Forty-Two Pages
IN SIX PARTB
PRICE: KifißSffS 65 CENTS
VOL. XXXIV
M MIIKII :i.-,<l
FORGER IS
ARRESTED
NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL TRAPPED
AT HOLLENBECK
TRIES TO SWALLOW A FALSE
CHECK
Arthur L. Hadsell, Alias Ford, Thought
to Be Prepared to Flood the
State with Bad
Paper
Arthur L. Haasell, one of the most
notorious as well as cleverest of check
forgers known to the police of the Pacific
coast, Is a prisoner at the city Jail with
the charge of forgery written opposite his
name on the blotter. His arrest was one
of the most dramatic and spectacular
which has been made In Los Angeles, and
was affected at the Hollenbeck hotel,
where he tried to negotiate a bogus check
for $100 drawn on the account of the
Western Union Telegraph company at the
First National bank.
Yesterday morning Hadsell arrived at
the Hollenbeck hotel and registered as
Eugene C. Ford. Bakersfleld, Gal. He was
without baggage and paid In cash for a
day's entertainment at the Hotel. Shortly
after registering he left the hotel and
was not seen about the office for several
hours.
Within an hour or bo after he left a
telegram was received at the hotel ad
dressed to Eugene C. Ford, and it was
handed to him a few moments after his
return late in the afternoon.
Ford, or Hadsell, opened and read the
telegram and then walked out of the
office, being gone but a. few minutes. On
his return he walked up to the desk and
presented a check drawn to the order of
Eugene C. Ford and purporting to have
been signed by R. H. Miller, manager of
the Western Union Telegraph company,
in the sum of $100, which he asked the
clerk to cash for him.
The V:heck was a llthofjrnphed one in
form .similar to the checks used by the
Western Union Telegraph company, ex
cept that It was printed on white paper
instead of the pale blue safety paper used
by the company.
The check in form was as follows:
"Not over one hundred dollars. $100. No.
5387.
"Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 21, 1907.
"Western Union Telegraph company:
"Pay to Eugene C. Ford or bearer $100.
One hundred dollars.
"R. H. Miller, Mgr. First National bank,
Los Angeles, California."
Limit Stamped
The "Not over one hundred dollars" was
stamped across the top of the check by a
Befety device machine. The date was
printed in with a rubber stamp In black
Ink and the body of the check was filled
out In black ink In a schoolboylsh hand.
The. signature was written in the, same
handwriting, and the words "First Na
tional bank, Los Angeles, California"
were stamped in the lower right hand
corner of the check In red ink.
When he presented the check and asked
th:u it be cashedarfof him there was no
suspV'on on the part of the clerk that it
was 'iot genuine. Following a rule of the
house, however, it was referred to Man
ager Mitchell.
Mr. Mitchell detected that the check
was false. He knew that the real checks
issued are on blue, paper, and he saw the
signature was forged.
"Where did you get this check?" asked
Mitchell.
"I received it a few minutes ago at the
trtegraph office," replied Ford. "Here is
my telegram." He presented the tele
gram, which read:
"Pasadena, Sept. 21.— Eugene C. Ford,
Hollenbeck hotel. Money wired from
Y,uma yesterday— W. C. Adams."
Mitchell told Ford that he would hava
to wait for a few minutes until the cash
ier of the hotel returned from his lunch
eon. Leaving Ford, he called up th.)
Western Union company and received the
information from Manager Miller thac
no such check had been issued.
Ford in the meantime was standing
quietly near the window of the cashier's
office and chatted in a casual way with
the clerk.
Mitchell summoned Reglna(d Cowan,
house detective, and they waited for
Manager Miller of the telegraph com
pany accompanied by his cashier, E. B.
Merrill, to arrive. They pronounced the
paper a forgery.
Faces Culprit
Mitchell took the check and with Cowan
walked irp to Ford. Mitchell said: "This,
check is bogus and you know It. "What
have you to say for yourself?"
Without a word Ford reached for tho
cheek and before they could anticipate
-him had taken it from Mitchells hand
and thrust it into his mouth in an effort
to swallow it and thus destroy all evi
dence.
Cowan, crying to Mitchell to choke him,
seized Ford's arms and twisted them be
hind his back. Mitchell grabbed the man
by the thro:tL and literally forced the
cheek from the man's mouth.
