Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - January 17, 1912, Hutchinson, Kansas 0* THI ASSOCIATED WHICH It The THE MAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OP THE PAPERS IN CENTRAL VOL. 17, 1912. NO. MORE FIRE IN NEW YORK Big Warehouse on North River A Millies Reported lit the Ten ol KNICKERBOCKER IS SCORCHED The Trust Company Near the Equitable Life Had a Hundred Thousand ol Damage This New 17.-Fire the Storage covering a city block on North doing damage of a million and quarter before the were under rim warehouse contained merchandise valued at Fire at the same lime In the Knickerbocker Trust company within a block of the Bite of the Equitable Old 1100,000 ALL RIGHT AT The Commercial There Is Taking Care of Any Caee of 17.-A special meeting of the Commercial club wait held night to provide ways moans to bring about such relief M possible to comity who ate in ate only a lint realizing the they arc In and also the stock the deemed it advisable to oversee worK and appointed a special to conclude the work by going the business and financially asking for a subscription fur that The taak of raising a sufficient amount of money will be an oasy It has been four weeks since the big snow fell and cold weather set In and In of the wild minora that have abroad about Western Kansas homesteaders in intense suffering anil stockmen losing tattle by tho thousands there has not and will not be an official call made for help from Stockmen have managed to get along ao far with but Hunt action take by the Commercial club is a worthy and lives teal to I lie charity work already by oilier SLAMS Independent the Harvester Trust Jan. 17.--P. J. representing the independent charged before the house committee today that per cent of the stockholders In the beef and trusts control the International ' declared the department of had chloroformed movement made to prosecute the harvester by the fact that the report to the department in slumbered there ever Lowe said last autumn he asked Colonel Roosevelt's advice at to what he should do to urge prosecution of the harvester and Mr. had better come to see me later about said Mr. was astounded to learn that Mr. Roosevelt had Placed a clean of health on the United States steel 1 also received a letter front Roosevelt stating that he could give rue no advice ou the Harvester company and asking me lo drop in any Friday mowing and I'll explain 010 MICE FOR Center Township Man Raid 11,400 tar Hurt Kronen Central township believes In bavins stock on his paid 11,400 for a of horses to pull his farm a few He bought the horses from F. They are polled 3-year-old Belgian and pounds The Racking la Evidently Guilty on That Jan. 17.--Heading of lists of car routes containing 3,|D0 towns in which Morris Company sold meat directly front the car to retailers occupied much time at the trial Harry A. chief accountant fur Morris ft who baa been ou stand live read the list of oar aud explained that they were used to distribute fresh meat In towns where there was Insufficient trade to maintain an stent or a To aonis of Mwao daily 1 these 3,2011 towns Morris ft Company Was brought Into active competition with butchers nnd was obliged to undersell He declared that the packers by of a comprehensive system of marketing their were enabled to undersell the local HOWS TOUR STOCK OF BT THIS CONGRESS TILL Will Probably be In Session When the Are 17.-The and Republican leaders lit the i house today agreed there was little likelihood of congress adjourning fore August It Is said this ability largely Influenced the Democrats In choosing as tne national convention The Republicans will have a more awkward situation to deal with In holding their convention In Chicago with congress In The condition of congress being In session during national convention periods has not existed since 1892. THE MONGOLS ARE BEING TALKED ABOUT May Not Want Independence But They Act Like It a Good St. Jan. 17.-According Information here today several minor khans and lenders who originally declared for Mongolia's independence from China have now sent a petition to Premier Yuan Slit Kal In which they explain that proclamation of independence does not mean complete separation from China If the Peking government will only abolish the oppressive system of fiscal extortion practiced The Insists Russia docs not want Mongolia as a Russian province but that free Mongolia would bo highly desirable Jan. 17.-The revolutionary movement In making considerable Reports of unopposed seizure of a by the and the proclamation of autonomy by the Mongols of that region are while reports reach Peking that the have taken other The attitude of the republicans in connection with the lossi of the province Is being watched with considerable interest by foreign In Russian circles It is contended that there danger of a great army being by the republican AND That Is a Ticket Proposed at a Kansas City Jan. the implement convention here today H. O. director of the national association of credit declared that the election of Roosevelt and Hadley as president and vice president would remedy the business situation which demanded Credit seemingly has been expanded to the n Moore retrenchment seems Elect Roosevelt and Hadley and we do not believe it would be necessary to wait until election for conditions to Moore is In business In this The subject of his address was the matter with time when commercialism has reached Its highest development tho world has ever he are called upon to slow and Tor what Credit lias so expanded that seldom if ever such conditions existed which so affects both producer and condition is not normal throughout the country but as a whole 9c per cent of an average crop will be gathered and It would seem the agricultural situation la not to Business men should In the formation of law the conduct of and for the control of What the country Is looking for Is a great one to tell It not only what not to do but what to and one who would do it. Wle believe we could suggest the proper remedy In four Elect Roosevelt and Lulu jan. 17.