New York Times, The (Newspaper) - August 27, 1903, New York, New York THE Probably showers light to fresh winds VOL NEW AUGUST 27 1903 PAGES Je In Greater New York City and J TWO Was Dawes Commissioner Not Implicated Run as Annex to Land Com- Said to be Difficult to Remove the Offenders Special to The New York Times Aug the Brosius charges involving officials of the Interior Department and the Department of Justice in the Territory land scandal were first published all the bers of tne Dawes Commission were Im- plicated except one That one was E Stanley of Kansas the new member of the commission It is now discovered that Mr Stanley is Vice President Director and stockholder in the Tishomingo Trust Company The whole commission is therefore under fire Mr Stanley has not been long in office He is an of President Ke was a prominent candidate for Senator when Mr term expired last year but was beaten by tive Chester I Long after an exciting con- test ana was then appointed to the Dawes Commission One of the difficulties in dealing with the matter is the fact that in all the ments made by the commission with the Indians care has been taken to make the members of the commission perpetual ties to the agreement in a way to prolong the work of the commission and strengthen its tenure The whole commission could hardly be removed at once officials say and as all seeni equally guilty it is difficult TO make a beginning Secretary Hitchcock is waiting to see if some member will not up hip connection with the companies and so form a nucleus around which a new commission may be built up Among the matters set forth in the com- plaints against the Dawes Commission is the peculiar fact that the Canadian ley and Trust Company of which members of the Commission are officers and stockholders and the purpose of which Is to deal in Indian occupies the of- fice on the ground floor of a business block in Muscogee where the Commission had its offices for a lohg time The Indians when they wanted to their land rights Inta cash were in the habit of going to the offices for the purposes Thus they kept dropping in by twos and threes every day for years until that place was one the best known in the Territory to the Indians A few months aso after the organization of he Trust Company the commission moved Its ill stairs In the same buMing and the Canadian ley Company rented the rooms vacated strange to say the members of tne Dawes Commission kept their desks in the lower rooms and stayed themselves ts officers uf the trust Tarns Bixby President of the com- mission is President of the Canadian ley Trust Company Thomas B Needles the second member of the commission is also interested in the company G W Hopkins resigned as law clerk of the commission and became an officer of the trust company P G clerk of the Land Office under the commission also resigned and with the trust company Indians are goiua to the offices thinking the commission is there They the same faces and desks there sre business in the way of selling leasing their lands to the same men who are running the Dawes Commission stairs Investigation of the scandal Is drawing to Washington a number of persons who are directly Interested Clarence Douglass formerly clerk at the Union Agency where Mr Schoenfelt is agent is here to demand why he was dismissed summarily and later allowed by Secretary to resign Jt is a month and a half since Douglass put out and he does not know yet the charges were against him It is said that the charges against on the acted were filed by Inspector Wright who Is now self under charges by the Indian Rights Association of being interested in a trust company which is dealing in Indian lands and Mr Murphy the attorney who was forced upon the Creeks when they wanted W M who was willing to serve them for 52.500 one-half the amount paid Murphy At the same time charges were filed against Agent felt and it was expected that he also would be removed Up to this time he remains office and no one has been permitted to know what the charges are against him The fact that Mr Wright Is under a cloud and that the Indians dislike Murphy Kives risa to the suspicion that Douglass was removed as a matter of spite for re- vealing some of the crookedness that wag soing on Porter the Creek Chief and other Creeks protested the removal of Douglass but to no The affair for a time likely to Start a thorough investigation of the whole matter of Indian land steals but when who runs a paper in the Tory made a savage attack on Secretary Hitchcock his dismissal was recalled and he was directed in a dispatch from Mr Hitchcock to That is the last he has heard of the ter nnd he hns come to Washington to out what the Is against him on he was forced out Another official who is to look into the charges against him in IB Finer the Assistant United States District A Is expected to Ibis week to protest action in his rase lie is by Mr Brosius with heine interested In a trust company which in Indian lands In viaw of the fact that the orders the he Is one of the Federal official to prosecute of- with frauds on the Indians is srave whether he can make It appear to the of the Interior the