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When you have a good Impulse,
urges the Chicago News, get busy and
act.
Now the male advocates o I votes
for women are being called “Suura
gents,” notes the Grand Rapids Press.
In a speech bel’ore the University of
Berlin, Prof. Albrecht Penck, who was
Emperor William professor at Colum
bia University, said New York, with
fts population of nearly 5,000,000, has
a brilliant future. Ixioklng far ahead,
however, he thought Chicago would
be a greater city.
Andrew Carnegie’s letter to Mayor
GAynor of New York City, on the
futility of the tax on Invisible prop
erty Is very Illuminating, to the
(Sprlnglleld Republican. He Is as
sessed at $6,000,000 for such proper
ty, while his actual holdings must be
from twenty to forty times that
amount. Yet he does not make the as
sessment or swear to It or make any
affirmation whether it is too high or
too low. It Is made for him by the
assessors, whose policy evidently is
to iind out how much of an assess
ment the millionaires of New York
will stand without changing their le
gal residences to an upstate or New
Jersey town and then fixing it at that
figure. The gross inequality and injus
tice of such a levy must be manifest,
and it must also be manifest that an
equitable assessment of such proper
ty is impossible.
A prize of SIOO,OOO has been offered
anonymously through Yale Universi
ty for the discovery of an adequate
remedy of tuberculosis. It is a
worthy gift, contends the New York
Press, the chief usefulness of which
will be to stimulate here and there
efforts already undertaken to light
this dread disease. Perhaps the mon
ey would be*or more value if put in
the hands of investigators who can
not afford the expense of research.
There Is already enough incentive to
the medical profession for the pur
suit or a baffling foe to mankind. The
man who can achieve this triumph is
assured of one of the richest prizes
in the history of medicine. To make
such a discovery in commerce would
itself be worth more than all the
riches of a hundred Rockefellers, yet
fortune as well as everlasting fame
would surely come to the winner.
Money as a means to the conquest of
tuberculosis could best perform its
office by supporting investiga
tors who are devoting their energies
to the study of the curse. And mean
while, in the absence of a cure, mon
ey can go a long way toward reducing
the ravages of the disease.
The charge is often made, at home
as well as abroad, that Americans are
money mad; and, of course, there is
ample ground for the accusation, con
fesses the Dallas News. There is like
wise ground for the broader assertion
that the whole world is afflicted now
and has always been afflicted with the
same madness. The Spanish invaders
were wild in their search for gold;
and the same may be said of all in
vaders, even from the beginning,
since gold was found to be precious.
The enormous sums claimed by the
rulers and dignitaries of the Old
World evidenced a greed for gold
quite equal to that which we have de
veloped; and there is a tone that is
funny in the criticisms of American
avarice by the thrifty keepers of
pensions, restaurants, and hotels and
by relic peddlers and various schools
of professional swindlers and beggars
in other countries, anjl even by im
ported lecturers who actually dilate
over our avarice in cheap lectures for
which we have paid them a fancy
price! We are an avaricious people,
to be sure, but it is just as well to
add that avarice is a world-wide ail
ment and always has been such.
There are victims of avarice to be
found everywhere, as well as a few
men and women who are not so
greedy. The love of money is the
same sort of root the world over.
LOUISIANA CITY MS
La'ie Charles Is Practically De
stroyed By Fire.
$1,500,000 PROPERTY LOSS
5,000 People Are Homeless and Thirty City
Blocks Wasted By Flames-Dynamite
Checked Spread of Fire.
Lake Charles, La. —This city Of 20,-
000 persons was practically wiped out
by flames that swept over thirty
blocks. The loss is estimated at sl,-
500,000. Five thousand persons are
homeless.
The flames swept from the busi
ness section of the city to the outly
ing residence district. Scores of
homes were destroyed, almost in the
flash of an eye, as the flames, driven
by a gale, hissed through the resi
dence section.
Dynamite was employed to make
breaches in the path of the flames.
It stayed their progress, but not un
til the city had been practically wiped
out. <
Temporary camps were erected on
the outskirts of the city to care for
thousands of the homeless.
Dake Charles, while an old com
munity, is practically anew city. It
is the biggest town in southwest Lou
iasiana, and is a big rice and lumber
center. It is the center of the Jen
nings oil field.
