St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 29, 1912

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Pi 7 = ; iN - ' i ~ ae Ru ae mie : 4 y of > Sw fh a $ es ee ~~ eed Be ae” vp aT ihe oF Dae Tee ser ts aes Te Te eS yee a a rp 65/5 Mee Ad rae Shea A hey etal aay se re ea 7 Ee LO oe phn A | Asserts Republicans Follow | the Campaign Financiers i By Associated Press. . tariff and how it affects the farmer, , end drew attention to President Taft's is off so long looking into our govern- ~ we are now looking into it very sharp- : that we shall be deceived again as to aa tts character. ¥ partnership and that all were upon one . ® real governing voice in its adminis- Bh tration. _ “We had supposed that we were con- ducting the national business along the he 5 oan a | @nd were always on the inside when parte policy was to be Se fared as we might and were hav- a > Le SS (ES eae: nS iy es aa Hee Tt he “Spitball” Mystery 4 in St. Louis OEE RRR mn oe ee eee xt Sund ay Post-Dispatch 40 SF Only Evening Paper in St Louis With the Associated Press News Service ——— ISON ATTACKS RS STAND FOR TAREE PRES Colonel Is a Convert Abroad, He Tells Hamilton Theory, Letting and a Few “Trustees’”’ Run - the Government. “WILLIAMS GROVE, Pa., Aug. 23.— Col. Roosevelt's tariff analogy, that the benefits of the protective system consti- tute “prize money,” of which too much ds kept by the officers and too little 4 ‘distributed to the crew, was criticized ed Gov. Wilson here today. He wanted ~ to know, in his speech before the State -. Grangers’ picnic, just where the “prize money” comes from. He said the “‘plun- der” ‘comes from the farmers, who are taxed too highly by the tariff on agri- - eultural implements. The Governor confined himself to the veto of the farmers’ free list bill. “I dare say he was right from his} point of view,” said Gov. Wilson of President Taft in this connection, ‘‘for he represented the trustees and not fhe people.” The Gevernor argued that the Govern- ment of the country has been in control of “self-constituted trustees’’ in the Re- publican party, and that it is time for st te to obtain control of their owt bie Ade said in part: a is seen that we should have Ment to see whether it is in fact run sording to the rules we originally 4 down for it, “put it is certain that Our idea of it has been from the first that it was a genuine 3M Eight on Our doviimene. , Meet a very interesting thing has ‘come to light. That is not in fact the the government has been admin- istered in our time. It has been in the hands of self-constituted trustees and _ the partners have seldom been allowed ‘limes laid down by Jefferson but we | that as a matter of fact we have een conducting it along the lines laid by Hamilton. Hamilton believed mat the common run of men had little hlification for such business, that it y scan only by those who led in mamercial and industrial enterprises f the country. And in our time the Gers of the Republican party have ously or unconsciously adopted his notion. : Trustees on the Inside. “These men financed party campaigns determined. : " schedules, the foreign policy of + #untry, the chief expenditures of a Government, everytning went -as ly suggested, while the rank gand file x We had any small share in the Tity which they organized tow ves, They were the trustees, we their wards and took part in the bn life as they planned and di- What went on in the trustee smueetings we were very seldom allowed Be earn—tearned indeed only by im- nt inquiry, only by congression.- Investigations or trials in court, the trustees complained sadly in- with the regular course of busi- . Roosevelt has proclaimed sng a convert to the protective policy I say a convert because he at one peme very frankly avowed a different sOn—and has said that while he ad- 6d that, no doubt, some duties were © blah and ought to be lowered, on is whole the policy pursued by Re. public administrations had been the meet One; and he thought the ‘prize which had been received under t aystem by the manufacturers of pater was legitimate booty. | ‘What Prise Moncy Means, “nn ® analogy is a very interesting ) Prize money is generally acquired - lure and not by any process of if, but Mr. Roosevelt is always f and says that his only objection Rage is that too much of the