St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 19, 1911

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. of Morelos. ative informed '. the message by a member of the E) Paso Federal » Government @ay after. that present plane contemplated the de- |. x ae mer ae hae ae &o Fetes apd « & ‘es . - you i a LE OE CT Only Evening Paper in ‘St Louis W ith the Associated Press Wise Service. | VOL. 63. NO. 272. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 197 19%." * ~ Om OF MEXICO il Fugitives Report That the Streets of Cuautla Were Strewn With the Dead and Wounded in .a Fierce Bat- tle Between Mungia and Zapata Forces. MADERO SCOFFS AT DEATH PLOT RUMOR Has Confidence in Federal Government and Will Pro- ceed Immediately to Na- tion’s Capital to Make Peace, By Associated Press. CUERNAVACA, Mexico, May 19.—A sanguineary battle was fought at Cu- eutia, 2 miles southeast of here, be- tween the Federal garrison under Col. Munguia and a force of rebels com- manded by Col. Zapata. Fugitives arriving here today said that the streets of Cuautla were strewn with dead and wounded. eae is but # miles from Mexico City, A commission left here last night for Cuautla carrying the news of the armis- tice which, it is hoped, would put an end to the fighting. Gen. Figuroa is legding 3000 rebels from Iguala, pre- sumably en route for this city. Guernavaca is the capital of the State Cuautla is a town of about ee population, in pron enes. veee ASSURED BY DIAZ MESSAGE JUAREZ. May 19.—“I am going to Mexico City. I have confidence fn the - Federal Government. Rumors that some ‘one may do me personal harm are to me of no consequence.” | In this’ manner Francisco I. Madero Je:, dismissed the report from Mexico City this morning that rumors were in circulation there that an attempt would be made on his life when he arrived \. at the capital and urging that precau- “tions ‘be taken. * When an Associated Press represent- him of the receipt of + junta ‘Madero smiled and ‘shrugged his ' ghoulders: ” “I have received. hundreds of ‘ieacaiaad all through the revolution and it has peen & task to sift the reliable from the unreliable,” he added. “This one is utterly discredited. The wants to make peace with me.” The face of the successful revolution- ary leader became serious and he paced _ the floor of his office with quick, nerv- ous strides. _. “Jf, by any unfortunate occurrence, _ my life should be taken, anarchy would fallow in Mexico. I canndt for a mo- ment take such a report seriously. My 4 plans ‘will not be changed”’ _. Unless the unforeseen happens, there- : fore, ‘Madero, accompanied by his per- | staff, may leave for the capital the Republic either tomorrow or the Madero said this morning ¢ parture of himself and party tomor- - row, but added that this might be 5 ‘. changéd after he had conferred with * Dr Vasquez Gomez. es Some of Madero’s advisers believe it would be more advisable and courteous ' to the riler who is about to step down it the rebel leader. and bis party were te postpone their entrance to the capital ‘until the resignation of President Digs had actually gone into effect. } Bdeis-y Carbajal and Dr. Gomez cop- ferred informally in El Paso this morn- | and the latter returned to Juarez. ae » Corse pointed out that it was a ry for the revolutionists to draw + Sup in blanket form the substance of ees = will | be their ultimate demands, | | these to be transmitted by telegraph to | Mexico City immediately. ig, 48; came out in the conversation. be- 2 Madero and the Associated Press fesentative that for the first time the revolution’ started, President | he “ss heer direct communication with ‘evolutionary leader. President it night: wired his personal as- | to” ‘Madero of his intention me er points can be e sutted by ~ WIFE OF SLAYER. WHO “SASSED” JUROR MRS. FRANK KELLER. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, SLAYERS WIFE TELLS JUROR : : . Mrs. Keller, Indignant at Appeal to Reform, Flouts Would-Be Advisor. Members of the grand jury who re- fused to ‘indict Frank Keller for the killing of James Graham Jr., on ac- Thursday evening, expressed a wish to see Keller and his wife. Assistant Circuit Attorney Rosskopf conducted them to police head- quarters, where both were locked up and had them brought into the Central District Station. Keller thanked the jurors and shook hands with them and expressed the hope that he would be able to pass the rest of his life in peace and happiness. One of the jurors spoke to Mrs. Kel- ler. “I hope,’’ he said, “that you will begin life over. Go home. with your husband and think of your, children and try to be a good womapn.”’ oe you mind your own business: * . Keller said. She turned on_ her oer but came face to face with Capt. Schwartz. ‘Yes, that’s right,” he said; “you ought to try to be a good woman.” “Oh, I-know yay business,” she sniffed. “T am. sick ‘and. tired of listening to other people's adviee.’” And she swept out of the station. Instead of going home with hér husband, she went north land” he went. south,» accompanied by some friends, who feared that he might meet violence at the hands of Graham's friends. The grand.jury refused to indict Kel- ler because of his declaration that he had killed Graham in self-defense. Keller shot and killed Graham in front of 1336 Franklin avenue Tuesday as Graham was talking to Mrs. Keller. SHOUTS SELF OFF SHIP Officer -Swims to Safety, His Voice Still. Going. NEW YORK, May 19.—Second officer Livingston. of the United Fruit Co.’s steamer Metapan was at his station on the stern shouting orders when the liner sailed from the foot of Wall street. While flourishing his megaphone he lost his balance and fell overboard. Livingston came up blowing and mad. He kept shouting his orders, disregard- ed the lines that were thrown to him, | swam for his cap and then to the pier. He climbed upon the pier and gained the ship by a plank hastily extended, rushed back to his station and renewed his orders without a megaphone. count of his attentions to Mrs. Keller, j@fter voting an ignored bill, it as an independent terminal system. lect that sum from the shipper, making rangement the original carrying line wfll joint Railroad. The, fight was carried by the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain to the Interstate Commerce These roads demanded an investigation, resulting in the through rates until the Interstate Com- merce Commission could pass upon the questions at issue. cago, Peoria & St. Louis; Frisco; Mis- Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Chicago & heen recognized: as an independent ter- minal system by all the railroads in the Terminal Association, with the excep- & Ohio, Southern and New York Cen- tral lines. toint tariffs sopn after fhey are notified rates within the next two months. The rates were suspended until Aug. 27, but in view of the settlement it is thought order vacating the suspensions, thereby diately. HSH OND WIG INDEPENDENCE AS TERMINAL SYSTEN Missouri Pacific and Iron Moun-' tain Consent to Share Through Tariffs. OTHERS LIKELY TO- JOIN Only a Few Roads Have With- held Agreements With the Manufacturers’ Line. owned has The Manufacturers’ Railway, by the Anheuser-Busch interests, won its fight for recognition as an in- dependent terminal system. More than a year ago the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railroads started a fight on the Manufacturers Railway which caused all the Terminal roads to cancel their joint switching tariffs with the Manufacturers’ road. These two roads have decided to aban- don their fight, and within a few days will file tariffs with the. Interstate Commerce Commission according to the Manufacturers’ Railway the same par- ticipation in the through rates as the Terminal. Under. the new arrangement the Man- ufacturers’ Railway will collect its al- lowance for switching from the rail- roads instead of the shipper. When B. F. Bush, the new president of the Mis- sourl Pacific, took charge of the sys- tem one of the first acts of his admin- istration was to order @ cessation of the fight on the Manufacturers’ Railway. . Recognized by Former Fees. The result of tue oraer was that the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain no- tified the Manufacturers, Railway Wednesday that they would recognize After the through tariffs were can- celled the Manufacturers’ Railway had to collect its switching charges from the shipper. If the through rate on a car amounted to $20, the railroad com- pany took it all. If the Manufacturers’ switching charge was $2 it had to col- the entire rate $22. Under the new er- pay the Manufacturers’ “Railway © tts switching charge out of the os a coe rate. Last fall eight other pistheess filed tariffs with the Manufacturers’ Commission. suspension of the The railroads which filed the joint tar- iffs last fall were: Cotton Belt; Chi- souri, Kansas & Texas; Rock Island; Alton and the Clover Leaf. : The Manufacturers’, Railway now has Lion of the Burlington, Vandalia, Mobile It expects these roads to file of the action of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain. Commerce’ Commission to Act. The Interstate Commerce Commission is expected to file its ruling on the jojnt ukely that the commission will issue an putting the joint rates into effect imme- A. gentle hint to Profit ‘by. their experience. their custom, bought while they used only hewspapers as many pa in the city. careless advertisers