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PRICEjf a CENT 1 i' In Minneapolis, 18 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK. PRESIDENT TOSEND ANOTHER MESSAGE Second Section of Standard Oil Report Contains Farther Exposures. Cruel Tactics Used to Orusn Com petition Bared by Garfield. Special to The Journal. MORE GRIME S TO E CHARGED TO TRUST Chicago, May 7.James O 'Laughlin, in a Washington special to the Chicago Tribune, sa\s: The Standard Oil trust has fallen, in deed, upon evil times. President Roosevelt will send to con gress on Tuesday the second section of the Garfield report. The first sec tion convicted the trust of demanding and receiving rebates, which is punish able by fine under the Elkins act the second will charge that the Standard OiL company has been guilty of con spiracy in restraint of trade and com merce^ an offense which carries the pen alty of dissolution and fine and im prisonment. It is the purpose of the department of -justice to institute proceedings against the trust and its officials, both on account of its action in receiving xebatds and in conspiring to crush out competition. To Push Anti-Immunity Bills. This is the program of the executive branch of the government. In his mes sage transmitting the rebate feature of the Garfield report the president recommended the enactment of the free alcohol bill in order that the Standard might be confronted by an element of competition. Senator Aldrich, chairman of the finance' committee of the senate, to which was referred the bill passed by the house providing for the removal of the tax on denatured alcohol, now has announced that his committee was in favor of the measure which would be reported, with some amendments, within ten days. The "judiciary committees of the two louses intended to report also the bills specially limiting immunity from pros^-*ion to persons giving evidence ion the witness stand and claiming it there. Representative Campbell of Kansas has introduced a bill imposing a and imprisonment upon any personfiner corporation which, for the purpose of destroying competition and creating a i monopoly, discriminates by selling an 1 article at a lower price in one section I than in another. Mr. Campbell will appear before the interstate and for eign commerce committee of the house this week and demand a hearing in sup port of his bill. Standard's Cry"Expected. I Already the senate has adopted unanimously an amendment to the rail i road rate bill making pipelines com i mon carriers and subject therefore to the interstate commerce laws. This amendment will be accepted unani mously by the house. The cry of the Standard Oil and rail road officials that Mr. Garfield was guilty of misrepresentation and igno rance in the preparation of the rebate section in his report was to have been expected, as naturally as is the squeal of a pig when stuck by a knife. It became known today that this section as transmitted to congress by the president was not in the form orig inally written by the commissioner of corporations. Numerous changes were made and some facts omitted from the document before it was laid before congress. The effect was to tone down the report to what the president be lieved to be a more conservative May Bare Cruel Acts. The second section has been put into type and will be submitted to the presi dent soon. In its present shape it han dies the Standard Oil without gloves, describing with careful exactness the methods pursued by the trust to crush competition. These methods seem to be of the highwayman variety, with the difference that the Standard took not only a competitor's money, but his life. The report deals with the crude oil production and it relation to the world's supply and the prices and meth ods of purchase, explaining thoroly the situation in the oil fields of Kansas, Texas and California. It shows the way in which the crude oil is gotten to the Tefineries, the ad vantage of the location of the refineries in connection with sales, the cost of i refining and marketing and the prices at which the oil is sold in various sec tions. PRAISE FROM INDEPENDENTS Xee Declares President's Oil Message Means Mucjh to Small Dealers. Journal Special Service. Pittsburg, May 7."Fifteen vears of labor for a square deal seem about to reap a reward for the independent oper- ator," said Former Senator James W. Lee, of the Pure Oil company in discuss ing the president's message on the Standard Oil company. "All the in dependent producers have ever asked for was an even chance, both on frieght rates and in the markets of the coun try. Given that we would i ake care of ourselves. When the Standard came into existence there were dozens of little refineries scattered all over this section of the country. The Stand ard choked them to death. "If the independent operators were given a square deal there would be dozens of refineries again to spring up. There is plenty of good oil territory in this state, which it does not pay to de velop because of the price the Standard has fixed for crude. There are thous ands of wells, which could be pumped if a living price -were paid, for it. Mr. Archbold says that of the 25,000,000 barrels of oil produced evety year, 15,- 000,000 are sent abroad and the public is not interested in this. "The independent operators are in terested. They are as unable to com pete with the Standard in the foreign markets as they are at home. The message means much to us who have been fighting the oppression of the Standard all these years, and it looks at last as if we were going to come into cur own.'" MiS$LiMt4 ^TODAY'S SPOBTO^O NEWS WILL E F6UND ON PAGE 12. I^.OTm.OTt*.