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The Miller County Liberal.
VOL. X.
OKLAHOMA HELD IP
Republicans Determined Not
• ' ' to Admit New State,
WOULD BE INADVISABLE
For Political Reasons Hold-Up Maj
Be Successfully Carried Out.
Plan is to Turn Down Newly
Adopted Constitution.
* ' says: Th-. ’
pious unction with which uie xepuoll
can leaders are proceeding in the at
tempt to withhold Statehood from
Oklahoma and the high moral
grounds on which they rest their ob
jections are really impressive.
In the enabling act, passed by con
gress and approved by President
s&fSOsevelt on June 16, 1906, it was
set forth that there 'should be ' live
■congressional districts in the terri
tory of Oklahoma and Indian Tetri
.tbrv, when they were admitted to
, the union as one state. This would
give Oklahoma live representatives in
congress and two senators, thus en
titling her to cast seven votes in the
electoral college.
Os course the advocates of admis
sion were reasonably sure that these
were going to be good republican
votes. The first election, however
ail.
Such an overwhelming evidence ot
the democratic tendencies of the peo
ple was abundant proof to republicans
that Oklahoma was •'undesirable."
They were trying to convince Presi
dent Roosevelt also that it world not
be wise 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 the 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
SrtHiiiST b'roiitlas''’ 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.
. 7-‘z n the act of congress making pro
vision for the admission of the new
state it .was provided that the fol
lowing features incorporated
in the new constitution:
W “Perfect toleration of religious sen
timent.
"Prohibition of traffic in alcoholic
liquors for a period of twenty-one*
years in the parts of the state now
known as Indian Territory, the Osage
Indian reservation and in other parts
of the state which existed as Indian
•.-on- nn January 1. I9IU.
, “Prohibition of polygamous a’ld
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 state of
Oklahoma.
■ "•"“Establishment of public schools, al
s 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 ot government
must be secured.
"'U'- 110 delegates to the conven
tion adop . * a document which they
believed encompassed an ihu instruc
tions given them by congress and la
ter by the president on the subject
cf jim crow cars and the control of
1 nrvorations. 1 u donel- llle ".tmo
crats made such disposition ot me |
legislative districts that the republi
cans claim it will be impossible for
them ever to elect a United States
senator. ,
MISSION FUND APPORTIONED
Board of Methodist Church, South,
Completes Its W<”*-
fez-w The wcik of the mission board of
’ the M. E. Church,- South, was con
cluded at Nashville, Tenn., Friday,
after the adoption of a plan tor the
inauguration of home missions au-l
7the apportionment of the fund to be
raised for the work in the foreign field
drii"'-s’'” 5 ’'”- the ensuing year.
’ The total amount appropriated to
. -the - mission conferences for tk„ en .
suing year was $383,483, and the total
amount to be raised by the home con
ference is $366,631.50.
STAGE COACH BURNED.
' Together With Pile of Cash and Reg
istered Mail—Sensational Story.
A story has reached Los Angeles
, of the accidental burning of a stage
coach in Death Valley near Ash
' ' Meadows, in which $15,000 in bank
bills and $13,000 in registered mail
-were consumed. The stage is supposed
' to have caught fire from a cigar which
the driver was smoking. The money
was consigned to the Greenwater
. . _
RUEF PLEADS GUILTY.
Jan Francisco Political "Doss" Makes
Tearful Confession in Court.
Wants to Lead Beter Life.
Abraham Rues, nervous and pallid,
in Judge Dunne's court it San Fran
cisco Wednesday pleaded guilty to the
crime of extortion, the li lony charge
for which he was to b been tried
by the jury already selec -d. In plead
ing guilty he made an Impressive ad
dress to the judge, sta g thak lie
had commenced his caij in politics
with high ideals, for hili self, and for
tho city, but that conditims had bro-
< n him down ""J h” a--
. in opportunity to * P a ration and
restore his character before the
world.
As he concluded his aedress he fell
back into his chair alnost fainting
ind the tears flowed dona his checks.
During an interview allowing the
scene in court, Rues ccafessed that
be is guilty of having comived in the
corruption in: municipal ; .fairs, but he
denied that he is guilty of the crime,
as extortion charged agiinst him.
