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16 MEAT PACKERS ARE SUMMONED BY GRAND JURY EIGHT SUBPOENAS ISSUED FOR HIGHER-UPS MAGNATES MUST GIVE REASONS FOR HIGH PRICES Agitation Against Excessive Cost of Living Results in Foodstuffs Be. ing Obtained More Cheaply in Chicago Markets V [Special to The Herald.} CHICAGO. Jan. 25.— Much mystery surrounded the issuance today of at least twelve additional subpoenas of men believed to be high up in the beef trust, and it was reported-tonight that eight subpoenas issued this morning had been serves late this afternoon, but It was found impossible to learn the identity of the men called on to testify. That the government prosecutor is to call men high in the Industrial •world of the middle west before the newly impaneled grand jury was given out tonight by a reliable source. Both Armour and Morris are expected to be called before the jury, and before the Inquiry has ended it is predicted that several score of subordinate officials and accountants will have testified. Agitators against the high cost of liv ing gained their first victory here in their battle against prevailing food prices yesterday, when reductions of 3 per cent to 5 per cent were announced In the wholesale prices of eggs, butter, potatoes,, pork products and the better grades of dressed beef cuts. Big recessions also were made In the value of live hogs, cattle and sheep, and in the quotations on wheat, corn, oats and provisions on the speculative markets. , Of chief benefit to the housewives ■were the declines in butter, which dropped from 32c a pound wholesale to 31c, and in eggs, which receded to 32c a dozen, as contrasted with 34c last ■week. . . The Elgin butter market recorded a big slump. Butter men who had been bidding as high as 38c registered bid* of 30c on received offerings. The deals practically decided the price. Three reasons were given in Elgin as to the cause of the decrease: Agi tation against the high price of food stuffs, a break in the corner on butter held by butter makers and the decline since the holidays. In the Chicago wholesale markets potatoes went down to 35c and 50c a bushel, against an extreme price of 52c on Saturday. 25,000 DINNER PAILS WILL BE MINUS MEAT FOR NEXT THIRTY DAYS PITTSBUKG, Jan. 25.—Many a •workman's dinner pail will be short its pork chop, ham sandwich and other meat dishes today when the 25,000 workmen in Pittsburg and vicinity ■who have pledged themselves, will be gin their thirty-day period of meat abstinence. With a start made by the boycot tcrs, who have succeeded In knocking down the price of cattle at the stock yards, much encouragement is given those who hesitated to join the ranks. Now other food products are to re ceive the attention of the consumer. Butter and eggs in a few days will be under the ban the same as is meat at present. Fearing this, butter dealers began to scale their prices yesterday and in some instances the prico was 6 cents lower than the day previous for the best creamery. Eggs, too, while they are the cold storage brand, are beginning to come down in price and as much as 2 and 3 cents a dozen was lopped off late yesterday. MILK, EGGS AND BUTTER ARE REDUCED ON STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Milk, eggs and outter led the procession of re ceding prices in food products here today. Nation-wide agitation aided by potent local influences have brought about the drop. Meat, too, is on the decline following a greatly reduced State anti-monopoly laws are to be invoked in the movement to combat the trusts that have advanced food prices. Today a special grand Jury whose office it will be to consider the effect of combinations among dealers fti foodstuffs was sworn in. While It is expected first to deal with the alleged milk combine, the meat question is likely to be sifted strongly and possibly the whole scope of the food situation will be taken in during Its probing. Milk is down a cent a quart already on at least two big dealers' routes; butter in the best qualities has out 6 cents a pound and eggs are off E cents a dozen in local markets. Storage eggs that have been selling as "strictly fresh" at high prices are no longer put out as such, say the big ■wholesaler:-". SOLONS DISCUSS AMERICAN HEN AND HER PRODUCTS WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Aside from an intimate discussion of the American lien and tier products, the feature of to day's inquiry into high food prices by a house committee was the statement by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture, that sinister influences had accomplished the repeal of the pro vision of law relating to enforcing ef ficiency in cold storage of food prod uct*. Dr. Wiley said the elimination of the appropriation for this work had greatly hampered his department in protecting the public from deleterious food prod ucts. In reply to questions Dr. Wiley stat ed he was sure the cold storage people themselves had nothing to do with It, and of course the consumer was inno cent The appropriation was omitted last jLNir. LABOR COUNCIL OF OAKLAND REFUSES TO WAGE BOYCOTT OAKLAND, Cal., Jan. 25.—Taking the stand that the boycott would only hurt the farmer and retailer, the Cen tral Labor Council of Oakland last night refused to pass a resolution pre sented by a member of the council, de claring a boycott similar to that started in the east, on meat, butter and eggs. The labor council Is the centra! body of all the unions in Alameda county, and tliis action means that the meat boycott will not receive union support In tliis city. la discussing the matter the delegates to the council stated that the boycott would Injure the industrial system, the producer and retailer, and would only give the trusts a better chance to put still higher than they ore at present. LABORING MEN IN COLORADO CLIMB ON VEGETABLE WAGON DENVER, Jan. 25.