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THE WEATHEB: FAIR VOL. XXVII. NO. 82. NO BLAZED TRAIL TO FROZEN NORTH IVAS LEFTBYPEflRY Says That tie Has no Data by Which Another Could Fol low his Footsteps WAS TOO SELFISH TO DIVIDE HONOR Committee Asks Explorer Lot oi Embarrassing Questions In Course of Hearing WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Admit ting that the North Pole Is just as much lost as ever and that all future attempt to find It muat be independ ent enterprises unaided by his own work. Captain Robert E. Peary, the Arctlo explorer, answered a cross Are of question at a hearing before the house committee on naval affairs to day. He told how he wanted the glory of the polar achievement for himself, declining to let any member of his expedition, other than the ne gro Hensony go on the last dash with him-; or his publishing contracts had precluded him from testifying before the committee hurt spring and how members of his expedition had been prohibited from writing about the trip. Committee Wants to Know. Captain Peary was asked to throw light on, why, as a naval olcer. he made no report to the navy depart ment. Mr. Roberts asked Him if It was1 not customary for an ofTlcer to report on matters for which he was detailed. Captain Peary said he had maae some report iu uhj geodetic survey and had advised the navy department of that fact. It was his impression that the superintend ent of the survey had made a report to the navy. Pressed by Mr. Rob rta. Captain Peary said there was a letter of his on file somewhere asking Rocracy for his written report to the survey, as to soundings, etc. "Why, being detailed to get cer tain Information for the government did you ask the government not to use this Information until later?" in sisted Mr. Roberts.. . - "I would rather not give the Infor mation except to the committee" re plied Captain Peary -who objected to testifying . in, the presence of news paper representatives. He was given nermiselon to file his reasons In writ ing. "Why did you not take white mem bers of your party with yon on the (Continued on Page Five) REBELS OF HONDURAS MPTlEnSEHPOIITCITY General Bonilla May Soon Become Actual President of Little Country. CONSUL IGNORANT PUERTO CORTEZ, Honduras, Jan. 10. (By wireless) "An attack upon Ceiba by revolutionists Is ex pected at any momnet." This terse message was received today direct from Celba Indicates the near ap proach to that city of the revolu tionary forces of General Bonilla, who on Sunday captured Tela, a port city 50 miles east of Puerto Cortex and an equal distance from Celba. CONSUL IX IGNORANCE NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10. Senor Jesus Ulloa, consul general of Hon duras, said today that he had re ceived no ad-.-lc.es confirmatory of the reports that the revolutionists had captured thie Bay Islands and the port of Tela. "I signed the manifests today of two steamers which cleared for Teja. Ruitan and Puerto Cortex," said Senor Ulloa. "'I would not have done this if I hfwl been advised that revolutionists had seized the ports. ,"t have been informed that the forces of President Davllla are be ing In. readinem to resist Bonilla and that the feeling generally In Hondu ras 1 strongly In faror of the ad ministration. ' "Groro the commandant at Puer to Cortes I have Just received a let ter, informing me that nothing Is known there about the movements of the Hornet." Senor Ulloa said he had recerned official advices that the Guatemalan government would oppose the rev olutionists If they attempted to en ter: HsiHluras through Guatemala. He also denied the published reports thai. Americans had not been allow ed., to give proper burial to their dead), in Puerto Cortes, basing Ills dental ok a letter received from the commandant of that port. nn 'HE PE '5 L FINALLY HUSHED Craft Case Which Caused Po , Htlcal Upheaval Is at Length Ended RESTITUTION IS MADE TO STATE Criminal Action Against Those Implicated -Dropped and Money Returned HAlRRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 10. Res titution to the amount of $1,300,000 and the surrender of warrants ag gregating $200,000 upon which pay ment had been stopped were made In the Dauphin county court today by the men convicted or otherwise im plicated by the state of Pennsylvania In the capltol frauds. In conlsdera- tlon of the return of this money and the surrender of the warrants the commonwealth agreed to drop all further criminal action against the defendants indicted; and with the ex ception of the cauo of Joseph M. Houston of Philadelphia who Is un der an Indeterminate of from six months to two years ami who has an appeal to the Superior