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^PRESIDENT FIGHTS
PEOPLE'S BATTLES
Continued From First Page.
til legislation, which, the president re
conunends.
Concurrently with this reaching out
6f the executive arm, there has come a
marked change in the methods of choos
ing the president.
The electoral college has gradually
lost its constitutional significance, and
the people for years have voted for the
presidental candidate direct, in fact, if
not in form. And in proportion as
this change has been wrought, the presi
dent thus elected has become the per
sonal representative of the people.
The house of representatives in the
meantime had ceased to be a delibera
tive bodv, altho coming from the people
directly overv two years. The senate,
while deliberative, was not directly the
creature of the people and they had
no way of bending it to their will or
making it expressive of their, policies.
Turns to President.,
In this emergency, the country turned
to the president for the time being, and
insisted that he should be a man of
opinions, and that he should express
their opinions fearlessly and strive with
all his' might to secure the legislation
that the people wanted. Any president
who would keep himself within the lim
itations laid by the democrats in their
present attack /upon Mr. Roosevelt,
would be the most conspicuous failure
of the past fifty vears in the presiden
tial office, and it is not necessary to
iiiak an argument to show that this is
true.
So long as the president is the person
al representative of the people, he will
labor to secure legislation which the
people want. I passing, it may be
said that if it naa riot been for the in
sistence of Mr. Eoosevelt, and at times
he stood almost alone, there would be
no prospect now for any kind of rate
legislation.
But the democrats must have their
fling for the sake of partizan politics
and for the further purpose "of permit
ting the steam of their great disap
pointment to find a vent. The thing the
countrv must do is to take the matter
at its proper value and maintain a
true perspective.
Slxows Administration's Stand.
The -statement hy the president and
the attornev general covers the views
of the White House and the cabinet on
the question of whether the Allison
amendment provides for broad or nar
row ooiirt review.
It has been repeatedly stated the kind
of review the courts will make will be
determined by the courts themselves,
and nothing that can be put into tho
law or withheld from it will alter the
character of the review one particle,
assuming, of course, that the law is
held to be constitutional.
As between the statement of the pres
ident and Mr. Moodv, an opinion in
which Mr. Taft and Mr. Root join, that
the Allison amendment does not pro
vide for a abroad review, and in fact,
does not indicate an.y change in the
essential character of the house bill,
and the statement made with so much
bitterness and venom by the democrats
that the president, in accepting the
Allison amendment has surrendered to
the railroads and abandoned his origi
nal position, the readers of 0 r
a will be able to make a ehoiqe.
They will also be alle to determine
whether the president has been guilty
of any offense or bad faith in trying to
use his great office to secure.legislation
which the people have been demanding
with so much earnestness for years.
Senate Takes Up Commission.
Yesterday afternoon late and again
today the senate devoted itself to dis
cussing whether the nine members of
the interstate commerce commission
should come from the nine ju
dicial districts of the country, or be
selected on the basis of railway mile
age, the country for this purpose to be
diviclect* into nine portions as nearly
equally as possible, with reference to
the mileage in each.
The bill as it passed the house, adopt
ed the judicial district idea, but there
is serious opposition to it, because under
it the eastern states, north of the Po
tomac and east of the Allegheny, would
have a majority of the commission.
These judicial districts have been made
on a basis of population1.
It is contended that the nine districts
from which the members of the new
interstate commerce commission are to
come should represent not population
but railway mileage, and should such
an idea be adopted by the senate and
accepted by the house in conference, it
would mean that the middle .west and
far west would have an increased num
ber of representatives on the commis
*sion.
a Toilette Amendments G-o.
The feature of the senate proceed
ings yesterday was the defeat of an
other batch of amendments to the rate
bill offered by Mr. La Follette. Ho
first brought forward his proposition for
ascertaining the actual value of railway
properties, exclusive of water, the
interstate commerce commission to bo
guided by this appraisal in determining
what, in its judgment, is a just and rea
sonable rate.
Senator Hale, in accordance with an
arrangement which seems to have been'
made with him for that purpose, came
forward with his customary motion to
lay the amendment on the table, thus
preventing all debate, under the fifteen
minute rule.