Attorney that he should he kent in the service He and District Attorney are investigation by officials nf the De- of Justice as States Colbert the resignations have taken ns a result nf the Brosius i that nf Joseph Assistant United fnr the Western District of the Indian The resignation is tn Sept 1 Xo names of re- or resigned officials he it the here says that intends to keep the ress and the results of the Investigation for the present BIXBY CHARGES Head of Dawes Commission Says He Had 3 Right to Hofd Stock in Trust Companies Social to York Times I T Aug ny of the Dawes Commission returned this morning from Red Minn where hs has been for the Summer Stanley also a member of the Commission in charge of the land offices at came in there will be an executive oi the commission to-morrow In an interview to-day Mr stated chat he an investigation He iNDEX TO DEPARTMENTS stated that he would ilke to see the matter taken up by Congress anS sifted to the bottom He is standing by his guns in the matter of trust companies and says he has stock and sees no reason why he should not in- vest his money the same as any private citizen and that he did not know that being a Federal officer barred a man from private investment He says that none of the companies that he is interested in have bought or bid on Indian lands and even if they had done sn it would have to be done under the rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior who would aiso have to pass on and approve all such Mr Bixby stated that he believed the in- tie up all business in the Indian Territory go far as getting leases and sales of land approved is con- cerned until it is over PAROLE POLITICS Hagan Makes Sensational Charges at Meeting Charges of a sensational nature were made last night at a mass meeting held by the followers of James J Hagan who is combating both John B Sexton and Philip A Morrison for the Tammany of the Nineteenth Assembly District The meeting was held at the corner of Avenue and Street in front of the Amsterdam Democratic Club which is the Hagan headquarters Speaking to his followers James J gah who is the of the Tombs Prison and who for many years was Sex- ton's chief in control of district affairs declared that Morrison the third candidate is in the field merely as a ing- horse for Sexton the present leader and aloo charged that Sexton paying all the bills for Morrison's campaign Furthermore I declared gan that two of the candidates on the Morrison General Committee ticket are convicted felons and I hold here in my hand copies of their indictments and of the records of their conviction Hagan waved the papers in the air and the crowd cheered 1 I went personally to Judge in the Court of General Sessions and had the men paroled after they were convicted yet a few nights ago these men got on a platform and attacked ms and my stand in this primary campaign I have these ords If any one wants to see them over I charge that another of the son General Committee candidates is the keeper of a disorderly In Sixty-third Street and I can prove that fact If any one comes to my house and demands the proof All of the speakers at the Hagan ing charged that Morrison's canvas is merely in aid of Sexton and is being made to detract as much as possible from the Hawaii strength They declared that Sex- ton lives at the Savoy Hotel outside the j district and does not pay any attention to the district affairs except at times right about the primary campaign thermore Hasan In his speech said that he would pay the expenses of hiring St j Nicholas Rink or any other meeting place on any night the opposition desired if Sexton and Morrison would meet him in joint debate and espouse their respective causes He said that if Sexton and rison declined to take part in the debate personally they could name any one they wished to represent them There wera nearly a thousand persons present at the cart meeting and works red fire and a brass band added to the life of the occasion In the crowd were several Morrison adherents who as Hasan attacked them in his speech withdrew from the and walked ui the street while the crowd hooted them The speakers of the evening Included John B Kavanagh William B Donahue Jr jamin O'Callahan William J Graham C Crowe Abe Mullin and Hasan himself After the meeting was over Hagan said that his of heart since last year when he was supporting Sexton in his fight was due the fact that Sexton had not kept any of the pledges that he had made last year MBS DIED RICH Left a Million Husband Said He Was Impoverished by Campaign of 1384 Special la The New York Times Me surprise has followed the announcement of the value of the estate of Mrs James G the property being appraised at It is known that Mr was not a wealthy man as wealth Is now estimated It has often been said that tho campaign of 1884 cost Mr Blaine or more and at its close he told some nf his Intimates that he was then a man Tt Is said In Augusta that Mr Blaine cleared about an his Twenty Years In and that he also made some very profitable investments In stocks The estate is given in to Mrs Blaine's children OF KIELES FOB The May Be for Special o The York Times CHATTANOOGA