The times dispatch. [volume], June 11, 1912, Image 1

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THB TIMES FOUNDED JIM.
WHOLE NUMBER J 9,013.
RICHMOND, VA., TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1912.
THE WBATHBH TO-D AY?FAIH. PRICE TWO CENTS
EXPERT ASSERTS
RATES ARE FAIR
Alton Miller Tells Why
PowerFranchise Should
Not Be Granted.
NO VOTE TAKEN
BY COMMITTEE
Electrical Contractors and Attor?
ney for Old Company's Local
.Stockholders Oppose Richmond
and Henrico Petition?May
Send Report to Council
Wednesday Night.
i.vpert evidence Introduced before
Committee on Streets last night
t no wed that Richmond now enjoys a
general average of lighting and uowor
>.t<s nearly *u per cent, below that
? . ine larger cities of mi.* country.
..t>'jiiie>s ior the Richmond and lien-!
ioo Railway Company, applying fori
? computing a.eciiic >ight uuu power
..?ovo.?., ?.au ilpreselltalives 01 tue.
Vnttiii.m nauwo) ..no Cower Company, I
Vooli la l.vW a l.lu COIIIln JU.l.>.
1 ? ? ?o-oi...i uvnleiicc teuu hi b'utnunts.
.ilion juiiivr, loni.er i>iV-s?Jeilt of'
toe fet. I^jlllh Electric Light aim lower
t_Oinpun>, .tin, now an i;xpcit cou'uit-|
lufei cngiuvfci' In Kevi ?oi.i Cit>, put
to .:e u I. lino.j lor (.p.^- old l'Ollp...l>
siateu tnut auch a question
t.ouid not now b? ruiseo in any otherI
illy 01 ItlcniliOnu'H j?'ze ei.?t ot the
hiliiSlfcsippi, uupiiciition oi plants and.
Inv4 iiio.it.- buving bueil found to b<;'
i.nwiie and ugalnst the best public1
policy. Argument on the question!
Mkied until midnight. The committee!
lose to meet to-morrow afternoon
.. o'clock, wnen the propound ordinance
^?lil be considered by sections and an
uiori made to reach a flnul vote. |
ISkOclatlVM OppoMesj i.rmil.
A communication v?r.t received from'
in. Llectt I' al fontiiietor? As.iocla tloii j
oi Richmond declurlng it to be the
unanimous oplnlnon of the membership|
that the organisation would not bene-'
nt on contractors or as citizens by the
granting of the proposed fruncnlse and I
recommending that no competitive]
ft auchlH..- b< grunted so long us the'
existing company >i-n. ? the Held at!
mir charges. By agreement, the de-1
bat? was litnlteu to uns and one-half
hours for each side. Samuel L Kolloy I
opened tor the Richmond "lid llcnrlco I
Company, going ftilly over the inain 1
points oi . untentlon.
Roferrmg to the "Sorylcc Talk.?"
which nave appeared as advertisements
in tiie newspapers; .Mr. Kollcy asserted
that no authority could be quoted in
in vor of an unregulated monopoly.
Ii. claimed taut public opinion was i
tn. only regulation here; that the]
Legislature has the power to confer!
ni' h control in th?- hands of the Cor- I
l rat. Commission In regard to light j
and power companies as distinguished
from transportation and transmission i
companies, hut has not ho exercised it. j
ncd that ihe preset compay is not now j
required to s.-ll to any one. and may I
iforye whom it will as It pleases and j
(ill its own term.".
Xwt t ?Ine It ii? Club.
NC set of men. however good, should |
b< truete.i with absolute power, he
held, lie denied with vehemenco that
his company wns seeking this fran?
chise to be used as a club to force the
old company to buy it out. Admitting
that th? street railway franchise bad
bi Otl held *rghl years before It was
exercised, he maintained that the en
tit. lime was diligently spent In at?
tempting lo secure the needed capital,
arid said his company had never offered
to sell out at any time.
The road as constructed, he admitted.
v.t- lo, small to earn a return on the
Investment, and the company now
."-?i icht only to sell surplus current to
people who desired lo buy It. The
franchise, if granted, would expire In
16J7, lasting only fifteen years. *'lf
v. .. did 'not already have an invest
in r.l here no one would Invest money
In 11 fifteen-year franchise,?? he assort?
ed. ^Charging that amendments had
been Inserted in the subcommittee
vlnch would malte it practically Im?
possible to accept the franchise, he
off. red an amendment to the clause
requiring that .1 certain proportion of
the distribution system be completed
within eighteen months, the amend?
ment proposing that the company
Shall tile a plan of routes to be occu?
pied with the. Street Committee.
