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NUMBER 140. I. XI lA_aEj . 4A) l^iilil 10 I\KB MONTH
COUNTRY NEEDS
FEDERAL CURB
SAYS MR.NAGEL
Control of Corporations
Is Subject of Speech
at Chicago
STATES IN TURMOIL
Argument Brought Forth
That Peace Comes Only
with Strong Hand
C^HICAOO, Feb. 17.—Federal control
i of corporations is necessary to the
' commercial preservation of the
country, declared Charles Nagel, secre
tary of commerce and labor of the
United States, In an address before the
Industrial club hero tonight.
As to the power of the national gov
ernment to authorize the organization
of federal corporations, Mr. Nagel said
there could be no question. The exist
ing system of clashing state laws —"a
system on all sides at war with itself"—
he regarded as intolerable, and he a.i
aured his hearers that the consequence
of a federal corporation law such as
President Taft had proposed could
make for nothing but the general good.
The purpose of the government to
regulate the corporations, in the opin
ion of the secretary, could not be con
sidered as an attempt to encroach upon
state authority, but as a determination
to "employ olii authority for the solu
tion of new problems." A change of
attitude regarding the relation of na
tional to state authority, he believed,
had come over the country with the
development of problems too big for
the states individually to meet.
Relief Is Demanded
"Among the more important prob
lems," said Secretary Nagel, "appears
to be the question whether or ijot the
national government may and shoulu
authorize and resjulate tlie organiza
tion and conduct of federal corpora
tions Only a low yoars ago the baro
suggestion of such an idea filled the
public with dismay. The authority
was denied and tha policy was ques
tioned. Today the irreconcilable con
llicts to which ordinary business organ
izations aro subjected in our states
have forced a general recognition that
something must be done to relieve the.
situation.
"The idea is not limited to any par
ticular locality of our country or to
any special class. From all parts, cast
and west, north and south, city and
country, come the suggestions that
some relief uixm these lines must bo
worked out. The proposition has now
been squarely put before the country.
The president of the United States has
jnade a distinct recommendation In a
message calling- attention to the needs,
und submitting for consideration a form
to which legislators and constituents
may irive their attention."
Three Grave Questions
In considering the proposition Sec
retary N;tgel stated that three points
must be determined: First, the ques
tion of the government's authority;
Becond, the conditions which make ad
visable such legislation, and third, the
consequence of such legislation.
"From the earliest case In which the
exclusive rights of congress to regulate
Interstate commerce was considered, it
was made apparent that the authority
to provide for the organization of busi
ness corporations was a necessary in
cident to the exercise of that authority,
und again the supremo court has said
that congress has this power," said tho
secretary.
"The plain and Indisputable fact is,"
he said, "that the commerce of these
organizations with Which we are really
concerned has outgrown both the
boundaries and the authority of any
particular state. In" other words, the
individual state is vainly struggling to
control conditions as well as power
and the modern demand for congres
sional action Is nothing but the plain,
practical call for an authority that is
equal to the occasion with which it
has to deal. Realizing that wo have
a national commerce, we ure naturally
calling upon national authority to con
trol it, and to protect It."
Fair Control Needed
The need and purpose of federal con
trol of corporations, the secretary
stated, he believed to be "simply to
place a private business company in
its commercial activity precisely where
the constitution undertook to put the
citizens of the United States." The
purpose is to organize companies that
may engage in interstate commerce un
der regulations fixed by the federal
government and free from the unnat
ural and uneconomical embarrassments
which so far any state has been at
liberty to interpose."
Another phase of the question dis
cussed by the secretary was t,he inter
national commerce of the country. Up
to the present time, he said, the coun
try has rested on the belief that de
velopment of domestic commerce was
sufficient. Other countries felt the
need of international commercial de
velopment long ago and the United
States, he urged, must do all that was
necessary to meet what its competi
tors wore doing In that line.
"We are now engaged in establishing
relations with foreign countries," con
tinued the speaker, "looking for the
opportunities of our commerce in their
midst. We are shaping our treaties to
secure open doors and equal rights with
other countries. In what form shall
this commercial enterprise make Its
appearance in other countries if not
In the form of the accepted corporate
organization?
