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CONGRESS SCENTS
NEW TRUST TRAP
Humphrey Beef Trust Decision
Makes Members Wary of
Trust Inquiries.
DID THE CORPORATIONS
MAKE MARTIN A TOOL?
Tillman Move
Probe Might
Another Fiasco.
for Coal Trust
Work Up
By v.'. W- Jermane.
Washington. March 29.Has con
gress, in the Martin beef investigation
resolution of two years ago. been made
the tool of designing corporate inter
ests, and. in the present session, has it
again been made to appear in that atti
tude thru the Tillman joint resolution?
These questions come to the fore with
a good deal of emphasis in the Hght of
Judge Humphrey's recent decision in
the beef trust cases, in Chicago, grant
ing the packers immunity as individ
uals, because they voluntarily appeared
before Commissioner Garfield, and,
without being placed under oath, gave
out certain information regarding their
businessinformation which mav or
may not have been true, and a consid
erable portion of which, it is safe to
sav, was not true, more particularly
that portion which made it appear that
they were conducting their business at
a loss.
The Beef Trust Probe.
At the instance of Representative E.
B. Martin of South Dakota, the house
of representatives. March 7, 1904,
passed a resolution directing the bureau
of corporations of the department of
commerce and labor to investigate and
report regarding the "prices of cattle
and dressed beef, the margins between
such prices, and the organization, con
duct and profits of the corporations
engaged in the beef-packing industry."
That was chapter number one. Chap
ter number two was written during the
summer of 1905, when Mr. Garfield
went to Chicago, acting- in compliance
with the Martin resolution, and certain
packers appeared before him, volun
tarily and without a stenographer be
ing present, and romanced to him at
great length regarding their business.
Chapter number three came recently,
when Judge Humphrey of the federal
district bench in Chicago held that the
Chicago packers were .immune from
prosecution by the government on the
strength of these light a::J airy ro
mances.
Way for Another Fiasco?
Is the way now being laid for just
such another fiasco, provided, of course,
that another federal judge can be found
who will repeat the Humphrey de
cision?
Early this month congress passed a
joint resolution, introduced in the sen
ate by Mr. Tillman, directing the gov
ernment, thru the interstate commerce
commission, to proceed with a thoro in
vestigation of the alleged merger be
tweenl Pennsylvania,,the
/W Baltimore
nia and West Virginia, their relation
to secret rebates, arid the ownership by
the railroads of the coal mines whose
output they carried to market, etc.
On its face, this Tillman resolution is
as innocent as the resolution intro
duced in the house two years earlier by
Representative Martin, but in the light
|^j*f SftS
ducting the
ChicagJo
any of the
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PERJURY BY SON
KILLS OLD MOTHER'
Aged Woman Dies of Broken
Heart After Serving Jail
Term for Offspring.
Journal Special Service
Muskegon, Mich., March 29.For six
weeks Mrs. Clarissa Rice, a widow of
80 years, was confined in the house ot
correction in Detroit because her son,
thief, swore falsely that she had re
ceived from him $200 of the $1,500
Ohio, the Chesapeake & Ohio and, the legislature which is to be elected
certain other roads, and also of the, this year will have the selection of a
status of the coal roads of Pennsylya- successor to Elkins in the United
which he stole two years ago from the
National bank of Grand Rapids, where
he was a janitor. Yesterday the wom
an's name was cleared. Alone and
friendless, she disappeared after being
released, and it is believed she died
of a broken heart.
All the money Charles Rice, the son,
stole was accounted for with the excep
tion of $200. In the hope that it would
make his sentence less severe, he swore
his mother received the stolen funds.
The aged woman, placed on the stand,
refused to deny her son's charge. She
was sentenced to serve eighteen months
in the house of correction, but was par
doned after spending six weeks there.
The true story was revealed by a let
ter received here from Ralph Lisle, who
isin the Cook county jail, Chicago,
awaiting trial on a charge of murder.
