is relying upon Taft, Root,
Moody and Knox.
He wants to get something in the
Hepburn bill which will cause the new
rate to go immediately into effect and
remain in Effect while the litigation is
under way. This is the only way bv
which appeals by railways will not in
jure the shippers. Something must be
"done to discourage litigation by the
railways, and if the Hepburn bill is not
properly drawn in this respect he wants
it amended.
Plans for Remedies.
Several plans have been proposed.
One is to compel-the railways to pay
cost of all appeals. Another is to col
lect the full rate charged and set
aside in the custody of the courts the
difference between the old rate and the
new, this difference to be disposed of
after final decision of the courts.
Another plan is to penalize the rail
ways by a system of costs which will
increase as the length of the appeal
continues.
The lawyers in the cabinet and in
the senate who favor the president's
plan are wrangling over these technical
legal points and meanwhile the presi
dent is reserving his opinion and say
ing that he will be ready to act as soon
as his legal friends get together.
Conservative opinion now inclines to
the belief that the Hepburn bill will be
amended so as to give the judicial re
view that is demanded by the railways,
provided that review will sufficiently
safeguard the vital elements in the bill.
PRESIDENT APPEALS
FOR AID FOR JAPAN
LONGWORTH BILL FAVORED.
Washington. Feb. 13 Representative
Long-worth's bill appropriating $5,000,000
for the purchase of Am&rican legations
and embassies in foreign capitals will he
favorably reported on by the house com
mittee on foreign relations, which voted
unanimously today in favor of recom
mending the bill.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, Feb. 13.The wives of
senators are among the most disap
pointed ones over not receiving invita
tions to the Longworth-Roosevelt wed
ding. No senators are known to have
been invited except Lodge, who is the
president's peisonal friend, and Kean,
he is related to the Roosevelts by mar
riage. There is a rumor that one or
two others are on the list, but this
rumor is not yet verified.
Only 200 guests were present at the
wedding of Nellie Grantb Algernon
Bartons in 1874, inothis
same7easty which onn
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Mine Operators Agree to Stand
Firm Against United Mine
Workers.
New York, Feb. 13.The coal mine
operators have come to a full under
standing and have agreed as to the gen
eral policy they will pursue at the con
ference with the committee of the mine
workers union to be held here Thursday
next. The presidents of the coal car
rying roads are unwilling to discuss for
publication the questions at issue be
tween themselves and the United Mine
Workers prior to their meeting with
Mr. Mitchell and his. associates, but
their position, elicited by careful can
vass, is. as one president put it, such
that "the miners will, have to strike or,
back down."
MOROCCAN PARLEY
NEARS DEADLOCK
European Capitals See Small Hope
of AgreementDelegates
Still at Work.
Washington, Feb. 13.President
Roosevelt today took official cognizance
of the famine which has grown to such
serious proportions in northern Japan.
In an appeal to the American people that the propagation by newspapers of
issued this afternoon the president re-1 a i
rumors
quests that contributions for the sut- individual official th army, shall
ferers from the famine be forwarded
to the American National Red Cross.
HEARTS SORE OVER
MISS ALICE'S BRIDAL
Wives of Senators Among the Most Disap-
pointed at Not Receiving Invitations to
the White House Wedding.
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tand as to rate legislation, and he says problem that White House attendants
the average citizen who depends upon a now trvmg to solve Had the. aen-
khe press for information may be misled ate set been invited en bloc the house
nnless he exercises a good deal of care set could not have been omitted, ~nd
Jn his reading. One day an opposition straightway there would have been a
paper comes out with an article an- crush which would have exceeded that
Houncing that the president has sur- at the formal White House receptions
rendered to the railroads and will con- and made the wedding a perfect mob.