Injuries Declared by Doctor Not to Be Dangerous, Unless Poison Results. Gee Harold McGarry, 18 months old, son of Mr. and Mrs. William McGarry, 3302 Laclede avenue, was bitten by rats While asleep in the same room with his parents, who were awakened by his cries at 3a. m. Thursday. The wounds, about 15 in all, were on the left arm and hand, and the child’s parents did not know the cause until the father, hurriedly dressing, took Harold to the central dispensary, where Dr. C. W. Schery dressed the wounds. A close watch will be kept for poison. Mr. and Mrs. McGarry say they ha4, seen no trace of rats in their home save when the husband several weeks ago Saw a rat in the hat store which he conducts in the front room on the ground floor. : In his official report, “Dr. Schery said that the baby waa suffering from 15 small abrasions on-~the left hand, and kave a diagnosis of abrasions caused | by rat bites. He said afterwards that the bites were not dangerous in them- selves unless possible complications re- sulted from blood poison. She thinks the baby was sleeping in a go-cart at the foot of the mother’s bed. RATS BITE SLEEPING BABY. INFLICT 15 WOUNDS ON ARM LIAROLD MS GARRY that its arm must have been hanging over the side when it received the bites. A box stood close beside the cart on which a@ rat could easily have jumped. When a Post-Dispatch reporter called at the house he found ths baby sleep- ing quietly. JOHNSTON TAKEN TO SANITARIUM: HIS; PLEATO WIFE VAIN Woman Daciines to Interfere When Deputies Go to Hospital for Former Prosecutor. After vainly pleading with his wife over the telephone and begging her to permit him to return to their home, Rowland L. Johnston, former Prosecut- ing Attorney of St. Louis County, re- cently adjudged.insane, was removed from the 8t. Louis Baptist Hospital to a private sanitarium in Glendale, Wednesday afternoon. Following a recent motion on behalf of Johnson that he be declared insane, he first made public the story of his troubles through a Post-Dispatoh re- porter. In this interview he spoke of his dealings with Miss Mildred Kurte- nacher, formerly his stenographer, and declared she wes not responsible for any of the financial tangles. The young woman was arrested in Clayton as a result of a controversy over the possession of papers belonging to Johnson, but was released without having a charge placed against her. She filed suit for $100,000 on a charge of false arrest against Constable Bode and Prosecuting Attorney Mills. Then she disappeared and her whereabouts were unknown until a Post-Dispatch correspondent found she was at the home of relatives in Davenport, Io. In a suit filled by Johnson’s bondsmen in an estate of which he was guardian at Clayton a few days ago it was charged that he had asgigned $38,000 of his property to a dummy corporation of which he was president, and Miss Kur. tenacher was secretary. Mrs. Johnston was appointed John- ston’s .guardian when he was declared of unsound mind. When Deputy Sheriffs, armed with a Probate Court order, went to the hospi- tal to take him away he asked for time in which to telephone to Mrs. Johnston. “May, they want to take me to a sani- tarilum, but I would rather go home. Can’t you fix it that way?” he said. Mrs. Johnston asked that one of the deputies step to the telephone. She re- quested that no” action be taken until she had time to consider her husband's request. An hour later she called off the tele- phone and said she had decided ft would be best for her husband to go to the sanitarium. Johnston seemed greatly disappointed. “Well, then,” he said, “I will go with you.” Smoking a cigar and chatting pleas- antly with the deputies he walked te the waiting automobile. WATCHES HOLDUP AND THINKS IT’S A FIGHT Frederick Walls Helps Robbers’ Victim, Who Lost $12, Re- port to the Police. When Frederick Walls of 2081 Locust street saw three men rolling about the sidewalk at Twenty-second and Lo-at streets Wednesday night he thought it was an ordinary street brawl and did not know that he was witnessing a high- way robbery. For this reason, he says, he did not interfere. Two of the men ran away and the third, who lay on the sidewalk, cried: “Stop, thief!” | Walls ran to the prostrate man and 13 MEN HAULED UP A 300-001 CLIFF SAVED FROM FIRE They Had Gone Into Devil’s Canyon to Fight Flames in Brush and Became Delirious. LOS ANGELES, Pai. Aug. 29.