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THE WEATHER (Yeateraay.) 0 THE WEATHER (Teday.) Kerth Carollaa : eU Batiinlay I raliWr sear Ue naat. wttk moderate I brisk serth wlsdsi isa-1 day fair.- . Iff gese; ImmI taaasers tar M Siamae ; tout Brertsttetlea (or M bee practsltetlea far ft bean eealag I l a, LM laea. TISAGALL TO SAVE .. . n V ii i JLL UL THEMERTTRUST Of the 300 to be Put on the Stand by Government, He Will Appear Next Tuesday !U.S. COURT AT CHICAGO ADJOURNS UNTIL THEN TTu IkN'kH Were Clesred Yesterday For Um Most lmMrtant U-gal Bat lie lu the Interot of the People of Thu Country In Years Defense Complete It Prceetibitlon ol Case in Jury and All . Nw In Knull imw for Uh Tali I iik of Testimony It Will llrnulre krvtiMl Month : Kisnitne the Army of Witnesses Summoned By tlx- Government Other lartlcular. illy the Associated Press. ) Chl:M. HI. I"1''- 22. Counsel for , the ten Chicago meat puckers charged wit-, combining to control the price of ineiita In violation of the criminal eections of the .Sherinun law conclud ed tliclr oieniiiK statements to the Jury todiiy mid ( tilted States District .liidte liicrpe A. Carpenter adjourn al nit until next Tuesday morn Ing VI Unit 1 1 nit- the lirxt witness lor Hi. lot erniiit-nt will take the ! i I. l ir-t WltiM-Mi Will Tell Story of the ln'kertt' l"ool. Tlic internment will present Us as. i!i i hmiii'loKial order. The I,..-1 v line will tell the story of the i ll (. . k i r. pool which It Is charged Kh in existence prior to the organi sation of the National Packing Corn Van., in I so J and which held weekly meetings at which, the Government harges. prices were fixed. Lter con dition which led to the formation of the National l acking Company then w ill he detailed and in concluding Its caee. the Government will endeavor to prnn that the National Packing Comrciny was the Instrument the packer used to continue the eld 'loot ing .rraiicetiictila. 300 WltnemeN for Prow -rutins. Throe hundr-l wltneaaea will be culled l.v i In il'iii riiment and it Is I dieted 'I will t ike several months to pr.v 1 1. i- testimony. In addi tion t ii a oar- ot documentary ev lil. !. . n ,1 1 1- off. red by the prosc i u 1 1 i 1 1 lox Watch lo In- kept on Jury. Tin Jill will lie iom-ly watched during i lu .nljuui nun-lit of i-ourt and the iwdti i..i ii all of whom are mar ried. tt:ll I i oldlgcd to eat their Christ man dinniV at a down-town hotel V Attorney .tohn UartiiH I'ayne. who appeared for the NatlohoJ Packing Company to-day read voluminous ex Irads from the report of former I'. H. Commission of Corporations Jamea H (lartleld on the packing Industry, made In 1 ', to refute the allegations of the Government against the pack- rs Statement of CiMinsel for Packlna; Hiian. Attorney I'ayne In his opening aitftement said In part: "As I view thla esse. It Is not the Indictment of the defendant but an Indictment of a great business. The effect of this trial will be felt all oter the world. "Kor that reason T regard this mat ter as of International Importance. Chicago's commercial supremacy has always been closely linked with the meat packing Industry. "The growth and development of the country made big business enter prises necessary and the packers were no exception to the rule. (Continued on Page Right) REINDEER STEAK? Dwindling Beef Supply Expect ed to Induce Shipment of Reindeer Meat From Alaska The Prospect Explained lily the Aasoclated I'ress.) aslungtnii, iec. 22. itelndeer meat from Alaska may be a food common In the American table In. the near future to supptoment the dwindling beef supply, This was the opinion expresmd today by William F. l.pp, In charge of the Govern ment's reindeer service who has just returned from a 14,000 mile tour of Inspection through Alaska on behalf of the 1,'nlted Htntci Hurvau of Edu cation. "A commercial shipment of rein deer meat, the first made into this country, bag Just beeu received at Heat tie," aald Mr. Lop p. "In IS years from now at the present rate of In crease there should be 1.000,004 prime beef reindeer In Alaska on which the leople of this country can depend for much of their fresh diet. "Itelndeer raising," wr. 1PP -rlelned, "was Introdueed Into Alaska about 20 year ago by the Govern ment originally as a benevolent and educational enterprise, to raise the civilisation of the native from the hunting to the pastoral stage. There ere .U.nuo of the animals there of B hit-It 110,000 belong to the natives." HOIV DO YOU LIKE Diminishing in Such Great Numbers, Effort is Making