Mr. Bacon of Georgia protested vig
orously and said that if this, motion
were carried there would be no more
tmanimous consent agreements on the
,rate bill, which statement frightened
the republicans, and so when the motion
was put, only two or three men support
ed it, and the combined democratic side
opposed it. The vice president an-
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nounced the motion lost, whereupon the
debate proceeded.
The amendment was finally laid on
the table, but it was not tfntil all de
siring to discuss had had an opportunity
to do so.
Complains'and Threatens,
Later during the day Mr. La Follette
announced that he was the only senator
against whose amendments to the bill
motions to lay on the table were being
made, and he announced that if. this pol
icy was to be continued he, too, would
see to it that there -were no further
unanimous consents.
The La Follette amendment provid
ing that by 1911 oil railways in the
country doing interstate' business must
provide themselves with the block
Signal'system was'defeated by the cus
tomary vote, onlv the democrats and
La Follette himself supporting it.
The third La Follette amendment to
go down to defeat was that tacking
onto the bill an employers' liability
section. This was freely debated.
It came out during the debate that
the senate committee on interstate com
merce has been for several weeks con
sidering such a bill as a separate meas
ure, it having been passed by the house
at this session, and before the debate
was over the chairman of the commit
tee, Mr. Elkins, promised that the com
mittee would see that the" bill was re
ported to the senate this week Friday,
following which the La Follette amend
ment was voted down.
There was a good deal of honest op
position to attaching this proposition
to the rate bill, the ground being taken
that it had nothing to do with rates,
and that its being attached to the rate
bill might make serious trouble for
that bill.
During the debate La Follette had
read a history of the attempts to se
cure this legislation since the forty
ninth congress, twenty years ago. Ses
sion after session, an employers' lia
bility bill had been introduced, but only
to be referred to some committee and
there buried.
Nelson in Attacks.
_Mr. Foraker brought forward one of
his amendments relating to judicial pro
cedure, and it was severely attached
by Mr. Nelson, who pointed out that it
in effect would make the courts the
rate-making power instead of the com
mission. The amendment was defeated
by a vote of 10 to 56.
Mr. Nelson took a conspicuous part
in the discussion of another amend
ment, that relating to the keeping of
books and accounts by the intersate
railways, and providing that they shall
keep. only the kinds of books indorsed
by the commission.
Several attempts were made to
amend this section of the house bill by
permitting -the railways to keep other
sets of books, provided they were open
for official inspection.
Mr. Nelson argued against thi s, say
ing that if the amendment were made
it would be an invitation to rebates
and other forms of discrimination. He
said that the provisions of the house
bill only applied to the books of the
railway corporation as such, and would
not, as had been, charged, prevent the
several officers of the railways from
making their own private or official
notations for guidance in the matter of
administrative detail. Mr. Nelson's
contention was supported by Messrs.
Lodge, Clay and various others, and
finally it prevailed.
It was against this provision in the
bill that President Mellen, of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford road,
took Such serious exceptions last fall,
and which helped cause a temporary
break between him and the president.
PRESrDEJJT REPELS ACOTJSEBS
Pitchfork Brigade's Charges Refuted
in Two Convincing Letters.
Washington, May 15.The sensation
al rate-bill incident in the senate Sat
urday, during which Mr. Tillman, on. the
authority of former Senator Chandler,
made statements regarding the presi
dent/a course in connection with pend
ing railroad rate legislation, some of
which statements were denied by Mr.
Lodge on behalf of the president, had
its sequel last night, when lin official
statement was issued by the White
House giving an account of the subject
on the part of the president and Attor
ney General Moody.
The statem'ent comprised two letters,
one from' the president to Senator Alli
son and the other from Attorney Gen
eral Moody to the president, both dated
Monday.
Democrats- in Conference.
After a conference at Senator
Bailey's home, lasting almost an hour,
in which Senators Tillman and Bailey
and ex-Senator William E. Chandler paf
ticipated it was decided that no state
ment or interview of any sort should be
made public last night.
On his return to his apartments at
the Colonial hotel, Senator Tillman
said, regarding the insinuation of.the
president that he, Tillman, had sent
Chandler to see the president:
"That I sent Senator Chandler to
the president cannot be denied too em-,
phatically. I did~ not send him nor
even suggest to him that he see the
president as my intermediary.''
Saw Chandler as Envoy.
