Waterloo Reporter, The (Newspaper) - December 30, 1911, Waterloo, Iowa p News Section 4 72 Pages IN 1868 NUMBER 4405 LEADERS IABBED RESULT PROBE RIO INDICTED BY THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN LOS ANGELES RE IN WITNESS ROOM IN BUILDING COUNCIL AND IRON WORKERS A Tveitmoe j E And Anton Charged with In Plot I Angeles Dec A secretary and treasurer of e state building trades counsel J Munsey leader of the Salt Lake union of Structural iron Work and Anton the counsel fere by the federal Tiad connection with the al ged national belr f The three labor leaders wh o have pen for some time as witnesses in fce government dynamite probe were In witness the deral building a few minutes after me Indictments were filed of aed any surprise and when told Deputy U 9 Marshal Sittel that were under for alleged with the nnd at once in the federal proceeded there without a brt TRAIN I THROWN ED AND MANY INJURED ON r NORTHERN Suffering py Interne Cold at Scene of tho Aheta N D Dec Into t ditch by a broken rail train No 3 town as Oregonian on the Great killed at least per ons and Injured others frly today two and miles uthof Sharon Steele equity 1 General Manager car was attached and his car and observation Vero remain on be rails The fatalities occurred In and the bodies were by the in pe debris With thermometer registering 12 below zero and a strong wind the passengers suf ered much before they could he glv In aid The managers car Ind observation car were transferred Into temporary hospitals while some f the victims were taken to farm uses The heavy locomotive it appears broke one rail hurling cars from the Irack Into the ditch General Manager cars and observation car saved on account of being at the fear of the train The train left St night nd was due at Shanon at The occurred ft tcvr minutes be fore that time W A FRENCH WILL FOB HAS DONE MUCH TO ASSIST IN OF THE CITY Business Career la One That Inspires Confidence in Executive Ability of Candidate W R French today authorized the announcement of his candidacy for the office of mayor of Waterloo at the election next spring This announcement will be received with genuine pleasure by the hosts of friends who have been urging him to consent to be a candidate WR French iB a product loo and for over a quarter of a cen W aj FRENCH tury he has grown and developed with the city contributing bis share and more to For nine years lie has served as councilman from the third ward and in all that period no man has given more of his time and labor than has he Thoroughly equipped for the larger duties In the line of city build ing the service of Mr French In the department of street and alley de velopment and maintenance has been all powerful In result and achieve hient Day in day out before break fast and after the evening meal he has labored for the cause of city ad vancement There probably Is no man within the limits of Waterloo who has a keener knowledge of the needs of the city or who hetter understands the best procedure to secure the desired results Mr French not only possesses the facility of mechanical and construct ural ability anil experience but Is In addition a splendid business man a thorough accountant and a master of not only the large but the smaller de tails that go to malte a success ot any private or public administration Having recently retired from a BUC business career he has the time and energy ot an active hustler and devotee to the citys Interest Ho possesses all the attributes of the typo of man that does things If the people so will It ho would undoubted ly make one of the best mayors the city of Waterloo ever had WATERLOO IOWA SATURDAY DECEMBER 30 1911 Splendid Modern School To Be Erected In Lindea Place East Waterloo School Board Adopts Plans and Be Built at Notable Improvement for 1912 TEN CENTS A WEEK SLOW BUT WATCH OUT NEAR WEST IS SUFFERING FROM GREAT COLD FIERCE SNOW IN NEBRASKA DROPS FAR BE LOW ZERO MARK Reaches Western Border of Iowa In Early Are Late Kansas City Dec snov falling over the central and southwest from Texas Panhandle to the Dako tee the thermometer early today reg in Dakotas Nebraska and Kansas and northwestern Missouri a fall of from 15 to 20 degrees since yesterday Tile cold wave and snow was central in the southwest and moving toward the Mississippi valley Driving snow in western Kansas and Nebraska delayed train service and caused much suffering among live stock Temperatures ranged from be low in South Dakota to 18 above at Oklahoma City At North Platte