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^OT FEDERAL JOS
Po»tma*ter*hip« on Political Block*—
Burleson Investigating and Hold*
Up Appointments.
WASHINGTON, April 10—Postmas
ter General Burleson today commen
ted the investigation into the charges
inade by citizens of York and Adams
counties, Pennsylvania, that the post
masterships in the Twentieeth con
gressional district have been bartered
and sold. Candidates for the offices
are said to have been compelled
to sign agreements to pay the Demo
t ratic state committee five per dent of
tlie year’s income of the position.
Jobs have b^in fmt on the auction
hlock and knocked down to the high
est bidder, according to the charges.
Two of the four postmasters re
tently appointed have confessed that
they had signed papers agreeing to
pay $75 a year to support the Demo
cratic. organization.
Postmaster General Burleson has
held up all appointments pending the
tesult of the investigation and It is
expected indictments will be brought
against those guilty of attempting to
sell political positions.
MOTHER JONES
OUTONDERBOROS
After Months of Delay Supreme Court
Finally Reached Decision in
Her Case.
DENVER, Colo., April 10.—The
supreme court has finally granted
Mother Jones a writ of habeas corpus
after several months delay. The aged
labor leader was arrested shortly af
*er her arrival in the strike district
charged with inciting to riot.
She has openly declared that she
has been promised her liberty provid
ed she would leave the country, show
ing that there was connivance be
tween the court officials and the Mine
Owners’ Association.
When Mother Jones was released
from prison pending a trial of her
ease, she was met by thousands of
the union workers of the city, who
escorted her to their headquarters,
where she delivered an address en
couraging them to keep up the strug
gle for their rights.
SAVEdIiTtIPS; .
Usher in St. Louis Depot Retires From
Position After Having Saved
$10,000.
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ST. LOUIS, April 10.—John Green,,
who has occupied the position of head
usher in the union depot, has retired
and will buy a farm near the city.;
He has held the position for .ten years
and states that he has received $10,000
in tipe durlhg that time in addition to
the salary allowed the position.
His ambition was to own a farm,
and when he accepted the position he
determined that his, tips should few®!
a fund to gratify bis ambition. He fiat
said / to .''bsiye ; a wider aquuatntanoe'
with the,,traveling public than any
other ftlain ih America.
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Harness ,to carry, an Umbrella for.
a Min, leavtiwL bis M
:'erty, has been patented1 by a Ken--,
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REBELS DEFEATED
111 1HMPIG0 CITY
Mexican Federal Troops Hold Oil City
—Gunboats Save the Day—Inflict
Heavy Losses.
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, April 10—The
rebels were defeated at Tampico yes
terday when they attempted to cap
ture the city. The federal gunboats
took up positions where they were
able to shell the rebels and they in
flicted terrible losses on the rebel
forces as they advanced on the city.
The wounded on both sides are be
ing cared for at the Tampico hos
pitals and doctors from the foreign
warships have been sent ashore to
aid the Mexica ndoctors in caring for
them.
The loss to the rebels is not stated,
but it is believed to have been be
tween 500 and 1,000 killed and wound
ed. The federals made no effort to
follow up the victory by pursuing the
retreating constitutionalists.
SHOE BOVS
SAYS THE JUDGE
Judge Scully, of Chicago, Claims the
Present System is Wrong, and
Many Boys May be Saved.
CHICAGO, April 10.—A new court,
designed to till a gap beetween exist
ing Institutions, is to be Judge Thom
as F. Scully’s attempt at a solution
of the boy problem. He will call it
the “Boys’ Court” and expects to have
it in operation within a few weeks
when the municipal judge gives offi
cial sanction. Into the “Boys’ Court"
will be brought youngsters between
the ages of 17 and 21 years. The
word “youngsters” was used by Judge
Scully, who -aid today: “A boy un
der twenty-one years of age can’t
vote and isn’t recognized as a man
when it comes to exercising judgment
on candidates for aldermen. But let
him commit some petty crime and see
what happens.' Because he is too old
for the juvenile court, he is classified
as a man and is arraigned in the mu
nicipal court with older offenders and
receives the same treatment. What 1
propose to do is establish a court that
will meet a boy after he passes out
of short trousers and just before he
really becomes a man.”