The following was the president's
letter:
My Dear Senator Allison: As^Senator Tillman
brought in your name In connection with mine
in the statement he had made concerning our
relations to the rate bill last Saturday, It is
perhaps due to you that I should write you of
the matter. After the rate bill was reported
from the committee, and after by vote of the
committee Mr. Tillman had been put in charge
of it, many senators and many outsiders came
to see me with reference to It.
Among others I was asked to see former Sen
ator Chandler as representing Mr. Tillman, who
was in charge of the bill, stated In response
that I was of course entirely willing to see
Mr. Tillman personally, or to see Mr. Chandler
or anyone else who could speak for him, and I
accordingly directed my secretary to make an
appointment for Mr. Chandler to see me.
My understanding was that he was the repre
sentative of Mr. Tillman. In this first Inter
view he stated to me the views of Mr. Till
man, with seeming authority. He called on me
several times. During the same period I saw
other gentlemen who professed to give the views
of other senators. In addition I saw nurner
ous senators, both republicans and democrats,
some of them once or. twice, some of them
many times.
I also saw numerous outsiders, railroad men,
shippers, newspaper men and students of traffic
regulation, Including especiaUy the attorney gen
eral and the members of the interstate com
merce commission, and on two occasions I saw
groups of newspaper men en masse.
Told All the Same.
To all of these, senators, representatives of
senators and outsiders alike, I made the same
statements, those that I made to Mr. Chandler
being the same in substance that I made to
ypu and to those of your colleagues of both
political parties with whom I had any extended
conferences on the subject.
The letter of the attorney general, which I
enclose, shows fully the facts as to the confer
ence which, at my instance, he held with Sena
tors TillmaS and Bailey. Those conferences
were precisely such as at my instance he held
with many other senators to determine the
phraseology and discuss the effect of amend
ments proposed by them.
To all whom I saw I stated that, the Hepburn
bill was In Its essence entirely satisfactory to
me. The Hepburn bill as It passed the house
simply recognised rthe right of review by the
courtsthat is, the-jurisdiction of the courts
but did not attempt to define it, thus leaving
the courts to prescribe the limits of their own
jurisdiction. This was in accordance with the
ideas of the attorney general, his belief being
that thereby we avoided all danger of the bill
being declared unconstitutional, because of the
attempt to confer either "too much or too little
jurisdiction on the courts.
I also repeatedly stated that while it was
entirely satisfactory to me simply to leave the
Hepburn bill in substance as it wasthat is,
with the recognition of the jurisdiction of the."
courts hu Yxrlth/tiitt anv aftamn Hoflncet that
definition did not seek to grant a broad re
view, but explicitly narrowed it to the two
subjects which as a matter of fact I believed
that the courts would alone consider in case
ttiere was up attempt'to define the limits of
their reviewthat' Is, would limit It to the
question as to whether the commission hud
acted ultra vires, und as to whether any man'b
constitutional rights had been impaired. I
stated that if the question of defining or limit
ing the review was brought up at all personally
felt that this was the way in which It should
be limited or defined. Never Insisted.
At different times at least a score of tenta
tive amendments "were either prepared by the
attorney general at the request of senators or
submitted to me by senators. As to many of
these amendments (Including among others the
substance of the'so-called Long, Overman, Bacon
and Spooner amendments) I stated that I should
be entirely satisfied to have them in the bill
asto others I buggested modifications which
would make them satisfactory as to none did
I ever say, either to Mr. Chandler or to anyone
else, that I should Insist upon having them
in the bill as a condition of my approving It.
On the contrary, I was 'always most careful
to Btate that I was not trying to dictate any
particular program of action.
Irt no case, either In the' case of, Mr. Chan
dler or in the case of anyone else, was there the
slightest opportunity for any honest misconcep
tion of my attitude'or any belief that I had
pledged myself specifically to one and ""only
one nmendment or set of amendments, or that
I would not be satisfied with any amondments
which preserved the essential feature of the Hep
burn bill as it came from the house.
You will doubtless recall that in the course
of the several visits that you personally made
me we discussed a number, of these proposed
amendments, trying to find out for which one
there could be obtained a sufficient body of
assent to secure its passage and the passage
of the rate bill.
To almost every amendment proposed by any
one I found that there were other excellent men
who objected, or who at least wished to chango
It, and I finally became convinced that It w.as
impossible for senators with advantage to use me
as their Intermediary in coming to an agreement
with their colleagues, especially when they1
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only
communicated with me thru another intermediary,
and I earnestly suggested to all to whom I
spoke that they should Communicate with yon,
whose purposes and mine were identical.