Blue in the face and gasping for breath
Ford finally opened his mouth and spat
out the check, torn and chewed. There
was enough of It left to plainly show the
The police were notified and Detectives
Ritch and Roberd went to the hotel and
placed Ford under arrest.
As soon as the detectives saw the man
they recognized him as Hadsell and re
called the fact that three years ago he
had flooded this city with forged pay
checks of the Sunset Telephone company,
with, which corporation he was connected
at the time.
The recognition was mutual and Had
sell laughingly said to the detective: "I
guess you have got me this time, Roberds,
but I gave you the slip before."
"That is what you did," replied Rob
erds, "but I don't think you will get out
of this as easy as you did the other."
"Oh no/ coolly responded Hadsell.
"I'm a goner this time and there is no
use crying over Bpllled m»k"
On his way from the hotel he slipped
another forged check Identical in every
respect with the one which he trled,to
pass on the hotel except that itlrwas
drawn for $50 from his pocket and
dropped it in the bottom of the wagon.
Later it was found by Wagonman Fred
Hurt and turned over to the detectives.
Plan Prepared
From evidence gathered by the de
tectives It seems that Hadsell had
carefully prepared for a campaign of
cashing the forged checks all over this
section of the country. He had had
printed the checks In the form of the
Western Union company s regular
drafts. T.h% omissions in the .printing
he .supplied with rubber stamps and
punches.
After he registered at the hotel yes
terday he went to Pasadena and sent
himself the telegram stating that the
money had been wired him from Yuma.
(Continued on Fa«e Seven.)
Los Angeles Herald.
GIRL SAVES SIX '
TRAINMEN FROM DEATH
Sees "Double. Header" Approaching,
Runs to Caboose and Warno
the Occupants Just In
Time
Ry Associated Pro-is.
NEW YORK. Sept. 21,-Slx New York
Central trainmen owe their lives to tha
presence of mind and quickness of Miss
Dorothy Wagner, daughter of John Wag
ncr, who lives at One Hundred and Sixty
eighth street and the North river, close
to the railroad tracks. The men were on
a long freight train bound down' from
Albany, which had been stopped by a
signal man owing to a handcar being
stalled ahead of It.
The tracks curve near where the Wag
ner house stands, but from the porch Miss
Wagner could Bee down the tracks. Sud
denly she saw two engines coupled and
drawing a caboose approaching fast.
She ran from the porch, dashed up the
steps of the caboose of the freight train
and shouted a warning to the six men in
side. They Jumped an Instant before the
"double header" plowed at full speed
through the caboose. The engineer and
the fireman of the "double header" also
jumped just In time. The former Bprained
his ankle, and the train crew of the
double header back In the caboose suf
fered slight cuts and bruises from being
flung down by the collision.
NINE GRAND JURORS
GIVE AID TO RUICK
ACCUSED DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS
GIVEN HEARING
Senator Borah and Others Say Inquisi
torial Body Was Coerced Into
Issuing Indict
ments
By Associated Press.
BOISE, Ida., Sept. 21.— Federal Judge
Whltson today began an investigation in
open court into the conduct of United
States District Attorney Ruick, who se
cured the indictment of United Status
Senator William Borah and twelve othbrs
for alleged conspiracy to defraud the
government of various timber lands.
Certain of the defendants filed pleas in
abatement of the indictments on the
ground of misconduct of the district at
torney, -whom it was alleged practically
coerced the grand jury into finding indict
ments. The pleas were euported by the
affidavits of three members of the old
grand jury and denied in nine aff davits
filed in behalf of Mr. Ruick.
Judge Whltson said today that before
finally passing upon the pleas he deemed
an investigation necessary, the charges
against the district attorney being of a
very grave nature. A special jrand Jury
is now in session, making a similar in
vestigation of the witnesses! summoned
before Judge Whltson.
Senator Borah has not entered a - iy
pleas of a technical nature, but a decision
adverse to the government in the other
cases may affect his trial, which is sched
uled to begin on Monday.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. El.— A special from
Eau Claire, Wis., says warrants were
served today on J. P. Barber and S. E.
Moon, pursuant to the action of the grand
jury in Boise, Idaho, in the timber land
case, in which conspiracy is alleged.
