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T* PAGES /^7 PARTS S&SSR&. PRICE: 50 GENTS n <MBg¥S BREWERS MANAGE TO DELIVER BEER FOR SUNDAY TRADE Strike Still on and No Prospect for Settlement of the Labor Troubles EMPLOYERS FOR OPEN SHOP Both Sides Declare They Are Pre pared to Continue Industrial War Indefinitely fT\ HE Brewery Workers' strike is 1 ' still on and there are no signs of -■- an early settlement. Yesterday the several breweries affected made their usual Saturday deliveries, to take care of the Sunday trade In bottled beers, which is always much heavier than for any other day of the week. In part deliveries were made by the breweries and In some instances cus tomers sent drays or express wagons to the supply depots an/5 did their own hauling. Saloon men genoraiv were somewhat reluctant yesterday about discussing the effect the boycott declared against local beers is iiaving on their business. Some few of them reported that the s;ile of beer shows a marked falling off; others that the lemand seemed about normal. At least one of the saloons Which sells an eastern beer on draught displayed placard.) yesterday announc ing that fact prominently and advising patrons against .he "unfair" beverages sold elsewhere. it is said other raloons handling beers not on the "unfair" list will follow this example. The local breweries without exception Increased the number of their employes yesterday, but admitted tnat they wore unable to find men skilled in the work. The brewers announce their determina tion to stand for the "open shop," how over, and predict that they will be able to secure all the help they neea within a few days. The brewers have as yet made no move to take the boycott into the courts, but threaten to do SO should it develop that the boycott Is hurting their business, something they denied strenuously yesterday, sayinfj they were experiencing no difficulty in selling all the beer they could make. • A meeting- was held nt Labor Temple last night to discuss the advisability of calling out all union men couoerntsd in any way with handling the, product of local breweries. If this is done it will involve among others a consider able number of bartenders and waiters. Some of the men on strike reported last night that they had been unable to collect from one of the breweries money due then-, for wages. ' V- • There were no disturbances yesterday and aithwr-'k police were aselgnnj to guard the breweries the strikers gave them no cause for activity. Eoth sun :■ to the controversy assert tiu-ir w.'llinerness and ability to con tinue the light Indefinitely. LITTLE BOY SAVES GIRL FROM DEATH UNDER TRAIN Cars Pass Over but Do Not Harm Tots Prone on Trestle Ties PLAINFIEL.D, N. J., May 21.— Hazel ll.n.hicks and Albeit Hurling, two 8 year-old Plainfleld children, owe their lives to the boy's quirk presence of mind in an emergency yesterday. The two were crossing a railroad trestle when a f;ist train approached. There was no time for them to escape from the bridge, and young Hurling quickly threw his terrified girl com panion prone on the ties, and crouched flown l)"shle her, holding her tight to Ihe heavy cross pieces, One hundred bystanders at the station 500 feet away Bhuddereß, fearing the children would be lulled, but after the train passed both jumped up unhurt. NOT A WHIMPER AS DOCTOR SEWS FORN SCALP ON TOT Five-Year-Old, Conscious, En dures 2-Hour Operation SAN DIEGO, May 21.—Rare nerve was shown by Kodney McGuffie, 5-year-old son of A. A. McGuffie, an expressman, this afternoon. The little fellow was run over by a garbage wagon and his scalp was torn off. At a hospital he endured without taking an anaesthetic an operation lasting two hours. His scalp was sewed on, sixty stitches being necessary. Dur ing the ordeal he did not even whim^ per. When it was over ho broke silence, saying: "Are you through, doctor?" "Yes, I am through, my boy," was the reply. "I am so glad," said the little fel low. He will recover. FORMER BANK PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLEMENT BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 21.—A warrant wan issued today for tho ar rest of H. .1 VVelty, former president of the Home Security Savings bank, Closed March 81, He is charged with embesaling $10,000 June 4, 1907. Welty has been missing for several months and the Whatcom county commis sioners have offered a reward of $500 for his apprehension. SENATOR PENROSE ILL PHILADELPHIA, May 21.