Evening Gazette, The (Newspaper) - August 23, 1913, Cedar Rapids, Iowa WEATHER FOR Fair tonight end Sundays not much Changs In light and variable City VOLUME 194 CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA SATURDAY AUGUST 23 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT IN CITY THB CARTOONIST REVIEWS THE HEADING EVENTS OP THE WEEK SECURE THE IS FIGHT OVER LOCAL RUMORS COME FROM LEADERS IN IOWA ARE PRESIDENT ASKED TO RECALL PORTERS SAY THEY'RE NOT DISTURBED The Gazette this afternoon received the following from its Washington cor- Washington D C Aug tor Kenyon cannot understand the de- lay In the Huston confirmation as be says he and Cummins have approved of the nomination Senator Bankhead Alabama committee chairman however denies any significance to the delay The nomination is taking ita eourss and will be acted on in due time ho says That a warm fight Is in prospect before any man is confirmed by the United States senate as the postmaster at Cedar Rapids Is intimated in mors that come from Washington A statement sent out from Washington last declared that opposition to confirmation of the Huston pointment had developed among the BANKERS URGED TO HALT FIGHT ON GLASS Chicago In con- ference here yesterday on plans to correct what they consider features of the currency heard George president of the and Commercial National bank deliver a of hope and conciliation Mr Reynolds speech was accepted being practically a communication from President Wilson and a reflection of his Ideas as to the manner In which the bonkers of the country should ceed to obtain the corrective measures they are urging Mr Reynolds ar- rived in Chicago directly after a con- ference In New York with Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo In Opposition In opposition to Mr Reynolds view James B Forgan president of the First National bank urged that all at- tempts to obtain a satisfactory be abandoned until a ers can be organized and authorized to draft a The delegates to the conference which called by the currency commission of the American Bankers association gave both champions a hearing and forthwith appointed ti committee on resolutions to draft a platform as a basis for their future activities All are agreed that the pending generally unsatisfactory The lem before the conference Is to decide which Is the remedy the one proposed by Mr Forgan to all tions or that offered by Mr Reynolds to accept the corrective measures ob- now In the hope that remedial features will be put the till later NEARLY DIES IN BIG BIN OF WHEAT Atlantic Iowa Aug lon colored nearly met death when he sucked into a seething mass of wheat in a bin which contained bushels The accident occurred at the elevator The boy with two boy friends had been playing in the top of the building Nolan had stepped out on top of the wheat when an elevator employe who did not know he was there started tho elevator to load a car The wheat rushing from the bin sucked the boy under all but his nose before the man was notified and shut off the elevator The boy then was dug senators This rumor erable Interest In Cedar Rapids and The Gazette has been asked for mation One story that came to The Gazette from Washington this morning Is to tile that there is to be a battle royal between and Wilson forces This story declares that of the Wilson leaders In In- B G Dunn Jerry Sullivan Bronson have lined up -In an effort to prevent the confirmation of Huston force the substitution of ters The party organization In Iowa as represented by Wade State Chairman Reed Central Moore and others reputed Clark men en- Huston The recommendation was made to Postmaster General Burleson who sent Mr Huston's name to the president and the latter latey transmitted it to the senate It Is known that Wilson men in Iowa have brought pressure to bear upon the president to have him recall the nomination On the other hand the supporters of Mr Huston say they have no fear of the outcome and that the nomination will be confirmed In due time They say several of the men named for large In large cities in Iowa have not yet been confirmed JACK LONDON'S NEW MANSION DESTROYED By Associated PreM Glen Ellen Coli Aug huge new country home of Jack London the author was partly destroyed hy fire last night Only the walls remain London was preparing to move In next week GIGANTIC GEM THEFT TRUST IS REVEALED By Press London Aug of seven European countries who are searching for a pearl necklace stolen during transit from Paris to London profess to have evidence that there la a gigantic trust of Jewel thieves at work internationally At least six gangs are known as members of the Including two American The profits of the are said to exceed CLAYTON CO PLANS MACADAM HIGHWAY POWERS PRESSURE ON By Associated Press Washington Aug Foreign some of which havu the Huerta government In ico are exerting such pressure on it to yield to the demands of the United States that developments may Wilson to defer the of his message to on day Administration took that view today from John Lind described a more dis- position on the part of the as a result of the senate debata here Thursday in which President Wilson was almost unanimously en- In his efforts to about pence President Wilson insisted on original proposal of demonstrating to Mexico the futility of sending an en- voy either In the person of Emilo Ro- baaco or Frederick Gamboa to discuss situation with President Wilson The United States has informed Huerta that unless the envoy brought a able answer to the American note his mission would be fruitless No envoy