St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 27, 1911

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MAP SHOWS MONOPOLY IS GIVEN, HE SAYS Lands Should Never Have Been Let Go, He Holds, and Haste Permitted by Removing 30-Day Clause Played Into Ryan’s Hands. WASHINGTON, July 27.—Gifford Pinchot, former Government Chief For- ester and now president of the National Conservation Association, today fssued a statement declaring that President Taft the root of the matter wholly untouched” denying that there could the water “leaves in his message to the Senate be any monopolization of front of Controller Bay, Alaska. Mr. Pinchot's statement follows: “The President's defense of his course in the Controller Bay affair shows how hard it is to make a good excuse for a bad mistake. “It leaves the root of the matter whol- ly untouched. In spite of all explana- tions, the fact remains that Mr. Taft, in opening,the lands around Controller Bay, without notice to the public, has xiven the interests behind Ryan an op- portunity to acquire the key to the channel of Controller Bay before the public knew what was going on. “The map, which is a part of the Pres- ident's message, supported as it is by the testimony of Mr. Graves of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, before the Congressional Committee now investi- gating this question, appears to show that the mile and a half of harbor front taken up by Ryan, togeher with the tracts which the Government retains and on which it prohibits private entry, effectually control the valuable portion of the channel. Lands Should Have Been Held. ‘But whether the President is right or whether the map is right, and whoever Ryan and his associates will be shown io represent, it is true, and will remain true, that the lands about Controller I‘ay should never have been let go. “It was the President’s duty to hold the terminal lands around Controller isay in Government ownership. As with thie coal lands, the title to the harbor lands which are the key to the coa! lands, should have been held, in any event, until Congress could act. In the meantime, contrary to the general im- pression, the very fact that these 'ands were in a national forest made them fully and promptly available under leasc for every proper use, yet held them subject to Government supervision ana control. “The does SS moment any into private hands monopoly began. “The President denies that in granting Ryan's request for the opening of Controller Bay by the executive order of Oct, 28 there was any element of secrecy, and quotes a press dispatch of the same date an- noeuncing his action, But Mr. Taft dees not mention that on the day he signed the order and notified the press in Washington Ryan's survey- ing party was ready tn Alaska, and that by Nov. 1, or four days after the order Was made and before the Gov- ernment officia's in Alaska had been netified of the order, they had bexun en survey of the Ryan claims on Con- Kay. “The omission of them passed the danger of of the customary 30 Cays' notice to the public that the lnmd would be open to entry gave Ryan what he wanted. It cug off all chance for any competitor. No amount of newspaper notice after the execu- tive order was signed could, in any fespeect, interiere with the prear- anged work of Ryan's agents. “It ie the protests al- reudy made may. yet save the situation. but in any case it is unfortunate that the friends of conservation in their ef- forts to Dring about the development cf \'aska for the benefit of the people are continually obliged to expend their iength against the men who ought io be protectors of the people's property. lr looks to me like unnecessary duplica- ten of work when we must first fight tie policeman before we can get a chance to stop the looting.”’ FT TAKES ALL RESPONSIBILITY possible that Says in Message About Con- troller Bay Affair He Felt He Would Be Attacked. WASHINGTON, July 27.