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HYDE AND BENSON INVOLVED IN GRAB Two Men Again Named in Land Fraud Action* and En tries Canceled DUMMY NAMES ARE USE~D Approximately 20 Decisions Are Made by Federal Officials at Sacramento [Associated Press] KAOHAMENTO, Dec. 17.—Receiver John Ing and Registrar John Arm strong of tho Sacramento land office have handed down approximately twenty land cave decisions In tho last ivw day*. Three of the cases recall the Hyde and Benson land frauds trial. C. K. Glover is the defendant in two find Joseph William Belden the defen dant In the third of the fraud cases, tho charge being in tho three cases that the aliened title to base lands was Illegally obtained and with fraudu lent intent contrary to lection 3495 of the political code of the state, of Cali fornia, The land in question is lo cated In Tuolurnne county. In brief, it was alleged in Glover's case that dummy entries were made in the name «>f a. U. Gallmbo and Samuel Solomon, tlctitious persons, In the Interests of John Benson White Belden, although he made the entries In his own name, was working In the Interests of A. P. Hyde. Both defendants failed to make any appearance rand let the cases go by default. The land office rocom int.-nded that the entries bo canceled. Tn the case of tho United States vs. Clarence L. Martin from El Dorado county the decision was in favor of the government, recommending cancella tion of the homestead entrance. . Tho case of the United States vs. John H. Webster from Calaveras county, the decision was in favor .of the government and recommending cancellation of the homestead entry. PASADENA CLAIMS HE WAS DRUGGED AND ROBBED Walker Jones, Complainant, Ac- cuses Horse Thieves RAN DIEGO, Dec. 17.—Walker Jones, said to be a wealthy resident of Pasa dena and who conducts a resort in South Pasadena, today is the complain ing witness against W. Victor Nell and Robert Gould on a charge of drug- King and robbing him. Both men aro in jail. Jones arrived in San Diego yester day afternoon und, according to the police, met Noil and Could at a depot, hnd a few d^nks witli them and re membered nothing more until he woke UJ) late In the evening in a rooming house minus his money. The police say Nell and Gould havo also admitted they are wanted in Lordsburg, N. M., on a charge of horse stealing. POSSE HUNTS SLAYER OF LAWSON VALLEY RANCHER Aged Man, Shot from Ambush, Found Dead by Brother SAN DIEGO, Dec. 17.—Shot from ambush while his brother was absent on a trip to a store In Jam til. east of ♦vtn Diego, was the fate of M. G. Mau, an aged rancher of Lawson valley. Since 1 o'clock this morning the sher iff and a posse. Including the coroner, have been on the ground looking for the slayer. The crime was discovered by Fred Muu, the dead man's brother, when ho returned to tlie cabin the two had oc cupied" late last night. Kvery corner of the place had been ransacked In the search for money, a large sum of which It was believed the two men al ways kept In the cabin. LIPPITT MAY TAKE SEAT WHEN ALDRICH ENDS TERM PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Dec. 17.—The candidacy of Henry Llppltt for the United States senatorship, to bo vol untarily relinquished by Nelson W. Aldrich on March 4, was "boomed" at . a dinner given here today. Senator-; Aldrich and his colleague, Senator George P. Wetmore, and Congressman W. P. Sheffield came from Washington ; to lend their support to Mr. Lippitt, who is Senator Aldrich's announced choice for his successor. * « » APPLE CONGRESS SELECTS A.L. PRINCE AS PRESIDENT DENVER, D*O. 17.—The National Apple congress today elected the fol lowing officers: President, Former Governor A. L. Prince, New Mexico; | secretary, Clinton Oliver, Paonia, Colo.; treasurer, E. H. Shepherd, Provo, Utah; executive committee, W. T. B) --lerman, Colorado; W. L. Hunt, Wash ington; M. W. Miller, New MexicS; Azan Elson, Wyoming; J. E. Taylor, Utah. ,**-» GUNBOAT' TO BE DISMANTLED OAKLAND, Dec. 17.