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NUMBER 7068. Yesterday's Circulation, 53,230
WASHINGTON, TUESDAY EVENING-, MAY 2, 1911.
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STRIKES SPREAD;
MANY THOUSANDS.
LAY DOWN TOOLS
Labor Unrest Scatters Broadcast, and Reports
of Walkouts and Rioting Come
From Many Directions.
SHOPMEN AT ALTOONA TO JOIN
STRIKERS, LABOR LEADERS SAY
AFFAIRS
Los Angeles Officials Who Figure in Dynamite Case, and Jail
WILL BE PROBED
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Committee on Interior De
partment Expenditures
Plans Hearings.
ITERESTS THOUGHT
TO GRAB MILLIONS
Some Specific Instances in Which
Charges of Grafting Have
Been Made.
By JUDSON C. WELLIVER.
The lid on the seething cauldron of
Indian affairs is loose.
It is to be taken off without fur
ther delay by Chairman Graham, of
the Committee on Expenditures in
the Interior Department The com
mittee held its first conference last
night and laid down the lines for an
investigation of Indian matters that
is designed to get to the bottom.
For years there has been endless
rumor and vague accusation of
graft, trickery, jokers in legislation;
of appropriations nominally designed
for the Indians, but actually going
to land-grabbing rings; of looting of
the Indians estate all over the coun
try; of waste in maintaining the In
dians, and of policies that tend to
pauperize them.
Competent Prober.
The facts are to be dug out. If the
charges are true, they are to get
light; if not, they are to be disproved.
The investigators expect to stir up a
very bad odor.
Mr. Graham has been removed from
the Committee on Indian Affairs to
chairmanship of this probe commit
tee. He was so disgusted with the
whole Indian policy that he wanted
the relief, and got It. Now be is go
ing to find out whether things are as
bad as his experience on the commit
tee led him to believe. That ho is
an able investigator was proved by
his work as minority leader on the
Balllnger-Pinchot Joint inquiry com
mittee. Where do the millions appropriated
each year in the Indian bill go? It
has been constantly charged that
they go In large part to about every
body except the Indians For Instance,
1500,000 was appropriated In the last
bill for Irrigation of Flathead reser
vation lands. If the stories now be
ing laid before the probers are true,
this money is to be used, not for the
Indians, but for lands that have been
taken from the Indians and are held
by speculators.
Gila Irrigation Project
The Gila irrigation project is alleg
ed to present a somewhat similar hlt
ttfttlon. The story goes that the Pima
Tndians owned originally an immense
ly valuable water right. The Govern
ment permitted this to be taken away
from the Indians and turned over to a
big private irrigation project. Now
the time has come to Irrigate the res
ervation, and the Indians have no
water right; so appropriations aggre
gating about a half-million are to be
devoted tc pumping water up to their
lands from lower reaches of the Gila
This would not have been necessarv,
it is claimed. If the water originally
belonging to the Indians had not been
given away instead of being kept for
their use
Another case that the committee is
going to probe Is that of the Crow res
ervation, in Montana. This has been
the subject of contioversy for years.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been appropriated to Improve this reser
vation, theoretically, appropriated to
Improve the property of the Indians;
actuallv used, it Is charged, to im-
Srove lands that have fallen Into the
ands of grabbers, with the result that
the Government has lost the money
the Indians have lost the lands, and
the manipulators are getting the bene
fits. Educational Waste.
Waste in providing educational facili
ties will get thorough study. The case
of the Uintah Indians, of Utah, is going
to be taken up in the effort to locate
responsibility for the woes of this
tribe. The charge is that the Indians
were allotted their lands on a map
without reference to the topography;
some got lake bottoms, some mountain
tops, and on these they were expected
to live, while the rest of the lands were
deftly manipulated Into the possession
of enterprising white men who man
aged the deal.
The Indians, on the point of starva
tion, treked away to Wyoming. A fine
young war scare was organized around
the band of starving aborigines, just in
time so disagreeable folks say to dis
continued on Second Page.)
WEATHER REPORT.
FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICT.
Fair tonight and Wednesday; colder
tonight with probable frost
TEMPERATURES.
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TIDE TABLE.
Today High tide, 10:41 a. m. and 11:16
p. m.; low tide, 4:33 a. m. and 5:28 p. ni.
Tomorrow High tide. 11:37 a. m.; low
tide. 6:30 a. m. and '6:27 p. m.
