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ARGU FIFTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 299. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1910. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWOCENTSv nn E ROOK S.LANB LINK TOOK MONEY ONLY FOR EXPENSE Representative Admits Getting Pay After Vote for Lorimer BUT WAS INNOCENT Never Dreamed It Was Paid for Support Stenographer Is Witness. Chicago, Sept. 30. Representa tive Link, who received 11,000, he Bays, ' after voting for Lorimer, and f 900, from the "jack pot" told the committee today that when he re ceived the money he thought it was for campaign- expenses. Link ad mltted he received $1,000 from Browne, hut flatly denied it was giv en to him for vote for Lorimer, and declared he never was promised any thing to vote for Lorimer. Wootii fa Called. Mlas Mollle Vandeveer of East St. Louis, 111.', who was stenographer for Representative White, testified that about the middle of June White, who claims to have received $1,000 for voting for Lorimer, returned to Bast St. Louis and paid a number ol accounts. He exhibited a large roll of bills, she said, in denominations of $S0, $30 and $10. This was sub sequent to the date White says he received $860 from Browne. Compromised the Claim. "White paid me $50.50," said Zilss Vandeveer. He owed me $65." "Why were you not paid in full?" "'Well, Mr. White owed so much that I felt sorry for him and com promised for $50.60. He owed so many people I was afraid his money would not go around.'V Four Wftneaaea Summoned. Chicago; Sept" 30.The senatorial"" in-, Qulsitors expected to have before them ft witnesses today at least four Illi nois legislators who voted for Senator Lorimer. These were Senator Brod erlck and Representatives Link, Sbep ard and Clark. Paid for Hla Vote. Representative H. J. Beckemeyer, on the witness stand yesterday before the Lorimer Investigating committee, tes tified that he received $1,000 after he had voted for Senator Lorimer and that the money was paid to him -because of his vote for the Junior sena tor from Illinois. Counsel for Senator Lorimer brought out in cross examination that Becke meyer vote for Senator Lorimer was not Induced by the promise of any payment. Beckemeyer, who has been a witness In both the trials of Minority Leader Browne, testified that the 81, 00 was paid to him by Browne, who said when he 'gave the witness a roll of bills, -Here 1 the Lorimer money." Vote Influenced. "I understood when I got the money that . It was for my vote for Senator Lorimer," the witness said. On cross examination Beckmeyer was question ed about conversations he had with Representative Michael Link, another democratic legislator who voted for Senator Lorimer and who is expected to be a witness before the committee tomorrow. In one of those ccmversa tions Beckmeyer testified that Link said to him: "My testimony does not fit with yours. I- promised to vote for Senator Lorimer long before the election and Aid not receive any money for it. Telia of l,0O0 Deal. Details of what occurred while the witness was in company of an officer from the state's attorney's office, the day that he first went before the grand Jury in Chicago were, related. On re direct examinaton Beckmeyer said that he testified only once before the jrand Jury regarding the $1,000 which he said was given htm by Browne and that later he explained, but did not change his testimony, and that it was the same as he yesterday told the in restigating committee. Sultan at Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 30. The sultan of Bulu spent today viewing the sights of Chicago. BOESGHENSTEIN AGAIN CHOSEN BY DEMOCRATS Springfield, 111., Sept. 30. The demo cratic state committee today reelected Charles Boeschenstein of EdwardsVille chairman. The other officers arc Vice chairmen Arthur W. Charles of Mt. Vernon; H. X. Wheeler, Quln cy, and Henry Bergen, Chicago. " Secretary-Isaxe B. Craig, Mattoon. ' Treasurer Ernest Hoover, Taylor Tfile. - ' " . THE WEATHER Generally fair and Saturday. and cooler tonight Temperature at 7 a. m., 63; maximum In 24 hours, 73; minimum in 12 hours, 60. Precipitation in 24 hours, none. Wind velocity at 7 a. m., 8 miles per hour. Relative humidity, last evening 78, this morning 76. St. Paul 1.0 .1 Red Wing ...3 .0 Reed's Landing .6 .0 La Crosse . . .6 .0 Prairie du Chien 1.2 .1 Dubuaue 1.4 .1 Clinton 1.5 .2 LeClaire 7 Davenport 1.6 .1 A slight falling tendency will con tinue in the Mississippi river from be low Dubuque to Muscatine. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Sun sets 5:40, rises 5:52; moon rises 3:55 a. m.: planet Jupiter 3 degrees north of bright star Spica; 10 a. m planet TJranus apparently stationary; sun's declination 2 degrees 49 minutes south of celestial equator. GOV. CARROLL FREE Jury, After Two Hours, Acquits Iowa Executive of Libeling John Cownie. COURT AIDS THE DEFENSE Judge Holds Investigation of Former Member of Board of Control Was Proper. Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 30. Gover nor B. IF. Carroll last night was found not guilty of criminally libeling John Cownie, deposed member .of the state board of control. The Jury returned Its verdict after it had been out two hours. The governor was not in the court room when the verdict was given, nor was Mr. Cownie. W. L. Read, counsel for the state, finished his closing argument in the afternoon and the court immediately gave its instructions to the Jury. Iaatroetloaa FaTor Defenae. The instructions wef e " favorable' T6f the governor and the latter's friends were confident he would be acquitted. Judge Howe held In his Instructions to the Jury that Governor Carroll had a right to investigate Cownie and con sult with persons about what action he should take, this being official ac tion on his part, and action upon which malice could not be inferred or predi cated. TYPHOON RUINS FILIPINOS' HOMES Thousand Left Destitute and To bacco Crop Damaged by the Heavy Wind. Manila, Sept. 30. A typhoon of un usual severity swept the valley of the Cayagan river in the provinces of Cay agan and Isabela, northern Luzon, Sept. 24. Four towns, including Dag- an, capital of Isabela province, were practically demolished. A thousand persons are homeless and destitute but dispatches so far received indicate there were no casualties. The tobacco crop is seriously damaged. The gov ernment is making relief plans. SUPPOSED HE WAS PARTY So Iowa County Treasurer Had Kli tor Indicted for Insinuations. Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sept. 30. F. M. Beymer, editor of a weekly news paper in Avoka, has been indicted by the grand jury on a charge of criminal libel preferrad by County Treasurer Mitchell. Beymer, in his paper inti mated a county official was implicat ed with Mabray in alleged swindles. He mentioned no names, but Mitchell assumed he was the one referred to. Beymer was released on bond. REPUBLICAN JCLUBS MEET President Hammond Boosts Taft and Party Candidates. New York, Sept. 30. The con vention of Republican National league opened today. President Hammond in . a speech opening the convention eulogized Taft's admin istration and urged earnest efforts by all republicans to elect republi cans to the house this fall. Good Roads Meeting Ends. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 30. Resolutions were adopted and the national commit tee for 1911 named at the closing ses sion of the national good roads conven tion today. George C. Dlehl of Buf falo, N. Y., heads the ' national com mittee. SMALLER SUM FOR USE OF THE NAVY Washington, Sept. 30. The to tal estimates for appropriations nec essary for the naval service during the next fiscal year was announced today as $128,300,000, as against $132,384,000 for the present fiscal year. WITNESSES TELLMORE Deals by Which Illinois Central Was Fleeced Laid Bare. GO-BE TV EE N TALKS Methods Used in Concealing Identity of Stockholders Are Given. Chicago, Sept. 30. The alleged deep- laid plot in the Illinois Central rail road 11,000,000 car repair graft scan dal expanded yesterday and drew new names Into it. New revelations or how the railroad is alleged to have Some Fashions, been mulcted came In the form of a double-barreled sensation, and when the day had finished the self-confessed ring leader, Henry C. Ostermann, whose admission of guilt has gained him Immunity, still was in the midst of his remarkable story. The double eensation was sprung at the opening of yesterday's session in Judge Bruggemeyer's court, where the preliminary hearing of Frank B. Har riman, Charles L. Ewing and John M. Taylor, former Illinois Central railroad officials, is being conducted. Aa a "Go-Be twr-." A. C. Goodrich, 1032 East Forty-fifth street, a former Illinois Central engi neer, now a consulting engineer, testi fied that he had acted as "go-between"' in the payment of $10,000 to the