The fire started in the old French
opera house, almost in the center of
the business district section. A gale
fanned the flames, and before the lire
men had organized for battle, the fire
was hissing through the main com
mercial streets, leaving in its path a
trail of ruins.
The district burned is at least two
miles square. Much of the property
was not insured to its full value.
A great deal of the loss is sustained
in the destruction of priceless family
heirlooms and old public records.
JEWELRY FIRM IN TROUBLE.
Alabama Men Held in Charge of Con
spiracy to Defraud Government.
Mobile, Ala Jesse H. and Daniel
H. Shreve at San Antonio, Texas; A.
C. Shreve, Tuscaloosa; R. T. Shreve,
James E. Shreve, Hilliard Shreve, Geo.
H. Shreve, John Johnson, William
Franklin at Montgomery and Sam
Copeland at ScottsDoro, Ala., were ar
rested simultaneously on the charge
of conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment.
indictments sworn out here charge
that the defendants conspired, con
federated anti agreed to withhold from
the referee in bankruptcy of this dis
trict assets of the City Jewelry Com
pany of Montgomery, Ala., willfully
knowing of their whereabouts at the
time.
It is alleged that the above parties
purchased from wholesale houses
throughout the United States valua
ble jewelry, silverware and other
goods with which to lit out a store
and opened headquarters in Montgom
ery. It is alleged further that they
shipped a dummy package supposeu
to be worth $20,000 to Greenville,
Ala., to the store of Daniel H. Snreve
—that the store of Shreve at Green
ville caught lire and was destroyed.
The next move the defendants
made, according to the warrants, was
to have someone throw them into
involuntary bankrutcy, and in their
schedule of assets they stated that
their stock of goods had been de
stroyed.
An investigation brought to light
a great deal of the stuff that was
actually purchased in a store at An
dalusia. This stuff is valued at $20,-
000. The fraud is said to be one of
the biggest unearthed in this section
of the United States in some years.
FEDERAL AID FOR HERO.
Aid for Man Who Gave Health to
Destroy Yellow Fever.
Washington, D. C. —lll, helplessly
paralyzed and supported by the faith
ful wife, who earns a pittance at the
wash tub, John R. Kissinger, the sol
dier who gave up his health and his
future that the cause of yellow fever
might be known, will receive a spec
ial pension of $125 a month if a bill
favorably reported by the senate com
mittee becomes a law. When the rav
ages of the dread plague swept the
men from the ranks and the trenches
faster than the machine guns of the
enemy at Siboney and Santiago could
do, Kissinger offered himself as a
volunteer subject for experiment in
an army hospital. The surgeons prov
ed by has sacrifices that the mosqui
to spread the plague, and their ex
periments upon him are believed to
have been responsible for his helpless
condition now.
HIS CAREER CROWNED.
Roosevelt Addressed Freeh Academy
and Received Great Reception.
Paris, France. To use Colonel
Roosevelt’s own words, he has reach
ed the crowning of his career as a
man of letters. He was the guest of
intellectual Paris, participating as a
member at a session of the French
Academy, delivering a lecture at the
Sorbonne and remaining as the guest
of the faculty for dinner and the
grand reception given by the univer
sity in his honor.
Colonel Roosevelt’s reception at the
French Institute and that at the Sor
bonne were equally impressive. At
the Sorbonne no attempt was made to
restrain the demonstrations.
USING IMPORTED MEAT.
Solution o! the High Cost of Living Puzzle
Discoveied—Cattle From Australia.
New York City.—As the price of
meat started downward meat dealers
and importers announced that they
have discovered the solution to the
high cost of living puzzle. They in
tend importing meat in great quan
tities from Australia and Argentine
Republic just as England does. Then,
instead of being compelled to buy so
called meat trust products, paying
trust prices, the dealers get meat,
which they claim is of the same qual
ity, at from 3 to 6 cents per pound
cheaper.
The meat trust made its first hostile
movement to check the incipient im
portation of beef, mutton and pork,
when plans were made to ask the
government to atop the influx of for
eign meat on the ground that it was
not properly inspected.
At least a score of meat dealers in
Brooklyn who have taken advantage
of the Australian beef started to un
dersell the houses relying on the
beef trust. The beef trust gets its
meat from and Mexican cat
tle, while, if Australian importations
grov, this meat will probably be
landed upon the Pacific coast and
sent east by rail. While England re
lies very largely upon Australia and
Argentina for its meat, the distance
to the United States is much less
than it is to England.
