•f 'itt-.-^ /4i^:.-'«t''J'''i":,i!rf''4'" F&PS -The senate Friday adopted a re|6 ltttfott fav«irtngr a retentton of a^pro-, tecUve tariff on hides, wool tind farm ers' produce, Mr .Martin presented the resolution on Thursday and^mov ed 1ta adopttea In the session Friday. Senator Purcell wanted to amend* it hjjj£ a^infttlng that the^ Republican leaders did not know what t^ey Were talking about when they advocated a tariff revision. Senator. LaMoure made a point of order on the amend ment. President Lewis ruled tfrat the amendment be out of order. Mr. Martin *avored the adoption of the resolution and Senator Purcell spoke against it^ The resolution was finally adoi»tei.X:",'?v5!i. '..- VU... Senator Diflsalso presented a reso lotion for an adjournment Ittian Fri-, day antll 'Tne«^^,teM*^I^!f*?«?. cnade a point oi.,bV^rl^aJ^.u^f^ait| could npt «djquj6 lOR tjh^ long a time wKnout a ooncurrent-Tesolution. Sen- m^r". iempUted toy the constttuttbn. Pres ident Lewis referred the point of or oW to the senate and it was not sus tained and the senate adjourned until :«. Honolulu, Feb. 19.—Two bills s\% rected against foreigners fishing in Jlawaiian waters have been latroduc? In territorial iegislai ir- One of the bills proLJ. fts aliens :ro-n fishing in Hawaiian waters. The other im pos a heavy tax on fishing sampans of over thirty-inch beam. Japanese are practically the the on ly Orientals engaged in the fishing business and" the only ones using sampans^ The only non-alien fisher ^en In Hawaii are Japanese. Tnti bills were introduced by Senator Coelho, Republican, who is a native: Hawaiian, general sentiment here is unfavorable to the measure Mate a I of Mny Bills and Passed TWB- Wiie li Way When pas^-by bdth houWsi #v*.„a. frol^it^fitrfaj^ $ Tuesday next at the dose of the5 session. The committee on game and fish reported the Talcott game bill with: a number of amendments. The com mittee oh temperance held a session in the morning and considered the drug permit bill and, reported an en tirely new bill which was ordered re printed as amended. Other bills reported were: Senate ©ill No, 206, closing of tem perance saloons at night, to pass. Senate Bill No. 299, minors not al lowed in pool halls, etc., to pass. House Bill No. 131, patents for state lands for townsites, to paas, House Bill No. 125, right of way to state lands, to pass. Senate Bill No. 93, sale of lands at Whltestone Hills, to pass. #1 _" Senate Bill No. 245, regulation of foreign Insurance companies, killed. Senate Bill No. S47, deposits'-Of *e ciiritles of domestic insJurahce cbini panies, to pass. I Senate Bill No. propriation *f ftj^^ratttrai^ con tor asp* -*|ow«'- l^'ite. ^it construction of drains, to paiC.• 'fr:, .-.''. "',• Senate Bill No. 92 uniform^system of drains, to pass. (Continued on page 4.) for the Hangman's Rope When Soprerae Court Grants Hlra a Reprieve Lincpjn Neb., Feb, 19.—With only, an hour to Ijjve tinder the terms of the warrant read, to him, R.^ Mead Shum way was reprieved by a supreme oourt uispatch and stay,of sentence g.-duted Until March 5th. Shumway wis ccra dcinried to death for the murder of M«.s Sarah Martin, the crime having bv.e ncommitted" September 3, 1001. The reprieve was granted under a ihowing made in a. .dayit»that one rof the jurors who sat in the case com milted "suicide of remorse over his ac quiesence, In the death penalty and a further a..davit that Shumway. was struck -on the head when a boy so that his mind was affected in consequence. F. G. Hamer, who worked, for Shum way's reprieve, wilh seek commutation of sentence to ltfe imprisonment Shumway was to die. He-had put on his death suit, dark gray instead of the usual black, had eaten his last .dinner, had heard the death warrant read to Him, while he held the electric light so that Clerk ^Heileman could" see' plainly, iihd hadTistened^ tdiittie wordsi ci the mmister ^Ever^ning wij sftjror L»t death, and a crowd of pile 'hiiiidred and fifty, the largest crowd ever gath ^rcd within" m^prisbia vfifils td w|tr«!Ssj the isxecutiortx waited In the cold broom cdr^. warehouse,, and the jikngroan was. leaning against the scaffold waiting for his victim. Then the warden ran across the court crying dut ^eprtey^^^W Th* state board of isii^af'cM^' 1 stoneA a in a to liear ^c]p»Uti«ik -!oF^':p!eopiS\oi ii ii '&-$£ fcween the Great Northern and the roads at that point. lbo«hoke, Va,, Fel Christian, the negro who yel criminally assaulted and murdei Miss Mary Bobbs, the rourteen-jN old daughter of a Botecourt coutt farmer, was today sentenced to die in the electric tahair in the state pen March 22. At a conference between lawyers and the prisoner, Christian made, A confession which he later repeated in court to the judge.. The court heard three witnesses who estaibliah ed the time and place of the crime. No jury was summoned. The judge accepted Christian's '••onfesslon and immediately imposed the death sen tence. -:'^l TAFI JOINS IM Cincinnati, O., Feb. 19.