Tenn Aug was made here to-day that the United States Government has decided to change the rifle with which the army Is accoutred from the to the Springfield The decision was reached after a long series of tests by a special board appointed for the purpose by the Ordnance Department The department according to a member of the board who is here accepted the report which virtually closes the matter although It yet has to have the approval of the General Staff and the War Department Both branches of the is the cavalry and be armed with the same kind of new Springfield rifles and not with ferent kinds as they are at present The weapon lust adopted will be but seven pounds in weight whereon the now in use weigh nearly ni pounds The discarded Krag rifles I as SOCT as they are replaced by ti Springfield be given to the States fc the purpose of arming the militia BOYS MLS illY 01 FRENCH BARK de Carries Off Frank Thompson of BANISHES MOSQUITOES lBo Said io Serve sire for Quinine Special la The New York Times WASHINGTON Auff Deutsche i Kolonial Zeitung reports the finding in North Nigeria of a plant two or three of which when placed in a room or on a veranda will remove The effect Is produced by the odor exhaled This resembles and eu- The natives extract an essence from the plant that is an excellent substitute for quinine It Is not only equal in its effects but it lacks many of disagreeable attributes The Deutsche reports that a great many natives are familiar with a mosquito plant called by them which has similar properties to the one above described Commercial 11 2 Arrivals at Hotels and 8 Business 12 Court 11 Losses by 2 Marine Intelligence and Foreign Page 11 Kew 8 3 IS 7 United 12 11 3 Body of Albert E Recovered NANTUCKET Mass Aug body of Albert Fl the 17-year old son of F W of Milwaukee who wag drowned by the capsizing of a last Saturday was found to-day on the north shore of by Charles pole a Nantucket fisherman A reward of offered for the body will be paid to Stackpole York points of interest ex- by lecturer 3 hours Bail from 2M SL W R A K Feared That Other Boys May Be on Vessel Which fs Anchored Off Sandy Cutters Pursuing Prank Thompson an American boy about sixteen years of age was taken to sea against his will by the French oil-laden bark de for China anil morning The boy before the vessel lifted anchor stated in the most positive terms that he had not signed any papers He succeeded in caping from the boat at one time and took refuge on a friendly water tug but h's friend the engineer i of the to protect him and he was fully back aboard the bark Las it when It was thought that the de Gontant was well on her age to China the Sandy Hook marine ob- servation station reported that the craft was hored outside the lightship On receipt ui this news Collector Stranahan decided to take a hand in the case and ordered the revenue cutter Calumet to go down the bay and rescue the boy The Col- lector himself boarded the cutter In order to see that if the boy was carried away it was because he had been signed in the regular way Up to an early hour this morning no re- port had been receivd from the Calumet and it is not known if a rescue was finally effected Just before the de Gontant sailed Thompson shouted over the side that there were lour other boys forcibly de- on the bark This story is given color by the fact that the police are now looking for four boys who have been ing several days They are Leon Jansen ten years old of 208 West One Hundred and Eighteenth Street Howard A L Singer a son of A L Singer 151 West One Hundred and Fifth Street James Namara thirteen years old of 332 East Twenty-second Street and Thomas Burns eighteen years old of 614 West One dred and Forty-seventh Street That Thompson was shanghaied there does not seem to be the least doubt He says that early yesterday morning he was in a South Street saloon In company with two sailors boarding house runners and two sailors from the de Gontant He refused sign any papers he said but the men win were keeping watch on him were desperate and finally when they saw it would be impossible to get him aboard regularly and according to the of the American law took him by force and placed him in a rowboat off This was rowed alongside the bark and he was hauled on board The story of the leaked out yesterday morning Just before the bark sailed It spread rapidly all over along the Staten Island water front and finally the situation became so serious that Frank West who is in charge of several cotton cargoes at telephoned the facts in the case to Police Headquarters In New York There Is an American boy on board the French bark de Gontant said Mr West over the telephone and he is being shanghaied and if you will hurry up you have plenty of time to get him off Inspector Brooks received the message and immediately telephoned to the Harbor Squad Station at Pier A on the Battery to send the Patrol to to see what the matter was The Patrol was in thi East River somewhere and it was found to be impossible to communicate with her Capt Dean in time to have the boat down the bay before the bark sailed When he saw that He was not going to get the Patrol