Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, The (Newspaper) - November 2, 1909, Cedar Rapids, Iowa VOLUME 254 CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS NATION WATCHES ELECTION TODAY IN NEW YORKERS VOTE EARLY WITH KOR STILL FAVORITE Breathitt Co Kentucky May See Bloodshed Before fall Factions Armed Prohibition Negro Question and Alleged Graft Issues in Various Sections By Associated Press Chicago Nov 2 Election weather early today varied in different sections In most ern points there was rain or threatening skies while in the western section it was more From the sensational point of view Breathitt county Kentucky easily occupies the center of the stage From points of that county come reports of armed factions ready for serious trouble stolen and burned ballots and state militia stationed at threatened points to see that a fair election is held In Louisville Ky the negro question is the dominant issue Tom Johnson Confident Ohio's municipal elections are on purely local issues with the liquor question standing out prominently here and there Tom Johnson is confident of re-election as mayor of Cleveland while his opponents seem sure of his defeat The liquor question law en- forcement control of party machinery and the political complexion of the legislature are paramount issues in In- diana today Frisco Has Graft Problem San fight is on issues growing out of alleged graft among public officials which has been before the courts and attracted country-wide attention The chief issue in Maryland is the proposed amendment to the state con- designed to disfranchise the negro Prohibition in Illinois Elections in which the prohibition question is involved are being held in thirty-three Illinois cities and today Of the sections affected nine are at present in the wet column and are classed as dry ALL CONFIDENT IN NEW YORK New York X Y Nov ers went to the polls today to cast their vote in the tion The polls opened at six o'clock and a large vote was cast early agers all confidently predicted a tory for their candidates Gaynor ocrat was the favorite in early betting at 2 to 1 Robert Taft son of President Taft came down from Xew Haven last with several classmates of Yale and did duty as a republican watcher at a voting place in a little store on Third avenue LITTLE INTEREST IN ISLANDS Manila general election was held throughout the Philippines today for members of- the and provincial and municipal officials Little interest Is shown and it is doubtful it the total vote will he found to have equalled that of two years ago when only about one in thirty of the population registered OTTUMWA Remarkable Case in Which There Were Many Escapes Ottumwa Iowa Nov sion of gasoline used in removing tar from the creosote block floor of Bast Ottumwa fire station caused the total wreckage of the building equipment yesterday afternoon Two firemen Henry Schmidt and Michael Boylan barely escaped death in removing horses from the burning building so quick did the flames low the explosion One horse and the entire building were destroyed at a damage of The fluid was being used to remove the coating ot tar from the blocks which prevented the horses from getting sufficient hold of the floor to make a quick departure from the building The fire station was just opened a week ago and had not yet been paid for by the city The tral station wagons were called but the flames were too great to subdue OPERATES iH GARY Person Casting Aspersions at Another May be Arrested But Little Disorder is Reported By Associated Press Gary Ind Nov tion law operative here furnished the feature of the election today Un- der this law a person casting sions on another may be arrested Four arrests were made on this charge after the polls were opened here About half the total vote was cast before 9 o'clock Only one minor disorder has been reported SAFE DEPOSIT MOCKERY IN BANK Reports to Controller Show Envelopes Minus as to Immunity Washington D C Nov 2 Safe keeping was but a mockery at the First National hank at Mineral Point Wis according to the controller of the rency A report just received says that a package of envelopes left with enclosures by about fifty persons for safe keeping at the bank had been found minus their contents What was in the envelopes is unknown A flat denial of any promise of im- munity is made by the treasury in re- ply to the claim that Barney man whose transactions with the mers and Drovers National bank of Pa got him into trouble given such assurance The ment of justice asked the controller for information as to whether there any foundation in fact for the charge that a promise of immunity from criminal prosecution had been given Grossman The request for in- formation was made because the United States attorney for the Waynesburg district requested tions from the attorney general er if the charge of immunity is true courtesy required that he should re- spect that arrangement MRS AUGUSTA STETSON TO VERDICT Suspended Leader of New York Church Declares She Never Intended to Secede New York Augusta E Stetson in a letter to the press announced her complete sub- mission to the Boston officials of the Christian Science movement and de- nied she intended to from the Chirstian Science church The text of the letter The reports that I am resisting the authority of the board of directors of the mother church and that I expect to secede from that church