Present System Ruinous
"Does it stand to reason that we can
successfully depend upon a corporation
lurge enough to engage in foreign com
merce and at the same time too large
to be admitted by most of the states
.(imposing our own Union? Will it be
seriously contended that we will be
blind enough to engage in foreign busi
ness under federal protection, and at
the same time permit Individual states
of the Union to cut the pins from un
der this same commercial organization
«it home? We cannot hope to succeed
with such an Inconsistent and ruinous
"fcystem.
•Apart from all the embarrassments
4Vhich antagonistic and conflicting stato
legislation lias so far created It appear*
to me that contemplation of the future
of our foreign commerce in itself ab
solutely settles the need for an lntelll-
(Continued on P»»e Tur« i
LOS ANGELES HERALD
INDEX OF
HERALD'S NEWS
TODAY
FORECAST
For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair
Friday; light frost in the morning;
light north wind. Maximum tempera,
ture yesterday 62 degrees, minimum
45 degrees.
LOS ANGELES
Jury not found yet In examination of Dolph
Green before Police Judge Rose. PAGE 6
Cupid steps in and reconciliations are prob
able in two cases rending in divorce
. court. , I PAGE 5
Attorney wins fight for new trial In case of
Mrs. Gertrude Drlggs. PAGE 5
Richmond ) Innt may sock re-election to
council If primary Is not ordered before
Slay 15. PAGE 5
Mall contracts waken railroads; time to
Pacific coast to be cut down. PAGE] 3 1
North-Northeast-Northwest Improvement as
sociation discusses needs of district. PAGE 5
Homeseekers form line o await opening on
March 1 of reclaimed desert lands near
Yuma, i PAGE 8
Remains of Mrs. Julia F. Barnard will be
taken to Indianapolis fur Interment. PAGE 9
Southern California Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution win In battle with the
north. PAGE 6
Mrs. Ida Hlmaahelc testifies 1n preliminary
hearing of son accused of trying to polsen
her. PAGE 9
Y. M. C. A. aviation meet Is progressing
and many new members are being ro
oeived. PAGB 8
Mayor Alexander^inyos citizens to cast bal
, lots at today's election to give annexation
of East Hollywood a big vdto. PAGE 9
New chief of police visits substations;
pleased with conditions. PAOE 8
Information on death of F. E. 'Light
foot withheld by Good Samaritan hos
pital attaches. PAGE 3
Delegates to Methodist Episcopal Sun
day school cohventlon open assembly.
PAGE 6
Yale man and- Los Angeles girl have
second wedding to cover up elope
ment. . PAGE 6
Coaat dealers said to bo In control -<of
beef market. PAOB 12
Tailor claims plot to drug and rob him
was ' laid by supposed friend. PAGE] 8
Editorial, letter box, Haskln's letter.
s PAGE 4
Society, club and 'music. PAGE 6
Marriage licenses, births ana deaths.