late Ira G. Rawn, former Illinois Central vice president and later president of the Monon. The second sensation came in the follow-up testimony of Oster mann, who related in detail his alleg ed complicity in the frauds. Revelation of Day. Summed up briefly, the features of the day's hearing were: A. C. Goodrich testified Frank B. Harriman asked ?o take a sum of money from the Blue Island Car company and bank it and draw his (Goodrich's) personal checks for persons he would name. These checks, aggregating nearly $25, 000, were exhibited in court. Of this amount $10,000, he said, was given to Ira G. Rawn. Ostermann, on cross-examination, said he "had not told Fank B. Harriman nor William Hen shaw that the bills of his company were being padded or that improp er charges were being made." Osterman acknowledged that he organized the Memphis Car com pany. The names of H. McCourt, former general superintendent of the southern lines of the Illinois Central; W. S. King, general su perintendent of the Yazoo and Mis sissippi Valley branch; Joseph Buker, Ira G. Rawn and others were named as those interested in the concern. J. T. Harrahan, president of the Illinois Central, "nearly got wise" to the car repair graft, according to the testimony, 'and ordered an investigation. Attorney Fisher al j tempted to show that Rawn "clamped the lid" on this Inquiry and satisfied his chief. Court' re fused to permit the witness to tes- ! tit;. ' IS NOT CRITICAL Condition of Senator LaFol lette Not Alarming, Phy sician Says. IS CASE OF GALL STONES No Particular Significance Attached to Visit to Specialists at Roch ester, Minn. Rochester, Minn., Sept. 30. Senator La Follette, who is here to consult phy sicians, is not in a critical condition and it is not thought he will undergo an operation at this time. This was the statement this morning by Dr. Keenan of Madison, who accompanied the senator to Rochester. "Senator La Follette Is not in a crit ical condition," said Dr. Keenan. "but his health is poor, as we have known for a long time, and we are simply here to consult the Mayos. The case Is un doubtedly gall stones. I do not consid er his condition Is any worse." Ia No Adnesloa. When asked regarding a report that an operation might be possible because of adhesion as well as grail stones, Kee- and the Just Penalty nan said there was absolutely nothing to the report and denied it in emphatic terms. La Follette will visit the offices of the Dth. Mayo this morning for consultation, but he will not see them again before this afternoon. GERMANY ASKED TO MAKE REDRESS Clubbing of American Newspaper Correspondent by Police at Ber lin Inquired Into. Berlin, Sept. 30. American Ambas sador Hill, acting upon instructions from the state department, called at the foreign office today and requested an inquiry into the affair and proper official redress for tne wanton assault made by the police upon Frederick W. Wile, correspondent of a New York paper, durnig the coal strikers' rioting last Sunday night. Correspondents of various newspapers watching the riot were attacked by the police and se verely injured. " '0 ' f -. Records Made in Cross Country Flights WALTER R. BROOKINS Date Machine Start Miles Time Sept. 29, 1910 Biplane, Chicago ....187 7:09:00 GLEN H. CURTISS July 18, 1909 Bplane, Mineola, L. I. . 30 0:52:30 May 29, 1910 Aeroplane, Albany ....137 4:57:00 WILBUR WRIGHT Dec. 18, 1908 Biplane, Anvours 62 1:54:00 Dec. 31, 1908 Biplane, Auvours ..... 77 2:20:23 ORVILLE WRIGHT Sept. 12, 1908 Biplane, Fort Myer ... 50 1:15:00 LOUIS PAULHAN July 23., 1908 Biplane, Doal 43 1:17:19 April, 1910 Biplane, London to Man- . Chester ..186 4:11:00 HENRY PARNHAM . Nov. 3, 1909 Biplane, Mourmelon .137.25 4:06:25 HUBERT LATHAM Aug. 26, 1909 Monoplane, Rheims ... 96 2:18:09 HOLDS FEAT SIMPLE OWE Brookins Says it Was Mere Question of . Staying Up IN YESTERDAY'S TRIP Only Lack of Gasoline, Water and Oil Stood in Way of a Sustained Flight. Springfield, Sept. SO. Aviator Wal ter Brookins alighted gracefully in the fair ground's here at 4:27 p. m yesterday, seven hours and 12 minutes out from Chicago, after having sailed his Wright biplane 192ft miles with For the Inventor but two stops. They were at Gilmau, 80 miles from Chicago at 11:30 and at Mt. Pulaski, 1S6 miles miles from Chi cago, at 3:20. The first stop was for water, oil and gasoline; the second for that and because his pump had broken and his engine had become hot. Broke Distance