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; Standard Oil tin* a feline tenacity on lib it*
lent jwltofes carry themseive* Mwa.'* m
(i, »lwi|!> It emerges unscatfe it. or at r.oii
erficiatiy scratched on the no*. No I*-*:...
tooths fine enough to guard again*! the
bijous quality of it* < s-nij* I'orncrc I lied
rn, staked oft. the am'.ir total of results
i that the Stand,. * d breaking the-* law as .t :
iyi back-jumps the jaws of the steel tin:
live# of lav.- immunity to this lorporation
commence the tally of its re-urn- firms
thing Is a centipede of vinht; It "ionics
■ck"—04 tn,'inili; rn :
The bromidic character of the** of: repeated
arks is justified hy the news of tlo- latest
Stepping of the con sequences of Oil nnsde
ora in Tennessee Gunfidctitli io always
Government nad run the )to< ).er< ih-r organ
Ion into the reb».'e < ortie. in the votnmui
kill of indictment ;t laid, in jfi< date*
amounts, no less than Lift separate of
Under the reading of the Elkins htw earl
i of this eitarai ter is punUhahle hy a fine ot
more thau $20.uo0 and not less than ?t
tag that the proof was suffiiient, tin
rumen t could look forward to tin* imposi
Ian of a minimum lin« of $1 .r.iM.ot’o and a max
one of $30.41di.o00. The Government con
for the payment of the larger amount. I n
a threat, the Standard ailed up Us la st
When they were through whittling ,:t
law, the cat was none tin worse tor its
enres: in fact it purred, on the door mat
it had never been a win from holm
Slaughter of the Government s case was
Characteristic <u»d illuminating. The O:i
drove first of all at the very heart ol
law, aud cut it out. Under the ruling of Judge
It the offense denounced was not a ship
at-an unfair rat.-, but a s. ttleuuut accord
to the discrimination. If the railroad gave
It, the misdemeanor happened only at th •
it when the shipper paid tile freight. At
Otie point the Government lost prospective
amounting’to $29,134,ow, since, while U
shipments had been made dtiily, aeltii
at the unfair rates had been made onl
ithly.
was enough to jar tin- trovorniin isi. out u
Hot sufficient to satisfy tho lawyers. Uin
MBitt'iilaH the penalizing statute, they
their attention to the indictment Kaeb
It having been directed ut tin- shipment, it
awed that It the shipment were punishable
upon it* payment, the counts iu the indict
it Were faulty it they charged the time ut
i Offense to a time previous to its commission
From time to time various prosecutions <>i
rd Oil have run a different but practical
' Start ihu' course, mi far as the euit ia concerned
been more than once ' dissolved" only to
together again with a suave confluence of
lent elements it lias been variously ey
from different States, only to edge l*»c*
gh a door not perceptihiv ajar until its
M filled the room. Judge ...
sin Landis attempted to niulel It in tines
anting to twenty-nine millions Standard
of this effort as unreasonable and abo'
The Sherman law, and tin- 101 kins law,
all tins sundry other laws never seem 1
a hair of its glossy ensemble. The reran
ia but in line with its hiaton "'a do noi
the Judge or question ills dc, iaion Only,
this is at tho crux of the matter, Standard
by accumulating deductions must tie in at
i birth of the laws which it kills off with such
llty. if the opinion of the latest Judge holds
the crime of rebating may be as east!
omitted as the Blue ‘ Laws of New Kuglaud
ignored. There is no reason why i-ettio
B, instead of living made bi-monthly, should
Ib the case of bo good a customer I* mad*
aially Aud that a twenty thousand dollar
for. two years is a small eonsideiatlot
• Isgal immunity from the operation of a trou
Be statute vs h fact to which Standard <)n
be counted upon to be alertly advertent.
A lllbl’TK N VPOJ.I <>\.
Royal flutter^over the marriage .,r ih-imesa
uttne, of Belgium, and Prince Victor Napn
of Italy, but ‘pretender' to the non < us
: throne, of Franco, finds gentle echo in even
at Democratic communities
; that there is the vaguest hop" in the pie
, of the little man with the big mustache
top heavy name France lost thp trad I
the monarchy when "L'AtRion'' died a
an court its subsequent experience
monarch» amounted to little more thau
jar of a name. The subsequent Napo
were of a dish-water taste, in vain the*
incantation to the great Spirit of tin
jfa cremtor. But even through tho years
i moment when the question In France is
of monarchy but of socialism, ther
the faint aroma of ft splendid, if dis
period. Royalty is all in flutter over
of a middle aged pair who ought to
to wed in peace, without tho tit.
commentary of the stir about their
ififkUftm tu their laboratories sometime* n
thoy call a trace of a substance In tin
, nu xmU an taiUnUbu,
Hardly Is there 5 •tain. ' • ( the careful analysis
patches tin' suggestion, anil notes it in some
such nui there may be saui to iuii ill tin; veins
of the present Victor Napi Icon the suggestion
of the blood which tnaile the real Napoleon u
victoi In deeds instead of baptism. And b* -
■,ills» iif this trace. Oc.ause a CCUtttry Hgo lilt
real vigor of tin original expressed Itself in In
defatigable armies, In Immortal conquests, in
garish courts of conquering power, its inheritor
thronekss. weak and impotent- glitters with
si toe of thr' rubhi-d off tinsel ot a vanished
period.
