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GUILT OF RIOT BEING PLACED Government Witnesses Begin Tes tifying in Brownsville Case. STORIES ARE STRAIGHT -Policeman, Who Was Shot in Arm, and Citizens On the Stand—Foraker .tails to Shake Testimony. The examination of witnesses on be half of the government began Wednes day in the Brownsville investigation before the senate committee on mili tary ahairs at Washington. George W. Kendall of Brownsville, Texas, the first witness, testified that on the night of August 13, when the •affray occurred in Brownsville, he saw men whom he declared to be negro soldiers, climb over the brick wall .from Fort Brown and enter the town. He said that he also saw a grpup of from three to five men inside the .garrison gate and saw the flash of two or three shots fired by men in this group. At Thursday’s session two other witnesses testified that they saw ne gro soldiers shoot up the Texas town on the night of August 13. One of these witnesses was Lieu tenant Dominguez, of the Brownsville police, who received a bullet through the arm, and had hi3 horse shot from under him while trying to warn citi zens of the approach of the armed men, whom he declared positively to be negro soldiers from the garrison, and another was Policeman Padron, who described a busy quarter of an itive that the men doing the shooting hour dodging bullets. He also was pos were uegro soldiers. Dr. Charles H. Thorn, a dentist, tes tified that he heard a group of men firing at the rear of his house and shouting commands to each other, tie gave as his judgment that the voices were those of negroes. F. A. H. San born, manager of the Western Union Telegraph company, who occupied a room opposite the garrison, testified to seeing the negro soldiers enter the post at about the time the firing ceased. Policeman Senaro Padron testified that he was at the corner of Washing ton and Fourteenth streets shortly be fore midnight and that he saw sol diers in the alley half a block away, -and that they were shooting. He said die could distinguish their uniforms when the guns flashed. He told of the meeting with the lieutenant of police, but contradicted the statement of Dominguez that he had said the men had just finished “shooting up” the -Cowan house. According to Padron’s story he ac companied Dominguez back to Thir teenth stret and part of the way to an alley, near the Miller hotel. He said he went no further because Dom inguez would not heed his warning not to cross the alley. He told of seeing negro soldiers rush out and fire at Dominguez and follow him some distance down Fourteenth street. He did not see Dominguez when his horse was shot from under him, as the men saw him (Phdron) and started firing at him. Padron told of the run ning from place to place to escape danger and finally of taking refuge in an obscure doorway. The witness was cross-examined by Senator Foraker at some length with out affecting his story. Dominguez also was cross-examined by Senator Foraker, but his story was not chang ed in the least. MAY DEPOSE MAYOR SCHMITZ. fiumor that People of ’Frisco Will Make Change in Municipal Office. It is rumored in San Francisco that a movement is on foot to bring about a change in the municipal administra tion by forcing the resignation of Mayor Schmitz and choosing in his stead Frederick W. Dohrmann, a prominent wholesale merchant, as mayor. The report lacks official con >teiation. * v Idly fight high in air. "locks Foreman From Scafiold fSeventy Feet High. . aoove tne ground |||£.eel beams of the new ig in Macon, Ga., Tbom- more than fifty years V quarrel, assailed D. fman 33 years of age, fton, knocking the vic- V scaffolding to the 3iini instantly. mer'6 investigation a r was made against •was locked up at po- TO PURGE EXCHANGE Great Fight Will Ee Made When Suit of Thecdore Price CGmes Up in Court at New York. Former United States Senator John L. JlcLaurin, of South Carolina, who is in New York to take part in the progress of the injunction suit brought by Theodore H. Price, the cotton operator, against the New York cot ton exchange, to restrain the ex change from enforcing its system of grading cotton, talked Sunday night concerning the points at issue iu the case. The suit follows a preliminary injunction obtained by Price, but the provisions of which he agreed to waive, provided the exchange would agree to an immediate trial upon the principles at issue. To this the ex change consented, and Justice Bis choff, of the supreme court, flamed Charles E. Rushmere, referee to take testimony. Price’s counsel is William M. Ivins, and Henry W. Taft repre sents the cotton exchange. Senator McLaurin said: ‘1 hope that I shall have the benefit of the co-operation and advice of an persons w T ho agree that the point of suit is right, and particularly those whose