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MUIIIKII IH7 1 IVAVydLJ . OKf \_Allill J. Q I>ER MONTH
THOMPSON, NEAR
COLLAPSE, HIDDEN
BY HIS FRIENDS
Claimed Society People Are Aid
ing Lawyer Accused of Re
ceiving Stolen Coin
ATTACH ATORNEY'S PROPERTY
Believed Accused Man Has Ob
tained Bondsmen and Will
Appear Today
That Fred H. Thompson, the attor
ney accused of. receiving $15,000 stolen
from the Los Angeles postofflco by
Orlando Altorre. Is on the verge or
collapse; that his property has been
tied up by attachments to such an ex
tent that ho cannot offer sufficient
collateral to secure bondsmen; that he
has been kept In hiding In the homes
of close friends who are prominent in
social circles in the city, and that his
friends are afraid to allow him to be
' alone are some of the startling re
ports, most of them well authenticated,
which were current last night. ■^
■ Following a statement to federal or
flcer* by Orlando F. Altorre, a former
clerk In the Los Angeles postofflce,
who admitted the theft of $15,000 from
the mails and accused Thompson, his
former attorney, and Mrs. Thompson
with having taken the money from
where he had hidden it, warrants were
issued for the arrest of the Thomp
■ sons. They were traced to Reno, Nev.,
and on July 1 were detained there,
charged with being fugitives from Jus
tice from California. „_,_
S L. Browne, chief of the district
attorney's bureau of criminal investi
gation, went to Reno to bring the
couple back to Los Angeles, but the
Thompsons gave ball to secure their
liberty until July 25, at which time
they are under orders from, the Reno
court to surrender themselves.
Mrs Thompson will not have to ap
pear in Reno July 25, for she surren
dered to the local authorities Wednes
day afternoon. Mrs. Thompson was
released on a $3000 bail bond and was
ordered by Justice Chambers to appear
for arraignment Wednesday afternoon.
MAX APPEAR TODAT
She did not put In an appearance
Wednesday and a bench warrant was
Issued, citing her to appear n court
and show cause why her bail should
not be forfeited to the state and herself
remanded to the custody of the sheriff
Mrs. Thompson, on being brought
into court by an officer yesterday, in
formed Justice Chambers that she was
under the Impression that she did not
have to appear unless her husband
did so. The court accepted her ex
planation and allowed her to go after
instructing the woman to appear this
afternoon, at which time Thompson
may appear in court with bondsmen.
Wednesday evening Thompson was
Been in the automobile of a woman
friend and ho appeared extremely
nervous. Officials believe that he ob
tained bondsmen late last night and
that he will emerge from his hiding
place this afternoon. Meanwhile the
First National bank. It Is understood,
has attached Thompson's property.
The money stolen by Altorre belonged
to the ban*. l
KIDNAPERS SEIZE WRONG
CHILD; SOON RELEASE HER
TACOMA, July 14.—Mistaken for
the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Seth W. Mac Donald, Margaret Faw
cett, the 10-year-old daughter of Muyor
\ V Fawcett, was seized this morning
by an unidentified man while she was
playing in the front yard of her home.
A short time after she returned home,
her nose bleeding and her face badly
scratched and said phe had been re
leased when It was discovered she was
not Ruth Mac Donald.
Miss Fawcett's bruises were caused
by the rough handling she received
when thrown Into the automobile.
Mrs Lizzie McCabe, mother of Ruth
Mac Donald, was In the automobile and
she ordered tha child's release on dis
covering she was not her daughter.
RURAL LETTER CARRIERS
DEFER CONVENTION WORK
FRESNO, July 14.— Owing to the late
ness of delegates In arriving, little was
done today at the convention of the ru
ral letter carriers of California. After
passing on credentials, the convention
adjourned until tomorrow. Tonight the
visitors were entertained at an open
air banquet at a park. Tomorrow's
propcrn m consists of reading of ad
dressrs. While the question of salary
is the subject of complaint among the
delegates, the matter will not be
brought up in convention, as the postal
regulations do not permit public dis
cussion of salaries paid by the depart
ment.
BANKS SEEK TO PROFIT
BY POSTAL SAVINGS LAW
WASHINGTON, July 14.—Applica
tions aro pouring in from banks
throughout the country whose officials
are anxious that their Institutions be
made depositories under the postal
savings bank law. They come to the
secretary of the treasury, tlie attorney
general and to the postofflce depart
ment. Formal replies are sent, but
no information Is yet available as to
where such depository banka will be
located.