Lisle confessed it was he who received
the $200.
ELKINS YIELDS
TO PROTECT TOGA
Senator Settles Big Coal Mine and
Railroad Suit Out of
Courts
oi"the Humphrey decision, which is .dependent coal operators of the state,
based on the Martin resolution, the
Tillman resolution, too, may be loaded
to the muzzle.
Clear Martin and Tillman.
Of course, nobody will accuse either
Mr. Martin or Senator Tillman of be
ing willingly or knowingly the tools of
corporations. On the contrary, every
body who kntfws either of them will
say at once that neither could possibly
be guilty of an act of that kind. The
guilty persons in each case, provided
there has been any guilt, are the per
sons at whose instigation, whether
knowingly or otherwise. Messrs. Martin
and Tillman have acted.
The Martin resolution, as it finally
worked out, after two long years, paved
the way for the Hximphrey decision in
large part and the Tillman resolution,
it is quite possible, may in another two
years or less pave the way for another
decision, which may be quite as destruc
tive of administration plans as the
Martin resolution has been.
Roosevelt Is Wary.
That President Roosevelt was quite
Journal Special Service,
Whelling, W. Va., March 29.Senator
Elkins has relieved himself of the polit
ical embarrassment caused him by the
suit of the Fulmer Coal & Coke compa
ny against his railroad and his coal
company by a compromise out of court,
in which he yields practically every
point at issue. As a result, the fulmer
mine will be reopened April 10, after
being forced to close down for over a
year.
A. S. Pates Brady, a Fairmont con
structing engineer, testified during the
trial that Senator Elkins had told him
the Fulmer mine must be squeezed
well posted as to the possibilities of deaths by violence brought to a sudden
the case is apparent from the special end the short-lived truce in the Monte
message to congress in which he an
nounced that he had signed the Till
man resolution with hesitation./
out.n ThW senator's purposoe appears
to have been changed, however, by the
agitation against the railroad and coal
Here is a quotation from that special town of Guayaubin to confer with the
message, and it is of additional inter-1
T.'"' nn
trusts in this state and the fact that
States senate.
The suit of the Bed Bock Fuel com
pany against the Baltimore & Ohio
road, wnich was along. similar lines,
also was compromised a few weeks ago,
and the failure of the litigants in this
case to follow it up tc a final judicial
decision is a disappointment to the in-
who were anxious to have a precedent
set which would prevent discrimina
tions in the future.
The case was based on the railroad's
refusal to build spur tracks and to fur
nish cars to independent mines.
EIGHT ARE KILLED
AT PEACE PARLEY
Truce in Monte Cristo District,
Santo Domingo, Ends in
Bloody Fight.
Journal Special Service.
Santo Domingo, March 29.Eight
Cristo district. Terms of peace had
been agreed upon, and the leaders in the
recent uprising had assembled in the
men
est since the Humphrey pronouncement: ing, when thru an act of treachery,
I call vour attention to the fact shooting began. General Naney Cepin,
that if an investigation of the nature' General Timoteo Cordero, known as
proposed in this joint resolution is thor-, Zambito, Colonel Liborio and other offi-
olv and effectively conducted, it will cers on the rebel side and a government
result in giving immunity from criminal soldier were killed. According to the
prosecution to all persons who are government report the rebels had
called, sworn and constrained by com
pulsory process of law to testify as wit
nesses, tho of course such immunity
from prosecution is not given to those
from whom statements or information
merely, in contradistinction to sworn
testimony, is obtained."
President Was Wrong.
In this conclusion, of course, the
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president was wrong for the case be- ^j^*'^l
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not issue a single subpena while con-
e8
preserved covering what was said.
Continuing his special message, the
president said:
There are many cases where an in-
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HARD COAL STRIKE
COUNCIL IS CALLED
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SOFT COAL MEN
IN DEADLOCK YET
Mitchell Calls Meeting of Anthra
cite MenScale Dispute
Resumed.