Then was never virtu, iu the Napoleons
peril'll t v ’ pt as het iihss jvuwer. as indouiitable
it'll, compels a fear that is confused with rc
spe till it merges 1111■ • a sort of fascinated
loiatry. Bonaparte smote his way through the
world, clearing hi-' own path, creating his own
imperious if crude standards, pitching his tent
:a pa In- es. storming royal!.' upon the neck of
I owu and other countries. His sum lotat
was dost 1 notion, despite a wonderfully construe
live genius, tils hands, his ntind. his bouI,
knew no piety. hi tradition even yet is a
staggering one But how much Its* of virtue is
then n the won king who. in exile, struts vainly
in th' streets of the world adorned with tliP
i anie of a man he cannot approximate even in
evil: What an illustration of the continued
tratio. n which the tirst Napoleon holds the
niaginaT’.on of the world. tt it should oven
non avail, to color with in -tramp- magi' the
i a lor less life in which n trtie essence is so mar
velously dilute’
mai.nwi 1’tim.s or uviM, \\
\ few y.-ars ago Walter Page. hunting donbt
)es tui tin bite ot a phrase wrote of the South s
misfortmi'i in si ill following its clergy by the
stagnant pools of theology ' The resulting otd
bur-t of Indignation must have been gratifying
t.. Mr. Page's vanity, but it was expresfilvf ot
little Inside an undue ensitiveness oil tie part
of the. South The -stagnant potils" have for
cars, and still continue, to furnish life-giving
watecs Kvt'u iu its politics, which perhaps ir
ritated Mr. Page more than nil else, the South
-ees th'* nation coming in repentance to the laitli
which It has consistently held
We take up this ohl matter of tin punchers
and the stagnant pools in view of the illustrii
tinns to the contrary afforded in ltichmond this
week by tin’ two incidents of the Methodist foil
fore lu-e and the Anniversary meeting of the
Pnst. Baptist Church Kepnrtr to the f'onltr
. nee showed that the strong arid militant Meth
od lot denomination is giving with an ever more
liberal hand to ed matt on and to missions it'
membership is devoted to the practical ends ot
better citizenship. Its schools flourish, its inv
pulse townt d higher sTannnms m living is con
atari' and consistent No problem of civic or
economi. betterment but timid in tin uig.ini/eu
,-frort of the denomination aid in its right solu
tion. At the anniversm > of the First Baptist
Chun h. t>n> of the speakers madi tho striking
statement that the history of the Sou'll showed
at Us various stages the great movement of the
hour centered at some time in one particular
State. Virginia afforded the uien who were the
mainspring of the revolution Vt another permit
j South Carolina was tile renter of national
thought latter Henry tirade and other
Georgians spoke the prupheej Finding fultilmetit.
I In tin present. W ithin the denude North t nr
I ollna bus sounded the non of popular education
In a Smith first is coming rapidly to its higher
destiny of wealth, and commerce, and morality,
rhe clvurcn has been tiie potent laetor in nerving
the labors of those who have bet n engaged in
tip pew construction It has been Kept pure,
hut it tics not stood still. I in* theology, it is
true, is old, lull If is fur from stagnant
! t needs only that anyone knowing condition*
should roalt/.e the growth of the South for him
10 sec the relation of tin church to 1’? advance
ment ruder the Influence of an abiding at
tu' mnent between tne masses of tho people and
the religious in ganiiatioris, Southern life has
neither sacrificed principlo to accomplishment
nor progress to tradition It lias been at once
active and steadfast As a result wti have t.he
miracle of a great section outstripping every
other pari of the country and still practically
free from the abuses, tin civic disintegration,
till, lowered standards of morality which else
where an the hard penalties with which success
us pun f
Whnt Mr l>,ige and his following do not seem
a. ludarsiand Is the fact that the church rela
Uo11ship to life in the Kouth is everything ex
cept a stagnant idea or a nebulous belief It Is,
on the other hand, a force exerted through
teachings front which the Individual gains a
re w perception of iris duties as a citizen. Keep
g itacif aloof from politics, the Southern
liurch doer not therefore stand aloof from life
On the contrary 1*8 Influence is thrown In the
► inks mi the side of great reforms, on the side
• if progressive policies, ori t.he side of the ac
ceptance o? civic responsibilities The preacher*
still lead an ever growing host. Hut their leader
ship is moral and stimulating. 'Hie old pools
w i,i rev, tiu-y lend their people are still filled
with moving waters, pure and sweet.