Inspector Brooks tele- phoned the Eighteenth Precinct at ton to send some men to the bark and K it appeared that the story that had been telephoned was true to take the boy off the boat The result of this order was the dispatch of two wardmen to the water front when they reached the shore the wardmen looked intently around for a time in search of a bark flying the tricolor but were unable to locate any such craft They then made a long and explicit report of what they had been unable to find which they turned in to the desk at the station In the meantime Police Headquarters had communicated with the Collector of the Port Nevada N Stranahan and Informed him of the situation Mr Stranahan was told of the failure to locate the Patrol and asked if he would not order one of the revenue cutters down the bay to rescue the boy Mr Stranahan had all of the stations called where revenue cutters are and found he said that none waa available He then telephoned the antine station and was Informed that the bark had passed that point in tow of the tug Mutual some time before and that the vessel was then probably at sea and being outside the three-mile limit was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal authorities The men responsible for the promulgation of the story e Capt ton Engineer John McDonald of the water tug Scandinavian Sandy Hook Pilot ham Kooney and Mr West McDonald tells the most complete story of the affair This he said last night a short time before the de sailed we went alongside to try ami her drinking water for the voyage nnd Capt went on board to terms Soon after went aboard I heard the noise of a scuffle I was on deck at the time and of course I wan to know the cause of the I didn't have to wait long In less than a minute I was astonished at seeing a young boy come up from below as fast us he could and followed by three burly sailors The boy looked to be frightened almost out of his wits and dashing to the rail he climbed up on It quickly and plunged into the water He swam around for probably a minute or two before I could get a line to him and haul him on board the tug When I got him on and when he had to a certain extent re- gained his composure I asked him what the matter was He told me his story For God's sake save the lad said to me I have been shanghaied and I wunt to get ashore These men are all men and I am an American boy and I don't want to go to sea with them I haven't signed any papers they haven't any right to take me so please help me out I was awfully sorry for the poor little chap and I told hirr that they couldn't take him off this tug without consulting me and that I didn't intend to stand around and see a lot of Frenchmen shanghai an American boy McDonald was as good as hla word and when u minutes later throe sailors from the bark boarded the tug he felled the first one over the rail with a right-hand swing to the Jaw Then the other two got on and finally succeeded despite the heroic struggles of McDonald In recapturing the boy after which they put him back On the berk A few minutes later the da Gontant lifted anchor was taken in tow by the tug Mutual and proceeded to sea The last thing Thompson said before he was hustled below was a cry to McDonald to save him There's four boys locked up down down below While all going on revenue cutters comprising the international vacht race patrol fleet were anchored within a stone's throw oj the de Gontant Despite Mr statement that no revenue vessels were available the ple filong the waterfront said that the only thing that engaged their re- crews during the controversy over Thompson was taking on board fancy drinks and dainty food for the guests going to yacht race Several boatmen it was had around among the fleet acquainting them with Thompson's predicament out not a boat responded to the appeal for aid Kooney the Sandy Hook pilot who piloted the de Gontant out of the was in and last night he said that Thompson had been locked up in one of the cabins and that tho boy fought and for mercy and ance all the time fie was on the boat I told Capt said Rodney ought to give the boy a hearing he replied that Thompson bad signed regularly and that he didn't propose to let him out of the cabin and give him another chance to jump overboard The de Gontant arrived at New York July 0 and was scheduled to sail Aug 20 but did not sail on that day owing to the fact that she had been unable to ship a crew It was then it that the two South Street runners were appealed to and began to get a crew together W R Grace Co are consignees of the bark de Gontant when she ar- rives here from Eastern waters After she discharged her last cargo from the China seas she was chartered by Philip Co foreign shipping de- to take a cargo of and wax to Yokohama The bark was loaded a week ago and has been anchored In the stream off Tompkinsville since then ing final clearance At the office of Philip Huprecht In the Standard Oil Building no word of the posed of a boy had been received yesterday afternoon The ber of the staff who has had charge of tne bark while loading and who attended to her clearance and final departure for sea said yesterday I don't think