ROOSEVELT'S NEPHEW IS
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
UTICA, N. T., July 14.—Theodore!
Douglass Robinson, nephew of former
President Roosevelt, tonight an
nounced his candidacy for tho Repub
lican nomination for corigteu from the
Twenty-seventh district.
CbarlM S. Mllllnton, the incumbent,
also is a candidate and was elected
with Vice President Sherman's sup-'
port. The latest announcement there- '
fore prosents an interesting situation.!
LOS ANGELES HERALD
HEAD OF O. R. C, ONE
OF COMMITTEE TO
DECIDE ON STRIKE
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INDEX OF
HERALD'S NEWS
TODAY
FORECAST
I,os Angeles anil vicinity—Cloudy Friday;
moderate south winds; showers in the moun
tains. Maximum temperature yesterday 78
decrees, minimum 54.
LOS ANGELES
Attorney Thompson, accused of receiving:
Btolcn coin, reported on verw of collapse t
and to be hiding with friends in this city.
PAQE 1
Test lnbor injunction caso under submission
by Judge BordwelL PAGE 3
Hawley O. Orlppen declares he was not
surprised nt news of murder charge
against father. PAGE >
Library board, In annual report, urges
erection of building In Central 'park.
PAGE 6
"Splash Me" girl to be remarried In
Arizona. FADE 8
Ten thousand Methodists and friends
expectod at picnic today at -Long
Beach. PAGE 8
Parent-Teacher association members
discuss bridge plans while children
romp In Sycamore Grove. PAGE 8
Deputy sheriff sent cast to bring back
I*. Walter BVlscoe, expresses belief
man planned to kill wife and then
Mlf. PAGE S
Idea of disposing of aqueduct bonds to
local capitalists Is approved by tho
city council. PAGE 8
l'"ir« department asks (823,000 appro
priation for ensuing year In order to
allow large Improvements. PAGE 8
Lieut. Leeds draws check on govern
ment (or $!49.000 and title to forti
fications site passes to government.
PAGE 11
Members of local French colony cheer
native and adopted lands on anni
versary of faJl of Baßtlle. PAGE 16
Society and clubs. PAGE) 6
Theaters. PAGE 6
MMiinir and oil flolds. PAGE 6
Building permits. PAGE 6
Shipping. PAGE 8
Citrus fruit report. PAGE 6
Markets and financial. PAGE 7
News of the courts. PAGE 8
Municipal affairs. PAGE 8
vSports. PAGES 10-11
Editorial and letter bos. PAGE 12
Politics. PAGE 13
City brevities. PAGE 13
Marriage licenses, births, deaths. PAGE 14
Classified advertising. PAGES U-15
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
American Institute of Homeopathy ban
quets at Pasadena ami selects
Narragansett Pier as meeting place
next year. PAGE 3
Lives of miners endangered by storms
on desert. PAGE 14
Man badly Injured by escaping steam
when valve on road roller blows out.
PAGE 14
Pasadena officials visit site of proposed
arroyo bridge, but fall to agree on
structure to be erected. PAGE 14
Ellen Boach Taw opens world tour with
successful concert at Venice. PAGE 16
EASTERN
Roosevelt to tour west and south, leaving
New Tork for Cheyenne August 25. PAGE 2
United States and Canada plan joint rail
way commission. PAGE 2
Flames In scores of places sweep Montana
forests and losses will bo millions. PAGE 2
Case of Cliarlton causes worry of state de
partment officials. PAGE 11
resident Taft signs order withdrawing
more coal lands. PAGE 11
Strike of 18.000 men 'on Pennsylvania
railroad defends on decision of com
mittee of six. PAGE 1
William Plttma'n. American captive of
Madrlz. found starving In filthy
Nlcaraguan prison. PAGE 1
Los Angeles Elks in Darade at Detroit
win prize for appearance. PAGE 2
I.mils A. Cella arrested on perjury
charge in bucketshop case. PAGE 4
Now Tork physician partly cures case
of Infantile paralysis by hypnotic
suggestion. PAOE 4
White rubber experts In demand at
Singapore, reports consul general.
PAGE 4
President-elect of Brazil, Heames
Fonzca, to be well entertained on vißlt
to this country. PAGE 4
Mrs. Van Vllsslnger, wife of notorious
note forger, secures divorce. PAGE 16
FOREIGN
Premier Asqutth in house of commons says
Germany's naval program prevents Eng
land from reducing naval expenditures.