Is given by the big successful St. Louis merchants in the manner in which they distribute their advertising in the St. Louis papers. If you are in doubt, follow these leaders. They know it pays to advertise anything it pays to sell. They know low-priced advertising is not*cheap. These St. Louis merchants yesterday, Thursday, as is 91 columns of iintsy advertising in the POST-DISPATCH alone, 87 columns in the three next nearest of all four of the other St: Louis all added. together . \ Don’t overlook the fact the POST-DISPATCH sells ‘in St. Louis each day as there are homes The prudent housewife never overlooks the bis sc SSR of the Aish eres pot Ragerd wa pce MAN WHO CHASED THIEF TO DEATH HELD BY CORONER (Drowning Declared to Be Homi- cide, but Prisoner Is Freed. WITNESS TELLS OF FIGHT Carpenter Declares He Saw Louis Stoecker Beating Man Who Had Stolen Shoes. oe The drowning of Ferdinand Streby, so identified by a name on his arm, was homicide according to a verdict returned by a Coroner’s jury Friday. Streby drowned in the River Des Peres Thursday, in sight of Patrolman Speckman, after he had run into the ter to escape from Louis Stoecker, whose shoes he had stolen. The- Coroner’s ‘Jury ordered that Stoecker be held for the Circuit Attor- ney. Stoecker, with a policeman, went to the Four Courts after the verdict, and Assistant Circuit Attorney Davis called yup Capt. Pickel of the Carondelet Police Station. After a telephone talk with Pickel, Davis told Stoecker he had no charge to make against him, and the noliceman released him. Admits Beating Man. Stoecker, in his.testimony at the'in- quest, admitted that he had beaten Streby for stealing his shoes, but de- nied that he had beaten him at the river’s edge, or had directly caused him to enter the water. He also said that the discoloration of one of Streby’s eyes was not due to his blows, but existed before their encounter. John J. Black of 8720 Reilly avenue, a carpenter, testified that he was working on the roof of a building at Laurent avenue and Water street when he saw Stoecker holding Streby by the collar und beating him in the face with a pair of shoes. “If vou don’t quit beating that old man-T’ll make _ you,”’ called Black. Stoecker continued to beat Streby and Black, with his hatchet in hand, went down a ladder and made Stoecker re- lease Streby. Stoecker, according to Black's testi- Streby walked east along the River des Peres. Black walked in the other direc- tion to find a policeman and did not see what followed. Boy Tells of Chase. Rennick Stringer, 15 years old, was fishing on the River. Des Peres bank. He testified that he saw Streby running toward him near the water's edge. Stoecker was about twenty-five feet be- hind, — Streby dodged behind a clump of bushes.. Stoecker asked the boy if he had seen a man running and the boy pointed out the course Streby had taken. Streby looked back and saw Stoecker following. He waded into the river as though to wade across. Stoecker waded in after him. When Streby reached the middle of the stream he sank and did not come up again. Patrolman Speckman was standing on the op- posite bank. Stoecker called to the policeman and said: “I believe that fellow drowned.” Diving where Streby went down, Stoecker repeatedly tried to recover the body. Once he got hold of it, but it slipped from his grasp. Woman Saw Theft. Susan: Sills of 8740 Water ,street testified that she was driving in her chickens when she saw _ Stoecker asleep under a tree. She saw Streby lie dowh beside Stoecker. After a few minutes he searched Stoecker’s eoat and took his shoes. She woke Stoecker.,. Feeling in his coat pocket, Stoecker said he had been robbed of 35 cents, nd asked which way the thief had gone. “I didn’t want to kill him,” testified Stoecker. “I admit that I beat him with my shoes after I got them back from him. At first I intended to have him arrested, but decided to let him go. I became angry again after he went away and followed him, intending te give him another beating.”’ Patrolman Speckman testified that he ran to the river when he saw Stoecker chasing Streby and reached the bank just as Streby drowned. H. O. SEIXAS KILLS SELF IN NEW YORK Financier Was Director in Coal and Irom and’ Monotype Ma- chine Companies. NEW YORK, May 13.—Col. Henry O. Seixas, a widely known financier, shot himself to death today. Col. Seixas was about 70 years old. The cause of Col. Seixas’ self-destruc- tion is not known. The Colonel was a director of the Columbus & Hocking Coal and Iron Co., Davis Creek Coal and Coke Co., Lanston Monotype Ma- chine Co. and Siose-Bhetinid Steel and tron Co. IN 18 MINUTES EATS 1 GAL. OF ICECREAM May 19.