Indianapolis, March 29.President
Mitchell of the United Mine Workers
of America today called a meeting of
the anthracite committee for 7:30 this
evening. This committee consists of
executive boards of the three anthra
cit districts and President Mitchell
Th committee will discuss the anthra
cite situation.
After being in convention a short
time and indorsing the action of the
scale committees, the United Mine
Workers adjourned to meet in joint
conference with the operators at 2
p.m. today.
The failure of the miners to take
any action toward declaring whether
the Ryan resolution prohibiting the
signing by separate districts would be
enforced, or whether the miners of
western Pennsylvania or other states
where the advance in wages is offered
would be allowed to work while the
miners of operators refusing to pay
the advance lie idle, left the situation
WOODEN SHOE MAKERS
BEG TARIFF'S AID
erab
th
against whom they had been tight-
planned to kill Governor Camarlio.
MYSTERY IN A RICH
MAN'S DEATH IN STREET
Biffafof^ Y.FwaC's
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fraure
hearing or subjeclt surounn
d. Ther much mystery
th
^lie
questioning, nor was there any record,
cage
vr hcdeti
moti
mThe police be-
was assaulted! but evidently
wa 8 no robbery," a.s-a sumh
of monevye an- a valuable gold watc
were found in Goodale's pockets.
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Fourth-class postmasters appointed, March 28:
Nellie Austin, Anstinyille, Butler county, Iowa,
vice A. B. Austin, deceased.
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ftetherlands
TH E MEfNEJB^IS^OTJBJfi
unchanged prior to the^ assembling of lawyers. Each, however, has demon-
the joint conference this afternoon at
the German house.
Regarding the significance of the
action of the convention, President
Mitchell said: "The indorsement of
the action of the scale committee to
day simply gave the miners the right
to vote in joint conference on my
motion to restore the wage scale oif
1903. Before any final action is taken
there must be another meeting of the
miners' convention."
Journal Special Service.
Washington, March T!9.Representa-'
tive William Alden Smith of Grand
Bapids, Mich., is in receipt of a most
unusual petition which was sent to the
committee on ways and means, of which
he is a member. It recites:
We, the undersigned, manufacturers
of wooden shoes, most respectfully peti
tion and request that the import duty
on wooden shoes be increased so that
your petitioners may be able to sell
their own products at a reasonable price
and at such prices as will enable them
to make a respectable living. They
represent that the said articles can be
imported into this country and sold at
a price for which your petitioners can
not afford to make said articles and
sell them at a reasonable profit. The
cost of labor and material are consid wgii
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Your petitioners firmly believe there
should be a duty placed on wooden
shoes of at least 125 per cent, so the
industry may be protected properly and
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POLICE BUILD UP FULL^TQRY OF MURDER
KILLING DEHBERA TEpROBBERWTHE MOTIVE
CHANGES IN RATE
BILL JIFRIENDS
Amendments Found Necessary as
Result of Debate in
Senate.
COURT REVIEW AS
CHIEF AMENDMENT
Prompt Action with Commission's
Rate Standing in Interim and
No Costly Burdens.
Special to The Journal.
Chicago, March 29.A Washington
special to the Chicago Tribune says:
Haying now drawn the fire of its
principal enemies, the real friends of
the railway rate bill are getting to
gether on the basis of one or more of
the proposed amendments which seem
to have been made necessary as the
result of the discussion in the senate.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania and
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, two of
the greatest constitutional lawyers in
the country, have made elaborate
speeches, which were listened to with
tne greatest interest by senators on
both sides of the rate question. Each
of these two senators has had previ
ous railroad affiliations. They aie
both what is known as corporation
strated fidelity to his client, which,
in the present case, is the government
and the people.
Having had such long corporation
training, both of these men fairly may
be assumed to be close students and
authorities upon the modern corpora
tion lawj and if they say the proposed
law is likely to be declared unconsti
tutional on certain grounds, their opin
ion is worthy of attention.
