St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 15, 1913

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- 55 8 2 5 20 * 3 — ale 2 * 5 5 you're going to count them that way, National Council . President Wilson today and exp their appreciation for his re- „ Peete, Ad Results Almost Certain .for Anything a your Want. Tour credit is 4 or the soos if you rent nearest dru t Bree your Wast withen out extra < * POST-DISPATC Only Evenmg Paper mn St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. 7. 1 4 ‘ 2 Nee VOL. 65. NO. 360. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1913—14 PAGES. —— H — — eo — — — PRICE ONE CENT — — — o dre ~ CONFER ON STRIKE WITH COMPANIES Four Big Operators Ask Meeting After Offer of 25-Cent Raise Fails. RECOGNITION IS THE ISSUE Union Officials Assert They Will Stand by Demand for Check- Off System. 7 7. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BONNE TERRD, Mo., Aug. 15.—In an effort to avert a strike by 5000 members of the Western Federation of Miners in this district tomorrow, which would in- volve 7000 men, four of the five mining companies involved today asked for a joint conference with the Executive Committee of the federation. The con- ference was begun shortly after noon in the offices of the St. Joseph Lead Co. here. Representatives of the St. Joseph, Doe Run, St. Louis Smelting and Refining and Desloge companies met with the miners’ committee. The Federal Lead Co., a Guggenheim corporation, did not participate in the conference. All the mules of the Fed- eral company were taken from under- ground this. morning and preparations Were made for an indefinite suspension of all mining and milling work. The St. Joseph and Doe Run compa- nies this morning attempted to deal with the men as individuals by circulating pe- tition by which the men would agree to remain at work, provided the com- pany should grant a raise of 2% cents per day, 10 cents more than the com- es offered jointly. None of the iners would sign the petitions and the companies then asked for a conference. To Stand for Recognition. Before going into conference, union officials stated that they would not con- sider a settlement unless it carried with it recognition of the union, through the “check-off’’ system. There is slight hope that the Federal company, regardless of what the other companies might do, would recognize the federation. The Guggenheims have nev- oe. yet recognized the Western Federa- tion and have won many strikes brought 5 the West with this as the demand. Reports that the operators would al- low the shafts to fill with water are discredited, because the equipment throughout the district is such that the pumps can be operated from the surface as long as the power plants can be kept running. The equipment is elec- trical throughout. the district. Had Voted for Strike. The strike was ordered yesterday by the Executive Committee upon receipt from the companies of an offer of 15 cents more per day in wages. The min- ers had asked for 50 cents per day in- ' . Crease and recognition. Previous to the ordering of the strike, the miners had voted almost unanimously in favor of a strike. JANE ADD AMS SEES WILSON In Party of Women Voters Who Call at White House. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Miss Jane Addams and Miss Mary McDowell of Chicago, here for the meeting of the of Women Voters, tention in office of Miss Julia Lathrop, head of the Children’s Bureau. Miss Lathrop accompanied the party and all three talked briefly with the President about the work of the Chil- dren’s Bureau, in which the President expressed interest. The subject of votes for women was not discussed. WARM WEATHER WILL CONTINUE TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. Yesterday's Temperatures. High, 97 at 2 p. m. Low, 76 at 6 a. m. i there was a oa pete 7" ninth place the | seo” remarked Cardipals would Riggs. be in * That's noth- ing.” said Jiggs. “St. Louis can do better than that We've got Gov. Stephens and Gov Francis, and as soon as the Chau- tauqua season is over we're liable to have Gov. Folk. And Gov. Stan- 8 down on hange most any day, and Gov. O'Meara has his home here, and Gov. Bolte.” “Oh, well, if show a few, too, In ner sick daughter, Madge, 15 years old, CLUBWOMAN WHO WAS JAILED FOR OFFENSE FORGOTTEN TWO YEARS a AWN A © MRS. co OI M. CAPEHART...... WOMAN IN JAIL FOR OLD OFFENSE HOLDS RECEPTION Consents to Have Fine Paid When Told Sick Daughter Needs Care. Mrs. Cordia M. Capehart of 4429 Com- monwealth avenue, Maplewood, spent five hours in jail Thursday, frem 3 to 8 o'clock, and would have remained there 30 days, rather than pay a two- year-old fine and costs, but for the fact that her family physician told her that needed her care. She consented to go free when a woman friend paid the fine and costs. The arrest and imprisonment of Mrs. Capehart grew out of a long contro- versy with James J. Bridell, a real estate agent, through whom the Cape- harts were buying n home on time pay- ments. Struck Man Two Years Ago. Two years ago Mrs. Capehart and Bridell met in a Maplewood drug store. She struck him with an umbrella and he had her arrested. On her trial in a Justice’s court Mrs. Capehart was acquitted. Bridell appealed to the Cir- cult Court at Clayton and on the sec- ond trial Mrs. Capehart was con- victed and fined $1 and costs, amounting to $29.50. The commitment was not served on her at the time and the case was for- gotten until a few days ago, when the record was found by a clerk. Before being