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HtDMBBB 121. A XVAVjlll . ttU V^Hill X O i-j;r MONTH
SOARING PRICES
EMPTY SCHOOLS;
FILL FACTORIES
Children in Big Cities Are
Driven to Work by
High Cost of Living
THOUSANDS SUFFER
Official Finds That Pupils
Are Forsaking Classes
to Fight for Existence
fSpecial to Th» Herald. 1
CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—Simultaneously
with the federal government's in
vestigation of the beef trust now
going on in Chicago the people are
given a new stimulus In their nation
wide protest at the high cost of living
by the announcement today that local
statistics just issued show a startling
increase in the number of children who
are compelled by the exorbitant prices
of foodstuffs to go to work in mills
and factories.
The Btate factory Inspector's office
announced today that in the last three
months 1000 more permits have been
issued for the employment of child
labor than in the corresponding period
of last year. This Is an increase of
over 33 per cent, directly attributable,
say the factory inspectors, to the high
price of meats and other edibles.
Yet only in a few of the meat-dis
trlbutiug centers has the cost of meats
been lowered. Tha hunger of work
ingmen's families is robbing the
schools to fill the factories, uirls and
boys, many of them of tender years,
are hourly crowding the inspector's
office, driven by lack of food or cloth
ing to toil at arduous and poorly ra
munerative tasks to support ttiem
.selves and their parents—if the meager
sustenance derived from such labor
can be termed "support."
Other Cities Suffer
This condition does not prevail alone
in Chicago, for New York, Pittsburg
and cither eastern cities report the
same deplorable conditions, although
actual statistics have not been com
piled for the public.
Factory Inspector Davies has tab
ulated figures for tho purpose of com
parison, and his tabulations reveal
many astounding results, aside from
the child labor feature, due to thoi
bloodsucking policy of the trusts.
In November ai.d December, 1908,
and January, 1809, there were 2725 p«r
mits issued for child workers In Chi
cago. In the same months a year later
the figures show tho issuance of 3719
permits. And as a result of the ex
cessive applications for employment
the wages of the average "child slave"
has been much reduced in many in
stances.
Meanwhile, with many technical de
lays, the government is dragging on
with Its "investigation" of the big
packers.
It is believed that the beef trust is
resorting to many methods to suppress
the present boycotts and that civic,
commercial and industrial bodies are
daily being persuaded to denounce the
boycott as "injurious to other inter
ests than the packers," and as inef
fectual in its tendencies.
li> Chicago, Kansas City and similar
meat-distributing centers there is still
much Interest In the crusade, and the
boycott continues unabated.
NEW YORK PLASTERED
WITH BOYCOTT SIGNS
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—A mile square
section of New York's uptown residen
tial district is placarded today with
50,000 posters appealing for tho boy
cott on meat. In large type at the
top of the posters is the heading, "Eat
No Meat."
The posters are nailed to trees along
Broadway, Central park and Riverside
drive, pasted to the outside of saloons
and stores and hung in the windows
of private houses. Kven a low butcher
shops have fallen Into line and are
displaying the signs.
The posters were put up by the West
Side Anti-Meat league. They ask res
idents to abstain from eating meat for
thirty days after January 31.
Tho Central Federated union has
passed by a unanimous vote a resolu
tion asking the legislature to start an
investigation of the methods of the
meat trust. The union declined, how
ever, to indorso the meat boycott plan,
one delegate declaring that "it would
only end in the trust making more
money than ever."
The United "Master Butchers of
America, in a statement given out
here today, decry the meat boycott as
"misdirected energy which is defeating
its own end."
STATE CONTROL OF STORAGE
PLANTS WOULD LOWER PRICES
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 29.—George
B. Wight, state commissioner of char
ities, believes state control of cold stor
age plants can bo made an effective
weapon for regulating prices of food
stuffs.
The state board of health, In the
judgment of the commissioner, should
have supervision over all cold storage
products brought into the state, and
no fuod from cold storage should bo
placed on sale except on certification
from the proper authorities.
He would have every package marked
witli the date of receipt. If tills was
done ho nays, publle opinion would
mako it impossible for dealers to sell
at 45 or 50 cents a dozen eggs which
were purchased by speculators a year
or two before at 18 or :>0 cents.
The same reasoning, he thinks, ap
plies to meats and old cold storage
products.
