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VOL. XXIII.
FLEET ENDS VOYAGE
Forty-Four Battleships Pass
Golden Gate.
FRISCO IN GALA ATTIRE
Hill s and Islands Literally Packed
With People to Accord Welcome.
Big Guns Boom
Salutes.
A special form San Francisco says:
Never in the world's history has there
been such a magnificent marine specta
cle as that presented when th? combin
ed fleets—forty-four ships of war —led
by. the flagship Connecticut, with
. “Fighting Bob’’ Evans on the bridge,
threaded their wya down the bay be
tween the hills and islands* black with
humanity, adding a mighty welcome to
the ships and men.
All night long thousands slept on the
open hills in military reservations and
on the beach. Crowds began to pour
into the city as soon as the ferries be
gan to run, and the railroads brought
train loads. Excursion boats gaily dec
orate^d steamed toward the Golden
Gate early.
When the fleet arrived the entrance
was a pandemonium and a riot of col
or.
Sirans shrieked, crews and thou
sands 'of passengers cheered and wav
ed hats, flags and handkerchiefs.
Slowly the Connecticut made her
way frpm the San Francisco lightship,
the all-night anchorage of the fleet, to
the Gate, the other warships falling in
in single file. As the Connecticut near
ed Ft. Baker the 12-inch batteries at
the Presidio boomed a twenty-one-gun
salute.
The battleships swept majestically
t clown the Gate, past the Presidio and
Fort Point. As the Connecticut passed
£ngel Island she answered the salute.
'V The ships of the Pacific fleet fell in
line whdh the last vessel of the At
lAntic fleet passed into the bay. At
South Angel Island the ships fell into
squadron formation.
Awaatin,g warships on the gunboat
.'■•.Yorktown • was Secretary Metcalf, and
as the Connecticut sought her anchor
age- she saluted the head of the navy,
, -as did all the vessels.
A monfent afterward the steamer
Hartlev, with Mavor Tavlor and the
reception committee board, drew along
side and San Francisco’s formal wel
- * come was extended to Admiral Evans
' ^in behalf of the fleet.
Excelling all other signals in point
. attraction was the huge ’’welcome”
^sign on Telegraph Hill, each letter
• larger than an ordinary house.
;
CUT THROATS OF FOUR.
SixteCp-Year-Old Boy Tries to Extermi
nate Barber Crew.
®-J A id-,year-old bey, known only as
.L JCarmello, and employed in a barber
. shop in Brooklyn, N. Y., early Wed
* • nesdayjmorning, cut the throats of his
f . Employer, Antonio Peraso, Mrs. Pe
' * raso’and three barbers while they lay
• , Asleep; in Peraso’s apartment. The
■ wou^do of Peraso and his wife are be
|" llevefl to be mortal while those of the
•• . thr-e&'barbers are serious, but not fa
.tai.* The boy escaped. The police
r ^'•hav<’ ti theory that he was an agent
* ,of A black hand gang.
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: i ^ JUDSON HARMON NAMED
—
[ Vi3y.-Democrats of Ohio for Chief Exec
utive of the State.
Ohio state democratic conven
in session' at Columbus Wednes
kUtoy. nominated on the second ballot
ibi-pjer United States Attorney Gene-
K ‘M'al^Judson Harmon of Cincinnati for
f ^^T^rnor. The opposing candidates
Atlee Pomerene; Congressman
? Sherwood and A. P. Sandies.
Kv In the defeat of Pomerene, Mayor
K*/Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland lost out
S\after a hard fight in behalf of his
6’ candidate.
K- his ——————- -
CHILD LABOR LAW
I Ar
7 District of Columbia Provided in
This Senate Bill.
X £ ' .The senate Wednesday passed a bill
K|;*^?>hibiting the employment within
ite ^'certain hours of children under 14
^ars of age in the District of Colum
|r in any factoiy, workshop, telegraph
^p^ffice, restaurant, hotel, apartment
Jjbuse, saloon, pool or billiard room,
fowling alley or theater, or in the dis
^Jributton of transmission of merchan-
K. Idise or messages.
Whn ^auauualj artbmir.
ORDER SIGNED BY SPEER
’n Complaint Filed Against Railroads
by Georgia-Florida Sawmill
Association.