there is any truth in the story Capt is a typical mariner and I don't think he'd stand for any such business For a week no one has come ashore from the ship but Capt Dennierre and I am sure he would not shanghai a boy So far as I know the bark is on her way to sea in good trim all regular and with no reason to make a port of call until she reaches Yokohama A WEST Miss Hamilton Met Lieut Hinkle and Poems and Wedding Followed Special to The New York Times ALBANY N Y Aug West Point Military Academy romance culminated last evening in the marriage of Miss Marion Ethel Hamilton daughter of Frank Hamilton and Lieut Francis Maurice Hinkle of South Bend Ind Artillery Corps United States Army The ceremony performed at the residence the bride's parents on Hamilton Street The National colors formed the greater part of the decorations The bride was attended by Miss Bertha Stevenson of South Bend Ind while the best man was Lieut Harry Surgison Grier of Allegheny Penn Twenty-fifth try United States Army a classmate of the bridegroom The Rev Dr W fellow Pattison of Peekskill of the bride officiated Lieut Hinkle and his bride will spend their honeymoon about New York the Lieutenant being stationed at Fort Hamilton prior to being dispatched to the Philippines The ceremony was to have been formed in September but the orders to proceed to the Far East hastened it Hinkle served In the Spanish-American war and then entered West Point ating last June Two years ago at the commencement ball Miss Hamilton met Lieut Hinkle and the result of the meeting was poems on cadets cadet life and West Point by Hamilton which appeared In magazines and other periodicals TO DINNER Kaiser to Entertain Officials and nent Inhabitants of BERLIN Aug William has Invited to dinner In the Castle and on the grounds at Cassel on Friday civil of- and prominent inhabitants of the Province of Hift Majesty will Jat j dinner all the officers the Eleventh Corps from the rank of Major upward METHODIST DEACONESSES MEET mm Six witta la Conference at Special to The New York Times OCEAN GROVE N J Aug than 100 deaconesses of the Methodist Episcopal Church together with five Bishops of the same denomination are Ing a conference over the work of the deaconesses The bishops are E G An- drews of New York James N of St Louts Charles H Fowler of falo John M Walden of Cincinnati and D A Goodsell of Chattanooga The gathering was ordered by the last General Conference and will recommend improvements in the work of the deaconesses At the camp meeting to-day sermons were preached by the Rev Dr Gross Alexander of Nashville Tenn the Rev Dr Joseph H Smith of Red Lands Cal and the Rev Dr Crydenwise of the Wyoming Annual Con- ference At the Young People's Meeting this morning fifty penitents asked for prayer Mrs Margaret Bottome of New York was the principal speaker at the holiness meeting NOTED IS DEAD Mr WHS Said to ried Special to The New York Times WILKESBARRE Penn Aug Rev George of whom It was said that he married Jay Gould when the latter was nineteen died to-day in aged eighty-three years The assertion was made five years ago by a woman who claimed a wife's share of the Gould estate She said she had married Mr Gould in a small town in Upper New York State near House's Point and the ceremony had beea performed by Mr Leighton then an active Methodist ministr She had no marriage certificate although she had other ments The case hinged on Mr ability to prove the marriage He was then years old He could re- member marrying several young couples at the time described but he could not lect either names or faces and had no record of the wedding HUNT to be Concerned in an Indiana Incident Special to The Times DUBLIN Ind Aug A score of Con- farmers are hunting four men who attempted on Tuesday night to kidnap the daughter of Mrs D T Hedges The father who formerly was a miner at became a Mormon leaving his family He is believed to be back of the effort to gain possession of the girl and take her to Salt Lake City A number of Mormons or men supposed to be Mormons been seen In the neighborhood recently and Mrs Hedges no- the City Marshal that she had been informed that an attempt would be made to kidnap her girl The Marshal put a guard about the house but tn his absence a man seized the girl who was sitting alone on a veranda and tried to carry her off The child's screams brought assistance and the man escaped HIS SOHT Russians Encouraged to Strike and Then Abandoned The Minister First Forbade Military Interference and Later Ordered the Sternest Measures in Odessa LONEON YORK TIMES Special Cablegram LONDON Aug dispatch from Warsaw to The Times gives particulars of the strike movement in Odessa which began on Tuesday July 28 by the strike of a number of men The Mayor of the town fearing dis- requested Governor General to take military precautions for the preservation of life and property Gen replied that he was to act without instructions from St Petersburg and promised to with M de the Minister of the Interior M ordered that there be no Interference with the men's efforts tu better their working position so long as the methods employed were peaceful When the employers and