St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 20, 1910

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“Miss Kellar Testifies Hyde Took Two Quarts of Blood Despite Protests. | PATIENT SOON DIED “‘Swears Doctor Then Asked Her to Help Him Become Administrator. ' RULING HELPS STATE “Court Decides T estimony as to All Deaths in Family Is Admissible. | By 2 Staff Correspondent, of the rat Dispatch. Post- * KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 20. =dust after Moss Hunton died, : Dr, B. Clark Hyde urged his ty ined nurse to use her influ- ence with Col. T. H. Swope to nake him (Hyde) administrator yf the $10,000,000 estate, accord- n to the ; - ‘ - 7 ‘z a 2 , * : x ( > : we eA , ts $50,000 FOR A ‘CEMETERY CHAPEL Ambassador Would — Erect Memorial Edifice in Cal- vary Burial Ground, OPPOSITION IS SHOWN Some Owners of Lots Do Not Believe One Name Should Be Thus Honored. An offer from Richard C. Kerens, am- pbassador to Austria-Hungary, of $50,000 for the erection of a memorial mortuary chapel in Calvary Cemetery, has caused considerable discussion among members of prominent St. Lowis families which have mausoleums and costly monuments in the cemetery. No definite opposition has arisen among the members of the Cemetery Board, but it has been.understood that some of the large lot holders do. not believe a chapel should bear the ‘name of any one person or any one family. Archbishop Glennon, to whom Ambas- sador Kerens' informal proposal has been referred by the Cemetery Board, said to a nS Stteetgy reporter Wednesday: “There has been stich. an offer from Col. Kerens. The plans and specifica- tions are in the. hands of Architect George W. Hellmuth.” When asked as to the possibility of opposition to the plan, he remarked, “There are many men of many minds.” “There has been no consideration of the offer by the board thus far. In its present shape it is a matter of arrange- ments, as far as the board is con- cerned and I, as the president, have been left in charge of submitting the offer to the board formally’ when per- fected plans are completed. Thus far I have only seen rough sketches of the proposed chapel. “So far there have been nq, details sub- mitted and no location has even been talked of. I shall not lay any plan before the board until I see and am sat- isied with the completed drawirgs.”’ Besides Archbishop Glennon the foi- lowing St. Louisans comprise the Cal- vary Cemetery Board: Theophile Papii, A. H. Handilan, W. J. Kinsella, Festus J. Wade, Howard Benoist, Louis Fuchs; Paul Bakewell, J. lL: Hornsby, Macrice Peughet and the Rev. Father James T. Coffey, pastor of St. Leo’s Church. Offer Not Considered. | J. L. Horasby, a member of the board, disclaimed any knowledge of dissension over the offer. “The matter of the chapel was brought up at the close of the special meeting iast Friday,’ he said. ‘“{ think there was a motion to adjourn when it was announced, and several were on their feet and had start- ed to go, It’s very hard to hold the members after they start to go. “I don’t think the matter was consid- ered at all, but there was something said about a $50,000 offer. No, I don’t know anything about any opposition to the plan.” HERE'S A PROMISE FOR THE FANS: IT WILL BE FAIR AND WARMER ON THURSDAY THE TEMPERATURES. Midnight ....41 a. a. concer 4h FO Ge Whew so oe a. a. IAch own Yesterday’s Temperature. Maximum ............51 at 12 (moon) Minimum ...... .»~. 80 at 5 p. m. “The Police De- partment ought to be in fine’ feather from now on,” said the man with the speckled’ vest. “Yes, with 4 milliner to show it how to trim its course. so as to keep on velvet.” “Byer y thing should be as fine as silk now. The new milliner-com- missioner ought to know all about lids. Besides, che department has @ Laird to rule over it, a lawyer to help it out of dif-. ficuities and ® commission merchant to give it the fruits of his.experience and make: its foes acknowledge the eorn.” “I ¢an't help but wonder about one thing.” “What's that?” \ “Wit the. palibe have to wear ‘Chan- |tecler 1 fe. an he fe sod se Mame ay P . ne et 29h tasks Mengscare tuoi > ioe ng ij ey gs ? et , Beak: 8 PANS va ar oss “a $ f Sa © : -_* a Fic mn? *