^ A3DUX HAMID, Sultan of Turkey, Who Is Threatened hy Britain. *\t fyj/ tvv:j xxxx* *,xx%'*.\fx rx BRITAIN'S THREAT STIRS UP SULTAN Demand for Immediate Evacua tion of Tabas Brings Turk ish Ministers Together. Warships and Troops Go. Valetta, Island of Malta, May 7. Three torpedoboat destroyers sailed from here today to join the British fleet at Pireus, Greece. The transport Dil warra is now embarking the Worcester shire regiment, which will sail for Al exandria, Egypt, tomorrow. Constantinople, May 7.An extraor dinary meeting of the council of minis ters has been summoned to consider the British note demanding the evacuation of Tabas within ten days and Turkish consent to a joint demarcation of the frontier of the Sinaitic peninsula. An attempt made yesterday by the sultan, thru the intermediary of a pal ace official, to reopen the discussion met with an intimation from Sir Nich olas R.O'Connor, the British ambassa dor to Turkey, that any communications on the subject must come thru the Turkish foreign minister. it PUTS EMBARGO ON BOOM Speaker Wants No Presidential Pyrotechnics at Birthday Reception Tonight. By W. W. Jermane. Washington, May 7.Tonight's birthday reception to Speaker Joseph G. Cannon will be the largest affair of the kind ever pulled off in this city. About 2,000 invitations have been ex tended, an I it is estimated that at least 1,500 persons will be present. There are to be no speeches. The receiving1 line will form in the cafe at the north end of the Arlington hotel, and "Uncle Joe" will give the "glad hand" to his guests after the fashion of the president at the annual White House receptions. A buffet lunch will be served. The north cafe will be made to resemble, in miniature, the capitol grounds, and in the center a tiny capitol building will be stationed. The big room will be darkened, except for lights shining thru the windows of this small capitol build ing, and from fixtures placed to repre sent the gas lights in the capitol grounds. The scenes as a whole will aimed to# represent the capitol grounds at night, both houses of con gress being in session. Puts Embargo on Boom. The speaker has insisted that the re ception must not take take on the form of a presidential boom. He simply wants to see his friends on this birtn day anniversary and wants the event to have no other significance. Speaking with regard to his seventieth birthday anniversary, the speaker has given ex pression to these views: '.'The reminders which come with the seventieth birthday are in the main pleasant, but I am thankful that the duties of the present give but little time for reminiscences, and I am still more thankful that I have not entirely lost capacity for the building of cas tles in Spain. "In fact I have been so busy for the last ten years I haven't had time to stop and think how it feels to be 70 or 60 years old or young. Of course, should be glad to live to the age of Methusaleh, if in the living 1 could continue to be useful, but when the time comes for me to go, I can lift my hat and say 'goodbye' with the assur ance that I have lived in the seventy years of greatest progress, measured by results, the world has known, and with the confidence that the next seventy will show as much, or even greater progress.'' MOB STORMS HOUSE ONE BEAD, TWO HURT Nashville, May 7.Marvin Winters was killed and Thomas Stewart and his young daughter severely wounded dur ing a shooting affray at Stewart's home rear Pleasant,. "View, Cheatam county. The cause of the shooting is a mystery. A few days ago Stewart received a letter warning him that if he did not leave the neighborhood his family would be killed. About 11 p.m. a mob surrounded the house and opened fire on it and Stewart and his daughter were wounded. Stew art returned the shots and the mob scat tered. 