—President^!?' elect Taft was tonight" made a Knocker "at sight" His inltiaOpfi1^*" furnished entertainment for one hun aired prominent business and profes sional men of the city, at Knocker's annual dinner.. ^fs:7j Cincinnati Knocker's organization ment of the city and to originate an^ promote enterprises and undertakings* W *he dty's welfaJeeV^n Is unTau^Ifi that It has no known organization and no one" knows who are its members. It makes members of whom it pleases and dismisses them at wfil. The annual dinners of the Knock er's club have become famous for their entertainment features and the "stunts" which begin with the first course and* continue throughout, ar3 all (calculated to have origin in some series purpose of advancement, al though deleted In merriment. The president-elect was not allowed to make a speech, which was inter preted as a delicate compliment from his townsmen, who were In fact say ing farewell to him as a private citi xen. As the guest of honor at the dinner it was his first escape from oratory for twenty years. The ten sion upon Mr. Taft was made, even lighter than freedom from speaking, as a skillfully made up "double" rep resented him in the entertainment features, occupying a conspicuous place at the raised table, With "Uncle Sam" and "Miss Columbus." The spacious rooms of the Business Men's club were resplendent in drap eries of flags and in decorations of (Continued on page 8.) .dison, Wis., Feb. 19.—--The bank methods used' in handling the aign expenditures of United Senator Isaac Stephenson, gh J. H. Puelicher, a Milwaukee :er, took up the attention of the nsin legislative: .committee in ating the senatorial primary to- elicher was on the stand all the oon. He explained the manner hich deposits were made and of receiving amounts aggregat $101,400 through J. A. Van Cleave arinette, on Mr. Stephenson be June 2$ and November 20, for oampaign bills. The money, (Continued on page 8.) INDIANS TO REPRESENT SO DAKOTA. jg^yashington, D. C, Feb. 19.—Rev John Eastman of Sisseton, S. D., a full blooded Sioux' Indian, was today ap pointed South Dakota's representa iiei$1on the staff of the grand martial is an auxiliary of its business men's of the inaugural parade. Eastman is blub. Its particular business is to knock hard, and effectively' everything tending to hinder material adva«|| JUDGE GOES TO PEN married to a white woman. Hl^icago, -HI., Feb. 19.—Former Cir c^K^Court Judge Abner Smith, and 5u*urt» P. Sorrow, under'thedecision of the supreme court at Springfield to days must go to the penitentiary. They were convicted of wrecking the Bank of America ten days after it had been opened for business, the stockholders losing $175,000. RESTING PUCE FOR JOHN PAUL JONES Washington, Feb. 19. The house committee on naval affairs has report ed favorably a bill passed by the sen ate appropriating $135,000 for finishing the crypt of the chapel at Annapolis naval academy as a permanent resting place? for the body of John Paul Jones. Gen. Horace Porter, former ambas sador to France, who was largely in strumental in arranging for the re moval of the body of the commander of the Bon Homme Richard from France, expended $35,000 out of his private purse in arranging for the re moval., He has suggested that this amount be appropriated for the com pletion of the crypt instead of for the purpose of reimbursing him. $ TOyWMtb^THr SUFFRAGETTE. orOiair txndon BbhMe being unaMe to handle the suffragettes, duty.^Newa Item. -, .*^X 3 ftftffclfttf!^^ Chicago, HI., Feb. 19.—Martin B. Madden, president of the Associated Labor and Trades council of Chicago, and M. J. Boyie, business agent of the Theatrical Workers' union, were x1n- dicted today by the Cook county grand jury. True bills containing at least two counts were returned in Judge Free mans court. One count is said to charge conspiracy against certain con tractors. Capiases were issued for the arrest of the men indicted and bonds were fixed at $5,000. ^Madden, who is known as "Skinny" Madden, has been a prominent figure in labor and industrial affairs in Chi cago for many years. Two separate indictments were found against each of the men, one charged extorting $1,000 from H. H. Nelson of the F. Nelson Piano company, for al leged calling off of a strike on the com pany, and .the other charge is of ex torting from Joseph Klicka $700 under similar circumstances. Many contrac tors, architects, owners of buildings and labor officials had been called be fore the grand jury. Tremendous Expansion of the Tobacco Trust in HwartTew Washington, D. C, Feb. 19.