"I have made no coifession. I
know much. Some thin 1 shall tell,
some things I shall n-t tell. >
“I will not say at the present mo
ment that Mayor Sohn z is guiliy
of the charges that have ecu brought
against him or that li- s innocent.
1 will say this: I want 1 to break
away from Schmitz befq;his re-elec
tion, g year ago last Ni. .ember, and
u-it/l in i.im- Uicm -mJ- ° whole
filing and i want to .- et out.”
, "I can't stand for $ these labor
union bums you have ga .vied around
you and will appoint. TI ■ y would eat
the paint off a house.’ 1 answer the
mayor begged me to si: y with him
and put up the argumi that these
fellows must be allow: . their share
or we could never hold the
together.
"I stayed with Schmitz, and I stayed
with the machine that 1 at great la
bor- and pains had built up. 1 found
then that I had taken i step away
from the high and tleai ideals, with
which I honestly assure you 1 orig
inally entered the poll ical field. I
found, iu short, that to old this ma
chine together, I had permit- and
connive at corruption, ij the state of
affairs existing It was f.-cessary. But
I mysfttf- MW 01 Ti'af
ii'oiii the public; the tilings that 1 did
were the things that hart no one."
ROOSEVELT “BUT'ED IN”
DeclaersAttorney for Haywood —First
Wrangle of Trial.
A special from Boise, Idaho, says:
The unexpected uncoveri ; of i vein
of prejudice against Harry Orchard
and his testimony during the farther
examination of talesmen iu th trial
of William D. Haywood, for c uiplic
ity in the murder of former G<vcrnor
. Frank Steunenberg, Wednesday, led
to the first sharp wrangle letween
counsel and involved the nane of
President Roosevelt in an ad'imoni
ous discussion. The question ci \e up
at the afternoon session when Sena-
Bora? ~’ ,7'«man 'liain
McGume,’ who had been > -n Jo „
implied bias on the testimony{u!' u.
C. Lovelace, the first witness called,
who swore that McGuffie told him
that Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone
would not have been brought he. if
“they had not been mixed up in the
case,” whether he (McGuffie) would
give credence to Orchards testimony.
Clarence S. Darrow of the dcf.-nso
objected to the question and Scuitor
Dorah- replied: "After the immense
latitude the defense has taken in re
gard to Taft and Roosevelt, I dd ;.ot
think they would stick on any te< -
nicality at this time.”
“We did not ask as to the eff
of Orchard’s testimony," said Dari v
and Richardson together. "If Ro
veil is to be brought here to tesii.y,
we might have something more to
say,” went on Richardson.
- -- t 0.-,, cure of him-
self, wherever he is,” retorted Buran.
“Well, I don't know about that,”
said Darrow.
Judge Woods directed counsel to
proceed with the. case, but Darrow
took formal exception to the remarks
of Borah.
“I will eliminate Roosev- 1 *- " ■ ;
will ’’ replied Borah. "He was brougnt
'into the case by the defense.”
“He came in himself, ’ said Rich
ardson. "He wds 2,000 miles away and
he writes Tetters."
"He was brought in by his own but
ting in,” added Darrow.
Much difficulty is being experienced
in securing a jury, as no one seems
anxious to serve. Counsel for the de
fense and prosecution admitted Wed
nesday incoming that the chances for
retaining more than three or four
. of the talesmen so far examinee and
passed for cause was extremely small.
STEPHENSON SUCCEEDS, SPOONER
The Wisconsin Senatorial Deadlock is
. Finally Broken.
/I’he Wisconsin senatorial deadlock
was biokeri at Madison Thursday
night by tire nemuiation on the first
•ballot of'lhe republican. caucus of for
mer Congressman Isaac St -phenson of
Marinette, to succeed Senator John
C. Spooner, resigned.
colquitt. ha. Wednesday, may 22. 190;
FARMERS OPPOSED
To the Immigration Move
ment in State of Georgia.
UNION GOES ON RECORD
Strong Resolutions Adopted at Meet
ing in Atlanta—Cotto* School is
Established and Warehouse
Plans Are Projected.
Tho Farmers' Educational and Co-
Operative I nion of Georgia met in the
legislative hall at the state Capitol
in Atlanta Wednesday. It was a call
meeting, but practically every county
in the state was represented.