—The United States gunboat Bennington. which was blown up in San Diego hurbor on July 81, 1905, resulting in the death of flfty clght men and the wounding of ai many more, was towed into Oakland harbor yesterday from the "Mare Island jiavy yard and will be dismantled by a linn of Junk dealers who purchased h'T ut public auction from the govern ment a month ago for the sum of $11,500. PEACE PLANS PLEASE CANADA WASHINGTON, Deo. 17.—Comment- Ing on the report from Ottawa that a resolution would be introduced in the Canadian parliament looking toward • the establishment of a permanent peace union between the United . States and Great Britain, Judge William R. Hid dell of the high court of Justice of On tario declared here yesterday that such a compact was desired by every per son in Canada. . ,• » » » GARAGE BOOKKEEPER SHOT PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 17.—A mar velous shot was flred this evening, when L. J. Freman, employe of a Karage, dropped his revolver accideht ally. The shot struck one of Freman's tins and glancing passed through the body of a garage bookkeeper, Glt.n Kyeatone, from hip to hip, drilling n. clean hole and touching no vital or iuiuurtunt orgup STORK TRAIN'S BABY SUPPLY SHORT IN TEXAS IIOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 17. — Th« "stork train" from New York, bearing firi.v-tliren orphaned and foundling bablei, reached here on time and was given a warm reception. The demand for the tiny folk proved no strong that the quota for this city was speedily ex hausted and the supply destined for Hun Antonio narrowly escaped confiscation. DENVER CALLS EXPERTS TO PROBE FREIGHT RATES John Brisben Walker at Head of Investigating Committee i DENVER, Dec. 17.—Declaring: thai the problems of Colorado are practical ly those of every state In the country, John Brlsben Walker, chairman of the committee appointed by the Denver chamber of commerce to Investigate conditions that hamper Colorado Indus tries and the Justice of existing freight and express rates, today Issued Invita tions to twelve eminent transportation experts and economists to act as an advisory committee in the investiga tion. i The advisory committee invited com prises President Arthur T. Hadley of Yalo Louis D. Brandels, Francis J. Heney, President Daniel ' Wlllard of Urn Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Lincoln Stiffens, Brand Whltlock, Rudolph Spreckels, Charles Edward Russell, President W. J. x Underwood of the Erie railroad, Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Governor W. R. Stubbs of Kansas and Governor John F. Shafroth of Colo rado. This committee Is asked to meet in Denver on the- third Tuesday In Jan uary. ___^_« CABINET OFFICERS QUIT POSITIONS IN NICARAGUA General Estrada Will Become President on New Years Day MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 17.— The cabinet presented their resigna tions yesterday 10 take effect at the close of the present year. On January 1, General Estrada will become pres idont of N: -ragua, and name a new ministry to be made presumably as follows; Minister of finance, Adolfo Di:\/.; minister of interior. Carlos Cuadra Pasos; minister of public works, Pedro Jacquim Chamorro; min ister of foreign affairs, Tomas Mar tinez; minister of war, General Luia Mena. It is rumored that David Arellano will represent this country on the mixed commission arranged by Thomas C. Dawson, American minis ter to Panama. Luis Gomez, former minister of finance.' who has been In exile, returned today. RUSSIANS WILL COMPEL JEWS TO LEAVE MOSCOW Three-Day Student Strikes De clared and Disorder Expected ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 17.