About this .time. I was informed by various
democratic senators that they could not come to
an agreement upon any amendment and that the
best chance for success lay in passing the Hep
burn bill substantially unchanged.
Does. Not Weakert Bill.
I was Informed and believed that this was
Senator Bailey's view, and a number of the re
publican senators who favored the bill expressed
the same opinion. Shortly after this, you, in
company with Senator Cullom, called upon me
with the amendment which Is now commonly
fcnown as tne Allison amendment. I told you
that while I should prefer the Long and:Over
man amendments, yet that yoat amendment was
entirely Satisfactory.
Your amendment does not in the slightest de
gree weaken or injure the Hepburn bill. It
merely expresses what the friends have always
asserted was Implied by the terms of the bill.
I may add that my own opinion that your
amendment in no way changed, whether oy di
minishing or enlarging the scope of the court re
View as provided in the original Hepburn bill,
is also the opinion of the attorney general,
of Mr. Root and Mr. Taft. Their contention is
that the amendment merely avoids the criticism
that the Hepburn bill would he constitutionally
Invalid in not expressly providing the court re
view which its supporters have always contend
ed was plainly implied in the original lan
guage.
The original Hepburn bill stated that the
venue for certain actions wns in certain courts
the amendment states thnt these courts shall
have jurisdiction to consider such actions. To
my mind it seems difficult to assert that this
works any change whatever in the principle
of the bill. Tours sincerely,
Theodore Roosevelt.
Mr. Moody's Letter.
The following is the letter of Attor
ney General Moody: jfc
My Dear Mr. President: I send at your re
quest an account of the conferences which I
had by your direction with Senators Tillman
and Bailey upon the subject of the court review
feature of the pending rate .'legislation5.
On April 14 you told me that Messrs. Till
man and Bailey had communicated with you
thru a third person informing you that they
were willing to support an amendment to the
Hepburn J1U which, while expressjy conferring
juriBdJctibn upon feWrts to review the action of
the commission, sh6uld limit the' review to the1
two questions of the authority ofthe: connate
sjon and the constitutionality nf its action, an
include a provision forbidding the issuance of
interlocutory injunctions.
Yon told me that they were not willing to' con
fer directly with you, but would meet me. You
asked me if I thought congress had the power
to prohibit the issuance of interlocutory injunc
tlons by courts inferior to the supreme court,
and I told you that having read only part of the
debate upon that question, the subject being
new to me, I had not formed a final opinion.
You then asked me whether, "if such a pro
vision were declared unconstitutional, it would
affect other provisions of the law. I told you
that in my opinion It wonld not, as that pro
Vision would be easily separable from the reT
mainder of the law. Recalling the advice which
I had the honor to offer to you, that yon-should
not at any stage become finally committed be
yond recall-to any form oflanguage in any
part of the bill, and affirming youri'belief in the
Wisdom of that course, you then said thatv
a
provision limiting the court review 'to"*lhe
authority of the commission and the constitu
tionality of its acts, and a provision limiting
the issuance of interlocutory injunctions, as far
as was constitutionally possible, would be ac
ceptable to you, provided It was decided not to
try to pass the Hepburn bill substantially un
changed, and you asked me to meet the gen
tlemen named In conference.
Arranged by Chandler.
The conference was arranged by Mr. Chandler
and occurred on April 15. It was full and
free. It would he impossible to state all that
was said In a conference- 'bt two hours, but I
think no false color Is given to-the conference
by the following statement!:
I Informed the gentlemen ot my heller that
you desired, if the se&pe.of 'the court review
were to be expressed in the law at all, that It
should be limited to the two subjects herein
before named that in such case the so-called
Long amendment was acceptable to you that 1.
you would be glad to see a rigid limitation on
the Issuance of interlocutory injunction, if such
limitations were possible, and I stated further
that I would not assume to agree to any form
of language whatever for you, but would submit
any proposed amendment to you for your con
sideration. I also stated my doubt whether in
any event it would be possible, to enact a pro
vision entirely forbidding interlocutory Injunc
tions.