Ten per cent of the offenders ar
raigned in municipal court are boys,
Judge Scully estimated today, and
more than 10,000 lads would come
within the jurisdiction of his new
court are tried In municipal court ev
ery year. “Just a little touch of kind
ness is what most of these boys
need,” said Judge Scully. “Why,
some of them are only sick—some-,
times sick in body and sometimes only
sickened by their environment. The
other day a municipal court judge sent
a 17-year-old boy to the county Jail
for some/offense. My brother-in-law
is a physician over there and he told
me that the boy was sick—all he
needed wa san operation and he would
be straight again.”
Judge Scully has a reputation, for,
leniency toward boys brought before
him. “I have’a little boy of my own,”
he said today: “maybe that’s the rea
son.” ■.
Alameda Passes Capital City.
The steamer Alameda, of the Alaska
Steamship company, left here thte
morning at 4:30 for Valdez, calling
first at Skagway and Cordova. This'
is the first trip on the new summer;
excursion 'schedule of ‘the Alaska,
steamship Mae. whlcii provides'for a
boat to leave Seattle every six dayst
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Lenses hatiu been - given some
French, lighthouses whloh enable; them,
to send ’their' light from ‘ 50 to 8d
miles to sea.
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Detectives Have Arrested Seven Girls
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and Believe That Syndicate of
Thieves Existed.
PORTLAND, Ore., April 10— Seven
girls employed in different depart
ment stores in this city- were arrested
today for stealing from the stores and
the police believe that a syndicate of
thieves has been uncovered. When
the apartments of the women were
searched more than $5,000 worth of
merchandise which had been stolen
from the stores was recovered.
Detectives have been working on
the case for several months and have
succeeded in locating the dealer who
purchased the goods from the clerks
and a warrant is out for his arrest.
The women are nearly all heads of
departments in the establishments
where they are employed and were re
ceiving good salaries.
The women have been under sus
picion for some time but no arrests
were made until the detectives could
learn their manner of disposing of the
stolen goods. Thejr arrests has caus
ed intense excitement among the'em
ployes of the stores, as it is rumored
that many others are implicated and
other arrests will follow shortly.
While searching for evidence against
the manager of the grocery depart
ment of the Meyers & Franks store,
who is now- awaiting trial for the
theft of thousands of dollars worth of
goods, detectives gained information
which led to the belief that a syn
dicate of thieves was working in the
city. Their information was laid be
fore the district attorney and has re
sulted in an expose of the system fol
lowed by the thieves to rob their em
ployers.
START BEARINGS
ON CANAL RILL
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Interoceanic Canals Committee Will
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Give Everybody a Chance to Do
Some Talking.
WASHINGTON. April 10.—The
Senate committee on Interoceanic ca
nals today commenced holding public
hearings on the proposed administra
tion bill to repeal the toll exemption
allowed to American shipping using
the American canal.
, It is expected that the commercial
associations of the Pacific states will
make a tremendous kick to prevent
the repeal, as they assert ihdt it
means the killing of the Pacific coast
traffic and is playing into the hands
of the American transcontinental rail
roads.
Eastern shipping interests are also
preparing to put pp a stiff fight
against the repeal and hope to pre
vent its passage in the Senate. The
shipping trust have an active lobby
in this city working against the re
peal bill.
MAXIM GORKY IS
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MOSCOW, April 10— Mayim Gorky,
who is visiting his publisher, M. Sy-j
tin, near here,’today ma, said to be;
In very 4100A health, Mf^tihuadersiood
to tw suwiuiir rwii'tBiiwwiwwB. to®,
political pOUcehavie thuafgr interfer
ed in nbi way with the popular Ru*-<
aian authok, although he vfas pro
scribed . its a rwapluMoasiT' refugee
whence left Russia la 1006. Gorky
has just soid te >hls ,publisher the
Copyright of ail his works tor $100,-;
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m OFFICES
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Appropriation Bill for the Treasury
Department Provides for Only
New York and Seattle Offices.
