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CHARLOTTE. N> C„ MOBNlN GCl^SfiB^&. 1911
PRICE 5 CENT3
John D. Rockejellei
Seived With Summons
In Anli-Tmst Suit
Sends Handsome leam to Meet
Marshalls Who Went to His
Estate to Serve Papers in
Government's Dissolution
Suit.
1 he Oil King in Fme Humor—
Made Officers oj Law Feel
**At Home**—Comment Rel
ative to Effect of Big Suit.
New York, Oct. 28.—Steel trust
magnates of all degrees and factions
Tfliiintained today the rigid silence
that has characterized all of them
; Icce the government fliled its dis-
bolution suit ai Trenton. Thus far
the Gary statement, issued late Fri
day afternoon, is the only utterance
that has come from any steel trust
source. That statement ^as decided
upon only after a lengthy conference
at the banking house of J. P. Morgan
& Co., between Mr. Morgan, chair
man Gary and George F.' Baker, a
leader of the dominant Morgan fac
tion in the board of directors.
Not until today, however, did it
become known that their pronuncia-
mento of the giant trust, sounding,
a^ it did, a stern note of deflance to
the government, was formulated in
the offlcee of Chairman Gary only af
ter he had held a conversation by
long distance telephone with Francis
Lynde Stetson, chief counsel of the
corporation who framed its charter
and its bylaws. Mr. Stetson left New
York a short time after news of the
tiling of the suit became know'n
Thursday afternoon for his country
place at Sterlington, N. V. From there
today he said to the International
News Service, in response to a re-
iuest for an expression as to the
lurther course of the Steel Corpora
tion:
Mr. Stetson Talks.
"There is nothing for me to say
present. The chief officer of the
more summonses to serve today that
demand your immediate return to the
city?
“No more today,” responded Mar
shall Henkel, “but we’ve got to get
back.”
Offlcera Were Pleased.
The officers were driven briskly
back to the station behind the same
pair of high Rockefeller steppers that
had carried them out to the mansion.
“Although Mr. Rockefeller forgot
to ask us to sit down while we were
in his house,” explained Henkel, “we
found him a mighty nice man. I re
lieve had we accepted his invitatwn
to remain and be shown
place he would have gone with us.
I'm glad I met him.”
Boston, Mass, Mass., Oct. 28.--Clar
ence V. T. Richeson, undaunted by the
mass of circumstantial evidence ^at
h® cRused th6 death of pretty little
Avis Linnell, made a formal demand
today on Chief Jefferson Aiken, of the
Suffolk county superior court, for an
immediate trial on the ground that he
is innocent.
This bold move is said to have been
at the request of Miss Violet Edmandfi,
the Cambridge heiress Richeson expect
ed to marry October 31st.
Mise Edmands has kept in commun
ication almost hourly with Richeson in
his cell in the Charles street jail, and
has insisted that all important confer
ences between the lawyers be held at
her father’s home in order that she
could take part.
The appeal to Justice Aiken was
made by Congressman R. O. Harris, the
new attorney in the case. He declar
ed the district attorney had not estab
lished a case against Richeson, and
demanded that the court force the
corporation spoke very plainly in tne I prosecutor to an immediate trial,
statement he issued Friday. 1 suppose whether or not an indictment is return-
I shall return to my office Monday, ed by the grand jury.
I do now I
but if I feel then as
siiall remain silent.”
Heretofore Mr. Stetson JiftS.
hesitated td
trust affairs—1>? his^or\.^'character,
achievements and puiposes of the cor-
porp.tion On more than one occasion
he has frankly proclaimed the pride
he feels over having assisted in the
organization of the company and of
Its great success. His reticence at
present is in line with the policy of
the utmost caution that has been
adopted by everybody directly con
nected with the management of the
trust.
It was intimated today by a prom
inent attache of the Morgan bank
that had not Judge J. M. Dickson,
^ho will prosecute the suit for the
government at the request of Presi
dent Taft, spoken so freely at Chi
cago the day the suit was filed about
certain recent acts of the corpora
tion. Chairman Gary would not have
felt impelled, under the advice of
Jessrs. Stetson and Morgan, to
speak at all, let alone in the defiant
tone that characterized his statement
of Friday.
Rockefeller Served With Summons.
John D. Rockefeller was the only
one of the fifty big financiers named
Bs defendants in the government’s
suit who was served with a summons
today. The process was served in the
morning by United States Marsiia!