PAGE 14
News of the courts. PAGE 5
Municipal affairs. PAGE 6
Mines and oil fields. PAGE 13
Markets and financial. PAGE 12
Building permits. | -"* PAGE] 14
Citrus fruit report. PAGE 12
Shipping. PAGE 14
Automobiles. PAGE 11
Sports. PAGE 10
City brevities. PAGE 6
Classified advertising. PAGES 14-15
Theaters. PAGE) 8
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
Pasadena Is placarded with dodgers calling at
tention to water question. PAGE 7
Harry Phillips has perilous experience as
result of accidentally shooting mules out
on desert. PAGE 7
Maryland man offers $10,000 reward for In
formation regarding his uncle, a Southern
California pioneer. <y PAGE) 7
Samuel L. Lent, a man of man^mcUvltles,
dies at Long Beach. PAGE 7
| COAST . ■
Mysterious fire wipes out government
building at site of Lewis-Clark ex
position In Portland. PAGE 9
Eight killed in combusion of powder
works near Oakland. PAGE 3
Repulsed suitor kills sweetheart when
. eh© refuses to rent him room. PAGE 2
Voters must tie to 1910 great register;
all other registrations Invalid, says
- supreme court. , PAGE 1
Iceberg wrecks Alaskan steamer off
Chlcagof island In Bering straits. PAGE 1
Flckert called down by Judge; strong
intimation made that district attorney
must servo people. PAGE) 2
Three smallpox patfenta die on cruiser
off Seattle and causa great fear of
spreading to shore. PAGE 2
Geary, noted Chinese excluslonlst, be
comes counsel for Dr. Burke of Santa
Rosa, accused of dynamiting sani
tarium. , PAGE! 6
Veteran newspaper man dies-on doc
tor's porch at Redding. • PAGE 2
State legal department at Sacramento I
says district attorney shall act for
school board at Los Angeles. PAGE 2
Compulsory vaccination law at Watson
ville sustained by court. PAGE 2
Jury In trial of former police captain
for murder at San Francisco dis
agrees. ,- PAGE 3
EASTERN
Federal curb needed on corporations,
declare* Secretary . Nagel at Chicago
banquet. . . PAGE 1
Typhoid bacilli Inoculated Into patients
said to be method of murdering
'.'. Swope family In Kansas City. PAGE 1
Texan denounces New York Cotton ex
change; . Bays growers and spinners
need no gamblers. ■,•* PAGE 3
Clark Insists on publicity clause: no
' tice served on Chairman Payne by <
minority leader. ■■ PAGE 2
Railroad manager admits that Southern
Pacific controls steamship .rates on
Pacific. PAGE 3
Irrigation plans Involving expenditure
of {30,000,000 Is before congress. PAOE 2
Senator Jefferson Davis Bays lie would like
to see Rockefeller burn In his own oil.
PAG* a
Big meat packers on witness stand at Jef
ferson City, Mo. PAGE 1
Sheriff resists frenzied mob at Cairo, 111.
PAGE 1.
Bold blackmail of state senate exposed at
Albany. PAGEI
Storm extends from north central to
gulf states, and record* for low tem
peratures Woken. PAGB 3
FOREIGN
Young wife found chained In home and
mysterious disappearance case Is cleared
up. PAGB 1
MINING AND OIL
John Herman starts action to ascertain
facts In regard to Southern Califor
nia Bonanza Gold Mine* company.
PAGB 13
Chamber of Mines will hold annual
meeting today. PAGE 13
Sew york Coallnga well No. 4 deep
ened to second sand stratum, with
favorable results. PAGE 13
San Francisco urges Japan to lower
duty on crud« petroleum. PAGE 1:i
SPORTING
Monte Attell 1« shortender of betllng
odds tor his flirht with Oonley. I'AUE 10
Jeffries arrives In Can Francisco and Is
met by delegation of friends. PAGE 11
Jake Schaefer, billiard champion, Is
dying In Denver. PAGR 10
AUred Do Oro, former billiard and pool
champion, engaged by J. F. llorley
to g-lve exhibition events. I'ACIS 10
Salvldere, one of thu great Horses of
the American turf, killed. PAdB lv
Pajarolta win* «prlnt handicap at
Emeryville, defeating Cloudlifht and
others In fast time ovv slow track.
PAGE 10
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 191.0.
TYPHOID BACILLI
USED TO MURDER
SWOPE'S FAMILY
Doctor Said to Have Inoc
ulated Victims with Fa
tal Microbes
NURSES SUSPICIOUS
Sensational Developments
in Kansas City Mystery
Increase Interest
[Associated Press]
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 17.—Ac
cusations made against Dr. B. C.
Hyde were Interrupted today by
the statement that the evidence tend
ing to prove he had inoculated mem
bers of the Swope family with typhoid
bacilli had been found.
In answer to a petition filed in the
circuit court at Independence by Dr.
Hyde asking that Attorney John B.
Paxton be compelled to produce cer
tain letters that passed between him
and Dr. Ludwig Hektoen, Mr. Paxton
accused Dr. Hyde of bad faith in at
tempting to get evidence "tending to
prove that the plaintiff had murdered
by the administration of poison
Thomas H. Swope and Chrisman
Swope; has also attempted to poison
Margaret Swope, and by the same
kind of treatment has communicated
to the members of the Swope family
typhoid fever."