Mr. (Barber and Mr. Moon gave bonds
before a United States commissioner of
$6000 each. The hearing was adjourned
until October 26.
WOMAN ARRESTED FOR
MURDER OF TEACHER
Chicago Police Capture Suspect.
Negro Believed to Know Some
thing of Death of Lillian
White Grant
Bj Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.— The police today
arrested Miss Helen Meinert in connec
tion with the murder of Mrs. Lillian
White Grant, the teacher whose body
was found yesterday after she had been
strangled to death.
The police are searching for Richard
Williams, 'the colored man who is
thought to know something of the mur
der. The Meinert woman told the police
today that Williams had worked with
her in a hotel in the" southern part of
the city and admitted that she had re
ceived a letter from him last night in
which he asked her to meet him tonight
at his home.
HOBOKEN DEMOCRATS
HAVE FREE FIST FIGHT
Convention Breaks Up In Riot, Which
Police Try in Vain to Quell.
Two Tickets Are
Named
1
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21— The Hoboker,
N. J., Democratic city convention devel
oped Into a fight between two factions,
in which delegates used their fists, chairs
and other objects. The police tried to
stop the fight, but were outnumbered.
After the fight the delegates held sep
arate conventions on the same stage and
named two sets of city tickets. The
trouble started over the efforts of ad
herents of Patrick J. Griffin, who aspires
to be leader of the party in the city, to
defeat (Maurice J. Stack and his sup
porters.
Emigration Increases
By Associated Press. ,
LONDON, Sept. 21. — Over 177,000 Brit
ish and Irish emigrants went to' tne Uni
ted States and Canada during the past
year, according to a board of trade re
turn issued today. The total is greater
than that of any since ISB7. Canada re
ceived last year the largest number of
emigrants, 91,000, nearly 30,000 more, than
the previous highest total Cor the Do
minion.
' Aoki to Retrain
By Associated Press.
TOKIO, Sept. 21.— The foreign office has
decided that Ambassador Aoki shall re
main at Washington. Baron Tsudsirkl.
now representing Japan . at The Hague
conference, wilt succeed Ambassador In
ouya at liarliu.
SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1907.
JAPAN CLOSED
TO LABORERS
NO ALIEN WORKMEN ALLOWED
IN MIKADO'S LAND
BITUATION AT VANCOUVER PRE.
3ENTS ANALOGY
Dispatch to London Times Says Far
East Is Following Events on the
Pacific Coast with Much
Interest
By Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 21.— A plspatch to the
Times from Peking today says that the
labor troubles at Vancouver are being
followed with, much interest In the far
east, where an analogical problem has
arisen between China and Japan.
A Japanese imperial ordinance, No. 352
of July 27, 1899, rigorously forbids all for
eigners whether Europeans, Americans or
C.unese from working In Japan as labor
ers in agriculture, fishing, mining, manu
facturing and other classes of Industry
outside the narrow residential settlements,
except by special permission of the local
authorities.
The dispatch adds:
"Such permission, we are informed here,
is never given."
OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 21.— Sir Wilfrid
Laurier today sent the following tele
gram In reply to a request from the Do
minion Trades and Labor congress that
notice be given to abrogate the Japanese
treaty and that in the meantime the im
portations of Japanese be kept down to
the number arranged for some time ago
by both countries:
"Alphonse Vervlle, M. P.. president
Trades and Labor council, Winnipeg,
Man.: "I have given due consideration
to your request that immediate steps be
taken to terminate the treaty with Japan.
I would observe that this treaty when
brought into existence some fifteen years
ago did not apply to Canada and that
some few years ago in response to the
repeated expression of public opinion and
with view of affording to Canadian pro
ducers an opportunity of taking their
share of the growing Japanese trade, the
Canadian government became a party to
this treaty and that it was unanimously
ratified by the Canadian parliament. The
treaty has proved of great advantage and
our trade with Japan under it has been
considerably increased."
Two Killed in Kentucky
By Associated Press.
FULTON, Ky., Sept. 21.-Illlnois Cen
tral passenger train No. 104, bound for
Louisville, was partially derailed at a
sharp curve one mile south of Fulton
today. Patrick Grogan, engineer, and
Robert A. Robertson, fireman, were
killed. James T. Johnson, mall clerk,
was fatally hurt and two other mall
clerks were seriously Injured. The pas
senger cars remained upright and the
passengers were not hurt.