I found myself in entire accord with Senator
Bailey as to the rules of constitutional law ap
plicable to the situation, with the exception of
those relating to the power of congress to for
bid all interlocutory injunctions, upon which 1
did not offer any final opinion, only saying that
Mr. Bailey's argument needed an answer.
An attempt was then made to adopt phrase
ology which would effect the intention of the
two senators. I made some notes upon this
branch of the subject, and at the close of the
interview said t Senator Bailey that 1 would
put my understanding of their views upon the
question of phraseology In writing, send it to
him and, if it met with his approval, submit
It to you. This I did and on the next day
sent the annexed memorandum to Mr. Baile*y
enclosed in a letter, which read ns follows:
"My Dear Senator: This rougdhr draft is as I
understand your suggestionhsI of yesterday. I
think it aite
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likel
bettered, but I simply send it to see if I
understood you."
Tillman Was in line.
The conference among the democratic members
Of the senate then occurred, tne press reports ot
which indicated that there was not an entire
agreement among them. Mr. Tillman, how
ever, called to assure me that the prospects of an
agreement among a large nnmtier of the demo
cratic senators was stood. I heard nothing fur
ther from .Senator Bailey until a later date.
I informed yon of what occurred, at the in
terview between the two senators and me and
yoi.told me that you had been informed from
various democratic sources that an agreement
among the democrats upon any amendment would
be Impossible.
The two senators called upon me again on the
23d or 24th of April. There WBB some further
talk about the form of the amendment. The
eusrcrestlon was made that it might be possible
after voting upon the provision forbidding all
interlocutory Injunctions, to agree upon an
amendment which should include the Long
amendment and what has been known as the
Overman amendment.
I. then said that In my opinion any amend
ment drawn by anrone representing the execu
tive branch of the government, even tho It
were inspired from heaven, would not be ac
cepted without change By..the senate.
That that attitude was natural and proper and
that if the exact language of an amendment
Vhich could be adopted should be agreed upon,
It ought to be drawn by the senators themselves.
I suggested Senator Allison as a proper person
for further conference, and the matter, so far as
I was concerned, ended there* butt withou any attemptt t+ft that I remember hearing nothing more of it until
jurisdiction yet that I was entirely willing that I was just about taking the train for North gregation" shall "remove"their hats,
there should be a definition, provided that this Carolina on Hay 4, when I 'was Informed by Mr. bands on the board did not. vote.
Russian Steamer Collides
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Tillman and Mr. Chandler ,fhat you hud approved
another amendment known'as'the Allison amend
ment. There was nothing In the conversations
between the senators which any way bonntl you
to any particular amendment or In the slightest
degree impaired your liberty at any time to oc
quiesce in any amendment which you should
deem expedient and in the public interest. Very
respectfully, William II. Moody.
FAMILY OF NINE
SLAIN AND BURNED
Florida Preacher, |His Wife and
Seven Childi'en Mur-
Pen'sacola, Fla., May 15.One of the
most horrible crimes the history of
this state, if not of the entire south,
has been committed in Santa Rosa
county, ten miles north of Milton.
A preacher named Ackerman, his
wife and seven children, the eldest
about ,14 years old, were killed and
their bodies $reiated in their home,
which was fired by the assassins.
Examination by physicians showed
that Aeker'man and his wife had been
struck on the head'1
with some blunt
instrument, their skulls being crushed.
The citizens of Milton have raised
$1,000, which will be offered as a re
ward for the apprehension of the as
sassin, and Governor Broward has
been appealed: to to. offer "a reward for
the state. *?f'''
Ackerman was considered a quiet and
peaceable citizen. It, is not known he
had any eneinjes whoj had a motive for
the crime. --'i.,
BERNHARDT MPS
IN RUINED FRISCO
Famous Actress'-Is rVXoved to Tears
by Scenes of Destruc-
tion.
San Francisco, May lSrMme. Sarah
Bernhardt, the actress, yesterday vis
ited the devastated sections
Ao this
tity, making -tie' trip in an autom o
bile. The city, in its former aspect,
had been well known-to. her, and when
she saw the result of the fire she wept.
The Call today-says that certain in
surance companies doing business in
San Francisco are,charging double rate
fqr insurance on local business that
wts assessed by them before the fire.
Various reasons are.assigned for this.
One. is, that water pressure is still
weak, another that the fire-alarm ser
vice is put of order. _.
