HOLY ROLLER IS
GIVEN A BEATING
Spectators in Court Room Angered
When Judge Fines Reverend
Ellis for Beating Lad.
NEWTON, 111., Feb. 19.—Because
the trial judge only fined Rev Ellis
and three other Holy Rollers for
beating an epileptic almost to death,
crippling him for life, and leaving the
lad blind, the crowd in the court room
took matters in their own hands and
beat and kicked the leader and his
followers, who had been instrumen
tal in assaulting the lad, and when
they were through with them all four
were fit subjects for the hospital.
The mob kicked and punched them
until their cries for help W'ere heard
by the police and reserves were
quickly on the scene. Not an arrest
was made, as all of the disturbers
escaped through the back doors of the
building.
Rev. Ellis admitted on the stand
that he had whipped the boy for the
purpose of “beating the devil out of
him.” When the trial judge only fined
the defendants the spectators at once
started a riot and the court and the
bailiffs were unable to quell them.
As Ellis started to leave the room he
was grabbed and severely beaten.
INDAMELS
ARE MOT GUILTY
Verdict Rendered After Three Hours’
Deliberation—lu Greeted With j
Cheering
•SEATTLE, Fell. 19. After three
hours’ deliberation the jury in the
district court returned a verdict of
acquittal in the cases of the govern
ment against Charles Munday and
Archie Shiels, charging attempt to
defraud the government out of large
tracts of coal land in the Bering riv
er coal fields.
The crowds in the court room i
cheered the verdict for several min
utes, and many Alaskans who were
in the court room at the time tender
ed the two defendants an ovation and
congratulated them on the verdict.
It is estimated that the trial has
cost the government $100,000 and that
the defendants have spent half that
amount in making their defense.
STILL nw
ABOUT CAPITAL
Bloodiest Battle of War Takes Place
20 Miles From Mexico City and
Federals Are Victorious.
* • MEXICO CITY, Feb. 19.—Desperate
righting continues between the Za
pataist followers and the federal
uoops. The battle is raging at Mil
pulta, about 20 miles from here, and
is said to be the bloodiest yet fought
in the present rebellion. The Wer
al troops are said to have b^en vic
torious and to have inflicted heavy
losses on the rebels.
It is believed that the rebel chief
tains will all make desperate efforts
to be the first to enter the capital be
cause should Huerta fall each desires
to be master of the loot before it is
taken by rival bands.
Music! Music! Musio!
All the latest popular mils!: at the
Valdez Drue Mpm.
[PORT THIS WEEK;
IS MADE BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—It is ex
pected that the conference commit
tee from the House and Senate, to
which will be referred for adjustment
the two railroad bills passed by the
(wo branches of congress, will com
plete the work this week. The great
est obstacle in the way is the meth
od of financing the work. The Cham
berlain bill, as passed by the Senate,
provides that bonds for $40,000,000
shall be sold, while the House amend
ed the bill so that an appropriation
of $35,000,000 shall be made from the
treasury and provided that an appro
priation of $1,000,000 should be avail
able at once and that congress should
appropriate the balance as it was
needed.
The Senate conferees are outspok
en in demanding that the appropria
tion shall be $40,000,000 and assert
that the cutting of the amount to
$35,000,000 will handicap the work.
CONFERENCE REPORT EXPECTED THIS WEEK —< CONGRESSMEN
FITZGERALD AND DAVENPORT LED THE FIGHT ON THE BILL
—WILSON URGED UNDERWOOD TO SECURE ITS PASSAGE.
President Wilson is authorized by
the House bill to purchase all or any
part of the equipment of the canal
commission and use it in the work
of railroad building in Alaska, and
he may place his own price upon it.
That considerable equipment, tracks,
engines, dump carts and other ma
terial will be used is now a foregone
conclusion.
The bill also provides that the in
terstate commerce commission shall
have the power to regulate the rates
for freight upon the road.