SAN FRANCISCO DEMOCRATS
FAVOR COMPLETE FUSION
In Municipal Convention That Lasts
Twenty Minutes They Adopt Reso
lution to Confer With
Republicans
E> Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21. — The
Democratic municipal convention to
night lasted only twenty minutes.
Thomas W. Hickey, chairman of the
county committee, called the conven
tion to order.
The usual credentials committee was
dispensed with and the secretary's roll
call adopted as the convention list.
Hickey was made permanent chairman
and a resolution was adopted appoint
ing a committee to confer with the
Republicans In the matter of making
joint municipal nominations.
The Democratic resolution differs
from that adopted by the Republicans
in that it favors a joint ticket for all
municipal nominees, while the Repab
lcans proposed fusion for the mayor
and district attorney only.
DEL MONTE DRIVER KILLED
WHEN RACER OVERTURNS
Roy Rehm, Dragged Under Whirling
Car, Dies Instantly — Mechanic
Severely Hurt — Was at
Nineteenth Mile
By Associated Press.
DEL MONTE, Sept. 21.-Roy Rehm, a
well known automobile driver, was In
stantly killed this afternoon in the 50
mile race.
At about the nineteenth mile Rehm's
machine skidded anil overturned. Rehm
was thrown in front of the machine as
it overturned and was dragged under It.
He was instantly killed. His mechanic
was severly hurt. Rehm was one of the
best known automobile drivers on the
coast.
LUSITANIA STARTS ON
FIRST EASTWARD TRIP
Flyer of Cunard Line May Lower the
Record Made by Her Sitter
Ship Lucania in
1894
By Associated Press,
NEW YORK, Sept. 21;— Groomed for a
fast run on her first voyage eastward, the
Lusltania Bailed for Queenstown and Liv
erpool this afternon.
To beat the New York-Qucenstown rec
ord made by the Lucania in" 1894 the Lu
sltania must do better than five days,
eight hours and thirty-eight minutes.
Russian Crops Poor
By Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 21.— The crop
report of the central statistical commit
tee, published today, records that the ex
pectation of a fine crop have been signally
disappointed, and that the high prices of
grain, assuring a remunerative export
business, offer the only re.ievlng feature
of the situation. The current year's crops
only yielded ti6.oU©,flOO more than last year,
leaving a shortage of 2u0,000,000, or 11 per
cent of the uveruge crop.
PEACE COURT
IS ASSURED
HAGUE CONFERENCE APPROVES
PROJECT
Mexico Changes Front and Votes In
Favor of International Prize
Tribunal, Brazil Alone
Opposing It
By Associated Press.
THE HAGUE, Sept. 21.— The sixth ple
nary sitting of the peace conference today
attracted an unusually large audience.
Many members of the international sels
mologlcal and dairy congresses, which
were meeting here, were present.
In tlfe course of the discussion regard
ing the establishment of an international
prize court Senor Esteva of Mexico an
nounced that the Mexican delegation
would now vote in favor of the proposi
tion, as the modification permitting a
country interested in a case to have its
own Judge of the tribunal largely did
away with the objectionable features of
the earlier proposition, which, he said,
contravened the principle of the equality
of nations.
Senor Esteva added that while Mexico
would support the proposition to estab
lish a prize court he did not withdraw
the opinion, repeatedly expressed,
against the project to establish an inter
national court of permanent arbitration
If, based, on a principle contrary to the
equality of the states.
The proposition to establish a prize
court was ultimately approved, Brazil
casting a vote against it. Russia, Japan,
Slam, Venezuela, Turkey and Persia ab
stained from voting. On the motion of
President Nelldoff the resolution in re
gard to convening the third peace confer
ence, introduced September 19. was unan
imously adopted, together with the ex
pression of gratitude to Emperor Nich
olas, as the initiator of the conference,
and to Queen Wllhelmlna for her hospi
tality.
Prior to the vote M. Tsuzuki, head of
the Japanese delegation, drew cordial ap
plause because of his expression of ap
preciation of the personal initiative of
Emperor Nicholas In bringing about the
meeting of the convention.
PEACE TALK FAILS;
DRUDE TO RENEW WAR
Moorish Tribesmen Return No Answer
to Offer of French Commander
and He Will Again Asume
the Offensive •
By Associated Press.