and form an independent church are false I have not said to any one any of the things attributed to me in the On Oct 16 1909 I notified the di- rectors of the mother church that I would comply strictly with their orders and therefore would neither teach classes in Christian Science nor con- vene or attend my students tion I leave all judgment to God tho righteous On the same day I notified the tees of the First Church of Christ Scientist New York City that I had so advised the authorities of the mother church I also requested the secretary of my students association to notify its members whom 1 taught in past years that there would be no meeting of my students this year I shall never secede from Christian Science and no student of mine with my approval vrill ever secede from Christian Science or disobey the con- authorities of our tion I was never more devoted to the cause of Christian Science to which I have given my whole life for five years I was never more grateful loving and obedient to my revered leader Mary Baker Eddy discoverer and founder of Christian Science and the leader forever of all true Christian Scientists I have labored for over three years to build and strengthen the First Church of Christ Scientist New York City I have seen it spring from nothing to what it now is It Is for others to say what part I had in its growth From I have learned? of Its members by my labors in ing this church and in teaching tian Science to its members I nm sure that this church and my everywhere always found ing the of Christian Science aloft most valiantly and fearlessly when the enemies of Christian Science are most aggressive Sincerely AUGUSTA E STETSON DEEP WATERWAYS CONVENTION CLOSES By Associated Press Orleans La Nov 2 The ing session today of the deep way convention was marked by en- expressions of faith in the attainment of fourteen feet through the further pledges of port of the movement and additional estimates of the benefit to result from the movement's realization Participating in the program were representatives of several American countries which will be di- affected by the construction of a deepened channel through the valley to the lakes GRANGE BIG EVENT Make Arrangements for National Con- vention Des Des Moines Iowa Nov ar- rangements for the annual convention of the National Grange association to be held in the Des Moines coliseum for nine days beginning November 10 will be completed tomorrow with the ar- rival of the president of the executive board The grange association will bring to Des Moines more than farmers and their wives from all parts of the United States and the most prominent agriculturists of the world The organization is the strongest of its kind in the country and has a great influence in national affairs The association is responsible for the fact that the department of culture has been raised to the dignity of the other cabinet departments and has had much to do with shaping farmers SHERMAN GIVEN FINE Mason City lown Nov Clark yesterday sentenced S S man editor of the Thornton Enterprise convicted of assault and battery after a trial on a charge of criminal assault on Laura Parish He was given or thirty days in jail MAN HOOKWORM DISEASE Specimens of Parasite Discovered in a Seattle Patient Seattle Wash Nov who wandered into the city hospital three days ago is afflicted with the hookworm disease according to the diagnosis of Dr A B Green is 23 years old a laborer and a former resident of Texas When Hoffinger was received at the tal testa were made to determine the presence of the parasite but it was not until yesterday that specimens of the hookworm were discovered As far as known this is the case on record in the northwest KILLED SY FALL FROM TREE Council Bluffs Iowa Nov Henry Heinze of Shelby Iowa who injured week by a tree died the hospital here from a fracture of the spine years and while ting Shelby climbed Into a to secure some especially desirable uit and way thrown to the ground e breaking of a limb THE HOOKWORM IS ABROAD IN THE LAND LABOR OFFICIALS FOUND COILTY BY COURT APPEALS AFFIRMS SENTENCE LEADERS Gompers Mitchell and Morrison Hold in Contempt in Buck's Stove and Range Case Decision Declares Failure to Obey Mandates of Law Would duce State of Anarchy By Associated Press Washington D C district court of appeals today firmed the decree of the supreme court of the District of Columbia adjudging President Samuel pers Secretary Frank Morrison and Vice President John Mitchell of the American Federation of bor guilty of contempt of court in the Bucks Stove and Range case Chief Justice Sheppard dissented from tho opinion of the court on constitutional grounds The court held the fundamental sue was whether the constitutional agencies of the government should be obeyed or defied The mere fact that the defendants were officers of labor in America said the court lent importance to the cause and added to the gravity of the tion but It should not be permitted to Influence he result Ail Are Subject to Law If an organization of citizens ever the court held may dis- obey the mandates of a court the same reasoning would render them subject to individual defiance Both are sub- ject to the law and neither is above it If a citizen though he may honestly believe his rights have been invaded may elect when and to what extent he will obey the mandates of the court and requirements of the law ns in- by