Bent to an amendment to the rate bill The list of guests is already much
giving the right of review by the courts lai ger than the president and Mrs.
of the reasonableness of a rate fixed Boosevelt intended it should be.
by the commission. Perhaps on the It is said with authority that the east
Bame day another newspaper, more
STRIKE....,....,....w^.^~^~ OR YIELD,
SAYS COAL TRUST
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Algeciras, Feb. 13.The reports cir
culating in European capitals that a
crisis has been reached at Algecrias are men picke" them up.
not warranted by the actual conditions' before the ambulance arrived.
here. The negotiations on the police
and financial questions are proceeding
uninterruptedly, but have reached a
bedrock point on which neither the
French nor the German delegates show
any disposition to yield. This firmness
on both sides has caused some appre
hension of an eventual deadlock, but
the delegates so long as the negotia
tions continue will not admit that a
crisis has been reached.
NOTED ASSASSINS
SENT TO SIBERIA
Five Famous Prisoners Are Taken
from &t. Petersburg Strong
hold and Exiled.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 13.Five fa
mous political prisoners, the last in
mates of the ,Schlusselberg fortress
were taken from their cells last night
and sent to Siberia to serve the re
mainder of their sentences. They were
Karpovich, who killed Minister of Ed
ucation Bogaleff in 1901 for forcibly
enrolling student demonstrators in the
army: Gershunin and Melnikoff, ac
complices in the assassination of Inte
rior Minister Sipiaguine^ and organ
izers of the fighting organization of the
special revolutionists Sasoneff, the
murderer of Interior Minister von
Plehve, and his accomplice, Sekorsky.
The sentences have been materially
ameliorated by the emperor's amnesty
decree of November last.
The frowning stronghold, the case
ments of which, since the reign of
Catharine II, when the authors Radi
sheff and Novikoff were imprisoned for
their liberal ideas, have always har
bored political prisoners and within
which most of the executions of the
terrorists of late years have occurred,
is now empty and the keepers have
been disbanded. The walls, however,
will be left standing as a show place.
"Big Stick'' Over Press.
The council of ministers has decided
againstr thee
government,
be punishabl-e by two to eight months'
imprisonment and fines not exceeding
$150.
In the event of such rumors causing
an outbreak of illegal acts or disturb
ances among the troops, the penalty
will be increased to sixteen months'
imprisonment.
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New York, Feb 13.All grades of re:
fined sugar were reduced 20 cents a nun
dred pounds today.
room arrangements are being closely
patterned after those made for the Sar
toris-Grant wedding, and that a person
reading a description of the room for
that occasion will have a clear idea as
to how it will look next Saturday. Tho
raised platform on which the bridal
party will stand will be of %he same
size as that used in 1874 and will stand
ia the same place. The bridal party
will enter by the same doors, the white
ribbons will be stretched across the
room in the same way, and the floral
decorations will be similar.
Senator Kean of New Jersey is con
nected with the Roosevelt family by
marriage, thru his sister having mar
ried Emlm Roosevelt.
The senator is to give a dance the
night before the wedding for all the
Roosevelts, and on Sunday, the day af
ter the wedding, Mrs. Cowles, the pres
ident 's sister, will give a tea, which will
be the signal for another family re
union.
The family is said to be very clan
nish They stand high in New York,
but insist on remembering their old
Knickerbocker traditions, and are con-
Continued on 2d Page, 4th Cclumn.
MltMMlMMHMMMMMMHHHM|limWH TRAIN HITS DYING
MAN AND ilS WIFE
Woman Holding Her Expiring
Husband, Fatally Hurt by
Engine, Is Run Down.
Journal Special Service.
Chicago, Feb. 13.Ministering to the
wants of her dying husband, who had
been fearfully mangled by a Lake Shore
train at the Fortieth street crossing,
Mrs. Elizabeth Dunworth, when seated
on a rail holding the head of the in
jured man her lap, was herself run
down.
The husband's dead body is in an un
dertaking room^ the wife is near to
death in a hospital, and the seven chil
dren, the eldest of whom is 14 years old,
are huddled closely together in the sor
row-stridken home.