\ I tilt PKAIJM.
The report of flic Atlantic Coast l.ino Hailway,
sin.Wing tm Increase in not for tho year of twin
Jv io.ii'io and tinuly establishing Hie stock
on a »:» per cent busts is particularly gratifying
us showing the success of wliat Is ti distinctively
Southern system.
Tin Atlantic, ('oast I,inn lias throughout Its
- nreet a i< ptod a policy vrbl< it shines by MB'
trj.i-1 with fiic liisiory t.r other large systems
it lias been built up. link by link, mad by road,
with lonsiaut regard for initial stockholders
' Ltwrn tme itgvvc boon a period wimu thu in
visitors iu Coast Lfne beeiiritioH have been
"shaken out" for tin1 sake of organization The
baud of the railroad “wrecker" has never been
visible in its financial history, lis success has
been bought at no expense of failure and losses
to the public by which it was financed. Many a
modest holder of stock in the original enter
prise is now in comfortable circumstances ns the
result of a policy as beneficial ns, unfortunately,
it is strange.
Whatever may be said of the policy of rail
lead "systems", of tile absorption of competing
lines, of the necessity for stricter regulation by
law. these problems incidental to great enter
prise cannot tak- from the A C. L. the proud
re. ord oi its fair dealing with its friends and
stockholders Had other great systems bt‘-n as
free from scandal and double dealing, tin- agita
tion looking to fin- settlement of the problems
arising from the relationships of raillioi- and
public had been spared a deal of the Into mess
with which Its progress has been marked.
I EA( I S” AXfi Till! HAW.
The arrest of a professional boarding house
thief whose operations have resulted in tin loss
of much property calls attention to the need of
an ordinance requiring of second hand cloth
ing dealers a daily report, of purchases, in the
particular case it appears that only a nominal
percentago of stolen goods Will be motored,
whereas, with an ordinance such as it suggested,
the recovery might lie practically complete.
riie pawn shop and second hand clothing
house constitute a somewhat complex problem.
Honestly conducted both are legitimate, even
necessary, to the life of a large city. Dishonest
ly conducted or negligently administered both
are in- entires to crime Were it not for the
1 fence ', the thief would find business even more
unprofitable than it is With h “fence”, or with
its equivalent of n place for the disposition oi
stolen goods not subject to pulf.-e supervision,
there is the temptation to Steal as well as iho
opportunity to steal successfully.
With the object lesson of one thief mse
operations have resulted tn the toss of n mass
of property, some of which, when recovered, was
ascertained to have been sold at ridiculous
prices, the Council should no longer neglc t to
put the second hand dealers in articles susi.vti
hlo of ready theft under strict police regulation.
The duties of a police forte only begin with tip
arrest of criminals Us better purpose is to
make . rime difficult. In this it needs aws .
which will aid it in be work and render (is
deterrent influence ns strong as tts tbt- five
ability.
I lIANKSt.IVINt. IX»H V. \V. C. A.
Ten thousand dollars by Thanksgiving Day
for the V W. C. A. should be a task to whose
.irrompllsluueilt the city should lend i• -• lf with
undivided interest Tut* Young Men .« t 'Kristian
Ysmtclation. elegantly housed and lit- ally sup
ported, is Us- best example that • ■ >;,Id be af
forded of the potential value or the similar or
gunuation lor youiiK women. in Hi. iimond
ilu-re are thousands of women and Kiris earning
a living by their own efforts in off'' e factory
and store. They constitute almost an army corps
of self-respecting, energetic worn on looking life
itpiaielv in the fare. They make a giory la a
. 'immunity which has much to he proud of.
The enterprise whose main incentive is to bene
fit and encourage this appealing element is one
•o which the city owes a distinct obT-duon
The working woman is an object i> ssou ol
ue.iepeiidem«. She asks no favors of life. She
nukes her own way with innate str. agth and
dignity. Hut just because the appeal does not
tome from iter, it is by the fact stronger to
ail vtiio. admiring woman and her efforts, feel
the impulse to aid. With tin organ ton lend
ing itself to the usi s of a club, to edm tional in
centive, to high social and moral ideals, the
good than can be accompli shed among the thou
sands of Hichmond women who at. ..pendent
upon tlnir own efforts for a living is incal
cu table.