2 'i&>^.Mi^M0M 1 XLSK. MUENTER'S ARREST NEARf SAY POLICE Harvard Instructor Soon to Be JailedSearch for Evidence Continues. Journal 8pecial Service. Boston, May 7.Confident that with in a veryshort time they will have in custody Professor Erich' Muenter, the Harvard instructor who, they believe, poisoned his wife, the Cambridge police are continuing their search for evidence against him, determined to convict him il possible, when he is caught. Information from Chicago leads them to believe that Muenter is somewhere in or near that city, and it is expected his arrest will be, made by the Chicago po lice. Facts that have developed caused Chief of Police Pnllen Cambridge to say today. "All I want0f now is the man all I need to complete my case is Muen- ter." COURTMARTIAL IS FACED BY GARST Rear Admiral Evans to Probe Grounding of Battleship Rho^de Island. Journal Special Serrlce. Washington, May 7.Captain Perry Garst, in command of the battleship Rhode Island, may be courtmartialed for running his ship aground. Rear Admiral Evans, in command of the At lantic fleet, to which the Rhode Island is attached, will appoint a commission to look into the circumstances surround ing the grounding, with a view to' de termining or-not whether Captain Garst or any other officer of the battleship shall be courtmartialed for neglect of duty or gross carelessness in running the ship ashore. The Rhode Island was successfully floated last evening bp the United States cruiser Minneapolis and the na val tugs Hercules, Mohawk, Wahneta and TJncas. The big battleship is thought to be but little, if any, injured, as she struck on mud bottom. The ship, at the time she struck, was proceeding at^the rate of ten knots an hour. Her commander lost his bear ings to some extent and went too close to the channel buoys. The Rhode Island draws from twenty-six to twenty-eight feet of water. GRUMBLING TO RDINS Chicago, May 7.Building Commis sioner Bartzeh today ordered the aban donment of the northeast wing of the city hall. He said that it is in absolute danger and may fall at any time. Sev eral months ago the county building, which adjoined the. city hall on the east, was torn down ttr permit of the erec tion of ft new structure. Since it was deprived of this -Support, the 'city hall, which was really the west half of the same building, has been sinking, the walls have been cracking and joists have been slipping. The removals caused great inconven ience, as the city hall was overcrowded, and in the present condition of the mu nicipal finances there is no money with which to rent other offices. lMhk The OfficerIs Mr. Trust Magnate in? MONDAY EVEN.ING^MAY 7, .jgp^ COUNT BONI 1)1 CASTELXANE, Who Has Bern Be-eieccteU to the French Chamber of Deputies. BONI IS RE-ELECTED BUTBROTflERLOSES Anna Gould's Husband Triumphs in French War of Ballots. Paris, May 7.The election results today show increasing government gains. The ministry of the interior gives the gains at thirty-five and th losses at eleven, or1 a net gain of twene ty-four seats. The effect of this is to give the "bloc" or*groups supporting the government in the chamber *f dep uties, 343 votes against a "totals vote of 146 for the opposition groups. Among the prominent men elected are former Foreign Minister Deicasse, for mer Premier Ribot,,, W/ir. Minister Etienne, Minister of Marine Thomson, former Minister of the Interior Dubief, Count Boni de Castellane,, the Marquis de Dion, Minister of Public Works Parthou, Minister of Agriculture Ruael, Jean Leon Jaures, the socialist leader Baudry d'Asson, Premier Sarrien and Paul Deschanel, former president of the chamber of deputies. Included among the hew deputies are M. Leroy Beaulieu, the political econ omist, and Maurice Barries, the acade mician. The defeated candidates in clude M. Bos, chairman of the budget committee Count. #fcanislaus de Castel Iane brother of V&pft *Boni de Castel lane, and former Premier Plourend. BODY OF RIGH JAP IS FOUND IN CREEK New York, May 7.The body of Eijero Nahano, 23 years old, the son of a Japanese banker and who disappeared from a hotel here April 28, was found last night in a creek in Hudson county, New Jersey. i' A reward of $2,500 had been offered for information as to Nahano's where abouts. He was supposed! to have had $5,000 in cash with him. Only $1.36 was found in his cloth ing. His gold watch is missing. He was seen near Fairview, N. J., April 18, when he displayed a roU, of bills. WILL rr DO gm, ANY GOOD? D*f*ctiv Page H,**,^ The AttendantYes, sah he's in, but he's in de immunity bath tub jus' now. ^v^.^M FAIB TONTOHT AND TUESDAY NATION'S GUARANTY IS DENIED IRISCO v_*$A,)A Senate Committee on Finance Frames Adverse Report on Newland's Resolution. Washington, May 7.The senat committee on finance1 today-authorizee an adverse report on Senator Newland's resolution looking to a national guar anty of credit to San Francisco. Che report of the committee said it was determined unanimously' that the relief plans are "without t&e legitimate province of congressional action and therefore that the appointment. of a ioint committee to consider their ad1 visability or practicability is inexpe dient. f\ "It does not seem* to your commit tee advisable at this time to'appoint a committee to consider .other plans for national aid." MOB RULES TOWN, WIRES U.S CONSUL Violent Disturbances Attend Elec tions in Gruadaloupe, FreUch