—President Taft in his special message to the Sen- ate . ders full r sponsibility eS fer 3 ap for settlement and devel- i eG t 12.800 acres of the Chugach na- es Page 3, Columa 1. | 1FORMER CHOIR SINGER WHO SEEKS DIVORCE ON CHARGE OF NEGLECT MRS. MADGE CALDWELL HOLLOWAY. PRICE OF SUGAR RAISED 10 GENTS HUNDRED POUNDS Advance Comes at Time When Product Is in Big Demand for Preserving Fruits. The price of sugar is going up. St. Louis dealers Thursday received word from New York that the price of the the kind “been advanced” use on 10 refined product, we our tables, has cents a hundred pounds. That means that no more sugar can be solq at staple prices in St. Louis, or at the rate of 20 pounds for a dol- lar—the housekeeper’s’ standard of Sugar value. James Hutchinson, 712 Spruce street, the only sugar broker in St. Louis, says the advance means that the present price of sugar is $5.45 a hundred pounds in New York, plus the freight to any point to which it may be shipped. 20 Pounds for $1.15, This raises the price to a little more than $5.50 a hundred pounds in St. Louis. That is the figure at which the jobber buys it. The retail price tn St. Louis, as quoted by one of the largest grocery stores, following the advance, is $5.60 for hun- dred-pound lots. This means that the housekeeper Who can afford to buy in that quantity can get 20 pounds of granulated sugar for $1.12. Those who buy in smaller lots will pay $1.15 for 29 pounds. Neither broker Hutchinson nor others questioned could tell how the price is fixed except that it is made by “the refining interests in New York.” It has been openly charged in recent trust investigations that the price is fixed by the Sugar Trust. Hutchinson says that the advance is due to the fact that all of the Cuban sugar has been marketed and that the refiners now have to send to Europe fér the raw product. ° This condition, he says, prevails every year at this season. It is pessibly a coincidence that + 1s also is the season when sugar is in greatess demand by housewives, wh») put up preserves for the winter. ~« All Sugar Prices Up. NEW YORK, July 27.—All grades of refined sugar were advanced 10 cents a bundred pounds today. ee re 2 nee ae ee ee BAILEY QUITS THE. ELECTIONS BODY me eee ener Senator Dislixes Method of In- vestigations and So Leaves Committee. WASHINGTON, July 27.—Because he! does not believe in the Senate’s method of taking testimony in investigation, Senator Bailey today resigned from the Committee on Privileges and Election. He made no explanation to the Senate, and the resignation was accepted with- out comment. The Post-Dispatch the al nn only evening —_ rece Jishen Mews gathered Uy the lated Press, TITIAN - HAIRED SONG BIRD SUES FOR A DIVORCE Mrs. Holloway, Who Sang in Dr. Meeker’s Church Alleges Desertion. ann Mrs. Madge Caldwell Holloway, a so. rprano prima donna singing at Forest l’'ark Highlands, is the plaintiff aiverce suit just filed asainst H. H. Holloway, wil:om she has not seen for two years. Mrs. Holloway was formerly a choir singer in the Compton Hlill Congrega- tional Chureh of which the Rev. Jacob ic. Meeker is pastor, tlhe concert stage she has become known on the billboards as the ‘'Titian-haired beauty.” The charge in her divorce petition is non-support and desertion, but she told a Post-Dispatch reporter Thursday at the Highlands where she is living at the cottage, that she found it impossible to live with her husband on account of his habits. She married Holloway in Chicago five years ago. Shortly after the marriage they came to St. Louis to live. Holloway worked in several stores. Two years ago they separated, and Mrs. Holloway, under her maiden name of Madge Caldwell went on the stage. She says she sang in the Manhattan Opera Co. in New York last season, and has a contract for next season. She says she does not know where her husband is. She does not maintain a place of permanent residence, but St. os was her last home her attor- ney, Porter Johnson, advised her that she. 4 the right to file her divorce suit here. Mrs. Holloway is 23 ee WOUND F ROM FISH FIN KILLS A BOY in a in St. Louis her husband, as years old. Little Chap Dies of Tetanus After Receiving Injury While Bathing. Thirteen-year-old Eldred Yahn of St. Charles died Wednesday from lockjaw, due to a cut on his foot when he stepped on the sharp fin of a catfish, while in bathing. ¢ The boy was swimming two weeks ago Dardenne Creek with several com- panions, and paid no attention tc the slight cut on his right heel. Tetan is set in eight days lJater. Dr. T. L. Hardin had him taken to St. Joseph's hospital last Monday and endeavored in vain to save his life with ant®tetanus serum. The funeral wil be held Sunday at De- fiance, St. Charles County, where the family formerly lived. The boy was one of ten children. WAR RISK PRICE UP LONDON, July 27.