WASHINGTON, Feb. i!). The fight
yesterday in the House on the Cham
berlain railroad bill was lead by Con
gressman Fitzgerald and by Congress
man Davenport, of Oklahoma, the lat
ter of whom attempted to filibuster
and postpone the vote, but the lead
ers of both parties soon prevented
him from carrying out his plan, then
Congressman Fitzgerald moved his
amendment to substitute for the bond
issues an appropriation of money di
rect from the treasury. His amend
ment carried by one vote, 88 voting
for the amendment and 87 against it,
ihe balance not voting.
Following the passage of the Fitz
gerald amendment another was pro
posed which provided that the phy
sical valuation shall be the basis of j
valuation of any road purchased by
the government and incorporated in
the system. This was defeated, as it
was expected the owners of the Cor
dova road would use it as a club to
force the payment of a heavy price
for the white elephant running from
Cordova to the interior.
The final vote was 230 for the bil!
as amended, and 80 against it.
Early in the afternoon President
Wilson sent to Congressman Under
wood word that he urgently desired
the passage of the bill and hoped it
would be passed at once.
Alaskans here are singing the praise
of President Wilson and claim that j
he is the greatest leader of men in I
the country. They attribute much to
his generalship and tact that the pass
ae of the bill was accomplished. The
executive used every personal effort
to secure the enactment of the Cham
berlain bill.
ISSUE WARNING
FINANCIAL HOAX
j
i
i
Treasury Officials Forced to Issue
Statement That Have No Bonds
Belonging to Col Reeve.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—A hoax
•hai deserves to rank with Barnum's
(’ardiff giant” and Dr. Cook’s mental
discovery of the north pole, has just
ciilled forth a warning from the Treas
ury Department to credulous invest
ors generally, it concerns a most
alluring story of $64,641,000 in rail
road bonds, with accrued interest j
since 1864, supposed to be gathering
dust in Uncle Sam’s strong box and
waiting to be distributed among the
heirs of Charles Dut'kee, one time
senator from Wisconsin, and terri
torial governor of Utah, who died in
I860.
More than ten years after Durkee’s
death, Leonard C. Blaisdell, his neph
ew by marriage, conceived the idea
that the former senator had at one
time bought up An entire bond issue of
first mortgage bonds of the Pacific
railroads and had them turned over
to the United States to guarantee
completion of a transcontinental rail
line. Col. F. A. Reeve, acting so
licitor for the Treasury Department,
believes that Blaisdell was merely
suffering from some sort of halluci
nation, but since that time bis story
has been used to sell "stock” in the
visionary claim. Blaisdell has not
beCin heard of in Washington for years
and officials here believe he is dead.
To give color to their scheme the
promoters at one time brought suit in
the federal courts of Utah, but It was
thrown out of court and in sustain
ing the lower tribunal on an appeal
Federal Judge Phillips said:
“A syndicate of promoters was
formed. They devised the scheme of
selling shares of stock'in the chances
of success. It was represented that
if the suit were won the result would
be over $200,000,000 for division
among the shareholders. These ag
ents accordingly disposed of some
shares at the proportion of 50 for $1
in mouey, and when the bait staled
they offered the still more alluring
temptation of 100 shares for $1 in
money, and the evidence shows that
they succeeded in drawing from their
dupes about $50,000.”
For years after thts there was no
thing more heard of the claim, hat
lately Col. Reeve has learned that
some more 50 to 1 chances are beta*
offered and that one mart niidh
parted with $1,900 to the promoter*.
Though the names of these pro
moters are not made' public It is said
that they represent they are work-J
Ing for a contingent fee of 50 per
(Continued on page 3.)
VANDERBILT HOME
IS DESTROYED
Fire Wipes Out Country Home of
American Millionaire—Loss is
Million Dollars.
JRRICO, L. 1., Feb. 19. The mil
lion dollar summer residence of Mrs.