Henkel and Deputy Crofitt. They
"ere met at the Tarrytown station
I a handsome double seated carriage
OIL the Rockefeller estate and were
driven to the great mansion of tbs
oil king a-top the loftiest hill of the
Ponatico range. This was by ai*
rangement made the day befor®
through John D. Rockefeller, Jrii
' hen the latter was served with a
■ ummons at his new office in the
lui** occupied by the Texas CompsQyi
;upposed to be the Standard Oil Oo?a*
pany’s chief rival, in the Whiteball
Vuilding. ^ ,
The officers encountered no treyble
i:. finding Mr. RockefeUer, They wgi’g
.1 mediately ushered into the mftfigien
ion by a butler, who conducted theni
naif way down the splendid hpUway
on the first floor. Then suddenly turn=
ing to the right, the butler tanMtl
^ontlv on a great oak dopr.
v -is ’softly opened by th« oil kisi
himself.
Welcomes Offeers.
“Step in gentlemen,' sftlfl tfee
e.--t man in the world in ^elcoffie
*hp mfuTEhals. **T had been IfiOkfBS
for you,” he went on, "and had *sy
brcaktast a Uttle earlier than USUftl
in order to be ready to meet
The summons was handed to Mr*
Rockefeller by Deputy Croflt. After
glancing at it hurriedly the master
of the Standard Oil crumpled It up
and tossed It on a table. “I am much
obliged to you for your kindness in
lOTHina 'way out here at so early an
1 said. "I suppose you found
ti a • and a little cutting a«
He objected to the clergymen being
held in jail while the authorities, as
^ said, “took time to bolster up a
^e against Richeson.”
District Attorney Pelletier tocdc part
in the conference, which resulted in
announcement that the prosecu
v*.e
tion would be ready to go to trial jiist
as soon as the defense desirett.
It was. definitely stated the grand
jury will complete its work not later
than Tuesday at noon and that report
will be made the same afternoon. The
district attorney expects an indict
ment.
The police have not been able to
find any one who saw Richeson and
Avis' Linnell together the day the girl
is believed to have taken poison, be
lieving it to be medicine. There are
Etill two hours between noon and
p. m. in which neither the clergyman
nor the little choir singer can be ac
counted for on October 14th—the fatal
day.
The Chinese Rebels
Have Received Their
First Setback
LA BARRA DE8IREB
TO SEE THE PRESIDENT.
Chicago, Oct. 28.—^Senor Louis L. de
La Barra, brother of the provisional
president of Mexico, arrived toda.y
with the intention of seeing President
Taft. He said he did not desire to
see Mi*. Taft on any political mission
but only to pay the respects of his
brother, Francisco, who is a personal
friends of the president, ha^^g for
merly been ambassador at Washing-
1 ton.
Chmese Warships Given Large
Part OJ Credit For Victory
in Peking R^rts—Rebels
Lose Large Quantities of
Gurts and Ammunition.
STANLEY STEEL INV€«TIGATING COMMITTEE.
Washington, Oct.' 28.—The Stanley Steel Investigating Cemmitt^e will resume its probe of the United
States Steel Corporation the coitilng weekiwlth a view to learning the methods of the monster corporation
and determining whi^t should be done to cure the defects of the Sherman anti-trust law. Some of the members of
the committee who will hear the evide^e the coming week are, reading from left to right, H. G. Danforth of
N. Y., Charles L. Bartlett, of Georgia; Augustus O, Stanley (chairman) of Kentucky; Jack Beall, of Texas;
Daniel J. McGilllcuddy, of Maine and:H. Olih Young of Michigan.
President 2 aft
Faded to Register
Chicago, Oct. 28.—The president of
the United States can’t vote—that Is*
not this year. He failed to register
properly in Cincinnati.
Mr. Taft heard the sad news today
and when he discovered that his ig
norance of registration laws was the
real reason for his undoing, it is said
he ejaculated expressions more or
less in keeping with presidential dig
nity.
Another reason that had to do with
barring the president from the polls
was lack of speed in the postal ser
vice. The president’s first registration
papers were forwarded to Cincinnati
with his “unsealed” signature. These
were not acceptable under the law,
so a new affidavit made in the pres
ence of a notary was forwarded. This
arrived too late.
Washington, Oct. 28.-^Tbe eyes of
the entire political and financial world
will be focused on Washington this
week, when the Stanley investigating
committee of the house reiumes its
probe Of the United States Steel Cor
poration, with a view to leamii^; the
Siethods of the monster corpoi^ion
and determining what should be; done
to cure the defects in the Sherman
anti-trust law.