WASHINGGTON, April 10.—The
approprt&Uofi bill providing for the
expenses of the Treasury department
falls to provide for more than two
assay offices and it is expected that
those at Denver, Omaha, San Fran
cisco and Philadelphia will all be
dropped and only the two at New
York city and at Seattle will be con
tinued.
The New York office is a necessity
in order that the bankers may have
bullion assayed before making ship
ments abroad, otherwise the gold coins
would be shipped from this country
to be melted and recoined in foreign
countries. To prevent this the gov
ernment trades the bankers gold bul
lion for the minted coins and the bul
lion is shipped.
The Seattle office is considered nec
essary because of the large amount
of gold coming annually from Alas
ka and from British Columbia and
it will therefore be continued.
The congressional delegations of
other states where the government
now maintains assay offices have
started a fight to retain the offices
in their respective states and will try
to prevent the passage of the appro
priation bill unless their constituents
are properly taken care of.
Combination Beat Socialist Mayor.
GIRARD, Kan., April 10.—The com
bination of the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties, who nominated an in
dependent candidate for mayor, suc
ceeded Tuesday in deefating Mayor
Houghton, the Socialist candidate,
who was up for re-election.
LODGE UPHOLDS
THE PRESIDENT
Must Uphold Wilson on Any Matter
Involving the Foreign Position of
the United States.
WASHINGTON, April 10.—Senator
Lodge, the Republican senator from
Massachusetts today upheld President
Wilson in his tolls repeal bill, claim
ing that it was the duty of every
American citizen to uid the chief ex
ecutive in matters of forein policy and
not to discredit his motives for po
litical gain.
The Republican senator made a
masterful speech and declared that it
is legitimate for the political oppo
nents of the administration to fight i
every domestic policy held by the op- j
position party, but that to discredit
the President of the United States
in his foreign policies for political
gain is most reprehensible.
Upon the conclusion of his address
the Massachusetts senator was con
gratulated by both sides of the Senate
for his able address.
CORDOVA. April 10.—The case ot
G. W. Wolfe vs. G.L. Oates for title
to miniftg claims' in. the1 Chisana dis
trict. was called this morning and a
Jury was secured without great diffi
culty. The case will ,be concluded late
this evening. ‘
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Special for Saturday.
We offer for Saturday special Heub
lein Bros. Club Manhattan cocktails
per quart *1.75; also wl« tyve
ipatto Saturday .80 flSMh faster eggs.*
Came early and', rr(isb.
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FRENCH AIRMEN
PLAN LONG IP
| Will Stay in Air for 24 Hour*—Will
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U*e Big Electric Light* for
Guide Poets.
PARIS, April 10.—Several aeroplane
constructors are building machines to
fly 24 hours without landing, and the
attempt will be made here within a
few days, according to information
given out today by a member of the
National Aerial League, to stay up in
the air for 24 hours continuaously.
One attempt will be made over a
circuit from Etampes to Corcottes.
Lights of from 1,000 to 1,700 candle
power will be erected at intervals
along the route, to serve as beach
guide posts to the aviator. Maurice
Parman, the biplane constructor, is
continuing his night flying practice.
As a dozen or more aviators are seek
ing the honor of being the rst to make
a 24-hour non-stop flight, a veritable
race is expected to ensue the first
night of the promised flights.
IN CALIFORNIA
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Jerry Allen Hung This Morning at San
Quentin—A Hanging Planned for
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Every Friday This Month.
SAN Ql'ENTIN, Cal., April 10.
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Jerry Allen was executed here today
for the murder of his wife, whom he
discovered was an inmate in a house
of ill-fame, and who refused to leave
the life of shame and return to him.
The murder took place at Williams,
Cal., several months ago, and in spite
of the efforts of friends of Allen he
was convicted and sentenced to he
hung. An appeal to the highest court
failed to set aside the verdict and
Governor Johnson refused to commute
the sentence.