—Thir- teen Mexican fire fighters” were rescued in a pitiable condition today from Dev- il’s Canyon, they had been hemmed in since Monday marning with- out food Orewater by thr anes that are sweeping through the brush on the San Gabriel Range. With good care they have a fair chance for recovery. The men were impressed into the fire- fighting line last Sunday and -sent into Devil's Canyon. Nothing more ‘was heard from them until early today, when two men reported that they were sure the others were dead. By means of a rope hung over a preci- pice 300 feet high a volunteer entered the fire-swept canyon and found the men. All were famished and delirious from heat and lack of water. Their clothing had been singed and in most Cases was nearly torn from their bodies by contact with scruboaks. One by one the unfortunates were tiled to the end of the rope and hauled up to the top. Several times *, was necessary to resort to force to get the crazed men fastened so they could be pulled up. The flames had _ reached nearly to Waterman’s Camp and were threatening Twins’ Camps, but Ranger Brownlow believes «his force of 125 would be able to control them. BODY FOUND IN RIVER where Believed to Be That of Missing Swimmer. The nu@e body of a man, supposed to be that of C. O. Castro, attached to the Isla de Luzon, who attempted to swim from the Illinois shore to the ship Monday night, was discovered by Mike Ehrhardt, a fisherman, in an eddy near Pittsburg dike, on the east side, Thurs- day. It was taken from the water and to the Kurrus morgue, East St. Louis, and Capt. G. S. Schwartz of the Luzon was notified to come and see if he could identify the body. Castro and Stephen French received no response to their calls when they returned to the river bank at ll o’clock Monday night. French went back up- town and stayed at a hotel. Castr» said he would swim to the ship, and started, but never got there. ‘ bby the back door. ject to any judgment returned against FURNITURE AFTER A SIXHOUR SIEGE Mrs. Mary E. Sprague Opens; McPherson Avenue Home on Lawyer’s Advice. REPLEVIN SUIT Contends She Owns Goods Which Were Taken on Exe- cution Against Husband. STARTS The filing of a replevin.suit against Sheriff Loulg Nolte by Mrs. Mary E. Sprague of 456 McPherson avenue Thursday afternoon, revealed that three, deputy sheriffs held the Sprague home| in a state of siege for six hours in an effort to levy on the $600 worth of fur- niture she seeks to recover. While the deputies, Falk, Horstman and Schenoff, camped on the lawn and followed every caller to the door in the hope of entering, Mrs. Sprague main- tained her barricade, receiving some de- liveries of goods through a rear window and turning others away until the fol- lowing day. Furniture Is Given Up. ~The siege was begun at 9 o’@lock last ~v morning and lasted until 3 p. m., wv. ‘rs. Sprague’s husband, Jesse L. Spraxue, arrived with his attorney, Jo- seph Barton. On Barton’s advice, the deputies were then admitted to the house. J. Brooks Johnson, a money lender, recently got judgment against Sprague in Justice Walker’s court on a note for $300. The furniture in Sprague’s real estate office, 304 Chemical Building, was levied on by Falk last Thursday, when Mrs. Sprague was present. When the three deputies arrived at the Sprague residence the next day, Mre. Sprague recognized Falk and locked the doors. Time after time the deputies ap- proached the door with the postman or a deliveryman, but in each case they were blocked’ by Mrs. Sprague. Whsn a woman with a bundle walked toward the rear of the house, Falk followed her, believing she would be admitted Instead, however, Mrs. Sprague raised a window, the bun- die was tossed into the house and the window was closed. . Alleges She Owns Furniture. Mrs. Sprague alleges in her applica- tion for a writ of replevin that the fur- ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, _AUGUST 29, 1912, —20 PAGES. {WOMAN GIVES UP WOMAN WITH TWO ANIVES ARRESTED BY TAFT’S GUARDS Suspect Declared She Was Wife of the President When Taken- Into Custody. SAYS WEAPON IS SACRED Tells Employes of Hotel That She Intends to Punish the Chief Executive. Taft to Make No More Political Speeches PITTSFIELD, Mass., Aug. 2. RESIDENT TAFT, in a speech P from the rear platform of his private car, declared that he did not intend to take any, further active part in politics. “IT am not here to make a polit- ical speech,”” said the President. ‘I have given that up. I believe that there are some politics going, but I am not going to take part in them. So far as I am concerned, you will have to make up your minds without hearing me fur- ther.’’ COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 2.—Caroline Beers, aged 4, who said she was from Greenville, O., was arrested by Pittsburg detectives at the Southern Hotel while waiting for President Taft. Two long knives were found concealed in her cloth- ing. The woman said she was the wife of the President. Mrs. Beers said she was going to pun- ish the President. She had been no- ticed yesterday afternoon waiting around the hotel and told employes that she was waiting for the President. “T have the sacred knife for President Taft,” she told a detective when ar- rested. The woman did not get near the Presi- dént, but was found and rushed out of the hotel just as the presidential party arrived. He was not told of the oc- currence. re She was found in one of the upper floors waiting near the elevator ‘on which it was expected the President would go to his apartments. Taft’s Picture on Knuife. One of the knives found in her cloth- niture balongs to her and is not sub-|jing was a long, keen-bladed affair on her husband. The law provides that a sheriff can- rot serve papers on himself in a legal action and assigns that duty to the coroner. The office of Coroner Baron consequently was asked to serve on Nolte the notice of the replevin suit. CLOUDY WEATHER; SHOWERS TONIGHT “My dear,’ said Mr. Binks, “I am going to ask you a question and I know just what your answer wiil be.’ “How can you know that?’’ asked Mrs. Binks. “I’m so sure of it that I’ll write it down on this piece of paper. Now, I'll fold it up. You open it after I ask the question.’’ “All right, what is the question, dear?’ “Will you go-to the ‘show to- » night?” Mrs. Binks unfolded the paper and read the answer: “I have nothing to wear.” Official forecast for St. Louts and vicinity: Generally cloudy weather, with showers tonight or Friday; not much change in temperature, NOTICE! | There is no change in the advertising situation in St. Louis. The POST-DISPATCH continues to be the medium chosen b St. Louis merchants for the direct means of reaching St. and its tributary public. Yesterday, Wednesday, these merchants bought 34 Columns of display advertising in the POST-DISPATCH alone, and only | 33 Columns in three out of all four of its St. Louis competitors all added to- gether. The reason: - The POST-DISPATCH blankets the St. Louis field completely. It reaches a all the homes. It is the result of the Middle St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper Average circulation for first 7 months of 1912: Daily Only . 168,529 Sanday: Only 298,033 the - uis the handle of which a picture of Presi- dent Taft had been photographed. Mrs. Beers was well dressed. A roll of $200 was found in her clothing. Although it had been widely. an- nounced that Mr. Taft’s visit was pure- ly social and on account of the Colum- bus Centennial, politicians from all over the State flocked into the city in ap- parent kopes of a conference with. the President Taft publicly explained today his ex- ercise of the veto power. In-his speech to a great crowd of farmers on the State Fair Grounds here, he declared that a President who did not use the veto power when he thought it should ‘e used, proved himself a coward. Says He Would Lose Head, “Some of my friends say,’”’ said the President, “‘that if a King had used the veto power as I have, his head would drop in the basket. But I am not a king arid that is very different. The President has the power and it is Lis duty if hs does not approve legis- lation to veto it. He must use the veto when his conscience tells him, whether his head drops in the basket or not. If Presidents are men—and most of them are— thsy will exercise the veto when they think they ought. “Look over the vetoes of other Pfesi- dents and show me the bad ones and Il will show you more made good. Our forefathers thought that it was. well to have one man who would represent all the people and who would be able to tell all ths people when he saw leg- islation that he did not belisve wag good. The veto is an excellent thing. My friends who criticise me forget that I was elected just as they were and by a good many more people than they were.” The President's chief address was scheduled to be given tonight at a ban- quet of the Ohio Bar Association. He declared, however, that his speech would not be on politics. ARCHBALD ASKS FOR SHORT TIME: OFF DUTY Chief Justice Not Sure He Can Give Commerce Court Jurist Temporary Relief. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Judge R. W. Archbald of the Commerce Court, whose trial under impeachment proceedings is pending before the Senate, has asked Chief Justice White of the United States Supreme Court temporarily to relieve him of duty. Chief Justice White has taken no ac- tion upon the request. The phraseology Says Husband Couldn’t Wear Sues for Divorce and Alimony PRICE ONE CENT. Pinched Her Short Sleeves Singer Charges That Mah ‘Who’ Runs Hotel Cigar Stand Twisted Her Arm. Although Mrs. Hazel Smith Wise charges in her divorce petition that Wil- liam S, Wise pinched her arms so as to leave marks on them, and twisted her arms in a manner painful to her, she insists im conversation that he is a fine fellow and a thorough gentleman. Mrs. Wise seemed ‘to regret Thursday that she had made the arm-pinching charge so strong in her petition. The petition stated that the effect of the pinching was to make it impossible for her to wear her “usual apparel.” This was taken to mean short-sleeved dresses. Mrs. Wise, who is a singer, has plump and very shapely arms and says they bear no marks of disfigurement. She lives at 6001 Bartmer avenue: Wise, formerly cashier of McTague’s Cafe, conducts the cigar store in the Maryland Hotel. He married Hazel Smith, Sept. 10, 1910, and she sets the date of the separation as Aug. # last. “My suit,” said Mrs. Wise in an in- terview, ‘‘was prompted by the fact that we are unable to agree on many things, and a separation seemed the only solution. “My husband is 36 years old, and I am 20. This accounts for a difference in tastes. It is also my husband’s mis- fortune that he is too much inclined to be a ‘good fellow’ when he is with other men. “My father and mother and I think very highly of Mr. Wise. He is a thorough gentleman and, when he is himself, he is the most thoughtful of husbands.” The wife’s remarks as to Wise’s con- viviality are in dine with the statement in her petition that Ne drank to excess, and remained away from home at un- seasonable hours. She also charges that he failed to sup- port her properly, and that he “accused her of caring too much for a cousin. She asks for what alimony the Court sees fit to give her. SCULPTOR DIES AS CHINESE TREATS HIM Coroner Investigates Louis Pot- ter’s Demise While Minor Affection Is Attended To. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 29.—Louis Pot- ter, eminent New York sculptor, died here today while undergoing treatment by a Chinese physician for a minor skin disease of long standing. Potter came here 10 days ago on & tour of the West. The exact ceuse of his death has not been determined and the Coroner is investigating it. Potter was 38 years old and a native of Troy, N. ¥. He made a specialty of American and Alaskan Indian groups and had made busts of eminent persons. He was decorated an officer of the Nichan Iftikar by the Bey of Tunis in s unmarried, and lived at 2e gee é ee ree Sa. aati od niall ‘and of Presidents of republics, including ALL NATIONS DIP. FLAGS AS BOOTHS BODY 1S BURIED Rulers Represented and Poor At- tend Salvation Army Leader’s Funeral. ——— LONDON, Aug. 29.