It was definitely decided to have a
cotton school, the purpose of which
will be to teach interested parties how
to judge and price cotton. The officers
of the association —President it. F.
Duckworth, Secretary J. L. Bairoil,
Oiganizer J. L.- Lee,. Business Agent
J. G. Eubanks and Lecturer G. M.
Davis —were appointed as a board of
managers to take charge of the school.
AH ot these are from Barnesville,
where the school will be in session.
A committee on the school, repre
senting the various congressional dis
tricts Wlf 5 ‘ l<,! 71 " alll !ou.~e com
as also chosen. Ik. , _ ,
of the warehouse committee is to re
port to the convention the result ot
the effort to establish a uniform sys
tem of warehouses over the state to
be owned and controlled by the Farm
ers’ Union.
The convention went on record as
opposing the immigration movement
by passing unanimously the following
set of resolutions:
"Whereas, steamship companies of
r most all nationalities, for the sole
purpose of making money, have their |
paid agents soliciting immigration to
this country regardless of morals, po
litical consideration or -religious faith,
and,
“Whereas, said immigrants are now
landing on Ellis Island, New York, at
the rate of nearly half million a year
“and are only now limited
and,
"Whereas, the register shu's that
immigrants landing iu this country
since 1880, as a rule, are on-Chris
tian and differ with the American in
government, religious bi lief and mo
rality, and,
"Whereas, as we find a disposition
on the part of some of our fellow
citizens to increase, invite and induce
said immigrants to this state, and,
"Whereas, history- shows that
through the ages men have often set
in motion events which once started
they could not control, therefore be
it
Resolved, That we, the Farmers’
Educational and Co-Operative Union
of Georgia, assembled in convention at
Atlanta, Ga., May 15, 1907, do oppose
the further introduction of immigrants '
to this good heritage of ours in any
form or by any means by the state
Georgia, (believing it will be dc-tri
-p ti~ 7 'al w< of the
people oL oar state.
“Resolred, second. That we most re
spectfully ask pur legislature that
is to meet in June not to appropriate
one cent of the state’s money to en
courage immigration to this state
without referring same to the people.
"Resolved, third, That we most re
spectfully ask oilr members of the
general 'assembly ot Georgia and our
senators and members in congress
from this great state of Georgia to
do all in their power to restrain
the tide of immigration to these Uni
ted States as a primary step to the
perpetuation of a pure government.
“Resolved, fourth, That we havq
an abiding faith in the great intelli
gent white people of Georgia and the
south to so direct our domestic affairs
Willi on. - - - -» -'5-
natural increase to manage our agri
cultural and industrial affairs to meet
the legitimate demands of our coun
try without the aid of immigration.
SCHMITZ DOWN AND OUT.
’FrisV« mayor Relinquisher, Reins of
Government to Special Committee.
- Charged by Abe Rues 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 has trap«f«rr»A i..
ing his authority, tantamount to a
power of at'--*“ey.
FIRST COLONISTS HONORED.
Virginians Celebrate 30Oth Anniver
sary of Landing at Jamestown.
The celebration Monday on James
town island, forty miles up the river,
of the three hundredth anniversary of
i the landing there of the first perma
i nent English settlers under Sir Chris
: tophet Newport, John Smith and oth
-1 ers, were held under fair skies and
I condition in every way auspicious.
DEADLY VORK OF BLAST.
Premature Eclosion Kills Several
Men, Hurls Train Into Creek and
Wrecks Nearby Buildings.
A Chattaniga special says: Three
men killedf'ouright, three others, so
seriously injuid that they will die,
and two other badly injured in ad
dition to the “"shing of a Southern
railway freight-•*- a ei>—-
through a bri^ 1 ' ‘ llto CLatiuuooga
creek and th -d'Mi uction ot three
residences and 11 P*' e driver nearby,
was the result' 1 ' a Premature explo
sion m 3(49 0 :lock Thursday after
noon of |at-the foot of Look
out mountain efcthe Stevenson exten
sin which is b«|ig constructed by W.
J. Oliver &. Cl
The bridge 'L crushed in by sev
eral tons of rol< hurled by the blast
just as the Sou >ern railway freight
train No. 11 wa going on the bridge.