PRISONERS BOYCOTT M£AT
NORWICH, N. V., Jan. 29.-The
moat boy<ott has reached the Chcnago
county Jail here. Sevuial priionera
have agreed to send bach their plates
after each meal with the meat un
touched and a petition to strike meat
from the jail bill of faro will be pre
sented to Sheriff Walworth.
LOS ANGELES HERALD
INDEX OF
HERALD'S NEWS
TODAY
FORECAST
For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair
Sunday; light southwest wind. Maxi
mum temperature yesterday 72 de
grees; minimum 48 degrees.
LOS ANGELES
Automatic printing press la perfected
by C. W. Halberg. Section 3. PAGE 9
City may realize from lasi Angoles In
tcrurban franchise as doubt pre
vails In regard to portion of lino.
Section 1. PAGE 7
Superior court Jmlffe finds new liquor
cure and sentences offenders to bo
treated. Section 1. PAGE 7
Col. Griffith's book on prison condi
tions awakens Interest of world.
* Section 2. PAGE 10
Out West and L, A. Driving cluba de
pict scenes of MS at matinee given
at Agricultural park. Section 3, PAGE 5
Local architects working to bring na
tional convention to Los Anseles.
Section 3. PAGE 5
Laborer, fearing Halley's comet would
collide with the earth, attempts to
commit suicide. Section 3, PAGE. 5
Policemen deny stories of demoraliza
tion In department. Section 1, PAGE 4
Police Commissioner Topham advo
cates wholesale license tax for the
breweries. Section 1. PAGE 4
Taft and tariff scored by Thomas E.
Farish at Jefferson club luncheon.
Section 1. PAGE 4
Two men with $15,000 worth of opium
In their possession arrested on the
charge of smuggling. Section 1, PAGE 8
Editorial, Raskin's letter.
Section 1. PAGE 6
Marriage licenses, births and deaths.
Section 2. PAGE 4
Society. Section 3. PAGES 8-9
Theaters and dramatic criticism*
Section 4, PAGES 1-2
Chamber of commerce excursion party
returns from morthern triti.
Section 1. PAGE 10
Miner held up and robbed in daylight.
Section 1. I'AGE 10
Kanttans hold A bljf celebration, com
memorating their admission day.
Section 3. PAGE 7
Mlramonte votes against annexation
with .Huntlngton Piirk.
Section 1. PAGE 9
School principals of county organize
supervisors' association.
Section 1. PAGK 9
French colony in Los Angeles is raising
funds for relief of flood sufferers in
Krance. Section 1. PAGE I
News of the courts. Section 1, PAGE 7
Municipal affairs. Section 1, PAGE 7
Mines and oil fields. Section 3, PAGES 10-11
Markets and financial. Section 1, PAGE 11
Classified advertising. Section 2, PAGES 4-9
Keal estate. Section 2, PAGES 2-3 and 12
Fraternal and secret orders.
Section 2, PAGE; 11
City brevities. Section 1, PAGE 7
Sports. flection 3, PAGES 6-7
Automobile*. Section 3, PAGES 1-4
Art notes. Section 2, PAGE 10
Music. Section 3, PAGE 9
Book review* Section 4. PAGE :
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
Orange County Good Government Re
publicans to «aslat in fight against
machine. Section 3, PAGB 7
Hurglar secures $440 from Pasadena
homo and makes escape.
Section 3. PAGE 7
Uedlands society girl compelled to
elupo to marry man she loves.
Section 3. PAGE 7
Postal employeg on unusual search for
mall sack that disappeared in recent
Hood. Section 3, PAGE! 7
Cow cause of row among Redondo
Beach neighbors and woman la ar
rested on assault charge.
Section 3. PAGE 7
Point Flrmln real estate stimulated by
purchase of fortification site at San
Pedro. Section 3. PAGB 7
COAST
State resent of D. A. R. of San Fran
cisco explains controversy regard
luff change of annual meeting place.
Section 1. PAGB 3
Baby purchased for $26 by woman Is
burled by foster mother in sand on
island near Butte. Mont.
Section 1. PAGB 10
Court holds state controller need not
pay Interest on claim withheld.
Section 1, PAGE 3
Talbot murder case at Reno, Nev. f la nearly
ready to be submitted to jury.
Section 1, PAGB 9
Governor GJllett will stsp out of politics
when term of office expires.
Section 1. PAGE 1
Lilon pounces on spectator at Bay City who
passed too close to cage of beasts.