—At Lloyd's yes- terday war risks against hostilities between Great Britain and Germany within three months - rose rapidly from 5 to 8 per cent. In some cases even 10 per cent was paid. Against the risk of war between | France and Germany 12 per cent was in quoted.- we Since she went on | RICH BROKER IS FOUND SLAIN Ih NEW YORK ROTEL Evidence of a Struggle and Chloroform Indicate Rob- bery as Motive. Pa neeeete ne HE WAS 70 YEARS OLD One Theory Is That Slayer Was Seeking District Attorney, Whose Suite Adjoined. By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, July 27.—William H. Jackson, a wealthy Wall street, of Van Schaick & Co., death by broker of 7 a member of the firm was beaten to burglars today in his suite on the tenth floor of the Hotel Iro~« quois, His body was shortly before 9 o'clock. District Attorney Whitman, who has 1ong been a resident of the hotel, occupied a suite that adjoined the rooms in which the murder and rob- bery were committed. ‘ Jackson was 70 years old. He went to the hotel June 22. The windows of his suite overlook the roof of the City Club Building, which adjoins the hotel on the west. Elevator Man Missing. This at first inclined the police to the tiitory that the murderers had climbed over the roof of the City Club Build- ing, but later evidence made them take the view that the crime was the word of some one employed in the hotel. This was further corroborated by the fact that one of the hotel elevator men is missing, and could not located ut either of two addresses had given the hotel management. A sensational theory was advanced o account for the murder which as- surned that the murderers did not seek kill Jackson, but that they were ina 1 quest of District Attorney Whitman, ‘whose suite adjoins the suite ocecupiec | by the man who was killed. Derby Crandall, who' is a member Van Schaick & Co., is the man sugz- cested this idea. Crandall when told of the murder: “It absurd to think that anyone would seek to murder Jackson. He ‘was old and infirm and there is hard- ly a possibility that he was the in- tended victim. I think it much more likely that the murderers were seeking District Attorney Whitman, whose apartment Is next door, and that they got in the wrong room.’ Evidences of a desperate struggle between the elderly victim of the murderers and the men who killed him were apparent, and the setting of the tragedy furnished a complete story in still objects, which told in detail what had happened in the room. A chloroform bottie found in the clos- et, empty and with the name on its sull-marked label destroyed, told of an effort to chloroform a sleeping victim. |A gag in his mouth, made from a towel, added the detail of enforced silence, and the torn condition of Jackson’s pajamas ithe number and character of his wounds, and the condition of the room made the thread of the tragedy perfectly plain. Fought Like a Madman - The murderers gagged Jackson and while engaged in this work he awoke. He fought the intruders with the strength that is born of desperation and the sensation of facing death in the dark, and he fought like a madman. Wounds about the face and head showed that he had been repeatédly struck by the burglars and probably with a blackjack or jimmy. A deep gash over bs right eve and the skull crushed the final blow that the combat and sent the aged to the floor, where he was found. Every pocket of the clothing that had belonged to the man. had been turned inside out, and whatever valuables had were taken before the and murderers went to the bathroom, washed their hands and wiped the stains away on the underclothing of the man they had killed, All of this took o’clock last night and early oner Winterbottom, who made amination of the body, said honr of attack