Interest is accentuated by the Sep
tember panic on Wall street, the
greatest since that'i>f 1B07 and caused
THE WEATHER.
tji^
to ’of',prb8ecjft
• partlaT
mtiiDrs in the
Dr. Reid Leaves Lenoir.
Special to The News.
Lenoir, Oct. 28.—Dr. L. O. Reid
and family left this morning for
Knoxville, Tenn., where they will
make their future home. For the past
eleven years the doctor has been a
resident of Lenoir, during which time
he has enjoyed a good dental prac-
tico and has many friends here who
regret to have he and his family
move to another section to make
their home. Dr. Reid graduated from
the Atlanta Dental College in 1899
and after leaving college took a post
graduate course under an eminent
dentist in Atlanta, fitting himself for
an other important branch of his pro
fession.
SONSini IIBE
0R6IINIZED HERE-
teie
Washington,
cast for S^und
North Car^
liha^Fair in
tied on , the ' coast
Monda^ faif.^ i
Oct. 2a.---Fore-
and Monday:
ia; South Caro-
interior,, unset-
Sunday;
ii
II
The jolly and Jovial sons of Jove
were the midnight sons wjio painted
the town red last night and organized
here a central station of the Rejuve
nated Sons of Jove. The sons include
men engaged in every line of electri
cal work, such as superintendents,
traveling men, managers and others.
All the local electrical companies, elec
trical contractors, etc., are represent
ed in the membership of the local or
ganization.
The masonic temple on South Try-
on street was the rallying place for
the sons, where at 8 o’clock they as
sembled themselves for the ceremonial
of instituting and organizing the “Sta
tion’- here. A large delegation of the
Rejuvenated Sons from several sec-
. tamt' up tflc hill to my house.” 1 tion» of the country were present. Mr.
•‘Nt«xe too cold,” volunteered Marshal a. V. Harrill, of the Charlotte Pow-
Honkel. er Company, was chairman of the re-
“Ah, ah,” Mr. Rockefeller grunt*. ception committee, and aided by the
ed the vrhile stroking his hands in > sealous assistance of the committee
front of the middle line of his tight-j made all the visitors welcome to the
ly buttoned breakfast coat. "If Its “City of Electrical Energy,” the emi-
not too cold for you, then I shall mently fitting and proper Olympus for
h»ve a good time on the golf links the Joviai>s, the sons of the god of
this morning.'*
“By tbe way,” he added as an af
terthought, "can’t you gentlemen stay
hwr« a few hours and let me have you
s^uvi^ over tbe place? Or have you j
the thunderbolt and general manager
of the electrical displays in the up
per air.
The nearest organisations to Char-
ConttnuBd on Pumi Fonrteesi
entirely by r
poratH^ was
dissolve to m
ti^, siMIffi
coofifmattlon of the
story that th6 finatie ^ncern is to
give up its lease of the Great North
ern ore properties, the largest of the
kind it holds.
The methods by which the corpora
tion was formed will be exhaustively
delved into by the committee through
the calling as witnesses of some, of the
most prominent men in the country^.
Andrew Carnegie is expected to be
one of the first called to the witness
stand. J. Plerpont Morgan and James
J. Hill follow him, according to indi
cations. Before they conclude their
testimony, it is expected, financial
manipulation unequalled in magnitude
in the history of the country will have
been related.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is ex
pected to testify as to the alleged pol
icy of the steel corporation to exclude
organized labor from their mills and
factories. It is said that the corpora
tion forbids its employes to organize
for their own protection and thftt they
are discharged wt^n an effort to organ
ize becomes know^. .