Section 1, PAOE 1
Hazing of freshmen declared benefit In dis
ciplinary Una by professor at San Fran
cisco. Section 1, I'AGB 1
Willis H. Booth of I*os Angeles elected
president of Coast Chambers of Commerce
association. Section 1, I 1 AGE 1
Stepfather accused of mistreating daughter
at San Diego Is captured after long hunt.
Section 1, PAGE 1
EASTERN
Price level of stock In Now Tork ex
change Is raised, Union Pacific hi
spite of suit advancing. ,
i Section 1, PAGE 11
High prices of foodstuffs In Chicago
and other big cities compel clillilri-n
to work. 7> Section 1, I'AGB 1
Nineteen Blaok Hand members con- ,
victed at Toledo. Ohio. ' '
Section 1. PAGE 3
Glavls exposes Inner workings of the
land office before committee Investi
gating Balllnger-Plnchot controversy.
Suction 1, PAGES 1-2
Striking shirtwaist girls Incorporate 1100,000
1 company and will compete with bijp man
ufacturers. ■ ' ■ Section 1, PAGE 1
Champ Clark of Missouri, leader of the
minority in house, introduces resolu
tion to have new committee on rules
elected.. Section 1. PAGE! 9
New York city Is plastered with signs
asking citizens to boycott' meat.
Section i. PAGE 1
FOREIGN
Floods subside but Paris faces glgantio
problems of rehabilitation and dan
gers of epidemic. Section 1. PAGE 1
London scores policy of Secretary ■ \
Knox and attitude toward China and
Japan condemned. Section 2, PAOE 1
Sir George Lewis, noted English law
yer, retires from practice.
- « Section 2, Pase 1
London to talk with Madrid over long
distance telephone. Section 2, PAQE 1
Claim Is mado minimum wage scale Is paid
in Paris. Section I,.PAGES 3
German reichstag has spell of turmoil (
when conversation refers to emperor •
and army. f Section 1, PAGE 9
MINING AND OIL V
Crandall believes Marlcopa gasser will
prove a big oil well. Section 3, PAUI3 10
Old city oil field still pumps from a
group- of 400 wells. Section. 3, PAGE 10
Union buys strip at Steams ranch at '
Fullerton. ' Section 3, PAGE 11
United Oil company, operating. In the
North Midway Held, Mil* ilrst oil
from new well. . -■•» BactlQD >, PAOE 10
Easterners buy Canada Hill mine In
Nevada City district. Section 3. I'.UiE 10
Mine near Prescott makes ' Galena
strike. •--• ': l ""■ Section 3, , PAGE 10
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SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1910.
FLOOD SUBSIDES
BUT PARIS RACES
GRIM PROSPECTS
Many Buildings in Danger
of Collapse—Plagues
Threatening
40,000 PERSONS FLEE
Two Cities on Lower Seine
Submerged—Hospitals
All Crowded
[Special Cable to The Horald]
PARIS, Jan. 29.—The great flood is
subsiding; but with the sense of
relief that has come to those
whose property was threatened, yet not
destroyed, there comes also a grim fear
of the appalling possibilities of con
tagion—the dread of the sweeping epi
demic with which tho metropolis is
threatened.
For those who have seen their homes,
their stores, their factories—every
thing in the world that they possessed
—swept away in the surging torrents
of the Seine, there remains only the
dumb apathy of despair, the horror,
the uncertainty, the emptiness and des
olation. In the hearts of some there
has sprung a new ambition —a fervent
determination to retrieve the lost ac
cumulations of their years of toil and
planning; arid plodding miserably
through the mire, they are gathering
from the confused debris the founda
tions of anotltea effort.
Stores that were wrecked by the
deluge, or ruined by inundation, have
in some Instances been dragged out
on the dry land, and their owners are
rummaging through tho chaos of
rusted wares for articles which may
yet be salable.
Scenes Contrasted
While the subsidence of the flood
has caused a general feeling of re
joicing, the spirit of popular elation
is everywhere contrasted with the
most pitiful scenes of wretchedness and
poverty.
Slowly, today, the waters of the
Seine, which reaohed their high mark
at 2 o'clock this morning, are subsid
ing, and at midnight the fall measured
four and a half inches —enough to bring
a. sense of great relief to the. desolated
and distracted city.