had probably 1 o'clock. discovered be he to of who said, is is stage of was was ended man bv he burglars place bhetween 9 today. the that been (*or- €X- the about eine LITTLE CUR LED MAN A DOGQ’S LIFE inally He ‘Had to Pay the Death Penalty According to Rules. A little yellow cur led J. R. Ripley a Go's life at Piasa Chautauqua Wednes- day. Ripley is a watchman there, and’ the rules provide that stray dogs sha’l he shot on sight. But Ripley, being a tcender-hearted man, couldn't bring him- self to shoot the little cur. He chased it half an hour, caught it, set it outside the grounds, and tried to shoo it away. it wasn't long until the cur was back on the grounds, and it gave evidence of meet enjoying the next chase and cap- But ture Five times Ripley caught the cur and set it outside the Chautauqua reserva. ticn. By sundown the watchman way all in, and the dog was smiling, but ha wouldn’t shoot it. Another man took the unpleasant task off his hands, and put an end to the cur’s life, Ripley sanding with averted face. | BLIND MAN SUES NIECE, ALLEGING SHE TRIGKED HIN Declares He Signed Deed for Grand Avenue Home, Think- * ing It New Will. SHE WAS HOUSEKEEPER Thomas Johnson. Brings Action After Departure of Woman for England. Thomas Johnson, 88 years old and blind, is suing a niece who acted as his housekeeper for possession of his home at 2520 North Grand avenue, which Ne values at $600. The miece is Mrs. Eliza Frith, and Johnson charges his suit that she led him to believe a deed he signed was a new will, be- to her at his in queathing the property death. Johnson has been partly blind 12 years and three years ago went to England for treatment by a noted specialist. There hé met Mrs. Frith for the first time. She is a widow with three sons, the oldest now Zl, and Johnson agreed to pay half the transportation of the family to St. Louis if Mrs. Frith would act as his housekeeper. Soon after returning to St. Johnson became totally blind. Johnson said Thursday that he exe- cuted the deed last May, and did not learn its real nature until after Mrs. Frith had departed for England with her oldest son on#account of the illness of a relative. He had written one will providing that» Mrs. Frith should have his property, but he says she expressed dissatisfaction with it and asked him to sign a new one. Mrs. Frith is 49 years old. Her two sons remaining in St. Louis are Harold, 17 vears old, and Wristley, six. Johnson came to America from Eng- land when he was 20 years old, and has lived in St. Louis 35 years. Formerly he managed a stove manufacturing plant. He is reputed to be worth $30,000. His wife. who died 12 years ago, is said by neighbors to have been of noble blood. BATTLESHIP’S GUNS FIND KITE TARGETS Marksmanship Shows That Aero- plane Attack Could Be Suc- Met. Louis cessfully PROVINCETOWN, Mass., July 27.— The modern battleship is not likely to have much trouble in disposing of such enemies as come by acroplane, if the acrial marksmanship of the gunners aboard the battleship New Hampshire is any indication. The tests were more difficult ing made at night. Huse pulled through the ah by pedo boat were the targets. Under the eye of the warship's search- lights, the floating marks, supposed to be hostile biplanes, were riddled with bullets from the rifles of the sharp- shooters and an automatic Colt field gun of 8-caliber, which pumped 400 steel pellets a minute. The kites were easily hit 500: yards. SHOWERS PREDICTED, WITH RETURN OF HEAT, FOR TONIGHT re TEMPERATURES, rs ed by be- box kites a fast tor- at. 300 and THE Yesterday’s Temperatures. High. .8O at 6 p. m. 7 Lew. 5S at 6 a. m, “What think to the do you they'll do Harvester Trust?’ sked the druggist. “It'll be hard to tell until all the evidence is threshed out,’’ re- plied the cigar drummer. “Yes, no doubt there has been a good deal of chaff printed about it.” “Still, Perkins doesn't seem stack up well.”’ “NO, though his pretty ea” “Sure, he had one of the best equipped barns in Wall street.” | Offictal forecast for St. Louts and vicinity: Showers late tonight or Fri- day: warmer tonight. Stage of the river: 5.9 of .1 of a foot, Missouri—Showers tonight warmer tonight in east portion; day in northwest portion. lilinocia—Showers late tonight or on Fri- day; warmer tonight; cooler Friday in north- west portion. “A NEW ANANIAS CLUB? to very it looks as he kept own silo well fill- feet; a fall or Friday: cooler Fri- BAND CONCERTS TONIGHT} Lafayette Park, 7 to 10 p. m. (Bafun- no’s Band). Forest Park, 7 to 0 p. m. (Poepping’s [WIDOW AND DAUGHTERS WHO LOST SOLE RICHES, $3500,THROUGH ENGEL AVIATOR BREAKS AMERICAN RECORD | FOR ENDURANCE St. Croix Johnstone of Chi in Air More Than Four Hours at Mineola, N. Y. "7 7 cago By Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., Johnstone, the Chicago aviator, Droke the American endurance records for monopianes and biplanes today when he remuined in the air 4 hours 1 minute 33% seconds, circling the aviation course of about five miles He began flight in an effort to break the. world's record, but was compelled to alight be- fore his 50 gallons of were consumed, Although the engine of ican Moissant monoplane badly, Johnstone s mained aloft much “IT had taken July 27.—St. Croix 39 times. his Pasoline ll-Amer- skipping have re- his a was iid he could longer, sandwic} up with me,"’ he said, “‘but when I came to eat 1 found them s@eaked with oil. I was very hungry and came down to get something to eat.” The previous American was made at San Francisco, Jan. 29 last, by Parmelee, his record being 3 minutes 4914 secdnds. Counting gasoline with his own weight. Johnstone carried about BAW) pounds in his flight, which was made at a rate close to sixty miles an hour and about 300 feet above the ground. in a gentle breeze. The flight was made in Jarge clircies around the town, and was witnessed b+ several hundred persons. eschnstone made his o’'cioceck and two hours Iater making 49 miles an hour working satisfactorily. The world’s en- cdurance record is held by M. Loriden, who remained aloft 11 hours and % miimutes and covered a distance of 4 nilies. SOMmMeéeE les record hours 89 and acceersories. start at 5°15 found him with his engine ee ree re re BANKING COMBINE INVESTIGATION NEXT House Will Try to Determine if Trust Controls Country’s Credit. WASHINGTON, July 27.—The next big investigation to be undertaken by the Heuse of Representatives will be to determine whether there is a big banking combine with power to eontrol credit, exchange and deposits and cause depression and panic, After hearing Representative Lind- berg of Minnesota, the House Rules Committee decided to report favor- ee ee ee jably a resolution at its next meeting. | Mrs. Jessie R. Rosborough and her two daughters, left, and eer eares, : aged 9. Mary. agced 8&8 on the DARING GAMBLERS. WERE PA AND NA AND THE CRILDREN Report by Phone to Police Head- quarters Leads Men to Fam- ily Heart Game. Gillaspy heard a when he put the re- ceiver to his ear in response to a telephone ring. Wednesday night. “Is this police headquarters?” asked. “ie is,” “Is gambling a next question. “Yes, indeed,” said the Night Chief, “And is it the duty of the police to ambling?” we can.get dence,” was the response, ‘\ell, do you think you would have any trouble getting evidence if the gambling was going on in front of an open window and in plain view of the whole neighborhood?” “Hardly,” confessed the Chief. ‘Tell me where this game is and the nature of it, please.” “It's the most daring piece of work I ever heard of,”’ continued the woman. “The game has been going on for an hour and the players are making no effort at secrecy. All the neighbors can see them, but the police seem to be blind. If you wish to raid the game instruct your men to go to 602% Page boulevard, walk through the pas- sageway at ‘the east side of the house they alle they Wish to Night Chief woman's voice she replied Gillaspy. crime?’ was her suppress tect ver the eyvyi- just will see the and a squad Lieut. Tierney of District According!y Page Boulevard of patrolmen were sent. to the ad- dress mentioned. They returned to the station without making any arrests, “Did you see the game?" asked Gil- laspy when Tierney reported by phone ‘nothing doting.” “Yes,”’ said the lieutenant. “The folks living there and a few of their friends were playing a game of hearts for matches.” HOMING PIGEONS ON LONG FLIGHT SAN ANTONIO, Texas., July 27.