—"Whereas. The price of meat has soared far beyond the reach of the laboring man, "Resolved, That we, the Individuals of organized labor in Colorado, refrain from eating meat until the price of beef centers somewhere near where it should be." This is the substance of resolutions passed today liy the Colorado State Federation of Labor. Beginning to morrow, 50,000 laboring men in Colo rado, it is estimated, will be on the ■on. Local meat dealers, however, profess not to be alarmed and assert that they are doing better than a normal busi ness in the sale, of v WANT CONGRESS TO IMPOSE EXPORT TAX ON MEATSTUFFS CLEVELAND, Jan. 25.—Fred W. ! Zebelin, originator of the meat boy- I cott here, and Mayor Baeher dis ed today the anti-meat agitation, and suggested that Senator Burton be asked to bead a movement to have. congress impose an export tax on meat, This plan is supplementary to the pe titions having the same aim now be ing circula Another reduction of 10 cents on a hundred pounds was quoted today on | all live stock. While the price has been going down steadily-at the stock yards I there has been no lowering of the re tail price. Eggs fell off 6 cents in the local retail market today, TO INVESTIGATE PRICES SPRINGFIELD. 111., Jan. 25.—A reso lution providing for a legislative com mittee to investigate the Increased cost of living, for the purpose of aiding the legislature in enacting proper laws, was introduced into the senate today. The. resolutions provide for the appoint ment of a committee of five, empow ered to subpoena witnesses, examine the books of the packers and summon the packers to appear as witnesses under penalty. TO SELL MEAT CHEAPLY DES MOINES, lowa, Jan. 25.—Nine business men of Dcs Moines, headed by Postmaster J. I. Myerly, Col. H. B. Hedges, vice president of the Central • Stato bank, and County Treasurer | George L. Dobson made up a fund I with which they will establish a co operative market. They plan to sell meat at a profit of 6 per cent above the wholesale price to the poor people of the city for one year. PLAN TO RETALIATE DWIGHT, Kas., Jan. 25.— W. I. Swain, a livestock raiser, today issued 10,000 circular letters to prominent | farmers in Kansas, lowa, Illinois and Missouri calling for delegates to hold a meeting in Kansas City to retaliate against the unions that have instigated a meat boycott in that city. MAY BOYCOTT MEAT AT MASS MEETING Charles Edward Russell and Mrs, Frances Noel to Address Gath. ering at Labor Temple Tonight A monster mass meeting of protest against the exorbitant prices exacted by the beef trust will be held tonight in Labor Temple hall, 538 Maple ave nue. Whether a "meat strike" will be called in Los Angelesr will be decided definitely tonight. Mayor Alexander, Stanley Wilson, Dr. Sherwin Gibbon of the health department, Mrs. Francos Noel, W. A. Engle, Arthur Hay and others will speak. The meeting will open promptly at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Noel, who is known as one of the most ardent sociologists in the west, has made a deep study of the food problem and will have some inter esting information to impart. She has gained most of her knowledge from coming in contact with the very poor, who feel most the oppressive conditions brought on by the food trusts. She is familiar with packing house conditions, having been a resident of Chicago for some time. Charles Edward Russell, the maga zine writer to whose efforts the first indictment against the Chicago pack ers was returned in 1903, will be pres ent at the meeting tonight and prob ably will make a brief address upon conditions existing. This noted muck raker recently came to California to in vestigate freight rates in California for an eaatern magazine. It is the belief of Mr. Russell that the packers themselves are not responsible for the enormous increase in the cost of living. He says the overcapitaliza tion of corporations is one of the main ins for tht! increase in prices of all commodities. The increased capital demands an increased rate of interest or profit and makes itself felt through an increase in the cost of things. Mr. Russell says the beef trust is more or less a victim of circumstances and is forced to extort high prices in order to keep alive. He says that by putting all tin' packers in jail the price of food will not be lowered. His remedy is to eliminate the element of profit in com merce. LOCOMOTIVE TURNS TURTLE: ENGINE CREW LOSE LIVES New York Central Fireman and En. i gineer Crushed to Death, but No Passengers Killed UTICA, N. V., Jan, 86.— The engine on the New York Central Twentieth Cen tury limited, eastbound, turned com pletely over about a quarter of a mile west of St. Johnsville today. It slid 300 feet before it stopped. Fireman Melvln J. Handvllle was crushed beyond recognition. The en gineer, John Scanlon, attempted to leap from the engine before it left the rails, but. ho was caught between the en gine and tender and crushed to death. None of the coaches left the track, though the trucks of several of them are derailed. Most of the pMMBCen were thrown from their berths and some were slightly injured. TWO KILLED BY EXPLOSION PUEBLO, Col., Uan. 25.