Which may later diminish or enlarge
them,
After approval construction Is to
begin In sixty days, and be complet
, ,, |n twelve "months, and the commit?
tee on Streets will ha^r power from
time to time to designate additional,
toutes. He also objected to amend?
ments adopted by the subcommittee |
requiring that a certain proportion or,
the distribution system be constructed
before the company made contracts!
for current and to the clause naming
tbt elements of arbitration.
Warned by Cxpert.
Henry W. Anderson, who appeared
for the Virginia Railway and Rower
Company, Introduced Mr. Miller, of
the Arm of Humphrey* & Miller, of
New York, consulting engineers, and a
former Richmonder born and raised
in this city, and a brother of Dr. C.
M. Miller, of the committee. Mr. Mil?
ler has had twenty-five years experi?
ence with various gns and electric-com?
panies and Is a rerogn'zed expert en?
gineer. He stated that in bis experl
en< e he had been with competing com?
panies on both sides, and was here to
etvlse earnestly against the duplication
of plants and franchises.
"This question would not now bo
rnlsed in any other city of Richmond's
f-izc east of the Mississippi." he asserted.
"It has been decided to be unwise and
rgalnst public policy and Is frowned
Upon everywhere. It Is in the power
of the State ta control not only the
service, but the Investment and the
profits.
"I have made persona". Investigation
or the rates and service In Richmond
ond can testify that the rates are rea?
sonable and the service good. If ade?
quate, control does not Ho In the Cor?
poration Commission or the City Coun
(Ciintlnued on ElffhthT"PuareTj '
ANTE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENT
_ I
Mm. Hulda Xlcel Will Give Husband
?1,000 a Year.
[Special to The T tmes-DispatOh.]
Philadelphia, Pa.. June 15.?An ante?
nuptial agreement wan fil.-d at Che* of?
fice of the recorder of draeds to-day be?
tween Mrs. Hulda Justice Steel, for
nt't'.y of nils city, and Alberto Tutlno,
of Jtome, a member of a noblo nouse.
who wrS-ll l.> marr."d noon. Mi*. Steel
is the daughter of William O. Steel, a !
member of the banking firm of Edward
T. Sooel & <U>, who died on September
10, 1904, leaving an estate valUid at
about |(00,00). The daughter received
a largij share of th.s property.
Several years ago Mrs. Stead was
mam tl t<> W lbirkeley Williams, who:
' is weal-known socially in Baltimore, i
, Their married life was terminated ,
! witn'.n th a past y.iar.
It is agreed tirst that tiie parties
1 shall be lawfully married within six
months from the dat? of the srg?? rrg ?.f
'. t:i.- deed; second, that Mrs. Stfcol Im-.i
I m iliaoiiy after the marriage shall take
I out a policy "f Insurance on her life
in t!? sum ol $50,000, :na<t- payable to
I Signer Tutlno: third, that Mrs. Steel
, shall pay over to Signer Tutlno each
! y-.ir the sum of 8,000 lire l$l,600j dur
i lug Ins life; atid. lastly, "In th* evt.nl
of a disagreement or dispute hi r af-tei
I nriMIr>i; between the parties h.-r.to, th ?
I solution, the setUcmbnvt, ?.?J3u>tmeeit
! and adjudication shall 'be refcrrc-d to
and d?volvto upon the cousli* of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
NO MORE GUARD WORK
Student Drpntlea Have llren < ritlelied
iin ''Intellectual 'Ihn??."
! Mlddli town. Conn.. June 10. ? Presi?
dent William O. Bhankhn. of W. sievm
University, lo-dey isru-d orders that
?I ; students who haw bevtn employed
as sheriff s deputies :n kcbgdng pcacJ
j ?i th.- rnl?i of the B?ss?ell Manufac?
turing Company during the strike of
|J ?. w^avess should glVi up th" work.
1 Criticism ..f thrt methods .niployed
by th'- students in quelling th-- .-tnke
brought about tins action by President
I Shunklln. lio.-: of the memtjtirs of tr.o
foObja.il team r.v,.- betsi employed an
de purl's, receiving 15 a day.
One strike leader has i- ferred to thu
student ii .ptii.es as intellectual wiuhj.
who. whil i not breaking bones upon the
football rieia, enjoyed the guintlo cxer.
< ..si- of beating women over th-> heads
with bats ;>.?!! :<au>.