— What is expected to be the longest ‘light of homing pigeons on record began from San Antonio, yesterday, when 18 birds of the Essex district of the National Federation of American Homing Pigeon fanciers, of Newark, N. J., were liber- ated by E. 8. Peterson. The pigeons are expected to fiy hack executors, with about $40,000 of other people's pf money, the grand fury, nouncement claims against Casselberry, ENGEL VICTIMS IN. $40,000 SHORTA URGE PROSECUT Lawyers for Widows and Losing Estate Lay F acts, Before Prosecutor, ‘e Says He Will Take Any Damaging Evidence to Grand Jury. . Attorney for Louis Link, North St. Louis Laborer Charges Trustee Failed ee Cancel $1000 Deed of Trust When New One Was Given. ~ Pea > 3 oe. f Representative of Accused Man, After Conference With Roskopf, Declare Further Inquiry Necessary — to Decide Plea to be —_— Albert H. Engel’s operations as trustee for estates and attorney tor in which he made away will be investigated fully pee according; to an- A new charge against Engel, involy- ins a $1000 transaction-in which a labor- ing man, Louis Link, was the loser, was revealed Thursday. link fered to release a deed of trust wh: ; “ she and her husband intrusted to to deeds of trust against their property for $1000 each, Ore’, Mrs. that Philippina told Rosskopf Engel pay, and that there are now = | when there should be. “Not only the $1500 Kerr emt ment charge, on which Engel was & rested, will be pushed, but all — other recent deals as trustee ond torney will be investigated,” Ross saic. “I will question each of th lawyers representing persons him, and wherever a, find ground for -criminal action th: case will be taken before the co ury.” Rosskopf questioned, as the first of these lawyers, George B. Webster who represents the 19 heirs of Evans — formerly a St. Louis 4 lawyer. - | “that — “Webster told me. " he said, Judge Homer appointed Engel special — commissioner recommendation for that estate on thet] ‘ of W. E. 8B. ke Republican City Comma ihe Twenty-Fifth Ward. Checks Exceed Deposit. 7 “Engel sold the real estate for $40 and deposited the money to his we account, July 15, 19: He made no payment until June 2 last, when he took $2500 in checks to Webster's of-¥% fice. Webster did not inquire abot the difference: between the 484400 (he amount of the ehecks. because he | supposed the $600 was Engel's commie 4 sion. But he took the checks te the | National Bank of Commerce. and Wile liam Hammerstein, 1 teller, would certify only $3400 of them. He sald re was all Engel had on deposit. “When Webster asked Engel analig this, he said he was holding up the = share of the minor heirs for Judge ~ Homer's advice, but Webster has not — been able to get the money. The d@if- — ference between the amount of the: s+ tate and the afnount collected from Bre Kel is $1000, but Webster estimated that about $400 was due to Engel on commie” missions.’ Eugel conferred again with H. Cobbs, his lawyer, and with me brothers, A. L. and C. C. Bngel, Fee” garding a plea of guilty in the case. Cobbs did not seem surprised told that Rosskopf was questioni other lawyers in the case. He said h had called on Rosskopft and di the case fully with him, but he the statement that he had d terms on which Engle could guilty. “We have not yet decided what we will make,’ he said. Estate Loss Put at $5000, Engel was attorney for Dr. Fr H. Aufderheide, administrator of 4h@ ~ ertate of Mrs. Mary A. Phillips, whe died in October, 1906. He made his fi settiement July 7, 19. Miss ‘F E:; Gottshall of Portiand, Ore., the ¢ heir, came here soon after and her claim, amounting to $2000, in hands of Thomas E. Galt, a la cupying the same suite of offices Wm Cobbs. Nothing has been done in fae gard to this. Cobbs says that Engel was inérg with the assets of the estate. vested them unwisely.” “Dr. Aufderheide trusted Engel plicitly,” Cobbs explained, “and @ the from a he to Newark. This flight will be 60 milea | longer than the recent flight from ver to Pittsburg, which took more than eight days. F e ‘ a ay ae made Thursday by Ag- 4 sistant Cireult Attorney Rosskopf.j..