National Democrat (Newspaper) - November 14, 1912, Des Moines, Iowa THE PEOPLE'S PAPER Liberal and Fearless True to Democracy IOWA'S CAPITAL PRIDE Dutiful to Friends Always Progressive THE DEMOCRAT PAPER AT STATS CAPITAL ESTABLISHED 1899 DES MOINES IOWA THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14 1912 NEW SERIES VOL IY NO 1 14 HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS DE CLARE ROAD LAW DOES NOT BRING GOOD RESULTS CANNOT PLACE THE RESPONSIBILITY Improved Highways Are Essential to All Community ciples of State Aid Provides Round Gather Resources Des changes in road legislation have come very ly in the past history of our state in methods of road work have come even more slowly There is no principle now advocated as a step in advance of old measures and methods that cannot be traced back through the last quarter century save only the single one of state aid all the permanent road ing in the United States is now being carried on under the application of this principle but whether it will be used in this state remains to be seen The ownership and use of motor have broadened in every way the necessity and value of better roads and an ever increasing ment is a real asset but the fact re- mains that some definite method of road building must be put into tion before any real results will crue The most hopeful way of ting into operation such a plan lies in the fund Shall the automobile tax be used for temporary work or shall it be used for permanent work? From any angle of approach it would seem that the only answer must be that every penny of the automobile tax should be spent for permanent work In 1911 the state spent more than tin roads and bridges but sum only was from the motor hicle tax the remainder being the property and labor taxes It can be readily seen that the motor vehicle tax in its amount even with the increase normally to be expected can add little the net results so long as It is expended in materially the same way as are all road and taxes It is a conservative statement to say that the-net results automobile tax to date been the disappointed the motorists who pay this tax rattier than actual road improvement The principle of outlines a definite of procedure and guarantees competent and efficient ex- and through co-operation it makes immediately possible road improvement that otherwise would not come for years By placing the automobile tax in a state aid fund the first half million dollars would entail the expenditure of a full lion from county and district funds for permanent work As soon as the first results were obtained there is little question but that the state appropriate adequate amounts for state aid purposes This has been the history of all the other states in which this policy has been once tried Would Extend Mulct Law After every other plan has been tried and been unsuccessful in lating the sale of liquor by drug stores Dr J W Graves secretary of the interchurch council says that if he can get enough backing he will try and have drug stores placed un- der the mulct law by the next ture and further require that liquor sold by them must be on tions only The history of the police court in Des Moines for many months shows that more intoxicated persons are ar- rested on Sunday when saloons are closed than any other day of the week Dr Graves is intent on ing saloons out of Des Moines ly He scores city officials and ers who they do not see what the city trill do without the money from the saloon tax New Promotion Company Articles of incorporation were filed in the office of the secretary of state by the Monti Promotion company of Monti The capital stock of the con- cern is to be It will do an extensive business in the ture purchase and selling of all kinds of vehicles merchandise supplies of various kinds The directors are P C F Par land S A McAller Martin Reidy Peter McGuire Charles Lonhey Attend Prison Congress Judge G S Robinson state board of control and Mott of the state parole board have Baltimore Md tend congress as the representatives of Judge Robinson of the board of con- trol has long been deeply reform the report of the board to the legislature will make recommendations along this line Rates alleged discrimination against DCS Moines and the Iowa state fair to Western Passenger association by H W corporation counsel for at a meeting at Chicago this question of Inat on aga the Iowa state fair came ip late to be settled before the but the city are row urging that the matter for all time nonsuch situation v 11 arise again Iowa Indians Under Observation The State Historical Society o Iowa has become intensely in the research work among the Mesk waki Indians at Tama recently begun by Dr Truman Michelson member of the bureau of ethnology Washington D C An important discovery has been made in the fact that the Indians at Tama resemble in every detail tribes of Indians found in Pennsylvania Oklahoma and Wyom ing leading ethnologists to believe important results historically can be obtained by tracing the division ol the original group into these four parts No attempt has hitherto been made to dig into the secrets which the Indians folk lore and tradition will reveal Dr Michelson being one of the pioneers in the work at Tama His past month's stay on the ation has been fruitful of remarkable discoveries Indian women of the tribe speak differently than The braves never say my as