This afternoon a committee of the
st:;k' rs hi id a conferonoj with the
inell's officials and |M*? nted tioditleu
demands calling fo. .snorter hours, an
In- r ased scale ef wage.s and double
pay for those who hai'ri to work dur.rig
th.. noon hours. The olflclols of th
* unpany refused to tr-ut the strikers
as an organisation, but saaJ they would
Individual applications for re?
instatement
PREPARING FOR HEARING
Harry K. J hn? Hopes to Prove tu
Court Tbut Ii,. I- Sane.
White Flams. N. Y.. June 10.?Ever
since Harry K. Thaw arriwd at tit*
s\ hiie Plains jail he has been opundtng
a largo part of his t'.m?. writing notes
and questions which Will is..- ueod when
the hearing .nto hia pr.?a<-r.t sanity
goes on faufore Justice Koogh in the
?i preme Court at White Plains on. n.xt
Monday. He has tri same tyjK-wrltor
which iie ute-d in 1009, When a similar
pro.-ccllng was !ie.i.rl k>y Justice Mills.
It was learned to-day thaj in addi?
tion to ClareJiee J. Shearn a"lel Charl.-s
Morschausw, Henry It. Bjrr-tt. a prom?
inent White Plain., laiwyer, has also
be-'n retained to aid '?i the light for
T...:-.vs lUwrty. f?r. ii. Ernst Schmld
ami Professor Charles Y. Mills, un
alienist who occupies a chair at the
University of Pennsylvania, arv- among
the experts who have Just examined
Thaw.
Th.- prisoner's mother, Mrs. Mary
Coplay Thaw, and h-.a s'.sper. Alice
Thaw, formerly the Countless of Yar?
mouth, will arrive hf-xe to-morrow,
where they will remain until a court
decision is r ached.
GENERAL STRIKE CALLED
Trnusport Workers' federation llrders
Men to Uutt Work.
London-. J-Vhc 10.?-The dockers'
frt.-ik... Which has been hanging !lro
for more than UWo weeks, to-ik a s n
s.ittonrtl turn to-night, when che cx
CCUUW hteds of the Transport Work?
ers' Ke.ler.it:on ..ailed a geiSegal strik.
of all trar.spori wo.-ke.TT-. Every port
in England promise* to be affected by
morning, nr.il the PO s a possiitillity of
its s.pi? ad:ng to l-'rance.
Th,-. ord-r lnvmedlate-ly threatens the
food supply of Iyor.don and orher great
centres of population. Tne authorities
during th-? pending strike havt- fur?
nished airnied bed.es. which guarded all
supplies as they w.-re removed from
ships to the various marke-ts, but as
the strike, was no% gen-era] throughout
this clt>f rh-> strike did not call for
much snow of forve. All avenues of
supply will now havo to be guarded -f
Cvi gr>v-.rnme.iii wishes to continue the
supply unhampered. Unless the strike
is speedily soitJed, it Is feared that all
trans-lAitl ant'.'! shipping -will bo se
rlously orippled.
HEFLIN IS CHOSEN
Ilc Will Make Aomlnntlnfir Speech for
Conirrf?smnn t'nderwood.
[Special toT?e Tim.vs-T?ispatc..i.3
Wa-shlnRton. Juno 10.?Jt was an
nounood home to-day that lbt'-presonta
tive llellln, of Alabama, praciloally had
been chos-in to make the nomlnotlng
rpeei h ftfl Conrgressman I'nderwood at
I Paltlmorc. There, la not a mor" pMaa
i lug sp'Slker in Congress than Mr.
Keflrn, and his spe. <-.h 1s certain to be
one of the big ones at the convention.
This agreement was ri-achel after
I consul tation Weitween Mr. UnA'Twood,
Senator Rankhead and oth'>rs inttir
1 ested In M^r. I'nderwood's ca.nvpaign.
I "Sir. llefiin reoenCy made o tour of
thv South and d<?*fT ired sspci'rhos for
Underwood, Jiverywhetre ho -was well
rceived.
Knrt T.orebnrn Itenlirna.
I^ondon, Juno 13.?Earl T.ore!>u<rTi,
\ l^ord llifrh Chan?ceJlor of Knigland, re
( slffiied to-day, and hns be?n succeexled
j by Viscount Tlald'ajir, formerly Socre
Uiry for *\var.
Turkey Trot Fatal
Atlantic City, X. J., June 10?Mrs,
' Agnes E. Day. twenty-one yenra old,
! In dead at her home, 10 Mount fer?
nen Avenue, an the result of her de?
sire to mnster (he turkey trot.
I Friends vrho heard of her sudden
l death Saturday morning: learned to
I day that she had been practicing
the dance with ber husband Friday
I nlirbt prior to going: to one of the
I piers to ivltness experts do the trot.