Attorneys representing H. H. Tift
and others forming the Georgia-Flor
j ida Sawmill Association filed com
plaint in the United States court at
Macon Friday against the railroads
of the Southeastern Tariff Associa
tion on account of alleged failure
of the lines flo make the returns
every three months of such collec
tions of freight charges on lumber to
Ohio river points and the west as
come under the ruling in the famous
Tift case in which a permanent in
junction ordered by Judge Emory*.
Speer stopped the payment of an ex
tra 2 cents per hundred pounds.
Judge Speer signed an order in the
bill requiring the railway lines to
show cause before him in Macon, on
May 12, why they should not be called ;
upon to pay over the $500,000 indem
nity bond they made when the court
agreed to allow the returns to be
made and the shipments to continue
under the tariff which was attacked
by lumbermen. A large number of
claims have been established by the
lumber producers under the arrange
ments, but it is now a requirement
upon the part of the railway lines that
they make reports of what amounts
they have received on the extra tar
iffs every three months.
FIRST STEPS ARE TAKEN
Looking to the Erection of Embassy
Buildings by Uncle Sam.
The senate committee on appropri
ations Friday took the first step look
ing to the acquisition of property for
the American embassy at Paris by in
serting an advertisement in the dip
lomatic and consular appropriation bill
appropriating $400,000 for the pur
chase of a site and the erection of
a building for the use of the embassy
in that city.
An appropriation of $3,267, also,was
made for the purchase of the residence
of the Japanese secretary of the
American embassy at Tokio, Japan.
Still another addition to the bill made
.by the committee is that of $lO,OOO to
pay the expenses of representatives
of the joint high commission of 1898
for the settlement of questions relat
ing to Canada. All told the commit
tee increased the appropriation car
ried by the diplomatic bill to the
to the extent of $463,642 over the
amount carried by the bill as it pass
ed the house, bringing the total up to
$3,967,985.
LOST SIXTY-THREE THOUSAND.
Wells-Fargo Company Says That
Amount Was Taken from Train.
The Wells-Fargo Express company
has reported to the authorities of Tor
reon, Mexico, a loss of $63,000 in
Mexican currency which, they claim,
was taken from a through safe on
their City of Mexico train. The mon
ey was consigned to one of the banks
of Chihuahua.
It appears that one of the agents
of the company boarded the express
train at a station between the City
of Mexico and Torreon, afterwards
leaving the train. It is said that he
was the only man who was in the
car who knew the combination of the
safe. He is being searched for, but
has not yet been apprehended.
LETTEN GIVEN SEVEN YEAR 6.
Embezzling Tax Office Clerk Found
Guilty by Jury in New Orleans.
Charles L. Letten, formerly chief
clerk in the office of the state tax
collector for the first district of New
Orleans, was Friday sentenced to
serve seven years in the penitentiary
after a jury had declared him guilty
of embezzling $lOO,OOO.
Letten disapeared last summer and
upon the discoverey of the shortage in
his accounts a search for him was be
gun. He was finally found cn the
river front, where he had been attempt
ing to summon up sufficient courage
to drown himself.
TO MAKE RATES UNIFORM
Atlanta Standard Telephone Company
Raises Its Prices.
The Atlanta Telephone and Tele
graph Company, has issued a letter to
subscribers, raising the rates, in a
great many instances, and states this
is done because the railroad commis
sion of Georgia has required the com
pany to make all rates uniform.
The rate is to be for residence
phones $3 a month, instead of $2, $2.50
and $3, as is now the case, and for
business phones $4, instead of $3 and
|4 as is now the case.
THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET.
SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. MAY 9. 1908.
LOW TAX RETURNS
Made by Roads in Georgia
to Comptroller General.
SLUMP REACHES BIG SUM
Central and Seaboard Air Line Show a
Falling Off in Values of More
Than Two Million Dollars
Each.
The annual tax returns of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway company and
the Seaboard Air Line Railway com
pany, which reached the comptroller
general of Georgia Monday, each show
a falling off, as compared with the
returns for 1907 of more than $2,000,-
000.
It was expected that the tax returns
of these large railroad systems would
show some reductions this year, be
cause of the slump in their earnings,
and the prospect is, it is stated, that
returns from the other large systems
will show similar falling off.
The Ocean Steamship company of
Savannah also shows a reduction of
more than $150,000 in its returns, as
compared with last year, despite the
fact that it has added a new ship to
its line.
The Central of Georgia returns its .
total property this year, physical and
franchise, at $18,724,628, as against a
total cf $20,861,646 for 1907.