W illiam Vanderbilt, Jr., located here,
was destroyed by lire yesterday. The
entire building, with its many works
of art. was destroyed. A care-taker
and his wife were the only persons
in the building at the time and al
though they made every effort to ex
iinguish the flames, they were unable
to control them at the start and the
entire buildin was soon enveloped in
a mass of blazing lire.
The local volunteer lire brigade ar
rived on the scene soon after the
alarm was given, but were powerless
to save the property and devoted all
their efforts to saving the surround
ing buildings. In this they were suc
cessful. The property was heavily in -
sured.
Report Reaches Juneau of Loss of
Germain and Stratton Near
Cape Spencer.
JUNEAU, Feb. 19—The motor boat
Fox returned from I..ituya bay today
and report that W. B. Germain and
Billie Stratton, two launch men, left
that port 35 days ago to make a five
hour trip and that they have never
been heard of since. It is believed
that they were caught in a. storm or
wrecked by hitting some sunken rock
or possibly that the launch caught (ire.
At any rate, all hope for the two men
has been abandoned.
The launch started from Lituya bay
to go to Dixon harbor and a thorough
search has been made of the coast
in the hopes of finding wreckage or
possibly the camp of the men in the
event they had reached short.
Diaz Leaves Cuba..
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 19.—Felix
Dias left here today on a steamer
bound for New York and It Is expect
ed that he will proceed to Texas to
Organize the Mexican junta in the in
terest of himself as a candidate to
succeed Provisional President Huerta.
JUNEAU DISTRICT
IS ABOLISHED
District Attorney Rustgard Makes the
Order and Women Are Leaving
in Droves.
JUNEAU, Feb. 18. The redlight
district of ihis city and that of Doug
las has been ordered closed by Dis
trict Attorney Rustgard because of
the refusal of the city authorities to
properly regulate the district: to quit
the selling of liquor to the inmates
and Lite allowing of minors to enter
the stockade, besides allowing many
parasites, who lived upon the earn
ings of the women, to linger about
the town. The women are leaving the
city in droves; some going west, but
most of them are headed for Seattle.
Opinion is divided here as to the
advisability of the action of the dis
trict attorney, and many are criti
cising the city authorities for allow
ing conditions to become so notorious
that the federal officers were; forced
< take n hand.
By American Troop* Near Hachita—
Is Held a* Military Prisoner
for the Present.
HACHITA, N. M.. Feb. 19—A de
tachment of American troops captured
Castillo, the Mexican bandit, who
caused the Cunvbre tunnel holocaust
near Juarez, in which ten Americans
and fifty Mexicans were killed. The
Mexican bandit had crossed the line
10 American soil In order to avoid
the rebel troops, who were hotly pur
suing him.
The troops have been ordered to
take Castillo to El Paso and to guard
him carefully and prevent any at
tempt at rescue. Six of htfl fellow
bandits were with him at the time
and were also captured.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—'Three
departments-are busy here searching
for precedents as to' what can be done
by the United States towards pun
ishing' Castillo for his crime. Attor
ney General McReynolds, the War
Department and the State Department
are all busy searching the records for
p precedent.
COUNT OONINEEDS
ONE DECISION
Verdict Caused Seven Day Wonder
in Rome—Boni Will Stand for
Election to Parliament.
HOME. Peb. 19. The success of j
Count Boni de Castellane with the
high law four's of the Vatican has ;
developed into a seven day .vender i
at Rome. Boni began .his suit for ;
divorce from Anna Gould in Kill. M
though the tirst decision went against
him he has since been able to ring
up three successive decisions in his i
favor, these being rendered both by
the Rota and the Segnatura tribun '
als. As a result of this success, Vat- j
ican wiseacres have no doubt that in :
the end llie Duchess of Tallyrand will ’
have to worry along with only one ,
husband, the Prince de Sagon, in- ;
stead of two, as she is now trying to
do.