She waa iietzrd with a Midden pnln
la her side, and stopped the utren
' onus hop. Ten minutes Inter, when
' nhe, with her hueihnnd. ntnrted from
the house, the young womnn fell to
th,. floor tiaeonnrlniin. Before phy?
sicians had arrived eilte mi* dratl.
Rxnmlnntlon nbOTrrd that she It ml
hnrst a blond vennrl In her nlrte.
Girl Swatter Second in
Race, With 24 Boy
Scouts Leading.
FIGHTING ALONE
AGAINST CLUB
Contest for The Times-Dispatch
Prizes Grows Exciting Each
Day, Many Swatters Shift?
ing Positions as Flies Are
Counted?How They
Stand.
Fly Contest Leaders.
Wll ITB.
Hoy Scotlt? .
Sarah Jolinaon .
MethodlM MlMSloa !?<>>?
(ieiirKe C Hanl?? .
KloXil llr-nut .
Adelaide .
1 .lur I'filnfer.
I .li>?- Uneaty.
i rnn ford Maaaey.
( Inrr Ittirrh.
I'lillm <?.
Prank Mlnnl .
< 'nrl? le Moore-.
Trank. I.iii'br.
( OI.ORRD
[ Inc* llnrrl?.
I Kdirard Johnson.
1 \ lolel Cramp.
???-??II Wnltlc).
llllcn Hoorr.
Mn.lull.i,. Murrey.
OaldlM Wiirroll.
I'mi I Dnvl*.
Clementine I Inrk.
um,- Jenkins.
Grade .irflpr^nti.
\orvrll V. Hone*.
T. B. Johnson.
To?nl killed to ilnte.I.S77.fl24
Total killed yesterday. 4'.M.n24
<A hllr . niC.
Colored . iin.DTU
Tlf- race between fourteen-year
old Sarah Johnson anJ the Uoy
Scouts f r the llrst prize of $2.'. In '
The Times-Dispatch fly swatting con?
test grows more exciting every day.
For a time yesterday it seemed as
, If Sarah was destined to regain her
hold on lirst pluce by nn entry of1
co.000 flies, for the second time since
the opening of the , ontcst, establish
inn a record kill. Hut when the Boy
Scouts reported a hair of 58,000, It
waa found that they still retained
their grip on llrst place by 5,!<i>2, al?
though the girl gained more than 2,
f'OU on the leaders as a result of the
day's count. j
The wonderful single-handed work
of Sarah Johnson has aroused the In?
terest of the whole city in her light
against the twenty-four Hoy Scouts,
and a great deal of Inquiry has been
made regarding her methods of work.
a reporter for The Times-Dispatch
saww the bashful little girl yesterday i
and succeeded in getting a few hints
from her about her work.
I "How on earth do you kill so many
I dies alone*.-" asked the reporter, vote
jing the universal question.
"Ob, I Just trnp 'em and poison
'cm," she replied modestly. I put my
traps out every day in the front of
1 a bakery shop, but I catch most by
poising. 1 use sugar or molasses for
bait In the traps, but the Hies seem
I to like the poison best."
Sarah lias discovered of her own
accord the finest process for making
heavy kills. AH the leaders who have
really figured In the race have used
traps, but her scheme of poisoning
is the best yet.
The tremendous kill of 424.524 flics,
made by all the eoiuu-tants yesterday,
naturally produced some startling
changes in the leaders' list. By a
kill of 21,000, George Hanks succeed?
ed In forging nast Floyd Bryant and
?wrestling from him the coveted fourth
place on the ladder. Bryant Is run?
ning a bare 4,non behind Hanks, how?
ever, and from present indications tr).-.?e
two boys will fight It out for fourth
money. Another little girl. Adelaide
Miles, jumped Into the limelight yes?
terday with a kill of 27.000, which
promptly lifted her from eight place
to sixth. Joe I'ninter, who failed to
make his entry yesterday. dropped
from sixth to seventh place.
Next to Sarah Johnson's phenomenal
kill ,the start made by little Joe
On fitly was the feature of the day
nmong the wh'te contestants. I'ntll
yesterday Joe was unplaced among
the leaders, but hard work during Sun?
day and yesterday lifted him to eighth
place over the heads of a score of
competitors. Clare Burch and Philip
Goodwin also rose mightily In the
column by their work of tho past two
dayto
tu <h<. Colored TJtvlnlon.