court, the capltol fraud cases a. e declared to be ended and the state satisfied. Thus ends one of the most Important crim inal prosecutions ever brought by the state and which has stirred Pennsyl vania from end to end. The new state capltol, a magnificent structure, with its rich furnishings. cost approximately $13,000,000. Of this sum the state alleged that It had been defrauded out of about J5.000, 000. Attorney General M. Hampton Todd, who conductetd the prosecu tions, in a statement after the settle ment was announced, said that the total amount received by the state today and through restitution here tofore made by certain of the defen dants was $1,595,740. Up to date the state has expended $107,961 in pros ecuting the cases. Defendants In Cow Among the defendant who partici pated in the settlement .today were the following: Estate of John H. Sanderson of Philadelphia, contractor for the wood en finishings, etc., who died in New York after he had been convicted and sentenced and was out on bail pending (Continued on page six.) Characterizes It as Having Been "Pernicious and Perfidious," OFFERS RESOLUTION RALEIGH, N. C Jan. 10. A storm of applause swept over the house of representatives today when Representative Ewart of Henderson county, the organized leader of the republicans on the tloor, sent forward a Joint resolution thanking Uovernor Pothler, of Rhode Island, for refus ing to accept the gift of Nonh Caro lina repudiated bonds from the New York syndicates and declaring that the conduct such as that of which ex-United States Senator Marion But ler was guilty In harassing liie state for their collection is, "pernicious and perfldiousr' Ewart was unanimous nominee of th hotiso republicans for speaker. Ewart also offered bills to ajnend the suite constitution so that three additional justices of the Supreme court will be elected together with three other Superior court Judges for holding special terms of court, to create a pardon board and to xreatly curtail the volume of buKlness re vnlvlng on the general assembly by the elimination of purely local mat ters. Still another bill by Ewart re duces railroad fare to tv.o cents where railroads refuse to allo.v con ductors to pull mileage on trains. Battle, of Wakft presented his bill to enable any city to vote commis sion form of government. Srainhpur. of Burke Introduced bills to make four Superior court judicial circuits Increase the number of Judges so there will be judges for special terms. Marshall, of Surry, republi can, presented a bill providing for school books. The Greensboro bill for a commis sion form of government passed sec ond reading without opposition. In Joint session, with representa tive Doughton presiding, the vote for state officers was canvassed and Col. W. P. Wood declared, elected audi tor and H.,C. Brown and W. T. Lee corporation commissioner. IUIA GAPTOLSGAiA CITIZEN. ASIIEV1LLE, N. L OVERPOWER POLICE TO ENTER COURT Mrs. Schenk on Trial For Ad ministering Poison to Husband EXPERT PHYSICIANS TELL OF POISONS Accetate of Lead and Arsenic Were Both Given Doom ed Man WHEELING, W. Vs., an. 10. Excitement within and without the court house marked- the first day of taking testimony in tile trial of Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk, charged with poisoning her husband With In the courtroom the almost irre sponsible crowd of women specta tors had to be constantly rapped to order by Judge Jordan when start' ling bits of testimony caused a mur mur that lnterferred with the pro ceedings, and without when the same crowd of spectators stamped In their efforts to crowd within the court room when the doors were opened. Twice today the police without the court house were carried before th onslaught of the women. In the af ternoon the rush into the building was so sudden that several women were knocked down and trampled upon and the police had to beet the crowd back. The disorder within the court roorr started at the testimony of William Wolfe, who had traveled In 'Europe with John . O. Schenk. the alleged poisoned victim. Wolfe testified to flchenke's good health during the iCuropean trip and there were gaspr from the spectators that brought sharp rebukes from the bench when the witness in detailing a conversa tion with Mrs. Schenk quoted her as saying: 'Billy, I don't think Jphn will llvf long." Mrs. Schenk made the declarator according to Wolfe, after the return from Europe, when Schenke wai stricken with the strange illness. .. - . . - Expert TewMfr. Tw. Gregory Aekerman was palled and testified that Schenke waasuffer- Ing with lead poisoning before Dr. F. L. Hupp was brought into tnr case and that he had been brought from a