The working woman asks no odds, t is true.
She accepts bravely hard conditions and docs
courageously a work that Is often hard and fre
quently Inadequately compensated Hut be-,
cause she Is too proud to ask should make
the community gift, in a spirit of mutual help
fulness and appreciation, all ’he more natural
'and nil the more pleasant
The ten thousand dollars will be ramed, and
prompt!.'. Who aids In Its accumulation will
Ibvp made nn Investment of certain and fur
reaching return
Kugland is deliberate In nil tilings, even lta
crises The crisis in Parliament, that consider-,
utelv went Into mourning upon the death of'
King ICdwnrd. was lust about to be revived when
the Premier sent word that lie could not come.
No dials can seriously affect a country of this j
accommodating nature,
With prices of pork and poultry both roosting
rm the lower branches Ills country will give
^Thanksgiving that It voted a itemoenitin ticket ■
nn November H, It Is stated line the election ‘
hud nothing to do with the reform, but tito table '
will none the less be benefited.
Tini stand-pat Senator appointed from Iowa
thinks than lie and Senator Cummins will got
along smoothly, Another Iowa idttu doomed to
disappointment.
Tim inclination of tho Board of Aldermen to
do business rapidly ought not to l»- Interfered
with b> any speed limit statute
hr. Shaw may not got any votes for women,'
but she. will get a hearing tu Richmond J
Kvi*n the combined efforts of the mtickrakers
and Secretary Knox stem powerless to bring to
pass a second Mexican war.
Governor Comer’s versatility seems to have
taken a correspondence course in “How to bo,
a detective '.
Joseph Sibley s illness continu* r- to bo ad
versely emphasized at every BUggesUon of pom
primary bookkeeping.
The eighth day has |MSScd without a word
from the Oyster of Sagamore Hole.
The \nnual Demist* of "Johnny" lam low.
“Johnny" Lowluw nus die<i u 1 it11• later than
usual this year. V< ming as it ones so late
in the season, his irh.iKb tear that the present
dt atli may he latal. It woula he interesting
t<» know ju.it how many pathetic obituaries ■
have been written about the king of the old
time downs. The late Joel Chandler Harris,
who was born in the next county to that h*
which “Johnny" first saw the light down in
Georgia, i* believed to have written as iminv
last tributes to tin- incomparably ftinmak* t
as he wrote Br'er Rabbit stories. In those
good old days when “Johnny *’ first began to
uie it was usually the early spring months —
"spring with that nann‘lt» pathos m the air
w hi' li brought the sad intelligence from som*
remote corner of the United States. And then
along in the fall, when th»- circus started out,
Johnny" would walk Into the office of the At
lanta Constitution, the mentor of “Uncle Kcnuis'*
would fall up>n tin neck of th«- creator of
“Bring In anothc r kor.se' and burst into happy
tears. Thi'i folks down at Milledgeville and
Katonton. who could beast that thi y knew the
gr-at clown as a b. \f would wait with feverish
anxiety fur tin- annual resurrection, and It
is only lair to say that the gifted author of
“Unde u*-inns' brought him to life even more
artlsth ally tnuu hie had buried him.
Nobody ew-r seemed to know whether the
Jovial Low low whs a party to these annual
reports of his death, but he was the kind
of man to get enjoyment out of everything,
including his own ol nodule*. Now his old
friend has joined the great majority and
'Johnny" must have ft it that he lagged super
fluous on the stage. Perhaps tills tone he is
dead for keeps. lr so. one of the kindliest
and worthiest of men, who scattered sunshine
through two generations, has passed away.
Those who knew him as tin* archetype of a
period which has vanished will deep!, mourn
his lose Baltimore News.
Ihllis lloot Onl.
DeUibcrutlc coinrol of the New \ ork legisbt
ture promises another g> ci .-suit m aduitom
to the replacing oiffarptw by a lu-moirat in the
United Mates senate. Th» possibility that
President Taft might app*#t t f-iihu Root to th»
supreme court haw disapp*-.,r*»«i m pit-sen-e oi
the fa< t the.t were he to be m> e levated the H»-at
he now occupies in the senate would also be
Piled by s one one ol thu o;-po.sltc poiitl-uil
faith. This »•« rtainty th« presm. nt • -uind af
ford to force: for the Republican majority in'
the upper house of l ongr'-ss is already p» rilo is
iy flo.vr to nptiiingrn-t.-.. and a i"ss of r-.\ would
produce a tie. Nor is that small majority to
be absolutely depended on by the administra
tion, for in estimating it .a lea-t stwn in.vn
gvnt w natoi>i hav*- been ot.MJ.rited on the Kep ih
limn side, and they are not apt t * prove am en
able to discipline by the regulars on partisan '
issues. At the last s< salon, even under tie
powerful leadership of Aldrich and Hale, there
were times when the body flew the truck; and
now . with a reduced majority and emits* uiai*»d
leadership, we doubt \vr 'much whether Mr.