is not expected but the result of for- eign pressure is expected to bring about important developments In a lew daye President Wilson meanwhile cally completed his message to con- gress and read it over to Secretary Bryan late today CONFESSION OF YOUTH BLOCKS BIG THEFT Organized Robbery Conspiracy ed to Have Been Unearthed at Des Moines Police Seek Fence to Thn Gazette Gazette Des Moines Aug the con- Carroll Balzer which police declare was made afternoon city detectives have unearthed a gigantic organized bery of the C C Taft Company Be- HUERTA TO BACK HE TRIES TO WORK DELAY WILSON'S IS TODAY DEVELOPMENTS IN MEXICAN SITUATION MOVING SWIFTLY AND OFFICIALS SOON WILL KNOW WHETHER OR NOT IDENT WILL SEND MESSAGE TO CONGRESS AS PLANNED DAY By Associated Press Washington D C Aug In the Mexican situation were 1 moving swiftly today to a point where officials expected to determine er President Wilson would read his special message to congress Tuesday Direct advices from Mexico City that Provisional President Huerta might wish to reconsider his rejection of the American proposals before President Wilaon lays the negotiations bare bo- for the world have changed the and today the president's plans were contingent on the moves ol tho next few hours President Wilson Interrupted work I on his long enough today to get a few hours recreation on the golf links Seeks Delay Suggestions have been made to GAYNOR IN NEW YORK BATTLE TO ROOSE ANIMALS By Associated New York Aug determination to run for as an Independent one of the liveliest municipal campaigns New York has seen In several years There will be three tickets in the fusion and Gaynor The Democratic designating tee seeks this afternoon to name aa ita candidate Edward E Call recently a supreme court Justice and now president of the public vice commission The who Include republicans progressives In- I dependence leaguers ad some pendent democrats have selected John Mitchell Mayor Gaynor will run as tile candidate of the Gaynor league with a full ticket be- hind him Tho mayor will his appeal to sentiment In all ties but his chief backers now are the democrats Neither the Tammany men nor the would admit today that the nomination of Gaynor would weaken their strength The organization maintain they would not reach the Tammany votes but would take I from the fusion ticket many I cnt democrats who would not vote for Gaynor as a Tammany democrat but would support him as an independent Republicans and fusion leaders said they expected Mayor Gaynor would draw from the regular democratic leaders who sided with Governor zer in his fight against Tammany District Attorney Whitman it Is ex- would be endorsed by the democratic committee today as date for despite the fact that he is already the fusion date worth of tobacco alleged to have been stolen was recovered in raids made on three last Police are today endeavoring to ferret relative to tho to delay the published reports Mexico City that Emil would By Associated Press Los Angeles Aug W Bull be sent to Washington by Huerta or Young Jr the prize fighter who was confidential mission It shown out lust by Jesse WILL TRY TO LAND CONVENTION OF CARMEN An will be made to land the 1914 convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen Cedar Rapids Tom Avery will the lodge at the convention In Milwaukee the week of September 16 and will ex- tend invitation to hold the next convention here The cial club will co-operate with the men in trying the plum The convention will bring about egates Iowa Aug for the construction of Uio first piece of permanent rural road in Clayton ty have Juet been advertised They call for the building of feet of rural road macadamized highway from tho western limits of McGregor west the North Iowa Pike The road IB tho famous old military highway from the Mississippi weat through northeastern Iowa It was put through hi the forties by the soldiers i from Fort Crawford Prairie du Chlen to Fort Atkinson Emigration to j western Iowa and Minnesota followed It later the towns of Monona Luana j Fort Atkinson i mar and others arther west were j built beside it and It has remained i ways the most Important road In this j of Iowa It is the purpose of tho county nod county engineers to building the highway at its eastern terminus and carry It forward as fast as funds allow to the point near vine where It crosses Into county Tho bids call for an excavation fill of cubic yards four concrete box culverts and concrete retaining wall 200 long and eight feet high AUTO SLAYER GETS 18 MONTHS Driver of Car Sentenced for Death in New Crash Trenton N J AUK B of N J of manslaughter for running hie auto- mobile Into an auto truck with fatal results several months ago was to eighteen months in the cer county workhouse yesterday j Is alleged to have been i when the automobile he was driving collided with the truck Joseph 8 i who was seated In the rear of car was killed out clews that may result In the consideration I at this at tno closure of a big fence tor stolen a to an envoy to the i hospital where an operation vas property States to talk unofficially with i formed early today to relieve cerebral Tony proprietor of a dent wllson Just as Mr dld The surgeons who fruit store H B and It Is that Frederick formed the operation gave concussion lib and owner of Garaboa minister of foreign relations i of the brain as the cause of his the store were arrested Balzer was arraigned in police court today on charges of larceny by em- and the brothers are held on the charges of receiving stolen property All pleaded not ty and were