Veiled charges against Dr. Hyde in
connection with the death of Chris
man Swope and the alleged poisoning
of Miss Margaret Rwope had been
made frequently, but the charge that
the physician communicated typhoid
bacilli to members of the family is en
tirely new and lias added to the In
terest in the case.
Mysterious Feature
The typhoid epidemic In the Swope
home marks one of the most mysteri
ous features of the entire case. No
one has ever satisfactorily explained
the origin of the disease.
Yet many persons in the residence
became afflicted with the disease while
Dr. Hyde was In attendance, and when
the nurses struck on account of his
presence he then left.
Soon after this sensational answer
was filed today Judge Powell decided
that reports of the scientists sought
by Dr. Hyde's attorneys should not be
made public until Mrs. Logan H.
Swope was willing for them to be re
leased. They are now in her hands.
Warfare for the depositions of Mrs.
Logan H. Swope, Miss Lucy O. Swope
and Miss Pearl Killar, the nurse, will
bo renewed tomorrow by Dr. Hyde's
attorneys. If the women refuse to
give their depositions upon being sub
poenaed an officer will serve attach
ments on them.
The preliminary hearing of Dr. B. C.
Hyde was continued for one week by
Justice Loar today.
BIG MEAT PACKERS
ON WITNESS STAND
Competition, Rather Than Combina
tion, Declared to Be Responsible
for the Present Exorbitant
Cost of Living
JEFFERSON CITY, Ma, Feb. 17.—
Competition, rather than combination
or agreement among packers, fixes the
prices of meats, according to testi
mony of packing company officials
before Special Examiner Dillon here
today, in the investigation of meth
ods of the nine companies doing busi
ness In Missouri.
A general denial that prices are
fixed at meetings of representatives
of the companies was entered by the
three witnesses examined.
The greater part of the day was
taken up in learning the ramifications
of the different companies.
G. F. Swift of Chicago said that
Swift & Co. of Illinois own "stock In
the Schwarzschild & Sulzbtrger com
pany and also owned, through the
estate of the late Gustavus F. Swift,
$7,000,000 In the stock of the National
Packing company of New Jersey.
He said that Swift & Co. of Mis
souri and Swift & Co. of West Vir
ginia are selling companies for the
Illinois company, to which all busi
ness and dividends are reported.
SENATOR HAS APPENDICITIS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — Senator
William AldeiV Smith of Michigan is
seriously 111 with appendicitis. Late
tonight Dr. Louis Barth of Grand Rap-
Ids, Mich., Senator Smith's personal
physician, arrived, coming at the sen
ator's request. It is not decided wheth
er the senator shall, submit to an ope
ration. Washington physicians diag
nosed his case as acute appendicitis
and urged that he be hurried to a hos
pital for an operation. Mrs. Smith
would not consent until Dr. Barth ar
rived.
CONSIDERS WOMAN'S PILLOW
IS HER SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT
NEW YORKi Feb. 17.—Custom has
decided that a woman's pillow is her
safe deposit vault at night, and as
such can be considered Judicially as a
safe place for the security of her jew
elry or other valuables as the vaults
of the United States treasury.
Justice Foster of the general sessions
court handed down this opinion today
In declining to return to* pawnbrokers
With whom they had been pledged jew
els worth nearly $5000 stolen from Ida
Emerson Hills.
Miss Hills had put the Jewelry undnr
her pillow When retiring with her
mother after a new year's night party
In the house of her brother-in-law,
Charles H. Zimmerman. When she
awoke next morning she found the
jewels had been stolen and Zimmerman
had disappeared. Zimmerman was ar
rested and today was sentenced to
Sing Slnff.
The pawnbrokers claimed Miss Hills
had been tfuilty of negligence in not
putting her jewelry in a safe place.
Judge Foster's dictum nn««t their
claims. <
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in Southern California and he decides to make his home in Los Angeles.