In addition to and not included in
the foregoing the Central returns $158,-
900 of income bonds of the Charleston
and Western Carolina railroad, and
$900,000 as its valuation of its 15,-
000 shares of the Western Railway of
Alabama. These are returned sepa
rately because the Central disputes
the right of the state to collect taxes
upon this property.
The Seaboard Air Line returns this
year a total of $10.30-0,928, as compar
ed with $12,651,450 in 1907. These
figures Include ’both franchise and
physical property, and as in the case
of the Central of Georgia, the 1907 fig
ures were fixed as the result of arbi
tration.
The Seaboard’s franchise is returned
this year $1,625,008, as against $2,-
138,106 for 1907, a reduction of more
than $500,000.
The returns of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, as received by the
comptroller general Monday, total $2,-
285,467, of which $232,050 is fran
chise.
Comptroller General Wright has not
yet had time to inspest the forego
ing returns, and it will probably be
some days before he can make thor
ough examination of them.
INMAN & CO. BANKRUPT.
Receiver Appointed for Augusta Firm.
Over Million Dollars Involved.
The Aim of Inman & Co., of Augus
ta, Ga., one of the best known cotton
firms of the south and a prominent
member of the New York catton ex
change, went into involuntary bank
ruptcy Monday. On the petition of
King, Spalding & Little, representing
the Gulf Compress company, J. C.
Evans and C. R. Sims, Thomas W.
Barrett, Jr., cf Augusta, was appointed
receiver by Referee Percy H. Adams.
The firm which is a partnership and
not a corporation, is composed of Jas.
F. McGowan of Augusta and James It.
Gray of Atlanta, they having acquired
the other interests, which for several
years past were represented in the
firm. The debts and assets are said
to exceed $1,250,000.
The firm of Inman & Co. of Augusta
is in no way connected with the firm
cf Inman, Akers & Inman of Atlanta,
Ga., which has branches in Liverpool
and Bremen and which is connected
with the firm of Inman, Nelms & Co.
of Houston, Texas, and Inman, Swann
& Co. of New York. These firms are
in no way affected by the suspension.
MORSE SURPRISES CREDITORS.
Alleged Bankrupt Steamship Promoter
Settles Claims.
That Charles W. Morse, the former
banker and steamship promoter of
New York, is able to pay every dollar
of his indebtedness resulting frem the
collapse of his business ventures in
the October panic, was a statement
made by his counsel, Anson McCook
Beard. Mr. Beard said Morse’s plans
to settle all claims as rapidly as pos
sible. He declared that when all in
debtedness i s settled Mr. Morse will
have a substantial fortune of at least
$2,000,000 left.
HOTEL HOLOCAUST
Score of People Lose Lives
in Fire at Fort Wayne.
ENTRAPPED BY FLAMES
Blaze Starts in Big Hotel at Early
Hour of Morning and Many of the
Guests, Cut Off from Escape,
Were Buried in Debris.
An unknown number of persons, es
timated at from fifteen to twenty-five,
lost their lives in a fire that destroy
ed the New Avepne hotel in Fort
Wayne, Ind., early Sunday morning.
The entire interior of the building
was left a smoldering heap of ruins
and how many dead are concealed by
the debris can only be conjectured.
The hotel register was consumed by
the fire, and there are no accurate
means of determining who is miss-
The fire was discovered at 3:30
o’clock a. m. in the elevator shaft
by Night Clerk Pipkins. He rushed
to the upper floors alarming the
guests until the flames, which had
spread with appalling rapidity, drove
him back. His effort, however, saved
many lives. The hotel was erected
half a century ago, and the woodwork
was as dry as tinder. It burned like
matchwood, and within a few minutes
from the time the fire was discovered
the whole interior of the hotel was a
mass of flames that filled the corri
dors and rooms with suffocating clouds
of smoke and laid fiery barriers
across all means of escape, save by
the windows.
The fire department rescued many
by means cf ladders, but some, fren
zied by the onward rush of the flames,
leaped from high windows to the
। paved street.
EXPECTS HIGHER FREIGHT RATE.
Railroads Must Either Make More
Money or Cut Wages.
A Washington dispaten says: It
appears likely that the anticipated in
crease in railroad freight rates is
about to be made. A few days ago
a member of the interstate ccmmerce
commission expressed the opinion that
within three or four months, unless a
decided improvement in railway con
ditions should take place, it probably
would be necessary for the carriers
either to increase freight rates or
to reduce the wages cf their employ
ees. Personally and officially the com
missioner deprecated the taking of
either horn of the dilemma by the
railroads, but he believed it to be in
evitable that one or the other would
be taken.