Taft > an rely . on the seriat* to carry out tie
program tie has Iti vUwv for neutralizing toe
in flue nett of a democratic house. Certainly in
• och an emergent v Mr. Root i.» mu to ! spared
hum t he* * senate by the part: hard beset
to hold its own. and that is -. no -king to r e
thankful for. He 1- a gr at aiwver. but of the
sort tha would not therefor*', be necessarily a
good judge.- Virginian-Pilot.
\ Recount For Gamblers.
It makes no sort of difference to the welfare
of this city whether Mr. Tu o-uc- n has turn
elected muyur by 4.DUS# mnj *rit. or 5,eel, Aii
that the public* is concerned ii«.*»»nt is proof that
he bad any sort of a majority and that he is
clearly entitled to take and excreha the "die©.
For that purpose a majority of one, clearly es
tablished. is as go,id. a a majority of 4 0,<moi.
The interest oi#the p, mens who bet? that
ho would or would m»t got f*.00u is ot abso
lutely no consequence.
It In hardly conceivable that any court in this
community will stoop to the vulgarity of put
ting its machinery into action to determine
who of two gambbrs won a net. it has b» *n
suggested, nevertheless, that. gan.Mers who h:e.,
money ,»ti the- Issue have raided a fund and em
ploy «-d lawyers to fort.«:* a reoum <>r the \ te
on mayor, and that one of tin candidal* *• has
been indue, d to bfeoim* a party to a : at f r
that purpose. 1? there a judge on n >*eti b *n
this town who will not ir.scantly order ? i
litigants out of his presem e .l h-trolt I n c
Frt'-ss.
Lodge.
A national i alnmity threatens from Macs
chiiBotts, f tii" colonel kncT what hr was
talking about when In* dorlan-d tin l.'-eping .1
llrnry Cabot lodge In tin* Colt 1 Status senate
to ho essential to th<» country's wi-'f.iri*. That
mu tut* I> a fortnight ago. but ttu ntt1 > from
tho Has State non is that Mr lodge is In a
fit it- n ay to bo It ft at honi. lit*, main hope.
In fat t. is said to be that point* of tho I >t pioer.its
In tho legislature may vote* for ltirn. an i we
aro trusting to <iovt»rni>r-Elf“-t 1’oss who has a
very taking way to blast that Tin* Reputdloans
hate 1fII votes In tho legi; 'atutv to 126 for
tho Tunmoorats. It Is true, bur not ali of tho
Republicana aro for Mr IsCUg.. n<>t by a ; u g -
full, and if soma Republican w ho svili bo hi?
ceptable to the Mernocrats Is rut up or pome
Democrat i» nominated who Is persona grata
to the anti-Lodge Republican!), tin- seholar mav
conclude that It U tho part of wisdom to with
draw from the contest in order to smu him
seif from being kicked out Mtiauachusetts Is
not going back 'in Intellect, but the colonel's
friend dm s nut appear to sit w ell on an empty
stomach Besides. thin* has arisen in Jersey
a new type of "the seholar In polities." and he
who has heard the ring of the true metal It*
not easily fooled thereafter by the tinkle
tho counterfeit.—Charleston News and Courier
Couldn't Mo Worse.
Tf Mr Henry Cnssuway Davis Is the best,
exponent of ilemoeraey that Yvest Virginia run
find to take tho pinee of Nathan Scott In the
Cnited States senute. the change Is si ateely
worth the trouble of making. At e ghty-aeveii
Mr. Davla preserves only a remnant of the men
tal qualities which were in** er remarkable), and
physically he Is little better than a wreck.
Father-In-law of that unyielding protectionist
anil Republican. Senator Elkins, he is also the
business partner of that gentleman In many en
terprises which owe their phenomenal rinaxn lal
into es.» to tin- fostering favors of the robber
tnrlff. If In the senate Mr. Mavis would as
suredly be found opposing nit genuine steps to
wards putting the Impost duties on a reason
able basis. Tin* Republican Washington Star
rejoices at the prospect of the election of Mavis,
saying:
If, therefore, Mr. Mavis should come back
his will be another tot, tn favor of conser
vatism. Tn «ny tariff disc .salon the Interests of
West Virginia would not haw u stronger cham
pion In the Republican than in tin- 1 ictnoeratle :
senator Doth could, arid pro! ably would,
stand for tho same propoMtlons on schedules
of direct concern to their constituents
And It might be added, "and or direct con
cern to themselves.".Virginian-Pilot.
fn tip* Matter of Moseses,
With a possible M".-vs In Now J. rt-.-y and
another one in • »hio, Democratic prospects for
1912 are promising.