—Forty Jewish families will be expelled from Moscow January 14 next, aa they do not come within provisions of the law recently approved by the czar permit ting Jewish merchants of the first Kuild and their families to reside In the city nnd province of Moscow. Fifty yoniif? men also will be expelled, as provisions of the law permit only chil dren under age to reside with their parents. Three day student strikes have been declared at Moscow, Kharkov and Kiev. Disorders are anticipated, as this Is customary Just before the Christmas holidays. ABBRNATHY TO PROVE TITLE I,AWTON, Okla., Dec. 17.—"Catch 'em-Alivc" Jack Ahernathy, former United States marshal in Oklahoma, will soon demonstrate to a New York millionaire and a party of friends that it is possible to catch wolves alive with his bare hands. The wealthy men of fered Abernathy $5000 for such an ex hibition. Telegraph Briefs WASHINGTON—The new $3,600,000 drydock under construction at the New York navy yHrd probably will be completed In January, 1913. SAN FRANCISCO— Tlie Jury In the case of Nathan Pallock. charged with killing his wife Friday, yesterday held that the defendant was Irresponsible on account of Insanity. HTTSFIBI..D, Mass.—Eidress Anna White, head of the North family of Shakers, Is dead at Mount Lebanon at the age of 79. She was a member of a wealthy New York family. ■ CHICAGO—John Dadle, secretary of William Moxley, oleomargarine manufacturer, • has been Indicted by a federal grand Jury on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the govern ment, r WASHINGTON—S. J. Wmstrons, a street car conductor on the Old Dominion railway. is dead from injuries received in a race riot last Tuesday. Three negroes have been ar rested. * ■* s i- CHICAGO—After twenty hours' deliberation the Jury In the trial of Attorney Charles Erbsteln, charged with bribing a Juror, an nounced yesterday It could not agree and was discharged, NEW YORK-County Prosecutor Garvln an nounced In Jersey City yesterday that the trial of James Q. Gallagher, who shot Mayor Gaynor, will open In the Hudson county court next Tuesday. KANSAS ClTY—Francisco Aguilat, a Mexico law student, paid to be the son of an official of the Mexican government, was shot and se riously wounded In a Walnut street hotel here yesterday. V*'i .■ SAN FRANCISCO— J. Symme«, re ceiver of the California Safe Deposit and Trust company, was ordered to sell the lot and building which were occupied by th« defunct Institution, yesterday. ' SACRAMENTO—Acting Governor Porter yesterday commuted the sentence of William D. Wright, sentenced to San Quentln for life from Santa,' Cruz In October! 1906, for the murder of his wife, to twenty years. WINNIPEG*. Man.—B. Suguardaon and B. Stefanson, fishermen of Glmll, Man., who were returning home from a 200-mile fishing trip, went through I the ice on I*i.:e Winnipeg with their dogs and sledge and were drowned. SAN JOSH. Cal.—Hearing on motion • for a new trial and time for passing sentence upon Jackson Hatch, the attorney convicted of 'em bezzling the funds of his client, Mrs. Sarah E Sans, was continued until Monday morning. NEWARK, O.—The Jury In the case of Mon tcllo Watha, the Haytlen negro charged with first degree murder in connection with the lynching of Carl Etherinijton, an Anti-Saloon league detective, returned a verdict of man slaughter yesterday. NEW YORK—Charles D. Drew and Charles Nardell, former "boss" government weighers, who were convicted last September of taking bribe money from Thomas S. Doyle, employed on the Arbuckle docks In Brooklyn,. for the false weighing of sugar, were sentenced yes terday to ten months each In the penitentiary. WINNIPEG, Man.