It was announced that aside from
the lower price of foreign meat the
cost of living was gradually declin
ing in Greater New York. Since April
1 pork has fallen nearly $2 per bar
rel and hogs $2 per hundred weight.
Sayles Zahn, owner of a chain of
meat shops, declared that the trust
could be forced to lower prices by im
porting foreign-grown meat.
“The Australian meat is better
than the trust beef,” said he. “In ad
dition to this, we are able to under
sell at the rate of from 3 to 6 cents
per pound.’’
AT MERCY OF LOOTERS.
Uncle Sam’s Millions Are Poorly
Protected.
Washington, D. C. —The astonishing
statement was made by Charles D.
Norton, assistant secretary of the
treasury, before the house committee
on expenditures in the treasury de
partment that there was at present
no law on the statute books by which
a subordinate in any of the various
subtreasuries of the United States
could be punished for making away
with public funds. V
A man might loot the treasury of as
much as he liked or could get away
with, and no law exists by whl,ch he
could be punished, declared Mr} Nor
ton. If two or more en
gaged ih an embezzlement, they might
Ue punished for<' conspiracy, ■ buty that
was all.
The further information was Elicit
ed that the bonding system of treas
ureres and assistant treasurers of
the United States and their various
subordinates was obsolete and< inad
equate. /
The assistant treasurer at' New
York furnished a bond of $600,000,
signed by private parties for the rea
son that a bonding company would
charge him $4,500 premium, and Mr.
Norton said the furnishing of bond by
private parties in such cases was a
most undesirable arangement for the
United States.
Subordinates in the treasury re
partment, handling millions in money
daily, were required to furnish no
bond, excepting in some cases where
assistant treasureres required bonds,
regardless of the law in the case.
This much and other similar in
formation was elicited from Mr Nor
ton during a hearing on the question
of whether the committee on expendi
tures in the treasury department
should undertake an investigation of
the shortage in the subtreasury at St.
Louis and other places and incidental
ly inquire into the accounting system
of the United States treasury.
After listening to statements by
Mr. Norton and Representative
Shackelford and Bartholdt of Missou
ri, the committee adjourned without
deciding whether an investigation
would be held or not.
Hettie Green to Retire.
New York City.—Hettie Green is
planning, it is reported, to retire from
active business. She is now' 73 years
old, and feels she does not care to
take an active part in the business
world any longer. Her daughter, Mrs.
Matthew Astor Wilkes, will probably
assume direction of Mrs. Green’s af
fairs.
No South Pole Hunt.
Washington, D. C.— The proposed
American South Polar expedition, un
der the joint auspices of the Peary
Arctic Club and the National Geo
graphic Society, has been abandoned
for this year, according to an an
nouncement made here.
Find Gold in Louisiana.
Merryville, La— Reports of discov
eries of gold in this section of Lou
isiana have caused great excitement
and a company has been formed with
the purpose of looking into the finds
and ascertaining the extent of the
deposits, with a view to development,
if feasible.
Cotton Mills Curtail.
Chicopee, Mass— ln order to meet
unfavorable market conditions by cur
tailing production the cotton mills of
the Dwight Manufacturing Company
of Chicopee and the Chicopee Manu
facturing Company of Chicopee Falls
have gone on a schedule of live days
a week. The two corporations to
gether employ 3,000 operatives.
COTTON FIRM FAILS
Knight-Yancey Company Files
a Petition in Bankruptcy.
GIGANTIC FRAUDS REVEALED
Reports Say Alabama Cotton Firm Used Bogus
Bills of Lading-English Houses
Lose $2,530,000.
Decatur, Ala The cotton firm of
Knight, Yancey & Cos., one of the
largest concerns of the kind in the
south, having offices in Decatur, Mo
bile, Huntsville, Birmingham and oth
er cities, went into voluntary bank
ruptcy.
The liabilities are said to be in the
neighborhood of $4,000,000. No mem
ber of the firm will give out a state
ment at this time regarding the com
pany’s assets, further than to say
they are large.
The claims against the company
are mainly foreign, and no southern
banks are affected by the failure.