an instance Rather they leave such a phrase to the squaws and call the individual the son of my brother Every verb in the language has a sand tenses Practically by exact count Dr Michelson can vouch for this At every turn of time these In- dians have a different way of saying things in their language Dr Michelson expresses himself as distinctly dissatisfied with the trans- lation of the language of the waki Indians as given by guides and believes a more correct interpretation of the folk lore will re- veal much of value to the Indian tory of the middle west Iowa to Argue Rates The Iowa railroad commission has been informed that several Iowa ies will send representatives to at- tend the oral argument of the inter- state rate and eastern points which will be heard before the interstate commerce commission at Washington J H Henderson and Clifford Thome will represent the Iowa commission and C..A Robbins will represent the attorney general's office The Keokuk Industrial association is sending G F Joy its president John DeWitt manager and J len superintendent of the dam ject and M F Wills Fort Dodge will be represented by ST F Breen of the Fort Dodge Shippers traffic Burlington Commercial exchange will appear for Burlington Dubuque will send W B Martin of the I buque Shippers association T J O'Halloran of the Clinton Shippers association will represent his city and Muscatine will send H H Gould Des Moines will probably be sented by N T Guernsey and Mr Wylie The hearing will have an ant effect it is expected in lessening the alleged discrimination against Iowa in the distribution of freight rates C Road Legislation n The people of who of the larger will be especially interested in the investigation of the history of road legislation in Iowa which has been Mon of the State society or Iowa From the time v hen the first settlers blazed trails through the for- ests or marked paths across the rie to the present day when bile enthusiasts have secured the marking of the Saints Highway and the River to River the of the farmers of Iowa has been materially affected by the character of the roads over which they have hauled their produce to markets It will be generally admitted roads are not what they might be The study of road legislation which Professor Brindley has made should therefore contain much that is of value to those interested in the ment for better roads A volume con- the results of Professor ley's investigations is now in press and will be distributed by the State Historical Society of Iowa some time during the fall Capitol Employes Anxious There is considerable at the state as to the changes that will result in the personnel of the office forces at the beginning of the new regime Jan 1 There will be no changes in the auditor's office and probably none in either of the offices of superintendent of schools or attorney general Some predict there will be no in the treasurer's office but there is considerable un- certainty about this Just how far the will go in the secretary of office cannot be guessed this time has made no an- what he proposes doing It is probable there will be a big shakeup in governor's of- The employes of the executive positions are cure Three members of the tive council however will be new men w New Iowa Clothing South Main Bluffs Capital Capital Grain and Seed Lamoni capital 000 The Beitley company a corporation of Kansas City Mo capital stock 000 500 to DO in application to enter state DESPERATE ACT BY THE ADRIAN OPLE GARRISON ENDS IN ITS BEING DRIVEN BACK RUSSIA WILL NOT GO TO WAR Foreign Minister Informs Servia of States Await Constantinople Be- tween Servia and Austria Averted Sofia Bulgaria Nov ate sortie by the Turkish garrison of according to a dispatch to the Mir After five hours fighting the Turkish troops were en back by the Bulgarian besiegers The Turks lost heavily Reply of Powers Received London Nov reply of the powers to Turkey's appeal for tion reached Constantinople according dispatch from that city to the Daily Mail It is the effect that the Balkan states are prepared to hear the Turkish a basis for peace If the wishes of the Albanians weigh in the permanent settlement of the Balkan question Albania will be made an independent principality as the triple alliance proposes rather than subject to any one of the Balkan states Porte Applies to Bulgaria Constantinople Turkey Nov The porte has applied directly to garia seeking to Arrange an tice according to reports current in the capital Seventeen soldiers and one officer who before the enemy at were executed in the out- skirts of the city The death sentence has spread panic among the der of the troops Not Go to War St Petersburg Nov does not intend to go to war over the question obtaining a port on the Adriatic sea says Sergius Sa zonoff the Russian foreign minister M informed M the Servian minister here that this decision had been reached as the re- sult of conversations between man ambassador to Russia and self V ducted Bulgarian envoy Budapest have resulted Servia demand or the Adriatic This indicates that a peril of a clash between Servia and Austria has been obviated for the time being at least SCHRANK SANITY QUIZ IS ON Would-Be Slayer of Roosevelt Has Hearing Before Commission at Milwaukee Milwaukee Wis Nov alienists began an examination of the mental condition of John Schrank who pleaded guilty to attempting tc kill Theodore Roosevelt