Neb it was K below Omaha 4 below Dodge City and Concordia Kan zero at Des 16 above Kansas City 15 Wichita 6 Heavy rain fell in Arkansas and Louisiana Local fore caster predicted a still lower drop to night and tomorrow Ten Below at Norfolk Norfolk Neb Dec was 10 below zero in Norfolk today A Union Pacific passenger train which left Columbus Neb at last due here at last night arrived at this morning The distance la Tho train bucked snow drifts all night CLEVELAND FIRE KILLS FOUR Children Die In and Daughter Also Suffer Cleveland Dec children of August were burned to death last night In a fire which de home here The mother and one daughter were so that It is feared they may die Tho flro started in bakery in the rear of his home INSURES EYE FOR LOST IT COMPANY BALKS Man May to Go Into Court to Re cover Large Amount for Missing Optic Case Dec Wilton McCarthy of this city who recently an eye which waa Insured for will probably have trouble In collecting the Insurance money He recently visited New York to have the sye treated and also to consult with representatives of the compan It developed that If there is any way the claim can he resisted it will be done The Insurance Herald ro on to it an an Illustration of the trouble which Is mire to follow largo The question be fore the adjusters says the Herald is whether the loss of the eye was caused by n hot cinder or by disease It states that tho result of tho nallon In New York was not given out but Intimates tho Insurance com panies are threatening to resist pay ment solely It is a hip claim and arn talking of compromise Hero where the facts nre known of course tho theory that the loss of the oye was caused by any disease is scouted and It is regarded ns a sub to throw the matters into tlie courts Cold Wave Reaches Iowa Sioux City Dec coldest weather of winter Is being exper in this section today The temperature dropped to 1 below last night but rose slightly this morning Improvements for 1911 for Other Iowa Cities is Shown Cedar Rapids expended In private improvements during the year 1911 according to tho figures publish ed in the Cedar Rapids Republican For public Improvements Cedar Rap ids expended Jowa Falls spent nearly a quarter of a million In her Improvements for init as a carefully compiled list shows that was expended in the advancement of the city in the past year WRECK ON BURLINGTON TEN CARS DITCHING Extra Freight Crashes Into The Rear of Regular Trainmen Escape Injury Burlington Dec 30 Traffic on tho main lino of Burlington route was blocked for about three hours this morning owing to a freight wreck at nine miles west of Burling ton An extra crashed into the rear of n west bound freight train demol ishing and burning the caboose and a of coal and ditching about ten cars on the rear train Tho engineer and fireman on the rear train jumped nnd escaped Injury T GET T H II TRAP BAITED TALKS RIGHT OUT WHY WONT ATTEND HE In the development of city nothing succeeds In importance tho educational facilities provided Wa has spared no expense in keep ins pace with the needs of school buildings and at least two new pub lic school houses will be erected in 1312 At the meeting of the board of the Bast Waterloo school week Mortimer B Cleveland archi tect was awarded the contract for plans and specifications for a new structure to be erected In Linden ad and the splendid building here shown will be built as soon as con tracts can be let and work ed The new Linden school will bo one of the finest in the city and will contain many mod em ideas and Innovations of conveni enco not found In any other similar here The entire building will be above grade no steps to go down below the surface It con tain a large gymnasium eight largo class rooms offices for principal pri vate retiring rooms and toilet for the teachers all toilets being white en brick walls OPPOSED TO PEACE TREATY SURMISES OBJECT OF CITIZENS GATHERING TONIGHT And In the Meantime President Taft Carnegie and Lovers of Peace Attend New York Dec Theodore Roosevelt will not attend the banquet tonight of the citizens peace commit tee with President Taft as the guest of honor was made public In detail to day In correspondence between Mr Roosevelt and Millard J Bloomer executive secretary of the committee Several letters from the former pres ident are in the correspondence tho principal one written Dec 5 and is in have an Ingly ornate exterior of vitrified j of the Outlook brick with terra cotta and other trimmings The School bu d Ing wll be most mortem