local hospital, after remain ing there but a few days. He advis ed the patient while In the hospital first not to eat anything brough' (Continued on Page Six.) OFHGHT flGAINSTTRUSTS BY JUDGE EMORY SPEEF Compares Modern Trust Makers to Attila the Hun SOUTH HAS AIDED ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 10. An an alysis of the attemipts to contro' monopolies from ancient time down to the decision last week by the Su preme court of the United States lr favor of the Carmack amendment to the Hepburn rate law was deliver ed before thte Atlanta freight bu reau at their annual banquet to night by Judge Emory Speer of th United States district court for the southern district of Georgia Judge Seer said in part: "It Is the duty of every American to see that our national patrimony shall be used, not exploited for the exclusive benefit of (hone mighty mighty masters in the art of combi nations In restraint of trade, thost lawless captains of Industry who bear to the people the relation which Attila, A lark; and Gengls Kahn bore to the broad lands they ravag ed." .The originator of the first Amer! can anti-trust law was John Sher mjan, said Judge Speer, and then added: "It will be observed that to this great measure the very 'first at tempt In our history to regulate in terstate and foreign commerce, there was literally no opposition from a southern state. It will be demon strable, I think, that Its most vig orous enforcement may be found in the investigation of grand Juriei and the findings of juries In this sec tlon." Summing p. Judge Speer said: "There . Is no intention on the part of the government to do Injustice to the common carriers. Neither to ward lawfully conducted railroad or other corporations or toward- any righteous aocreatlon or use of the capital and wealth has the Ameri can government exhibited the slight est hostility." . . HYSTERICA WOMEN 0., WEDNJSSUAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1911. fill ' Bt f oil imP ''Hill SJl HI News Item.--A grim smile STANDARD OIL DISSOLUTION SUIT WILL NOW OCCUPY SUPREME COURT if Argued That The Amalgamation of The Stockt of Competing Companiet m Standard WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. The Standard Oil dissolution suit will ad vance to the center of the stage In the Supreme court of te United States tomorrow ' tyvmedfatets- after argument ers eonoiuuea in-eas to bacco dissolution suit. For the re mainder of the week at least, the court will give tig attention to a con ildaratlon of this second problem un der the Bhermn an tt trust law. For th government JJisre, will appear AU torney General Wlc.fcersnam, Frank 3. Keflog and ipoastbly C A, Sever ance, opposed to t rum ana aerena- ng the Standard Oil will be John, O. Johnson, John G. Milburn and D. T. Watson. The government's chief object Is to have the ceurt declare void the cor porate organisation of Uff, whereby the Standard Oil of New, Jersey with ts Increased capitalisation exchanged Its stock for. stock of nineteen . other ll corporations, which controlled in turn a great many more such cor porations. It Is claimed that this amalgamation of ths stocks of ail these companies In ths Standard Oil ompany of New Jersey resulted In a combination more closely and effec tively held than before In restraint of trade. The control of oil through the subsidiary corporations is said to con- titute a monopoly. Both results the government contends are in violation f the Sherman anti-trust law. In support of Its ease the govern ment vlll claim that following the ictlon of the court In the cases of the Northern Securities It must dis solve the Standard OH of New Jer 8Y Associated Press Man at" Roanoke Succumbs to Heart Disease in Office ROANOKE, Va. Jan. 10. Chas. C. Boyd, associated press operator In the office of The Roanoke Times rose from his typewriter at 11.45 to night, stood on his feet a moment and with a Brnothered "Good God" fell on Ms f ax k to the floor. He was dead in ten minute. He had been complaining of nouralgla and it is su-pposed his heart was attacked sud denly, otlu-nwlHe h was In full health. lie U-aves a widow and five childrn. He had been In Ths Times office twelve years and was regarded as oneofthe best operators on the cir cuit. He as ST. years old snd came here from Columbia. 8. C. Ho was a native of North Carolina. WASHINGTON, Jan. It.