-Mrs. Ralph C. known on the stage ag Miss Lulu was given a decree of divorce today by Judge McDonald lu tho superior Recently Mies testified her husband had beaten and choked 5�� mr MINE MEN RESOLUTE The United Mine Workers Want the State to Own All Socialists Control the Indianapolis A WHACK AT He and Mitchell Are Called Undesirable In Resolution Now Being bated Against the Hon of said to be expecting uninteresting family has suffered another which dissipates tho immediate hopes of the birth of another heir to the A FIERCE STUN RAGING IN SREAT BRITAIN A Great Deal of Damage Being Done But Few Are Jan. 17.-The British Isles are in the grip fierce storm which Is creating havoc along the coasts as well as in the A number of small vessels and fishing craft are reported to have gone but thus far fatalities are apparently ' A driving snow is raging In the and making the roads - i CARDINAL Had a Glorious Reception oh His Arrival Home New Jan 17.-John M. archbishop of New came home a cardinal to a welcome that will mark an epoch in his After an absence of two months he was the first ot America's new of. tho to touch home shores as many thousands to do blm Thousands along the line march from the battery to St. Jan. 17.-Oovern-1 at Fifth avenue ment ownership of all was and Fiftieth aud thousands favored by the United Mine Including a choir of six - The which was pre- enCe hu 1)iOKreBg to the Episcopal by the local union of is brief and Is as We consider it would be a therefore be That this convention go Another Development In the Case of HE HAD KISSED CUBA IS WARNED The United States Still Responsible lor And the Maintainance of a Republican Form af GOMEZ SAYS HE'S ALL RIGHT And That He Has Control of the The Note From Uncle San Will Probably Juat en His on record favoring government ownership of all resolution was backed by the Socialists In the convention and found practically no opposition among the thirteen hundred There was little and the result of the vote was greeted with Heated debate followed the reading of a resolution providing for the at the mine workers from American Federation of Labor and condemning the leadership of and John former president of the as with that sleep-producing the National Civic It was expected that a vote on the resolution would not he until late Federation of the resolution In the grasp of Judge Gary of the steel Andrew Carnegie of Homestead tame aud August of the railway workers of New It advocated the calling of a great labor convention here April 1st and the formation of a new national Industrial organisation workers from the yoke of Industrial It Just m M Vay mm 1 CUMMINS WILL And at Least He Will Get a Delegation from Own ilea 17.-Sena'or himself a candidate for the presidential according to a report which prevails his friends today Tho senator is in Jan. Senator today declined to the reports that was about as a for the 1 Save nothing to da with be have say in Tjw Violet Jan. 17 a aged 24, Hoy aged 28, roomers at the owned by Violet were arrested today at the request of the New York police following charges made there by the young heiress Both denied the charges although MeClain admitted the girl had been in bis room and he had Balls P. suffered a serious relapse due to overwork following a recent At noon bis condition is announced WEATHER Jan. 17.-Forecast until 8 in. Far Snow tonight or Jan. 17.-Following Is the notice of Uncle Sam to President situation In Cuba as now reported causes grave concern to tbo government ot the United the laws intended to safeguard free republican government shall be enforced and not defied is obviously essential to the maintenance of the order and stability indispensable to the status of the republic of In the continued well-being of which the United States baa always evinced and cannot escape a vital president of the United States therefore looks to the president government of Cuba to prevent the threatened would compel the government of United much against Its to consider what measures it must take in pursuance of tbo obligations of Us relations to It was on reports of American Minister Beaupre that the above noto woe Minister Beaupre reported from Havana that in defiance of a decree issued by President forbidding officers of the army and rural guard to participate lu which also Is prohibited by military many army officers and rurales ed a mealing Sunday night of the National Council of an organisation of veterans of the Cuban war of The veterans have been active in the last three months lu to have displaced from too civil service persons who sympathized with the Spanish cause in the This move convinced the state department that the situation was the most serious that bad presented itself since the move It bad become evident to the department that President was practically lo resist the movement unless he receives support the outside The state depart went has Inroad to the and after a careful study of I he obligations It has concluded that the time lias come to serve warning that for the perhaps the tbo Slates was prepared to la Cuha It agm Nat got lee oa taat Cuba to liva up w bar and g farai mt daw when the understand the motive of the United States Is simply to discharge the treaty will be Utile dissatisfaction outside of the Veterans So well laid are the pinna or the general ot the tho news of the possibility of Intervention In Cuba has caused scarcely a ripple at headquarters Should it become necessary to send troops to probably within two the first army transport would be sailing for Havana with a fun regiment of department officials do not expect any such Quitt at Jan. 17,-'Absolute tranquility reigned In Havana In spite of the shock of the In the morning papers of a possible Impending Intervention the United States in Cuban The meagre reports received from the Interior do not give any Indication of trouble but some fears are expressed In Havana that disturbances are likely to occur In the rural when tho news becomes more generally TELLS OF REPORTS OF SUFFERING mm That Is the Statement Which Comes From Dighton About Western President Taft In Message ti Congress Told About am Efficiency in BELIEVES IN A MERIT 1 And He'd Put Many live Officers Jan. 17.