demands for a strict fulfillment or. their outstanding contracts wiii help to force tile exchange to adopt tie reforms sought to be effected. ’With regard to the attitude of the south on the entire question, 1 think I may safely -ay that nothing iu re cent years has created so much in terest.” NEW USE FOR COTTON SEED OIL Medical Profession Plan to Substitute It for Cod Liver Product. Dr. George Brown, president of the Anti-Tuberculosis League of America, and who is a recognized authority on consumption and the treatment of the ' Great White Plague,” has just made public a remedy which is bound to revolutionize the treatment of this dread disease. It is the substitution of cotton seed oil for cod liver oil in the emul sions. Dr. Browm lias been experimenting with these oils for years and has made a particular study of the U 36 of cottou seed oil during the past year and it is on the splendid results which have followed the substitution of cotton seed oil for cod liver oil that he has made public the state ment. The two oils have been chemically analyzed and it has been found that the fat giving properties preponder ate in the cotton seed oil. The fact that the nauseous taste and smell is to be eliminated by this substitution and at the same time none or the health giving elements are eliminat ed add greatly to the favor of the change. In his treatment of tuberculosis where the emulsion was used, Dr. Brown has found that where twenty five cut of one hundred persons could take the cod liver oil emulsion that seventy-five out of one hundred could take the emulsion where cotton seed oil has been substituted. Being more easily digested and hav ing greater heat-giving properties and absolutely devoid of any disagreeable odor or taste another field for this southern product has been found and will soon be on the market. COURT UPHOLDS “JIM CROW” LAW. Case of Negro Woman is Adjudicated by District of Columbia Jury. The “Jim Crow” law was involved in a suit before Justice Wright at Washington of Clementine N. Bart lett, colored, for S3U,UOo damages against the Pennsylvania railroad and others for alleged illegal arrest. The jury rendered a verdict for the de fendants. The defendant introduced testi mony to show' that when the trains crossed the Maryland line the con ductor urged the plaiutiff to move into the coach for negro passengers. A scene followed and the autnori ties were called aboard. The defense said the woman was not arrested, but she voluntarily left the train in the custody of the sheriff. MAYOR SCHMITZ ABDICATES. Municipal Reins of ’Frisco Turned Over to a Special Committee. Charged by Abe Kuef before the grand jury with receiving a bribe of $50,000 from the United Railways company and facing the penitentiary. Mayor Schmitz has relinquished the reins of San Francisco government to a committee of seven, representing the five great commercial organiza toins of the city. The capitulation of the mayor is complete. He ha3 transferred in writ ing his authority, tantamount to a power of attorney. UP IN THE AIR IS NEW STATE Oklahoma to Have Difficulty in Securing Admission to Union. REPUBLICANS OPPOSING Democratic Tendencies Responsible for Move Being Made to Knock Out Newly Adopted Constitution. A Washington special says: The pious unctioa w'itli which the republi cau leaders are proceeding in the at tempt to withhold statehood Imm Oklahoma and the high moral grounds on which they nest their ob jections are really impressive. In the enabling act, passed by con gress and approved by President Roosevelt on June 16, 1906, it was set forth that there should De five congressional districts iu tfle terri tory of Oklahoma and Indian Terri tory, when they were admitted to the union as one state. This would give Oklahoma five representatives in congress and two senators, thus eu titling her to cast seven votes iu ine electoral college. Of course the advocates of admis sion were reasonably sure that these were going to he good republican votes. The first election, however, completely disabused the minds of all. Such au overwhelming evidence of the democratic tendencies of the peo ple was abundant proof , to republicans that Oklahoma was ‘‘undesirable.” 