—Froderonka, the Hus tilun Socialist whose . extradition the Russian government haß been seeking and whoso trial attracted attention all over America, was dis charged yesterday on a writ of habeas corpus and was rearreated, charged with tin. murder' tt Russian volUiera UITM INn au». LOS ANGELES TIEUALD: SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1910. CHEW OF ICE CRUSHED VESSEL BELIEVED LOST J. W, Kelly, Authority on Eskimos, Reported Among Voyag ers Who Perished SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 17.—The grading schooner Louise, which was crushed In the ice of Boring strait and pieces of which were found near Capo Prince of Wales, the most west erly point of North America, sailed from Nome for Siberia on a trading expedition. Captain Harry Owens, commander and owner of the boat, had been running small vessels In the Far North for a number of years, and was familiar with ice navigation. John W. Kelly, one of the passen gers, had been trading with the Si berian' natives for twenty-five years, and Mount Kelly, a noted landmark, near Anadyr, was named for him. It Is likely that all the men were drown*'.. In the winter Bering strait Is not frozen over, but ice drifts south from the Arctic, filling the pas sage and always moving. Eskimos make their way from Siberia to the Dlomea Islands, and it is possible, but not probable, that the Louise's men may have reached the islands over the ice. Kelly during his long rcsiden6e among the Eskimos of Bering strait had made a study of the strange peo ple, and had compiled a dictionary of their language, tie is said to have been the best authority on the Bering strait Eskimos. LIGHT HEADED Flic— Hasn't she got a tap<:iini? waist? He—Yf3, It goes up to nothing:—Yonkers Statesman. O£--=JJ "the FASHION SHOP OF the WEST fliwM^^ ))) If You Thought You Couldn't Quite Afford Them Before C^tlO- i 'iflM^^fl iff" j£^? Buy Xmas Furs Now at Mll^S-" 1 <^^^^^£^^^t^:z^^^^^T^°?k s^s&s , Half ;Jiff 3mM i B| ■■■ SELLING PRICE. TT _, ... ——km. —-■ F"^V> \ \ y^7^^^^^Ms\ll 1 U This wholesale price-cutting means Christmas economy of the rarest sort. Here are $12 50 fll. .X \#F'^T^iiiii f fS Coney Collars for $6.25; Collars worth $22.50 at $11.25; a $35 Coney Set for $17.50; another Y)*~~ W %^lW^-^\ \^Kk $14.50 Set for $7.25 ; Brook Mink Collars, $24.50 values, $12.25 ; Jap Mink Collars worth $18.50, at g^f^^ f*£> '^KmMmmm^^ V \ \l|l '' $9.25; or $25 Collars, $12.50; also $32.50 Muffs for $16.25; Sable Fox Scarf marked $62.501, at Jl M &IL'^ M/fJHii IMk.V' AW $31.25; or $49.50 Muffs at $24.75; beautiful $85.00 Black Lynx Collars, $42.50; or $120 Muff at __ mmmmmm I^^HBIJJ M\f M $60.00, and scores of other magnificent Sets and Separate Scarfs and Muffs at like reductions. 1- M^^^M^m 7 JM' M Our Glove Department with Its Fine Gloves and Wfß^M lj<J I J •??^lß]^HHt^™' An Unprecedented Holiday Event OtlG- I Largest, Most Exclusive Stock «-■———- h x'mK^KM It Fashionable Coats Half* ZjmmmWmJmWmmmWuMmm^^ In the Entire West T**~irC> 7 ~^Sm^^Si9 am mm In a Great Year-End Clearance -** **^ l w, Mi^^k^^^^^^^ra %>—^ -it ynr 1 — Not one has been in the house more than six weeks, and P B l^^^^^^H f^ ISGW KjOCIIS most of them fresh arrivals-all strictly up-to-date. w l| HL M ■ Lmiiiii Caracul Coats Broadcloth Coats Nobby Tourist Coats E kHlsSmi i^^^^^^raK^M^flM At virtually your own price: Black and Rich Shades. (Checks, Plaids and Mixtures.) " flglpSifil v>MM£^W%M: Wt $30 Coats 515-00 $20.00 Coata JIQ-00 $15.00 Coats $7.50 T B«^W^J^^«#^^i^raa®J!!^^S^l — Also $32.50 Broadcloth Coats, $25.00 Coats $12.50 $19.50 Coats $9.75 :;^S7^n Es^C Caracul trimmed J15.00 $3Q 0Q Coatg $1500 $25 00 Coatg j l2 . 50 ■: t^ 1 ?'2>-s^°'lt'"" ?21'23 ISiSSS•■■"""""""."""SIS Fine Covert Coats v" Plush CoatsatHall^ <Sat B ad: d.. s. i! k... L!" i"!'.).s2 2 .50 gjj S2 ::::::::::;:::::::::SS ir^rviiiilillfeWS^^^^^^^^ k'' tI2J^ oats "•■••"••"' *21-5 Black & Blue Serge Coats *3o^° Coats •■•••• «17.b0 i *\l§ JEg^!