—United States Senator link's lVnrosu is oOl>* valesclng at his residence bare, from un attack of Blip Mid acute Indigestion rious was the .senator's condition nt first that four physicians were summoned to his bedside. Tonight it was said he would probably be able to be about in a few days. LOS ANGELES HERALD INDEX OF HERALD'S NEWS TODAY FORECAST <■'■{'t"~.'. "~~~ Log Angeles and vicinity—Cloudy Sunday; light south wind. Minimum temperature yesterday 08 decrees minimum, 54, • LOS ANGELES Sports. Section 3. I'AOISS 0-7 Editorial. Section 1. PAGE 6 Society and clubs. Section I, PAGES 8-10 Music. Section 3, PAGE 9 New* of the court». Section 1, PAGE! 9 Mines and oil fields. Section I, PAGES 14-15 Markets and financial. Section 3. PAGE 11 Automobiles. Section 3, PAGES 1-3 Dramatic. Suction 4, PAGE 1 Fraternal and secret orders. Section 4. PAGE 2 Real estate. Section 2. PAGES 1-3 Classified advertising. Section 2, PAGES 5-10 Marriage licenses, births, deaths. Section 2. PAGE 5 Brewery workers' strike still on, and no prospect for settlement. Section "1, PAGE 1 Need of civil service shown at court house, where Job holders are so busy electioneering that they neglect their work.. Section 1, PAGE 9 Secretary W. A. Spaldlng defends civil service regulations In speech before City club. C---'- Section 1, PAGE Si Two medical students sue to compel college to grant diplomas denied thorn by faculty. Section 1, PAGE 0 Lincoln-Roosevelt league unlikely to name man for district attorney, and will support Woolwine, Democratic candidate. Section 1, PAGE 7 Democratic committee pleased by high class - of candidates that seek Indorsement for county offices. Section 1, PAGE 7 Albert Lee Stephens, > judge of township court, announces his candidacy for su perior bench. . Section ], PAGE 7 W. D. Stephens accepts Indorsement of - Lincoln-Roosevelt league in campaign for congress. Section 1, PAGE 7 Fancy street lighting Is baffling problem for city. Section 2, PAGE 11 Fast matches scheduled for Ml. Wash ington tennis courts May 28-30. Section 3. PAGE 7 News of the waterfront. Section 3. PAGE 10 Rev. J. Whltcomb Brougher, pastor of Temple Baptist church, takes bad fall at Sunday school picnic. Section 3, PAGE 9 -Kelly holdup bluff called by police. Section 1. PAGE a Geologist Mallory advances theory that sun's rays shining through transpar ent comet accounts for tail. Section 1. PAGE 8 J. Ross Clark says Bait Lake road will be open for thrown traffic June, 14. Section 1. PAGE 11 Chairman of Democratic county com mittee claims brewers and liquor deal ers are backing 11. M. McDonald In fight for stale senate. Section 1, PAGE I SOUTH CALIFORNIA A 1111 .'!.:;■ ■■: i.■ field meet at I'asadena Is successful. Section 1. PAGE 10 Additional protection for bathers at Ijong Ileaoh Installed by city. Section 1, PAGE 13 Indian princess MAla book and ends car thai at Bun Bernardino. ... ....... Section 1 1, PAGE 8 EASTERN '. . James A. Patten makes $1,500,000 profit on deal for SO.OOO bales cotton. * i ;• Section 1, PAGE 1 Floods threaten Oklahoma regions, swept by tornado; snow falls in Colo rado. Section 1. PAGE 1 Circus tent catches fire at Schenectady, N. V.; 15,000 persons march out In perfect order; aeronaut falls 2000 feet. - Section 1, PAGE 1 Champ Clark attacks Payne- Aldrich tariff bill In vigorous speech, showing defects of measure. Section 1. PAGE 1 Representative Eugene Foas arraigns Republican policy of protection and Payne-Aldrlch bill; demands tariff re- vißion. Section 1. PAGE 2 Henry M. Duffield elected commander of naval and military order of Span ish-American war. Section 1. PA OB 2 Cotton Kins Patten makes deal by which hu clears (1.500,000. Section 1. PAGE 1 Presbyterian assembly protests against Jeffries-Johnson light. Section 1, PACE 2 Maryland solon calls sugar trust crooked. Section 1, PAGE 2 FOREIGN De 1.-esseps, French aviator, flies from Calais to Dover. Section 1, PAGE 1 Caruso Insists on being paid 52500 for singing for charity; then adds $1000 to It and glveg all to worthy cause. Section 1. PAGE 1 Insurgent Generals Mena and Moncado surround Nicaraguan forces un.li-r Gen. Chavaris. Section 1, PAQB 1 Thousands of Jews to be driven from li.mH'.s within month. Section V, PAGE 2 PATTEN GETS $1,500,000 PROFIT ON COTTON ORDER NEW YORK, May 21—James A. Pat ten received an order today for 80,000 bales of cotton, recently delivered to him on May contracts, according to a statement which the Tribune will print tomorrow. The order is said to come from for eign spinners who