VOTERS MUST TIE
TO l910 REGISTER
SUPREME COURT RENDERS AN
ELECTION DECISION
Contention of Attorney That Cities
Holding Elections in Even Num.
bered Years Can Go Back
to "Odds" Is Denied
[Associated Press]
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17.—8y a
decision of the state supreme court
rendered today only those voters whose
names appear on the new great regis
ter for 1910 will be allowed to par
ticipate in the general primary elec
tion to be held next August.
This decision, which was written by
Judge K. W. Henshaw, means that the
trreat registers of voters for 190S and
1909 cannot be iTsed in the verification
of the petitions of candidates who
seek their party nominations for state
officers ac tho coming primaries.
The decision was tho result of an
application for a writ of mandate
filed by Henry Orieb of this city to
compel Registrar J. H. Zemansky and
the election commissioners to use the
registers of 190S and 1909, as well as
the new great register of 1910, In veri
fying the papfers of candidates and to
recoepize and use these registers as
supplementary to the new great regis
ter in preparing for the primary elec
tion itself. In applying for the writ
it was contended that the new great
resistor would not be complete by
August.
The law passed In ISS9 governing city
elections in this state contained a
proviso that municipalities which held
municipal elections during even-num
bered years prior to the completion
of the new great register could use the
old registers. The contention of Grieb
that this provision also applies to the
new primary law was denied by the
court, which held that the proviso was
made only to cover cases in which
elections were held prior to the reg
ular primaries. The court also holds
that seven months provides ample
time for the registration of voters and
that it Is not fair to the candidates
to compel them to seek the old regisc
terß for the verification of their nom
ination papers.
In dismissing the contention of the
petitioner the court declared that the
ten days allowed election commissions
for the verification of nomination
papers was so short that It would be
a matter of great inconvenience for
them to use more than one great reg
ister of voters. The court used the
following language:
"It is conceded by the court that the
primary law is both complex and
onerous, but we are advised that it
was adopted in response to a very
general and popular demand. This
being so, it is but fair to assume that
the vast majority of electors, who find
in this law a panacea for all political
ills will flock to the registration
booths and qualify themselves to take
part In the important primary elec
tion which follows."
WOMAN KILLED BY CAR
SAN FKANCISfO, Feb. 17.—While
crossing Market street today Mrs. Anna
(Jnunnon was struck by a street car
ana killed.
SHERIFF RESISTS
MOB; ONE KILLED
JAIL AT CAIRO, ILL, SCENE OF
SERIOUS CONFLICT
Several Persons Injured, and Militia
Called Out as Result of At.
tempt to Lynch Ne.
gro Prisoners
[Special to Tho Herald.]
CAIRO, 111., Feb. 18, 3:45 a. m.—
Sheriff Davis is holding the Jail at the
present time but the company of state
troops ordered to the scene has not ar
rived yet.
During the riots a white man was shot
and killed. He is said to be Thomas
Halliday, son of Former Mayoh Halll
day. The body at this hour is lying
in the Jail yard.
The sheriff was afraid to venture
forth to bring the body Into the build-
ing.
Company G of Eftinghum has been
to hurry to the scene. The governor
has ordered all saloons closed.
Among the men injured by the first
volley fired from the Jail by Sheriff
Nellis and his five deputies was George
B. Walker, correspondent of the As
sociated Press. Walker went through
the riots of last November, following
the mob all its trips after Sheriff Davis
and his prisoner until the capture of
James resulted In the lynchings.
Walker's wound is said to be severe,
but not fatal.
Cairo has been in a state of unrest
since the murder was discovered
vember 9 of Miss Anna Pelley, a shop
girl, who was alleged to have been
slain by Will James, a negro. After a
long chase through Alexander and ad
joining counties, a mob captured James,
taking him from the custody of Sher
iff Davis. Tho negro was taken to
Cairo and hanged in the public square.
[Associated Press J
CAIRO, 111., Feb. 18.—In a pitched
battle at midnight between a mob
that sought to lynch a negro charged
with purse-snatching and five dequty
sheriffs who were guarding the Jail,
several members of the mob were shot
down in an attempt to rush the jail.
The number of injured is unknown,
the estimates varying between two
and eleven.
Sheriff Nellis has appealed to the
governor for more soldiers, and addi
tional companies are expected before
morning.
There aro three negroes in the jail.