to Re-Stock the Woods AN EXPERT'S TALK ON INTERESTING SUBJECT To Save Many of Our Native Speck of Birds Vrom Threatening Ctler Extinction State Am Called t'poa by Nation to Co-Operate In EaTorta Planned Oilef Biologist Mskes Interewting Klatrsnrnt That WlU'Iulereitt Many. (By THOMAS 1. PKXCK.) Washington, Dec.. 22. Bird fanciers and thoae Interested1 In biological atudlei In this country bemoan the taec that year by year our native b'rds' appear to be greatly diminishing in numbers. In fart thla situation haa become so apparent recently that many state organizations have been cnjlled upon to co-operate with the federal authorities In the effort to stock the woods and fields with the many kinds of birds which formerly n ude them their habitat Henry W. Ilenshaw, chief biologist of the Department of Agriculture, speaking of this condition, aaid to day: "It la doubtful If. taking the country as a whole, any of our native apeclea arc increairtne. exceut nrhaoa in ra si rkted localities. This is the more deplorable. Inasmuch as now. more than ever, there Is pressing need of the services of Insectivorous birds to hold In check the constantly Increas ing numbers of Insects Imparted from abroad or that cross our borders from adjacent territory. As these destruc tive foreign I needs are rarely accom panied by the eiiemle-s which check their increase. In their native habitat, they anon multiply until they become veritable peats. "Nature haa provided In thin coun try a fiifllcteirt anmber of specie for the work of keeping insects In check. Including the various swallows, fly catchers, thrushes, woodpeckers, sparrow and others, and It remains for us by vigorous and concerted ef fort, not only to protect the useful species, but to 'enable them to so In crease that, their warfare agalnat the Insect hosts shall be thoroughly ef fective. This can be effected In four ways: ll) Hy providing artificial neat Ing sites for the species that nest In hollow trees or In the cornices and (Continued on Page KlghL 1 Margaret Horton Potter, Nov elist, Found Dead in Her Apartments Prominent in Literary Circles " I By the Associated I'l ess ) Chicago. Dec. 22 Margaret Horton Totter, a novelist, was found dead t day in her apartments from an oter dose of morphine, which a coroner s Jury found waa eeldenlally taken. Kor a time It waa reported that death was from heart disease. Testimony at the Inquest was that she had long been addicted to the ie of drugs and a few months ago w..a permitted to leave a sanitarium to which she had been committed. She .complained of Illness two dnys ago and her friends believe that the drug was taken by her In an effort t,o re lieve her suffering. For many ye.irs she had been prom inent in literary circles and her novels were popularly supposed to reveal thinly veiled phases of society life In rhleagn. In 102 she Waa married to John V. Hlack and waa divorced by him In 110. shortly before the was sent to the sanitarium. (Continued on Pagw Two) T In the Newport News Section pi Chesapeake Bay and Along the Virginia Coast No Accidents Yet (By the Asortated 1'reaa)' Newport News, Va., Dec. 21. Ship ping In thla section, Chesapeake bay and along the Virginia coast haa prac tically been at a standstill for the pat twenty-four hourg owing to the dense fog that haa enveloped the entire eastern portion of the State. Since early Thursday night, but few steamers have moved and a number of foreign steamers as well as Ameri can steamers anchored for safety In Hampton Honda or lower Chesapeake Iay. No accidents have been reported up ui this time and may not be a the ircataot possible csutlon Is being used In navigating. , DEAD FROM All OVER DOSE OF MORPHINE ALL 1VIG . r-.i ,? t . - ' ''s'.v i ( - f ' v' ' i - .t.mjk I- 0" " Vs.; 1 M ' ik'" ' ' ' 1 1 ' l'ff L-l--- V' . "i y' I " M'V,W',il Vl1 tJV'' - v , ' . v (( -HaMMMwaMaaj if aiiiiwMaaMMaMaaaaaiwaai -I'M COMING! MERRY CHRISTMAS." IS WIRELESS MESSAGE FROM SANTA CLAITS. North Pole (bv wireless), Dec. 22. Am haying a little carbureter trouble with the Reindeer, but shall reach your city about midnight Dec. 24. I wish a Merry Christ mas to all children. SANTA CLAUS PLANS OF CHINESE POLITICIANS FAIL Alleged Scheme to Put up Job on Manchu Dynasty Ap parently Goes Awry PREMIER STILL AGAINST REPUBLIC PROPOSITION How Kach Mean her of Y nan's En tourage aim to be 'Helf-Deortved" It Is Kuggeetcd That An Agree ment is Yet Posidbie Rearms the fremlrr and n Xnmber of th llcla I rvotlmra. Bat the RrprramtaUres of Other Powers at Prklns; Do