Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — Page 4

BRIBERY CHARGES ARE BEING PROBER

Senator LaFollette Testifies in Gore Bribery Charges. BORE'S STATEMENTS AFFIRMED ■ ■— t ' Wisconsin Statesman Tells Story of Conversation With Mr. Gore About Bribe Offer of Jake Hamon in Land Cases. Washington, Jan 6.' — Senator LaFollette, cf Wisccrsin, was the star witness before the house committee inquiring into the Gore bribery charges in connection with lawyers’ contracts with the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. Senator LaFollette testified that Senator Gore told him of a conversation he had with Jake Hamon in which Hamon had offered a bribe, or at least made a proposition that amounted to an attempt to tribe, The offer is alleged to have been made in connection with the legislation pending last year providing for the approval of contracts made by J. F. McMurray with the Chocktaw and Chickasaw Indians. Mr. Hamon wanted Senator Gore to withdraw' his opposition to the contracts According to the charges he suggested that if Mr. Gore cttuld see his -way clear to let the contracts go through without pretesting, it would beworth $25,000 to him and possibly more. This is the substance of the story as it was told to the senate by Mr. Gore a year ago, and Senator LaFollette declared that it was substantially the story that Mr. Gore had narrated to him a month before the centrads were to have been taken up in the senate. Jake Hamon has testified in substance that instead of offering a bribe, he, in fact, practically solicited for a loan. Senator La Follette corroborated the statement of Gore that he had made known the alleged attempt to bribe him long before he made the disclosure to the senate. Senator LaFollette testified that be had advised Mr Gore to make a public statement of the case. Mr. Gore was not inclined to do so. on the ground, he said, that the making of such a charge would lay him Open to prosecution. A payment of $7'0,000 made by authority of congress to the firm of McMurray, Mansfeld & Cornish for leeal services performed for the Oklahoma tribes, also came up before tbe house comipittee. This payment is known as the “Big Fee.” There has been a lot of gossip in Washington about it for a long time. and indications are that an interesting light Will be thrown uren it before the inquiry is ccr eluded . , ' -

MASKED BANDITS ROB HOTEL

Two Rotters Secure $5,000 in Cash and Jewelry in Texas. El Paso. Tex.. Jan. 6.—Two masked I ardits entered the office cf the Angeles hotel here ard rqbbed the safe Of about ?5,00fl in cash and jewelry. Thirteen Safety deposit boxes were extracted and carried away. Tbe boxes were found afterward in the basement of the Angelas theater, adjoining tbe hotel All had been broken open. About twenty-five boxes <or L iving sgye’ai thousand, do’lars in cash and diamonds were left untouched.

DANCER VISITS KING MANUEL

Dainty French Actress Visits Deposed Monarch in England. London, Jan. 6. —Mie. Gaby Ipeslys, •be dainty French dancer, has returned to Paris after a three >eeks visit to England, during which she was constantly in the com] any of termer King Manuel cf Portugal, the yourg monarch, whose downfall was attributed in part to his devotion io Mlle Deslys

THE MARKETS.

Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 26,000. Quotations ranged at $8 [email protected] choice heavy, [email protected] choice light, [email protected] heavy packing, and [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 12,000. Quotations ranged at $6.40@ 7.05 prime fat steers, [email protected] good to choice beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, [email protected] selected feeders,. $4.75 @ 5.00 selected Stockers, $8.50@ 9.25 good to choice light calves. Sheep—Receipts 20,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] good to choice iambs, [email protected] good to choice yearnilg wethers, >[email protected] good to choice Wethers, [email protected] good to. choict ewes. Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb., 17c; chickens, fowls, 11c; roosters, 9c; ducks, 13c; geese, 12c. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Conk mission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts 1 car; market strong. Hogs—Receipts ■ 10 cars; market lower; heavy, $8.40 @ 8.45; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $8.90. Sheep—Receipts 10 cars; market strong; best lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; <wes, $3.75 @4.00 Calves, $5.00 @ 11.00.