Boot Is With Them.
Secretary Boot, another of the great
est lawyers in the country, holds to the
same point of view. He has been op
posed to railway rpte Jte.gislation from
the cutset on ,#&a#v5al i*"mciples, but
has a&^jgexl the^rU^nt that, in hia
opinion, the Hepb-fro- bill would be
liable to be
pickec i to
Continued on 2d Page, 3d Column.
KNOX ON THE RAILROAD RATE BILL.
^!MM^Mmm KNO -O N TH E RAILROA RAT E BILL
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-vii. 1 1
$
7 pieces in the
courts, because?- it dees not provide an
adequate judicial review for the de
cisions ^of the interstate commerce
commission.
Secretary .Taft, who has been heart
ily" in accord with the president's views
on the rate question, similarly has ad
vised him that the Hepburn "bill as it
stands would at once challenge the
animosity of the courts, because it
seems to limit their proper authority.
It is this condition of affairs arid
only this which has induced President
Roosevelt to consent to a moderate
court review paragraph. He does not
want to see any more of review by the
courts than the constitution guarantees.
Court Review Plan.
In the meanwhile it has been decided
to draft a court review amendment
which will be satisfactory to friends
of the bill,, the substance of which is
about as follows:
PATTISON 18 IMPROVING.
Columbus, Ohio, March 29.Governor
Pattison continues to improve, but his
doctors will not say that he will recover.
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THURSDAY EVENING, -MARCH 29, 1906 16 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK
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O -w X:f".. '3 HISTORICALAMINNESOT
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
IN MURDER INQUIRY
$
Blood trail found from scene of
murder to Washington avenue.
Discovery that two excited Bulga
rians were arrested and released
by St. Paul police on Tuesday
before murder victims were found.
Merchant at Duluth identifies, mur
derer's knives as those he" sold
within a week to four or five for
eigners.
Detention at Duluth of the party
of Bulgarians which left the
scene of the murder last Monday
afternoon. They profess igno
rance of murder and will help the
police.
Full story of the murder developed
on a plausible theory.
The correct names of the men mur
dered are:
NUKOLA JALESS.
ANDRI JALESS.
ANGELO JALESS.
THOMAS JALESS.
KRISPIN WTJVKOSS.
KRIVIE MITIE.
-$
11,000 ALIENS, IN
1 SHIPS, ARRIYE
Record Rush of Immigration
Swamps the Ellis Island
Facilities.
New York, March 29.More than
11,000 immigrants arrived in the har
bor of-New York today on board seven
steamships from European ports. This
number is the record for a single day
wWch has been made thus far during
the annual spring inrush of immigra
tion. Ellis island, where these immi
grants are examined ,and either re
jected or admitted lo the United
States, can care for less than half
of today's arrivals, its limit being
5,000 daily.' Those who cannot be
landed today will be kept in the har
bor on their steamers until later in
the week. These immigrants include
the following nationalities: English,
Irish, Germans, Swedes, Hungarians,
Italians, Portuguese and Bussians.
Overtax Accommodations.
London,. March 29.The SalVation
Army has been unable to secure suf
ficient accommodations for the emi
grants desiring to go to Canada. Al
ready 2,600 have been sent to the
Dominion, and passages for 2,000 more
are booked.
MURDERERS TRAIL VICTIMS
PREPARED TO KILL AND ROB
ST. PAUL POLICE HAD THEM
Victims9
FAIR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY.
Two Men Believed to Have Been the
Murderers Were Held at St. Paul
but Released Before Tragedy
Was Discovered.
Every one of the six murdered Mace
donians found in the old shack at 245
Tenth avenue S yesterday was stricken
down in the night by a band of de
termined murderers who had followed
their victims from northern Minne
sota.
This is the conclusion after a day's
work^by the Minneapolis and Duluth,
police departments, based on revela
tions exclusively published by The
Journal yesterday. There was no
chance fight", according to this theory.