Other pieces ofirock hurled for four
hundred yards Lashed through tho
pilot of the pile drivei;, of the Nash
-Ville, ChatiauSJ. g t rail
road, which wan tf&k driving piles
in Chattanooga ?ek for a new via
duct, killing I- neer Shaefer and
Fireman Hyder Tantly.
O*ther pieces ’ rock hurled five
and six hundred rds struck the res
idences on the Sts of Lookout moun
tain! crashingit ough the roof and
floors of the V Ungs.
Several niefi'v 6 -were working on
I -a. jm-" ..on- distance from the
blast, were stK.... )V flyj ng pj eces o f
rock. Two of the; are at the hospital
in a serious
The blast waOf * nfT Tiy J. F.ord.
a powder man so the Yarnell Divin
ers, contractors fy fo.ver, against the
instructions of tk contractors. He
had only been ey oyed by the com
pany for a short «ie. At a late hour
he could not be locked. The blast was
qne of the heaviest iver used on work
in this section of the country. No
warning was give: to the residents
in the vicinity Into the Nashville,
Chattanooga amj. U- Louis railroad,
whose property destroyed.
OFFICIALS |e INDICTED
As Result of C of ' “Boss”
Ciuef . *
A San FranciscoVeclal says: Abra
; ham Rues Thu -sd( made good his
declaration of WUnesday that he
would, following > change of plea
of guilty in the ex: lion case against
him, turn state's ■ lence and assist
the bribery graft rosecution iu Its
campaign against unicipal corrup
tion. i
Rues, obeying a ibpena from the
grand jury, served ;;>on him at the
Fillmore street’pri m house shortly
..before 3 o'clock, w it in the charge
ot Special Agept B ns, Elisor Blggy
and another guard t the grand jury
chamber, where ht wok the witness
stand and submitted ■•’ ap examina
tion that lasted from 3; - |J un
til after 5 p. m '
When the or'4 1 over he
I me nvnSpapcr me iround him and
•said that he hadu luiged the grand
jury to divulge rL'|ng. District At
.‘.-“ye-v Langdon and assistant District
: 'X.7-ileney refus-d to make any
statement wiiat"vcr. From Special
Agent Burns H.;-. .-r—- me
only matter in whic tuef was ques
tioned was the a” d bribing of
Mayor Schmitz an i ightecii super
visors by the Uu-'. d railroads to
grant to that corpot ion a change in
its franchise allowi’ the electrifying
of its 250 miles street railway
system.
If Burns' tmd-srsl ling of Ruef’s
testimony is correct he fallen boss
told the grand jut Lthat President
Patrick Calhoun, A. I (tint President
Mullaly, Chief Couml Ford and As
sistant 'Counsel Abb J of tin United
Railroads, paid or <• “d to b paid
the sum of $200,000 I’L the provision
, ~ . „ , 'f this amoun.-
named; that st>l,oW ■
$50,00(J went
into the pocket ..-Of May r Schmitz and
that the remaining s6(qoo was hand
ed to the eighteen Sptrvisors, six
teen of them txcei- A s|,ulltl each,
another . demanding an getting $lO,-
000 ripd Chairman Giagher ot the
-' committee, in i ? paid $15,000
for acting as go-betwqn.
.
BOTH SIDES ST ND FIRM.
Longshoremen's Striki at New York
Being Bitterly//aged.
Both the represen ves o! the
trans-Atlantic stean. :p companies
and the striking le: shoremen at
New York ipaintain a m position in
their respective standi
The steamship men declare that
they are moving sh'i ami
freight as may be sp handled
with the aid of non-ur k’nien.
CHILDREN BEING G 'EN AWAY.
Fifty-Eight Charity Waif Are Distrib
uted in Lcuisina.
Fifty-eight babies and children un
der seven years of an from New
York charitable institu ons, are be
ing distributed in Ne« Orleans and
Louisiana. The chlldri . are one of.
several consignments t: the state. A
train load, carrying abuu one Hundred
children, arrived In Nev Orleans two
weeks ago.
CLIMAXTO SCANDAL
Steel Magnate Corey Weds
“Butterfly” Actress,
PUBLIC MORALS SHOCKED
raivnfin
Helped Him in His Rise to For
tune, Was Discarded Through
Handy Divorce Court.