Dunworth and his wife, leaving the
children at home, started to visit
friends on Indiana avenue late yester
day afternoon. Heavy stone walla on
either side of Fortieth street concealed
a coming train, and as the husband
stepped on the track it struck him, in
spite of the fact that his wife made a
frantic effort to drag him back.
Dunworth's body, nurled high in the
air, landed on an adjoining track, and
the wife without heed of danger ran to
where it lay. Tenderly lifting his
head, she sat on the rail and tried to
bring the injured man to consciousness.
Persons who witnessed the first acci
dent shouted to her, but she was un
mindful of danger, and a switch engine,
backing thru the yards on the track on
which she was seated, struck her. Mrs.
Dunworth and her injured husband
were hurled to another track by the
heavy engine and both were uncon
scious when the engine crew and yard
Dunworth died
A possible solution of
PRESIDENMOULD
MAKEPURDYJUDGE
But Senator Nelson Has Indorsed
W. Hale to Succeed
Judge Lochren.
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M. D. PITfiDY,
Possible Successor of Judge Win, Looh
ren on the Federal District Bench.
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Either Milton D. Purdy or W. E.
Hale of Minneapolis will succeed Judge
William Lochren as United States dis
trict judge.
President Roosevelt favors Purdy,
who is now serving at Washington as
assistant attorney general, and has
come under the president's eye. Sena
tor Nelson, who as far as the senators
are concerned has the naming of the
man, has indorsed Mr. Hale, and will
not agree to a recommendation of
Purdy.
The president has clashed with sena
tors from other states several times in
the appointment of judges, and has
gone over their heads to name a person
al choice. He may do so in Minnesota.
Judge Lochren will retire on full pay
May 13, when he will reach the age.
limit of 70 years. He could continue
on the bench if he desired, but as his
health is very poor it is understood that
he intends to retire. For several
months he has not "been able to do full
work, and for part of that time he has
been confined to the house. Judge Loch
ren is a democrat, and it is believed,
would like to hold on in the hope of a
democratic president succeeding Roose
velt, which wouldTenable him to give
way to a democrat.
The appointment xmust be settled,
therefore, within *$ next three months.
A great deal of ctaiet work has been
done in the past lew months. There
have been a dozen prominent attorneys
urged for the appointment, most of
them, naturally, from Minneapolis. The
list inclu'ded Judge 0. B. Elliott, Judge
D. F. Simpson, John H. Steele, M. H.
Boutelle. G. A. Willard, Judges Jaggard
and Brill of St. Paul and C. C. Houpt of
Fergus Falls, now United States district
attornev. Judge Simpson especially had
heavy indorsements, but Senator Nelson
from the first has favored W. E. Hale.
If the president defers to his wishes,
Hale will be appointed. If he insists
on his personal choice, Purdy will be
the man.
Either, it is believed, would be quite
acceptable to the bar of the state. Mr.
Hale is better known and the older
man. The president has a liking for
young men, and has appointed several
under 50 to the bench. Judges Van De
vanter and Hook of the circuit court
are both young men.
A FENCE ROUND THE MOON. *h
Journal Special Service.
New York, Feb. 13.At last a clue
has been unearthed as to the where
abouts of John D. Rockefeller, who dis
appeared Jan. 30, and has kept hidden
ever since. Unless all indications are
faulty and all appearances deceptive,
the richest man in the world spent last
night in the harbor of Samana bay, on
the northeast coast of Santo Domingo,
The yacht Diana, chartered by the
son of H. H. Rogers, which had been
pursuing a mysterious course among the
West Indies, was reported last night at
Samana, which a century or two ago
was a favorite rendezvous of the buc
caneers.
There, far beyond the range of the
longest distance subuena server, the tall
form of the Standard Oil chief is sup
posed to be peacefully resting.
Like the other long, low, black, rak
ish craft that used to infest those
waters, the personnel of the, Diana's
company is a deep secret. It is known
that Standard Oil John is not without
a band, which is said to consist of
pretty nearly all the oil magnates who
have escaped the Missouri process
servers.