PARIS, Sept. 21.— 1t is officially an
nounceu this afternoon that the peaco ne
gotiation* at Casa Blanca with the hostile
Moros have failed and that Gen. Drude
will resume the offensive.
FORECAST
For I/O" Angeles and vicinity i
Cloudy today, . light " weat wind. -
TABLE! OF 'rtfIMI'KUATUKES
' V Mln. Max.
Los An«ele» '; \ 55 "£ -. 75 *
Boston : 00 ¦ ¦**»-.
Chicago •• • . • 8 .-- 76
Denver ;.. ••' 40 ;73
Frciino '¦"¦ 82 ; .' 00 \
Kanaaa City ..:....... B6 /|72 ,
New York .....;......¦ 68 Ta
Omaha ,M . 70 '
PlttaburK •• • • TO ¦',84, 84 •
neno ••• »8 73
St. Loul. - «2 88
Salt Lake . ;¦.". ........ 44 6.0
San 'Antonio ...... . . .'. .. TO ; 06
Sun Diego .......... «3 .70
Nan i Frnm-taco : ....;... . B4 :; \: ¦ 70 >
Touonuli J- : (."";t.' .~ V .""-'Vt :VV$ M ' t .i^ 70 ;J
Teddy Goes a' Hunting
FERRYBOAT COLLIDES
TWICE WITH WHALE
Passengers Crossing San Francisco
Bay Have Exciting Experience
with a Monster of the
Deep
By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.— Great ex
citement was caused among the passen
gers on the Bausallto ferryboat Cazedero
this morning when the vessel twice struck
a whale which was swimming in the bay
near Alcatraz island. At first It was
thought that the steamer had come in
collision with a derelict or some floating
timbers, but the appearance of the whale
on the surface of the water explained the
cause of the shocks which shook th^e ves
sel from stem to stern.
ROOT BACK A T WORK,
IN GOOD HEALTH
SECRETARY OF WAR READY FOR
MEXICAN TRIP
Cabinet Official Regains Strength and
Returns to Washington to Dispose
of Duties Uefore Start
ing South
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.— Secretary
Root, who returned to Washington last
night, resumed his work with a zest which
indicates* complete recovery from the ex
hausted condition in which he left Wash
ington at the beginning of the summer.
The secretary appears In fine physical
condition. The itinerary for his Mexican
trip is complete. Mr. and Mrs. Root, Miss
Root, Mr. Doyle, his private secretary for
this occasion and a personal attendant,
and a maid will leave Washington on the
Pennsylvania railroad at 3:40 p. m. next
Wednesday via St. Louis for San Antonio,
Tex., where they will arrive on the morn
ing of September 2S. They will reach
Laredo Sunday. At that point the party
will be taken in hand by the Mexican re
ception committee, headed by Gen. Liman
tour, and win arrive in the City of
Mexico the evening of September 30. Sec
retary Root expects to spend the first
week after his arrival wholly in the City
of Mexico.
CONSTANTINE GUILTY
OF GENTRY MURDER
Chicagoan Convicted by Jury of Slay*
ing Woman — Punishment Fixed
at Imprisonment for
Life
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.— A jury here tonight
-found Frank J. Constantino guilty of the
murer of Mrs. Arthur Gentry and fixed
hie punishment at life imprisonment.
The case went to the jury at 9 o'clock.
Two hours and a half later the verdict
was reached.
Assistant State'B Attorney Robert Holt
had concluded his argument by asklrg
that the penalty of death be passed. Ho
described Constantine as a "vain popin
jay," whose chief delight was to "m?.ko
an impression on women;" who could
not tell the truth about lltle things, aoC
who was not entitled to belief when It
came to manufactured evidence to clear
himself.
Brewster Hotel Sold
By Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 21.— George W.
Marston has purchased the Brewster
hotel from U. S. Grant, jr., for $160,000.