Richard Dewey of sion appointed by Judge A C Backus announced that the sessions would be secret and that only the defendant his attorney witnesses who might be summoned and a representative 01 District Attorney Winifred C would be admitted It tentatively was agreed that the members of the commission would visit Schrank singly as well as in a body and then compare impressions before reporting to the court TAR GIRL IS THREATENED Minnie Lavalley of Norwalk Ohio Who Wss Assaulted by Men Receives Letter of Warning Norwalk fear of death which Minnie Lavalley West girl has had since trial here day of six men for stripping tarring the village on thf night of August 30 was emphasized when Minnie received a threatening anonymous letter by special delivery mail The note was scrawled with a pencil in a rough hand and To Miss Minnie You have caused enough trouble in West If these six meir go to better look A picture of a skull was drawn on the envelope TRIAL OF WOMAN MAY CLEAR UP OLD MURDER Mrs E H Raymond of Augusta Me to Be Tried on Charge of Slaying Mattie 1905 Augusta NOT are being rounded up arid other pre- for the trial o Elsie Hobbs which is county court here next Monday Mrs Raymond is to be tried on a charge of murdering Hackett the mys tery of whose death has remained un solved for more than The murder was so mysterious and fatro that it roused the whole of Maine Mattie Hackett the young daughter of Levi Hackett of the town of She was known in the rural community in which she arid was about to become a bride It was just after sup per on the evening of August 17 1905 that asked his daughter to get some food for la young tramp who had asked for and a night's lodging Mattie Hackett was wiping the dishes The supposition is soon after the father and the tramp the barn the young woman was callec from her home by person anc accompanied that person to a about 100 yards door On the return from the barn Mr Hacket and the tramp outcry anc hastening to the spot found woman strangling They carried to the house arid It was several moments before cord was discovered tightly about Miss neck and it was found she was dead The young tramp never was accused of having any share in planning or carrying out the murder Suspicion soon fell upon Mrs Ray mond an acquaintance of the murder ed girl who was believed to have been her At various times the attorneys for the state attempted to review the case and gather new evidence sufficient to warrant an indictment but nothing definite was met last April an indict ment against charging her with the TO CELEBRATE IN OLD WAK ccS Queues and s Francisco Nov o 1 and will continue to celebrate old fashioned new year Sun Nin fortnight of jubilation on- the wane o twelfth moon Leading merchants met at the conn cil rooms of the six companies anc decided that while it might be mon progressive to pay for a cafe ta ble on New Year's eve it was bette business to celebrate the old way Accordingly Sun Nin will with popping of firecrackers the Caucasian calendar hangs upor the walls FOUR MEN WILL GiVE Friends of Minneapolis Fire Offer to Make Sacrifice to Save Life Minneapolis Nov Fred Hooker William Lancaster and G Nelson have volunteered to give from their bodies sufficient cuticle tc cover the hands of E 0 Smith fright fully burned in his efforts to save his four children from death in flames which destroyed the home Physicians declared that unless grafting was re- sorted to Smith who is a laboring man must lose his hands Two o Smith's children lost their lives in thf fire and a large purse is being made up by citizens to aid the family HEAD OF PENNSYLVANIA OUT President James McCrea and Samuel Rea Appointed to Succeed Him Nov At a meeting of the of directors of the President McCrea resigned to take effect January Vice-President Samuel Rea was pointed to succeed him Crea was elected of the road in January 1907 death A J Cassatt Announcement of President resignation caused great prise in circles Mrs Mabel Cory's Sister Weds Sari Francisco Cal Ncv Pearl Oilman Aliaky sister of Mabel Oilman Corey wife of the mag married in Oakland Arnreiter wealthy Mrs was divorced fiom last fall following sensational charges that she had an affinity The are to tour Europe TO PUNISH CRUEL MOTHER Woman Who Attended Picture Shows and Her Baby Starve to Death Is Convicted Mineola N Y Nov ol second-degree manslaughter after s trial on a charge of neglecting her in- fant son until he died of when one year old was the verdict brought against Henrietta son twenty-one years old by a jury here The was the state's testifying that granddaughter neglecting hei child shows The girl will be sentenced on Friday GOMPERS Delegates Hold Meeting at Rochester and Decide Against Labor Head Rochester delegates to the convention the American Federation of Labor will oppose the re-election of President Gompers ilt was learned that this de was reached at a the The ists claim more than one hundred out of 375 delegates composing the con vention Actor Sues New York Kane an actor and theatrical booking agent brought suit in the Supreme court fo Marquard tht pitcher of the New York Giants alleging the affections who is the stage as Blossom Zeeley CINCINNATI LIMITED COLLIDES WITH FREIGHT AT IRVINGTON INDIANAPOLIS SUBURB NINETEEN ARE BADLY INJURED Passenger Traveling at Speed of Miles an Hour Runs Into Open and Smashes Freight Brakeman Tells of Accident Indianapolis