SUN TABLE.
Eun rises 4:39 Sun sets 6:53
Naval Affairs Committee Re
ports Favorably on Gard
ner Resolution.
MONOPOLY BY ONE
FIRM IS ALLEGED
Information Regarding "Black
List" Is Sought by House
Inquiry.
To determine whether or not any
ono'firm has a monopoly on the con
tracts for the shoes used by the
navy, the House Naval Affairs Com
mittee today ordered a favorable re
port on the Gardner resolution di
recting the Secretary of the Navy to
transmit to the House full informa
tion as to shoe contracts awarded
by the department for the current
year.
Representative Gardner of Massa
chusetts introduced the resolution
following the statement made upon
the floor by Representative Difender-
fer of Pennsylvania, to the effect
that Hermann & Co., of Boston, had
a monopoly on the navy's shoe con
tracts. Questions to Be Answered.
The resolution, reported by the
Naval Affairs Committee, directs Sec
retary Meyer to transmit to the House
information answering the following
questions.
First. What proportion of the con
tracts for navy shoes during the fiscal
years 1909, 1910, and 1911 were award
ed to the firm of crtnan & Co.
Second. What are the names of the
individuals or firms who have secured
contracts for navy shoes in the fiscal
vars 1909, 1D".0, and 1811? What was
the amount of each contract?
Third. Have any competitors been
blacklisted or disqualified from bidding
on any navy shoe contract in the fiscal
years 1909, 1910. and 1911? If so. what
were the names of those competitors
and what was the cause of their dis
qualification? Fourth. What proportion of the navy
shoe contracts in the fiscal years 1903.
1910, and 1911 were awarded to the low
est bidders?
Fifth. How many bidders were there
for the last navy shoe contracts?
Frost Is Predicted
For Capital Tonight
Frost is expected in Washington to
night and the Weather Bureau thinks
the thermometer will drop to 36 or 33
degrees. Today and tomorrow the fore
cast is for fair and colder weather here.
Frost warnings have been sent out for
the middle Atlantic, New England, and
Ohio Valley States, and also for Ten
nessee. In the regions of the Great
Lakes there are local snow storms to
day, and in the New England and mid
dle Atlantic States there were showers
and thunder storms last night and this
morning, with local rains in the Ohio
Valley and Gulf States.
Court Halts in Honor
Of Major Covington
District side of Police Court took
adjournment today, after completion
of most pressing business, out of re
spect to the late Major McDowell Car
rington, who died late last night.
Major Carrlngton practiced for many
years before the Police Court bar
and Judge A. R. Mullowny took' cogni
zance of this service in adjourning
the sitting.
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BYRON A JAIL TE1
Husband Who Deserted Woman
Eighteen Years Ago,, Gets a
Year's Sentence.
There was a dramatic scene In the
United States branch of the Police
Court this morning -when Mrs. Elizabeth
Byron took the witness stand and told
how her husband, George E. Byron, on
trial on a charge of non-support, had
deserted her eighteen years ago in Jop
lln, Mo., and how she had como to
Washington to seek employment, and a
few months ago met him unexpectedly
face to face on the street and learned
that he had married again.
Mrs Byron was overcome with emo
tion as she told her story. Judge Pugh
was so impressed with the woman's
story that he sentencedByron to eleven
months and twenty-nine days In Jail.
Because of extenuating circumstances
the Court did not make the sentence
absolute, but (five Byron the alterna
tive of furnishing a J500 bond to guar
antee the payment of J25 a month to
Mrs Byron, who Is wife No. 1, but
Attorney Oscar Nauck and Represen
tative Dyer of Missouri, who repre
sented Byron, stated that their client
was unable to furnish a surety bond.
Byron, who is a merchandise broker,
was arrested about a week ago by De
tectives Burllngame and Weedon on a
warrant sworn out bv wife No. 1. Be-
-..- - t,o ctatnta nf limitation. A.
charge of bigamy could not be preferred.
B. R. Coles, Upholsterer, Ph. M. 6516.
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GOMPERS PROBING mM
THE CHICAGO END
f DYNAffliTE CASE
Important Developments Ex
pected From Leader's
Visit There.
CHICAGO, May 2. Important de
velopments are expected as a result
of the visit to Chicago today of Sam
uel Gompers, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, and Frank
Ryan, of Indianapolis, president of the
National Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers.