The wholesale slaughter was a delib
erate and long planned murder, com
mitted with weapons purchased in
Duluth for the purpose.
A week ago the six murdered men
came to Minneapolis from Albora,
Minn. They had received their entire
winter's wages and were to come here
to be sent out on other work. They
went to the house engaged some time
ago by their leader and were staying
there when the murderers found them.
The murderers were members of the
same crew at Alborn. They knew of
the money drawn by the six men pnd
followed them with the-deliberate in
tention of murdering them for their
money. They purchased their knives in
Duluth, descended on their victims in
the night and are now at large, possibly
with friends in Chicago.
But one filled money belt was found
in the house where the killing was done.
This contained $506 and had been con
cealed in the mattress. Two empty
money belts were found and the cloth
ing on several of the bodies had been
torn open as if the murderers had taken
their belts. All this points to robbery.
So positive are the police that the
murder was not the result of a sudden
brawl, that the chief work from now on
will be the following up of this clue.
Knives Are Traced.
The murder was committed with six
brand new knives, all exactly alike, of
the same make, and were in the hands
of from four to six blood-thirsty fellow
countrymen.
The police know where the knives
were purchased. Police Superintendent
Doyle, at first hampered by not know
ing where the knives came from, re
ceived a telegram from the Duluth po
lice today saying they were purchased
there.
A hardware merchant there has told
the police that within a week four or
five men, all Macedonians or Greeks,
came into his store and purchased six
new knives. They were all L. C. & F.
hunting knives of the latest pattern,
and are undoubtedly the ones, found
beside the murdered bodies yesterday.
The police have found five of theseand
the other may be found before night.
With seven of the original crew de
tained in Duluth, where they are held
as witnesses, and with much valuable
information in possession of the police,
the mystery, is fast being dispelled.
Trail of Blood Found.
The strongest thread in the net that
is closing about, the Macedonian mur
derers was furnished bv Detectives Pas
solt, Johnson and Lyons this morning,
when they found a trail of blood lead
ing from the house of slaughter, across
the street, thru an alley And out onto
Washington avenue. This shows the
direction taken by at least one of the
murderers who is now hiding with
friends. The trail starts at the front
door of the dismal shanty and leads
into an alley ruaning alongside the old
plant of the Minnesota Linseed Oil
There is only a drop now
Read the Wants
There are many opportunities
on The Journal's Want
-1 Pages.
Comrades, Found at Duluth,
Give Facts Which Let Light In on
the Shocking Slaughter
in Minneapolis.
Eut
company,
and t^bn^i^ out a route that, Washington and buy a dozen
lead^
ey.theof out onto Washington avenue buat
a hundred feet from the viaduct and
the tracks.
The blood may not have come from a
wound on the person, but more likely
from his hands, which were dripping
with the blood of his victim. This man
escaped Sunday night and all of the
detectives are convinced that the two
Demitris were killed then. A man liv
ing in a flat at Washington avenue and
Tenth avenue S, was sitting in his room
late Sunday, when he saw a man run
from the house of the Macedonians
across the street and disappear into the
alley, where the blood trail was found.
Immediately after this man was seen, a
light in the front window of the house
either went out or was carried away.
Post Mortems Are Held.
A post mortem was held on the bodies
at the morgue this forenoon, and altho
nothing out of the ordinary was dis
covered Dr. C. M. Kistler thought that
the bodies of the two Demetris had
been dead perhaps twenty-four hours
longer than the others. This strength
ens the belief that they were the first
and^real object of the murder, altho the
six inen who purchased the knives in
Duluth may have attacked all six of the
men in their sleep.
The bodies are literally slashed ^and
hacked to pieces, and the fact that some
of the murderers escaped would tend to
show that the victims.had been ipoorly
armed.