have, allowed their stocks to run low In the hope of getting lower prices and is believed to be the largest single commission ever placed here. The cotton 1b to be delivered at 15 cents a pound and it Is understood Mr. Patten paid from 9 to 12 cents a pound for it. His profit on the deal, which in volved $3,000,000, is estimated at $1, --500,000. Opinion In tho cotton trade was that 15 cents was a moderate, rather than an extortionate price. Brokers said that spinners must have cotton and that they would have paid almost any price for it. Spot cotton is now selling at 15.40 cents a pound. How much more May cotton Mr. Patten has left, only he and his confidants know. FIFTEEN CALLED TO TESTIFY AS TO LEGISLATIVE BRIBERY SPRINGFIELD, 111., May 21.—Fifteen persons were subpoenaed today to tes tify before the Sangamon county grand jury in connection with alleged >f money In local option legisla tion. Among- those who appear next Tuesday are .lames K. Shields, head of the Illunis Anti-saloon league; and Brnest A. Scroggin, of this city, who liiul charge of the Interests of the leiShie during the last two sessions of tho legislature. 15,000 MARCH OUT OF BLAZING TENT IN FIRE DRILL ORDER Energetic Men and Cool Women Prevent Great Tragedy as Circus Canvas Burns AERONAUT FALLS 2000 FEET Parachute Opens Near Ground, and He Escapes with Only Broken Leg Three amazing circus accident* hap pened in the east yesterday, amazing because each- ordinarily would have meant a tragedy, yet no life was lost. When a circus tent at Schenectady caught fire 15,000 persons filed out In perfect order. Near, Pltl»burg an aero naut plunged 2000 feet before his para cute opened. lie escaped with a broken leg. Soon after (Ins accident the tent of the cirrus with which he win ex hibiting fell, following the collapse of a portion of the grand stand. AH In the tent were taken out. None was seriously hurt. _^^___ (Associated Press] SCHNECTADY, N. T., May 21.— Barnum & Bailey's "big top," the main tent of the circus, caught fire here today from a cigar stump and burned like an overturned hot-air bal loon. Fifteen thousand persons, who filled the seats to overflowing, filed out like school children at drill. Spectators first smelt the smoke, and discovering the fire, began to beat it with their coats. The blaze leaped above their heads, and the next effort to conquer it came from the circus em ployes, who began to tear out huge patches Of canvas. Their effort met with no better success, for the flre, eating upward, soon worked Its way to the topmost peak. Energetic men and cool women In the crowd, aided by employes, assumed direction of the audience and orderly files were soon moving steally from the exits. When a woman fainted or a child shrieked shouts of reassurance rose and Strong arms were instantly ready for support. Not a soul was hurt, not fin animal Injured. The damage is estimated at (10,0 I. AERONAUT FALLS 2000 FEET: ONLY INJURY IS BROKEN LEG Plunges Almost to Ground Be- fore Parachute Opens PITTSBURG, May 21.—Five thou sand persons saw' Oscar Lercy of Percy, Okla., an aeronaut, fall 2000 feet through the air today at Ellwood, Pa., near here, and escape with his life, his only injury being a broken leg. Leroy, who is -with a circus Which was exhibiting there, had made a bal loon ascension, but his parachute, soaked witli rain, refused to open until the aeronaut had almost reached the ground. An hour later, while the performance was in progress, the grandstand sec tion of seats collapsed, carrying down women and children. Then the tent fell over the struggling people, but, while many were thrown into hyster ics, none sustained serious injury. The fire department and circus at taches rescued those buried beneath the water-soaked canvass. INSURGENTS POCKET NICARAGUAN FORCES Generals Mena and Moncado Hold General Chavaris BLUEFIELDS, May 21.—"Have ene my completely surrounded and cut oft from ammunition and provisions. Ex pect surrender at any time." This was the message that came to General Juan Estrada, leader of the insurgent forces, from General Mena today. The Estrada forces, under Mena, according to the plan which has been decided upon, executed their first move yesterday at llama. General Mena allowed General Chavaris of the Madriz forces to close upon Kama, when he moved a small body of his fortes in a feint to attack Chuvaiis' forces. At the same time General Moncado, at the head of an Insurgent force, made a forced march from Muelle de Bueys, a distance of forty miles west of Rama, and attacked Ghavaris' ammunition and provision train. The entire train, with 200,000 rounds of ammunition and a large amount of provisions, was captured, and Chevaris' supplies were cut off. General Chavaris now holds a position facing Kama, with General Mena at his front and General Moncado at the Genernl Ilena reports his loss in the feint attack as small. RICH OLD MAN ENDS LIFE CLEVELAND, 0., May I.