The tiny colored champion, Edward
Johnson, eight years old, and knee
high to the table, fell from grace and
first plnce yesterday when Inez Ilnr
rls carried in IS,000 files against the
little fellow's 11.000. This great spurt,
however, only gnve Inez a lead of 3,
000 over Rdwnrd, who is slill within
easy striking distance, and likely to
resume his leadership any day. The
solemn, determined attitude of this
rhnp, whose eyes bsjrely reacli to the
fly-counting table, has aroused the
Intord-d of all ronnectod with the con?
test. While showing ht?' chagrin at;
hip drop into second place yesterday,
he trotted out of the room with ills air
of grim determination unmnrrcd,
Reversals among the colored con?
testants were not >o marked yesterday
as among the white, Violet Crump
holding her claim to (hlrd place, and
the. other leaders changing but slightly
In the line-up. Cecil Whltlcy did.forge
out of fifth place Into fourth with a
kill of 11,000. but he has a narrow mar?
gin over Kllen Moore, the dtsplnced
claimant to fourth money. Gold 18 Wor
rel Jumped from eighth to seventh
place. Faul Davis climbed up two on
the ladder to eighth, and Ollle Jenkins
come out of obscurity into tenth place.
They f.et Prize Money.
If no other contestants make un
usually energetic exertions, tho four
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WARSHIP MENACE
MAY BRING PEACE
Excitable Cubans Sober?
ed by Presence of Ves?
sels in Harbor.
LESSENS DANGER
OF INTERVENTION
Torrential Rains Also Aid in
Quelling Revolution Among
Negroes of Island?Orestes
Ferrara Asks United States
to Give Cuba Chance to
Settle Own Troubles.
Washington, .lunn 10.?The presence
ft American warships In Havana har?
bor this afternoon may t.< regarded as
greatly diminishing the likelihood of.
Intervention in Cuba, according to the
construction placed upon that fact by
the administration. It Is felt that
the mere presence of the two war?
ships will restrain the testiess and ex?
citable element of Havana.
Secretary Knox, who all along has
lost no opportunity of declaring
against any purpose to intervene poli?
tically!!! Cuba unless absolutely driven
to do so by the failure of the Cuban
government to uphold the law and
ptotect life and prupe.-t;.. felt called
ii| lO-u?y to renew tnat assurance
directly to the Cubaii people through
Orestes Ferrara, Speaker of th. Cuban
House of Representatives. And he
also let It b? known to th- American
people, hot only that the United Slates
dect not contemplate Intervention, but
that he believed that tr.e Cuban gov?
ernment would be able itselt to sup
ji.xs the insurrection, fc'enor Ke-rrara
Ik believed to have derived great com?
fort from his talk witft the Secretary
Of State.
?tains Aid to Peace.
The heavy torrential taint In
Havana are now believe-, to be an Im?
portant factor in precepting the out
tieak of race riots tin re. When the
rains stop it is believed here- the op
pt-slng elements will make no further
effort to create race riots because or
the presence of the cruiser Washing?
ton and tho battleship Rhode island
In Havana harbor.
The gunboat Nashville reported that
Sagua waws belnc attacked by rebels,
but the Fruit Company manager felt
confident of his ability to defend the
property unless attacked by over?
whelming numbers.
The present troubles arc rapidly
be'nar transferred to the northern
coast of Oriente province and the
Nashville has returned to Nlpe Bay.
The Spanish-Amnr'can iron Corn
pah] r-norts the lootlnc of the Boss
Flnca property one mile from Santi?
ago and the burning of the cane
tl<dds of Hat.Ho nla.ilation near San
lull's. The main body of the rebels is
now declared to be Operating be?
tween Mayarl and Sagua.
The feeling is growing stronger
here that Major - General Leonard
W'ooil. chief of staff, would be the
man to send to Cuba to settle the
present troubles. However, the Unit
ed States has taken no steps towards
mediating In the nresent crisis.
Bringing n message of salutation
from the Cuban Congress, Senor Or?
estes Kerrara. Speaker of the Cuban
House of Representatives, to-day ad?
dress.-1 the American House of Rep?
resentatives and was given an enthu
Blastlc reception. He declared the
present Cuban revolution was actual?
ly "more in diplomatic papers than
in reality," and urged the United
States to let the Cuban government
work out Its own salvation In put?
ting down the uortslna. He express?
ed his belief that this would be done,
fore he said "Justice and the United
States were sviionvmous."
Almost I nder Control.
Senor Ferrara, in a statement ro
gar ling conditions in CuDa, declared
to-night the present movement ?a?
praetlcally under control; that it war
condemned by the majority of the ne?
groes on the island, and characterised
as pure invention r<-i?orts that he canit
to the United States seeking a loan.
He declared the re\olutlon wns being
fostered by certain irresponsible inter?
ests. Asked who they were, he said.