'they were trying to convince Presi dent Roosevelt aiso that it would nut be w'ise to permit these seven dem ocratic electoral votes to unfavorably complicate the situation when a re publican president is to be elected next year. The men who were groom ing themselves to be republican sen ators and representatives are sure it would not be wise; it might be dis astrous. The constitution of tile new state, framed by democrats who were duly and regularly elected by the people to draft their fundamental law, is be ing carefully and painfully scrutinized in the search for flaws. If a teonui cality can bo discovered whicli will furnish grounds for exclusion there will be no need to resort to the leg islative club, which is held by the republican majority in both houses. Then, too, the high moral grounds can be maintained. In the act of congress making pro vision for the admission of the new state it was provided that the fol lowing features should be incorporated in tiie new constitution: “Perfect toleration of religious sen timent. “Prohibition of traffic in alcoholic liquors for a period of twenty-0110 years in the parts of the state now known as Indian Territory, the Osage Indian reservation and in other parts of the state wdiich existed-as Indian reservations on January 1, ISWu. “Prohibition of polygamous and plural marriages. "Release of the public lands within the state to the United States. “Payment of the debts of the ter ritory of Oklahoma by the mate o£ Oklahoma. “Establishment of public schools, al lowing separate schools for while and negro children. "The right of franchise unrestricted on’account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.” There is also a further injunction that a republican form of government must be secured. The HO delegates to the conven tion adopted a document w-hich they believed encompassed all the instruc tions given them by congress and la ter by the president on the subject of jim crow' cars and the control of corporations. This done, the demo crats made such disposition of the legislative districts that the republi cans claim it will be impossible for them ever to elect a United States senator. MISSION FUND OF METHODISTS Is Apportioned by the Church Board in Session at Nashville. The work of the mission board of the M. E. Church, South, was con cluded at Nashville, Tenn., Friday, after the adoption of a plan tor tne inauguration of home missions au*i the apportionment of the fund to be raised for the work in the foreign field during the ensuing year. The total amount appropriated to the mission conferences for the en suing year was $332,483, and the total amount to be raised by. the home con ference is $366,&31.50. GOULDS NOW IN A MESS. Wife of Howard Chases Him to Divorce Court With Many Sensational and Salacious Charges. At New York Monday, Mrs. How ard Gould filed against her husband, the millionaire yachtsman, a suit for separation, one of her most aston ishing alegations being that because of his personal habits he is an im proper person to live with. The com plaint is highly sensational, charging Gould with consorting with nunur ous women. Almost as astounding as the actual beginning of tne already famous di vorce case are developments in the investigation into the use of police headquarters detectives by Howard Gouid against Mrs. Gould. District Attorney Jerome will consult with Police Commissioner Bingham, going over all of the evidence thus far ad duced in the case with the possible result that he may begin a grand jury proceeding to see just what there is to the conspiracy charged by. Mrs. Gould. Mrs. Gould’s complaint gainst hei* husoand covers every one of the four grounds on which it is possible to se cure a separtion. Under the first charge, that lie is not a proper per son to live with, it is said that some exceedingly distressing facts will be presented iu ilie bill of particulars or at the time of tne trial. The second charge is that lie aban doned her. Since last July Mrs. Gouid has been living at the St. Regia, rec ognized for some time as the city home of the Goulds, and her husband has not once visited hei. Non-support is the third allegtalom Iu September last Gould is said to have discontinued providing Mrs. Gould with funds, and until very re cently she is said not to have re ceived a single penny from him. Under the fourth charge, that oil cruel and inhuman treatment, many specifications are made, one of whicli is that Gould, at the tlnie of their separation, sent notices to all or the trades people with whom he has been dealing instructing them not to give her any credit if they had any idea of collecting their accounts from him. This was at a ti-vie when he was trying to force her to accept his terms in the financial feature of their sep aration, and she charges that in this way ha endeavored to compel her to submit to his wishes. Another of the specifications is that he has humiliated her, constantly surrounding her with detectives, caus ing her mail to be opened and sub jecting her lo many similar annoy ances. A friend of Mrs. Gould says that! when details are presented to the court, Mrs. Gould will state that one | of the worst of the 'many indignities j heaped upon her was the fact that ■ while she was living at the St. lie- j gis hotel her husband was openly pay- ing attentions to another woman liv ing at the same hotelN ' ‘Mrs. Gould knows that her hus band is worth at least $20,000,001), said a