Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - May 27, 1911, Waterloo, Iowa THE FAVORITE BUBAL ROUTE NEWSPAPER Chicago 111 Mar and probably tonight or Sunday cooler night and In the Sunday ESTABLISHED 1858 WATERLOO IOWA SATURDAY MAY 27 PRICE THREE CENTS DIE BY BUCK Such is Threat of Letter Re by Mayor Rector MUST ACT WITHIN 24 HOURS mm IKEI TO cm BARRA SOON AS and Threaten Factions State MAYOR J H RECTOR Letter Suggests Answer be Published in List of Papers Mentioned person who will remove them perma from their present with in four hours or God D you will kill you and send your miserable soul to Holl Upon Inquiry for volunteers to execute this tho undersigned have sworn to carry out the order of our Rlack Hand Society to the letter or pay the penalty with our lives The dreaded Black Hand society has invaded Water loo It has directed its efforts against the Chief of Po lice the Night Sergeant and the Police Judge and de mands their immediate removal from office If the de mands are not complied with before another 24 hours has elapsed the mayor is threatened with death through the destruction of his home hy dynamite This was the ultimatum received by Mayor J R Rector this morning upon his arrival at his office in the form of a neatly typewritten letter which came to him through the mails The document accuses Chief of Po lice W T and Night Sergeant W H Hollcroft of unjustly causing the arrest of their countrymen and Police Judge E P of fining them on false tes timony The closing sentence Yours for Blood and Justice expresses the bitter hatred with which the writer is pos sessed and his evident determination to carry out his threats if his demands are not complied with The letter teems with threats against the life of the citys executive officer if he fails to accede to their demands that he shall remove the police officers against whom the attack is di or if he refers the letter to the police detectives newspapers or government officials May 27 1 Ma pro jr today received a long mes from President Do la Barn him to come tn Mexico City a oon as possible He Inquired also I Gome had for the capita and tho probable time of his arrival already IP to Mex City of Governor Ordered President De la Barra also he had wired Governor Valle of suggesting that request the legislature of that state to pro ceed at once to elect as provisional governor Kr Madero earlier today had been advised that the legislature of still refused to name Car ranza suggesting and CONtY ISLAND IN FIRE Half Million Dollar Blaze Presented Spectacular Picture STANDARD LUMBER CO CHIEF LOSER Mill And Every Foot of Lumber Was In Peril of Loss EVINCE 2000 People Turned Into Hearings on Steel Corpora declaring that would ho sent to Juarez to discuss the matter it Sr Madero desired Advance on Threatened The latter replied thai was his and demanded that he be named forthwith lest an advance on the town of the state cap ital be ordered Compliance with tho wishes of the president and Sr Madero is now expected legislature Abjectly At I 0 oclock this morning a mes sage was received from the secretary of the legislature at stating Five Persons Concerned What the Waterloo organization of Black Handers consists of is not known but from the way the letter Is signed with the word Fi 3 Imme after the Black Hand title and the continual reference to we In the letter It is evident that the local society numbers at least five persons in standing No evidence of the existence of such a society in this city has been known and the as a direct surprise to the rity officials and to the people of Wa Orly 24 hours is tho mayo allowed In which to carry out the desires of the anarchistic organization If at tbo expiration of that time tho against whom the attack is directed have not returned to their stations n private citizens the home of tha may or himself and his family will be blown into by dynamite accord ing to the announcement made by the W T Chief of Police of Waterloo j that this body was disposed to name Carranza and begging that no attack on the town be made and a few min utes later a message of notification was received which read Legislature has just named as governor of the state of Coahuila Carranza who has already been notified We beg you to give orders immediately suspending the attack on this city Sr Madero was visibly pleased a the action of the legislature declar Ing it an index Of the course of leg in the other states Madero Merrily Relieved of the dignity of the of fice of provisional president Fran cisco 1 in the new char acter citizen waltzed mer rily In his home here last night at the first social function cele since the revolution has com In May 27 this morning found a vast trad of tin slock yards nf tho Standard Co a masf of coats HH a result o what is believed to ho an incendiary fire last night gate half a million dollars md for hours while the battled with the flames U was that tho mill and every foot of lumber would bo entailing a loss of several millions The fire was tho most spectacular ever witnessed In tho city and was watched by thousands High Tower in In tho midst of the lum ber district stood a nearly 200 feet high This took fire early As the flames shot from every win dow the sight was thrilling to be hold The flro at tho Standard lum ber yard followed three other fires all apparently of an incendiary na Street