Rebates Xater.
While the double rates are announced,
persons seeking insurance are told that
there will be rebates later, when nor
mal conditions are restored and the
underwriters have i had time to lodk
over rithe afield. No time i& mentioned
positiv-eiy, ^but .period ol from tw
tovthreer rnofttdia 4s
1 snggeBtefl1
aa",tho
[possible one during which the present
high rates, will )tnht. 1f6
Reports were ^received, ^yesterday to
the effedt. that a earef uf examination
of all the roOflelds of the 1 state has led
to the idiscovery that the oil industry
escaped injury so far as. production' is
(jonoemed, by the earthquake" of
April 18.
Three Girls Perished.
The fact that three girls perished in
the ruins .of Frost's bakery, on Sixth
street as a result of the earthquake
and nre* was established today,
Afc6r a search of .twenty-seven
:*lays
in the ruins of their former place of
business, E. T. Johnson found the
charred body of his business partner
and lifelong friend, Theodore Hanson,
this morning.
TEN DROWNED BY
CRASH OF SHIPS
with
and Sinks an Italian
Bax-k.
Bordeaux, May .15.The Russian
stearher Leo collided today in the estu
ary of the Gironde, near Paui-llac, with
the Italian bark, Teresina Migano. The
bark sank and eight of her crew, find
two pilots were drowned.
TEARE ARSON TRIAL BEGUN
Panel of Jurors Exhausted, When
Eleven Had Been Accepted.
Special to The Journal.
Stillwater, Minn., May 15.What
promises to be the most Sfensational
case tried in Stillwater for a long time
was commenced today when the first
jurors were impaneled in the case of
James Tears. I ia charg ed that Tears
paid his son, Ellery, a sum of money to
set fire to the Teare residence so that
the insurance might be collected. At
noon eleyen jurors* had been seenred,
but the panel was exhausted, and the
court took a recess until tomorrow
moraine, .after ordering a special ve
nire. It is expected the first witnesses
will be examined tomorrow afternoon.
Norwegians of Stillwater will cele
brate the independence day of their na
tive country on Thursday. Addresses
y/ill be made by Piofcssor A. A. Veb
len and Judffe Nethaway, both of Still
water, and there will dancing and
a program of amusements.
The steamer David Swain will be
launched on Saturday. She is being
built for the La Salle & Peoria Packot
company and will run on the Illinois
river. No handsomer craft and few
larger ones have ever been built here.
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It stimulates healthy liver activity, relieves
constipation, sick headache and malaria.
JAEGEES GETS STATUE JOB.
Journal Special Service.
Washington, May 15.Albert Jaegers, the
New York sculptor, was today awarded by the
Von Steuben statue commission the contraqt
to execute the., bronze statue of Baron von
Steuben, major general, arid inspector general
of the continental army. Congress appropriated
$50,000 for the statue. The accepted model of
General von Steuben appears in the familiar
cocked hat and a long, full, all-embracing cloak,
as tho facing or enduring the hardships of the
rigorous campaign at Valley Forge.
MUST BEMOVE HATS. __.'
Journal Special BerVdoe,
Franklin, Pa., May 15tTfie governing board
of the Franklin Methodist Episcopal church has
adopted a resolution that all women in the con-
Timid bus-
BOX-GAR MURDER
SUSPECT KILLED
Posseman Shoots Down Man Who
Flees from Charred
Corpse.
Portland, Ore.. May 15.A dispatch
to the Oregeonian from Pendleton,
Ore., gives an account of the myste
rious burning of a freight car near
Foster, Ore., and the death of two per
sons, one of whom is thought to have
been murdered and the body consumed
in the flames. The other was shot by
a member of a sheriff's posse under
the belief that he was the murderer.
The car was one of an Oregon Rail
road & Navigation railroad's west
bound freight train and contained the
household goods tond two horses of
Colonel S. W. Taylor, commandant at
Fort Worden, Wash. It was in charge
of Private William Wilson, Twenty
fifth battery, coast artillery, and was
en route from Fort Riley, Kan., to Port
Towneend, Wash.
Horses Fell to Death.
Aooording to Wilson's statement,
while he was currying one of the
horses yesterday morningi the animal
kicked him in the breast, causing in
sensibility. When Wilson came to he
says he found the car on fire. He
turned the horses \out of the car and
they were killed in falling to the
ground. Wilson made his way to the
caboose and notified the trainmen, who
cut out the car at Foster, a siding.