friend of the lady, "and that i he has an assured income of $1,000,- 000 a year, and she asks for alimony at the rate of SIOO,OOO a year during the time the case is in court. At the time of the trial she will make a demand for permanent alimony oil $130,000 a year.” Counsel for Mrs. Howard Gould said that the suit will be tried in open court, adding: “Mrs. Gould desires that full pub licity be given to It, and she refuses to spare any one engaged in the plot against her.” BRAVE DEED OF NEGRO CONVICT Takes Fleeing Guard’s Gun and Captures Ten Escaping Fellow Prisoners. Fourteen additional misdemeanor convicts have escaped from the Sum ter coumy, Georgia, ehaingang, mak ing a round total of about thirty es caping recently, and costing the couu ty thousands of dollars. The fourteen escaping disarmed two ot the three guards, while the third guard is re ported to have lied the scene, the con victs deriding him, as he sprinted after the fourteen escapes, who had been gone some hours. Another convict, Brady Reddick, found the gun of the decamping guard, and thus armed pursueu the fugitives. He captured ten of his fel low prisoners, and returned them to camp at the point of his gun, after wards chaining them. This brilliant feat of a negro con vict is applauded by the citizens of Americus. The four convicts who finally got away had all escaped previously, and were recaptured within the past month at a cost of SSOO to the county in rewards and expenses. GUANO TRUST AGAIN TARGE' Unde Sam Will Make Anoti Try at Alleged Combine. ■ 1 —" NEW PLAN IS ADCPTE Further Indictments Ordered and l| Time Individuals Will Be Tried in | States Where They Reside. A Washington special says: % government has decided to renew cases against the so-called fertiii: trust before the United States I trlct court at Richmond, Va. Ab| a year ago the government secuf the indictment and arrest of a la number of persons residing in dii*; ent parts of the country on a chaji of evading the Sherman anti-trust j and sought to secure the removal Nashville, where suit wa3 being gun, of such defendants as resi outside of Hie slate of j.enm.s| Tne Virginia detendants, howej contended tuat, before they couidj removed from tne state, uiey sml lie given preliminary hearings to| termine the sufficiency oi uio j deuce on which their removal 1 asked. The court sustained the ,| eminent on this point, but on ah I, peal taken beiore the United Bt supreme court about two mouth's g found against the government, without prejudice to its case, a ml? tiered that the defendants be charged. The department of justice ha3 1 decided lo try the inuividual delf auls in the states in which they! side, and will almost immediately | ceed to secure the Indictment anJ arrest of the Virginia parties tol alleged combination. Olner cases I arrests will, it is said, be rnadl Tennessee and other states. It is ft there are tbirty-one fertilizer coj nies in the alleged combination, 1 that originally twenty-tour indi uuls were indicted ana arrested I FURNITURE TRUST HARD Hl’f A Chicago Judge Assesses Heavy If Against eleven companies. | lu court at Chicago Monday, J| Landis fined F. A. Holbrook, off American Seating company andl A. H. Andrews company $5,000 and nine other furniture amounts ranging from SSOO to sl| for vilolation of the anti-trust la\J forming a conspiracy in restraii trade. The defendants pleaded g Judge 1-andia proceeded the < cry of sentence by scathing (i.t.ion of mo methods adopted tin: cxxurch and school furniture utclaring that the puuishureiu by law is inadequate iu lit the c -When 1 reflect upon the me resorted to, said Judge Land) wonder wyy men engage in business to get money. Almost man, I should think, would yret work in a ditch at $1.50 u day. is unquestionably a more digs method.” Judge Landis said that Hoi acted as a sort of clearing hou-J the combine, which called itself prudential Club. Holbrook apyo ■ ed the contracts and by mtai ; “dummy” bids, members of the * bine avoided competition. Judge .Landis said the compa poverty of the smaller firms o combine made it his duty not fiiet the maximum puuishmeu; they might be forced into , ruptcy. “To keep them in independei, eratton,” said Judge .uanuis, MS only hope consumers have a { the big concerns, if we were tS them out of business the Ahi and American Seating coni,; would have no difficulty in t: full control.” MANY PASSENGERS SHAKEN Wreck Occurs on Central of Georg No One Was Killed. The southbound Central pas; train from Athens, Ga., due to in Macon at 11 o’clock Monday, j ing, was wrecked three miles 1 of ’ Hillsboro, and twenty-threc| sons were Injured and three were badly torn up. No one was and the engine did ljot leav track. Among the passengers many delegates to the state c lion of Odd Fellows in Columbi several of these were severe jured. . -Jgl