Oh, for a Moses to lead tho I 'emeu ratie ma
jority through the CongresmkuuU wilderness: —
u.lllmiini kb CUUlg SUU. I
ft
MM FALSE CLAIM,
FACES THEFT HUGE
SEW YOIlfC, Now 16. When Anna
A Strula. of Hay.lt t, N. J., was ar
re.igned for sent r ne<- before Judge
JKimiU.K}- In the I'iniH of general ses
sions today she withdrew her plea of
guilty to a i'llargil of grand larceny
ami (lemunded thut stint la- given a
trial. ‘The charge against her hud been
mud,, by iht* Now York Contrul Kail
road wlilth alleges that on October 19.
lsuti. she settled a olalm for damages
for in rsomil Injuries for $i>00. 'I his
olalm, the railroad Insisted Was fraud
ulent.
Attorneys for half a dor.on roads
wore in o.url and they wore prepared
to make furthor charges against the
woman whom, they ullcged they knew
ns tin “hanan ukjn acrobat.” Her
method, they alleged to Judge Rowtl
sky was to drop a. hunana skin from ii
hand hag which she carried on the
platform of a car or the stairs of a
railway station and then to lull and
pretend that she slipped on the skin.
jud«, Kosulsky set her trial for No
vember JS. warning her that If she is
eon., -led ho will give her the limit
puiheni.ii nt.
RANCHMEN WILL
AVuNGE LYNCHING
tits- KSl’KINiJ. TBJi . Nov. Hi.—
Highly mnennion and cowboy » started
from hire oariy to-day to head off
the force of ..'! 0 Mexicans who are
niari hing from Has Vm as, Mexh o. i >
avenge the burning of Antonio Uml
rigi.i z. The Texans are mounted, rid
ing rapidly t-> intercept tin Mexicans.
As they advanced toward the Ko>
tlran.de the Texans were Joined
groups of men eager to engage tti*
Invaders from across the herder
Hangers are being rushed here to
prevent a clash between the deter
mined ranchmen and Mexicans. Tie
situation i“ the most serious of the
many comliets of the border In r.-i ■ nt
years. It is feared here that a clash
will mean lighting along tile entire
Hi,i tlraruii .
(inventor ('ampheli to-day ordered
that troops be rushed here from San
vntoniu, tint they will be of little ai.l
in stopping the trouble, because a
lush ; etween lieru unit Has Varus
ini-ans that Mexicans and raii'-hmen
will meet possibly within fifty miles
.■f the border and beyond the reach of
the troops.
GOVERNOR ORDERS
TROOPS TO SCENE
AT* ST IV TEXAS, N»r. 16.—Oo v f r -
•.■•r Campbf 11 has ordered tin* V'-vh*
K..;up‘rj p> rueh overbitui fr -rn RAaldt
t*» H<-« k S . tntrs, Mft% v, h»'-r*«
f• « - 1 OiiTl-itVltk In th»> ,'i1« !,1‘ I over
t !;»• 1 v n of th«? Mcxhaii Kodri*
giur/..
The r;unr«Ts« tv HI r»*mh link Springs
•O'out iH'i.r* tonv-rnov under ihf l**,ul
• rwhip of t‘ puun John K. lluph-'H. \\h«i
i or Che I a'i y—ft \ yeum ha>* 1>c-.*<hs
running down L ,rd<‘r rriinin.dw.
Tin* t'-ivi "iior'« «»u followed a
oninmumr.iUuii with ?ht* sheriff of Kd
vvi-M.*’ «’ ""■ > y in hhh th* en cutivi
v. as urwl t direct the state* pal r l
'*1 <> r* --.■ • ,rp ord**r through tF:• t* » -
" r ' f * >> • t n Ihitix Hprint^w and liie
Km Crandc
fioporifc today tr-*n; Rn.k SprliuA
fny tJi.it the i .wo is nil.uj* with <-«>u .