After the car had been cut out, a
body which, it is stated, may have been
either that of a. man or woman, fell
out of the end of the car. The body
BIIOWB indications of foul play. "While
the train was still standing at Foster
a man who had been on the train de
clared there were two tramps riding
in it and that the body had been
burned, to death. This man made his
escape.
Refused to Surrender.
The sheriff's posse followed him and
ran down a man near Pine City,, a few
miles west of. Foster, who was thought
to be the fugitive. When ordered to
surrender he made a motion as if to
draw a revolver and waB shot and
fatally wounded by Posseman Otis
McCarty. This man, before he died,
gave the name of John Conkiey ,of
Pendleton, Ore. It is said he is not
the man for whom the posse was
hunting.
Wilson, who had proceeded with the
train, was arrested at TJmatilla and
taken back to Foster Wilson, in his
statement,,declared that he was alone
in the car.
NIGHT OF STORM AND
FLOOD AT MASON GITY
Mason City, Iowa, May 15.This vi
cinity was visited by the severest elec
trical storm in years last night.,. Five
buildings in the city were struck.
Mrs. IJischner was seriously injured*
A bolt entered the house thru the chim
ney, following down the stovepipe and
striking her in the side. She lay sense
less for .two -hours and is still- not out
of danger. &."-
The Targe barn of A. W.:
Are You Fit
be Trotted with a
Good Set of BRAINS?
QKLAPfi NUTS
i
Keep them in Order,
A BRAIN FOOD AND REPAIRER
Every minister, lawyer, journalist,
physician, author or business man is
forced under pressure of. modern condi
tions to the active and sometimes over
active use of the brain.
Analysis of the excreta thrown out
by the pores shows that brain work
breaks down the phosphate of potash,
separating it from its heavier com
panion, albumen, and plain common
sense teaches that this elemental prin
ciple must be introduced into khe- body
anew each day, if we would replace the
loss and rebuild the brain tissue.
We know that the phosphate of pot
ash, as presented in certain field grains,
ha8 an affinity for albumen and that iB
the only way jrrcry matter in the brain
can be built. It will not answer to take
the crude. phosphate of potash of the
drug shop, for nature rejects it/ The
elemental mineral must be presented
through food directly from Nature's
laboratory.
These facts have Heen made use of in
the manufacture of Grape-Nuts, and
any brain worker can prove the value
of the proper selection of food by mak
ing free use of Grape-Nuts for ten
days or two weeks. Sold by grocers ev
erywhere (and in immense quantities).
Manufactured by the Postuni Co., Bat
tle Creek, Mich,'
GREAT VALUES
Tomorrow you will find the fol
lowing displayed on our Bargain
Tables-
Misses' and Children's $1.50 dark
tan Russia Calf Bluchers, sizes S
to 1.1 and 11% to 2 at, no.
pair.... ...yOC
Ladies' $3.50 tan Russia Cajf luce
and Bluchers, all sizes 01 JO
at, pair... ,..VITO
Indies' $2 tan Russia Calf Blucher
Oxfords at, fl|
pair. V1 *tO
A half .dozen pretty styles of.
ladles' dark chocolate vlcl kid Ox
fords and Ribbon Ties
at.
'tM
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Armstrong in
Falls township burned) and eight head
of cattle were killed. South Mason
City residents had to vacate their homes
on account of the flood. Three and a
quarter inches of water fell.
KILL POTITAND CHALLS
Legal Action Against "Indemnity Con
tracts."
Milwaukee, May 15.It is reported
here today that steps will, be brought
to compel state authorities of Illinois
to begin aetioTi against the Chicago
Board of Trade to annul its charter for
dealing in puts and calls under the
name of Indemnity contracts, which is
illegal and contrary to the laws of Illi
nois. Local dealers here refuse to dis
cuss the matter.
$1.69
Home Trade'
Shoe Store
H9-Z11 Nicolkt
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May 15, I906. .V-..**''Vf. .-,**,Ayj*-
WOMAN'S ASSAILANT
BIDDLED BY MOB
Eastman, Ga., May 15.Mrs. Pope, a
widow who lives alone about six miles
north of Eastman, was assaulted by a
negr o, "Will Wommock. told her
if she made the assault known he would
kill her and that he would be back the
next night. When the negro returned
Mrs. Pope began firing, one Dullet strik
ing Wommock in the stomach and
GIVE ENTIRE SATISFACTION.