—Two 1 train men were killed and three others se verely injured when a freight train lo comotive on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad blew up near La Veta Una niuniing. The dead are: WILLIAM STILES, brakeman. C. E. KOEHLEp, fireman. Beriously injured: Engineer J. C. Howard, Brakeman W. Barker and Conductor C. Faulks. LOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORXIiM!, JAM AKY 20, 1910 FRAUD CHARGES "PIGEON-HOLED" BINGER HERMANN ACCUSED OF BURYING PROTESTS MORE SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE ADDUCED AT TRIAL Government Prosecutor Outlines The. ory of Case Against Former Con. gressman and Land Com. missioner at Portland [Associated rross] PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 26.—When the Blue mountain forest reserve was being projected Binger Hermann, as commissioner of the general land of fice, had letters before him charging frauds in Oregon and California, but did not inform the secretary of the in terior of these charges, as the latter would have investigated them, thus In terfering with the creation of the Blue mountain reserve, in which Hermann's friends were interested. Such was the theory outlined yes terday by F. J. Heney, government prosecutor, in Hermann's trial in the federal court here on a charge of con spiracy to defraud the government. Testimony as to the admissibility of the "commissioner" letters, however, went over until tomorrow, over the strenuous 'bbjection of the defense, the prosecution succeeding in securing the evidence of correspondence between Hermann and the late Senator John H. Mitchell, carried on during the lat ter part of 1901 and the fore part of 1902. These letters referred to the Cas cade forest reserve and exchanges for land therein, made by F. A. Hyde & Co. One of these letters contains the postscript, said to be in Hermann's handwriting: "I am giving my personal attention to this matter. B. H." Letters Significant Defending this line of evidence, Prosecutor Heney asserted that these letters are significant when compared with a so-called "Zabriskie letter," written in answer to one from J. A. Zabriskie early in 1902, in which Za briskie called attention to alleged frauds in the Cascade forest reserve, said to be perpetrated by "Hyde and Benson." In the Zabriskle letter Hermann as sured Zabriskie that only two ex changes had been made by Benson, and that both of these unquestionably had been legal. The prosecution contended that Her mann purposely ignored Zabriskie's reference to Hyde and also that Her mann possessed the alleged knowledge that Benson was a silent partner in the firm of J. A. Hyde & Co. Heney also declared this correspondence was collateral evidence, not alone that Hermann was fully advised that frauds wero generally being, permitted in forest reserves, but in taking no steps In the alleged information that Ben son was bending his steps to fraud, in spite of citizens that called his atten tion to them. The prosecutor declared further that during this period Hermann was with holding from the secretary of the in terior the fact that his attention had been called to specific cases of fraud, for fear it would delay the creating of the Blue mountain reserve. The balance of the day was devoted to the introduction of a mass of docu- mentary evidence, most of it concern ing the part taken in the senatorial election of 1901 by Mays and other Oregon politicians. The hearing will continue tomorrow. M'CARTHY INSISTS ON WHOLESALE RESIGNATIONS San Francisco Mayor Suggests T+iat Education, Police and Health Boards Be Vacated SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.—1n re sponse to a request of Mayor P. H. McCarthy, a majority of the members of the board of education, the police commission and the board of health called at his office today to receive the intimation that their resignations were in order. After the last of his official callers had left Mayor McCarthy said their visit had not been one of a purely social nature and admitted that his suggestion concerning their resigna tions had not mot with immediate re sponse. All of them will be given time In which to consider the matter. Most of the summoned commission ers responded, but among the con spicuous absentees was Henry Payot, member of the board of education and former supervisor, who was .scored severely in McCarthy's inaugural ad dress. The mayor declared that unless the resignations were forthcoming he would take action under (fha charter to force their presentation. WILL MAKE GRAPE TARTAR FROM WASTE OF WINERIES Company Is Organized at Lodi, Cal., to Manufacture Pomace Into Comr ercial Article .1 ,—_ LODI, Cal., Jan. 25.—Ea^ly in Feb ruary the factory erected at Wood brldge, near here, by local people, who organized atid capitalized the Grape Tartar company, will begin the manu facture of crude tartar from the pomace that has up to this time been :i waste product of the five wineries In this vicinity. The pomace is purchased at 10 cents a ton, and there is 10.000 tons on hand. The plant will treat thirty tons a day. If successful, the factory will be en larged to consume the entire output of pomace from the wineries. GIRL BARELY ESCAPES DEATH MAKYSVILLE, Cal., Jan. 25.—Annie Butt, an employe In a local bakery, was caught In a bread kneading ma chine last evening. Her left leg was drawn into the machine, her skirt hav ing become entangled in the gearing, and her leg severely injured, the knee cap being fractured before the power could be turned off. The alertness of fellow employes saved her life. WILL RECOVER BODIES LA SALLE, 111., Jan. 25.