—The body of the late Gen, Booth thon, “w= today beside that of Catherine Booth, his wifs, in Abney Park Cemetery. Representatives of reignigg. houses the United States, were at the grave with, many thousands from the masses whom the founder of the Sa‘vation Army had tried to uplift. The coffin was borne from tae great doorway of Salvation Army headquar- ters to the hearse, which was decorated only with dry palms, placed over the “blood and fire’’ banner draping the casket. The. celebratsd Battleflag which the General had planted on Cal- vary was placed at:the head of the coffin and as. this was done,. the flags of the foreign deputations and of the English provincial corps dipped in sa- lute. Immediately after the hearse a selected bodyguard of staff officers of the Sal- vation Army swung into line, preceding the mourners of the family, who were led by Gen. and Mrs. Bramwell Booth. The entire procession was more than a mile long. Most fittingly the procession passed through a portion of that section of the city where the work of the Salvation Army ig best known, and there, in front of the houses, stood many poor women and children who had at some time or other received benefit from the army. As Gen. Booth had been an honorary freeman of the City of London, the Lord Mayor appeared on the balcony of the ion house and saluted the coffin. The service was a simple one, con- sisting for the most part of singing of Salvation Army hymns. Gen. Bramwell Booth and his sister, Miss Eva Booth, commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army of the United States, delivered speeches, while the General's youngest daughter sang a solo, PLANT IS RUN BY AUTOMOBILE: POWER Car, Placed ‘on Trucks, nishes Electricity for Machinery. An automobile set upon trucks is being used to furnish the motive power for the H. L. Winter Manufacturing Co. of Alton during the shortage of ein syne edinpawon te a sods Fur- EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS SPORTS JEP HOWE CHARGED: WITH BAD FAH BY HEALY’S for Police Relief Embex zler and Told Her to Stop Letters obtained Thursday by he Post-Dispatch, bearing on the Healy Howe-Hadley controversy, sh that Jeptha D. Howe's charge of faith against Gov. Hadley was brought out by Mra, John M. Healy's letters to Howe, in which she found fault with him for the way her hus-— band’s case had been handled. He pleaded guilty t6 embezzlement on Howe's advice, expecting to be a tenced and paroled. He was sentence! but never paroled, The letters further showed that Circuit Attorney Jones, when asked by the Governor for the facts in the case, stated most positively that Be had told Healy not to expect immunh- ity, and had given his lawyers same understanding. Healy, Jon told the Governor, was a poor witne for the State. Jones held him | entitlea to clemency, for the that, whatever erecta aaa one in looting the Soaty, aa ee ane of the oon Hef Association, wasthe one w mitted the looting, Gov. Hadley got away from tne troversy for a day by going to to deliver a lecture. He was yee Louis between 11:30 p. m. Wee and 2:3 a m. Thursday, ‘inet alle 4 further statement about the Healy ter. He has made positive denials the statements. of Howe and C. Bishop that he promised to Healy. Healy has been in the peniten 14 months, and. will probably serve his full 5S years’ term, as he lately his “good time” by prison. = Letter to Mrs. Healy. While Mrs. Healy was living | son City, Aug. 2, 1911, Howe wrote her letter in which. he defended. his course, and scolded her for finding. with him for her husband's He insisted that he had done all he and blamed Gov. Hadley for Healy's prisonment, charging. directly, vas | ley had not kept hig promise. . Extracts from this letter follow: “I do not like the tone of your hj “You seem to want to lay t den of everything on me for being in the penitentiary. I do like this a bit, and unless you StOD ‘va I will not correspond with you at af or have any communication with you, and you ean do as you @-—~ plesag” about it. fi “You state in your letter I am wis - one who made all agreements with | Judge Reynolds and Jones to testify” tefore the grand jury. That is mee true. You know ft is not true. “In the first place, no agreement . made with Jones. Judge Bishop “e | myself were both present, and. * whatever agreement was made wi ‘e Judge Reynolds, therefore your sugges- tion that I have made agreements were sonally is not true. Judge Bishop and myself were both present when we had the conversation with the Governor, and beyond that, it is not true, and I do pect to have any further communication — from me. te “T will seek the first opportunity ‘de. have to talk this matter over with the Governor. I do not think it wise —_— do I want to become involved in a con~ troversy or personal fight with | Governor. I can see no good that come to Johnnie from it.” ; care to hear this any more, if you exe