influential persons appealed to the Governor eral for assistance on Wednesday Gen It Is the will of God but I am out orders from the highest authorities actively to interfere By Wednesday night a general tion of work had been brought about by leaders of the Independent Labor under the guidance of two ment agents named and batoff who inculcated on the workers the necessity of company with the Social Democratic revolutionary ty in which case it was asserted they would have the sympathy and passive assistance of M and the in their struggle with the On Thursday the strikers gaining courage in the absence of Interference went to the harbor boarded vessels there hauled down the flaga and compelled the laborers to cease As tiia ers action created a panic to the town a number of persons including tna mander in Chief of the forces in South Russia met and dispatched a message to M Petroff Minister oT- and Tele- graphs the state of affairs and imploring to bring the matter to the notice of the supreme Government authorities in at Petersburg The commander of the forces in South Russia announced his intention of ing troops to the town These had scarcely arrived when Gen J re- an express telegram ordering him to hand over Odessa to the military On Friday Instructions were received from St Petersburg to the effect that the must public ings and threaten those refusing to dis- perse with force of arms M de made a turn and telegraphed enjoining the necessity of the severest measures In putting down the disorder In the afternoon a monster meeting of strikers was held outside Social Democrats harangued the strikers nnd cries of Down with the with the were raised The thereupon dered the strikers to disperse and upon their refusal surrounded and charged the crowd plowing lanes through the dense mass and the strikers with their murderous whips injuring 800 persons M de Is have played a most discreditable in the matter who are to on ah expedition to Africa to investigate the situation The Russian delegates opposed the project and left as a protest The territory that Great Britain has of- for colonization is an elevated tract 200 long on the Uganda Hallway be- tween Mau and Nairobi Sir Harry ston Commissioner for the da Protectorate in on the try described this region as In tropical Africa admirably watered fertile cool noble forests almost uninhabited and as healthy for Europeans as Great Britain f Aug following cable message was sent tc Leon gate to the International Congress of ists at Basel last Urge congress to leave African tion to Executive Committee Zion not to be abandoned until all efforts exhausted BERNARD HORWICH For Chicago Zionists The action was the result of a meeting of thirty leaders of the local Zionist ment It is believed that the message voices the sentiment of a majority of the ortho- dox Jews of this city At the meeting addresses were made by I Glek M of the Jewish Courier Bernard Horwich H others If we abandon the Palestine tion project Zionism Is declared nard Horwich our efforts have been directed toward the Jewish Nation in Hon East Africa may be a de- sirable place for colonization but it is not our AT Californians Say They Were Triel in an Oil Deal i in for Child Array Special lo The New York Times Aug F ler aged fifty-two was arrested to-day with his four-year-old son on a charge of kidnapping the boy and for contempt of the New York Supreme Court which had given the custody of the lad to Its mother Mrs Catherine Schuyler of cuse N Y The boy cried to remain with his father Schuyler when put in his cell Bald that It would be the first night since June 7 that the boy had not rested on his bosom Superintendent of Police Wright of cuse telegraphed he would be here with requisition papers to take Schuyler to New York Landmark of History on the famed Hudson best seen from deck of f J BRITISH OFFER TO JEWS Committee to Visit the Region ed for Settlement Which Haa Many Features in its Favor LONDON Special LONDON Aug Times the text of a letter from Sir ent Hill Superintendent of African under the Foreign Office to Mr Greenberg a British delegate to the Zionist Congress on the subject of the proposed colony in British East Africa Sir Clement saya that the Marquis of Lansdowne the Foreign Secretary has studied the question with the interest which the Government must always take In any well-considered scheme for the amelioration of the position of the Jews Time is not sufficient to go fully Into says Sir Clement but If a able site can be found Lord Lansdowne is prepared to entertain favorably for the establishment of a Jewish colony in such manner as to enable Its members to observe their national toms and IB prepared to discuss the de- tails of the scheme This would include the grant of a con- area of land the appointment of a Jewish official as chief of the local administration and permission to the colony to have a free hand In municipal legislation The British Government would retain the right to exercise general control and would reserve the right to reoccupy the land If the settlement should be unsuccessful By The Associated Press BASEL Aug debate in the ist Congress on the British proposal