&si£ X s. Near Seal Coats 132.50 coats $16.25 Russian Pony Coats 'I KWlIffiBlPSSm V *9750 Coats $48'"5 $39.50 Coats $19.75 $120.00 Coats $60.00 1 K!^BH™»^i^^V— Christmas Hints for the Hurried and Perplexed fr^j-^gT^^f'nKW ■i;»'«\\\ V M r=ir= Plenty of Clerks, Plenty of Room, No Crowding, Quick Service and a Cozy Rest Room S^':&#>SHB IliMß^ A Thousand Appropriate Presents for Old and Young ' ®^^^l^@ll4i^«f Jewelry Novelties v Exquisite Plumes Clever Sweaters iji W)l^<^^^^l^^^^^S^t%^^f'*' pOUNTLESS dainty gold or sil- WILLOW and French Curl * T any price you wish to pay jjl If {1 fsmamW^^^^Kmm si ver OrnamentS of novel de- * VV Plumes at Special Holiday A. -you'll find delightful styles. I KaRHH M^BSWjMft sign. Prices. 9 Smart Shopping Bags Lovely Scarfs Beautiful Waists IV i;v ' WWmmM^^^^^^^M, WlsiiffflmgS^^ QP Velvet, Leather or Gold or OTOKING Veils Drape Veils O^nas'box Chiffoa. In a Chrlst" t?^^BHi^^Sffi^S_-—-=} ■ Lisle and Silk Hosiery Dainty Handkerchiefs Silk Petticoats ***"' ' "^BIiIIiIHmI M— — p LAIN or embroidered Silk and T? OR ladies, gentlemen and chil- M E SSALINB and Taffeta, .fe==i==J|/|HB Our Christmas Suit and Dress Sale IMWET!:;^||fM 'J : \~r Hi KJllt I*j I'll 11**3 kSjLlll 14>IUS' JUi cJJ k-?l*>i-%Z> • illlHl^^W^^-JT"111^!^ fine Tailored Suits Remarkable Stylish Silk Gowns I 'Hi lral^^^S^^«S jJt^'^^ bmart—Distinctive Charming Nciv Designs S| _ m^^9 s^^*^*'^^^*^^' Wntntyfi "™™""^——^— ————— ~^~—-~——— JrQSStOIC I mm T^ * WMO* m \JtWZU Girl" Store Open Till Ten o'Clock Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday EveningslslESEE^pk& STORM SIGNALS UP FOR CHIEF U. S. FORECASTER Prof. Moore Denies Charges of Discharged Clerk NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Willis L. Moore, chief of the United States weather bureau, who Is in New York, denied today the charges of "misman agement, extravagance and irregular ities" In his department made by James Herry, a former employe, yester day in Washington. Mr. Moore said: "No one familiar with this affair will take these charges seriously. There is no shadow of truth In them. For good and sufficient reasons 11 relieved James Berry from charge of an important dl vlsionr. His charges are nothing but the venting of a personal spite." MEDART FAMILY ADMITS MILLIONAIRE ENDED LIFE ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17—Following fifteen hours of secrecy, the family of Philip Medart. millionaire manufacturer, ad mitted today that ho had shot and killed himself last night. It was not until this morning that a policeman was n<lmitted Into the Medart home. Medart was 72 years old and killed himself because of ill health. CZAR CONFISCATES PAPERS ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 17.—Today's edition of the Rech and four other daily newspapers were confiscated and their editors will be prosecute'l, for lese majeste for publishing at length the speech made in tho duma by M. PurishKavitch in connection with an Interpellation as to the behavior of the police on the occasion of the recent student meetings held in protest against the alleged cruelties Inflicted on political prisoners. The offense of lese majeste is punishable by a term of eight years in the galleys. JORDAN DESCRIBES WAR AS MORAL PRIZE FIGHT Declares Carnegie Peace Fund Will Expose the Folly of National Combat NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—David Start Jordan, president of Leland Stanford, jr., university, discusses Andrew Car negie's $i0,000,00u gift to peace, today in a signed telegram to the New York Times. He says: "Mr. Carnegie's gift to peace is po tentially the most important gift of money ever maUo for any purpose. Specifically, this fund should develop a code of international laws; it should enlarge and complete the work of Jean I Modi on the cost of war and should give us a clear view of how all civi lized nations save Canada and th« United