In every re spect and embody the latest ideL ot oil my I cannot permit the for that citizens I do not now what that banquet is meant to overawe the e n f school house construction and will he A s meant to overawe the a great hoon to the reside o the 1 and that against Its an u Browing district that it will serve KANSAS CITY IN IE USED LONGER Pure Food Board Extends Operation Prohibiting Order Until Feb 1 Washington Dec Tho pure food today postponed until 1 the operation of its order prohibiting the use of saccharine in food prod The prohibition was lo have become effective on Jan 1 but appli cation was made to tho board for a rehearing of the rase A postpone ment was made to allow hoard more time to consider the matter DREAMLAND PUBLIC PARK Mayor Approves for New York to Pay for Site New York Dec aero plot at Coney Island formerly accu hy the Dreamland Amusement park which burned last will he turned Into a public park Mayor today approved the alder manic resolution appropriating 000 600 tor tie purchase of the Bite HENRY PHILLIPS NAME USED IN ATTEMPT TO GET FROM FAMILY Smooth Grafters Arrested in Missouri City After Getting Much Money In Little Express Game Postal authorities at Kansas City lave requested Postmaster W H Law to investigate a matter that has been revealed by the arrest of two men who go under the names of B C Ma son and G G Shonenberger It seems that many cities In this section of the country have furnished victims In n swindle in which tho express com ranics and the United States mails have been used to get the An Investigation by the Reporter re that Waterloo hns numbered n the list a c O D express package been sent to this city for tenry Phillips who shot and tilled at his home near Raymond on Nov 22 last To Deceased Persons The manner of procedure by tho men was to send a fake express pack age or one that contained little of value These packages were sent ad dressed In the name or persons who had recently died They always reached their destination C O relatives not knowing what the packages contained and naturally thinking It was O K to pay the charges would do so only to learn too they had been victimized to the extent of the amount paid In the case revealed in Waterloo the Express company re a package from the Great Western Tanning company of Kansas City Mo Inquiry revealed tho fact that none ot the relatives o the dead mnn knew anything of the package and natur ally did not expect it They stated that as far as they were aware Mr Phillips had never heard of such a company nnd they knew of no reason why an express package should he sent in his name Further investigation revealed the RETURNS TO CALCUTTA AFTER BAGGING THIRTY TIGERS AND THIRTEEN RHINOS Royal Couple Are Given In Premier City of India Calcutta India Dec Em George and Queen KANSAS CITY TRUST COMPANY IS CLOSED FINANCIAL INSTITUTION WITH NEAR HALF MILLION LIA IN TROUBLE State Banking Department Orders to Be Paid Kansas City Dec a result of an order Issued by tho state bank im V i UL an issued oy tno state bank Mary returned here this morning The funner from a big game shooting ex ng the American Union sets deposits total many historical spots The royal couple received an en welcome from the people of Calcutta who thronged the gaily dec orated streets and cheered heartily as the procession passed by When the king emperor in his re ply to an address from the municipal ity that Calcutta will al ways remain the premier city o In dia he was loudly applauded Their majesties remain here until fan S then go to Bombay where they will embark on the steamer Mc riina for England Jan 10 signed by R C Manon and other men supposed to form the company Tho request was made by tho Kansas City promoters of tho Oot Rich Quick scheme to send tho money In cash instead of in the regu lar credit checks This A THE Iowa Snow tonight and Sunday cold wave In east and central portion moon sot a m of course seemed peculiar in view of tho fact all business men usually accept the express paper in cases of kind Operate Three Concerns Information Has been received hero that the men arrested in Kansas City operate three through which it is alleged they get victims on the C Q n express packages Tho Great Western Tanning com pany the Premier Advertising com pany and the Unique Brokerage com pany nre the names of tho companies The postal authorities have traced the operation of the swindlers because they have used the mails lo Ret In formation concerning the death of likely victims In the Phillips case tho