West Indies. TJ. S. WARSHIP GOBS. Washington, May'7.The navy de partment has ordered Commander Wil liam H. Sutherland, in command of the fleet at San Domingo, to send a war ship at once to Guadaloupe to protect American interests from the_ rioters. The sailing from San Domingo to Guadaloupe is not more than twenty four hours. Washington, May 7.Guadaloupe, French West Indies, is under mob rule, according to a dispatch received at the state department today from G. Jaryis Bowens, the American consul at that point. His dispatch says the mob is in control and the authorities are un able to restrain it. Election troubles are the cause of the disturbance. For several weeks there has been rioting, which is supposed to have come to a head yesterday, which was election day. While there are few Americans at the place, large quanti ties of American goods are stored there. MINERS MEET TO KILL STUD-BOGY Anthracite Workers.and Owners Near Peace in New York Conference. New York, May 7^-^34 is expected to be the final meetingtbetween thp com mittees representing ^the anthracite mine workers and mine owners of Terni* sylvania is in session-here this after noon. An effort will be made to agree on a term of vears and other minor de tails for the continuation of the award of the anthracite commission. 'That an agreement will be reached is not doubt ed, altho there is expected to be some debate. JOSEPH LETTER, Famous Plunger, Whose Safes Were Bobbed. WytUgiJ* PRICE ONE CENT IN MINNEAPOLIS BOLD ROBBERY HALF BLOCK FROM POLICE i*:x%xxtt*)t:fxxrrf.vwtt.xxxxxv:m.mxfM BLYTBIN CLEARED BYCORONER'S JURY Verdict Declares Auto Driver Was Not to Blame for Death of Child. "We, the jury, find that Louise Painter, who was killed by an automo bile driven by C. J. Blythin, came to her death thru no fault of the driver." This is the verdict returned by the coroner's ,iury, which investigated the death of little Louise Painter, who was run over and killed at Fourteenth ave nue SE and Fifth street, April 27, by an automobile owned and operated by C. J. Blythin, secretary of the Barber Mill ing eorapany. Besides |p\ Blythin eight witnesses were examined, and all except one, Ed ward Davin, gave testimony completely cxonorating the driver of the machine. Mr. Davin said he did not see all of the accident, but that the automobile came around the corner at the rate of fifteen or twenty miles an hour. He saw the little girl standing in the street, with her aunt, before the auto went around the corner, and when next he saw her. she was under ,tbe rear wheel of the machine. Nels^wanberg, a* employee^ jA\ auto company, who was riding with Mr Blythin at the time of the accident, was the first witness called. He said the machine was going no ntore than six miles an hour. The little girl stood in the street, about fourteen feet from the curb. As the auto came around the corner her aunt tried to get her out of the way, but she started to run to the other curb, making it necessarytto front of the auto. The1" fron wheelniog struck her, and she was knocked down. Mr. Blythin stopped the aHSto as soon as he could and returned to-ee how badly the girl was injured. Fred Snvder. James Lane, Henry Klienschnitz and William Hubbard cor roborated the testimonv given by Swan berg. Hubbard said that after the ac cident he and a friend tested an auto with a speedometer and found that a machine running six miles an hour was going, faster than the one driven by Blythin. Martin Anderson, who owned the popcorn stand about which the chil dren were playing at the time of the accident, was also a witness, but^ said he did not see Louise Painter until she was picked up unconscious. Why He Did Not Stop. Blythin was the last witness called and said that when the child ran in front of the machine he turned toward the curb and she ran into the wheel. He would have stopped on the instant, he said, but feared the child's body was under the rear wheel and he wanted to go far enough to get the machino clear. Witness testified that the auto car ried two lighted lamps. No effort was made at the inquest to show whether or not the auto carried a license number. The examination was conducted by and Robert Penney, attorney for Mr. Assistant County Attorney Elmer Gray, Blythin, cross-examined the witnesses. The iury stayed out but a few minutes and returned with the verdict. ZULUS SLAUGHTERED BY BRITISH TROOPS Durban, Natal, May 7.Colonel Man sell's column which is pursuing the Zulu rebels under Qhief Bambaata was attacked by 1,000 Zulus while descend ing a precipitous hill near the vil lage of Chief Cettiwayo. Sixty Zulus were killed. Colonel Mansell had three men wounded. Mansell was engaged in a reconnois sance from Fort xolland. He was co operating with other columns in ex pelling the rebels from a forest with a view to cutting Bambaata off from es cape. He thought the Zulu attackers were Bambaata's men. They attempted to employ the Crescent formation adopted: in the -Zulu war, and only Colonel Mansell's prompt disposition of his forces prevented a disaster. TWO DEAD, ONE DYING, AFTER REY01YER FIGHT Greensburg, Ind., May 7.In a des perate pistol fight at New Point, six miles east, Pleasant Land was shot and almost instantly killed, and his broth er, Winfield Land, 'was shot thru the head, dying later.