PAGE 3
Dr. Hawley Crlppen, sought for mnnhi
of wife, sought to mislead police by
advertising that she died In Los An
geles. PAQE 0
LOS ANGELES SECOND IN
POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN
i I.iks Angeles take* second rank among
the cities of the United States In the
sain In postal receipts for June, as com
pared with June, lUOD, as shown by offi
cial ' figures . given out by the pontoflTice
department at Washington. Hartford,
('odd., leads the titty largest cities of
the nation In percentage of gain In
postal receipt* for the month. Lou An
geles shows a' gain of , 22.08 per I cent,
against 20.10 per cent, the showing
made by Hartford. Jersey City la third
with 20.71 per.cent.
The total receipts for the month. for
the*fifty cities was 98,038,139. For the
same month last year the total was 17,.
919,541." The : percentage of gain! la 0.67.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 191.0.
STRIKE OF 15,000
MEN DEPENDS ON
DECISION OF SIX
Pennsylvania R. R. Employes Put
Question of Walkout in
Committee's Hands
CONFERENCE IS A FAILURE
Neither Men Nor Officials Will
Concede Anything, and a
Labor War Threatens
PHILADELPHIA, July 14.—Whether
a .strike of 15,000 conductors, train
men, baggagemen and yardmen em
ployed on the Pennsylvania railroad
lines east of Pittsburg, Erie and Buf
falo shall be called is now in the hands
of a committee of six, headed by Pres
ident A. B. Garretson of the Order of
Railroad Conductors and W. G. Lee,
president of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen. The conference today
between the committee of railroad
men and General Manager Meyers re
sulted in no agreement, so far as can
be learned, neither side conceding any
thing.
The railroad men held a brief meet
ing and at Its conclusion President
Garretson announced that the 120
members of the general committee who
had been given power through the
strike ballot to order a walkout, had
unanimously voted to leave the mat
ter In the hands of the committee of
six.
Except that President Garretson and
President Lee are members of this
committee, its makeup was not an
nounced.
It was given out that this committee
of six has the power of fixing the
time the men will quit work. Just the
time at which the strike order might
be expected, Mr. Garretson refused to
state. Thus the situation appears to
be at a critical stage, but there is still
hope among the railroaders that a way
will be found to prevent the men from
going on strike.
President Lee stated It was not only
a question of money. He said the
railroad had made the recent 6 per cent
increase in wages with the expecta
tion of shutting off the work of the
employes' committees. The men de
mand an increase in wages and bet
ter working conditions.
POLICE USE CLUBS ON
SUGAR TRUST STRIKERS
NEW YORK, July 14.—The arrival
today of a steam lighter bearing 200
laborers at the piers of the American
Sugar company's refinery in Williams
burg, where a strike is in progress,
was the signal for a riot.
A crowd of 100 or more men who had
learrfed of the boars arrival charged
toward the pier.
Reserve police Interposed and when
the men began hurling 1' bricks and
stones the policemen used their clubs
and dispersed the mob.
VOTE OF RAILROAD MEN
STRONGLY FAVORS STRIKE
PITTSBURG, Pa., July 14.—The
vote of the railroad men on the Penn
sylvania lines west of Pittsburg, as an
nounced today, shows an overwhelming
majority In favor of a strike, 881-3
per cent of the conductors, 97 1-0 per
cent of the trainmen and 96 6-10 per
cent of the firemen voting In the af
tirmative.
SPECIAL JURY TO DECIDE
PACKERS' TRUST EVIDENCE
Judge Landis Warns Members
Against Standard Argument
CHICAGO, July 14.—A special federal
grand Jury was impaneled by Judge
K. M. Landis in the United States dis
trict court today to hear evidence in
regard to the alleged violations of the
anti-trust law by the National Packing
company and subsidiary companies.
■ The Jury, was cautioned by Judge
Landis in his charge to allow their
action to be wholly free from the In
fluence of the often heard argument
that law enforcement would unsettle
business.
"You may safely assume," continued
Judge Landis, "that no legitimate en
terprise needs governmental acquies
cence in the commission of crime. You
will treat the statute to which I have
referred as being just as much in force
as are the laws against stealing let
ters and counterfeiting coin."
The jury was also told to follow the
trail until "the real offenders" are lo
cated.
MRS. MARIE STORY AND
MURRAY YOUNG MARRIED
LONDON. July 14.—Mrs. Marie Story,
widow of Marlon Story, and A. Murray
Young, a New York banker, were mar
ried today in St. George's church, Han
over square.
The bride was given away by Wnite
law Reid, the American ambassador.