authorities desire to know wheth er or not the newspapers in Waterloo son or O Cr Schonenberger concern ing tho death of Henry Phillips What disposition will be made of the express package which now UPS at tho office in this city addressed lo Henry Phillips Is not known but It Is hardly likely that un der tho it will be ac the dead At Iowa two families do respectively to the Kansas City men and that thero are many others holding stocks in he companies certain BURGLARS AT CEDAR RAPIDS Cedar Rapids One by tile relatives of min robbed the Taylor store at worth of goods mostly plated ware lost The institution last July absorbed the All Night and Day bank which hart been organized a year and a half ago The paper taken over from the latter hank is said by an officer of the trust company to have caused the difficulty Tho All and Dai bank the first of its kind to be chart ered in Missouri had a capital stock of When the American Union Trust company was formed Jan 11 mil the controlling interest was owned by the Bankers Trust com pany of Chicago which said to control 1150 hanks in the central states The American Union started with ah authorized capital of one mil lion dollars of which was Subscribed nnd paid The bank never had secured admis sion to the Kansas clearing house Tho deposits were all in small individual accounts many of them keepers nud small rest aurant men The company has been In difficulty for time to support treaty of which the senate committee on foreign relations has shown in un answerable argument to be hostile to the honor and interests of the Ameri can people then I am not In sym pathy with you For Instance If you propose to support the arbitration treaty when I think you are not mere ly wrong but you are engaged in what is essentially unworthy unconsciously a move against the interest of peace and against the honor and Interest of the civilization If intend to with ments Introduced by Senators Root and Lodge then right be cause you are supporting what is not very important but still a sincere ef fort to make things a little Mr Roosevelt then reiterates what he said yesterday In his hypocrisy never pays and detailed his views why the treaty should not be supported Among the subjects which he said he believed should not be arbitrated was the Mon roe doctrine state bond question right of America to abrogate the Rus sian treaty of and questions of allowing unlimited Asiatic emigration to the United States Go Ahead Without Colonel New York Dec thousand two hundred of peace have sig their intention to attend to night the citizens peace banquet with President Taft ns the of honor Whether the diners win endorse the Taft arbitration treaty was the un answered question this morning puzzled the pence several days ago when Col Roosevelt made it known that he would decline to ac cept a formal Invitation to attend the dinner To prevent possible disorder the police commissioner has ordered his strong arm squad of twenty policemen to be present President Taft was due to arrive at r oclock and following his arrival will go at once to tho peace dinner The list of speakers are as follows President Taft Andrew Carnegie Os car Strauss Henry Clews and John Temple Graves postmaster Mr Carnegie Indicated today that he might have something to sny about the present arbitration treaty It is believed here Unit President Taft would lake occasion to reply to Col editorial comment on arbitration treaty NO LIFE ON EARTH WHEN CARBON DIOXIDE RUNS OUT And There is Only a Little Bit Left Warns Professor V Old World Not Growing Cold Washington Dec earth has III tie reason to fear destruction by collision with some wandering cel body and scientific researches indicate that conditions congenial to life will prevail for tens of millions of years to como Nevertheless the slender thread on which human life IB graphically pictured In the report of thn Smithsonian In just If the three or four of 1 rout of carbonic dioxide now present In the air were lost all life would KO with It says i C of the Univer sity of Chicago who has written a liaper on The Future of tho He says that if the amount of carbon dioxide In the nlr should Increase a very fow per cent tho higher forms of would he sup pressed or radically changed The claims of many persons that tho earth In rapidly tion by loss of heat are answered by Professor He says re searches shown that the arth hns been alternately hot anil cold and hat It had already passed through several ol kind now pro dieted by prophets of doom