released on bonds DEAD BEER PARTY AT HOME would be tho mnn chosen if such a mission is intended Whether such a suggestion would meet the approval of the United States is not known as yet U S Will Not Yield That tho American government will not yield from its position that Huerta Operation First Thought Success An early morning operation on Young's skull In an effort to relieve a cerebral was at first a success but hospital dants sold a few hours later that the pugilist probably would die before the end of the day ATTEMPT TO RESCUE THAW IS RUMORED LAWYERS FACING RIDDLE WHO IS By Associated Sherbrooke Aug of a possible attempt to rescue Harry Thaw here so alarmed provisional today that Sir Lomer Goln NEW MOVE MAY KEEP HIM YEARS IN CANADA Figure Out Scheme by Which Client May Thwart New York By Associated Sherbrooke Quebec Aug will probably never hava a hearing on the habeas corpus writ procured by his council according to a statement by one of them today The date for this hearing has been premier of the province telegraphed j set for next Wednesday but the entire to Sheriff Alymer asking that official j habeas corpus proceeding will to give his opinion as to whether the Bopped before then if tho latest ordinary staff at the prison was This move to have the writ toction enough against a raid would permit Thaw to The sheriff telegraphed the premier that he had no feara on that score although ho thought an armed guard would be useful to escort lie prisoner to court today Would Manner of Trial In this event Thaw would appear The sheriff pointed out that tho dis- I before n magistrate and select tho unusual precaution against method of his trial whether to be by cuo might only serve to suggest such Jury or by tho court without n Jury an attempt to the or his I Should he sc ecta jury case friends or even to irresponsible sons in search of adventure or eager to get some of the Thaw money which has been prominent in Canadian counts of the case The sheriff emphatic in his assertion that no more guards were needed at the prison Lawyers Face Posers would not ordinarily come up before autumn and a month or more of delay would consequently result Whatever the verdict many months perhaps years of could low in appeals from the verdict ing the life time of this litigation Thaw could remain In Canada lawyers believe and they cite the case Harry K group of Canadian of Gaynor nnd Greene who remained lawyers who were nearly all retained in Canada for yenrs while their by telegraph found themselves con- fronting three questions Who was in charge of his From whom were they to their Third with whom were they to con- suit pending arraignment In the superior court on Wednesday next on a writ of habeas sel fought legal proceedings to bring them back to the United States Whether this course will be adopted will rest In a large measure with Thaw himself DRIVER MAY BARE FLIGHT Sherbrooke Quebec Aug Roger Thompson tho New When Mr and Mrs George York chauffeur held under the arrived hero Wednesday night I immigration laws as having after arrest at its a j Harry K Thaw legally a lunatic to fugitive from it was the Canadian they would take charge of from his cell last night he his case and from them counsel would j -un It that tile Thaw receive Instructions as to the desires family did not come to his rescue tto of the family j would perhaps In Justice to himself Thaw at that time had been warned he forced to tell all he knew abort by relatives In lengthy messages not to escape from ami Insist upon personal Instruction to thus complicate the proceedings counsel It was understood hat his i which lawyers hope to obtain lawyers were to Ignore him in their his release on a writ of habeas corpus to fight deportation Into the state next Wednesday Thompson last night removed the smoked eyeglasses he has worn wince bis arrest and admitted that the name Mitchell he had given the authorities wss fictions nnd J W of was c chauffeur who drovo rho il had precedence the black which whisked In those In Jor Whites slayer away from Ma-.- must bn eliminated as a factor in tho In addition to the of tho reported to be is Young was knocked out last Special to The Gazette In many quarters however the ing of an envoy to talk with President Wilson was regarded as an'effort to delay the plans of the American Something definite however is being awaited by the United States and it unlikely that this government I will await beyond Monday for tangible evidence on the part of the government to recede from Its position The present Intention to have Des Moines Aug only dent Wilson proclaim In the message to Tuesday the policies the night drees Mrs Anna congress i on T t States 40 years wife of vr Linquist was j thp ot in her aged 40 found in her home here today She was stretched out on a pillow in the backyard Police declare the woman had been dead for several hours They found no mark upon her body Coroner Lee began his gation immediately on notification of the finding of the body The woman's husband John will pursue and which of thc world It Is ed here will be firmly supported night and failed to revive four ians worked over him for 30 minutes while spectators stood on their seats and waited for the outcome Cerebral hemorrhage was diagnosed and Young was hastened to a hospital where at this morning a section operation was performed which promised hopefully at first Later however all chance for recovery was given up Those concerned in the fight were placed under technical arrest CONVICTED ICE MAN lund Lena German and Frank three roomers at the were held for