The danger of some great calamity,
such as has been predicted, now seems
over, although the situation continues
critical, particularly near the St.
Lazare station, *here entire streets
and solid blocks of buildings threaten
to sink through tfce crust into the wa
ter beneath.
The Eiffel tower and other famous
structures are believed much weakened.
Tho effect of the removal of the w,i
ter pressure has been to weaken foun
dations generally and this causes the
greatest anxiety. Besides, there will
be thousands of acres to be cleared or
repaired when the water has receded,
and there Is also the possibility of an
epidemic.
The breaking of the dam at Genno-
Y,illieres has hastened the climax by
releasing an immense amount of
water, but the consequences below are
appalling.
Gennevilliores and Colombes have
30,000 inhabitants. They are complete
ly submerged, the water reaching tops
of houses in the lower section, while
the flood is backing up into the center
of Asnieres.
Certainly 40,000 persons have been
driven from their homes in the valley
of the Seine to hospitals and other
buildings placed at the disposal of
refugees.
Improvement Reported
Dispatches from the provinces indi
cate a general improvement, except
in the lower valley of the Seine.
Premier Briand today denied reports
that the government contemplated
proclaiming a state of siege in tho
city. He said there would have been
no hesitation to do this if the neces
sity had arisen, but that the public
had manifested complete confidence in
the government and was co-operating
in such splendid fashion that Fiance
might well be proud before the world.
The French Red Cross, the Societe
dcs Dames Franchise and tho Kociete
dcs Femmes do France are rendering
immediate assistance to the author
ities in relief wcjrk.
Sixty relief stations have been es
tablished in Paris as well as camps
for the free distribution of soup, food
and clothing in the outskirts of in
undated towns and villages along the
river.
Nevertheless, conditions, especially
in the country districts, are pitiful. It
is estimated that the Seine, which
under normal conditions moves through
Paris at tho sluggish rate of less than
a mile an hour, is now carrying thirty
times the ordinary volume at twenty
miles an hour.
A number of deplorable incidents
have been reported. Several shop
keepers who attempted to charge quad
ruple prices have been mobtrfd. Row
dies have attempted to pillage many
houses, and at several towns they
have been driven off by the militia.
PRENCH COLONY WILL
AID FLOOD VICTIMS
Contributions Coming in for Relief of
Sufferers in Paris—ssoo Al.
ready Has Been Sub
scribed
Stops were taken yesterday by the
French colony of Los' Angles to relieve
the sufferings of their fellow country
men across the water. A meeting of all
Interested was held at the Circle Fran
calse for the purpose of deviling wayi
and means to aid the destitute of l'a;-is.
A committee of twenty wan appointed
to raise funds, with L. J. Christopher,
president; Frederick Charfronnier, sec
retary, and J. Viole, treasurer. An np
peaJ was made to member! of the
French colony to uld the Hood victims
by sending money to J. Viole, at 417
North Main street.
Already mure than $500 has been
-raised, among those contributing being
\i,ne Durando, French consular agent,
|100; VHle de Part*. Ji'"'; Bishop Con
nty, $t00; International Savings and
Exchange ' ?nk, <i'Kl
Eiffel Tower and Other Famous Structures
in Paris Which Are Menaced by Water
GILLETT OUT OF
NEXT CAMPAIGN
WILL RETIRE AS GOVERNOR
AND DECLINES TOGA
California's Chief Executive An.
nounces He Will Not Seek Re.
election or Run Against
Senator Flint
[Special to The Herald.]
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 29.—Governor
James N. Gillett in a letter to P. S.
Teller, chairman of the Republican
state central committee, and -which
will be received by Mr. Teller tomor
row at San Francisco, announced
definitely he would not be a candidate
for re-election.
Governor Glllett in his letter to Mr.
Teller also stated he is not a candidate
for the United States senate to suc
ceed Frank Flint. This statement to
many will be more of a surprise than
the other.
In his letter to Mr. Teller the gover
nor set forth his reasons pointedly. He
made the additional statement that he
favor* .the re-election of Senator Fiint,
and a man from the north for governor.
The governor's letter to Chairman
Teller follows:
■•SACRAMKNTO, Jan. 29, 1910.—P. S.
Teller, chairman Republican state cen
tral committee, San Francisco: Dear
Sir—l have promised to inform the
committee, through you, of any de
cision that I might reach in reference
to being a candidate for re-election:
•'After carefully weighing the matter
for some time I have finally decided not
to be a candidate. It i.s for the best
interest of myself and family that I
should again resume the practice of my
profession, and I cannot well afford to
continue in the office of governor for
another period of four years.