at Burning of Amusement Resort Now York May 27 Island lie playground if Now suffer ed fire of its his tory I inland I he of the parks was mil ami about four blocks ad joining covered and resorts of various typos wore destroyed The fire nut at I In the morn ing and was not under control until three hours later wil amount to between two and three million dollars In fill 200 wove burned down and per sons wero turned into street and penniless No lives woro lost The burned arei nearly a third of the mrnt city tion Begin Before House Committee J W GATES TELLS OF FORCED SALE Explains How Hold Was Secured on Tennessee Coal and Iron Co Xo Investigation Permitted 17 IKES OF HUT f composer of the Society TJee B H S Will comply immediate ly Mayor These are the words are to convey to the the information that Mayor Rector has met their demands and are to b published In several daily news papers The anarchists intend to know his in tention tomorrow morning at th latest three of the four tions mentioned Issued in th morning Mayor Is The have directed the attack against Mayor Rector as the chief executive officer of the city A the one who selected Chief Dinneen nd Mr Hollcroft for the officers they now hold the society olds him responsible for their re moval How they think it possible for lim to remove Judge s not known but their demand that his be done shows that they are ig of the operations of the police department The chief of police and sergeant are appointed by the mayor but the police judge is elected by the people The letter which the mayor received his morning from the Black Hand is herewith reproduced WARNING Mayor Sir Your Chief of Police and Night Sergt has unjustly caused the arrest oC several of our testimony and fined by your crooked Police Judge As you are the Executive Officer of your police force and Court we Here by command you to dismiss your Chief of Police arid Sergt at once or will kill you and blow up your with dynamite possibly kill Ing a lot of Innocent people in order to get you You are the person re sponsible for the appointment of above named Police Officials and you are the If you refer this letter to the Poj lice or Detectives or Press or Govern ment Officials we will kill you and your family so help us God We advise you to send for your Chief of Police and Night Sergt im mediately and say to them that their services are unsatisfactory and dis miss them We shall watch you and your residence and if you do not com this letter on receipt of same we will fulfill our threat We command you to answer this letter through the personal columns of the Waterloo Reporter Des Moines Register and Leader Chicago Record Herald and Omaha Bee by wire quick ly as follows The ball was given by the womens clubs of the city In honor of the successful outcome of the rev turo earlier in the Revised losses of nil tires to are Standard Lumber Co Carr Rider Adams Sash factory Flick Box factory Key City Furniture Co This was tho third tire at tho Standard Lumber Cos yards in is months the total losses Although every officer in the city is at work on no arrests hav been made in tbo incendiary fire which swept the lumber yard districts early this morning Feeling runs high and if arrests are madt police protec tion will be necessary Revised figures show the Standard Lumber loss will be with Insurance of bicaRo May 27 With ind thirteen heat prostrations Ht noon suffered the ecord breaking day of a long and un ismil heat today but promise if wan by the weather bureau for tomorrow Seventeen May How Wm H and M Frisk lost one million dollars t Andrew in 1897 through the forfeiture of an option on the works and tha In which T P Morgan M Schwab and con tho of United tn 1809 to head off Mr from engaging in railroad and tube manufacturing were revealed today by J W before the trust committee to Forfeit Option The price of finished steel he said badly In or 07 Mr Frisk and Judge conceived tho of securing an op tion from for his steel plant deaths th bent wave dav before all resulted from Yesterday and the records were broken the thermometer registering 94 12 in the CLUBS OWNER AND BALL PLAYER FIGHT AUCTIONEERS ELECT OFFICERS Ues Moines May follow ing were elected by the state association of Auctioneers H A Dunlap of Iowa City president John A Russell of vice president Frank X Gibson of Iowa City secre tary W T of Marshalltown treasurer D R Moines chaplain Des was named as the meeting place next year ly H S Mayor Will comply immediate and conviction countrymen on Boy Killed Freddie Collier aged 9 who was Diaz Steals Out Into Dismal Night to Start to New Home in Spain Mexico City May Diaz for whom during thirty years all Mexico has stood to one side hat in hand Mole from the capital with great secrecy at 2 oclock yesterday morning Only a few friends whom he to trust followed him to the station Diaz bound for Vera to take ship for Spain In distance he could hear the voices of a few of the more enthusiastic celebrants were still acclaiming the new president Francisco Leon de la ra and shouting Viva Madero So carefully were the arrangements made for the former presidents cape that details could not be con firmed until yesterday afternoon Sec recy was lepn to apprehension of a popular outburst than to a to reach Vera Cruz without the fact being known tn marauding bands along the route Flight Oaring Cold Rain Gen still