■'•’'* and ram htn^n arnmd with pis
tols a:.«1 rlf;f*s ami dnp-rmiTmd t<> r»*
: ifct any attack t*v M^xiivn. inarch
P wird Lh • k SpritiK*. Onf mpi.-.d
oj r ';•;«! s h:i* Iff! fur th©
Tho Mexican ivsidcntH of the plm ♦»
aro n».»t m-H K dia arhod, it ■<« uiuirr
s> t«-id. tut t h,o IV sS. uuthorltfrn. or
d<r*.aT a forrv *>f deputy marRhals ?«>
pi'fX’d ti* I look Sprlnp.s th!>* rnorntnif
Tlsi- armed invasion i* \n violation “f
!}<• 11 ♦ t:; r:*! i»* laws aiui all vffprf will
’"* iniuln t«» rnptuif and pi.riinh all ti.t
M« xiofin* in tljo a,- ilitltai
V. sSHTNQTON. N <■ v ! t,.-—N.-nr; y
<vcr. stiati* !r» the Union wtis ri-pn
«.»:?♦ * d at the twcnty-Mflonrul annual
* ■•avnlion ol tin* National As
fi'»n UaJUvny < 'ominia •■.immrs which
here t»n{flty. ('hairtriiiti Knapp,
"f the Interstate Commerce (‘omuiis
vj**n ileliv* r al tin- aiidnma ut’ wel
come.
President Martin S. Darker, *.f Nnv
Y*>rk, delivered .fuidrcg^ covering
thr problems to he considered at tin*
convention lb* pug^e.stod the «p
puintment of a special committee t*.
investigate the w t •!»* railroad system
with reypeei to rates of tin- express
co'upa nlcs.
”Jf the vvhol»* - vsu m of express sc-r
vlce," lie “aid “ns r.ow jHTiornitMl, is
obsolete oi radical!) defective, it
should la 'thoroughly reformed. Ex
inoi companies. and the express »yd
tem t;ra been strongly attacked and
strongly defended. The companies, ah
A t il as the public art entitled to ,i
lull and Impartial inquiry.”
DENY TAMPERING
WITH WITNESSES
WIIKKI.INQ, \V. VA., November 1»
—Absolute denial that thorn bus uecn
aiii nttompt to tamper with trie
Stale's ’.vi Lhohvh in the Si hunk pulcion
i n g 1 a si' wan mu by Airy. I-auru
Purnsworth Svlu-nu «. attorney* to-day.
At tiiw hospital it is said that John
Srhf-nk is Improving rapidly. 11b whs
t;i ■ to »;1t up for a whlio to-tl:lj, and
his two children were permit ted to
visit him.
No time has vet Won fixed for the
preliminary hearing of Mrs. Schenk
although nil of the attorneys for trie
Mate and the relatives of He hen k who
bring the charges agairmt hit# wife
were in conference this afternoon try
ing: to decide when the ease would
he moved.
J. 1*. o’Hrittn, of counsel for Sirs.
Schenk, said this afternoon:
"Wo have no connection with any
of the horde of private detectives that
are now working in this cits-. No one
on our behalf has attempted to ques
tion any of the witnesses for the
State nor to lind out what evidence,
if r.ny. th-- Slate h;:». Our client Vs
innocent and her Innooenco will |JB
proved.”
t oi ler coyriNOSS
I AM-; or MAIMKK
tHpoctal to The lUohmond Virginian.)
sm-'01,K. V/V.. Nov. HJ.—The case
ul LUa» CopeJaud, a coiorad uuraa.
charge <1 with maiming an Infant twin
daughter of Mrs. A. 8. Blount, waa „
called In l'ollce Court, but continued,
owing to the absence of an Important
witness. The child was thought to
he suffering from Infantile paralysis,
hut later developments proved a *pl
rjnl Injury, supposedly caused by al
leged III treatment liy the nurse re
sponsible. The caao Is attracting wUUi
attention.
FI MEN HURT
BY CUP EXPLOSION
i OXFORD. X. Nov. 18.~~.As the
result of an explosion of a large bo*
i of caps at the Washington mines of
| the Empire Stocl nod Iron Company
; early today five men were seriously
: injured. There were:
"Alike Turalnysi, both eyes Mown
out. leg broken. «
"Alike” Smith, drum of the ear*
shattered; other Injuries about I U*t
body. ®
Banrfor I.i varuy, legs Injured,
hallos Yallav, arms broken.
Joseph Patrick( ears affected
The men were In the habit of r».
mottling In the mines Instead of going
to the surface to eat their lunch, and
Tlira!!ivmx sat on a box of raps, or ex
plosives. A spark from his lamp fell
into tie ,-aps and Ignited them and
the explosion followed. Tho other
men were sitting nearby
FIGHTING FLAMES
(ViMl)K.\ \\ J„ November 1
i Jr* m•. pp«iM *1 t** have **jr
5j.>'»n tun folia »rri>‘ • i.-t !• m \« ius tlJurov
cr* tl in the Krai» a. tor «>f SitW> ami
Sous warehouse, thiH * ity. shoriiy ta*.