Record. Brookins broke the American long distance continued flight record pre viously held by Glenn H. Curtiss at 141 miles, and thereby won the $10, 000 prize offered by the Chicago Record-Herald, which conducted the at tempt. In both places where the air man alighted vast throngs gathered. As Brookins swept up the field at Mt. Pulaski, one of the small, rubber tired wheels that the machine rolls in mak ing headway before arising, was wrenched off. Brookins, no knowing of the accident, rose to a height of 2,000 feet and heading for Springfield, whirled away from sight, leaving the Illinois Central aeroplane special train far behind. Beata Train to Sprlngrfleld. This was the second aviator which had left a train far behind In a fair race. Engineer W. F. Burt, who made the first attempt to defeat the air man, had to give up bis attempt at Clinton 111. Brookins reached the fair grounds eight minutes before the station was reached by the fast train. Ha made the dip to alight at 4:27, making hours and 12 minutes the elapsed time from the start at Chicago. The actual flying time was 6 hours and 44 minutes for 192 miles, an average fly ing rate of 33 miles per hour. Brookins found difficulties In alight mg because of Inadequate police provisions at the fair grounds, and al though he arrived over the grounds at 4:22, it was five minutes later before he could land. The erowd surged about him threat ened to crush the curious bird ma chine, until he had to make a personal appeal to get the throng back. "Jmrt Staying: Up." When asked about the flight, he said: "Why, it was nothing, only staying up, that's all. I merely took time more time than usual and that's about the only difference from the practice flights. I knew I could make it." "It was one of the prettiest flights I ever made. The country between Chi cago and here is delightful. Every where I was flying low enough and went as low as 300 feet several times I could see people staring up at me from every acre almost. There must have been three-fourths of a mil lion looking up at me." Wllbar Wrljrht'a Comment. Wilbur Wright's only comment was, As the woman said, 'I told you so.' " Later Wright paid: "l think that thia has shown conclusively that the aero plane Is a successful navigator of the air." The officers of the state fair asso ciation were jubilant over the success of the flight. Only water, oil and gas oline atood between Brookins and a continuous, sustained flight between Chicago and Springfield. Never was there a prettier race, say those who witnessed part of it, than that between the special flyer of the Illinois Central, which attempted to beat the airman and the steady flyer which kept above, always close by. Two engines were put on, each run ning one-half the distance, but neither was ahead when the stops were made. To Race Oldfleld. Saturday Brookins will race Barney Oldfleld for a mile about the track, Oldfleld driving a 200 horsepower rac ing automobile. PLACED BOMB TO CLAIM A REWARD Man Who" Tried tr Enter flome -f Mrs. Potter Palmer at Chicago Confesses. Chicago, Sept. 30. Fred C. Wahlen- meyer, arrested last night for having ttempted to force an entrance to the residence of Mrs. Potter Palmer, and accused of having placed a bomb be side the mansion confessed today, It s said by the police. He would give no reason, but the police think he ex pected to receive a reward by pretend- ng to have discovered the bomb. Wahlenmeyer's relatives claim he has been acting in a peculiar man ner for some time. He was once em ployed at a Des Moines, Iowa, gar age. In his pocket, the police say. was found a letter signed with the name of a woman named Cummins, who the prisoner says is a niece of Senator Cummins. LANDSLIDE FILLS SECTION OF CANAL Earth and I looks Fill Panama Ditch Mountainside Is Slowly Slipping. Washington, Sept. 30. A big sec tion of the Panama canal prism was filled up by a great landslide on the night of Sept. 16. The earth and rocks not only covered up all of the tracks on the east sidei and filled the canal ditch but spread over one tracks on the west side. The slide occurred in Cnlebra cut at Cucuracha, where the cut is deep est and the invoncenience will con tinue until the end of the month. There are 500,000 cubic yards of earth and rock slowly moving down the mountain side, and. having ex hausted every other means to stop it, the engineers have made up their mind that all of the material, repre-j sentlng