Sot Ventura n Prediction Yet of the t Probable solution. (By Cable to News and Observer ) Peking. Dec. 22. Yuan 8hl KaU the premier, evidently still remains stead fast In his decision not to accept a republican form of government for China as the price of peace within the empire. Members of the premier's entourage reiterated today that Yuan never will advise the abdication of the emperor and thereby become a traitor. They soy that If the formation, of n repub lic Is unavoidable he will resign as prime minister. It had been suspected that Tang Shao Yl, the representative of Yuan and the Imperial government st the Shanghai peace conference, and Van were playing, a pre-arranged game with the Intention gradually to shear the klancbus of power and thereby prevent a Manchu rising In Peking; but the fact that Tang .has telegraphed friends hers, ashing them to endeavor to persuade Yuan of the necessity to accept a republic, seem ingly Indicate that fang and the premier are not In accord. After many conferences prior to bis departure for Shanghai, Tang evident ly believed that Yuan bad been won over to the republican Idea while on the other hand. -Yuan thought Tang had been brought around to nee the necessity for the continuance of the monarchy. Members of Y sen's en tourage declare In theee beliefs each man was self-deceived. Porrtgu Lrsjnltnaa Will Kot Haaard n PredloOoe. Though no member of the foreign legations will venture a prediction on the outcome of the . situation, there Is a feeling that an agreement la pos sible between Yuan and a number of the rebel provinces, perhaps not Im mediately but after several renewed aynil'tieea. Yuan, It Is thought, may Continued fags Eight UNEARTHED ft Bib LOHERYSCHEME Arrest of Woman in Kansas City on Charge of Shop Lifting Brings About Dis closure of Tickets i Bv the Aasoclated Press.) Kansas CltJ. Mo.. Dec. 22. ; Through the arrest of an alleged wo man abopllfter here today the police say they have learned of the exten sive sale of Santo Domingo lottery tickets in Kanws City and through out the mldille West Fremont Weeks, an employe of an express company. Is being held by Federal authorities ah the Kansas City agent of the lottery. Cash prises of about 140.000 are said to have heen offered by one company involved tn the disclosures today. The same promoters, It Is be lieved, are conducting several other lotteries of eiunl eroportlon. The disclosure rams about through the arrest of a woman giving the name of Mrs lla Weeks, charged with stealing kid gloves In s department- store. The police searching Mrs. Weeks' apart men te said they dis covered hundreds of lottery tickets in s suit case The woman's husband, Fremont Weeks, was then arrested and turned over to.the t nlted Htatns Marshal. Tho tickets are ssld to have been sold as coupons of the In ternational Mining and Investment Company of Manto Dnmlngo. Each bore a rum her and sold at It cents or ons dollar. Sheldon Tells Why Harriman Campaign Charge Came to be Aired Again Teddy Not Candidate (By the Associated Press) New York, Dae. 21. Qorge R. Shel don, treasurer of the Republican Na tional Committee, commenting today apon ths publications of correspond ence between himself and Theodore Roosevelt, relative to the Harriman campaign contribution In 1104, and alluding psrtlrularly to his letter to Ihe Colonel, said II waa written at Colonel itoosevalt's request. Mr, Shel don took rxeeptlon to the Inference iCnUaus4 on Pag TwoA ROOSEVELT ASKED " HITOllTElTi SHORT SENT E FOR BIG SWINDLE EQRTHEJACKIES Four Promoters of a Stock Navy Department Suggests Swindle by Mail Receive; Enactment of State Laws One Year Sentence Each Sailors Themselves, by mm - j Their Conduct, Can do More r-LttUtU VIUIMSUUI Uh MILLIONS OF MONEY Tne fcrtupm Tbey Kngliwcrcil oiitlu - ned for Two Years, IMng ( oiulu.t- erf In Haml... tm ... . . netit Broadway Skyscraper. WIm'u i Thirteen Months .Ago They I VII Within n (ieneenl Drag -.Net Kirrad by Postal Inspectors for n Number of Mall Swindler Who They Are, k IHy the Associated Press. I New York, Iiec. 22. As punish ment for carrying on a slock swindle by mall, alleged to have extended over a period of two years and to have netted million. In profits, four t moters of the firm of Hurr nr.ithcrs, inc., were each sentenced today to a year's Imprisonment on Him kyiell's Inland. The prmotiers are Shellon C. Idirr, prepulrnt of the corporation; his brother Kurgetie 11. who waa sec re- , i tary-treaAtirer; "hurled If Tuhrey, ' vice-president, and Kdwln Wesley