- Fore cast: North Carolina: fair and warm er Wednesday; Thursday fair In east unsettled in west portions; moderate ' FAu south wind. 1 . . j He "Came Back." of satisfaction came over hi Oil Company of New Jer$ey Resulted m a .' . Monopoly. sey as a holding company suppressing competition. - -v In urging upon ths court ths pro position that ths Standard OH Is mo nopolising the government will argue that evidence must be considered by the eourt of price cutting to: drive competitors out of business, rebating, and preying on competitors by secret organization. s ' What la Monopoly? "I the Sherman set means ary- thin in this country," says eonsHllj.k.t trsds or gain art unlawful mo- for the government In their brief, "It means a monopoly acquired by such methods of competition as this. Un less It Is enforced ths small corpora tion or individual who wishes to en gage in business will have absolutely no opportunity at all, This testimony Is valuable- as showing th Intention of the Standard Oil company to mo nopolize the commerce throughout the United States. In many districts It has an absolute monopoly. We mean iby absolute monopoly that In those districts It doe all of ths busi ness and has eliminated every compe titor. "Practically this Is ths case throughout the 'Jtock mountain coun try' and most of the Pacific coast states The percentage of independent business throughout the entire south ern states Is very small. Moreover, where there Is competition the com petitors are usually strictly under the control of the Standard In that they must. In order to be allowed to do business, sell oil at the price the Stan dard dictates and confine themselves to a small percentage of trade.' T Negroes Marched to The Polls and Voted in Bun ches of Five nsno SAVANNAH. Ga., Jan. 1. fleves arrests for alleged vote grafting, an nouncement that detective have re ceived evidence that will result In many more arrests and a hard all day struKKle for votes marked Savan nah's municipal election today which was one of ttio closest In ths city's history. Gen. W. Ttldoman was re elected mayor by .140 votes. L P. Corrish, clerk of city coun cil and secretary of the South Atlan tic Baseball league: J. J, Garrtty, a former city official; Ir. N. A. Morris, a veterinary; J. It. Calne. a well known Kavannahlan and three ne groes wi arrested today. Calne Is secretary of the Clean Election com mittee that brought detectives to Savannah to suppress vote buying. He Is charged with being accessory before the fact of vole buying. Colonel Slgo Myers, of - Governor Urown's staff, president of th Natio nal bank of Savannah and head of the Clean Election committee said to day that he was satisfied there had been a great deal of vote buying, but that he had not received full re ports from the defective.. . Captain R. J. Davant, former al derman and candidal for mayor against Mayor Geo. W. Tldeman, bad negroes, brought 'to the poll In bunches of flv and a whit man -was detailed to guard each negro until his vote was safely east. Ninety nine per cent of all negroes wer voted. s rugged countenance. Nation-wide ' Combinations affected by purchase according to ths contention of th government ar just as much within ths law ss combination affected by trust agreements or pooling. Standard's lUply Replying to thtss accusations and conclusions, counsel for ths Standard will srgu that ths Sherman law does not prohibit ths ntho4 of hold ing property toy atocjt ownership.' i - "Alt methods ars ' lawful,' Mr. Watson will arsrn. "If not usad ta re- nopoly. 'The Sherman act Jtaa no applica tion to th transfer to, or acquisition by ths Standard Oil company of Nsw Jersey of th stocks of ths various manufacturing and producing corpo rations," It 1 argued In th brief of Messrs, Johnson " Milburn, "for th reason that such transfer and ac quisition war not acts of interstate or foreign cotnmerc nor direct In thslr effect on Intsrstats or foreign cotnmerc, nor within th power of congress to regulate Interstate or for algn commarc." Following out this II n of argument they will urge that purchsa or ac quisition of .property Is not In Mr sens a contract, conspiracy or com bination In restraint of trad. Ths attorneys for th Standard Oil company will unit In arguing that there was no suppression of compe tition In th organisation of list. In stead of growth by unfair competi tion ripening Into a monopoly It will be argued that It was created as a lawful business and continues to this SaanBBaEX8SSBBBBBSSBSSBBBSnaSBBan REPEAL OF PIIDIIT1 At Least the Legislature Will Greatly Amend the Present Law MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 10. The Alabama legislature In regular quad rennial sesslan at noon today com pleted the work of organisation. Judge A. B, Almon of Tuscombl was elected speaker of ths house over Lee Long of Greenville. Hugh Mor row of Birmingham was elected pres ident pro tern of th senate without opposition, t Governor Comer' message was not read for Che reason that