the court instead of suing an orderly course of appeal not only the courts but the government it- self would become powerless and ciety would be reduced to a state of anarchy Given Jail Terms The action of the supreme court of the District of Columbia sentencing Gompers Mitchell and Morrison to twelve nine and six months ment in jail was tho result of the ure of these defendants to obey the order of the court directing them to desist from placing Bucks Stove and Range company of St Louis on their unfair list In the prosecution of their boycott against the corporation Out of Eight-Hour Fight The boycott placed by the federation against Buck's Stove and Hange com- pany grew out of the fight made by tho metal union and supported by the federation for an eight instead of a nine-hour day This was resisted by the company and the published the name of the company un- der the caption We Don't Patronize Proceedings against officers of the federation were begun August 19 1907 by the company An injunction against the boycott was issued by trie supreme court of the District of Col- The case went to the court at appeals of the District of Colombia References to the company continuing in the and in the es and writings of the defendants they were cited for contempt found and sentenced to imprisonment in district ail but released on ball Injunction j 3jast March the court cf appeals modified tho district supremo injunction decree by adding to the In- junction in I the said This WEATHER FORECAST FOR IOWA Chicago Nov Fair tonight and warmer Wednesday v was looked upon by for the defendants as the contempt ed that had those appeared in the original injunction contempt proceedings never could have been de- against them Labor leaders will probably attempt to appeal the case to the United States supreme court but in some quarters there is doubt as to the right of peal Justice Shepard Dissents Washington D C Nov Justice Sheppard his dissenting opinion held the decree should be re- served because he was convinced the lower court was without authority to make the only order which the ants could be said to have disobeyed chief justice says he is no ly convinced that this proceeding must be as criminal solely and in that the evidence on which the conviction rests can bo considered because not presented in the of exceptions reserved on hearing He also says he Is confirmed in his previous opinion that much of the in- junction order Is null and void because opposed to the constitutional provision concerning freedom of speech and of tho press Not Constitutional I says that the court had jurisdiction of the sub- ject matter of the controversy and of the parties but I cannot agree that the decree was rendered In accordance with the power of the power limited hy express provisions oC the constitution SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE FATE FORMER BANKER MUST IN PRISON UNTIL NOV 16 Friends Declare Convicted Man is Not Real Culprit and That Guilty Ones Fear His Release BANDIT SHOOTS CARROLL IOWA PAT PURSUIT OF BOBBERS MEETS DEATH Police Officer Follows Housebreakers One of Whom Kills Him After Being Captured By Associated Press Des Iowa Nov Hatton city marshal of Carroll iowa was shot and killed by one of a pair of this morning near seven miles east of Carroll Hatton had followed the robbers from Carroll where they had entered a house last night Hatton had cap- tured the men and while covering them with a gun turned toward his team Instantly one of the men shot him in the back A posse of armed men cap- tured the robbers an hour later in a cornfield WHERE 18 ALVA Des Moines Iowa Nov where in the United States there is a young man by the name of Alva D who is heir to a estate In Polk county IBs find mother both died several years ago leaving him and to a bis farm A fen appointed when the boy Ta years of else he left home and has not been heard from since He of ago a year ago and since that the guardian and his brother have sent out Inquiries to every part of tho so far have failed ot cate him Special Correspondence Des Moines Iowa Ware must remain in the penitentiary at Fort Madison till tho supreme court meets Nov 16 when the writ of Habeas j corpus will be heard by the court Nov 16 will be the day of the third period of the September term The merits of the question of law raised by Judge Towner's decision will then be finally determined as to whether or not the board of parole has ity to issue paroles to persons ed of crimes that were committed be- fore the state board of parole law took effect Vast Sum Embezzled Ware was convicted of the of something like He was paroled within a year or so after his conviction on certain tions alleged to have indicated ly that Ware was not the real culprit and that his conviction was for the purpose of shielding others There was some opposition to the parole as soon as it was announced It has been since variously rumored that the real culprits in the wrecking of the don bank were back of the scheme to keep Ware in the penitentiary on the theory that ns long as Ware is at erty their own liberty is endangered Various threats have been heard con- this matter It is claimed on the part of the Ware people that they propose to see to it that the are punished and the others are said to have threatened that If the supreme court decided that the board of parole has authority to parole Ware they will come before the