A New York special says:- In or
der to escape the unlucky thirteenth
of the month, William Ellis Corey,
president of the United States Steel
Corporation, and Mabelle Gilman, the
former actress, were not married un
til after midnight Tuesday morning.
The ceremony took place in the royal
suite at the Hotel Gotham, Fifth ave
nue and Fifty-fifth street, in the pres
ence of a small party of friends of the
contracting couple.
There was no music during the even
ing, and there were no bridesmaids,
Miss Gilman being attended only by
Miss Frances Erskine Shaw of Lon
don. Mr. Corey was unattended.
After the nuptials the pair took an
automobile and were whirled awiiy to
jy.here they boarded the
steamer KafsiCr jj which
sailed at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday morn
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Corey will proceed to
Paris and will then go to tbe
teau G'en'w miles from ttartS,where
me hoijeymoon win ve passed. They
expect to remain there until they re
turn to America, about the middle of
July.
The wedding of W. E. Corey and
Mabelle Gilman is the culmination of
a scandal that has filled the news
papers for many months. In order to
prepare to marry the actress Corey
deserted his wife and forced her to
get divorce from him.
Corey married his first wife when
he was a struggling day laborer in
the steel mills at Pittsburg. She bore
him children and they lived happily
during Corey’s rise to wealth and]
power until Jie saw Mabelle Gilman oni
'“Then"Corey discovered that the vf’lfe
of his youth was not suited to him
and began that ardent pursuit of the
shapely actress which resulted in the
divorce of his wife and hi:* wedding
Miss Gilman.
Corey’s conduct was bitterly de
nounced by his mother, father, sis
ters and uncles. Two days ago the
uncle for whom Corey is named said
that the wedding of Corey and Ma
belle Gilman would bring its own pun
ishment.
It is estimated that Corey has spent
$4,000,000 in acquiring Mabelle Gil
man. About $3,000,000 of this sum
went to his wife and children.
has recently settled a fine estate on
his aged parents in the hope that it
would lessen 'heir opposition to his
■ . the n? trcss ' ’
Although Mabelle Gilman has dg.
Glared that C. B. Gilrnau, Hvlng “Tn
San Francisco, is not her father, he
sent the following telegram to her:
“Accept a father's blessing for hap
piness and a long nm.-.ied life. Live
m Christian Science.”
Tho message was addressed to W.
E. Corey and Mabelle Gilman, Hotel
Gotham, New York.
YOUNG GIRL IS DEAD
As Result of Assault by Negro Ed
Johnson of Chattanooga.
Miss Navada Taylor, .the Chatta
nooga, girl who was criminally as
saulted by Ed Johnson, a negro, on
January 28, 1906, and for which crime
the negro was lynched by a mob, died
Sunday night at her childhood home
iu Findlay Ohio, of nervous trouble,
superinduced by the awful crime.
’• case, has - become celebrated
since the
‘ed States now has Sheriff Shipl’. feeT ’
- ral deputies ami alleged-i...-inbers ot
the mob under the charge of contempt
as a result of the lynching.
HIS MAYBF 1 <= c -.ist...
fingry Corey Threatened to Totally An
nihilate Camera Men.
In an angry scene ait the steamship
pier in Hoboken, N. J., Tuesday morn
ing before he sailed with his bride,
William Ellis Corey raised his big
stick and threatened to attack camera
men who essayed to take snapshots of
him and his bride, Mabelle Gilman
Corey.
Mrs. Corey, v\’ith soothing words,
prevented her husband from
carrying violence.
ASHEVILLE IS
As Place of Meeting of Next General
Conference of Methodists.
The next general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
will be held al Asheville, N. C., in
1910. Such was the decision reached
at Nashville Wednesday by the spe
cial committee to decide the matter
appointed at the last general confer
ence in Birmingham, Ala.
GEORGIA WINS VICTORY.
Big Copper Plants at Ducktown, Tenn,
Declared to Be Nuisances in De
cision by U. S. Supreme Court.
Georgia has won fts case against
the Tennessee Copper company ami
the Ducktown Sulphur, Copper and
Iron company In the United States ;
Supreme court.