Feel Grateful
"I feel grateful to my party for the
high honors conferred upon me, and to
my friends for their loyal support and
the kindly advice which they have at
all times given me, and it is exceed
ingly hard at this time to decline their
request to become a candidate again.
"Many things which 1 have designed
to accomplish have become laws; not
ably the banking act, Insurance laws,
pure food bill, railroad rate bill, recip
rocal demurrage act, employers' lia
bility act, a training school for orphan
children, etc.
"Three other improvements which
are of great concern to our state and
in which I have been and am Intensely
interested, namely, the improvement
of the navigation of the Sacramento
and San Joaquln rivers, and the recla
mation of thousands of acres of most
fertile lands along their banks; a sys
tem of state highways connecting our
sewral counties and the centers of
population and the making of San
Francisco harbor one of the best and
Cheapest in the world, to take care of
the great commerce which will come
to our state, are already under way.
•The last two will be submitted to
the electors of our state at the fall
Bleotlon and will receive my most earn
est support, and I trust our party will
Indorse the work and use its best ef
forts to .secure from the people a favor
able decision.
■■As I have already said, I have a
deep feeling of gratlUido for the high
honors which the people of California
have conferred upon me. I shall at all
times be ready and willing to help ad
v.uich every interest of our state and
tn advocate those measures which "ill
i,n,l t> develop and make it neater;
and whomsoever my party shall decide
upon to be my successor will receive
my earnest support and any assistance
I may be able to give him. Yours
truly. . "JAMBS N. GILLETT."
BOOTH HEAD OF
COMMERCE BODIES
LOS ANGELES MAN IS GIVEN
HIGH HONOR
Deiegation Will Be Sent to Orient to
Study Trade Conditions as
Regard the Pacific
Slope
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.—At the
end of an all-day session, during
which It was decided to delegate a
commission to the orient for the pur
pose of studying trade relations be
tween China and the states of the Pa
cific slope, delegate* to the meeting
of the Associated Chambers of Com
merce of the Pacific coast this after
noon elected the following officers:
Willis Booth, Los Angeles, president;
William L. Gerstle, San Francisco, vice
president; Chester W. Burks, San
Francisco, secretary-treasurer.
Sixty members from the association,
to be chosen from among the eight af
filiated chambers of commerce, will
go to China in August.
Capt. Robert Dollar will Jeave for
the orient in February to make pre
liminary arrangements for the trip.
The association Indorsed the uniform
bill of lading measure.
LION ATTACKS MAN
ON THEATER STAGE
Infuriated Beast Sinks Claws Deep
Into Victim's Leg—Audience Is
Thrown Into Panic
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.—A panic
was created in a local vaudeville thea
ter during a performance this after
noon, when four performing lions,
through the bars of their cage behind
the scenes, attacked F. L. Thurmond,
a scenic painter.
The cries of Thurmond and Charles
Dohrang, a property man, who went
to the painter's assistance, and tho
roaring of the lions, frightened those
in the audience and a rush for the
doors was made. None of the audience
was injured, however.
Thurmond had passed too close tc
the cage and one of the animals sank
its claws in his leg. When Dohrang
ran to aid him another of the lions
seised" im»li«rnt,"i»i* iiiaKS»d-Mm Close
to the bar*. House Policeman Goetjen
rescued the two men and dragged them
to the stage entrance.
Thurmond'a right arm, leg and body
were severely lacerated. Dohrang's left
leg was torn and his body bruised. The
policeman escaped injury.
HAZING OF FRESHMEN SAID
BY PROFESSOR TO BE GOOD
SAN FIIANCISCO, Jan. 29.—That haz
ing of freshmen for disciplinary pur
poses is good for their souls and not
too bad for their persons was the ap
parently unanimous opinion of govern
ing bodies of the Stanford university
undergrade tes and of the faculty dis
ciplinary body, at a joint meeting last
night. Though condemning indiscrimi
nate underclass hazing, Prof,
Clark, the chairman of the students'
affairs committee, declared that such
supervision by the commissioners of
Upper classmen would be a good thing
Cor ail concerned.