Gompers said he came to Chicago to
investigate the Chicago end of the ar
rest of the McNamara brothers in con
nection with the dynamiting of the
Los Angeles Times building, and to
confer with labor leaders regarding
pending labor disputes.
Detectives Employed
By Labor Unions to
Follow on Burns' Trail
LOS ANGELES, May 2.-Wlth detec
tives employed by the union supporters
t,t. t -inn inmra B. McNamara to
watch Detective William J. Burns and
to go over the course mat ne cjaim3
i tn Montlfv the arrested men as the
perpetrators of -numerous dynamiting
outrages, the aeiense ictu mat i
hii v.o ohi tn hi-eak down the testi
mony of the accusers.
Extensive preparations are Deing
made. Offices have been rented in an
ticipation! of the desperate legal battle
that Is to be fought between labor and
capital. Before the trial is completed.
It Is expected an entire floor will be in
use. , . . .. .
Advice has been receiveu uere uiai
Mra. Ortie E. McManigal will be
brought to this city to corroborate
ner dusobuu n icomuj. - - ,.--generally
accepted that he acted as a
lieutenant for Detective Burns and
confessed to numerous crimes.
Training Ship Aground
With Forty-four Aboard
TAwnnN. Mar 2. The Metropolitan
Asylum board"s training schooner Stead
fast, with forty boys and four officers
aboard, went aground today on Hole
Uaven spit. ... A.
vessels have gone to her assistance.
To the Congress of the United States :
With no other means of expressing my desires for legislation, I by this method
ask The Washington Times to transmit my opinion that residents of the District are
entitled to
Universal Interchangeable Transfers on All Washington
Street Car Lines, and Half Rate Street Railway Fares for All
Children on Their Way to and From Schools in Washington
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CAPT J. D. FREDERICKS,
District Attorney oi Los Angeles
County.
JUST A MUTE
This May Interest YOU
The Washington Times today pre
sents the best argument that has yet
been advanced in favor of half-rates
for school children on the street car
lines of the District of Columbia.
This is it:
Two States Vermont and Massa
chusetts require every street rail
way within their borders to carry
school children at one-half the fare
charged regular passengers.
In Bridgeport, Conn., and in Lew
Iston, Bangor, Augusta, and Water
ville, Me., the street railways volun
tarily have granted half-rates, In
consideration of the business ad
vantage thereof.
Where Half Fare Exists.
The charter of the street railway com
pany of Raleigh, N. C, demands half
fare tickets for school children.
Half-rates or reduced fares for school
children are In operation In:
Little Rock, Ark.
Lincoln, Neb.
Omaha, Neb.
Springfield, 111.
Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Helena, Mont.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Odgen, Utah.
Olympla, Wash.
Tacoma, Wash.
Salem, Ore.
Richmond, Va.
Hartford, Conn.
Springfield, Mass.
In the face of these facts, what's the
use In debating whether Washington
should have half-fare tickets for its
school children ? Is Richmond, Va., or
Lincoln, Neb., in position to enjoy street
railway service that must be denied
the District of Columbia ?
The Times is presenting these facts
. (Continued on Sixth Page.)
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SALE OF LIQUOR TO
HIES BY HOTEL
Service at Carvel Hall on
Twenty-seven Accounts
Stirs Naval Circles.
ANKAPOLIS. Md.. May 2. Annapolis
servkJe was made on Miss Elizabeth D.
Jessup, manager of Carvel Hall, the
fashionable hotel of Annapolis, much
frequented., by. toembers of the naval clr
rlpRof f-venty-ievcn counts charging
't;5"1 " t,'lnts to midshipmen or
rabprs. There are not as many sepa
rate states of facts upon which charges
are based, but the same alleged Incident
Is made the basis for a charge In a
number of different ways, so as to meet
different aspecu of the law.
It had been known that at least two
places in Annapolis were under the sus
picion of the authorities, but the fact
that presentments had been found
against Miss Jessup, as manager of the
hotel, created much surprise and Inter
est. The hotel is near the Naval
Academy, and midshipmen, as well as
older persons connected with the Acade
my, frequent it.
It Is understood that the management
of the hotel will claim that no liquor
was knowingly sold to midshipmen, but
that if any obtained It there it was or
dered by other persons and given to the
midshipmen.
The license to sell liquor Is granted to
SHss Jessup as manager and agent of
the Land Security Company, a New
York corporation which owns the hotel.