ASUT 10 THE BEEF TRUST| g Ends Hearing and Plans Action. Within Thirty Days. HINTS AT CLEAN Attorney-General, If He Wins Case, Likely to’ Permit Business to Continue, Believing that he has all the evidence needed for a successful ouster suit against the packing companies, Attor- néy-General Major brought the meat in- quiry at the Southern Hotel to a close Wednesday, while a number of stock raisers, prepared to testify as to the methods of the !ocal combine, waited to be’ called. Major said to a Post-Dispatch reporter after the adjournment that his ouster suit would be filed within 9% days. He said he intended, after. obtaining. an order ousting the ‘packing companies from doing business .in the State, to de- mand that they reduce prices and change their manner of doing business and that, if they would submit to this requirement, the execution of the order might be suspended. Packers’ Lawyers Hopeful. Attorneys for the packers, who have surprised Major by their willingness to make known .the. facts as to the com: bine, said after the adjournment that the facts brought out would nat furnish a legal. basis for an ouster order. They said the National Packing Co., the $15,000,000 holding corporation for the Ar- mour, Swift and Morris interests, which has been shown to own the 8t. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Co., had been pronounced a legal corporation. They -hold that its control of 23 small companies, most of them so-called inde- pendent concerns, is a combination, but not a combination in restraint of trade, as defined In the anti-trust ‘laws. Of the testimony given. by two wit- nesseX Wednesday, that of Louls BE. Den- t{nigs son-in-law of Louis Schaefer, cx- -ited--the most interest. Dennig said that in 1902 Schaefer, then president of the St. Louts Dressed Beet and Proévi- sion’ Co., “went t6. Burope, leaving a power of attorney in Dennig’s hands. Dennig, acting for Schaefer, sold the latter’s stock to Thomas W. Crouch, who, according to another witness, was acting for J. Ogden Armour. “As Mr. Schaefer's representative,”’ said Dennig, “I was required to sign a contract by which he obligated himself not to engage in -the wholesale beef business in the United States for 15 years, or until 1917. All the members of the Board of Directors signed similar contracts in selling their stock.” Dennig was asked to name those who bound themselves to keep out of the packing business for 15 years, and named Gus. Bischoff Sr., and Elgin Brooks as the only ones whom he posi- { tively remembered. A. M. Trader, former secretary of the dressed beef company, told how, after Schaefer and the other directers sold their stock to Crouch, the National Packing Co. established control of the dressed beef concern’s operations. The first step, he said, was the installation of the private wire from Chicago.’ Chicage Took Control. He then told of the daily market re-’ ports and instructions sent from Chi- cago, showing the number of head of stock to be purchased and the maxi- mum price to be paid, also of the in- structions to “buy steady,”” meaning that the purchasing price of the day before was to be followed. Later, he said, the head buyér in Chicago took supervision, by means of the wire, of the purchases. The witnesses whom Major did not think it worth whiie to call were stock raisers, who were to testify that no competition existed in purchasing their offerings, but that the price named to them by the first buyer they met would prove to be the high- est price they could get. \ These witnesses, Major said, would be heard ™ the ouster proceedings. . He will not hold'a hearing in Kansas City, as he had intended to do, having got the desired showing of facts here. Major said ‘he would return to Jeffer- son City and would leave in a few days for’ St. Paul, where he is to argue a rate case before the. Federal Court, and before returning would visit Wash- ington. The packers’ lawyers, most - them from Chicago and Kansas City, went out to play golf after the adjournment. The inquiry Tuesday afternoon was directed toward showing that competi- tion did not exist in the meat and live- stock trade in St. Louis, This the wit- nesses would not admit. A. N, Benn had shortly before’ stated {that the National Packing Co., a $15,000,- 1000 holding corporation owned almost tag vd by the Armour, Swift and Mor- |* ES SDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1910. Ar Co “ YEE Soe ie eee nr, Satie me it Rats 4, Sex Photographs taken. by a staff how > ASRS xe a ER %: a Bes Bp — Rage ue ‘ Ps RS . diet RE xe ay Ne S Le 2 em ‘ wT eeeny. of Unpr e ow 6 | WASHINGTON, April 20. eh a z Colorado today introduced a tives calling for the appointment of a “2 0 sale of the Friar lands in the Ph * 7% - 2 A resolution to the same effect was ir on Feb. 14 and was referred to Speaker Cannon was then epee Kyle stiould ‘serve ’ cs sentence - which this sum ‘imipHes, ~ would kéep him’ in ‘the Workhouse ws year and nine months. As a tter of fact, no man‘can be conf “fn the Workhouse ‘more ‘than six” months on any finés, however numerous, * Of ’this amiount, $600 was for isturb- ing the peace ‘of his Wife; $500 for dis- | turbing the peace of his’ mother-fn-law; $60. for ‘wrecking’ part of her furniture, and $100 for resisting arrest ‘and inter- fering with a policeman. Kyle, who-ls 2 years old, is a’cabinet | maker. He is. separated from his wife, «| that ‘thé Priat Ya lata cost of more been framed sseenay te ee the. 1, W tion — hands of great ¢ -" JEpPr poration ,. e ¢ | a! sanction + wade aT reg i 9% ne :. is ha Pee Be 4 4 sy sa g dj we = ‘ presented lay bare some fact C reaching in import as to cause Chip Clark, minority leader of the F describe the revelation as being. with the possibility of more sand than, any that ever before smirched administration. * “] Go not ‘believe that ont othr terest or any other influence,”’ uy Organic Lam De ‘‘ mete In a statement made to ) os agile: _ tin a m mp Nba EOP

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