to set apart a portion of British East Africa lor colonisation by the Jews closed to-day The congress by 225 votes to ITT adopted a resolution appointing a committee of nine Burnett's of Is the test perfectly pure highly SAY HE STOLE Co Make the Charge Against Howard T Special fo New York Times Aug ard T Goodwin who in- December of last year committed suicide had during a period of years misappropriated cash stock nnd bonds to the extent of or more was declared to-d ly in a in filed by Cassatt Co bankets Goodwin was the manager of the firm at the time he committed suicide Suit was begun on behalf of the brokers It was directed against Lizzie K Goodwin trix of the estate and asked that she be directed to render an accounting of all erty left by her iate husband including real estate ait treasures rare books and shares of stock alleged in the that Goodwin during his career as the trusted of the concern had made away with large sums said to amount to and that his property had been purchased with money which rightfully belonged to others Only in the extent of the amount was the news of the alleged shortage a surprise It known at the time of Goodwin's death that he had been plunging stock market and he was supposed to have been interested in Consolidated Lake Superior It was also said that he was in- in several promoting schemes that had been financial failures A few days ago the affairs of Goodwin again came before the public when his collections of rare books advertised at auction The catalogue the boots reveals the fact that ands and tens of thousands of dollars had been expended In gathering his great and rare literary collection It included among old books three umes of a special edition of con- for at a cost of There were to have been twenty-five volumes in collection of rare books was advertised down at the time of The text Was printed on pure vellum on one side 01 the page only Bach page was illuminated by hand in water colors The volumes were bound in full crushed levant morocco gilt and tooled with an Inside of contrasting leather Each book is laid in a box Thousands of other volumes of special editions of rare first editions some of them costing thousands of dollars were in the library His art treasures also are said to have been extensive but of much less value than his books He was possessed his friends say of a veritable mania for book collecting ST LOUIS STORE IS SUED Bankruptcy Proceedings Instituted Against the Meyer Dry Goods Company Special to The New York TIKIS ST LOUIS Mo Aug in bankruptcy against the Meyer Store Dry Goods Company in the ed States District Court this morning by I of New York the Sloan Millinery Company of St Louis and John Pullman Co of New York as petitioners The petition which was filed by Attorney Albert Arnstein asks that a subpoena be issued against the Mayer Store Dry Goods Company to have it adjudged a bankrupt in accordance with the law passed by Con- gress governing such proceedings The petitioners allege that the company is insolvent and that within four months before filing of this petition It transferred part of its property to preferred creditors in payment of antecedent debts Officials of the Meyer Store Dry Goods Company were Interviewed concerning the petition They declined to make a statement on the ground that the petition had not been for- mally served upon them at the time and they were unacquainted with its contents HUGHES from County ni Home SANDY HILU N Aug William B of Granville from Washington County and nominee for re-election has returned to his home accompanied his mother Bankruptcy proceedings against Gen Hughes are in this county left here when these proceedings were begun some weeks ago VETERAN UNITE National Organization a Home to Built TEHRE HAUTE Ind Aug North American adjourned day to meet in St Louis in 1904 As a re- sult of the sessions a of men who served In the German Army has been formed Richard Mueller of New York City is its President and it is known as the National One of the projects drafted after the was to build and maintain a home for naturalized German soldiers who become sick or disabled The New York society lias already raised toward such an Institution The constitution provides for a National encampment every two years BIG FIEE IN PHILADELPHIA One of I- eat Bakeries in the City Totally Destroyed PHILADELPHIA Aug ba- kery occupying about half of a block In the southern section of the city was de- by fire to-day The loss Is mated at Ten small dwellings In the rear of the bakery were badly damaged and the pants became panic-stricken during the fire No one however was injured was one of the largest la the city employing 250 men Twelve of these in the building when the fire all narrowly escaped with their lives The fire began in the bake house Men Who Subscribed for bands Learn That the Paid Nothing Special tc The New York Times LOS ANGELES Cal AUg prominent residents of Southern including leading nien in are threatening suit against United States Senator Bard a half a of his friends they were tricked in an oil deal Involving When the fever was at Us height in California in August 1000 Bard Oil and Specialty