—Tn a re port transmitted to President Roose velt today, Herbert Knox Smith, com missioner of corporations, presents some highly interesting history of the organization of the "tobacco combina tion," which in the magnitude of its business operations, is one of the greatest organizations in America. The report is a result, in part, of an ex tensive investigation into the tobacco industry made by the bureau of cor porations. Subsequent reports will deal with the control of the tobacco industry, with prices and profits, and with competitive methods. Today's reports set forth the rise of one of the great combinations of the country. In his letter of transmittal, Commissioner Smith says that it "deals with the history from the stand point of its organization, of the great tobacco combination. Starting in 1890 as the American Tobacco company, a manufacturer of cigarettes, with a cap ital of $25,000,000, the combination has now a net capitalization (excluding in ter-company holdings) of $316,346,821. It has absorbed about 250 separate con cerns, and now controls substantially four-fifths of the output of each im portant kind of tobacco manufactured in the United States, with the excep tion of cigars. TRUST COTS OUT THE RACY PLAYS New York, Feb. 19.—Bitter war be tween the theatrical syndicate and the Shuberts is expected because of the announced intention of Abraham Er langer, spokesman for the syndicate, to close its theatre to all shows com plained of on the ground of im morality. This dictum by the syndicate is sup posed to include the Blue Mouse, now playing at the Shuberts': Lyric theatre. This latest Clyde Fitch comedy has ijeen booked by the syndicate through out the country, but it is understood that these bookings will be canceled. MYSTERIOUS AUTO SEIZED. St. Petersburg, Feb. 19.—The police of Riga today seized a mysterious au tomobile that frequently of late has been seen in the streets of that -city. An examination showed it to contain complete emiippment for printing re volutionary literature. Six men con nected with the plant were taken in to castody. -...J,'.. Tittey Served Will Warrant NikiBg Ibis He Will Deny the Charge and Ask Bearioj Complaining Witness Is lln hnowo and Not at Pres entinCily Another chapter in the firama of sensations which is just now on the stage at Bismarck was enacted yester day when', early in the morning, a war rant was served by Sheriff McGillis on Landlord Tatley of the Grand Pacific hotel. The complaint being the main tenance of a "common nuisance." It seems the warrant was issued through Justice of the Peace Pierce on complaint of someone at present un known to Mr. Tatley. Mr. Tatley sa\rs he wants a prompt hearing and the date will be set today. It is said the complaining witness is not at present in the city, and this leads to speculation as to what is at the bot tom of this matter whether some spotter from the Enforcement league has been around or whether it is a sort of dragnet proceeding instituted by some of the blind piggers who have recently been bound over to the district court Probably warrants are out for the other hotels. The fact of their not having" been served promptly does not argueTagsmst their issue,"as'Mr/^Tatley was informed when served with his war rant that the sheriff had had the same for a couple of days and had just got around to serve it—there being no spe cial reason for haste. Mr. Tatley emphatically denies the presence of any blind pig attachment to his hotel and it is pretty generally be (Continued on page 8.) IMPORTANTTO INDEPENDENTS Illinois Supreme Court De cides Outside Corpora HODS Cannot Gobble Up State Independent Com panies Springfield, HI., Feb. 19.—A decis ion said to be of great importance throughout the country was rendered by the supreme court today when a decision was handed down invalidat ing the sale of the majority stock of the Kellogg Switch Board Company to the American Telephone and Tele graph company. The contract for the sale of the stock of the Kellogg company, a big independent concern, was entered into eight years ago. It was fought to the supreme court on technicalities, and then sent back to the lower courts "to be tried on its merits. The suit was filed by the minority stockholders through one of their number, F. W. Dunbar, F. H. Robbins acting as attorney in the matter. The sale was opposed on the. ground that it is against the public -policy of the state to allow a foreign, corporation to secure control of a corporation for the purpose of creating a monopoly. "I think today's decision will end the -case," said Mr. Robbins. "I see no point in which it can. be earrteB to the supreme court of the United States, and the settlement ought to be regarded as great good news hfr the independent telephone companies throughout the country.- They havt watched the case closely throughout long years of HtigatW and similar cases in ottwr Mates cannot but be affected fcy the decision handed 4own is