SPEAKER ADKINS

Elected as Speaker in the Illinois State > Legislature.

MANY KILLED IN QUAKE

Terrible Disaster in Turkestan Is Reported. An earthquake that undermined the Altai mountains in Asiatic Russia is reported to have killed thousands of people and done millions of dollars worth of damage. , The devastated region is the province of Semi rechen sk Ten cities are a reported to have fallen into the rift in the earth’s surface caused by the quake Vyerny, the capital, is said to have disappeared, without a single survivor left to tell the tale of disaster. Kopal, Fort Nabin, Balkash City and many other former of Turkestan and Russian trade are reported to have been destroyed. Lake Bulkash, which is near Vyerny, known to Europead travelers as Fort Vernoe, is reported to have been swallowed by the earth.

M'CANN TAKEN TO JOLIET

Former Chicago Police Inspector an Inmate of the Penitentiary. Edward McCann, who was once an honored Chicago police inspector, convicted of grafting in the west side “red light” district, is now a convict in the Joliet penitentiary. He was met by Warden Murphy personally and taken into the receiving room After the usual formalities the warden gave McCann a number by which he will be known while in prison serving his indeterminate term. He was then given a bath, shaved, provided with a suit of prison clothes and assigned to a cell.

ANARCHISTS CREMATED

Tragedy Follows Bloody Fight with Policemen in London. After a bloody battle in the streets of London, England, with a large force of palice, a dumber of anarchists sus pected of being connected with a plot against King George took-refuge in « house in Sydney street, where they continued to fire on the crowds outside. The house was finally set on fire and two of the anarchists were burned to death. Before perishing they killed two firemen They had pieviously killed three policemen.

TRAIN ROBBERS KILL

Shoot Porters and Plunder Passengers on Overland Limited. . Southern Pacific Overland limited train, west-bound, was held up by two masked bandits at Reese, nine miles west of Ogden, Utah. William Davis, negro porter, was shot and killed, another porter was mortally and a passenger slightly wounded. Ore hundred passengers on the train were robbed of their valuables. The bandits escaped.

Want to Vote on Local Option.

Petitions at Kalamazoo, Mich.: signed by more than 3,000 voters, were presented to the board of supervisors asking that the local option question be submitted at the spring election.

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PINCHOT TELLS OF COAL LAND CLAIMS

Reviews History of Cunningham Coal Case Io Alaska. ? Gifford Pinchot has-just made public in Washington the brief that he and his brother, Amos, have presented to President Taft in the Cunningham coal lands. The brief is 10,000 words in length and reviews the history of what Mr. Pinchot declares is a “fraudulent plan to acquire fdr a single association, public coal lands in Alaska greatly in excess of the amount allowed by law.” According to th 4 brief, the area involved is about 5,280 acres and the coal is estimated to be worth at least $25,000,000. The Pinchot brothers asked permission some weeks ago to present a brief on the Cunningham case before the president should approve the expected recommendatoins of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger that the Cunningham claims be validated. Mr. Ballinger has not, however, approved the Cunnigham claims, but bas turned the case over to President Taft with the recommendation that it be put up to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia for approval or disapproval The Pinc-hot brief was filed for the president’s information. Much of the evidence presented in the brief is old. The Pinchot brothers charge that the claimants made an unlawful agreement among themselves to defeat the provisions of the United States statutes. limiting the holdings of any one claimant to 160 acres, or any association to 640 acres. “We believe,” say the Pinchots, “that the duty of the executive in regard to the Cunningham claims is obvious and immediate. The record, in our judgment, abundantly proves that the claims are illegal and that from the beginning the claimants have conspired to defraud the government. No resort to a court, or a re-hearing of the-case is necessary to secure justice and protect the people’s property. ’Fhe case against tbe claimants is already conclusive. The claims should be cancelled by the president. “The Cunningham case is of enormous importance,” says the brief in conclusion. “It will decide whether many millions of dollars worth of coal lands, one of the richest deposits of semi-bitumincus coal on the North American continent, shall be held in trust for the people, or pass forever to claimants charged with fraud, under conditions which make monopoly an imminent probability. “No transfer of the Cunningham cases to a court for a decision upon the present record would relieve the executive department of responsibility for failure to have the case against the claimants fully presented by attorneys of experience fend ability and for omitting to produce all the evidence cf fraud available. The people of the United States are entitled to a full and reasonable presentation of their case."