■■mi Washington Mon
day morning an , 7 ,
, , nounccd a decision in I
the famous litis . , , ,
o ion, -whieh has been
Mi the courts rim
The opinion w as handed by
Justice Feckham, who declar.-i_ .i. ~
if Georgia pr.ssvd the case against
the copper manufacturers an injunc
tion would be Issued against the de
fendant. For over three years Attor
ney General John C. Hart, assisted
by Attorney Ligon Johnson, who has
been with him Jn all the
Intricate litlgajk i, has fought the !
case for the slat of Gejorgia.
Tlie big copier roasting plants are
at. Isabella am| Ducktown, Tenn., just
across thp line from Georgia. Thev i
began smeitlr : in 1901 and by 1902
local evidenci -of destruction to v“g
etation from the sulphur fumes ap
pea red.
In 1903 the area of damage had
spread across he Tennessee line and
had appeared in the upper tier of
Georgia cotin ies. Complaints began
coming to th- state authorities, and
. f v ’V> IrtWr. y'Wt—,
the leglslatn'. , .
titioned to --‘"rd relief.
A legislative committee, was ap
pointed to inv stlgate, and if dam
ages were fm> 1 as set forth the gov
ernor was authorized to institute pro
ceedings to abate a nuisance. The re
port of tlfe co nmittee more than sus
tained the alligations in the petition,
and an appeal was made to the Ten
nessee governor to estop the nuisance
On refusal, legal proceedings wen
instituted. At that time the ore wa.
roasted in th" open and on the
promise to ab.indan this method, legal
action was di missed.
The abatement' of the trduble was
not permanent however, and further
complaints cany- from a wider area of 1
destruction. Since then the case has ,
been fought In the courts until now (
p,“ n rff i %'Wifl»7v('Pally, being
sance. (
Nearly 100 of ncn tiiem Omr
gia has been Vdmost completely <k
nuded of vegetation, and many farm- '
ers have had t< practically abandon ;
farming. This f- elsion is expected to i
have far-reach|t;g effect, as a prece
dent, as other bases have awaited the 1
outcome of the Georgia litigation.
Coming to proof in the case, j
Justice Holmes said:
“Without any attempt to go into
details, iramatc ial to the- suit, it is
proper to add that we are satisfied
by a preponderance of evidence that ,
the sulphurous fumes caused and i
threatened dam :e on so considers- ;
ble a scale to the forest and vege
table life, if B“t Jo human health,
within the .plaintiff's state as to make
a case within (lie requirement of the
case of M’-souti vs. Illinois. If the
state adi. res* ♦ ■ 'Wrminitfinn
jernative to issuing an
iiijunctf<Vhl? allowing a reasona
ble time to tS> defendant to complete
the structurestthnt they are now build- ,
ing, and the efh is that they are mak
ing to stop th« fumes. The plaintiff
may submit a term of decree on the ,
convening of tbi court’ in October.
next.”
t—
PAT CALHJUN RADICAL.
President of Fiisco Trolley Roads
Draws Line at Union Labor.
One hundred e. l manned and
guarded by 3.7 uon-union strike
breakers, were 'operated iu San Fr in- :
cisco Monday.
President Calloun ot the United
Railways made the following state
ment:
"I shall not take back any striking
motorman or cos luctor, unless he first
surrenders his union card, and signs
' ’ "■haln a non-union inan
so long as he -
pany’s employment. If any non-union .
men are attacked and police protec
tloo is not aforded, I shall exercise
oo»aUC»UonaU right and arm them. |
I shall not stand by and see my crews i
beaten up.”
UNION PACIFIC “WATER" TAKEN.
Full Amount of Bond Issue of $75,000,-
000 is Subscribed.
It was announ-ed by Kuhn, Loeb &
Co. at New Yo k Monday that the :
full amount of file issue of $75,000 • I
000 of bonds proposed to be made by ;
the Union Paciac railway company ■
has been subscribed by the members
of a syndicate 'ormed for the pur
pose of underwiiting the issue. The
syndicate will jeceive such portion >
as Is not taken by the stockholders, i
BOUr Tn yjQGs
Gruesome Double Murder Perpetrated
Near Fosealie, Neb.