—The body of Martin P. Case, president of the In dependent Oil company and for a num ber of years known in financial circles as a wealthy man, was found in the basement of his Clifton boulevard home tonight. He had died of a bullet wound, apparently self-inrlicted. He was. 73 years of age. The despondency of old age is thought to be the cause of the supposed act. BAR TIMID CO.EDS ST. LOUIS, May 81.—The St. Louis university has closed Its doom on fair and timid co-eds, because they would eliminate law definition! which un necessarily frank. Eight young women In this year's class, however, will be permitted to finish their studies. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY L»2. 11)10. NOTED TENOR FOOLS CHARITY COMMITTEE THEN GIVES BIG SUM ENRICO CARUSO PARIS IS TICKLED BY CARUSO'S JOKE Collects $2500 for Singing for Charity, Then Adds $1000 and Returns All (Special to The Herald) PARIS, May 21.—Endlco Caruso kept the organizers of the charity concert at Trocadero hall, at which he sang Thursday, on tenter hooks up to the last minute wondering whether he would sing or not. Ho was very much annoyed. None of the committee had taken the trouble to visit him to ask his help, so he insisted upon receiving his reguar fee. To all who tried to make him give up the idea of asking to be paid for a charity affair he replied that he knew better than anybody how much h« ought to contribute, and with a broad smile he pointed out that none of the committee had given as much as they expected him to give, namely, his usual fee of $2500. Kvcntually Countess Oreffulke agreed to pay this sum after the concert. Casuso counted the cash carefully, and then adding a check for $1000 he re turned the envelope to the countess, saying he thought his contribution ought to be $3500. Caruso is still smil ing over his little joke. MARYLAND SOLON CALLS SUGAR TRUST 'CROOKED' Administration Sales of Philippine Friar Lands Is Under Arraignment WASHINGTON, May 21.—Arraign ment of the administration's sale of the Philippine friar lands and of the activities of the so-called "sugar trust" in that archipelago was made in the house today by Mr. Covington of Mary land. He said everybody knew that the Rockefellers controlled the Standard Oil company and the oil fields, and that the Havemeyers controlled the Ameri can Sugar Kenning company, which he denounced as "crooked," with a "cun ning criminality unequaled in the country." He charged that the government sold the "magnificent estate of 55,000 acres of the San Jose estate on the dubious opinion of an attorney general at one third the price the government paid at the time the lands were taken over from the friars. He referred to the activity in the sale of the firm of Strong & Cadwallader of New York, of which Henry W. Taft, the president's brother, was a member. MeKlnlay of California said it was a remarkable proposition to say the BUffar company would go 6000 miles to get such lands. MORGAN BUYING BANKS TO FORM BIG CENTRAL CONCERN President of Chicago Financial House Makes Declaration CHICAGO, May 21.—George E. Rob erts, president of the Continental Na- tional bank of Chicago, and James G. Berry-hill of Dcs Moines debated the question of the "Central Bank Plan" before the members of the Hawkeyo Fellowship club at luncheon here to day. Mr. Roberts delivered an extended address, in which he said that J. P. Morgan of New York had obtained OontTOl of many banks preparatory to the formation of a great central insti tution. "Among the cities that would prob ably be represented," said Mr. Roberts, "are Boston, New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chi- Milwaukeo, St. Paul, Minneapo lis,. St. Louis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, New Orleans, Buffalo, At lanta an,i Detroit." "As a result," he continued, "danger of a repetition of what occurred in the panic of 1907 will be obviated." PAYNE TARIFF BILL TRANSPARENT FAKE SAYS CHAMP CLARK Leader of Democratic Minority Gives Facts and Figures to Support Charge PEOPLE TRICKED BY G. 0. P. Clothing Higher Instead of Lower, and Made of Poorer Ma terial, Says Speaker [Associated Press] WASHINGTON, May 21.