"A clique of merchants and political
persons who want to exchange human
blood for dollars."
Notwithstanding the objection made
by Senator Bacon and others to the
employment of the army and navy to
restore order In <*uha without spo.-lflo
direction from ''.ingress, the President
Is quite clear in his own mind of ills
perfect right to do this, and it has
been decided to continue the policy
already Initiated of using the n.nr.nes
to guard American properties In Cuba
and also to use the army if th^t shall
become necessary.
The first division of the Atlantic
fleet, which left Annapolis to-day fo
Cape Cod, wns to-night ordered by ttu
Navy Department to await further In?
structions at Hampton Bonds. The
Massachusetts, Utah, North Dakota,
Florida and Delaware compose the
division, which may be ordered to Cuba.
Intervention Drrnded.
i Havana. June in?Interest in Hc
vann centred to-night In the probable
outeorr.e of Colonel Orestes Ferrara's
mission to Washington, which Is gen?
erally believed to be for the purpose
j of convincing the American govern?
ment that there Is no necessity fir
Intervention.
1 The cfimpnlg" !? Oriente and n>l
questions bearing on the race animosi?
ties have become Insignificant as com?
pared with the possibility of Interven?
tion. The Impending arrival of the
Fnitod Slates battleships Nebraska
and New Jersey from Key West tends
to strengthen the belief that the United
States Is about to take a leading hand
In Cuban affair*
All danger of racial disturbances In
Havana has apparently been dlsslo.it.<1
by the arrival of Rear-Admiral Oster
haua on the flagship Washington and
the battleship Rhode Island this after
{C^n?lliueT cm^Elghtli Page.)
For Roosevelt?But Not a Boiler
SRXATOR WILLIAM n. DO ILA n.
EIGHT MURDERED
WHILE SLEEPING
Entire Family and Guests Arc
Slain in Their
Beds.
NO CLUE TO THE BUTCHER
Bloody Finger Prints All the
Police Have to Work
Upon.
Villlsca. Ia., June 10.?Eight bodies
?all mutilated almost beyond recog
nitlon?were found murdered 'n tho I
home to-day of Joseph B. Moore, a !
prominent business man of tills place.
The dead:
Joseph II. Moore and nlfej Herman I
Moore, a?rd eleven| Catherine Moore. I
aged nine; Doyd Moore, aged seven)
I'iiiiI Moore, aged nlxi l.cnn and Inn
; Spllllaseri uged fifteen nn<] nine re?
spectively.
The bodies of all, with their heads
terribly mashed with an axe, were
found murdered in their beds. There
is no definite clue to the murderer, ol-1
though tho authorities are searching
for a suspect. A desire for revenge
I?. believed to have prompted the mur?
der.
Only on? of 'he bodies showed In?
dications of a struggle. One of tho
Splllinger girls lay with one arm
thrown out as If she had awakened
and tried to ward oft the murderer's
blow.
A lighted kerosene lamp was found
on the floor In the middle, of the room
occupied by Mr. nnd Mrs. Moore.
The only clue to the slayer so far
discovered nre bloody finger prlntu in
I different parts of the house. Inquiry
' has convinced the authorities that no
other visitor was at the Moore home
la-t night up to the time the family
retired.
No Outcry Heard.
I The houpe stands among a number
I of residences, but none of the neigh?
bors heard an outcry last night,
j The crime Is baffling the authorities,
I who have been unable to secure a
I trace of the murderer, and have little
1 or no clue to hlf. Identity. It is np
' parent the murderer bud a key to a
door of the bouse, because oil doors
anil windows were found locked.
The first Intimation of the crime,
came when a clerk in ttte Implement
' house of Mr. Moore went to Mr.
Moore's home l?> find what delayed
, him In reaching hir place of business
to-day, Finding th< house locked, the
window shades all drawn and no one
about, he notified the neighbors, und
j with assistance forced all entrance,
i The dead, with one exception, were
found In their beds, apparently slecp
? Ing and until the wounds on their
heads and the blood on the pillows'
i was discovered, the searchers could
not believe anything wu.s wrong In the
house, A bloody axe with hair und
pieces cf brain clinging to It, obvious
I lv the Implement used u< the wholesale
I murder, later was found In nn upstairs
rennt. Mr. and Mrs. Moore Were In
{ one bed. mi another were two of the
boys. The sister.occupied a third, and
the youngest hoy was nione In a small
I bed. The bedding had nnwhero been
: disarranged.
The Spilllngcr girls, who were over
right guests, occupied a room In an
'other part of the house. Absence of a
I clue to the slayer's identity and the.
1 difficulty of Imputing a motive for
j the slaughter of an entire household,
have left the authorities half dazed.