PERT PARAGRAPHS.

WOMAN doesn't so much mind that her husband goes dowu town in the evenings occasionally unless she imagines he doesn’t want her to go along. A girl is very patient with her little brother when callers of consequence are within hearing. If you have a grudge against a man give his youngest son a six-weeks-old puppy. r ■ Frequently a man sees a deeply smitten girl in the affair, while all the girl sees is theater tickets anti flowers. . . ■ When a man has the blues he regards a sunshiny day as a personal in suit. When a widower takes a decent interest in his personal appearance his friends chuckle and nudge and look so knowing that the poor man feels -like joining the dear departed. As a matrimonial asset the ability to bake buckwheat cakes is worth infinitely more than the ability to writ I a good club paper.

Had Some Friends.

“How is your book going?” “Well; the first edition was gobbled up before it had been out a week.” “Great! Who took it?” “My creditors.”

Judging From Experience.

“Do inanimate things have any thoughts ?” « “Do they? That furnace of mine has reason.” “You think so?" “How could it do so many devilish things at the wrong time if it hadn’t'?”

PHOEBE’S CATCH.

A Fishing Trip That Had Most Satisfactory Results. . By CLARISSA MACKIE. I (Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso- ■ elation.) There was a tinge of autumn in the air, although the calendar still showed its September page. Here and there on the hillsides a tree flamed out, herald of Jack Frpst. The bay wrinkled crisply into white capped waves, and over all was the odor of ripe grapes, sweet cider and burning leaves. Phoebe Allen leaned over the gate and drank in the sweetness of the air and looked at the blue and white water and saw the flaming tree. " “Smells frosty," she sniffed delicately. “I’m always mighty glad when winter gomes around. It's the coziest time of the year. Wish I knew which way the wind was blowing.” Her pleasant face wrinkled in a frown as she tried to peer around the corner of Captain Amos Dodge’s new house. All her life she had been wont to see the weather vane on the peak of Channing’s barn, and now that Cap-

IT FELL OUT AT HEB TOUCH.

tain Amos’ house had interjiosed its bulk Phoebe felt personally aggrieved. She had even approached the doughty captain and laid her complaint before him. “I never can tell what the weather's going to be without seeing that vane," she said. “I’ll put one up on my cupola,” promised the captain affably. “I won’t look at it—probably it’ll not be good for anything," said Miss Phoebe peevishly, and so she went home. Captain Amos and Phoebe had known each other ail their lives: they had gone to school together, and they had attended merrymakings as they grew older. Phoebe had danced boles in her slippers under the skillful guidance of Amos Dodge, and Amos had been caught by his father while concocting a love letter to Phoebe, ani an incipient romance had been destroyed. Amos had run away from his motherless home, and, Phoebe had forgotten all about him until years afterward, when his father was dead and buried, he came home a childless widower and built a house on the brow of the hill beyond Phoebe's solitary cottage. There had been no sentiment about their meeting. Their first words had been a disagreement about the weather vane, and neither had recovered. Now Phoebe craned her soft round throat in a vain endeavor to learn the direction of the wind. A barefoot boy whistled past, a fishing red over his shoulder and a can of bait dangling from his hand. “Where you going, Hennje?” asked Miss Phoebe. “After blues—they're running down in the channel,” returned the boy. “Which way’s the wind ?” asked Phoebe. , “I dunno,” said Rennie stupidly. “Don't make no difference about wind. The tide’s cbming in, and the blues are running hi with it.” “I' believe I'll go and get some for my supp» r. it's too fine a day to stay in. Hennie, I'll give you a nickel if you'll get me some bait. What you got there?” - • “Mummies.” “Want to sell 'em?’ “I don’t mind.” “I’ll take’em. Wait a minute.” After the transaction was concluded Phoebe ran back to the cottage and donned an ancient skirt and knitted jacket. On her -head- she tied a pink sunbonnet and over her feet she drew rubber overshoes. She packed a small basket of lunch, fed the cat, hunted a rod and line from the woodshed, locked up the cottage and scurried down to her little boathouse on the beach below. Presently she was rowing slowly out toward the harbor's mouth, where little boats were dotted about laden with eager fishermen, for bluefish were running plentifully. ( Phoebe’s bright brown eyes had discovered a more isolated spot jvhere she had learned by experience that the current ran swiftly and where excellent luck might be had. This was between the breakwater and tbe long sand spit that became\an island when the tide was high. It was fast becoming an island now, and save for one lone fisherman the little channel was quite deserted, for