BISHOP FOSS DIES
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 89.—Bishop
Cyrus I. l''"ss. retired, of the Methodist
Episcopal ohurch, died tonight of paral
ysis. He was stricked January 18.
SliNtxLilll CUJrJiIiJS; ON TRAINS. S CENTS
STRIKING GIRLS
START FACTORY
SHIRTWAIST MAKERS FORM
$100,000 COMPANY
Backed by Society Leaders, Women
Who Walked Out Will Open
Big Manufacturing
Plant
[Special to Ths Herald. 1
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 29. —As an aid
to the striking shirt waist makers a big
company was incorporated here today
and will compete with the, large manu
factories for the trade of the. country.
The new company is capitalized for
$100,000,
The company has the financial sup
port of the wealthy women who have
co ardently espoused the cause of the
strikers. It is known as the National
Co-operative Waist and Neckwear
company of New Jersey.
Mrs. Ethel H. Stewart of New York
is the company's first president. She is
known well as a philanthropist and is
president of the Woman's Municipal
Ownership league and a member of the
Equality League of Self-supporting
Women. the Co-operative Service
league, the Women's Trades union and
the American Legislative Labor Union
of Brooklyn.
The incorporators of the $100,000 con
cern anounce that the common stock
is purchasable only by persons pos
sessing union cards in their particular
trades. Its price will be $1 a share.
The preferred stock, $40,000, may be
bought by the public. A dividend of 5
per cent la guaranteed.
It is said the greater part of the pre
ferred stock has been subscribed for by
the wealthy women who are associated
with the strikers in forwarding their
cause.
The announced object of the incor
porators is the manufacture of all kinds
of women's wearing apparel. No labor
other than that of unions will be em
ployed and the work day will be eight
hours. The company expects to be
ready to accept orders from the trade
by February 15.
"We do not want sympathy nor char
ity, but work," say the articles.
The promoters believe that with the
eight-hour day and unionism, with at
tendant benefits to their sex, the women
of the country will rally to the support
of the new company and insist upon
getting its products.
ACCUSES STEPFATHER OF
MISTREATING DAUGHTER
Police, After Seven Weeks of Relent.
less Search, Capture Kid.
naper of Little Girl
SAN DIKGO, Jan. 29.—After seven
weeks of tireless vigil, the police late
last night captured Juan Alderez, ac
cused of kidnaping his 14-year-old ■tan
daughter and holding her captive in the
wilds of Mexico.
Alderez, infatuated with the pretty
gTTTTTIHered her bedroom, seized and
bound her and fled for Mexico.
I,ater the girl managed to escape from
her stepfather and make her way home,
where she told a story of inhuman
treatment and enforced attentions.
Since then the hunt for Alderez has
been relentless, ending last night with
his-capture when he ventured back to
his home.
HARVESTER TRUST CUTS
A $20,000,000 MELON
Action Follows Increase of Common
Stock «f Company from Sixty
to Eighty Millions
CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—A $20,000,000
"melon" was cut today by the Inter
national Harvester company, generally
known aa the "harvester trust."
The "melon" camo in the form of a
stock dividend of 33 1-3 per cent on
tho stock of holders of record, Feb
ruary 4.
it was announced that this action
was taken as the result of the recent
Increase in the amount of common
stock from $60,000,000 to $80,««0,000. The
latter Issue was not placed on the cash
dividend basis. SM* 'J#m^X§£&l&
I P^ CENTS
GLAVIS EXPOSES
INNER WORKINGS
OF LAND OFFICE
Says Ballinger Protected
McLachlan from In
vestigation
HIGH MEN INVOLVED
Surprising Letters by Den
nett Made Public at
Inquisition
[Special to Tho Herald.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Surpris
ing letters, alleged to have been
written by Commissioner Den
nett to the chief of the field service of
the forestry bureau, H. H. Schwartz,
declaring that "Glavis suspected him"
and that "the air was nut good at all."
and statements by the deposed field
chief, Louis Glavis, who charged that
Secretary Ballinger, after acting as
general land office commissioner, had
become an attorney for Representative
Klnkaid of Nebraska, who, with Rep
resentative McLachlan of California,
was extensively interested in the Alas
kan coal lands claims, and that ho
(Ballinger) had urged Glavis not t'i
pursue an investigation against Con
gressman McLachlan, were some of the
interesting developments of the con
gressional inquiry into the affairs of
Secretary Ballinger today.