The nuptials were solemnized by Right
Rev. C. H. Brent, Protestant Episcopal
bishop of the Philippines, assisted by
Rector Anderson of St. George's.
A luncheon for the wedding party
was given at Dorchester house, the
home of Ambassador and Mrs. Reid.
AUTHOR FREWEN'S DAUGHTER
ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT
LONDON, July 14.—The engagement
was announced today of Miss Claire
Frewen, daughter of Moreton Frewen,
the economist and mithor, and Brlns
ley Sheridan, son of Algernon Thomas
Brlnsley Sheridan. Mian Frewen's
mother was born In New York, the
daughter of Leonard Jerome*
The Aqueduct Situation
Herald Shows That Bond Buyers Violated
Agreement with City for Purpose of Inter
fering with Construction of Power
Plant—City Should Find
New Purchasers
IN order that the course which The Herald proposes to advise shall be followed in
dealing with the $10,134,400 unsold aqueduct bonds may be clearly understood and
fully appreciated, it is important that our readers shall clearly comprehend the fol
lowing facts:
First—After pursuing the aqueduct work for a year and a half, it became apparent
to the board of public works that the work could be more economically and effectively
conducted by largely increasing the amount of work done each month over the original
estimates. Also that the work could be completed a year sooner—that is, by May 1, 1912,
instead of May 1, 1913, as originally planned—very much to the financial advantage of
the city, for the reason that it would give the city the income from the aqueduct one year
earlier than at first figured upon. To carry out this increase in amount of work performed
and reach the completion a year earlier, it was, of course, necessary to arrange to have
funds furnished more rapidly than was contemplated when the contract with the bond
buyers of date July 10, 1908, was entered into.
Second—ln the summer of 1909 the city officials represented to the bond buyers the
. advantages to accrue to the work and to the city by increasing the amount of the work
performed, and asked them to make this increase possible by taking a larger amount of
bonds than was provided for in their written contract, to the end that the city might be
supplied with the necessary increase of, funds.
The city officials claim that the bond buyers agreed to this and promised to increase
their taking of bonds sufficiently to provide the necessary increase of funds. The cor
rectness of the claim on the part of the officials that the written contract between the city
and the bond buyers was changed in this respect by verbal agreement in the summer of
1909 is proved by the fact that on September 15, 1909, the bond buyers took $2,856,000
of aqueduct bonds in excess of the amount which by the terms of the written contract
they were obligated to take during the year 1909. When this excess amount was taken,
nothing was said by the bond buyers about it being credited upon the bonds to be taken
by them by the terms of their written contract during the year 1910.
;HA Third—After the promise of the bond buyers to increase their taking of bonds suffi
ciently to provide the necessary increase of funds had been given after this promise
had been made good by their taking on September 15, 1909, $2,856,000 of these bonds in
excess of the 1909 requirements of their written contract, the city officials felt perfectly
safe in providing for the increased work on the aqueduct. This provision was made at a
large cost of extra equipment, etc., by the city, and all plans were changed so as to ac
complish the completion of the aqueduct by May 1, 1912, in place of May 1, 1913 as orig
inally planned. All of these changes in plans involved considerable expense to the city,
and if these plans are defeated by the bond buyers refusing to live up to their verbal
agreement made with the city officials in the summer of 1909 to increase their taking of
bonds, and the completion of the aqueduct work shall thereby be deferred for one year, or
until 1913, the city would be greatly damaged thereby.
& Fourth—ln the latter part of the year 1909 the matter of the city's issuing bonds to
construct' electric power plants upon the aqueduct came up for public discussion, and it
was generally agreed as a result of this discussion that provisions should be made for
issuing these bonds early in 1910. ." .. v
Just here it may be considered very significant that the bond buyers on December 20,
1909, wrote the follownig letter to Hon. C. H. Hance, city treasure*:
NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 1900.
""^^m^^^VtoThrA.X^my'o^^ A W !~ 4V 2 per ee»t Owen, K.ver bonds. £
Ml 6 00^June. 1 1910%>d *40H.000 Au K u»t 1, 1910). we write to «.y that »*«,»•»» "."> ""*£" °j
February 1910 take »1,030^000 additional bonds, being 5408.000 due August 1, l»10, and $(113,000 due
Oct. 1, 1910. under said contract. Tour, very truly. K()rNTZK BROS .