WILL PROBE EIGHT HOUR BILL.
Lawyers of the House Will Pass on
Important Measure.
Three lawyers of the house were
authorized Saturday to make a final
examination of the eight hour bill now
pending before the house committee on
labor to decide on the constitutionality
of the bill.
The bill provides not only that all
work for government shall be done
under the eight hour system, but also
that the government shall be able to
purchase no materials and supplies
which have been produced by labor
that was required to put in more than
eight hours a day.
HOUSE PASSES RELIEF BILL.
Storm Sufferers to Get $250,000 from
the Government.
The house, Saturday, passed a res
olution introduced by Representative
Bowers of Mississippi appropriating
$250,000 for the relief of the sufferers
from the cyclone which occurred in
the states of Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia on April 24.
GLASS WORKERS TO BE DEPORTED
Alleged They Were Imported in Vio- '
lation of Labor Contract Law.
Secretary Sirau s of the department
of commerce and labor has ordered
deported as contract laborers fifteen
glass workers brought to this country
from Belgium.
The report in the matter, it is said,
indicates that labor unions, whose
members the alien contract labor law
was intended to protect, have resorted
to the importation of foreigners as a
result of disagreements with rival
unions.
MURDEROUS WIDOW
Lured Victims to Doom by Promise of
Matrimony — Finding of Bodies
Reveals Heincus Crimes.
With five bodies already unearthed.
Sheriff Smuttzer and Coroner Mack
at La Porte, Ind., will continue their
search for other alleged victims of
Mrs. Belle Gunness, who, to all indica
tions, was one cf the most fiendish
murderers cf the century, and who
was recent-y killed with her three
children through the burning of her
country home, cne mile northeast of
LaPorte.
Of the bodies so far unearthed, two
have been identified. They are those
of Andrew Heldrgren, a wealthy bach
elor of Aberdeen, S. D., and Miss Jen
nie Olsen, 11 years old, stepdaughter
of Mrs. Gunness. The other three bod
ies are so badly decomposed as to
make identification impossible.
The discovery of the bodies was
brought about by the appearance of
ffchn Heldgren of Aberdeen, S. D., a
orother of Andrew Heldgren, in La
Porte in search for the missing man.
With information that his brother An
drew had come to La Porte to wed
Mrs. Gunness, and that he had turned
over his property to her, he uecame
convinced that his brother had been
made the victim of fcul play.
While questioning Joseph Maxson, a
hired hand on the Gunness farm, he
learned of the mysterious digging of
holes by him, all of them being filled
up at a later date by Mrs. Gunness.
He led Heldgren and the officers to
the spot where the holes had been
dug about 150 feet from the house,
and there, after digging a few minutes,
was uncovered the body of Heldgren.
The remains were only four feet un
der ground, and were enclosed in a
gunnysack.
The legs and arms had been dis
membered, but were buried with the
trunk.
About thirty-five feet further on
from the house the remains of four
other persons were found. Lying on
top of a mattress were the skeletons
of two men and a woman. All the bod
ies were taken in charge by the coro
ner, and are now locked in a barn
on the Gunness farm; being carefully
guarded.
The discovery of the bodies led ex
pressmen to tell of the delivery of five
trunks to the Gunness’ farm during
the last six months, and this fact has
caused th? authorities to work on the
theory that the place was a clearing
house for murders. They suspect that
wealthy persons, after being lured to
Chicago, and killed, were packed in
these trunks and sent to La Porte to
be disposed of.
THE CASE OF STEWART
May Be Subject cf Searching Inquiry
in the Senate.
A Washington dispatch says: The
banishment by order of President
Roosevelt of Colonel William P. Stew
art of the army to For Grant, an aban
doned military post in Arizona, in all
probability, will be the subject of in
quiry in the senate by Senator Rayner
of Maryland. His interest in the case
is on account of Mrs. Stewart, who
is a niece of the late Senator William
Pinkney White and a great-grand
daughdaughter of William Pinkney,who
was in the United States senate in the
early part of the nineteenth century.
EVANS REJOINS FLEET.
Rear Admiral Boards Battleship Con
necticut at Delmonte, Cal.