* Jeff Williams was snot also, and is Hot expected to live. Garfield A. William* and William Bare', the other participants in the affair, were not injured, and are now in the county ,1ail here. The shooting occurred in Charles Carr's saloon Saturday night, but ow ing to a break in telephone connec tions, the neWB did not reach here un til late last evening. The trouble fol lowed a drunken quarrev vp&? LHTEB'S VAULTS. BOBBED OF $10,000 \0 Daring Chicago Burglars Open Big Safes with Chisels. Batter Down Doors with Sledge hammers Wrapped in Rub ber Mats. Chicago, May 7.The office of Jo seph Leiter and of the estate of the late Levi Z. Leiter, father of Joseph Leiter. has been robbed and bonds and securities valued at from $10,000 to $25,000 stolen. The burglars gained entrance to the office by breaking in the door with a sledgehammer, using rubber mats, to deaden the force of, their blows. The robbery, which is supposed to have been committed Saturday night, was not discovered until the clerks en tered the office today. Police Within Half a Block. The building in which the office is located is within half si block of police headquarters. A hasty examination of the contents of the vault caused the assertion by the clerks that securities valued at from $100,000 to $150,000 had been taken. When Hugh Crabbe, the manager of the estate of Levi Z. Leiter, arrived, he at once declared that the amount of the robbery would not amount to more than $10,000 to $25,000, and produced a package of bonds valued at $125,000, which the clerks thought had been stolen. Another Office Looted. The offices of Robert and Frank Crowe, attorneys, achoining that of the Leiter estate, was also entered and se curities valued at about $5,000 were taken. The door to this office was broken open in the same manner as that of the Leiter estate, and in both cases the vault doors were opened with chisels. The robbers evidentlv conducted their work in the most deliberate manner, as they had pulled down the curtains, turned on the lights and scrutinized the bonds in order to determine which were negotiable and which were.not. Leiter Belittles Bobbery. Joseph Leiter, who is Lake Geneva, Wis., was i stopping informed he did not believe thatr robbers secure an 7,^^kTwlIdge is,", said Mr. Leiter, "that the vault contained nofh ing but leases, contracts and similar papers. I do not believe that anything of value was taken." RICH MAN SLAIN IN DUEL WITH THIEF Claries L. Spier, H. H. Rogers* Confidential Agent, Killed His Revolver Misses Fire. New York, May 7.Charles L. Spier, a prominent business man of Staten Island, and said to be confidential agent of H. H. Rogers, vice president of the Standard Oil company, was shot and instantly killed in a duel with a burglar in his home in Tompkins ave nue. New Brighton, Staten Island, early today. Mr. Spier was one of the officers of the Richmond Light & Power company, and was connected with the Staten Isl and Rapid Transit Railroad company,thfo and occupied avfin house in one best residential districts on Staten Isl and. He and his wife were prominent in social affairs of the island. After his house was robbed by bur glars several months ago he prepared to defend it against them when they paid him another visit. This morning Mr. and. Mrs. Spier were awakened by the noise of a bur glar who was gathering up the silver ware in the dining room on the floor below. Arming himself with his revolver, Mr. Spier ran down stairs and shot at the intruder. His first shot missed the man, who drew his own weapon and fired rapidly at Mr. Spier until the weapon was empty. After the first shot Mr. Spier's revol ver missed fire, but two of the burglar's shots penetrated his heart, and Mr. Spier's body was found by his wife on the floor of "his dining room. The bur glar escaped, leaving behind the booty he had collected. SUICIDE PACT PRINCIPAL LIYES TO BE ARRESTED Special to The Journal. Edmonton. Sask., May 7.George Mc Lean, a white man 19 years old, and Mary Fortier, a breedwoman of 18, re solved to die together and ate chocolate containing poison. The woman is dead, but the man is recovering and has been placed under arrest, having been found at the coro ner's inquest a party to the poisoning. When dying the woman said: Good by, George, are you dying yetf" and m, agony he replied, "Goodbv, Mary."^*j* S KILLS SELF BECAUSE* WIFE URGES NOYING ,rvH Journal Special Berries. ^*-isuf Sterling, 111., May* 7.Jacob Hengri, residing north of Milledgeville, has com mitted suicide because his wife per sisted in moving from the country to, Savannah, -j^i. g 'fee* yjj^J