States have now passed Into tho control of their creditors. The war debt of $:16,000,000.000 under which Kti ropo now staggers did not grow up without a history of blunder and crime. "It should probe to the extreme the effect of war by reversal of selection in destroying the virility of nations. To this cause almost alone is due the downfall of these nations which have lost step in human progress. "To show that the moral equivalent of war is lound no higher than in tho] prize fight, to show that the waste of I natiom in debt and In loss of virility i is due mainly to war and to show the world tho only way out lies in better relation among men in the spread of law and justice, and at present in tho work which culminates at The Hague, is the noblest work of Carnegie's gift.'" It's as easy to secure a bargain in a ua»;d automobile. thruuKh want advertising, as It uaed I" bo—and still Is—to secure a horse anJ TROOPS ASSEMBLE TO STOP EXPECTED ATTACK ON JAIL Two Companies of Militia Ready for Service at Columbus COT/TMnrs. Go., Dec. it.—Two rom panlea of militia were assembled at the armory tonight ready fur instnnt Mcrsicf. in the protection of the county |ail. Following the announcement of the death today of Jailer J. H. Phelta. who was shot when a nn<b stormed the jail last Sunday, an uimisy feeling ex ists iind trouble is feared. juih-r Phelta died us the result of wounds received when he defended the fail against a moi> Which sought t" lynch Henry Taylor, .1 negro, charged with assaulting a 16-year-old girl. FRENCH AVIATORS TO MAKE TRANSCONTINENTAL FLIGHT Audemars and Belliot Arrive for Great Airship Test NEW Y<n;K. Dec. 17.— E. Audemars and Andrew Belliot, French aviators, arrived here today t" make plans tor the transcontinental flight from New York to San Francisco, for which Wil liam R. Hearst has offered a prize of 160,000. The prize was declared r.pen "ii October 10, 1910, and may be competed for at any time befmv October 10, I*ll. The winner must cover the distance within thirty days-, but b- mas make as many Stops tor 1 !, fuel and repairs as he wishes. SCRATCH CAUSES DEATH SEATTLE, TJoo. 17.—Airs. R. R. Brown, sister of Jarnns King, a former governor of Missouri, died yesterday from blood poisoning, resulting from a scratch on her finger four 'lays ago, on a piece of wood. She was 85 years old. She has two sisters in Los An geles. FRIEND OF KING STEALS $2,300,000; GETS 8 YEARS American Mining Ventures Help Sweep Away Former Dan ish Minister's Loot COPENHAGEN, Dec. Former Minister of Justice Albert!, the revela tion of whose banking frauds in tho fall of 1908 scandalized the country, was sentenced today to eight years' penal servitude. Albert) suffered a physical collapse In March, 1908, while awaiting trial, and was removed to a hospital, where he remained until suf ficiently restored to face his accusers. For fourteen years Albert) had hold a commanding place both in politics and finance. He was a member of the Deuntzer ministry and later dominated the Christensen cabinet;" which he en tered-as minister of Justice in 1905. As president of the Bondesstandens spar kasse, a savings bank, and of the Dan ish farmers' export association, he was the custodian of enormous funds, to which he began to help himself, ac cording to his own confession, seven years before ho accepted tho portfolio of justice. The minister was the intimate friend of King Frederick and the idol of the poorer classes. His peculations, h» said, amounted to about, $2,300,000. and the money bad been lost in South Af rican and American mining ventures. < « ♦—i MURDER PRISONER RELEASED KANSAS i MTV, Dee. 17.—John Fea gle, charged by tlio officials of John s.m county, Kansas, with the murder of Mrs. Emellne Bernhart, one of tho victims of c tiuudruplo murder near here, was released from custody this afternoon. 3