—Repre sentative Champ Clark of Mis souri, leader, of the Democratic minority, today delivered in the house what is regarded aa the Democratic keynote speech of the'euming congres sional campaign. Mr. Clark hud pre pared his address with great can; and spoke at length, giving facts and fig ures in support of his contention that the tariff had not been honestly re vised and that the Republican major ity in congress had endeavored to trick the people. Mr. Clark also paid his respects, incidentally, to the $250, --000 item in the sundry civil appropria tion bill for the creation of a tariff board: "During this debate we have wit nessed a spectacle perhaps without parallel in the annals of congress. First we heard the gentleman from New York (Mr. Payne), the Republi can floor leader, make a vitriolic at tack on the speech of the Hon. Jona than Prentiss Dolllver, a Republican senator from lowa, recently delivered in the city of Dcs Moines, both speeches being upon the subject of the tariff. "Nobody appointed me to defend Senator Dolliver. This much, however, I will say for him: I have for years regarded him as the greatest orator in the Republican party. I would travel far to hear a debate on the stump be tween him and the gentlemen from New Tork. When It was over, I am certain that the country for a con siderable distance around would be so fairly saturated with oil that It would be dangerous to strike a match In the neighborhood, and it would not be oil out of Mr. Dolliver's corporoslty. BEVKRinOE ATTACKED XEXT "The next day we heard the gontlo man from Michigan (Mr. Fordney), who is a Republican of high degree, deliver most bitter and vlcloub assaults Upon Senator Baverldge, the Republi can bOBS of Indiana, on account of a speech delivered recently at Indian apolis. "In milking' a speech In defense of his tariff bill, Mr. Chairman Payne ap peared to be performing a disagreeable stunt. He did not exhibit his usual enthusiasm or his old-time felicity of expression. He appeared to be in about as cheerful a frame of mind as a law yer appointed by the court defending without fee a man that he feels certain will be convicted and hanged. "The gentleman declared they put up the tariff on hosiery, und as a conse quence the price of hosiery has gone down. He declared they put up the tariff on wines, and as a consequence the price of wines has gone down. He seems to be playing both ends against the middle, for it must be apparent to any sane man that if putting up the tariff on hosiery made the price of hosiery go down, then by the same logic putting up the tariff on wine would Have made the price of wine go down." CM>THIXO lIIOHKK PRICED Mr. Clark declared that the Payne tariff had not reduced the price of clothing, but had increased it, and re sulted in a shoddier class of goods. The speaker turned his attention to President Taft, and after contrasting the president's Winona speech with a previous one, in which the president said the tariff bill "was not a complete compliance with the promises of the Republican platform," Mr. Clark said: "All the perfumes of 'Araby the Blest' cannot sweeten the Payne-Ald rii'h tariff bill to please the dainty nos trils of the people. They believe it to be the worst tariff bill ever passed by the American congress. That Winona speech was a serious wound which the president Inflicted on his own popular ity." Turning to the woolen schedules, which he said the president admitted were too high, and facing the Republi can side of the house, Mr. Clark ex claimed: "I have a fair proposition to make to the president and to my Republican friends which will promote harmony and which will bring untold blessings to the consumers in the land. It is that the president send a message to con gress, short and vigorous, which shows that he means business, proposing sub stantial reductions in the woolen goods schedule. Let Mr. Chairman Payne re port that bill from his committee and put it on its passage, and without hav ing consulted a single Democrat in the house I will give bond for the proposi tion that every Democrat will line up and vote for it. If he will recommend it it will go through the house and sen ate with a whoop, and the people will rise up and call him blessed." RICH GOLD VEIN FOUND IN JEWEL CREEK CANYON AVEAVERVILL.E, Cal., May 21.