Ind Nov een persons were killed and nineteen severely injured when the Limited train over the Monon road ran into an open switch on the Hamilton Dayton and crash ed headon into a freight train at Ar- lington Irvington a suburb The train was coming from Cincinnati at the rate of forty miles an hour The wreck caught fire but was put out before any damage was done Most of the dead were found in the wreckage of the first car The en- gineer of the freight train escaped bj jumping Firemen and police worked at the wreck two hours before the first body was found Holes were chopped in the tops of the cars and the injured supplied with water foi cried pitifully Roster of the Dead dead Albert Allen and wife Los Angeles Chris Mrs Chris Imholt Cincinnati Joseph L Palmer Ettawa Tenn Clifton Cheney Jackson Ky Cheney father of Clifton county Ky Mrs Clifton Cheney Jackson Cheney brother o Cheney Chester Cheney Charles Cheney son of Clifton Che ney William Sharkey engineer C H D Indianapolis Irwin M Wiggins conductor C H D- In Bert brakeman Indianapolis Harold Burg fireman C H Ben Boyle twenty-seven passenger C P Grundhofer Winter place Cincinnati One unidentified boy with clothing bearing mark Are Injured The Fred Emerson fire man Indianapolis Fred Patterson Va trainman on passenger Willis York freight engineer Indian apolis Burton Jones IDay ton Ky baggageman badly Cos man W Jefferson porter J Filer -A Filer Liberty fireman rf reign train badly scalded Indianapolis Mrs Mary Sears Indianapolis Harr Sell Chicago leg broken Fred W Hutcheson Madison Va Mary Hutcheson Madison Va Mrs W F Sell Sycamore 111 Bert Jones pos tal clerk Dayton Ky Carl Gross brakeman Indianapolis Hugh Kent Berlin Ky Switch Reported Left Open The passenger train No is re ported to have had a clear track bu it is said the brakeman on the freigh train had not closed the switch wher had cleared the main track for th passenger train Carl Gross heac brakeman on the freight train saic the switch had been left open by on of his men The two engines were almost com telescoped They reared when they came together and were sc wrecked that is was not until daylight that the body of the dead engineer on the passenger train was found in the cab He had remained trying to bring his train to a halt Brakeman Tells of Wreck Carl Gross Indianapolis head brakeman on the ill-fated freight train said before being taken to the ing room in the hospital where the broken bones of the righi leg were set and the injuries to his right arm were We doubled over the hill and I was breaking ahead I was to flag 36 the passenger then the engineer whistled me in and I thought we were in the clear and the switch was closed It was my duty to close the switch but I could not do both and I thought that they had closed it when the en- gineer whistled me in switch light was not lighted and I supposed they had taken care of the switch I was in the engineer's seat when the crash came The passenger must have been going 45 miles an hour 1 don't see how it took the switch I could not realize that it had started to it hit us and that was about all I know ALFONSO TO NAME WEYLER AS Spanish King and Captain General of Catalonia Marked for Assassin Is Still Alive Madrid Nov o the assassination of Premier Canalejas has revealed that King Alfonso anc General Weyler the eral of Catalonia have been mark ed for death by the Spanish an archists The king has been to take the strictest precautions and not to appear in public unless accom by a body guard which will in sure absolute safety When Alfonso received this warning he is said to have My first duty is to my country and my own protection is of less importance Expressions of grave concern are heard on every hand because of the announced intention of the king to point General Weyler premier to sue ceed Senor Canalejas General rigid ideas of dis which at times amounted tc positive cruelty and which were exer cised to the last degree during th General Valeriano Weyler disorders in Barcelona have him to become one of the hated men in public life in Spain At the sami time greatly feared who Premier Canalejas and then suicide Is still alive at a hospital One the asserti had an accomplice who es Scaped SHERMAN LEFT WIFE Late Vice-President Bequeaths Entire Estate to Dated 1387 Utica N will of the late Vice-President James man admitted to probate be- his entire valued at about tohis wife Carrie The document was drawn in 1887 on a sheet of foolscap paper in Mr man's handwriting ENGINEERS MEET IN TEXAS American Society of Municipal Im- provement Holds Convention at Dallas Dallas Nov ican with about lOfi members present The made up largely of civil engineers and consulting engineers ed States arid Canada Colonel ley of Little Rock presided STORM DOES BIG DAMAGE TO TOWN IN ILLINOIS Terrific Wind Wrecks Houses and Causes Death of Woman at Martinsville Martinsville 111 Nov woman is dead and a score of dents of this city and vicinity are in- jured as the result of a violent storm during the night Thousands of dollars worth of age was done to property by the storm Wires are down throughout this section and it is feared that er fatalities have occurred Mrs George Baker an aged woman was killed iL the city Mrs Baker was asleep in her home when the storm burst over the city Her home is on the outskirts of the town and the wind sweeping across the fields lifted the house from its