more than one-half of one per cent of the total excavation in the Culebra cut must be dug out and removed. THIRTY-ONE CARS START Will lie Sent Away in Vanderbilt Cup Itace Karly in Morning. New York. Sept. 3 0. Thirty-one cars in the Vanderbilt cup race are expected to start at 6 a. m. tomor row at 15 second intervals. Husband Suicide; Wife Fellows. Neenah, Wis.. Sept. 30. Mrs. Wil liam Massen hanged herself today. She was despondent over the suicide of her husband last April. INDICTMENT FOR RICH AUTO OWNER New Yor, Sept. 30. Edward T. Ros enheimer, a wealthy manufacturer, was today Indicted by the grand Jury for murder in the first degree, charg ed with being responsible for the death of Miss Grace Hough, who was killed by an automobile said to have been driven by Rosenbelmer. UNABLE T0 DECIDE ON CANDIDATE New York Democrats Tied Up on the Gubernatorial Nomination. PLENTY IN THE FIELD State Chairman John A. Dix Is Favored But Does Not Seek Honor. . Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 80. Every thing was undecided, not to say chaotic, when the democratic state convention was called to order today for the second session, an hour and a half after the appointed time. Confer ences that lasted through most of the night and all morning to settle upon a candidate for the governorship had been fruitless except as they brought into view as possibles nominees, John A. Dix, chairman of the state commit tee and Judge Alton B. Parker. Ilm and Parker Mentioned. Dix was not a willing candidate, but there were Indications that, could he be assured of the support of those avow edly in the field for the nomination, he would accept. Parker's attitude was even less clearly defined. The committee on resolutions was held awaiting a decision of the ques tion of selecting a gubernatorial can didate before obtaining the sanction of the recognized leaders for Its report. Parker Calls to Order. Parker, as temporary chairman, call ed the convention to order. A perma nent organization was effected with Herbert H. Blssell of Buffalo as chair man. Bissell Immediately took the platform, and. addressed, the conven tion. . Hapa ".Yew NatfoaallaiaV The speech of Permanent Chair man Bissell was devoted largely to a denunciation of republican extrava gance and the new tariff. He de clared for the reform of govern mental abuses; for nationalism as exemplified in the achievements of Jefferson, Lincoln and Cleveland, and opposed to the "dangerous ten dency to a further centralization of power in the national government." Kavora State Primaries. The platform denounces the new tar iff, favors state-wide primaries, popu lar election of senators, an income tax and a parcels post. TAFT'S SPEECH FIRST ONE President to Open Campaign In the State of Xew York Tomorrow. Washington, Sept. 30. The presi dent will leave tomorrow morning for New York city, where he is to make the first political speech of the campaign tomorrow night before the League of Republican Clubs. Phone Man Found Not Guilty. San Francisco, CaJ., iSept. 30. After several hours' deliberation the Jury in the case of T. V. Halsey, formerly an official of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company, charged with offering a bribe to a member of the Schmitz board of supervisors, returned a vcrdlet last night of not guilty. Rail President Dies. New York, Sept. 30. Nicholas Monsarrat of Columbus, Ohio, pres ident of the Kanawha & Michigan Railway, died suddenly in this city today following a surgical operation. Newark, Ohio, Official Fired. Newark. Ohio, Sept. 30. Harry Rnspell, director of public safety, has been removed by the mayor. He was asked for his resignation several" days ago, but refused. SHOW RESTATE, OUTSIDE CITIES, LOSING GROUND Washington, Sept. 30. The state of Missouri has a population of 3,293335, according to the new census, an in crease of 18C.C70 over 1900. Missouri was saved from actual de crease In population by her two large cttles, St. Louis and Kansas City, which together gained 9,750 more than the aggregate Increase for the entire state. Missouri's representation lu congress is liable to be diminished, at least one member. Washington, Sept. 80. Th cen sus bureau announces that the pop ulation of Birmingham, Ala., is 132,085, an Increase of 94.270. of 245.4 per cent over 38,415 In 1900. The population of Worcester, Mass., is 145, 986, an Increase of 27,. 565, or 23.8 per cent over 118,421 la 1900. ... -.