'Walter F. Copple and his wife were ;
murdered Sundiy night near Rosealie,
Neb. The bod? of Mrs. Coppie was j
thrown in a ho, - pen after the murder,
where her heal was devoured by the *
animals. CoppT was a well-to-do far- i
mer. Bert Phillips, iho has been in (
Coppie's employ, is - missing. Coppl-j I
Is said to have had sl\ DO in the house, j
NO. TO
'FIXING THE GUILT
Government Witnesses Tell
of Brownsville Affair.
THEIR EVIDENCE DIRECT
Negro Soldiers Were Seen With Guns
I and Were Seen in Act of Shoot
ing—Foraker Fails to Shake
Testimony.
halt of the government began Wednes
' day in the Brownsville investigation
i before the senate committee on mlll
l tary affairs at Washington,
I George W. Rendall of Brownsville,
, Texas, the first witness, testified that
j on the night of August 13, when the
affray, occurred in Brownsville, lie saw
> men whom he declared to be negro
soldiers, climb over the brick wall
from Fort Brown and enter the ‘own.
He said that he also s.'iw a group of
| from three to five men inside the
garrison gate and .aw the fia. li of
[ two or three shots fired by men in
i this group,
At Thursday's session two other
i witnesses testified that they saw ne
i gro soldiers shoot up the Texas town
( on the night of August 13.
OllM. -W ' ,vl ’ ll' .’-
tenant Dominguez, of the Binwnsville
| police, who received a bullet through
the arm, and had his horse ;hot from
i under him while trying to warn citi
i zens of the approach ot the armed
I men, whom he declared positively to
j be «egro soldiers from the garrison,
I and another was Policeman Padron,
who described a busy quarter of an
itfve that-the men doing the shooting
' hour dodging bullets. He also was pos
were negro soldiers.
Dr. Charles 11. Thorn, a dentist, tes
tified that he heard a group of men
t firing at the rear ot his house and
shouting commands to each other. He
gave as his judgment that the voices
i were those of negroes F. A. H. San
born, manager qf the Western Union
; Telegraph cumpauj , wju occupied a
i room i opposite ’♦*-• t«Mtiled
I PJsst ::c ■ J-. flrfm-
( Cease"
Policeman Senaro Padron lewiy e
i that he was at the corner of Wauning
i 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'shooiius.. He said
he could distinguish their uniforms.
when the guns flashed. He told of the
■ meeting with the lieutenant of police,
j but contradicted the statement ot
Dominguez that he had said the men
had just finished "shooting up" the
i Cowan house.
According to Padron e story he ac
companied Dominguez back to '1 hir
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
I seeing negro soldiers rush out and
-•- Doin'” ■”’■■■- ■•" 1 follow hipi
some distatieo down ri t . n ij <tr .
He did not see Domini . His
horse was shot from u ’'ter him, as
’ the men saw him (Padron) and started
firing at him. Padron told of the run
ning from place to place to c cape
- danger and finally of taking refuge
i in an obscure doorway.
The witness was cross examined by
j 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 OUST MAYOR SCHMITZ.
Rumor in San Francisco of Impending
Municipal Change.
It is rumored in San Fr.inci/.co that
a movement is on foot to bring about
a change in the municipal adininisliu
' tion by forcing th'; resignation of
Mavor Schmitz pvd cnocsing in his
■ ■ .ID. JJUi. - T0..,-:
. • ’ . l.’r .dfri- ’• <
' prominent wholi .sale merchant, as
i mayor. The report lacks official con*
firniation.
MIDDIES REBUKE OFFICER
And Are, in Return for Insult, Vir
tually Made Prisoners.
I The whole membership of the First
battalion of the brigade of midship
' men at Annapolis has been restricted
for an indefinite period to the con-
I fines of the insTitution, as a result
l of its members having "given the
: silence" to Lieutenant Commander
i McVay, Jr., one of the discipline offl-
■ cers. The members had taken excep
tion to McVay’s mode of investigating
i their actions and determined to ad
( minister this form of rebuke to him.
j INCREASE FOR OPERATIVES.
New England Mills W... Ad-
vance of Ten Per Cent.
According to advices from the lead
ing cotton mill centers ot southern
, New England fully $5,000 operatives
will have their wages advanced abput
1 10 per cent.
The latest upward movement in mill
1 wages originated In Fall River, where.
I a new agreement recently announced
j provides for a higher schedule May 27.