The Diana is scheduled to sail next
for Mexico, her destination probably be
ing Vera Cruz.
DIYING TO RESCUE,
FINDS LOST LOYE
Suitor and Sweetheart of Years
Ago in Germany Reunited as
by Trick of Fate.
Journal Special Service.
New York, Feb. IS.John A. Dahler,
who is 27 years old, was, in 1899, a
workman in the factory of August von
Reid, a rich percussion cap manufac
turer in Germany.
Herr von Reid's beautiful daughter
fefl in love with the young man, who
had been allowed to make his home in
her father's mansion.
When Herr von Reid discovered his
daughter's heart secret, he discharged
Dahler and sent the girl to a convent.
Dahler came to the United States and
went into t&e oyster business and later
drifted to Elizabeth City, N. C, where,
in time, he became a planter and
amassed a fortune.
The girl meantime had fled from the
convent and sought her sweetheart in
America, but could obtain no clue to his
whereabouts.
Yesterday Dahler, who had come to
Jersey City to visit friends, went skat
ing. A graceful girl who was skating
in advance of him suddenly disappeared.
She had fallen into an airhole in the
ice Calling upon' some other skaters
to 'hold his feet, Dahler went head
foremost into the airhole and presently
brought the girl to the surface. She
was his sweetheart.
Today the reunited couple left for
Elizabeth City to be wedded.
TAFT TO LECTURE AT YALE.
"Washington, Feb. 18.Secretary Taft
has agreed to deliver a a series of four
lectures, In the Dodge series, before Yale
university next April. His subject will
be "The Responsibilities of Citizenship."
AT LAST! A CLUE TO
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
Oil King and His Oily Crew on a Rakish
Craft Where Buccaneers of Old
Found Haven.
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Journal Special Service.
Kansas City, Feb. 13.'' Suppose that
John D. Rockefeller, on his death, left
all his Standard Oil possessions as a
gift to the nation to be held in trust
perpetually for all the people what'
then would the people think of Rocke
feller?"
This question was put to Herbert S.
Hadley, the state attorney general, who
was in Kansas City yesterday.
"If Rockefeller did that," replied
Mr. Hadley, "he could not atone for
the almost incalculable moral wrong he
has done the country. It would not
atone for the distinctly dishonorable
and commerciallv immoral trend tho
success of Standard Oil methods has
given the trading and financial organ
izations of America. In my own recent
investigations I have had the most posi
tive and actual proof of the demoral
izing influence of Standard OU in Mis
souri. Railroad preferences still exist.
"Railroad officials have been bribed
here. The spy system is common. Every
trick and turn that can be adapted to
evade the law is used without scruple.
I little know how Rockefeller could
atone. Not double his wealth will
do it."
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NEW VICTIM OF
CHICAGO'S PERIL
Parallel to the Hollister Case, Ex
cept that This Woman
Escaped with Life.
Journal Special Service.
.Chicago, Feb. 13.Miss Augusta
Meyers, 22 years old, was the victim
last night of a crime similar to
the one that preceded the mur
der of Mrs. Bessie Hollister, and
she told the police a story of
brutality which almost equals that for
which Richard Ivens is to be arraigned
for trial next Monday. Miss Meyers
was seized by a young man, dragged
into a lot in a lonely spot, and attacked.
She struggled with her assailant, be
fore he dragged her from the street, but
he choked, her ontir she was unable to
cry for help, then threatened her with, a
revolver ir she shouiud renew het at
tempts to escape. The man left her
half unconscious and when she had re
covered sufficiently she went to a po
lice station in her torn and muddied
clothing and hysterically told-an inco
herent story of the attack. Not until
she was taken home could she tell a
concerted tale, and then only after a
physician's service had been secured.
Long List of Victims.