Lee Nan Chin is to hang here next
Friday. He quarreled with a fellow
chink, ambushed and shot the latter
dead in San Joaquin county. On Fri
day, April 24, Louis Rundy will be
hung. Rundy is the youth who killed
a boy employed as a drug store mes
senger to get money with which to
buy his sweetheart a Christmas pres
ent.
This makes a hanging for every Fri
day of this month, because on April
3, Thomas Green, a cowboy, was ex
ecuted. He shot the cashier of the
Riverside County bank, while he and
another cowpuncher were holding it
up.
Governor Johnson is not disposed
to interfere with the law's course in
capital punishment cases.
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HICKORY SWITCH CALLED
BEST CIGARETTE CURE
CHICAGO, April 10—Miss Lucy
Page Gaston, Joan of Arc in the bat -
tle against cigarettees, must first con
vince mothers that her “mouth-swab
bing” treating will cure their young
hopefuls before juvenile court will or
der all young cigarette users to have
their mouths washed with a nitrate
of silver solution. Judge Pinckney,
to whom Miss Gaston appealed for a
court order ordering Juvenile delin
quents to be thus baptised, said to
day, that U he had a boy who smoked
cigarettes he would experiment with
the solution, > but didn’t want to force
it on the youngsters without their
mothers’ approval. “I put it up to one
mother,” said the <»urt, “and she said
she preferred the hickory switch so
lution.”
Chamber 'Meeting -Tonight.
The Valdez . Chain betof Commerce
will meet tonight at the Fire Hall at
8 .o’clock, business of Importance .will
bb considered,
E. G. AMES, Secretary.
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OH LECTURE STAGE
King of Italy Attends and Shakes
Hand of Famous Inventor—Lantern
Slide (of Stations Shown.
ROME, April 10.—A lecture deliv
ered last night by William Marconi in
the Circus of Augustus on the pro
gress of radio-telegraphy, his first
here since he spoke on the subject
at the capitol in 1903, attracted a
great and very distinguished audience.
The enthusiasm reached its height
when King Victor Emmanuel shook
hands with Mr. Marconi and congrat
ulated him.
Lantern slides showed the stations
at Glace Hay, Clifden, and I’oldhu,
also that at Coltano, near Pisa, which
Mr. Marconi succeeded in having built
in less than two months so as to have
it available during the Italian-Turklsh
war. 'Ihe reproduction of the sounds
at these stations when wireless mes
sages arrive-from 1,000 miles away
produced a great effect on the aurti
once, which cried, “Viva Marconi!”
Mr. Marconi, in predicting the early
success of radio-telephony, said the
human voice could be sent across the
Atlantic more quickly by this me hod
than tlie cable could send a message.
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Printing Editorials for the Shipping
Trust But Fail to Mark Them
as Required by Law.
WASHINGTON, April !". Post
master General Burleson plans to
prosecute the newspapers which are
fighting the administration policy of
repealing the canal tolls. The post
master general claims that the ship
ping trust is paying for the boosts for
the American shipping interests and
the free use of the canal and that the
newspaper publishers are failing to
label the editorials and the news itmes
as is required by the new publicity
law.
Several eastern papers have been
notified that they will be prosecuted if
they fail to mark paid editorials as
required by the statute.
Special agents and inspectors of the
postal department are working to se
cure evidence against the shipping
trust and the publishers.
START II FOR
AN ALASKA MINE
Mrs. Ella Hein, of ’Frisco, Starts Suit
Against Jerry Wilson for Grub
stake Interest in Alaska Mine.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 10.—Mrs.
Ella Hein today started suit against
her son-in-law, Jerry Wilson, claim
ing half of his fortune, which she
claims he made while prospecting In
Alaska on a grubstake furnished hy
her. Wilson secured a half Inter
est in the Wilson-Klmball mine and
it is believed to tpuuenseely rich
In her complaint Mrs. Hein claims
that she has exhauejt^d every effort to
collect, her share ,of the money taken
from the mine and cannot force Wil
son to make an accounting, which she
prays the court to force him to make.
The original grubstake, she alleges,
was severa! thnuaands. of dollars,, be
sides considerable money advanced
since the original location.