foundations and over- turned it Mrs Baker was buried in the wreckage and was dead when found Her husband who asleep when the storm struck escaped injury The house of Joe Ryan near the Baker place was All the members of the family were injured One farmer attempted to reach the city to obtain medical aid for a man injured on his farm The automobile he was driving ran into a washed-out culvert and was overturned The driver escaped injury One of the freaks of the storm was of a roof from a barn ing it over and dropping it back into its place The crash broke the walls and the structure collapsed killing two horses PANAMA HAT OF COMMERCE Prized Headgear Made From Palm Leaves Grown in Central and South America Panama hats are a palm of the family which grows wild quantities in the northern parts of South America and America The greater number of highest grade Panamas are made in Ecuador with Peru a good second The best of these each The young tender leaves of the plant are gathered before they un- fold all and coarse veins are removed and the rest is reduced to shreds without being separated from the stem The shredded leaves are placed in large filled with water and of lemons and left to soak for from six to ten days this they are spread out to dryland bleach in the sun Tie are woven block held upon the knees are two or three finest take as many months The best times for weaving are in the early morning and in the rainy season when air is moist In- the middle of day end in the dry season the fiber is apt to break VICTIM SHOT ON TRAIN NEAR PHILADELPHIA WAS TAKEN FOR BURGLAR DAUGHTER AND MAN ARE HELD Prisoner Asserts She Thought Intruder Was Attempting to Enter Her Berth When She ion Calls Shooting Accidental Philadelphia Nov her mother for a robber Miss Gladys Myers shot and injured her on a Pennsylvania railroad express train as it was speeding past Bristol Pa 25 miles north of this city The train did not stop on to Trenton where the injured was rushed to a hospital where she died The dead woman was Mrs beth Myers and her believed to have been In New Tork She was traveling from Salem Va to this city and her ticket was purchased iat Lynchburg The daughter and a passenger on the train named M R Cuthbert who says his home is at Lynchburg were held by the Trenton pending an investigation of the circumstances of the Miss Myers Is Hysterical Miss Myers was so hysterical over the affair that she scarcely could tell a connected story Tbe police were- disposed to accept her statement that she shot her mother in mistake for a robber although an element of tery has been injected into the edy because of contradictory ments by Cuthbert and Miss Myers Cuthbert says he did not know the mother and daughter and only his services to them after the shooting Miss Myers is said to have told the Trenton police that bert was traveling with her and her mother According to the Trenton police the woman said that while lying in her berth she had heard a noise Be- lieving an intruder was entering she Her mother who was ing from the woman's room received the bullet In a statement to the police bert said that his home was in burg and that he had happened to be in j the daughter Says Was Accidental I believe the shooting was ly he continued As the train passed through the village of Croyden Pa at o'clock I heard the noise of a shot in the car ahead I quickly opened the door and saw Mrs Myers lying in in her night dress Her daughter was standing beside her shrieking and in great distress I shot my mother get a she called She was cal and we had trouble in getting her quieted JUDGES JOLT JACK JOHNSON Federal Jurist Refuses to Reduce Bond Bond Though New ity Is Offered Chicago Nov Johnson negro pugilist was dealt another blow by the government when Federal Judge Carpenter refused to reduce the bail from the amount fixed by Judge Landis on the first in- Attorneys W G Anderson and E M Wright of the counsel were in court with bondsmen prepared to schedule property and make a motion seeking the tion of bail in the first true and to fix bail in four other indictments subsequently returned After leaving Judge Carpenter's court the lawyers appeared before Judge Landis and made a similar tion for a reduction of bail The ist promptly denied the motion I have been fair in this case You gentlemen know what transpired in this bond replied Judge dis and anybody who says I am prejudiced in this matter lies Washington Nov reason exists according to a brief filed on the government by Solicitor General Bullitt why Jack Johnson the negro pugilist confined in jail in Chicago on a charge of violating the white slave act should be admitted to bail by the Supreme Court of the United States The eral pointed out that while violations of the white slave act are punishable by five years imprisonment or both are not WILSON LEADS IN CALIFORNIA President-Elect Now Ahead of velt In Golden State by 51 Votes Los Angeles Cal Feb ing to the latest returns Wilson was victorious in the election in California That is the latest twist in the election situation Col velt was leading the Los Angeles counter dis- covered another error in the and figured 51 Fifty-one is the greatest victory either candidate has had in state for two days Bride Victim of 0 Nov ence Dietz East bride months is lying deaths door at victim of hydrophobia Her husband is frantic with grief He gave the puppy is feared prove fatal