investigation The tet admits having a big party at the home They declare all were drinking INDIANAPOLIS TROLLEY STRIKE STARTS TODAY after the seriousness of Young's condition became known Karl tho attorney for tho Pacific Athletic club under whose auspices the con- test was staged notified the sheriff that lie would be personally 19 OTII I blc Ior appearance when desired Ll MILL u was expected that formal action lu u i j fog The promoters of tho fight Thomas J McCarey and Al and tho W C Clausson Davenport Ice referee Charles Byton gave of New York but when Mr and Mrs left Sherbrooke Thaw re- his old and his eight lawyers were in a as to who was chief council Ostensibly Montreal groups behalf hut he Mad nothing In writing to indicate this and with growing I Says It's Up to Thaws tendency to take matters in hla own Sure I'm Roger he hands the lawyers were as to said I need money and help now the and it's up to the Thaws I was Money Doesn't Come framed tip In getting In this and they ought to stand by me now I haven't cent Even If 1 nish bull 1 would lie arrested if I e P In the came made their but 1 stuck to Thaw to thc finish nml I'm the of the lawyers i Thaw In ft cell Gentleman Eight men en limit handle one man s refused even to admit over lease without a definite agreement ns had seen him to who Is the boss Thaw would like j Attorneys have been employed for to conduct matters himself lint Thompson liy the Thaw family and It cause of telegrams from relatives wu was through their efforts that j do not feel justified in acceding to his as i violator of demand laws was postponed until On the other there Is no rop- next U was admitted by tho of tho family upon whom I chauffeur that the Thaws the car rely So far as wo know j lawyers nnd that they Thaw will be released on the to keep nla trap commitment next Wednesday i then turned over to tho Immigration JEROME OFF TO CANADA authorities They will deport till Vermont we have reason to believe I rormer New York Prosecutor Hns or to New Hampshire while we under- Been Sent to Aid State stand that the New York state officials I R have tried to grease the of i Associated i today and the Thaw lawyers were crossed the New York suite Tine fh endeavoring to obtain a statement four fellows mixed up In tb I from one Identified with tho Thaw as to who was responsible arc falling over ourselves said extradition In both these states we are to put up a light and trust IOWA FARM VALUES la Aug idsen of Denmark township In this county sold his forty acre farm for 1240 an acre Mason City la Aug eph farm ot was sold to L M Urdangen Thursday for 1000 This is a top price for farms of this size In this By Associated Press Indianapolis Aug 23 A strike of Interurban trainman on the four tions entering Indianapolis ly not well organized went Into effect this morning on the refusal of the in- company to reply to the re- quest of the new union's grievance committee for arbitration of tho man's demand for a 9 day and wages Policemen guarded every ban train that went out of the city Has Not Been Located After Disappearance Special to The Gazette Davenport Aug C son one of the four Davenport ice men fined on charges of giving short weights to customers who shortly afterwards and Is still mission Clausson pleaded guilty but made the remark after leaving the court room that ho would never pay the fine He disappeared Tuesday and his cannot locate him arrest followed a against ice companies by the state food and dairy commission under the new weight and measures law Clausson was fined The Place Ice selves up to tho authorities when they learned of Young's death It was said they would be held as accessories Jesse who had been placed under technical arrest after the fight last night pending the outcome of Young's injuries was taken Into tody by deputy sheriffs under tho charge of manslaughter immediately after Young died THE HAGUE MEETS ENDS There was no indication however trouble of By Associated Tho Hague Netherlands Aug The twentieth universal peace con- gress will hold the closing sitting when night falls today I The delegates voted to hold the next company j congress at Vienna in 1914 and it was which fought the prosecution was j decided to to that congress the invitation of the mayor of San fined each on four counts Many peddlers were taken In at the Cisco to hold tho and heavily lined San 1915 conference in HIRES Albany N Y Aup Jerome appointed a special to fair play deputy attorney to look after thc Thaw extradition case been instructed to proceed flt once ton In this connection He will i Sherbrooke tomorrow This came this morning from tho of- flee of the By Associated Press Rome Aup Charlton who Is being brought here from America to stand trial for the murder of his wife at Lake Conio three years will employ Camera former minister of finance us his chief counsel FEDERATION TO STAND BY COPPER MINERS SIOUX CITY'S LEVY CUT Sioux City Iowa Aup city tax levy this year will be mills a sharp retrenchment from that of last year according to an informal de- reached by the city council While not all levies have boon mode i up to this time the Indications are that the consolidated levy for all I poses will be approximately mills j a of about 4 mills By Associated Calumet ell second vice president of the ican Federation of Labor arrived hero oday to address the striking copper miners Asked whether thc American tion of Labor will extend financial support to the strikers Mr Mitchell You may hat the American Federation fif Labor Is in full sympathy with the copper miners strike for bettor