Preston- (''expectedly they offered pleas of guilty liefom Jude Holt In the criminal branch of the Culled States Circuit Court today. The In- dictment upon whi. h they were cued to fees trial speclm nlly charged a swindle Involving IM.ooo in emmec , Hon with the sale of the slock of the; People's Association (HI Comiianv. but the Government allraed that thla was but ons of a continuing series of frauds estimated to have Involved nearly 1(0,000.000 with ,la,0(iu.ou0 profit to thb piomotAs Counsel for the defendants decLired that rather than Involve the espen i mmonlng w.tnesV fron, d'.M pilnts it was decided tn plesd gulltyi to the specific Indictment. The maximum sentence poasinie " tm. f th, ,,y .,rtv )n the sec charge Is 1 months, mid .uunecl for . ...... 4 the defendants urged clemency. ro"nd "ffealed Vnlted States District Attorney Wise I I'rlnceton by the score lif I 1-2 to 1-2, opposed the pies for Clemency. while Marvi.td accounted for Ysle by Judge Holt pronounced sentence ss ,,rr, taely Ihe aume a. ore. Tho tl. be. year cacn ana ine men were tagea to the Island tonight A little over a year ago the four men were prospering, occupying e penslte offices In a Itroadway sky scraper. n November So, Hid, & tCoulluued,on l'age tight). Government Records Show That Agricultural Element is Fast Forging Ahead " FINE WORK FARMERS INSTITUTES ARE DOING Remarkably Gratifying Facts Sbowm by Compilations of Rerds For Iautt Ten Years In United Stakes De partment of Agrlcaltntw Women Who htudy Agrtcwltawo Carte Ham's, Kfforta Now AMy and xtea- BtTdy Beronded by Many of (he gtaU'S Thirty-aloe Legtalataree Laat Year Made Appropriation For Institute Work tlier Uetalla, (By THOMAS J. Pr.XCK) Washington, lec. 12. The day when the farmers of the country were considered "rubes" ami "hayseeds" Is fast passing Into lilatory. Hecords of the Department of Agrloulture com piled for the laat ten years Indicate In moat unmlstiikatile language that the agriculturist, fur from being hack ward and out of dale, la rapidly be enmiiii,- one of the moat enlightened of all classes of i ltlxena. One branch f farmers' wark alone shows what troy are doing. During the past year Secretary Wilson reived reports from, forty-four Htates giving data regarding institute work. In forty-one of these more than 6.500 institutes were.hi Id; the total number of sessions readied more than IS. 00 and the total attendance something like l.lW.6Tii Ureal Work of f arasrm' InnUtatea. The special matltuten art rapidly growing, both In Importance and In terest. One hundred and fifty mov able schools is the record of attend ance for the year with a total of 40, 00 persona visiting them. Hlxty-two rn'lmad Instruction trains were run covering more than 11.000 miles, with nearly rtiO expert lecturers and with I Mr.sOO persons vtalUnsi them. In ad ill! on to this 4& Independent Insti ll utea were held with an attendance of more than 180.000. and fifteen round-up Institutes, continuing through 1 5 S aeaalona, attended by 21, 000 persons. There ware more than 100 picnics and conventions, and these were attended by an sggregatn of 120,000 industrious, ambitious farmers, who were eaarer to learn all Ihi Government could teach them. Women W ho Htudy Agricaltare. Hut men are not the only ones who (Continued on 1'age Eight) T illy the Associated I'resa) Wellington, Dec 22. In an at tempt to have States which have not i as yt placed such laws on their ' ntutulo books and which have naval 'establishments within their borders, " " ' legislation to prevent dlscrtml- nation uiiatiiat the uniforms of ths men f I'm le. Ham's sen Ice. Assist ant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop haa addressed letters to the Oovernors of Miueaichusetta, Maine. California, Illlnola, Virginia, Colorado, Washington, South Carolina aud Moryland. The Htataa of New Ham pen I re. New Jeraey. New York, Pennaylvanla and Mlniieaota already have auch lawa. and Mr. WlnLhrop has forwarded with I his letters copies fir ths laws now . I force In theee Statea He urges -.I VntTh. pror" ... lailon which would Insure reelect for the uniform of the t'nlted Slates. , Columbia and Harvard Main tain Their Respective Posi- tions as Result of Play in Second Round i Mv Ihi New York. ANHici;t!rl I'riiaa I ie 22. Colunilils mid U""rrt "'"'-' their re.peCve ! Positions In Ihe twentieth rnnual In ter-colleglste (hesa tournament aa a ttti.ii Harvard and 'olumliU was therefore unbroken, eai-h rnlveraily being ci edited with totals of 7 1-2 point-' nut of a