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there was exciting sport in the harbor’s mouth. Such a clever little sailor woman as Phoebe Aliens found no difficulty in getting her boat into the right position, dropping her anchor overboard and preparing for sport. The lone fisherman proved to be her especial abhorrence, Captain Amos, and and as his broad back was turned to her and his great flapping hat quite covered the back of his head he was recognizable only by his size and the dainty lines of his new boat One, two, three, into the boat they flopped, little silver beauties. Phoebe’s cheeks grew pink with excitement as she pulled them in. Enough for her own supper at- first and then supplemented by others there were enough for gifts to various fishless neighbors. It so happened that Captain Amos was fishing with a rod, and so was Phoebe Allen. It is an awkward way to catch fish from a small boat, but Phoebe loved to see the silver booty come swinging through the air into her craft, and it was also Captain Amos’ farorite method. At last Phoebe impaled her last bit of bait and swung the line overboard. It jerked forward, and she felt the weight of a captured fish. As she pulled in the pole flew up, and the baiiless book sailed over her head and caught neatly in the slack of Captain Amos’ shirt between his broad shoulders. It caught and stayed there. • Almost in the same instant Captain Amos lost his bait in tbe same way, and his J)ole performed the same upward leap, his line flew oyer, and the hook imbedded itself in the woolly intricacies of Phoebe's knitted jacket. '. Then Captain Amos, feeling the point of the book in his tender flesh, yelled murderously. “Woman!” he threatened, turning his head as far around as pain Would permit. “Man!’ snapped back Miss Phoebe, straining at her pole and against the captainshock. “What in tarnation” — sputtered Amos, groaning. “Woman, you have killed me.” “Keep still, do,” said Phoebe impatiently. “You’ve gone and caught yourself in my hook It was the last one I had. If you’d reach around you might get it out.” “Get out nothing! Do you understand the English language?” asked Captain Amos, with deadly calm. “Of course I do." “Then listen. Your hook is caught in my. skin —s-k-i-n—skin, and I’m bleeding to death. If you’ll have the goodness to look around and see what damage you’ve done,” suggested the captain savagely. “Perhaps you’ll look around and see what you’ve done,” said Phoebe crossly. She craned Her neck and looked around at the captain’s back, which the point of her fish hook barely pricked. At the same moment Captain Amos peered around to see his own hook caught in his neighbor’s jacket. Something in the ridiculous situation broke the icy crust of years of separation; it recalled another day when, as children, they had fished for minnows in the millpond and, sitting together in the old green boat that had belonged to Phoebe’s father, they had hooked each other quite as neatly as they had done today. - “Amos Dodge, you little ninny!” cried Phoebe in the same teasing words she had used on that former occasion thirty-five years ago. “Girls don’t know how to fish,” retorted Amos as he had done in that other day. “Does that hook hurt, Amos?” asked Phoebe. “Not much,” admitted the captain, twisting his neck around to look into Phoebe’s sunbonnet. “Your boat’s drifting a little, Phoebe. Don’t get any farther away from me,” he said in a queer voice. “I won’t,” said Phoebe gently, “Just wait a minute, Amos, while I slip off this jacket—there! Now I’m free of your hook I’ll help you. Wait, now, till I get my boat over.” By dint of careful maneuvering Phoebe ran her boat near enough to the other to lean over and touch tbe hook. It fell out at her touch. “I was afraid the point might have caught, but it’s all right, captain”— “Amos,” said the captain briskly. “I wasn’t any captain when I knew you.” “Amos,” repeated Phoebe obediently, “I hope it didn't hurt you.” “Not a mite, Phoebe. To tell the truth”— He reddened and looked doubtfully at bis old sweetheart. “Tell it,” commanded Phoebe in her old imperious way. “I caught, you on purpose,” confessed the captain. “Why?” blushed Phoebe. “Whatever”— “Just to get acquainted again. You hgve been as stiff as a ramrod ever since I came home again and”— “Tide’s turning,” said Phoeme from the dept' s of her pink sunbonnet. “I’ve got lunch to eat:” “So’ve I,” returned the captain promptly. “Let’s go ashore and have a picnic.” 1