both houses wer not In session during the af ternoon. It will o to Kh legislature tomorrow. Among other things ths governor will recommend ths building of a gov ernor's -mansion and th appropria tion of a fund to maintain It. He will veto the bill Introduced today to Increase th salary of ths Incoming governor. With th defeat of Lee Long ,who managed th anti-prohibition cam paign when th amendment fight was up a year ago the attack on th pro hibition law takes a new turn. Brooks Lawrence, th - prohibition leader and other men oa that side are her managing the campaign for the maintenance bills. Although Judge Almond stumped Alaibama for O'Neall and against ths amendment th prohibitionists with two exception voted (or him. This ts taken to mean that only one of the prohibition bills, th Fuller law, which allow search and leis ure, will be repealed. : Citizen Want Ada Bring Results. , PRICE FIVE CENTS AS VESSELS BREAK Three Coal Barges go Ashore in Terrific Gale Off Cape Cod GUARDS WATCHED ' UNABLE TO HELP Desperate Sailors Fight for . Life In Boiling Surf and Lose HIGHLAND LIGHT. Mass., Jan, 10. -Th worst disaster th Ufa guards of th stormrUahed coast ot grim Cap Cod had n In mora than dotn ysar ooourrV today on th treacherous sand bar that mak oft from Ui . (malted ' hill They tood 00 th beach with their life boat Mid ocfter apparatus un able to render assistance, while three tout coal carrying barges war hurled to destruction and all on bordrvntcsn ; wsn-ost : their lives In th boiling mirf. - Th barge were the Treverton, Corbln and Pin Forest, valued together at ll!5,000, With th exception of Captain F. I, Brown of th Treverton, who be longs In Llnoolnvllle, Maine, and Captain M. W .Hall of th Flat Sor est, a ProvlncetowB man, all wer drowned, Including Captain Charles N. Smith, of Philadelphia, .of , th Corbln. As two of th barge, th Trwverton and Corbln, broke up very qukvkly it I believed that twelv Uvea wer lost within an hour after th barges !rk away from th tug Lykarut bout I o'clock this morning and went Into th breakers. Ft of th seamen wer aeon clinging des perately to th Pin Forest until the mid-forenoon, when In attempting to reach shor in their own little boat they were hurled Into th seething billows and lost. , Th tug Lyksn of ' th Heading Coal company, started from Philadel phia' last week with th Treverton for Portland, th CorWiv tor Ports mouth, and til iMn IWui.W for Marblehssd, ' ' - Coming over -' Nantucket Shoal Monday th Lyken encountered hauling Into th northwest a h rounded Monomoy Point ad headed down th cap. -' ' Th Lyken with hr tow was off Nausett 1st Inv th avsnlnc and could be seen In th moonlight from the shor as sh was husirln ths carp for Is. ' Sh finally mat th full foro of th gal at th bend In th arm -of the, cap,-. . - , , j- idle uuaros waicnea. -' The life saving patrol -saw her. standing off shor to avoid the peak ed hill bars but tdarkness blotted her out four hours before dawn, ; The (rvmttnned on per fonr.t CINCII.9iJITfGHAr.1BER OF COfliCE BUILDL'iG IS E Second Great Fire Within Short Space of Three Weeks Time MANY INJURED CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 10 En tailing a loss of mora than on mill ion dollars, this city suffered Its sec ond firs within thre weeks, when the Chamber of Commerce building at Fourth and Vine street was de stroyed tonight, -adjacent property damaged, a dosen firemen injured and possibly fives lost. ' . While several firemen still ar un accounted for up to a late hour,, re ports of fatalities among firemen and spectators who were - caught In th wreckage of th eollspsed roof have not been confirmed. Whether there are bodies still In the wreckage can not be definitely ascertained tonight It is known that there wer a large number of employee at work when th fir started. --: -.v.. ' The Cincinnati Ptock exchange and th Louisville Nashville railroad offices, both ot which contained rec ords almost Invaluable were consum ed In ths conflagration, ' Only the bar trails of what was """'-"fiti's most magnlflclmt archi tectural building' remains. Th building had valuation of. 11.000.- " while th fixtures In ths various offices were valued at 139,000. ' The stocks of ' several , business houses In th block were damaged, but the fire was confined to the Chamber of Commerce building. , . Fully five thousand persons were crowded directly outside the fire line when the roof collapsed. Smoke and flying sparks filled th street for two square and a panic followed, fen and women fought to escape end many were trampled In the rush. Many sustained bruise and cuts but no on was reported seriously ln jured. - SEVENTEEN PERISH UN GR f.l GAPE GOD