There is no clue to the perpetrator of
the outrage, which adds another to the
long list of crimes against women in
the past year, of which the following
list includes only the murders:
MERCEDES BERRIOZABAL, 15-year-old
daughter of the Mexican consul, died
Feb 5, after having been the victim of
an unknown man or gang. No clue to
the real murderers
MRS. BESSIE HOLLISTER. slain Friday
night, Jan. 12. by Richard G. Ivens in
alley in rear of 358 Belden avenue mur
derer confessed
MRS ARTHUR W. GENTRY, killed in
he.r flat, 582 La Salle avenue, Jan 6, by
Frank Constantine, Jr who escaped.
MRS. CARL O ALMBERG, shot to death
Jan. 5 by J. E Moeller at Buckingham
place and North Clark street slayer
then committed suicide.
MISS MAUDE REESE, slain Nov. 21 by
a burglar whom she surprised in her
flat murderer escaped
MRS. CLARA. McCLUSKET, shot to
death Oct. 20 in saloon at 666 West
Madison street, bj^ May Buckley, a
jealous, rival, murderess In jail.
MRS. FLORENCE POORES, colored,
murdered by Robert Newcomb at 1253
Sixty-first street, Oct. 10 Newcomb
now under death sentence
MRS. A. MIZE, killed by a hold-up
man at Washington avenue and Fifty
eighth street, Aug. 23 many suspects
arrested, but murderer never found.
MRS. JAMES E. DALT, shot to death
^.ug. 18, at 883 West Van Buren street,
where her husband was a bartender
slayer arrested
AMALIA WALDER, 485 Milwaukee ave
nue was murdered Aug. 2 by William
Demilow because she refused to marry
him suicide followed the murder.
MRS. KATHERINE GURKA, 94 Front
street, stabbed to death by a thief the
night of April 20, murderer escaped
with his victim's purse containing $12.
MRS. ALFRED OLDFIELD, slain by a
jealous husband March 26, at their
home, 653 Central Park avenue mur
derer killed himself
MRS. DELLA TRACY, slain by a young
negro who held har up in front of 5529
Monroe avenue Feb. 28 murderer sen
tenced for life in penitentiary.
MISS
.MARY*Crr^^
MULVEIL,
shot.
and killed
Michigan avanue by Detective D. I
Herman who killed himself a few hours
later.
MART GOLDBERG, murdered Feb. 26 by
James McDonald in a room at the
Grand Eastern hotel slayer committed
suicide.
MRS. CHARLES SOTALA. shot by her
husband at the home of her mother, 643
Throop street, Jan 21, 1905 slayer ar
rested.
MRS. ELLEN JOHNSON, found dead in
stairway at 400 West Forty-third street
Jan. 16, 1905 husband arrested and re
leased and mystery unsolved.
MRS. JOHN MUELLER and her two
baby girls murdered by her husband at
88 Lewis street Jan. 11, 1905 slayer at
tempted suicide, but recovered, and is
now under sentence of death.
HUMMEL MUST GO
TO A PRISON CELL
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 13.The court
of appeals today upheld the indict
ments against Abraham H. Hummel,
the well-known New York lawyer,
charging subornation of perjury in the
Dodge-Morse divorce case.
OIL TRUST ON THE^
RON, SAYS HADLEY
Missouri's Attorney General Com
pletes His Case Against
Standard.
SAYSROCKEFELLER
CAN NEVER ATONE
Missourian Declares Moral Wrong
Done the Nation Is
Irreparable.
Des Moines, iowt,1
taking of the testimony of Frank
Northrup and F. E. Lyman of Des
Moines, both former Standard Oil com-
EertySemployeestoday
"None of Tour Business!"
"Have you any more letters belong
ing to the company which you appro
priated f" asked Hagerman, for the
Standard Oil company.
None of your business!' was th
hot retort.
Northrup was manager of the Repub
lic Oil company in St. Louis in June,
1901, when the Bepublic ^company waa
organized.
F. E. Lyman of Des Moines testified
also that as traveling agent of the
Standard Oil company in 1891 he had
been given instructions to turn orders
from the Waters-Pierce customers to
agents of that company.