Chairman Stanley of the investigat
ing committee, until recently, has beeii
busy with the gubernatorial campaign
in his home state, Kentucky, and it is
declared the committee members have
not devoted much time, since their
adjournment last August, toward plan
ning the lines of the continuance of
the probe. However, the intention is
to inquire into even^ pliase of the steel
corporation and the investigation is ex
pected to exhaust the subject so that
Us findings can be of assistance to the
department of justice in event that t^
legal department decides to take u|>
tile Cftse*
The possibility of this, it is said,
alarmed the directors of the steel cor
poration and led to the drastic steps
on their part which were rumored dur
ing September and which cau^.'d the
break in the steel stock, on Sept. 22
that threatened to precipitate a rpp^i-
tion of the panic of 1907. It . was rum
ored that Elliert H. Gary, chairman of
the direction fearing for the future,
sold short 70,000 of his shares in Steel
Common, that the’ corporation was
about to cut the wages of over 3W.OOO
employes; that the OTganizatipn was
preparing to voluntarily disiBGlve and
reorgani^ so -as to be safe' from it-1
tack under the Sherman^ law and. With
this end in view; Attorncfr Qenenj'
Wiekersham had been coi^ulted for
advice, ae to what Ahonld bB done'.in
order to bring tlto cwT?oratIbn into
such shape that it , wo]uld conform en
tirely with .the law, ae interpreted, in
the Standard Oil and ^Tbbaceo Trust
cases. These rumers brought-aJioiut; an
almost unprecedented. ..in
Wall street On Sept.; 22ndi half of
tte totar securities d^t in w«e those
of the United StAtes Steel
flon, and the‘loss' In- them was declai^
ed to have exoieeded |B5,000;000 ln*tl^
one day.
The steel directors continued to de^y
that there was any intration ta
its organization and a^rted tw tlM;
were arorised that the corporation wa#
BOt in violation of the ant1^-:^at law.
However, on Oct. 19, it l*ra®4
that the. corporktlbii wojild cancel. *ts
lease of the Great Northerii ore
erties* % ^ ■
It had been held by -legi^l opinion
(Continued on Page Twenty.) ■
Mr. A.' L, Berry^j^f this. city,, was
hMrt-'nl
brbipn to anh
-badly bruised. Eery hill was driving a
mule along the traclf; when the car
I struck his wagon, siheshing it and in
juring the mule so badly that it had to
Tripoli, Oct. 28.—It is now estimated be killed,
in Italian ciitJles thtt, the Tiii-kish and 1 B^rryhill was immediately brought
* V.. Tihnr**- to the city and taken to the Pi-esbyter-
Arabian ,toflees m the battle of -^urs hospital. It is thought now that
diy reached two thousand_killed and suffered no Internal injuries,
four thousand wounded. The enemy
numbered 12,000. • ■
BOAT TRAIN' WRECKED;
No particulars of the accident can
be gained. Persons who saw Berry-
hill yeaterday afternoon say that he
iKi iiiDen was somewhat under the influence of
THREE PSRSONS INJURED.,» small farm be-
yond North Charlotte. hTe accident
occurred just In front of the Saunders
& Smith batting mill.
■London,'Oct 28.—The American
boat train which left Bisten at, noon
today fliled with American and other
passengerjB for the steamer Lusitania,
ran into a local trAln at Oolwick at
2:30 o’clock." Np^e of: the passengers
of the boat. trSin' were ‘ injured - but
t^hree of those oh the' local train were
hiirt.-- - - - . 'T
Among the passengers on-tlie boat
train .were the American ambassador
to Pranw, > Mr. Bacon, and Mrs. Ba
con.
Wrote His Heart in Veto.
Chicago, Oct. 38.—In his talk at
the luncheon of the Chicago bar as
sociation President Taft said:
' “I wrote "my heart into the veto of
the Arizona and New Mexico state
bill that allowed the recaiiH'of jtidges
and I will never fail to fight fcM* a
free and untrammeled judiciary.”
M(Mve Fm Murd& Of
2)r. Hdene Knabe Matf
Lie In Far Off Austria
Indianapolii^Ind., Oct. 28.—Across
the. ocean in her own native province
in Austria may be found the motive
for the. murder of Dr. Helena Knabe,
former state bacteriologist, whose
throat was cut in her apartments
here.
To a few clo«e friends, Dr. Knabe
frequently intimated that ^She was of
noble Austrian birth. To none, how
ever, did s6e ever tell aair of the m-
timate details of her life before her
appearance in. Indianapolis.
It is' upon. this, one elew that* the
police base their strongest hbpes of
solving the mystery. - ^ .
Althoufh they may have known it
aWjost fyom th® moment of the difr
coveiy of the^ crime it was not until
Governor MfarBhaJi, of Indiana,. per-
sonaBy itt«ed thfem to work on this
information that tlie police began
following it lip by cabling to Vienna
for information concerning Dr.
Knabe’s early life.
Governor Marshall stated that the
city and state should not spare money
in employing the shrewdest detectives
in the country. The governor will of
fer a reward of $2,500, and he says
that the city and state ought to give
12,800.