*,,r» to-day. The 1 confine*!
chmily to Kraln ami bated hay, is
* tm:ut. ;j at 32 '»,i*0i<. Tiu* .-nt.ro city
ii»* A;m called out and
* *'ra/ tlrcrni*n .--'.erciy Ui.;urc<f, Cap
S0 3 < om
I-uii.., sustaining three broken ribs.
COMMISSION SUSPENDS
HISHEfl RATES Oil COAL
TVASHlJWToN Vtv ifi —An or
<ler anti ..I i the Inlet tat., four
n.'-r r 1'"mmiseU'Uj to iaj suspends a
prop. .-: ej isr !>V tile Chesapeake
arid obi ■ Uaii.'aj and Us .■<.nnectiona
on .a; from the N'c-v lih.r district,
in West Virginia, to id. do. The in
. rc-us. was to take etfr- » November
If., and the r..mrniwslou ha* suspended
U until Mar. ti la. litll. The proposed
h.Jn Ble u Win* from |i.ll to Il.*r, a ton.
Jnil l>rhvf*ry.
!! I WTSVI IJJ\. AHA, Nnrwb«r
' ■ j.»r**.irivr». thr***- v. hit-t* an<! tvv<>
• *r* ,!, *•* ip i jail to day by
!<■'Airing :ft»rr.* lv< ** from a third utory
\t.' i 'V. with ^rips- of torn mat
iv* ** \ po^c ■* mow lo an him? th«
o*• t:ntr • M iii tho hop* of t!udine
ir.o'f of tii• f.ticitiv oiv
Probe Bank Failure.
V \ HifIN-,T OX. Nov. ]« - \ *p»fHa|
ur* r t of th*. tVoarUront of Juelira
. v. .1* "ptim'd to «‘klahoma today to
ir v< wtH? 'to tho failure of the Atnerfcan
N::-tionai *Jr*nk at P.nrtIrttevlle, OkU
l-Mm, the »‘i-rnnT« National Hank, at
TaU-;t. Oklahoma. i<*t year. The fall
utv of thru* I j^nk i <Io«**!y followed
the failure of a mint company in Ok-*
iahoitui Citv.
CUiSM WiTH MEXICO
10 HEW IMPROBABLE
U A.SilI.MjTi N. N >v 1*'.. < inofll
. t 11 a«i> i vi to-day indicated that tha
‘ possibility of h elash between Mexi
. ans iinu Americana at Kink Spring.
T sa.v is more retm to, and renditions
nri' by nniiiK ipneter. There l* Mill
uimli iipprehension on tin ;mrt of
,m.,. 1 M pari n.*'ir i * fli i •. s, 1» \v;ni rus
depending up ui the State authorities
; of Texas p> l*re cut a . otieerted out
break of any kind.
ii is admitted that if tlie situation
, were I'-mpln ateil by mob rontUct am
| 1111.1. alio seitlem. Ill of the present
; difficulties would he most uncertain.
S f..i the mob of Mexicans reported
j to have been man hing on liock
’ S; ring* lias not materialized, and it ia
doubted that the Muiinn authorities
will permit so serious a demonstration.
■ Tiiere are plenty of troops within rail
! if th - sit ■union mauds their itu»r
ferenee There ure t« '> troops at
■ avairy at Kurt, i lark, Texas, about
fifty miles from Itoei. Springs, anil a
regiment of eavglry and a regiment of
.infantry at Sun Antonio
V> other diflii ll\ which is row* tig
tuitrh apprehension al the State I
pnrtmunt to u i.\ 1“ the f..nr of the
It nehir.K of the Mexican who killed
the chief of poliee at Ahad.irko. <>kia
homo. If the fugitive Is .might, it.
1 lh feared that the Oklahoma authori
ties will be unable tu, prevent :t lynch
ing
Die; HOLE IN WALL
TIJLN ROB STORE
Thieves armed with pick-axe* d ig it
hole in lie rear wull of the feed stora
of I- M. Kills, .ilk' West Hroad street
M rulay nh.-ht. and stole about SI in
i urreney. Tin- thieves ransacked tlia
store but could at the contents sova
the mnni. which had been left in a
cash drawer, were too bulky to
removed
A similar robbery wan attempted
about ten days ago, when thieve* dog
a hole In the wall of the store of 1'.
K. Schmidt. ;i grocer at Mill North
First street. In this Instance the
thieves were 'frightened away before
they were uble to consummate their
intentions.
Writrht Sails For llnrops.
js'EVV yoilK. November 1#.—Or
ville Wright sailed to-day on tha
Krnnprincess in ' "ccilo for Europe to
look after the inten *ts of the Wright
Aviation t’ompany He said whtla
abroad he probably would not un
dertake any lllght Tfe did no* know
how long he would stay on tb« othwr
si da.
.