The special train bringing Rear Ad
miral Evans from the Paso Robles hot
springs arrived at the Monterey de
pot at Delmonte, Cal., Tuesday morn
ing. After a brief delay the rear ad
miral was taken on board the flag
ship Connecticut, which immediately
sailed to rejoin the fleet.
Georgians Plead for Canal.
A Georgia delegation appeared be
fore a committee of the house of rep
resentatives Tuesday urging that con
gress construct the Atlantic and Great
Western canal.
GALLOWS DOOM OF YEATES.
United States Supreme Court Passes
Upon Noted Georgia Murder Case.
The supreme court of the United
States, Monday, affirmed the verdict
of the Georgia stat? court in the case
of James S. Yeates, who was found 1
guilty cf murder. Yeates had two I
trials, the first resulting in a sentence ■
of ten years imprisonment. He- J
sought a new trial, and a verdict of !
murder in th? first degree was brought
in, the penalty for which i s death.
That is the verdict upon which the
supreme court passed.
BURLESON OPPOSES
I Appointment of Commission
to Probe Cotton Exchanges.
WRITES HARVIE JORDAN
Texas Representative Says Remedial
Legislation Must Come Through
the Regular Channels —Roose-
velt Withholds Report.
A Washington special says: Repre
sentative Burleson, of Texas, has sent
the following letter to Harvie Jordan,
president of the Southern Cotton As
sociation, in answer to a letter, asking
the introduction of a joint resolution
for the appointment of a commission
to investigate cotton exchange meth
ods during the summer recess of con
gress and to recommend remedial leg
islation.
“I do not believe that the president
has any idea of making recommenda
tions along the line upon which I think
legislation should be had. The report
from the bureau of corporations on
the resolution written and introduced
by me calling for an investigation of
the cotton exchanges, with a view o£
ascertaining what •effect the fluctua
tions in the market price are occa
sioned by the character of these con
tracts and deliveries n;ade thereon,
has not been sent to the house.
“I understand it is in the hands of
the president, and that he is holding
it for some purpose. On Saturday I
had adopted a resolution introduced by
me directing that said report be sent
to the congress at once.
“Recently the secretary of com
merce and labor gave out an inter
view, in which he stated that the
president was not opposed to legiti
mate cotton exchanges, but was op
posed to bucket-shops, etc. I, too, am
opposed to bucket-shops, but the inju
ry to the cotton producer coming from
bucket-shop operations is nil compared
with the great hurt which is done
him by operations on the so-called
legitimate cotton exchanges where fu
ture contracts fo r the delivery cf cot
ton are dealt in.
“For the reason above set forth, I
do not expect any substantial aid
from the president towards the enact
ment of the legislation which I am
proposing; in fact, I do not Icok for
any recommendations to the congress
by the president on this subject.
“I do not believe in the commission
plan suggested in your letter. Even
though President Roosevelt sh aid sub
mit to congress the report above re
ferred to with recommendations based
thereon, I believe the best chance for
effective legislation must come through
the ordinary channels. It is my pur
pose to press the bill I have introduc
ed for the suppression of gambling in
cotton, and. I believe that ultimately
I will succeed in passing it.”
AMOSKEAG MILLS CURTAIL.
Largest Cotton Manufacturers in th»
World Takes Off Two Days of Week.
The seventeen mills of the Amos
keag Manufacturing company of Man
chester, N. H., the largest cotton man
ufacturing company in the world, em
ploying 13,-000 hands, began a period
of curtailment with the closing of
work Thursday night, a change in the
work schedule restricting operations to
four days a week. The reduction will
continue indefinitely.
ROBBERS LOOT EXPRESS TRAIN.
Two Men Find Easy Job in Landing
Four Bags of Money.
Two men secreted on the New York
St. Louis Express of the Pennsylvania
system, which left Pittsburg at 9:55
Thursday night, entered the express
car, overcome the express messenger
and escaped with four sealed bags
containing currency.
The amount taken by the robbers is
unknown.
MANY PEOPLE ARE DESTITUTE.
Governor Noel of Mississippi Explains
Situation to President.
Governor Noel of Mississippi wired
President Roosevelt that about 2,500
people at Hattiesburg and Purvis wih
need rations and tents for about thirty
days. There are about 150 wounded
in need of hospital attention at those
places.
“All the people of that section,"
says the governor, “wish federal and
Red Cress relief. Sufferers on the
Mississippi river plantations are dif
ferently circumstanced, and ask only
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