The hotel is located at the corner of
Fourth and C streets, 100x100 feet, with
a four-story brick building. Mr. Grant
purchased the corner three years ago for
$75,000.
oli>ljrl-ili< oyUJL • n.\n.r. s cents
fMJ> XxLjlll VjUI LHi& . SUNDAY. X CKNTS
DECLARES IGO
SLEW GOEBEL
WOMAN TELLS N.EW STORY OF
KENTUCKY MURDER
Mrs. Lulu Clark Asserts That Bhe Saw
the Man Who Killed Senator for
Whose Slaying Caleb Powers
Is on Trial
By Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. E.-rTurner Igo
of Farmers, ißowan county, Ky., is
charged with the killing of Senator Wil
liam Goebel of Kentucky in an affidavit
by Mrs. Lulu Clark, which waa published
today by a Richmond newspaper. The
affidavit was sworn to last April in the
law office* of ex-Governor W. S. Taylor
of Kentucky. Mrs. Clark, whose malde.n
name was Lulu Williams, lived at the
time of the Goebel murder at Mt. Ster
ling, Ky. She has a cousin named Ger
trude King, who then lived at Maysville,
Ky. Miss King was at that time, accord
ing to the affidavit, "Keeping company"
with John Sanford of Covlngton, Ky., a
son of an attorney who was killed by
William Goebel In a fight in CovingtoD
some years ago.
The fight was tne result of a political
quarrel. Mrs. Clark swears that on the
day Goebel was murdered she and her
cousin, Miss King, went to Frankfort,
Ky., and that t.-ey started to enter Lie
house by the rear entrance. While on the
steps a shot was flreu. At the same time
they noticed a man standing just ineiae
the door, whom they recognized as San
ford. In a minute a second man came
running out of t.ie building, dressed like
a mountaineer and carrying a rifle. He
ran to Sanford and said:
"I got the d ." The man was
recognized by the affiant as Turner Igo
of Farmers, Rowan county, ¦"¦y-
Both men ran out of the building to a
fence, where Sanford gave a pair of chocs
which he was carrying to Igo, who ex
changed hia boots for them. The men
then disappeared.
The affiant states that Igo told her at
the Mt. Sterling depot on January Co,
1900, that he waa going to kill Goebel, and
that she saw him aterward at Jefferson
vllle, Ind., and that he reminded her that
he had fulfilled his promise.
She also says that Sanford had told
Gertrude King a few days prior to Goe
bel's murder that h« intended to kill
Goebel, saying: ' Jiore ia my chance to
get revenge. The legislature has met. '
The paper also publishes, correspond
ence between Caleb Powers and the per
sons who secured the affidavit and after
ward investigated its allegations for veri
fication, showing that the cxpensea for
the information gained were paid from
the Powers defense fund.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 21.— W. S. Taylor
could not be found today to verify the
statements in the dispatch from Rich
mond. The Clark woman formerly .lived
here and was a brakeman's wife. They
were divorced, it Is said, two years ago.
Three years ago Mrs. Clark told her
story of the Ooebel murder to an Indian
apolis newspaper man, who carried it to
Governor Taylor, who took her deposi
tion.
The story was not published, as Gover
nor Taylor feared publication at that
time might make verification impossible,
and he hoped to locate the man who was
with Mrs. Clark. Preliminary to the first
trial of Caleb Powers friends of the sec
retary of state had sought to establish
tho fact that John Sanford was in Frank
fort on the day of the shooting, but
efforts to establish this failed.
FARMERS, Ky., Sept. 21.— Turner Igo,
who is charged by Mrs. Lulu Clark with
the assassination of Governor William
Goebel, is dead. Samuel Igo, a cousin of
Turner Igo, said this afternoon:
"Turner has been dead three or four
years. At the time Goebel was killed he
may or may not have been at Frankfort.
I never heard of any acquaintance he had
with Sanford, nor any hint that my
cousin was ever connected even remotely
with Goebel's death."
Samuel Igo had never heard of the
woman who made the affidavit.
Mam News Section
MORE TROUBLE
FOR STANDARD
GOVERNMENT PROSECUTORS ARE
AT WORK
WILLIAM G. ROCKEFELLER TO
TAKE STAND
Kellogg Expects to Ask John D.'s
Brother About Some of the Books
and Figures Relating to
Treasurer's Office
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.— The adjourn
ment until Monday ot the hearing hen
in the government's suit to dissolve tho
Standard OH company will give the gov
ernment's expert accountants another day
In which to obtain figures from the books
containing the records of the Standard Oil
company in the period from 1882 to 1882.
Tnese figures will probably lead to an
Interesting line of questioning next week
by Frank B. Kellogg, the government'o
chief counsel.