Company formed with capitalization of Among the leading men in It werfe John B Matthews Thomas Charles H Toll United States H Valentine Arthur Kinney and Ware -i It was proposed to purchase from tor Bard rights on of land in the oil belt County cash It was understood that Senator was to pay all the for effecting the deal and was to turn over V to the company clear title to the which included good producing wells No attempt was made to sell stock but prominent men of approached and invited to In the ground floor Owing to reputation of Senator Bard and the at the head of the company no was experienced In raising the essary in cash The money Was C turned over to Senator Bard and he the company title Up to this point everything was perfectly satisfactory and those who had been for- enough to get In on the floor were felicitating themselves their good luck Then came ening Money was needed to property and it appeared that several of the heavy stockholders among them a few of the most enthusiastic of the promoters were decidedly opposed to payment of Then it was declared that only actually had been paid in cash and that the checks of a number of the promoters been returned to them by Senator Bard as and that they fore had received their pro rata of the stock without having any equivalent ex- cept to get the subscriptions of Such men as Herman W Hellman United States Circuit Court Judge M Ross United States Circuit Judge Morrow of San Francisco A J of the United States Land Office P W Braun wholesale druggist A K Nattier W H Perry and others who for stock and paid their money in good faith were indignant at what they regarded as a breach of faith They have demanded explanations United States Attorney Valentine who conducted the negotiations with Senator Bard acknowledged that checks to the amount of had been returned as and that the subscribers had been assessed 33 per cent by the promoters for the privilege of getting in on the ground floor George J Denis Max Loewenthal and Henry W have been retained to look after the Interests of the subscribers Major H T Lee is said been re- as consulting attorney with Valentine on the side Senator Bard is in Europe and has made no direct statement His political enemies are making capital of the affair but it turns out that before going abroad he made the positive statement that he would not be a candidate for re-election to the Senate A fight is being made for the place by Henry T Oxnard the sugar king TRUSTS LOCAL AUTHORITIES Governor of Massachusetts Declines to Use State Power to Suppress BOSTON Aug John L Bates to-day made reply to F C who as attorney for the petitioners presented the Governor on Aug 8 a signed petition protesting against the selling of pools and other gambling at race tracks which we understand is being on in this State contrary to law The Governor says that in reply to In- sent out by Chief Wade of the district police the local chiefs throughout the State with one exception answered that they were able to enforce the law and would do so The exception was the Chief of Police at Saugus who replied that he would refer Chief Wade's to the Selectmen The Governor further I believe that the localities not only can be but ought to be entrusted with the enforcement in good faith of all the laws of the State and it is not my purpose to Inter- fere with them except where it Is evident they are not acting in such good faith or that they have not an adequate force to vindicate the law Show me that either of these conditions exist you show me a serious situation that not only will demand but will receive the immediate attention of the Chief of the District Police HOME FOB Bnya the Poindexter Coras Special to The New York Times GREENWICH Conn Aug became known here to-day that of the Treasury John G Carlisle had purchased Hillside for seven years the home of Alfred an insurance broker of SO iam Street New York and one of the show places o the town The property is in a suburb taken into the corporate limits It comprises about three acres standing oa a high elevation commands a magnificent watar It can be reached from the shore in about five minutes by trolley The house has eleven rooms and a feature is e sixty foot veranda extending along the side Mr when seen In this city yesterday in regard to the sale of Ms estate confirmed the story The he said was a- part of the old Mead estate and the price paid was the deal Ing been consummated about a month eco He did not know just what Mr intentions were in regard to the but he understood that he had it for Summer occupancy A HAUL OF PICKPOCKETS Several Notorious Captured at by Detective to New Yorl Tima N Y Aug Sergt John McCauley of the Now Central Office made a wholesale haul ot pickpockets and at Goshen races to-day Among the notorious crooks captured were Johnny known who has just boen released from Stetson and Mike Ryan altas Slim The York have been looking for Slim Syan some time William Martin who has a being able to work alone was general principles by as soon as ha left the tram are now in the doshen Jail from the Central To All of points nf Intermit In oily with speedy luxurious Mew Tark Transportation