One, John Pratt, was arrested yester
day on a charge of snatching purses
from women. He was immediately In
dicted by the grand jury, and it is be
lieved the mob is after him.
A crowd gathered at the jail at 9
o'clock last night, but no attemp to
rush the building was made until Just
before midnight.
Nellis made good his promise to
shoot, and several In the mob went
down' at the first volley.
Following the volley the mob with
drew to a safe distance, <*nd began fir
ing into the Jail, breaking the win
dows, but injuring none of the de
fenders.
Amone the Injured are John Ma
loney, shot in head; Sam Wolsanger,
shot in shoulder; Hortan Freehan, shot
in leg; George B. Walker, shot in leg.
Maloney Is the huslwuid of one of the
women whose purse was snatched.
CJT'VT^TTT' /~irYDTT?C! • DAII.Y. Sej SUNDAY, 8e
iMALnLJIi v^UlJJiiO. on trains, s cram
ICEBERG WRECKS
COAST STEAMER
ALASKAN SHIP YUCATAN IS
SUNK IN STRAIT
Steel Vessel Rams Into Glacial Floater
Off Chicahagof Island —Doomed
Craft Goes Down Soon
After Striking
[Associated Press]
JI7NEAU, Alaska, Feb. 17.—The
Alaska Steamship company's steel
steamship Yucutan, bound from Val
dez to Seattle with sixty-flve passen
gers, struck a huge iceberg in Icy
strait at 9:30 o'clock yesterday morn
ing and sank eight minutes later In
six fathoms of water. There was no
loss of life, and so far as kn,own no
person was injured.
The shipwrecked passengers and
crew are camped on Chichagof Island,
.and will bo brought here tomorrow by
the steamer Georgia, which left Ju
neau for the purpose soon after news
of the wreck was received. First Mate
Gustafson of the Yucatan and Captain
Raymond Jaeger of the fishing schoon
er Alexandria arrived here today with
the story of the loss of the steamer.
The Yucatan was bound for Gyp
sum on Chichagof island to take on a
quantity of gypsum. When Icy strait
was reached the water was smooth,
but there were great fields of ice and
the snow was falling so heavily that
it was possible to see only a short dis
tance ahead.
Captain W. P. S. Porter was on the
bridge, and with him was the pilot,
Captain John Johnson, who command
ed the steamship Ohio when she was
lost in British Columbia waters last
summer. Slow bell was ordered and
the steamer crept through the ice.
Ship Rams Iceberg
Suddenly an iceberg loomed up
ahead and the steamship rammed it,
tearing a great hole in the side of the
vessel, into which water poured
quickly.
Full steam ahead was ordered, and
the Yucatan was headed for Chichagof
island, where she was beached at a
point where there is six fathoms of
wnter at high tide.
The boats were lowered and all on
j board were taken to shore without
mishap or confusion, the ten woman
passengers being removed first.
Food and bedding and the United
States mail were also taken ashore.
On the island the castaways found
cabins to shelter them from the cold,
and with abundant food, clothing,
blankets and wood they are not likely
to endure hardship. Many of the pas
sengers lost all their personal effects.
Soon after the crew had landed Cap
tain Johnson, First Mate Gustafson
and four sailors put off in a lifeboat
to seek aid. After rowing fifteen miles
they sighted the fishing schooner
Alexandria.
Captain Jaeger of the Alexandria
offered the use of a gasoline launch
to continue the trip to Juneau. Cap
tain Johnson and the sailors turned
back to the island In the lifeboat and
Jaeger and Gustafson set out for Ju
neau in the launch. Unfortunately
the launch broke down after going a
short distance and the two men had
difficulty in getting their craft to a
Hoonah Indian village.
The Indians refused to pllow the
m CEIVTS
EXPOSES BOLD
BLACKMAIL OF
STATE SENATE
Bridge Company Forced
by New York Legisla
ture to Pay Solons
REFUSAL IS RESENTED
Startling Evidence Is Ad
duced at Inquiry in
Albany
[Associated Press]
ALBANY, N. V., Feb. IT.—S. Fred
Nixon was the third name that
Senator Ben Conger says Hiram
G. Moe wrote on one of the envelopes
that carried $6000 to the state capitol
nine years ago to buy protection for
the American Bridge company.