next legislature and get the whole parole law repealed Hard to Get Law Repealed It la harder to get repealed a law that gives any Indication of being a good law than it is to get it passed in the first place and there is little grounds for believing that the board of parole law will be readily repealed STIRRED BY HIGH ART DANCE St Louis Pastors Denounce ance of Isadora Duncan St Louis Mo Nov Louts Methodist Episcopal pastors yesterday adopted a resolution which as the grossest violation of the proprieties of life the diaphanous dance given here Tuesday by Isadora Duncan in conjunction with the rosch concert Many of St Louts richest women interviewed yesterday however held Miss Duncan's dance Mrs liam K Kavanaugh is quoted as To Miss Duncan looked like an exquisite figure on an old vase that we are allowed to admire with perfect propriety The resolution of the ministers lows Resolved That it is a matter of exceeding regret that in the name of charity and before an audience of character and culture and excused only by being nigh art a woman clad only in a slitted to the belt of a fabric so diaphanous that in certain changing phases she was virtually naked rising to the horisontal in the whirl oJ the has been permitted to appear Such a performance ever the motive is the grossest tion of the proprieties of life and wo trust it may never be in our city YOUTHFUL IOWA TRAPPED voung Men Are Arrested for Enticing Young Girls Council Bluffs Iowa Nov J Colar 22 years and James R Wilhelm aged 23 young men who Missouri as their home were ar- here and taken to Glenwood Iowa yesterday on a charge of ing two girls Lulu Howard and Hazel Stephenson both under 16 years to this city The four were arrested in a hotel where they had registered from Iowa under assumed names The boys occupied one room adjoining that In which the girls were lodged The young men have been engaged In Glenwood during the apple harvest where they met the girls They hired a livery rig and drove to Pacific tion from where they came here on a train Sheriff Lindel of Mills county came her after the young men The mother of the Howard girl and the Stephenson girl's father came after their daughters LIFE JOB FOR GENERAL THRIFT WITH UNCLE Washington Nov tant General Thrift of Clinton has ar- rived here to accept a position as superintendent of Arlington cemetery General Thrift will remain here six or eight months and then be assigned to the superintendency of the national cemetery on some southern battlefield This will be a life position for him Recently General Thrift has been re- siding near Ark where he owns a fine fruit farm Mrs Thrift will join him here in a short time They a son here who Is a prominent Washington real estate dealer WOMAN SLAIN IN HOME HUNT MISSING Slayer Systematic in Planning According to tim Wore Taken New York Nov stab wounds in a dozen places the body of Mrs Anna Kessler was found on a couch at East One Hundred and Twenty-first street A ring she had been known to wear was ing The woman lived alone save for a boarder whose whereabouts the police set out to discover Mrs Kessler's husband left her more than a year ago The woman's body was found hy her sister Mrs Sadie Altman and a boring tenant The woman's murderer went about his work systematically This was evident from the ot a cuspidor at the head of the couch and the head of his victim so arranged that blood would drip into the utensil not throush floor and leave its telltale on the of Ene in tho floor below Newman is of the slain woman's boarder The police sent out a alarm for his He Is described as 26 years five feet eight inches in height smooth face light complexion arid sandy hair BYRNE By Associated Press West Point N Y Nov Eugene A Byrne who died Sunday as a result of an injury received in a football game Saturday was given a military burial in the academy tery here today STRUCK BY TRAIN IS VERDICT La Crosse Wis Nov cor- jury in the inquest over the body of Walter Jordan of Chicago found on the edge of town Saturday decided today that Jordan's death was caused by his being struck by a train MOTHERLAND FOUR IN FIRE Pittsburgh Pa Nov William Marlow and four children were burned to death today when caused by setting of an oil lamp destroyed their home on the outskirts of this city FAST TRAINS RACE FREIGHT WAR Milwaukee Trying to Beat Northern Pacific Across Continent Tacoma Wash Nov right of way over all other trains a cago Milwaukee and Puget Sound cial train left Sunday night with 000 worth of silk for New York ery and the officials hope to beat to the east a Northern Pacific train which left Seattle twenty-one hours earlier with silk worth This is a continuation of the race across the Pacific ocean between the Blue Funnel liner and the waukee steamer Tacoma Maru The arrived here on Saturday and the Tacoma Maru Sunday Although the Northern Pacific train has a good lead the Milwaukee road by sidetracking everything else hopes to win the long race IS GOOD TO HIS FOLKS Champion Building Home for His Mother and Two Sisters Galveston Tex Nov mother of Jack Johnson champion pugilist is authority for the statement that the champion is building a homo in cago which when completed and will represent a ment He wrote to his mother before the Ketchel fight that he had bought the lot and would commence the tion of the home after the contest Mrs Johnson is just in receipt letter telling her and her two