feeble from his 111 ness left his home at 2 oclock In the morning A more dreary leave taking scarcely he imagined Rain had fallen earlier in the nigh by the time the k from his house the air wa hilly He was closely muffled The outa to the Ran Lazaro station had een mapped out over unfrequented treet Police were scattered along he line Three trains were used the first anting as pilot The Diaz special fol owed and some time later a third rain occupied by a detachment of he infantry set out Those In the party wereGen and Mrs Diaz Mrs Romero de Again we wish impress on you that your life is in our hands and if you do not act at once on our com mand we will get you We are Yours for Blood and Justice BLACK HAND SOCIETY FIVE Xo Persecutions Attempted The mayor appeared conl and un disturbed this morning and gave no evidence of an excessive amount of worry over the letter When T ap pointed a of police he assert ed I him orders to do his duty We have no desiro to persecute any and FO fnr aB I know nothing of the kind has been done Tf perse has been practiced upon any body of citizens I stand ready to in the charges to tho fullest ex tent upon a complaint being made to In person Tf anybody 155 with the way the city is being run or the way the police department Is con ducted thf mayor continued T appreciate it if they would come to ma T will promise a thor ough Investigation and if tha charges made prove T will certainly take steps for the removal of the cers I have ordered the police prs to preserve law and decency in Waterloo and no other order has struck by a Rork Island train last night died today of his injuries The body of Bern Stevens who was drowned while wading the Raccoon river last night was located today by the police State Fire CONSIDER CASE OF Cedar Rapid la May state board of education is today con the case of Professor Holden charged by Representative Moore with promoting western land schemes while in state employ Chairman Trewin declined to Kay whether definite action be taken today or whether the matter would be referred to a commit tee A committee consisting of Messrs Trewin Frank and Murphy will con sider The question of a successor to They pot thf option and paid one mil lion dollar for it Koon afterward de moralization of the business became eU could not put tha through The waa had to forfeit that op tion and not particularly Soon afterwards the Fed eral company was formed thr consolidation of the Steel company the Minnesota Iron com pany the Illinois Steel company and the Toilet and Eastern railroad Morgan Fears Carnegie In or 1900 J P Morgan or the National Tubs nnd was making money Mr Carnegie thon took H into his head to build a railroad from Brie around his plant Mr Morgan heard of it and consulted with James J Hill of the Northern road Morgan express ed fears that if Carnegie Trent into the railroad business he would the railroad situation as he had the steel business and if he built a tube miI ho would demoralize steel prices After considerable talk Mr Hill suggested to Mr that he talk to me about it I went to see Mr Morgan and asked him how to stop Mr Carnegie and told him the only man who had any influence with Mr Carnegie was C M Schwab Washington May be fore the special committee elected by Los Angeles May S Gibson j house of representatives to deter waa arrested yesterday on his ranch mine whether the States Steel corporation is operating in violation of the Sherman antitrust law the in commerce laws or the national DPS Moines May S pins owuor of the Den Moines Western baseball club when arraigned in police court this morning not guilty to a charge of assaulting Shortstop Schmidt ina local hotel last night who was arraigned on a charge of larceny also pleaded not guilty Both cases were Bet for Monday Schmidt claims he was assaulted In a quarrel over five baseball suits be longing to the lonal baseball club swore out a warrant charging Schmidt with larceny ALLEGED MABRAY SWINDLER ARRESTED and brought to this city on a charge that he and others used the mails and postoffice at Council Bluffs la for Marshal Roe today named U J A Tracey of Sioux City as his deputy The new of fice will be established on July 4 FIREMEN YIELD TO ARBITRATION Washington May dispute between the Southern railway and fire men will be referred to the board of fraudulent purposes It is alleged that bankers laws began today The first he was one of the notorious Mabray I witness summoned John Gates gang who are said to have swindled was called to enlighten the members to the extern of many hundreds of regarding the amalgamation of thousands of dollars The warrant for States Steel corporation and Gibsons arrest was issued in October the Coal and Iron company President Storms at Ames Wolgast Heavy Favorite in This Afternoons Fight Gibson waived examination be fore ihc United States commissioner and gave bond in the suni of for his appearance in court at Council Bluffs September San Francisco May mediation under the Erdman act This lightweight champion will be a heavy decision was reached today after it favorite this afternoon when lie steps seemed that a strike was inevitable into the arena to his title The IVP today i against Frank Hurns nf Oakland Odds agreed to submit the matter to 10 to i iro against FOREIGN CROP PROSPECTS FAIR May pros The committee also proposed question ing Mr Gates