It is likely that when the hearing Js
resumed next week Wesley H. Tllford,
treasurer of the Standard OH company,
will again take the stand. John G. Mil
burn of counsel for the corporation
wishes to question him upon several point*
which have been touched upon by Mr.
Kellogg.
William G. Rockefeller, It Is understood,
will then be called to the stand and asked
by Mr. Kellogg to produce several books
relating to the assistant treasurer's of
fice.
W. E. Bemls, one of the leading men
In the export department here of tho
Standard Oil company, is wanted as a
witness, but Mr. Kellogg learned from
Mr. Til ford that Mr. Bemls is in the far
east and will not return for ten months
or more.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 21.— A. T>. Miller, jr.,
of A. D. Miller & Sons, Independent o°l
refiners with headquarters In this city,
admitted last night "there was some klnl'
of an agreement between the Independent
dealers and the Standard Oil company "
He declined, however, to discuss the
agreement in deail.
When It was called to his attention that
Treasurer Tllford of the Standard OH
company, testifying at New York in tho
suit of the government for dissolution of
the alleged oil combine In New Jersey,
had admitted yesterday that in 1902 an
agreement was entered into by which the
Independent dealers were to sell their en
tire output of refined oil for export to the
Standard, which in return was to sell to
the independents a certain amount of
crude oil each day, Mr. Miller replied:
"Tllford ought to know."
COURT REPUDIATES
ACTION OF PARDEE
Judge Rules That Governor Did Not
Have Authority to Pay Less
Than Amount Allowed
by Legislature
By Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 21.— The superior
court made an important ruling today.
The case was the first of its kind known
anywhere. A bill was passed by the leg
islature allowing the claims of John
Mullan for something over $45,000. Gov
ernor Pardee told the holders of the
claims that he would sign the bill if they
would take $25,000 and give the state a
full release. They agreed to do it, other
wise the bill would have gone into the
waste basket, the legislature having ad
journed.
The first installment of the claim was
paid January 1, 1906, but the state comp
troller refused to pay the second install
ment and teadered enough to make up
$25,000 for thMrhole claim.
Judge ShleMs decided today that the
agreement to take less than the sum
allowed by the legislature was void and
the governor has no power to bargain
to sign a bill In the interest of the state,
his duty is to approve or disapprove.
The practice of the legislature to shoul
der off upon the governor its responsi
bilities he held to be vicious and dan
gerous.
MORE RELIGIOUS TORTURES
ALLEGED AT ZION CITY
Other Arrests Likely to Be Made as
Result of Attempt to Cure
Woman Afflicted with
Rheumatism
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.— Walter and Jennie
Greenhaulgh, with Harold Mitchell. Mrs.
Mitchell and Mrs. Louise Smith, who were
arrested on the charging of causing
death of Greenhaulgh's invalid mother,
were today taken from Zion City to the
county jail at Waukegan \fi order to avoid
any possibility of an outbreak, as the
feeling against them is intense.
The inquest will be resumed tonight,
and it is quite possible that further ar
rests will be made, as it is believed that
other cures for "demoniacal possession"
have terminated disastrously to patients.
The case of Bertha Young. 19 years of
age, who recently died in Zion City, is
under investigation.
Benjamin Hopkins, who ia the under
taker in Zion City, has been warned not
to attempt to leave the place under pain
of being placed under arrest. He admit
ted to the coroner today that he knew
that the bones of Mrs. Greenhaulgh bad
been broken by the treatment she en
dured, but said that he suppressed the
fact on the request of members of the
family. Hopkins is a Parhamite.
Oklahoma Newspaper Falls
By Associated Pmb,
OKLAHCjMA CITY, Okla., Sept. Sl.—
The Oklahoma City Post, a morning pa
per, suspended publication here today.
The Post had been in existence about
fourteen months. Last month it waa
placed in the hands of a receiver, who,
however, continued, to run it through the
late campaign. The paper was Republi
can in politics. Ihe receiver places th«
liabilities at $50,000.
Plnkerton Left Millions
By Associated :¦*:-«.
NEW YORK, Sept. 31.— The will of Wil
liam H. Plnkerton, the detective, was
filed yesterday. He left an estate valued
at $3,000,000. which he bequeathed to hia
Immediate family.