Should there be a conviction, the license
is forfeited. If, on the other hand, the
facts are proved, but there is an acquit
tal on the ground that the agent is not
criminally responsible, the license may
also be taken away, as the central idea
of the local liquor law is to make the
license responsible for all sales on the
premises.
The prosecution Is under the law
which makes sale of intoxicants to mid
shipmen illegal, whether the buyer Is of
age or not. The presentments charge
sales both to midshipmen and to minors
when the buyer Is not of age.
Search for Gray's Head
Abandoned by Police
After dragging the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal for two days at the foot of
Twenty-eighth street, where the de
capitated body of Dr. William A. Gray,
the retired druggist, was found police
of the Harbor precinct this afternoon
abandoned their search for the head.
An inquest held at the District Morgue
this afternoon returned a verdict of
death duo to accidental drowning. The
boys who found the body and other
witnesses examined. As no trace of Dr.
Gray was obtained from the time he
disappeared from the Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital on Marrh 1 until his
body was discovered in the canal, there
was no evidence before the Coroner's
Jury to indicate the manner in which
the aged man met his death.
However, the finding of Dr. Gray's
coat and vest, with his watch and
money intact, a short distance from
the place where the body was brought
to the surface precludes all possibility
of foul play, the police assert. It is
believed he accidentally fell into the
water and the body decapitated by &
dredging machine which had been
working in the canal.
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With thousands of workingmen out on strikes, and with many thousands
of others on the verge of a walk-out, with rioting and violence reported
from New York, Chicago, and other cities, the situation in the labor
world just after Slay Day, is as acute in the East as on the Coast, where
ominous threats of a general strike, in Los Angeles, at least, on the be
ginning of the trial of the alleged dynamiters, is heard.
About ten thousand shop men on the Pennsylvania are out and thou
sands of others are to join them, according to- their leaders. A mem
orable struggle for recognition of their union seems imminent
In Chicago the building trades, bricklayers, and maintenance of way
men are on a strike, and freight handlers, elevator employes, and addi
tional building trades, involving forty thousand men, will quit work In
a few hours if their demands are not granted.
In New York, frequent clashes in the bakers' strike, are keeping the
reserves busy today. V
Thousands Threaten
To Join Strikers on
Pennsylvania System
PITTSBURG, Pa.. May 2. What prom
ises to be one of the bitterest .and most
protracted struggles of union labor for
recognition on the Pennsylvania sys
tem since the memorable strike and
riots of 1877, took definite form today
with between 7,000 and 10,00ff shopmen
in the ranks of the strikers.
That the strike Is mainly a battle for
the recognition of organized labor in the
crafts affected was freely admitted by
labor officials, and it is this plea which
the strikers claim will secure for them
the stanch support of the service or
ganizations, of the road.
033cu.rs Busy.
Organizers Arthur E. Ireland and T.
H. Flynn have been aetfvoly organis
ing the shop workers since last Febru
ary. Shortly after they began their
work, according to the organizers, the
railroad Initiated a species of warfare
against the union, dropping from the
payroll union sympathizers.
These charges are denied by General
Manager Long for the railroad. Re
ports from the various shops on the
Pittsburg division today indicate that
the night shifts followed the lead of the
day men.
It is reported that the company has
started to garrison the shops at Pit
calrn. and that carpenters have been
installing bunks in the buildings.
Intercepted By Pickets.
At Youngwood. where all except
eleven men went out, a gang of foreign
ers being brought from Greensburg
were intercepted by strike pickets and
forced to go back.
The real crux of the situation on the
Pittsburg division, it developed today.
Is at Altoona, where 12.000 men are
employed. Conflicting reports have
been received from the shops there, the
railroad officials saying the men there
state they have no interest in the Pitts
burg situation, while the strike leaders
Insist that the Altoona shops will be
tied up within forty-eight hours.
Libel Charged Against
Mrs. Nettie M. Post
Criminal libel Is charged against
Nettle M. Post, of Washington, In a
warrant returned this afternoon to
Cleric of Courts F. A. Sebrlng, in the
United States side of Police Court.
The defendant lias furnished bond of
JS00, and will be arraigned In bonding
over proceedings within a few days.
She is charged with libeling Mrs. Fan
nie Liebman.
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fob burial servlve
Several Men Who Served Under
General Meet Casket at
Depot.