—('."1 d in large quantities has been discovered in the Jewel Creek canyon, near Myers vllle and all the ground in the imme diate vicinity of the little stream has been staked out by prospectors. Ch-irles Heath, who had been pro» ne-ting on Jewel creek for some time, .struck a pocket which yielded $6000 in seven days. Some of the pans he washed Rave him as high as $1000. Many have gone to the scene of the strike. LORIMER MAY DEMAND QUIZ CHICAGO, May 21.—United States Benator William Lorlmer left here lute todaj for Washington, He refused to affirm or deny the report Hiat he would make a statement on the floor of the lauate early in the week, and then ask an Investigation by that body of the bribery charges made concern ing his election. OTVPT T? f^OP I I<^*S • DAIf.T sr. ON TRAINS »«•. oJLJMjrJ-i-CJ t/WIILO, SUNDAY S«. on TRAINS 10*. DEMOCRATIC LEADER WHO PUNCHED HOLES IN TARIFF MEASURE CHAMP CLARK MONOPLANE FLIES CHANNEL IN FOG Again French Aviator Makes Aerial Voyage from Calais to Dover DOVER, England, May 21.—For the second time within a year the English channel was crossed today by an aero plane, and again the honor rests with France. Count Jacques do Lesscps, a grand son of the late Ferdinand de Lesseps, the celebrated Franch engineer, driv ing a monoplane of the same model as that with which Louis Bleriot con quered the straits July 25 last, dupli cated his countryman's feat in a dense fog today, starting at Calais and land ing safely at Wyston Court farm. Fifty minutes were consumed in the I journey. Blerlot's time was thirty-three ' minute* M. de Lesiseps intended making the j trip from Calais to Dover and return without lighting, in an effort to win the Rulnart prize of JMOO, but the mist compelled him to descend. He ex pects to resume his flight at daylight. Lieaving Calais amid the cheers of an Immense crowd, the aviator sent his monoplane up to a height of 400 feet and then headed It in the dirce tion of Dover. When scarcely a mile out from the French coast the "Scar.i bee," as the monoplane is known, ml lost to sight of tlie torpedo boat des troyer Escopette, which was racing underneath it to render aid should the aviator fall. M. de Lesseps" only means of reck oning his whereabouts were the rays of the sun, which dimly penetrated the banks of the fog in which he was en shroudod. He determined to keep on. however, and in order to avoid the pos sibility of colliding with the cliffs of Dover he sent the monoplane to a heig-ht of 1000 feet, at the same time keeping it pointed in the direction in which he believed the English coast lay. The Frenchman's courage soon was rewarded by the sight of the gray cliffs immediately beneath him. There he stopped the whirring motor and let the machine glide to earth, landing without mishap at the Wynston Court farm, a mile inland and midway be tween Dover and Deal. Pew saw the intrepid aviator come to the ground, for when the news was flashed from Calais that De I.esseps had started, the crowds assembled on ■, the field where Bleriot had descended i in his epoch-making flight, expecting) that the new seeker for cross-channel honors would choose the same spot. That was what De Lesseps intended to do had not the fog Interfered. CURTISS DROPS INTO LAKE HAMMONDSPORT, N. V., May 21.— CSlenn H. Curtlss made a flight of forty minutes today, circling the northern ond of Lake Keuka twenty-three times and alighting purposely on the surface of the lake in perfect safety. His aeroplane retained its equilibrium and was towed ashore uninjured. IDENTITY OF WOMAN IN LASCALLES CASE REVEALED Mrs. Summerfield Shows Letters from Man's First Wife ASHEVTLLE, N. C. May 21.—The mystery as to the identity of the wom an who claimed and sent to Washing ton the body of Sidney Lasceltea, known to many in this country as "Lord Beresford" and "Lord Douglas," has been partially cleared. She Is known as Mrs. Summerfield. Mrs. Summerfield carried letters from the first wife of Lascelles authorizing her to get the body from a local under taker who had kept it for years. These letters spoke in endearing terms of Lascelles and described her three years of marriage. She spoke of his singular influence over women, and said he had the voice of a Parsifal and the charm and eloquence of a Disraeli. LASCELLE'S BODY CREMATED WASHINGTON, May 21.—The body of Sidney Lascelles, who died eight years ago in Ashevllle, N. C, charged with being a bogus "Lord Beresford," a bigamist sixteen times over, and a forger as well, was cremated here to day, and much mystery surrounds the disposition of the ashes. The body was shipped here from Asheville on Friday. Lascelles' wife No. 1, said to be a woman of a promi nent New York family, is said to have ordered the cremation. »_» DUFFIELD CHOSEN COMMANDER NEW YORK, May 11.