Coroner Durham’s Inquiries in the
case has shown that he regards as
plausible a theory that Dr. Knabe
might have been murdered by an as
sassin from across the ocean. The cor
oner examined'Dr. Knabe’s pri
vate correspMidence and admits the
possibility of an enemy of the Knabe
family in Germany having made a
trip to this city.
Another
Averted: Negro Died
From Gunshot Wound
Orimfj^atf.. a ^ *^“^®j5)§eht^?y^Se^^^ the*man who did
Tyler, ^a;nlii^ ^ed in.th» county jiil
last eve^g*^«^ "a i^dsot wound re?
celved at SpringJI^d ^ iapt whUe
he was being ia»c«d ln.aa jiutom»fl«
by SiieriiT Salley, 0n-
fes^ that he tusisi8|ed in th© escape
the shooting. It was all the sheriff
\coiM do to restrain the mob from
lynching Tyler thenlf^and there. As it
WM the sheriff had to impress a phy-
stclaB*e automobile to convey the
wdsnded pris^oner to the county jail in
■ f AiiuUii'i uiiaro Arthur TVrwnn wh^Odang^rg, the sheriiTs^own car hav_
attempt atjlJW been dt«bled by the of
rcHmteal assadlt i«K>n a whtte farm-1 the thv^ by members of the mob.
= in the^pringteld section! SpHngiWd cltixens are still searching
some iiays ago. Sheriff Salley sacya that the swamps nearby tor Bowen.
Opelousas, La., Oct. 28.—The trial
of Mrs. McRee charged with the mur
der of Allen Garland was opened this
morning with argument by counsel on
the admissabillty of Allan Garland’s
conversation with his grandmother
iregardinV the spool of thread w\d^
llxs., M^ee tel^phon^ thft wltn^s
fiflr osB 'Sept^ber il,''the" day the
tragedy. During the" argiiment the
jury was excluded from the coi^
room. The court finally ruled for the
state and held that the witness could
give the facts of the conversation.
Mrs. Garland’s Testimony.
Resuming Mrs. Garland said:
"The phone rang. I went into the
room Allan was at tbe phone. He said
Mrs. McRee wants to set a spool of
5-60 thread.’ I said ‘Who Is going to
take it to her?’ He said ‘I am.’
"I said Allan I don’t want you to—”
Objection by the defense resulted
in barring this portion of the testi
mony.
He took the spool , of thread and I
saw him walk down the road to the
McRee home. It wasn’t fifteen min
utes afterward before I learned that
my poor boy had been killed.”
The prosecution made a further
unsuccessful effort to get before the
jury the actual conversation which
took place that day between the de
ceased and his grandmother.
Mrs. Garland was then cross-exam
ined by Attorney Henriques, chief
cotineel for the defense.
"Mifs^ Garland, the only means you
had of knowing who was speaking at
the other end of the telephone was
from what Allan told you?" he ask
ed.
•‘Yes sir,”’ replied the witness.
“That is all I have to ask you,”
said Captain Henriques.
iBy Attorney Lewis for the defense:
You say, Mrs. Garland, that Mrs.
McRee bad slept at your house the
week before?”
**Ycs sir#**
Mrs. Garland, didn’t you ask Mrs.
McRee to let one of her boys come
to the house because you were all
alone?”
“No sir; she rang me up and wk-
ed me if I was all alone. I told her
that I was but that Allan had pro^
ised to come home early. She said
she would come over and sit up witn
me until Allan returned. As she had
frequently slept at my houTC, I^told
her to come over and pass the nignt,
She and her little boy and girl came
over and passed the night.
Mrs. Garland was then excused.
Negro Boy’s Testimony.
Nathan Jackson, a negro yard ^y
at the McRee home, testified that
there was an intermission between
the firing of the first shot and second
and third shots. This testimony tend
ed to corroborate the theory of the
prosecution that Allan Garland was
shot in the back of the head while he
sat in the rocking chair and twice al
ter he fell to the floor.
Witness said he had often seen
Mt«. McRee, Allan Garland and the
McRee children go for a drive.
“There were tears in Mrs. McRee s
eyes after she shot Mr. Allan, sSld
Jackson on cross-examination.
Negro Cook Testifies.
Mary Anderson, a negro cook w
the McRee home, testified that she
saw Mrs. McRee coming from the
room in which was the roll top desa
after the shooting. 'The purj^se of
this testimony was to prove the «m-
tention of the state that Mrs. McRee
secured the revolver from a
in this deelc, unseen by Allan
land, instead of having suddenly
bed it from the drawer of the sew^
machine when, she allege, the de»
ceased insulted her.