poaelhle The final totiml luiiiorrow, lu which Columbia must encounter Harvard, will deter mine lbs championship (ur this year. COMPEL RESP COLLEbE SCORES i in nnrnn Tnuniirv iNbntuuintii Persian Charge D'Affafres Formally Announces Fact to Russia's Foreign Secretary ALL POINTS MENTIONED IN ULTIMATUM CONCEDED Ttiligisi rVons Teheran IHia-l of W. Morgan Shnstaavi Trensnrte Uiutial of Persia, and, Pwntan Local AstborlOes TTnlltiie to Cease HostlUtlee What ffcs Terms, Now nnrwdud so, and Ootv talned la the Ravenna TTtlsaarsni. Conslet of Noraeal Condtttong r' Be Keetored. (By Cable to News and Oheerer.) St. Petersburg Deo. 22. The Per slan Charge d Affaires called officially at ths foreign office this afternoon and announced) that Persia had yield ed to Rueeaa's demand. He bad ait audience with M. Baasnoff, ths for eign secretary, and In ths name of the Persian government formally de clared that Persia would oonrrde all ths points mentioned tn the Itusstaa ultimatum. A telegram received here from Te heran says that W. Morgan Shuster, the Treasurer-Oeneral of Persia, has been notified of his dismissal and that the Persian government has luatructedl the local authorities to" cease hostili ties snd enter Into negotiations with the Kusslan consuls to restore nor mal coodlUona. Teraua of Kneels n t'lUmatam. St Petersburg. Dec. 22.- The Hus sian ultimatum to the terms of which l'ersis has now seceded, waa deliver ed to the Persian government by the Kuaslaa Minister at Teheran on No vember 29. It demanded, besides the dismissal of Mr. 'Shuster. an apology from ths Persian government on ac count of Its Interference with the property of Perataaa eusde Russian protection and also the payment of an Indemnity to Russia for the ex penditure she had incurred In sending: troops Into feral en territory. The National council declined at first ti comply with Russia's demands, al though the cabinet was Inclined to da so- Yesterday Russia threatened to order the advance of 4,000 troops of all arms from Kasbln, unless Persi acceded within twenty-four Iwuis. A further discussion of the question st Issus between the members of the Persian cabinet and ths National Council evidently led the latter to see the advisability of yielding tn ltus sta's demands PnOer Hlefe-nx-til of leeoinieiii. liOndon. lec. 22. Persia today I yielded to the demand of the KussUh ! ultimatum that W. Morgan Shuster. an American who holds the post of treasurer-general In the Persian gov ernment be dismissed rrom the ser vice of the Persian government. The Russian ultimatum slso calls for the .payment of an Indemnity, which is to reimburse Russia for money expend ed In sending an armed expedition Into Persia to enforce her demand. Mr Hh osier's administration of Per sian finances has been displeasing t' Kuasla from the start and when he caused the selsure of property belong ing to the brother of the ri-Shah, over the protest of ths liuaslsn vice consul. Huswla at first demanded an pology snd as this waa not forth romlQX called for the dismissal of Mr. Shuster. Thla haa finally been acced ed to. The Persian charge d'affaires at St. Petersburg called at the Russian for eign office late today to announce of ficially his government's decision to abide by the terms of the ultimatum. t'p to a late hour tonight, however, (Continued on Page Two) E Room-Mate of Miss Linnell and Theological Student Placed Under Bond to Guar antee Their Appearance i II) the Associated 1'reaa 1 Koatoii, II axe , I tec. 23 - Following the holding of Charles S. Pierce, a Newton Theological Institution stu dent. In 1200 bond yesterday as a wltnes In the trial of Kef. Clarence V. r. Ittcheaon, charged with the mur der of Avis Linnell, it became known today that another witness had fur nlaht.d txiiifla for mIiiimi, ru mA at th !' " '""' room- Woman a i hrUtlan Aswuclatloti dunttl I lorv. Was held under 1600 bund. ' Although Ulcheson's counsel, Wll ! Ham A. Morse, after vlaltlng his client In Jail today, ssld he appeared very , h. ,v Howard A l,tt. who performed the operation on the pris oner, after Itlcheson had mutilated himself Wednesday, said that the pa tient a "getting along aa Well a cou'd be expected under the circum stances" and that unless unforeseen complications developed ha should he able to attend Ihe trial on January lilh Attorney Morse said - Iga defense had no plana to announce yet and could do little until Rlcheena regain ed sufficient strength to enable his counsel to converse with bin a length, WITNESSES IN THE RICHESQN CAS S f .