A. B. LEACH & CO.
When the foregoing letter was received by Mr. Hance about December 25 1909; it
was the first intimation that any city official had ever received that the $2,856,000 in
bonds taken September 15, 1909, in excess of the 1909 requirement of the written con
tract, was intended by the bond buyers to be applied to the amount to be taken by the
terms of this contract for 1910. <, \ X
. Further the terms of the written contract itself show that the $2 856,000 In bonds taken n September
15 1909 in excess of the 1909 requirements could not have been intended to be credited upon the 1910
$489W0 Ms have been Slivered, with the privilege to second parties to require such earlier
deliveries not prior to February 1, 1910, as said second parties may elect. _ _
Thus it will be seen that by the very terms qf the written contract, which the bond
buyers insist is still in force and has not been departed from, they had no right to take
any part of the 1910 allotment of bonds previous to February 1 of that year.
f* v therefore very evident that when the $2,856,000 of bonds were taken by the bond buyers on
«pnt P mher 15 1909 the7had no idea of applying this sum to the amount to be taken under the terms
n^f P the written conWacTin the year 1910, for they said nothing about it at the time of taking the bonds
nrt the bonds £™eaken as above stated as a result of the request of the rity officials that they should
eitv t™?er clawing that\he bonds taken September 15, 1909, should be credited upon their obligations
Jir yiqif,^ s a second thought and was the result of the undertaking on the part of the city to enter
Jhlhnslness" of producing electric power on the aqueduct by voting the electric power bonds.
On X first day of March, 1910, the city council passed an ordinance, which was approved by the
mayo? March 8, callmga bond election for April 19. 1910, for $3,500,000 in bonds to construct one unit of
■:the nltv'a nronosed electric power plant on the aqueduct. bond buyers, as yesterday's
The calUnc of this election produced a protest from the bond buyers, as stated In yesterday's
HeraW-ircl sine,? that time the bond buyers have apparently done everything possible to embarrass the
cltvin'theprosecution of the aqueduct work. This has proceeded to the extent of the bond buyers
demanding as a condition of their furnishing the city with needed money that they be given a three
years option on the electric power bonds. .;■;-";.,-•:' ;y ■ »
Should this option be given, it would, of course, mean an absolute delay for three
years in the development of the city's electric power, and at the end of that time the bond
buyers by refusing to exercise the option might, produce further delay.
%'y*. In view of all these facts two things are evident:
First—That in the summer of 1909 the bond buyers agreed upon a change of the
terms of the written contract, to the end that the bonds, should be taken more rapidly
than at first agreed upon, and that this agreement was partially carried out by their tak
ing, on September 15 of that year, $2,856,000 of the bonds in excess of the 1909 require
■ ments of the written contract.
■-"■ Second That this agreement to change the terms of the contract has been violated
by the bond buyers for the purpose of interfering with the construction by the city of its
proposed electric power plant on the aqueduct and postponing or defeating that enter
prise.
Under the circumstances The Herald feels that the city is exonerated from carrying out its con
tract with the bond buyers by the terms of. which they were given an option on the unsold portion of
the bonds, amounting to $10,134,400.
We 'urther believe that the best interests of the city require that it should at once proceed to find
other purchasers for the unsold portion of its aqueduct bonds, .and to that end that the bonds should
be put upon the market and offered to the buyers of that class of securities. The doing of this by the
city would not involve any breach of faith with the bond buyers, who have themselves been the first
to repudiate their agreement with the city. Besides, if the bond buyers cared to attempt to assert the
validity or their written contract in court, any damage which they might sustain by the city ling the
unsold portion of the aqueduct bonds to other parties would be easy of ascertainment and the city
colld well afford to compensate them for such damage in view.of the advantages which would accrue
to it by virtue of being able to complete Its aqueduct by the/*: - day of May. 1912 The measure of
any damage which the bond buyers could sustain by such «;tion on the part of the city, as is sug
gested would be the difference between the option price at which they might take the city bonds and
the market price of those securities at the date when the options provided for in the written contract
■ between the bond . buyers ; and the > city matured.
Just what the advantages to the city would be in the course here advised we will endeavor to show
in tomorrow's issue.
SINGLE COPIES: S^^™ffift""'£
YANKEE CAPTIVE
FOUND STARVING
IN MADRIZ'JAIL
American Consul Discovers Pitt
r.ian, Soldier of Fortune,
Unfed in Filthy Prison
BETTER TREATMENT FORCED
Foreigners in Nicaragua Appeal
for Protection from the
Dictator
WASHINGTON, July 14.—Confined hi
a filthy cell, 6 by 5 feet, unfed save
by charitable strangers, William Pitt
man, an American, captured by the
madriz government forces near Blue
fields was found in an over-crowded
local prison at Managua, Nic, by Con
sul Olivares yesterday.