-Concerning tho reports printed about Western Kansas facing a famine and all because of tho severity of tho winter and the red that will appear in eastern let this statement go forth from Lano county which Is typical of Western We have had a most besieging snow for tho past 2S a temperature from 10 degrees above to 28 degrees below zero havo had Impeded train service In spite of tho very host efforts of the Santa Fe to keep the road have had almost dally while tho Santa Fe Is snowbound our mall is diverted via Ihe Mo. coming In on regular established dally star freight service lias been very only one freight since 25. Stories are abroad about provisions being We are on stock feed but as example will say that there havo been In tho open stock yards at Dighton for eleven days more than eight hundred head of range cattle a waiting the loss has been Just one head and that by Some loss of stock over the county will be unavoidable but considering the severity of the winter and amount of forage available the loss will amount to Bo far as provisions are concerned no one need suffer as there is in more than 250 tons of coal and In one large general known locally as Van's there are enough provisions to supply the whole county for thirty There are In Van's modern frost proof basement more than 1,200 unopened packages of eatables the smallest of which Is a of apples or a 48 pound sack of all this In addition to his open C. J. tho of I Van's savs that never In his twenty of merchandising in has he been kg null supplied to with stand conditions as exist Wo are offers of aid from In the but an their kindness Is prompted by overdrawn reports 1 make this statement as a protest for the sake of the name of the richest brotherhood lu the Union Fit VIP F. Exchange State Jan. 1912, Kan. Pleads Not Guilty to Charge of Jury Bribing at Los Los Jan. 17.--?ettliig at rest minora that he would throw himself ou tlu mercy of tho court licit the former detective accused of Jury pleaded not guilty The trial is set for February 17. IN The Royal Family Their Talk Until Jan. 17. definite action wan taken at the conference of the princes with the empress dowager Discussion of tho subject of abdication was postponed until Friday owing to the Indisposition of tho Yuan 8hl HE STANDS Sees Where Lots of Money May Be Saved by Applying iness Jan. 17.-How the people of the United States may have saved for them millions of annually in the operation of their governmental machinery was outlined by President Taft today In a message to congress on and efficiency in the government the government does with nearly each said the as of much concern to the average citizen as is tho manner of obtaining this amount ot money lor the public Probably iho most radical proposal advanced by the president in today's was that nil administrative officers of the government In the departments at Washington and tu tha field to bo put under the civil bis removed from the of polities and that terms of be not limited as at present to four Kadi officer not be appointed by the president with the necessity of senate he but upon extension of tha merit system to these and a needed readjustment of said have Important effect in securing greater economy aud Tho view that these various offices to be filled as a result of political consideration has for Its eo the necessity that the president and members of congress devote to matters of patronage which they should devote to ot policy and Not In The president did not attempt to explain in detail the work of the economy efficiency commission created by net at a year and half lie sketched the outlines of Improvements that he said could be made In government declared that they would effect a saving of many millions of doll urn and asked that congress continue the commission by Fronting an appropriation ot with for printing its time to ho of tho commission particular reforms would be sent to said Iho continuance of this commission oa economy and efficiency because of the excellent beginning which has the reorganization at tho machinery of this government oa business 1 ask It its worh is entirely nonpartisan la character and ought to apply lo every who wishes to to popular government la. which we a Just I sincerely hope that congress will in anxiety to reduce economize by cutting off an appropriation which Is likely to offer greater opportunity for real economy In the future than any other estimated To date the president the commission has cost the people about Without having put lu effect more than u few reforms It haa suggested changes that will save a said tha only a few of the many services which should be to a like painstaking If this Is it Is beyond question that many millions of may be realized Tbe value at such Investigate i in increased Interest which uf the will take in their own their owu work and that of their he would hardly ba Werk initial been well Thu Inquiry with Its constructive is well under The work should now be presented With vigor and receive the financial support to make It effective the next fiscal Kvery economy has been or will bo elected changes In or will lusure to the benefit of eminent and of tha people lu lug measure through the year I am that which really walls bo or at least caa be a ualy la the at irregular lal on services or af Tha i but Tha la aat one taat aaa iav