—After an In spection by state Inspectors today It was stated that the St. Paul mine at Cherry probably would be opened Mon day to allow the recovery of the 215 bodlta remaining In it as a result of the lire last fall. Live In VENICE VILLAS and BUNGA LOWS. Completely furnished. Rent reason able.—Adv. NOTED SONG WRITER GOES TO POORHOUSE , AT AGE OF 36 YEARS Author of 'Goo Goo Eyes,' 'Bill Bailey, 1 and 'Ain't That a Shame 7' a Slave to Drunk. enness DETROIT, Jan. 25.—Hugh Cannon, who wrote "Goo Goo Eyes," "Ain't That a Shame?" "Bill Bailey" and other classics of ragtime, was sent to Eloise poorhouse today at the age of 36. He told the story of his life in short, expressive sentences. "I quit the coke cusy," he said. "Fif teen days in jail cured me of that. I hit the pipe in New York for a year and stopped that. I went up against the morphine hard and quit, but booze, red, oily booze —that's got me for keeps. "I started when I was 16. I am 3ti 1 now, and except for seven months on the wagon I've been pickled most of the time. It was twenty years—twen i ty black, nasty, sick years— with only ; a little "brightness now and then when i I made good with some song." INVENTS DEVICE TO SHOW FOND COUPLE'S LOVE University of California Opposes Test Between Two Sexes, Declaring Students Are Too Efficient SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2"..—The courses of true love and the divorce courts may both bo made smoother if the invention of a young mechanic of this city proves successful. It is called a "Phthymograph," and in spite of its unsentimental name, is declared to register on its dial the amount of esteem existing between any two persons who grip handles, not un like those of a battery, attached to the mechanism. The psychological authorities at the University of California decline to al low a test of it In their laboratories with students of the two sexes for. mediums, declaring the students are already too efficient in discovering when mutual affection exists. ACCUSED OF FORGERY DENVER, Jan. 25.—Henry Earl Pln ney, 20 years old, formerly Union Pa cific station agent at Vesper, Kan., was arrested here yesterday on the charge of forgery and embezzlement. When arrested Pinney had in his pockets two books of blank money orders of the Pacific Express company and rail road- tickets belonging to the Union Pacific. Last night Pinney confessed, saying he had tired of life in the Kan sas town and took the blank money or ders and railroad tickets, planning to use them In "seeing the world." CONTESTS BROTHER'S WILL SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26.—That a man has no right to dispose of his body before death Is the contention made In a petition for the removal of the body of William Al. Hoag, filed to day by his brother, James A. Hoag, who Is contesting the will of the late capitalist. In his will Hoag specified his body should rest In a $6000 mau soleum, to be erected In a local ceme tery. RAILROAD SECURES VERDICT SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.—A jury in the United Spates circuit court in the case of the Western Pacific Kail road company against the National Surety comtsny of New York, granted the railway company *56,116 today, the amount of th» bonds of J. Dalzell Brown, former treasurer of the railroad, with interest since March, 1908. 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Graham, stockholders -of the Utah company, who claimed that the merger would work an injury to the Utah company, and that it was in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Application was made to the court on behalf of the Utah company to have the proceedings dismissed on the ground that Graham had been hired by Colonel Wall to take part In the suit. Judges Lanning and Cross, in de ciding the case, did not dispose of this point. They dissolved the pre liminary injunction on the following grounds: First—Any violation of the Sherman anti-trust law WOUI have to be prose cuted by the government alone and the only remedy individual stockhold ers could seek would be through a suit for damages. Secondly—Other grounds upon which Wall and Gruham based their suit had been so fully answered and explained by the affidavits filed on the part of the company that an injunction could not be gi - nted without ignoring tha well settled rules of equity practice. The dissolving of the preliminary in junction removes any obstacle from the way of the Utah company carry ing out the proposed merger which, it is understood, is to include the absorp tion by the Utah company not only of the Boston Consolidated company, but also the Nevada Consolidated Copper company. TO. USE TROLLEYLESS CARS CALDWELL, N. J., Jan. 26.— The first line of trolleyless electric cars in the United States will be started here this summer. Twenty cars supplied with current from storage batteries will be operated over about eight miles of track. If the new storage system is successful here It probably will be adopted by the corporation which con trols most of the street cars in this section of the state. TO WED MISS HAVEMEYER NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—James Wat son Webb, son of Dr. W. Seward Webb, obtained a license to marry Miss Elec tra Havemeyer, a daughter of the late H. O. Havemeyer. president of the American Sugar Refining company. 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