Blood Stains Only Due.
Blood stain.1, including finger prints
on tho front door knob and on the
wood work, are the only clues the of?
ficers hnve to work upon.
A militia company Is patrolling the
section of the city near the Moon
home until bloodhounds cnti be put
upon the trail.
The bodies will not bo removed until
a coroner's jury has exnmlned them.
News of the crime traveled fast, and
fContlnuod on Second Tage.) i
STAGE SETTING
NOW COMPLETE
Headquarters of All Republican
Candidates Have Been
Opened.
VARIOUS CAMPS ARE BUSY
Nothing Will Be Overlooked in
Efforts to Capture
Delegates.
Chicago. June in.?The, stage act- |
ting for the Republican National Cr-n- j
ventlon was completed to-day \vith
the opening of the I.a Follctto and
Cummins headquarters nt hotels. Cum-j
mlns headquarters were established In
the same hotel that houses the Taft
and the Roosevelt workers. The l.a
Follr-lte heaquartcrs, opened by Al?
fred T. Rogers, national cotnm'ttoeman
from Wlsclnsln, are situated six blocks
from the others.
The managers of the several heftd
quarters, together with their advisers
and associates, to-night completed
plans for the reception of delegates,
who arc expected to begin arriving to?
morrow. Special committees to han?
dle the delegates have been named, and
will be on duty from this time until
the close of the convention.
A direct appeal will be made to each
individual delegate by the campaign
manager of each candidate for the
nomination, despite instructions or
pledges. No possible vote in the con- i
ventlon will be overlooked, and any
I indication among the delcgutos of
shifting sentiment wltl precipitate a1
, lively scramble among the managers. !
i A number of prominent Roosevelt]
? leaders to-day declared reports of a
pnbsihie bolt by the Rooseyelt delo-!
gates, In ess.- the President's friends1
! succeed in nominating Mr. Taft, were
without reasonable foundation.
I Senator W illiam K. Borah, of Idaho.
I an active worker for Roosevelt In the
' pesslons of the national committee,
; said:
"No bolt for ir.e. I linve not even
'considered such a possibility. And
' l don't expect to consider it."
The Roosevelt heudquarters were
part'cularly alive with meetings and
conferences this afternoon and to?
night. A number of well-known
Itnoscvett Adherents, Including Judge
! Ben II. tilndsey, of Colorado: Jam s
! It. Oarflcld, of Ohio; Congressman
William Kent, of California, and c.lf
ford Pinchot, of Washington, wore
ameng the scores to participate In
the various councils held in the in
' terests of the former President
"We have cot them 'aknnad'
spile the work of the national com
I mltlec," raid Oar Hold, who was See
I retarv of lh.- Interior nude - Roose?
velt. "This committee ?nu..t stop
'the nomination ol Roosevelt, There
i Will be an uprising against the action
j here
j "This nation has been aroused, as
.it it's not been In . presidential cam?
paign of recent memory, and the ver?
dict is on the side of Lho progres?
sives. The convention proper will
undo lite raw' things Ibis committee
may put nv.-r. Colonel RoOSCVelt's
friends ate confident of the outcome."
I'm lin MncVeHgh, .Secretary of
th<- Treasury, visited the Taft head?
quarters during the day. and ? 1 ? -
ic1ftred thnt President Taft would be
] nominated on the llrst ballot.
! Oscar R. Hundley, of ih. Ninth Al?
abama District, of which the Taft
delegates were seated by the national
committee, to-day sent a telegram to
(President Taft protesting against the
action of the committee. The telo
( gram recited the contentions of the
Ik ospvoll delegates from that dls;
jti'ct and said in part:
j "The mnjorlty of the national com?
mittee have voted to unseat the
j regularly elected delegates from Ihn
I Ninth liistrirt of Alabama. Do you
j vouch for this unheard-of act on the
I pnrt of your partisans, and do you
desire your nomination secured by
I such methods."
EVEN DOZEN MORE
TO TAFT COLUMN
Day's Work Results in
No Gains for Third
Termer.
NO MERCY SHOWN
BY STEAM-ROLLER
Roosevelt's Flimsy Contests Are
Crushed and Flattened Out by
Faultlessly Working Machine.
Famous Indiana Cases Are
Decided in Favor of
President.
Chicago, Juno 1".?To-day's work of
tin. Republican National Confkitttee
added twelve more delegates to tho
catalogue of the Tuft strength on tho
temporary roll of tho Republican Na?
tional Convention. The. much discuss?
ed Indiana contests came heforo tho
committee and were decided, all in
Taft's favor.