With the flag under which he served
during the Spanish-American war drap
ed about his coffin, the body of Gen.
M. Emmet Urell arrived In Washing
ton from New York this morning. It
was taken to the chapel of Joseph
Gawler'a Sons, where it will He In
state until Thursday morning. Re
quiem mass will be celebrated in St.
Patrick's Church at 10 o'clock in the
morning of that day, and at 2 o'clock
the body will be taken to Arlington
for burial.
Detailed arrangements for the funeral
will be made this evening at a meeting
of the Spanish War Veterans' commit
tee and the relatives of the deceased.
Several of the men who served under
General Urell in Cuba were at the
depot to meet the body this morning.
Alexander C. McKelvey, camp com
mander of Harden Camp, No. 2, of
which General Urell was a life member,
went to New York as a representative
of the Spanish War Veterans, and met
the body when it arrived in New York
on the steamer Baltic.
Others who were with him were Past
Department Commander Edward L.
Cogan and Department Commander D.
C. Chlsholm, who went as a representa
tive of the General Urell Memorial Association
Near Fifty Thousand
Workmen Are Prepared
To Strike in Chicago
CHICAGO, May 2. Although no
serious trouble .has marked the be
ginning of May Day strikes, 100 po
licemen have been detailed to guard
the property of the Chicago and West
ern Indiana and the Chicago, Milwau
kee and St. Paul railroads, two of the
roads involved in the strike of the main-tenance-of-way
men. Large forces of re
serves are being held on duty. The strike
situation in Chicago is summarized as
follows:
Strikes threatened: Freight, handlers,
6,000; all employes Otis Elevator Com-r
pany to- the ITJiUfe EtatM .sm- arMi-
tlonal. building- traces;. JtflOO: sympatho- J(
5.C05.
Men now on strike: Brick makers.
2,500; niaintenance-of-way men, 2.000;
various" buildings trades, 7,000: Otis Ele
vator Company employes. 300; miscel
laneous. 400. Total of men out or like
ly to go out, 46,200.
Police Called Out
To Check the Rioting
Of Striking Bakers
NEW YORK. May 2.-Police reserves
were rushed Into the East Side today to
combat a score of "entertainment com
mittees." who were assaulting non
union bakers and demolishing the es
tablishments where the kosher bakers
are striking for J2 more, a week, and
sanitary shop conditions.
Many men were assaulted, and con
siderable property loss resulted befora
the police finally quelled the rioters.
There is every prospect of an actual
bread famine in this section of the city
should the strike continue. Two thou
sand men are said to have left their
work. This means a shortage of 75,000
loaves of bread dally. The strikers have
been out since Sunday night.
A number of attempts to bring bread
into the district from outside failed
today, the horses being cut loose from
the wagons and the bread dumped Into
the streets.
The most serious fight of the day was
at the shops of Isadore Strempler. at
165 to 169 Monroe street, and at 291 Madi
son street. "Entertainment commit
tees" made up of ten men each, visited
the establishments arid tried to run out
the non-union men. The latter, armed
with dough knives, clubs, and other
weapons, fought off the attackers. Po
lice reserves were called. Half a dozen
arrests were made. The Interiors of
the bake shops were completely wreck
ed. Other fights were reported at 138 Lud
low street, where Abraham Cohen, an
employing baker, was beaten, and at
half a dozen places on Madison and
Munroe streets.
A number of minor clashes were also
reported today from the machine shops,
where the machinists are' striking to
enforce their demand for the eight-hour
day. The police say the strikers are In
an ugly mood, and that if the employers
carry out their Intentions of bringing
in strike-breakers, real trouble will re
sult. IN CONGRESS TODAY
SENATE.
The Senate was not in session.
HOUSE.
The House met at 11 o'clock and re
sumed debate on the free list bill.
The Naval Affairs Committee ordered a
favorable report on a resolution in
quiring Into the letting of shoe con
tracts by the Navy Department.
Chairman Godwin announced that the
committees on reform in the civil
service will begin hearings tomorrow
on the bill permitting Government
clerks to affiliate with unions.
White House Callers.
SENATORS.
Lodge, Mass. Borah, Idaha.
Burham, N. H. Smith, Mich.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Hinds, Me. Austin, Tenn,
Kopp. Wis.
OTHER CALLERS.
Delegate Andrews, New Mexican '
Delegate Cameron, Arizona. ,
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