concerning the steel cor poral ions relations with the Steol and Wire company Transaction a Forced Sale Gates declared that the accumula tion by the Trust Company of Ameri ca in of a great block of the col lateral of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company made possible the tion of that company by the United peels in most foreign countries are States Steel corporation Mr fairly satisfactory The department C he regarded the transaction as a agriculture so describes the situation forced salf Partial failures of the corn crop in Ar The committee on expenditures in and and the hack ibe department of justice was busy ward season in almost all Europe are j today with an inquiry into the affairs the only untoward conditions of tho attorney generals office and Spring wheat in Canada was making the investigation of the nt promise The seed was in tho soil j postoffice department third parties Judge Knapp Burns and many hots have made of the court of c and Dr of even money thar Wolgast will stop Char les Neill commissioner of labor Burns within IS rounds mediators under the Erdman act have I The champion who has been called In ing much in his preliminary DUBUQUE SELLS PITCHER FERRAS work Is confident nf his ability tr Burns crouch and tn win by the route ever been In effect I went into Ing attacks or letters T lent on May 1 over SO per cent of j the land to bp sown Central Europe shows hut fair con ditions Mrs A L Charles rotter Consider Arrest The arrest of J J McNamara in con with the Los Angeles Times explosion received official cognizance through consideration by the commit tee on rules of a resolution by Repre I before th scheduled 20 rounds I a re over i Referee lack will call T today sold Pitch fighters rn thR center of the ring at I If I a of pr to hp Rockford club of the j oclock league who died at Vinton yesterday Mrs Berry was in her year and had in for a number at thf home of her brother Potter could keep busy all of the time Tn doing this T be working in tho open where as my opponents would 1 working In under cover Tf condi In this city are not what they should be the people comn tl AT BURLINGTON CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT IN COLLEGES and Miss Charlotte wnn to Berger of Wisconsin Vinton this morning to the that thp house conduct an inquiry neral rf their aunt Mrs Anna Berry I into arrest and extradition of the prisoners rested from Its and adjourned until For Gentlemen San Felice cigar Mass May 2 Col Porfirlo Diaz a them pe my bands or at tbn Lient Lorenzo and their fam Hes Gen Mannel Gonzales Col Santa Cruz dJ y S Garcia and de la The trains ran orders tn prevent rebels the line up news from the Gen Diaz undoubtedly will make his home In Spain at Ma drid During the recent centennial King Alfonso conferred upon him a title and made him an honorary himself i h in with strth nr ho ath a tun Hut a c of thr ox i I IL I I nil i 11 I m nv I I I f y i rson who will nnt stand hack of assessed a fine of and costs no prat ion lnR proprietor of nf Cat and permanently en j joined from engaging in business Been Mayor Trms n district This is tho tbird term of McCab was found guilty of con mayor by Mr HP of court m violating a former the torm a yoHr ago injunction decree by selling liquor il March and bis j legally This ts the and only vir next April His former chUf of i for AntiSaloon here T X bis term a campaign of a year as mayor Mr bus always against all the saloons j to tbo utmost today in the of tbp an of Amateur of in Stadium Ing out he tr host for erai r the Spanish army Senora was made a lady in to the Spanish queen Gen Din speaks no language other than Spanish and outside of Mexico he would find was a in hp om For many of ho The of lohn R Knt whistle fell from a wagon on which 1 php was playing her home on last evening and broke her most congenial surroundings in the I of the dons Continued on page 8 arm It was a painful injury for the girl hut she bore bravely the pain having It set 27 Markings by Buchanan Optical Co Syndicate block 12 K F jo 3 m 1 p maximum day was 95 at 5 oclock p m Find in Tin Cans and Cigar Boxes in J Keelens Home Kid boxes in Martins So ctar Wept Liberty la May 27 den in tin CRHS and cigar around the where he lived Marshal Wiley and f found over 1 currency belonging to elderly and eccentric West Liberty man who was killed by a Rock rand train east of here evening Koeien who has no relatives here had entirely alone since the death of his second and was supposed to have money but so far as could ever be learned had deposit ed none of it except certain sums in Davenport and West Liberty banks Convinced that the popular Impres sion that the elderly man was well off financially possessing more Marshal Wiley and others began a search of the premises with the result that the sum stated had been unearthed by noon That still more money may he found about the house is the belief here and tha search will not be abandoned until every possible hiding place has been inspected While the inquest is in progress at Atalissa the remains of the dead man have been brought here to await arrangements for the funeral which will he made after the arrival of wealth there was any record of Neb brother from South Dakota Mr Keelen Is survived by his brother James of South Dakota brother Thomas of Lake a sister Elizabeth who to a of a religious at