daughters to be ready to move to cago in a few weeks to make their home He says he never will live in Texas again Mrs Johnson My boy has always been good to me and bis sisters He promised to build me a fine home and I am going to cago to be near him He wrote three weeks before ths Ketchel match that it would not last fifteen and told me I could mortgage the old home and bet the money he would win He sends Me regularly about a OIL OCTOPUS TO KNOW ITS FATE TIME COURT OF APPEALS TO DECIDE CASE DATE Standard Will Quickly Hustle Trial for Life Along to Federal Tribunal By J C Welliver Washington Nov greatest case ever brought under the law may be decided any day now In the circuit court of appeals and thenca it will be started instanter on its way to the federal supreme court As tho supreme court has been dividing IB cases for some time past it la very possible the man whom President Taft will place on supreme bench in succession to Justice Peckham will cast the vote which wlU decide this case The case is that involving the life of the Standard Oil company Started two or three years ago it was finally sub- mitted during the past summer on briefs and arguments of great volume It Is now in the hands of the appellate judges of the sixth circuit They have had it so long that a decision is ex- at any time Volumes of Testimony This Is the case in which the was represented by Frank B Kellogg as chief counsel The mony taken makes a long of printed volumes The government leging that the Standard Oil company is a conspiracy in restraint of com- merce the states demands that it be dissolved and that the odd corporations whose properties it took over be distributed back to the original stockholders Mr Kellogg was in Washington a few days ago on business with the de- of Justice officials It Is known that he has great confidence ite winning this case in the circuit court of appeals and that he has expected further to get the court of appeals Judgment affirmed in the supreme court of the United States Test of Sherman Law It Is not remarkable that with a ease of such overweening significance as this one pending a case on which there Is every reason to expect a found opinion and a general ment of the supreme court's views of the Sherman is not strange that there should be prodigious interests among people concerned In litigation in connection with the change In the personnel of the supreme bench There is no ing that in quarters where close de- tailed consideration is given to these subjects the prospect for a over the Standard Oil company has been marked down since Justice ham's death Peckham Against Standard Despite that Justice Peckham dis- sented in the Northern Securities case It has been generally considered by the lawyers that he would follow his own decision in the traffic association cases and hold that the Standard Oil com- pany should be dissolved His removal from the bench opens the way for a change that may be determinative and since the impression has gone abroad that Circuit Judge Lurton is to go to the supreme court confidence in a final victory for the government has decidedly waned This change of sentiment is based on the impression that Judge record of former opinions justifies the belief that as a supreme judge ho would generally take the conservative side and end to construe law in the interest of the great business it is especially pointed out that he had a chance to lead the way to the Northern Securities decision but instead in the cases decided the exact opposite and to enforce the against railroads The general of his decisions for many years has been such as to justify the impression that he would follow the conservative course in all such tion Important Cases Pending Various extremely important cases are pending in which the new ber of the court will have a hand Union Pacific case itself is one ot these He will be excluded from the tobacco trust case In which the court arguments have already been made and which it is understood is liable to be decided at almost time The largest Interest in the new pointment however pertains to its fect on the Standard Oil case which will not get to the supreme court until after the new justice shall have been named and in which a de- has been regarded as very able The government has devoted immense expense and effort to this case believing that it was about the strongest that could be presented for the maintenance of the Sherman act President Roosevelt took the est interest in the proceedings Frank B Kellogg has at various expressed in private the most lute confidence that he would win It What Will Be Should the government win one of the most difficult financial problems ever undertaken would require tlon in the distribution of the immense assets of the Standard Oil back to the multiplied original cor- This would be a impossible task and it would in the end very little good cause Standard Oil shares are now so closely held that the nominal would simply leave the con- trol of this vast series of small cor- in the hands of the small group of men now dominating ard TOM BENTS SUITE Daughter Says it's the peso to Maintain Home There Cleveland O Nov beth daughter of Mayor Johnson will leave with her daughter within a few days New York where Mayor Johnson has ed a suite in a fashionable apartment house Mrs Mariani tells her it Is the purpose of tils family to tain a home in Now York well aa ta