Northrup testified that he received
his personal instructions as to non-com
petition with the Standard Oil from
Walter Teagle. He said that he re
ceived letters from the Republic Oil
eompany giving him a copy to show to
the trade only, which was a denial that
it had been absorbed by the Standard
Oil.
BRITISH HOUSE
ELECTS SPEAKER
James William Lowther Again
Fills ChairUnionists Few
but Noisy.
London, Feb. IS.James William
Lowther was unanimously re-elected
speaker of the house of commons to
day. In accordance with precedent
there was no opposition. The house
afterwards adjourned until tomorrow/
The swearing in of members will occupy
the rest of the week.
There was a wild rush for 6eats at
midnight last night. Nearly 300 of
the members are entirely new to parlia
mentary life, as a result of the election
upheaval, and the house of commons
police had difficulty'in differentiating
between members and outsiders who
tried to force their way to the floor.
Both the floor and the galleries were
filled, and many members were com
pelled to stand behind the bar owing to
the insufficient seating capacity. The
party leaders received a great ovation
by their respective adherents, the union
ists trying to veil the noticeable paucity
of their numbers by an extra display
of enthusiasm. Soon the commoners
were summoned to the house of lords,
where the parliament was opened by a
royal commission.
The election of the speaker of the
house of commons was attended by a
somewhat quaint ceremonial. The clerk
of the house, who is not permitted to
speak, solemnly rose and pointed his
*v* 07 index finger at Sir Wilfred Lawson. The
Sri .i Twenty-ninth street and latle
ha
hQViae'ion{rer
dently
Bprcia1
"J
an Attorney General Her
Hadley announced that he __
had made out his case against the
Standard Oil company in Missouri and
expects to get a decision ousting the
company from doing business in that
state. The taking of depositions began
this morning ip the office of Read &
Read, local attorneys. The state of
Missouri was- represented by Attorney
General Hadley and his assistant. Rush
C. Lake. Frank Hagerman of Kansas
City and A. D. Eddy of Chicago ap
peared as attorneys for the Standard
Oil company.
Certain of Victory.
Before the conclusion of the evidence
General Hadley announced that he was
certain of victory the courts. He
said he had positive evidence that the
Standard Oil, the Waters-Pierce, and
the Republic Oil company had formed
a combination and divided the territory
in Missouri between them.
F. R. Northrup, formerly of St. Louis,
manager of the Scofield, Shurmer & Tea
gle Oil companv of Cleveland, testified
that he had instructions from the Re
public Oil company after it had ab
soibed the Seofield company, and the
Cleveland Refining company, not to en
ter the territory of either the Waters
Pierce company or the Standard Ou
company in Missouri, but not to relax
the fight on the independent companies.
The letters also instructed him to follow
the prices of the Waters-Pierce com
pany. Mr. Northrup testified that Jne
was alwavs given one or two days' ad
vance notice of the prices of the Waters
Pierce company.
4.
Feb. 13.With th
mem
posted,
ber ofs the- thabne anya one else wa evi
regarding
whatthwaclerk-exs pecte of him for, addressing
Sir Wilfred moved in set phraseology
the re-election of James William Low
ther. Mr. Lowther was chosen by unan
imous vote and returned thanks in a
graceful speech.
The formal opening of parliament will
take.place Feb. 19 when the king's
speech will be delivered.
BLIZZiRD IS RAGING
IN TffO IOWA CITIES
to The Journal.
Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 13.Rain and jlf
sleet last night turned to snow here,
and today a blizzard is raging, with
seven inches of snow on the ground
and more coming. The snow*is drift
ing badly, and is certain to seriously
interfere with railroad traffic.
f^p
Delays Traffic at Fort Dodge. -I'rf
Special to The Journal.
Fort Dodge, Iowa, Feb. 13.The
worst blizzard of the season is raging
here. The high wind is drifting the
lsoft snow and delaying all traffic^""