Mobile, Ala.—That the failure of
the cotton firm of Knight, Yancey &
Cos., of Decatur, Ala., operating in
several southern cities, with liabili
ties said to be more than $5,000,000
and assets less than $1,0U0,000, is due
to the manipulation of bogus foreign
bills of lading by J. H. Knight, and
that the whole thing is a colossal
fraud, is stated by local bank officials
who held warehouse receipts of the
company. Something like $750,00u
worm of warehouse receipts against
cotton stored in local warenouses are
held by Mobile and Decatur banks.
E. J. Buck, president of the City
Bank and Trust Company, and whose
bank holds warehouse receipts of the
defunct firm of Knight, Yancey & Cos.,
gave information as to the fraudulent
use of forged foreign bills of lading.
It came out In an examination c* ware
house receipts by Mobile banks.
Docal banks concerned have taken
control of the cotton stored here ana
have insured it for themselves and
other Alabama banks holding ware
house receipts given by the firm.
Several days ago, when suspicion
was cast in the direction of the com-
pany, investigation of the genuineness
of cotton warehouse receipts held
against cotton owned by tne company
and stored here was made. All re
ceipts were found perfect. Knight
was injured in an automobile acci
dent several weeks ago. Absences,
through injuries sustained, lioin the
office, restated i* his method ,0 ” man
ipulation 'becoming clogged ud the
fraud was exposed. - Knight,, accord
ing to a local bank president, is be
lieved to have been kiting false bills
of lading on foreign concerns for
more than two years.
Liverpool, England.—There was a
sensation in Cottonopolis, born of
widely-circulated stories that forged
bills of lading for cotton, purporting
to have been shipped from the Unitea
States had been uncovered. The al
leged fraudulent methods, it was said,
involved cotton valued at $2,500,(100,
and in addition to 30 Liverpool cot
ton concerns, it was stated that sev
eral continental cotton houses were
heavy losers.
The Echo says that the method of
using the alleged false bills of lading
was to append fac simile carrier’s sig
natures to bills of lading sent witn
drafts to this side before the cotton
was delivered by carriers and that
importers in many cases paid such
drafts. When the practice was dis
covered the steamship companies
withheld deliveries until the bills of
lading were verified. The Echo says
that an investigation made by impor
ters shows that not only were a num
ber of these bills of lading spurious,
but that there was actually no cot
ton against some of them.
Sensational reports of the failure of
the Alabama cotton firm of Knight,
Yancey & Cos., which heavily hit Liv
erpool cotton houses, added to the
excitement.
A cable dispatch from New Orleans,
which fell like an explosion of dyna
mite, said that Knight, Yancey & Cos.
were short in Liverpool 25,000 bales,;
in Havre 8,000 bales, and in Genoa
6,000 bales. This would make a to
tal loss at current quotations of over
$3,000,000.
In Liverpool 26 firms are believed
to have been affected by the failure of
the Alabama firm.
Huntsville, Ala.—Expected devel
opments in the Knight, Yancey & Cos.
bankruptcy case have not material
ized. It is the biggest case of the
kind that has ever come up in this
section, and cotton men have not re
covered from the blow. Many cotton
planters who sold their crops to the
firm have lost large sums.
POSTAL ROBBERS SENTENCED
Richmond Postohice Robbers Plead
Guilty and Are Given Ten Years.
Richmond, Va. —“ Guilty,” answered
Fred Cunningham, alias Eddie Fay,
and Frank Chester, alias “Little Dick”
Morris, charged with complicity in
the robbery of the Richmond postof
fice on the night of March 27, when
$85,000 in stamps was taken from the
safe, when they appeared for trial in
federal court before Judge Edmund
Waddill. Each man at once was sen
tenced to ten years in the federal
prison at Atlanta, five years on each
of two counts in the indictment, and
assessed fines of SO,OOO each.
Another member of the gang es
caped, and has not been captured.
DEMOCRATS ARE JUBILANT.
Politicians in Washington Comment on Recent
New York Election.
Washington, D. C—Not since the
present congress began have the dem
ocratic members been in such a jubi
lant mood as they now are over the
result of the New York election. The
republican leaders declined to attach
any particular significance to the de
feat.
“It was just a skirmish. It doesn't
mean anything,” said Representative
Beutell of Illinois. Among the “in
surgent” republicans there was a
greater variety of views.