—-Henry M. Duffleld, U. S. V. of Michigan, was elected comninndpr-tn-chlef of the Naval and Military Order of the Span ish-American war at the sessions of the national commandery today. j^ CEIS TTS FLOODS THREATEN OKLAHOMA REGION SWEPT BY TORNADO Rain and Hail Storms Continue in Southern and Southeastern Parts of State 25 FARMS ARE DEVASTATED Clothes Blown Off Seve-al Per sons Injured When Town Is Blotted Out [Aaiodatod Press] 07CI.AHOMA CITY. Okln., May 21.— Severe electrical distur!' heavy rains and damaging hail storms are reported from over the larger part of southern and south east m Oklahoma tonight. Telegraph and telephone wires are down in many places. High water is threatening regions along the Arkan sas, Washita, Canadian, Blue and Lit tle rivers. The severest storms are along Red river. On the field left barren yester day by the tornado that swept away the town of McCarty, twenty-five de molished farm houses were found to day. A Wynnewood physician reported to day that In' had dressed the wounds of eight Injured near McCarty. Some of them had their clothes blown off. None was seriously injured. Two housei were wrecked at Paoli. The town of Maysville remained intact. A Severe storm visited Pauls Vall'-y tonight. There mie no fatalities, how ever. A heavy rain fell and many tele graph and telephone wires are out of commission. SNOW FALLS IN COLORADO AND THROUGHOUT WYOMING Telegraph Wires Carried Down by Weight of Flakes DENVER, Colo., May 21.—A heavy snowstorm prevails today all the way from Northern Wyoming Into Southern Colorado. The weather is compara tively warm, and must of the snow melts as it falls. In Denver the snow storm w;is as heavy aa any Of last winter. The Itorm will be of great benefit to ranchers and stockmen. Five inches of snow fell at Cheyenne, WyO., and the Storm VOM said to bo eeneral over that state. Telegraph service west of Denver was seriously crippled for a time, the wet snow pull ing down the wires in many places. A fall in temperature was reported tonight from Northern Colorado and the western slope. Greeley farmers ex pected a freeze and fear its effects on crops. Montrose reported a drop in temperature that threatened young fruit, and similar news came from I'a chia and Palisades. ELECTRICAL STORMS AND HEAVY RAINS VISIT TEXAS HOUSTON, Tex., May 21.—Heavy rains, accompanied by severe winds, hail and electrical displays, again vis ited southwestern and central Texas last night. At Gonzaies, Beto Her nandez, a well known Alexiuan, was killed by lightning. The streams are rising rapidly and many levees in rice fields have been washed away. Crops in many sections have been greatly benefited by the downpour. HEAVY SNOWFALL DELAYS RAILROADS AT TRINIDAD TRINIDAD, Colo., May 21.—A heavy .snowfall delayed railroad traffic and threatens telephone and telegraphic service In this section. The storm haa prevailed ulnce noon today. Six inctv\i of snow is reported in the mountains. The snow is melting rapidly and tho moisture means thousands of dollars i i farmers and stockmen .in this BBC- Uon In prospective crops and grasa for stock. FARM HOUSES DESTROYED BLUFF CITY, K:is, May 21.—A tor nado destroyed several farm houses, barus,'orchards and crops in the east ern part of Harper county last night. No lives wire- lost. SEVERE STORM HITS TOPEKA TOPEKA, Kas., May 21.—A severe storm in Clay county tonight did much damage to crops, trees and outbuild ings. Telegraph wires are down and the full extent of the damage is not known. J^J - COMET HAS 2 TAILS; EARTH PIERCED ONE, SAYS HUSSEY Amazing Theory Offered as Re sult of Investigation ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 21.—Prof. W J. Hussey of the University of Michigan said tonight that the cabin gram from Johannesburg in connection with photograph* made at the Michi gan observatory explains the hitherto contradictory reports as to the present of the comet's tail in both the east and west. m '_ "Our photographs," said Prof. Hus sey, "Indicated two tails, one a short bright one superimposed against a le« distinct horizontal appendage, both ex tending away from the sun. "In view of the report that one tall la now visible In the west and the other In the east. It is probable the earth la between these two tails, having passed through one of them."