Glavis concluded his testimony tail
tonight. He will be recalled at th<- re
sumption of the hearing Monday after
noon for cross-examination by any per
sons against whom he has made
charges.
Glavis' last day on the stand was full
of interest. It developed the animus
which long existed between the land
office and the forestry bureau and tIM
resentment of the land office p.
felt when Glavls called it "the for
estry," as he termed it.
McLachlan Interested
The witness positively declared Rep
resentatives McLachlan of California
and Kinkaid of Nebraska were in
terested in Alaskan claims and that
Mr. Ballinger, after retiring as cm
missioner of the land office, had acted
as attorney for Mr. Kinkaid.
Glavis asserted that Mr. Ballinger
had suggested to him not to pursue an
investigation against Congressman
Lachlan, saying there had been "to
much of that sort of thing in the past "
When Glavis was asked the direct
question if he thought Secretary Bal
linger and Commissioner Dennett were
in league to do wrong in the Alaska
cases, hf. replied:
.'•Well, I thought the eases would tor
better protected with them out of the
way."
Glavis' attack seemed to center morp
today on Commissioner Dennett. Ha
said he becajhe convinced In the sum
mer of 1909 that Dennett was "crooked"
and took steps to get carbon copies of
lotters Dennett was writing bade to
Washington. Several of these letters
were introduced in evidence.
One was from Commissioner Den
nett to H. H. Schwartz, chief of th«
field service. It was dated July -■>.
1909, at Seattle, and said, among other
things:
Letter to Schwartz
"My Dear Schwartz: The worst sit
uation on the line is the find here.
Our friend Glavis regarded mo with
suspicion and, after talking awhile,
showed me your telegram aligning
the coal cases to Sherida.n. Now, r
figure that Glavis is preparing to make
a cushion for himself to fall ba'k on,
and also putting himself in shape ti>
have a great story in case Bharldan
does not make good and succeed in
canceling the Cunningham oases.
"While he looks Innocently at me,
yet I can see that his heart is bad.
though why it should bo [ cannot tell.
except that he wanted to drag the
out. He may be sincere, of course. In
his idea that he lias not been given
time, and opportunity.
"He asserts that lie will help Sher
idan all he can, but it is not human
nature, or, at least, his human nature.
The atmosphere is not good at all.
"That he is •■ playing the forestry
there is no question: the innocent lqoll
he gave mo when I told him ho w.*»
dragging ,in Shaw, etc.. when thero.
was no necessity, was beautiful. Ho
also talked conservation very strongly,
oiavis talking conservation! All round
ho is URly and he is preparing to h«
as unpleasant as h<> can—at least that
is my solution of the situation.
"Glavis professes the greatest friend
ship to you, and I think you know him
better than any ones else, and this Is
certainly the worst situation we have.
He will make about forty favorabla
and about 500 unfavorable reports:
the way things will commence to drop
will be amusing."
In a second letter from Dennett to
Schwartz, dated Seattle, July 22, 1509,
occurs this paragraph:
Coal Cases on Brain
"Glavis has these coal cane* on th*»
lirain and cannot see anything but
just one line. I have told him now It
looks to us and have reminded him of
everything we havo dona for him, nnd
that It looks as if he were returning
our favor by not standing by us «s
he ought to. He has not acted an you
or I would act under similar circum
stances. It looks a little treacherous;
to me, this calling in the forestry."
There was also introduced in thlv
connection ■ this telegram from,
Schwarta to Dennett, dated Washing
ton. July 21:
. "Department has letter from secre
tary of agriculture originating In for
est service, asking postponement of
the Cunningham hearings until No
vember. Shaw says <Havl* wroto - or;
wired him recently in matter.' Re
quire Glavis to show you ccpy of fci»
letter to Shaw, It being netor*ary to
determine motive behind agriculture's
request for such long delay.
Qlavis explained he had asked ;-'h..»v
by telegram to come to Seattta to co
operate with him on the Cunningham
claims, as several wen» In , forest rw*
serves. This was how tho forestry
bureau first came into the controversy
officially. . "^•*2**%j
Another letter from Si-cretnr BaW"»
ger to Mr. Schwartz, dated Bolw, ltl«*
---ho, July 23, 1909, In which the itacretarx
of the interior said: - . . . • <
"I am Just advised by CommlaubxMjr. ■
Dennett of your telegram in . refeiwp**j
to the increase In tho number cf special -
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