Representative Francis Burton Har-
rison (democrat) of New York be
lieved that the election marked the
overthrow of a regime, nation-wide in
extent. “It is the beginning of anew
epoch,” he said. “I don t believe that
a single republican congressman from
New York is safe from defeat under
the conditions we have there. The
retirement of Senators Aldrich and
Hale, and the result of the elections
in Massachusetts and New York mean
the passing of an old order and the
establishment of anew and better one.
Representative Underwood, the dem
ocratic “whip,” declared that ’it was
a distinct repudiation of the Payne-
Aldrich tariff law, and the administrss
tion.”
Representative Norris of Nebraska,
one of the insurgent leaders, remark
ed: “It is simply an uprising of the
people against machine rule, and it
means that the people will stand for
it no longer. It is a local matter in
New York, but similar conditions pre
vail through the country and similar
results will ensue.”
Representative Hamilton Fish of
New York, insurgent, though Aldrich's
defeat in Rochester was largely due
to the candidate’s personality.
“Cannonism was also an issue.” he
said. “Aldridge was asked whether he
stood for Cannon or not, and he de
clined to answer. The people an
swered for him.”
Rochester, N. Y—ln the first flush
of victory the friends of James S. Ha
vens, the democrat who was elected
to congress by a large plurality in
one of the strongest republican dis
tricts in the country, are already talk
ing of Havens for governor this year.
Judging from the conservative tenor
of the successful candidate’s remark,
however, he accepts his victory as
bearing little on the political situa
tion in the state, except as regards
the issue of “bossism.”
The Hughes republicans declare
that although Havens’ election shows
that the people of this district are
dissatisfied with the tariff policy of
the 1 republican national administration
and with the political control of Geo.
W. Aldridge, Havens’ defeated oppon
ent, “the result entrenches Governor
Hughjes and his policy more strongly
than lever. , ■ ■ )
According to Mr. Havens, the bigu
cost of living was mainly responsible
for the political revolution. Revised
returns from the towns slightly re
duce Havens’ plurality, making the
figures 5,440 for the district.
AIDS TO NAVIGATION.
Provisions of Interest to South in the
Lighthouse Bill.
Washington, D. C.—The places at
which aids to navigation are provid
ed for in the $1,100,000 omnibus li*;ht
house bill, agreed on by the house
interstate commerce committee, were
announced.
The appropriations made, which ag
gregate about $900,000 less than the
estimate of the lighthouse board, in
clude $130,000 for one relief light ves
sel, which the board can use to re
place any of the sixty-nine now in
service that may deteriorate, the av
erage life of a light vessel being es
timated at between twenty and twen
ty-five years.
The items included in the measure
which are of interest to the south are
as follows:
Lights on Dunn’s Creek and Cres
cent Lake, Fla.; Atchafalaya river,
Little Lake, Lake Des Allemands ;
Bayous Barataria, Segnette, Perot,Vil
lars and La Fourche and Lake Salva
dor, Louisiana.
Range lights, Norfolk, Va., $35,000;
Baltimore, Md., $125,000; entrance Sa
vannah river, Ga., $4,500; Bogue
Sound, N. C., $2,500; lights Cape Fear
river, N. C., $21,000; light vessel SL
Johns river, Fla., $130,000; removal
of lighthouse depot, Fort Eads, to
New Orleans. La., $27,000.
Newsy Paragraphs.
A woman in Durham, N. C.. has
sent a letter to Mayor Busse of Chi
cago, expressing her interest in the
ten-year-old girl at the county hos
pital, who recently gave birth to a
six-pound daughter. The letter is
signed “A Friend.” In a separate
package the mayor received two shy
blue shoes, a trifle less than two
inches in length, which he is request
ed to send to the county hospital for
the baby.
Professor Herschel C. Parker of
Columbia university has left New Yrk
city on the trip to the top of Mount
McKinley. Waldemar Grassl, a Co
lumbia university junior, and H. L.
Tucker, of the Appalachian club, will
accompany him. It is Professor Par
ker’s intention to follow the route
described by Dr. Frederick A. Cook.
Tests made with the albumen of
eggs laid by hens infected with tuber
culosis show that the “white plague”
is communicable by this means, ac
cording to a report by W. H. Lyttle,
state veterinarian of Oregon. Lyttle
states, however, that eggs moderate
ly cooked, even though previously
infected are not dangerous. The tests
showed that the yolks of eggs failed
to inoculate.