Your $3.SO shoes have
given me entire satisfaction
as to fit and quality. My next
pair wilt also boa 'Douglas'"
EDWARD IV. GR1EV1SH,
Eyesight Specialist.
IJUJUP i it
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THE OLD RELIABLE.
MISS HOFFNER
is with us this week, and we want the ladies to consult
her on corset matters. She has thorough knowledge of
corsets and the models best suited for various figures. Her
talks are helpful and interesting: She represents the "La
Marguerite," a corset boned with genuine whalebone, strict-
ly hand made, good wearing, and eomes in thirty different
models.
Fischer Pianos.
Known and nsed the world over66 years before
the public without a single break in manufacture
125,000 sold bespeak their great popularityno experi
ment in the purchase of a piano like the FISCHER.
I is worth something O E SURE of the wearing
qualities of the piano you purchase.
HOWARD, FARWELL &
State Representatives. 707 NICOLLET.
N.
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L^Ti
orsets
TH
I S is our theme today.
Many ladies do not give
corsets the prominent place
in their thought regarding
their attire that they should.
I is important. The required
lines of the fashionable fig
ure are not attained by every
style of corset. There must
be a scientific fitting of
proper models, and this is
the important feature of the
corsetiere's work.
passed thru his body. The negro ran
and Mrs. Pope continued to snoot at
him nUtii she had emptied Her pistol.
Neighbors attracted by the shooting
came and heard the facts. Thej went
to Wommock's house and found him in
bed wounded. At first he denied his
guilt, but later he confessed. He was
taken out and strung up and his body
riddled with bullets, after which the
mob quietly dispersed.
Representatives Marfan nd Gronna barf
recommended Richard McFadden for postmastel
at Tyner, Pemhlna county Jennie B. Cas
at Bantry, McHenry county, and E. C. Spengloi
at Patterson.
W-X/ DOUGLAS
If I could take you Into my three
large factories at Brockton, Mass.,
and show you the care with which
every pair of shoes is made!youwould understand
why W. L. Douglas $3.50shoes arethe best in the
world, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear
longer, and are of greater value than any other
$3.50 shoe.
BOYS SHOES, $2J0O 9k $1.73
Just tho ssune a my
men's $3*SO mhoom, thm
same loathorn, lot*
$2MO and $1.78.
CAUTION'. None genuine without W. L. Douglas name and price stamped
on bottom. Take no substitute.. Sold in W. L. Douglas exclusive shoe stores in
the principal cities, and hy the best shoe dealers everywhere.
Fast Color Eyelets used exclusively. Catalogue mailed free. W. Douglas, Brockton,:
W. Douglas $3.50 Shoe Store In Minneapolis: 405 Nicollet Ave.
President Roosevelt on the
Massachusetts Law.
(Prom his Boston address, Aug. 25, 1902.)
"Here in Massachusetts you have what I regard, as on the whole, ex-
cellent Corporation laws.' I think tnat most oi ovtx difficulties would be" in
a fair way of solution if we had the power to put on the national statute
books, and did put on them, laws for the nation like those you have here,
on the subject of corporations in Massachusetts."
The Massachusetts insurance laws are part of the general
corporation laws to which President Roosevelt refers. The in-
surance laws are conceded to he superior, to those of any other
state, and the developments in the New York investigation have
emphasized the ^wisdom and the superiority of these laws, so
that insurers now see the advantage of placing their insurance
in1
a-Massachusetts company .more than ever before.
The STATE MUTUAL LI FE ASSURANCE COMPANY OP
WORCESTER, MASS., is 61 years old and offers unsurpassed
advantages and guarantees to intelligent insurers. Full infor
mation given by any of the Company's, agents.
C. W. VAN TOYL, General Agent. 408-14 Loan & Trust Building.
Augustus Warren, Geo. A. Atnsworth, F. W. Woodward, R. 8. Thomson, Setolt
ROyal, 0 D. Davis, Ezra Farnsworth, Jr., Delbert Rand.
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*& "The lives of all your loving complices lean upon your health'*and health
does not last. If you need insurance, take it now!
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