The name of the former speaker of
the assembly, announced today by Con
ger on the stand, completes the trio.
Speaker Nixon's envelope, according ta
Conger, like Senator Jotham P. Allds 1.
held $1000. The remainder of the fund
—$4000 —was in the envelope given to
Nixon's lieutenant. Assemblyman Jean
Larue Burnett.
According to Conger, from 1901 to
1905, a systematic campaign was con
ducted at- Albany against the treas
urer of the bridge companies. For
three years the companies paid tribute.
In 1905 notice came from Albany that
It would be to their interests to for
ward to the capital $10,000.
The men who controlled the bridge
companies met in Syracuse and agreed
not to pay. As Conger expresses it,
"we decided we would not be black
mailed any longer."
In the four preceding years measures
hostile to the bridge interests had
been Introduced regularly, but they
always failed to pass. But in 1905 tha
legislature passed the highway act,
which contained a provision against
which the bridge combination had long
contended. As a result- of this law 60
per cent of the bridge companies were
forced out of business in New York
state.
Ready to Hear It • .
AUds" accuser was on the stand all
day, and this was his story. He told it
under cross-examination, and Allds'
attorneys seemed quite ready to let
him tell it.
Their purpose apparently was to
brand Conger as a giver of bribes, as
a representative of the bridge inter
ests in the legislature and to show
that in bringing the charges against
Allds he was actuated by a desire for
revenge because of Allds' hostility to
the business interests in which Conger
had invested.
Conger followed their lead with a
readiness that can bo explained by a
desire to convince his colleagues that
he would not have handled bribe
money unless ho and his business as
sociates had been "held up" by legis
lators and that the bridge interests in
the past had to choose between black
mail and ruin.
S. Fred Nixon probably held more*
power than any other member of the
assembly that occupied the speaker's
chair. He entered the lower house in
1887 and was elected speaker in 1899.
He ruled the assembly continuously
up to the time of his death in 1905.
The name of Col. George "W. Dunn,
chairman of the Republican state com
mittee in 1902, was brought definitely
into the evidence today, thus making
him available as a witness at futura
Investigations.
Conger said he called on Dunn at hia
office here and made a contribution for
both himself and the bridge companies.
He did not say how much it -was.
YOUNG WIFE FOUND
CHAINED IN HOME
Mysterious Disappearance In I -ia <«
Cleared Up, and Unusual Con.
dition Is Discov.
ered
PARIS, Feb. 17.—The disappearance
of the young wife of a druggist named
Parat, whose pharmacy is near the
scene of the Stelnheil murder, was
cleared up today when the police broke
In and found the woman heavily
chained between the bed and the wall,
horribly scarred.
In addition to the chain, which was
strongly padlocked around the neck,
a cruel contrivance resembling a coat
of mail, but strengthened by a belt
of copper rings, enveloped the body.
Both objects could be removed only
by the me of keys.
The woman told a pitiful tale of two
years' imprisonment and martyrdom.
Last November, when still in chains,
she gave birth to her fifth child. Tha
husband refused to call a doctor.
Parat, who was arrested, declared
that he loved his wife but was ex
tremely Jealous of her.
."JUST A LITTLE HIGHER,"
IS DENVER SKIRT PROTEST
City Council May Pass Ordinance.
Regulating Length of Garment*
That Now Trail on Walks
DENVER, Feb. 17.—The length o*
women's skirts for street wear will be
regulated by law if the Denver city
council acts favorably on- a sugges
tion received by Mayor Speer in a let
ter from one of Denver's society lead
ers Though the name of the author
is withheld, intimation of the plan out
linod has caused considerable uneasi
ness in society circles, where surprise
is expressed at this attempt to curtail
the dominion of Dame Fashion.
The mayor's suggests
that an ordina^e be passed limiting
the length of skirts so that they will
not trail on the sidewalks or sweep
off car steps as their wearer disem
barks. The bachelor committee of the
council having under advisement tha
suggestion is being overwhelmed, with
protests by Denver women.