One theory is that they were at
tacked in their sleep and that they*
mmm
arose and fought bare handed the best
they could and were cut down like so
many weeds. A handax in the room,
evidently used for splitting kindling, is
known to have killed one man. This
man, however, may have been one of
the murderers, as a knife was laying
by his side. It is thought that he at
tacked one of the sleeping men with
his knife, that the other arose and
felled him with the ax that was close "1
at hand.
That a night attack was made when
at least some of the victims were sleep
ing is an established fact, for the two
men found in the basement, thought to
be father and son, were clad only in
art. The other men were fully clad,
it was the habit of these people to
sleep with their clothes on.
Two Had Much Money.
Superintendent Doyle is satisfied that
the ''father and son,
A Search in Chicago.
Two detectives may be sent to Chi
cago tonight to look for the murderers
who may be there. Among the letters
and papers found by the police were
addresses of the gang before they were
Shipped to the northwest from Chicago.
The murderers may have taken a tram
for Chicago immediately after their
crime, and the police hope to find them
there.
There are also several addresses in-"
Duluth and West Superior that may
bring good results. The names of Tom
Tomam, 521 West Superior street, Du-/-
luth, and of Mike Yokadanos, 8519 *i
Raleigh street, are being looked up. i
These are friends of members of the
gang and can undoubtedly tell some-^,
thing of value in the investigation. "\i
The police are still hampered by.
the peculiar habits of the occupants
of the house. Sometimes more than a
dozen were there and at others one or
two men would be living in the house *$.
alone. They always paid cash for i
everything and never give their names.'1
Of all the merchants they dealt with
Bodies Buried Tomorrow. Cl
The bodies of the victims are still at
the county morgue, and unless claimed
by tomorrow morning they will be
buried. The money fojind on their per
sons will more than cover the expenses
and the remainder of the amount will
be held until claimed by relatives. This
will probably never be done, as the first
man appearing to claim the remains
will be locked up and made to tell what
he knows. .J&~
DULUTH PRISONERS TALK
Kuzman Siekuloff's Story Shows Mo
tive tot the Silling, yjr
Duluth, Minn., March 29.The mys
tery surrounding the six gruesome mur
ders which horrified the citizens of
Minneapolis yesterday was partially
dispelled this morning by the arrest
here of eleven Bulgarians, who were
residents of the house at 245 Tenth av
enue ,S, where the crime was committed.
Their revelations show_a motivefor i
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were the first
and especial victims of the murderers.
Their names appear on nearly every pa
per found in the house, while they had
checks on different'banks showing that
they had large amounts of money. Prom
certificates found among the papers it
is thought that the father and son had
more than $1,000, but much of it was in
a Chicago bank, and in the bank'at Sa
lem, N. D., where they formerly worked.
Several more names, undoubtedly
those of the occupants of the house,
were unraveled from the papers by Kev.
D. Johnson, of the Greek church, and
Attorney George B. Leonard this morn
ing. The new names were Iovan Kar- %S
leff, Iovan Sprov and Lazar Vosolov.
Karleff, it is known, was at one time a
teacher in a school in Macedonia. A
little note in the front of one of his
books tells this. He was a good scholar
and was well versed in Greek, Macedo
nian and the Bulgarian dialects.
The men evidently were not all of
the same nationality, for the letters
were written in these different lan
guages and one of them was in Bug
sian. All the men were apparently well
read, for they wrote good hands and
used excellent grammar, according to
the translators. The letters, however,
were written to friends in the old coun
try, simply saying that the writers were
in good health and making money.
They had no bearing on the mystery.
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s
along Wasnington avenue S not one .^3I
knows a single name.
Every day for more than two weeks
a small Macedonian boy would go to
Wollender's bakery at Seventh ave
bread/Monday and Tues-
da boy did not appear.
There is little hope of catching the
men in the city now. Every police of
ficer has been on the lookout and not a
clue has been turned up. The only
place they can f(o and avoid detection
even for a time is to the home of
friends in another city, and here the
police expect to find them.