Shanghai Doubts Truth oJ the
Reports Situation About
the City ts Disptrate—Re*
port That Rebels had Cap-
tmed Canton Erroneous:
Peking, Oct. 28.—The Chinese revo
lutionists received their first setback
in their successful uprlBing againgst
the Manchu dynasty, when the im-.
perial troops yesterday recaptured the
city of Hankow after an all-day’s fight
The casualties of the imperialists
amounted to about 200 while the reb
els lost 450. The imperialists march
ed into Hankow today.
In the reports of the engagement
that have reached Peking, the Chin
ese warships are given a large part
of the credit for the victory, as they
assisted largely in the operations of
the land forces. The rebels were en
forced from one position where they
were strongly entrenched near the
Hankow race track. The imperial
troops advanced to within 500 yards
before beginning the attacks. The reb
els were forced to abandon the en
trenches and the imperial troops then
entered the native city. A second en
gagement was fought at the Saotao
bridge, where the rebels were forced
from their position at Lluchai temple.
This paved the way for entry to the
other division of Hankow and although
possession was assured last night, the
city was not occupied until today.
(^-^Large quantities of guns and ammu
nition fell into the hands of the im
perialists. The revolutionists have
fallen back across the Han river into
Han Yang.
It may be significant that this vic
tory for the government is coincident
with the announcement that Yuan Shi
kal has received the full powers of a
dictator. All the forces of the empire
are undej his command and the vice-
rayf of gg the
la hl8 ordere. Hit ap^ointm^t to such
a powerful post If an indication of
the straits In which the Manchu gov
ernment found itself. Yuan Shi Kai,
who is cls;8sed as the strongest man
of his generation, is not in favor with
the imperial court, but in the present
crisis he was the only available man
for the task of putting down the re
bellion. He has many friends among
the anti-Manchus and many believe
that secretly he sympathizes with the
revolutionists.
Owing to the persistency of the rad
ical element I nthe national assembly
In demanding the beheading of
Sheng Hsuan Huai, former minister
of communications, who was recently
dismissed in disgrace, it has been de
cided to place a guard at his disposal.
This force which will go to Tien Tsln
at once, will be commanded by an
American officer, and will consist of
two soldiers from the American, Brit
ish, French, Crerman and Japanese
lections guards and will accompany
Sheng' wherever he goes.
Shanghai Doubts News.
Shanghai, Oct. 28.—The dispatches,
telling of a government victory at
Hankow are received here, even in of
ficial circles, with increduility. The
fiituation around Shanghai and along
the lower part of the Yangste river
continues desperate for the govern
ment. There are persistent reports
that Chiang Klang is about to fall Into
rebel hands. This is about 150 miles
above Shanghai and is regarded here
as the keystone of this Shanghai’s de
fense. If Chang Kiang falls, it is con
ceded that all the forts below It, as
far as Wu Sung, will quickly follow.
Wu Sung, which is ten miles above
Shanghai, marks this city’s last de
fense.
The wealthy city of Su Chow, west
of Shanghai, is also thretitened, while
above Chiang Kiang, three Important
cities, Nanking, Yang Chow and Wuhu
are believed to be in danger. All of
these places reported today that while
the situation was quiet on the surface,
there is open sympathy for the rebel
cause and probably little effective re
sistance would be offered to the at
tack when it comes.
The report that Canton had fallen
into the hands of the revolutionists
proves erroneous, but there is much
uneasiness. The city has declined to
contribute men or money to support
the government.
Taft on Alaska.
Chicago, Oct. 28.—President Taft,
addressing the American Mining Con
gress, took pains to make it clear he
fully endorsed the speech last night
of Secretary of the Interior Walter
L. Fisher, who outlined the govern
ment’s plan for Alaska.
“And if Secretary Fisher can
straighten out the Alaskan situation, ’
said the president, “you can believe
be will win my undying gratitude as
well as oiBcial approbation.”
He said he hoped there was a “lull
in the niuck raking and unnecessarily
sharp criticim of those who are seek
ing to develop Alaska.”
Rodgors Resumed Flight.
Sanderson, Texas, Oct. 28.—Avia
tor C. P. Rodgers resumed his flight
toward the Pacific coast at 11:33
a. ttu, after making quick repairs fcl-
towing a collision with a fence when
he attempted to leave the ground ear
lier in the day. He said he would try
to readi El Paso today.