With the seventy-two delegates com
prlsed In tho Southern contests decld
I cd last week In the Alabama, Arkan?
sas. Florida and Georgia cases, to?
day's gains make a total of eighty
four delegates added to the Taft forces
ry the work of the national commit?
tee. With the 201 Instructed and un
j contested delegates credited to him,
they brlnrj his present total on tho
temporary roll up to 286. A large pro?
portion of the contested seats among
the 170 cases still to Do passed on by
tho committee are represented as In?
structed for Taft; the precise num?
ber Is the subject of much dispute, nor
can It be stated how many of these
contests Tnft will win.
The cases decided to-day were those
t of tho Indiana dclcgatlon-at-largc.
) four in number, headed by Colonel
Harry S. New, chairman of the con
\entlon committee on arrangements,
and Including former Vice-President
Charles W. Fairbanks and the district
delegations of two each from tho
First. Third and Thirteenth Districts.
Contest ?Withdrawn.
Tho contest In tho Fourth District
was withdrawn and tho commltteo
confirmed the two sitting (Taft) delo
I gates.
The renl tight of the day In the cotn
| mitten came, not on ths contests over
the delegates-at-large, where, as It
had been expected, tho commltteo was
unanimous In giving them to Taft, but
over the seating of two Taft delegates
from the Thirteenth, or South Bena,
District.
Attempts of the Roosevelt nttorneys
to Introduce certnln afl'davits, dcclar
eo by them to beor the signatures or
n majority of the delegates to the dis?
trict convention at South Bend at
which tho Taft delegates were chosen,
precipitated the only sensational In?
terchange of tho day and caused a
biidden reversal of tho committee's
veto, which was not explained to the
satisfaction of tho Roosevelt men.
Senator norah taunted tho Taft men
about it. telling them they changed
front because they were seaVed.
I "The worst scared lot of inen I ovfer
saw," he said. "What has happened?
Whom have you eonsultod? What has
come over you? Whence came this
revelation?" ho demanded.
The Taft men denied that they were
scared, or that any special light had
broken In upon them; they Insisted
that their first vote, against admitting
the affidavits, was because of their de?
sire not to delay the hearings by thft
necessity of giving tin Taft side an
opportunity to answer them or to
rreat a precedent, which would bo
! embarrassing In later cases. Their
reversal of the vote was coupled with
a specific declaration that It was not
to ho regarded as a precedent. In this
j form the Roosevelt men all voted
against it.
So the eommlttee heard the affidavits,
with verbal testimony lit enntraven
I tlon of their allegations, and then
I voted to seat tho Taft delegates. The
I vrte, .'It! to 14. represents what has
h. en the line-up between the factions
! ever since the committee came togeth
jcr.
I llnttle on t'nllfnriila.
Thl* was not the first battle of tho
'day, however. Before the Indiana cases
were taken up the committee came
?near a turbulent scene. A motion by
[Senator Crane, of Massachusetts, to
postpone until Wednesday the case of
the Fourth District of < allfornla. In
Iaccordance with th" request of former
'?enator Dick, ihe Taft contest leader.
I met the opposition of tho Roosevelt
forces. The case already had boen
called, and the attorneys and con?
testants were In their places when this
question arose. Mr. Dick argued that
n similar delay had been granted last
week in the California case at the
request of the Roosevelt people, and
he thought he was entitled to the
courtesy. During this debate tho
fabled "steam roller" figured In the
discussion. Some ..f the Tnft men re?
sented mention of the political Jugger?
naut, which, they said, was a fiction.
[Whereupon Mr. Borah later Intimated
that the Roosevelt people had no sen?
sitiv? ness on the subject; In fact,
rather liked to talk about the meta?
phorical miK'hlno.
In the roll cnll on the California
postponement, tho line-up was 3S to
13, the personnel Of each side being
substantially the same as in the othor
divisions on factional lines
FRANCE IS TIED UP
Strike ?->n Vessel Likely to Spread t?
Shipping Trade?.
! Havre June 10.? The strltoe of firs
I men trtnumers and ?;nmen on the
' steamship France yesterday threatens
to involve all rhw shipping In this har
! bar ? meeting of 1,000 men allied v/lth
th.- shipping trades voting for'a gen?
eral strike The employes of t-ie
! Franote demand an Inapease of $?'> per
month foi fir men ind Ji a month for
other positions. The gotviral strips
committee has urged thorn to -remain
lout until their demands are, granted.
M awwhlie th.? France is tJi'.d up. and
her sailing, wlrendv d-*Tayi?d nearly two
I days, has boon 'ijdeP.r.ltcly postponed.