The first decision of the Rota trib
unal in 1911 declared the marriage i
between Boni and Anna Gould legal, j
Immediately thereafter, Boni came to
Rome, and it is declared made it pub
lic in the Vatican circles that having j
been an intimate friend at Paris of j
the new president of the Chinese re- J
public, when the latter was a student,
It would be possible for him to se- j
cure very favorable concessions for!
I.lie t'aiuuiit luiootuuai ico iu vuiua. i
Whatever the actual status of this |
may have been the fact remains that j
the new president of the Chinese re- |
public has opened up the country to .
Catholic missionaries on a basis they j
never had before and it is equally a .
fact that since then Boni has been
most successful in his suit before the
Vatican law courts. Last March, the
Rota tribunal reheard the case, and
declared thb marriage void. Immedi- j
ately the buchess of Tallyranti an-'
pealed to the tribunal of the Apostolic .
Segnatura, declaring she had Hot been
notified of the second hearing.
The appeal left Bopi In a delicate .
position. Ordinarily, at least a year
is required for a Vatican tribunal to ,
pass upon a question. Boni was oblig- '
ed to stand for re-election this spring 1
to the French chamber of deputies 1
from a Catholic, district, where the j
fact that the Vatican had refused him j
a divorce, hr that he had secured It
merely by nfit allowing the Duchess ■
Of Tally rand to defiand heraelf, would j
have counted heavily against him. It j
was necessary therefore that Boni get;
both quick and ,cfgvorable decision, j
And both of did.
; The Segni e all prece-,
dents by hei within a few !
Months, fi| vember. and i
then by y thereafter
It also peal of the!
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SORE NOT GOUTY
SAYS THE JORY
Return Verdict in Few Minutes—
Crowds Cheer for 30 Minutes—
President Wires Congratulations
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 19—The
jury impaneled to try the suit of Mrs.
Bond against Senator gore, today
decided by one ballot that the blind
senator was not guilty of the charge
brought against him by tae woman.
When the verdict was announced in
the court room, the crowds which
packed the room cheered for 30 min -
utes before the judge could establish
order, and many crowded about the
senator and offered him their con
gratulations.
Gore had not left the court room
when he received many telegrams
from Washington and one of the first
received was from President Wilson,
who immediately wired his congratu
lations when he heard the news.
Mrs. Bond charged that the senator •
had made an indecent proposal to iter
as the price of securing a position for
her husband and had attempted lo _
carry out his desires in the room of
the senator, where, site declared, he
had invited her to come. The jury,
however, refused to believe the story.
keepTnsIT
Is the Desire of Democratic Club ■’!
Juneau—Pass Resolutions Con
demning Present System.
.ii'XKU , Fell. 111.--Tile Democrat
ic dub. which met last night, strong
ly endorsed the action of Governor
Strong in requesting tlie establish
ment of au insane asylum in Alaska
io care for the afflicted and meat :
incompetents v ho may require got -
eminent care.
The present plan of sending the in
sane to Portland was condemned as
unnecessary, expensive and also be
cause of the long time between the
committment of the insane and the;.
arrival at the asylum for treatment
resulting in many mild cases bet rim
ing incurable.
The motion called for the estab
lishment of the asylum at the Sitka
hot springs.
*IL1K
j . tb Itts .»
James Smith, the Superintendent, u
Found Guilty, as Are Two Gov
ernment Workers.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19.—The
jury today in the federal court con
victed Superintendent Mills, the man
ager of the Western Fuel company,
charged with defrauding the govern
ment out of large sums in duties on
coal. James Smith and Edwin flay -
er, two government checkers, ' vfyo
aided the company in the steal, wpr«j
also found guilty, while one checker
was acquitted.
The jury were out for, several
hours. The trial has been In progrt ss
for many weeks.
I
Seattle Pioneer Takea Own Life.
POHTLAftlK "Ore.. &b. l$r-FeiVy
W. Rochester, a pioneer Seattle dirti
er in building material, was fouVd
dead in his office here today, fiefrattf
committed suicide.