—This | city CHESTER, iii, mony, sat down to put on his shoes. and {. : |MAN WHO CHASED THKEF TO Si DEATH IN THE RIVER DES PERES: . 2 5 tenes STOECKER. — ees ree POST DISPATUH DAVIT SHOWS CULATION LEAD Newspapers Present Bids and Grounds for Getting City “Printing Contract. > Bids.were opened at noon Friday by City Register Witter for dcing the city printing in English and German for the ensuing year. Bids were submitted by the Post-Dispatch, Globe-Democrat, Re- public and Star for doing the printing in English and by the Westliche Post and Amerika for doing it in German. Under the law the contracts have to be awarded to the lowest bidder and not to the lowest and best bidder. This places a paper with a circulation of only 3000 on the same plane with a paper like the Post-Dispatch with a Sunday circulation of 273,894. The only papers filing affidavits of circulation were .the Post-Dispatch and Globe-Democrat. The bid of the Post-Dispatch was 17 cents a line daily except Thursday and Sunday, on which days the price asked was 18 cents. The Gléde-Democrat certified to 119,681 daily circulation, including Sunday, and bid 7% cents.a line. The Republic certi- fied to daily circulation in excess of 3000. Attached to its bi dwas a printed statement of circulation. she Star, certifying only that its cir- culation exceeded 2000 daily, the num- ber required by the law, bid 4 cents a line. The Westliche Post and America, each certifying only to circulation in excess of 3000, bid 5 and 10 cents, respectively, for the German printing. The Times did not bid. It now has the legal court printing and is not in a | position to handle the city printing. The bids will be sent to the City Coun- cil for approval and award. ,.The foNowing affidavit was filed by W. C. Steigers, business manager of the Post-Dispatch: ° ST. LOUIS, State of Missouri, SS. City of St. Louis, \ Personally appeared before me, a no- tary public in and for the City of St. Louis, Mo., W. C. Steigers, Business Manager of the St. Louis POST-DIS- PATCH, who deposes and says that the regular editions of the St. Louis POST- DISPATCH for the first four months of Mo., May 19, 1911. the year 1911, after deducting all cépies |. left over unsold, spoiled In printing and unaccounted for, averaged 165,427 Daily, 273,84 Sunday; and, further, that the sales of the POST-DISPATCH in the City of St. Louis exceed the number of homes in St. Louis. W. C, STEIGERS, Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of May, 1911. A. E. SCHMID, Notary Public, City of St. Louis, Mo. My term expires March 15th, 1913. BILL BARS CRIME NEWS SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 19.—Repre- sentative Chester Church's bill, which prohibits publication of detailed state- myene or descriptions,.of crimes and ‘the ebaepion ice ie ‘friends for some time. VES HER HOUSE. $0) PAINTER CAN DODGE TRESPASS Neighbor Refuses to Permit Lad- deren: Grounds, -but Resource:...| ful Housewife Wins. Mrs. Emma Martin is a thrifty ne- gress, and she Reeps her house at 6423 Spencer place, St. Loufs County, as clean and bright as a new pin, Lately she decided that the house needed a coat of paint, and she took enough from her bank account to em- Ploy a painter. Three sides of the house grew radi- ant under the painter’s brush, and he carried his ladder around to the north side. Instantly Mrs. Martin’s next door neighbor, Mrs. Arthur Moore, ap- peared on the hand uplifted. “Yo-all cain’t come on mah land with yo’ ladders en’ paint pots,” she declared ominously. The painter se- treated, and consulted Mrs. Martin, who admitted that the land*on which the ladder would: have to stand was Mrs. Moore’s. They were’ sisters-in- law, she explained, but had not been The painting -job was suspended while Mrs. Mariin went.to Clayton to ask Justic Werremeyer’s advice. " He sug- geste that a scaffold be suspended from the roof of the Martin house. This was cone the next day with much difficulty, and the painter was about to begin vork when Mrs. Moore again appeared with a butcher knife. ‘“‘You-all bettah take that thing down,” she announced, ‘or I'll sho cut them ropes. I ain’t a-goin’ to have no paint a-drippin’ down on mah nice green f'rass.”’ Again work was stopped, and the Laffled housewife went again to Wer- remeyer. He was unable to make any further suggestion. But she was more resourceful. Groaning at the necessity of a further inroad on her bank ac- ‘cunt, she hired movers and had lier residence, moved two feet south. It cost her $50, but *it enabled the painter to stand his ladder on her land and com- piete his task, and a freshly painted wall now gleams in the face of her neigh- bor. WOMAN HEARS ROBBER, MAY BE ONLY MOUSE Police Unable to Find Either Mouse or Burglar at C. D. Boynton Home. The telephone be!l at police headquar- ters rang at 1 a. m. Friday. A wom- an's voice a frightened whisper said: “Send policemen quick. Someone is trying to get into my room. This is Mrs. C. D. Boynton of 4 Kingsbury place.” A squad of policemen hurried to the Boynton home from the Page boulevard |. station. Whe they got there a maid opened the door. | | “It's all right,” she said. ‘Mrs. Boynton thought she heard someone trying to turn a key in her bedroom door. a mouse.” nlague Dace ta. Seg ils sy k scene, with warning”® Complying With Standard OitRult “Unreasonable” Restraint of Tre te Is Charged in That Organizatio p Hav:2Placed Buildersand Consu: y ers of Country at Their eer : TO SMASH WALL sie CONSUMER AND PRODUC ha ‘ Conspiracy to Violate Sherman Anti-Trust L; : Generally, to Blacklist Concerns Ne Sympathy With Move and to Maintain F Prices Charged in Suit Against 10: on panies and 150 Individuals. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 19. — Sweeping charges of a dessite o ’ ony $I ey to maintain high prices, to blacklist concerns not »gardet ‘proper trade’’ and to violate generally the Sherman anti- law are made in a Government suit filed by Asteany epee erslam in the United States Court here today against the Lumber Trust. Ten frade organizations and more than one hundred ' individuals are named as’ ‘defendants in this suit, —_— me é re do? te binations of ae in “staple commédi ties’ te the life to prevent the ultimate consumer from buying a} local retailers. or corporation. The Government's suit is replete with sensational allegations, and it is as- serted that builders and consumers of lumber the country over are at the mercy of the retailers’ organizations in different sections of the United States. The suit filed today is against the Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association, which is the central body of nine local organizations covering five states, the District of Columbia and the cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia. “Umreasonable Restraint” Charged This is the Government's first anti- trust suit conforming to the Supreme | Court’s Standard Oi] decision, in that it alleges “undue” and “unreasonable” restraint of the trade of the consumer and the manufacturer. It is the evident purpose of the plea to confine the charge largely to that feature, small stress being placed on the restraint of trade among the con- spirators themselves. ; Attorney-General Wickersham and his special assistant, Clark McKercher, have devoted more than a year to gathering the evidence on which today’s suit is based. This evidence includes copies of the alleged agreements, blacklists and reports of. the various organizations branding wholesalers and retailers who have dared to violate the ‘rules of the associations as “poachers,” ‘“‘mave- ricks,’ ‘“‘scalpers’’ and “illegitimate dealers” to whom “short shift’? must be applied. Fines for Breaking Rules. The Government charges, in _ brief, that by an elaborate system of black-~ listing not only individual consumers but some of the largest industrial cor- porations have been prevented from dealing directly with wholesalers. By alleged unlawful agreements and acts if is charged that all competition for the trade of the contractors, the builders, the manufacturers of finished lumber products and the individual con- sumers have been thrown entirely into? the hands of the retailers in the East- ern States Retail Lumber D¢Ters’ As- sociation and its constituent organisa- tions. The Governmeént’s bil! alleges that‘in some localities the wholesaler selling to a consumer has either been heavily fined or expelled from the organization. Offictals of the Department of Jus- tice regard the suit as the most im- portant In principle of any yet un- dertaken by the Government against] I think the noise was snag by ma se After inspecting the door and faiting | ont There is no criminal action against any ed wholesalers from ‘selling indirectly to consumers, are; The Eastern States Retail Dealers’ Association, a New Yor poration, with offices at 18 E The New York Lumber tion of New York City. The Building Material Men's . tion of West Chester bcgrpcanisl x. The Lumber Dealers’ Connecticut. The Massachusetts Retail Dealers’ Association. : The Lumber Dealers’ . Rhode Island. The Retail Lumbermen’s. ‘of Baltimore. The officers and directors, t members of the above are nam dividual defendants as well as | ficers and directors and mer ) three following voluntary organ * The New Jersey Lambermen’s 1 F Pa of Columbla. - The Government asks for a inunction retraining the defend: continuing the conapnranet "1 a. 7 a. 10 a. ™. Whee te ee 7% i3. eo ie> + 5 aye ag - Me ive h 90 at 8 lew at Hts rene as