The consul telegraphed the state de
partment that he visited Pittman, dis
covered the revolting conditions and
forced Dr. Madriz to furnish the ad
venturous American bettor prison ac
commodations.
Plttman, whose relatives live at
Cambridge, Mass., told Consul Olivar
es he left Greytown July 4, that since
then his captors have failed to pro
vide him with food, leaving him de
pendent for subsistance upon charity.
Pittman iwas starving.
Olivares immediately protested, re
minding Madriz of his promise to treat
Pittman with consideration. Madriz
finally agreed to transfer Pittman to
a larger and cleaner cell and to allow
the consul to supply him with a Bleep
ing coucli and food. The consul stated
no c'.eflnite action regarding Pittman
had been determined by the defacto au
thorities and that he, Olivares, will
exert every effort to insure fairness
and humane treatment for the pris
oner.
When the United States originally
learned of Plttman's arrest, Dr. Ma
driz assured Olivares tho prisoner
would be treated fairly and consider
ately.
Sonstant complaints from American
citizens at Matagalpa relative to
threats repeatedly made against their
lives and property by agents of the
Madriz government are being received
by the American consular service. Con
sul Olivares cabled to the state depart
ment today that the anti-American
feeling In the western part of Nicara
gua, the section under control of the
Madriz faction, is daily growing more
bitter.
Olivares has mnde vigorous repre
sentations to Dr. Madriz and has re
iterated to him Secretary Knox's
warning that this government will
hold the Madriz faction strictly ac
countable for American life and prop
erty.
British and German subjects at Ma
tagalpa have appealed to their con
suls ia Managua for protection. So far
no representations as to these have
been made to the German and British
home governments or to Washington
probably because t'- ■ British and Ger
man consuls are Nlcaraguan local
merchants.
American Consul General Eberhardt,
who is detailed at large and is now in
Mntagalpa on a tour of inspection,
cabled the state department today sub
stantiating the reports of alarms of
foreign residents. He said the opinion
at Matagalpa was that these anti-for
eign demonstrations -were Instigated
by the Madriz faction whose officials
openly have threatened Americans and
other foreigners.
SAYS PITTMAN SUFFERS
IN NICARAGUA PRISON
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 14.—Ed
ward F. Pittman, brother of "William
Pittman, who is confined in a Nica
raguan prison, was surprised tonight
to learn that his brother had been
suffering 1 hardships in jail.
"I had been led to believe from the
assurances I received from Washing
ton," Mr. Pittman said, "that my
brother was well treated and the gov
ernment was meeting with satisfactory
results in its efforts to do something
for him, I received a telegram from
Acting Secretary of State Wilson on
June 5, which was most reassuring,
ami my mother and I have felt much
relieved.
"I shall make another appeal to
Washington, but it seems hard not to
do anything directly for my brother."
ALLEGED FILIBUSTER
HELD AT NEW ORLEANS
MOBILE, Ala., July 14.—Customs of
ficials here today refused clearance
papers to the Norwegian steamer XJt
stein that is ready to sail for Blue
fields, Nicaragua. It Is alleged she
lias cartridges on board.
It was brought to the attention of
the local customs officials today that
100 boxes of cartridges, said to bo
destined to the Madriz faction in Nic
aragua, had been loaded on the Vt
stein. These cartridges were shipi» 1
by rail to Mobile from New Orleans
and were in charge of D. Abadi, said
to bo a representative of General Mad
riz.
FORCE AMERICAN DOCTOR
TO TREAT MADRIZ WOUNDED
NEW ORLEANS, July 14.—Report*
received today by steamer from lilue
flelds states that Dr. Clarence iiuig
heim, an American, is buing held 8
prisoner by the Madriz forres in Nica
ragua, who compel him to treat the
wounded at Bluotields Blurt as well as
those who are convalescing on the
steamer Venus. Dr. Burgheim. wboM
home la given as Houston, Tex., is
charged by the Madriz commanders
with having aided General Kstrada at
Blueflelds by treating the wounded
there. Giving this as an excuse, they
made him a prisoner when they found
him later at Prlnciputk;t.
CONTINUE BOMBARDMENT
BLUEFIELDS. Nicaragua, July 14.—
The insurgent bombardment of the
position of the government forces be
tween Halfway Key and Isluefields
Hliilf i:uinimietl Luilav without ictflllt-
z£. CENTS