“Let’s,” said Phoebe. That night when they trudged up the hill swinging their strings of silvery fish somebody saw them and said: “Well, if Phoebe Allen ain’t caught Captain Amos at last!” Somebody else saw them and said, “Land sakes, if Captain Amos ain’t caught Phoebe Allen, after' all!” And just then Captain Amos was saying. “When you get over to the big house with me. Phoebe, there won’t be anything to shut off your view of the weathei vane.” “I guess there won’t be anything to' obstruct my happiness either,” sighed Phoebe contentedly. It is well that there is no accounting for tastes. We have plenty of sins for which to account

Thinking of Investing.

“If I should wring the neck of my neighbor's boy would it be against the law?” asked the long suffering one of his attorney. “Certainly.” “I was afraid of that. But would the fine be more than a million dollars?” Just as Desirable. “What is better than being born with a silver spoon in your mouth?” “Silver spoon?” “Yes.” “I don’t know about its being better, but I’d as lief be boru with the trust coupons in my hand.” Filling a' Want. “There ought to be a smaller, coin than a cent." J “What would you buy with it?” “I wouldn’t buy anything. It would only be used, in fact, by millionaire tightwads to tip the waiter.” Bad Disposition, “There’s always one trouble about tbe “show-mes.” . s “What’s that?” “They are never willing to learn.” A Hint “They say that silence speaks louder than words sometimes.” “Yes, and that’s the kind of counsel I’d advise you to listen to.” ■/ ..They Generally Do. “He doesn’t know very much." " “Doesn’t he?" “No.” “What does he teach?” Good Suggestion. “How do you keep Out of the down and out club?" “I keep a paid up membership in the up and ins."

A Change In Tactics. In days when hearts were not congealed. Days that will come no more. Men met with pleasure unconcealed The stranger at the Now when he comes so debohair The wise ones turn the lock TUI they can find if he is there To sell them mining stock. They used to greet him with a smile And offer him a seat. Insisting he should stay awhile And have a bit to eat. But now they wonder if the "bit” Will be the other way Through schemes he has their purse to fit And what 'will be to pay. Old fashioned hospitality Invited him to stay And with the things they had make free. Nor tear himself away, But now they want to under stand The wherefore and the why Before they offer him a hand Or blink a friendly eye. The times have changed, as any One Can notice at a glance. The stranger doesn’t come for fun Or drop arpund" by chance. And that’s the reason, very plain, . Not vague, obscure or dim, When one comes up who can’t explain They set the dogs on him.

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