taken to jail Mrs. Cape- hart was given an opportunity to pav her fine and the costs, but she refused to do so. The only alternative was 30 days in jail. Mrs. Capehart is a member of several clubs and lodges. When it was learned that she was in the Clayton jail mem- bers of these organizations hurried there to console her. From 3 to 6 p. m. she, held a reception. She told her friends | she would remain in jail 80 days and would not attempt to free herself «by going on a hunger strike. Wouldn't Let Husband Pay. Her husband, Claude Capehart, went to the jail soon after she was locked up and offered to pay the fine, but she would not permit him to do so. He then went home and returned half an hour later with a wagon load of bedclothes, fancy work and books. Mrs. Capehart remained in jail until 8 p. m., when Mrs. Edith Ambruster, a fellow lodge membef, paid the fine and costs. Before this Dr, Pierre Brossard had visited the jail and told Mrs. Cape- hart that her sick daughter needed her care. FIVE KILLED IN AUTO, HIT cident at Santa Fe Crossing East of Town. CARROLLTON, Mo., Aug. 15.—Five’ passengers in an automobile were killed! and the driver dangerously injured when | a Banta Fe passenger train struck the | machine at 8 crossing-a mile cast of 6185 today, BY TRAIN AT CARROLLTON! Driver Injured Seriously in: Ac-} DOCTOR BREAKS ARM AND FINISHES AUTO RACE LOSER St. Charles Man Cranks Competi- tor’s Car and Falls Back in 108-Mile Drive. T. L. Hardin of St. Charles not but also lost an Dr. only broke his arm, automobile race when he played the Good Samaritan for one of his oppon- ents in a friendly race from St. Charles to Mexico, Mo., Thursday. Dr. Hardin, Waldo Henry Broeker, well-known business men of St. Charles, discussing the rela- tive speed of their machines, decided on the race. The distance from St. Charles to Mexico is about 108 miles, and they left St. Charles at 4:30 a. m. Broeker, who is a member of the St. Charles City Council, had a good lead, and Dr. Hardin was a mile ahead of Boedeger when the cars passed Mont- gomery City. A short time later Boede- ger’s engine went dead' and Hardin, observing his opponent’s predicament, went back to help him out. The two men worked on the engine for more than an hour before they adjusted it. In cranking Boedeger’s machine, Dr. Hardin broke his right arm at the wrist. After bandaging the arm Hardin con- tinued the journey to Mexico, steering his machine with one hand. He and Boedeger reached the goal about three hours behind Broeker. Hardin returned to St. Charles by train. Broeker says he negotiated the Ius miles in six hours. Boedeger and CAPT. O'MALLEY'S ON CONFESSES 10 TAKING AN AUTO Tells How He and Three Others, on Joy Riding Tour, Wrecked E. C. Van Nort’s Car. MACHINE IN A, QUARRY Clew Obtained From Man Who Saw. Gay Party in County; Auto Ran Away on a Hill. John O'Malley, 20 years old, son of Capt. Michael O'Malley of the Angelica Street Police Station, Friday confessed to Capt. Robert Hanna of the Page Boulevard Station that he and three other young men, on the night of April 19, without permission, drove away an automobile belonging to E. C. Van Nort, 5961. Minerva avenue, and wrecked it. He named as his companions William Platt, 23 years old, of 5360A Easton ave- nue, a chauffeur; George King, 21 years old, 4908 Easton avenue, and a man named Egan. Assistant Prosecuting At- torney I. Joel Wilson has issued war- rants charging the four with taking and operating an automobile without the owner's permission, which is a misde- meanor. Found In Rock Quarry. The automobile was driven away from in front of 4600 McMillan avenue. It was found later in a rock quarry near Bonfils, St. Louis County. This w the quarry in which was found e body of James P. McCann, for the murder of whom James Seymour Lord Barrington” is now serving a life sen- tence in the Missouri Penitentiary. The identity of those who had taken the machine remained for a long time a mystery. Recently a man at Wellston, whose name the police will not divulge, casually mentioned to a deputy sheriff that he had once seen Platt and three other young men in an automobile in Wellston and that the machine had stopped while Platt spoke to him. Investigation convinced the police that this was on the night the Van Nort auto was taken. They arrested Platt. O'Malley and King. Platt was the first, according to Capt. Hanna, to make a statement. Car Steering Gear Broke, He said that O'Malley and Egan had taken the machine and had asked him to drive it. They were joyriding in St. Louis County, he said, when the steer- ing gear went wrong as they were going down a hill towards the quarry. Real- izing the auto would plunge into the pit, the four jumped to safety. O’Malley’s story was slightly different. He said that he and Platt took the car and that they met Egan and King and invited them to go riding. Egan was so elated, according to O'Malley, that he kicked out the windshield. “His story of the accident agreed with Platt's. King declined to make any statement further than that he had done noth- ing to warrant. his arrest. The police are looking for Egan. Prisoner’s Father III. O’Malley’s father, the Police Captain, has been seriously ill for some time and is at Excelsior Springs; Mo., for the benefit of his health. The son is one of the Captain’s eight children. Van Nort, owner of the automobile, is head of the Van@Nort Bros. Electric Co. SPRING BUBBLES UP, BREAKS DROUTH ON FARM | Man Discovers It After He Has Hauled Water Several Weeks for Stock. VANDALIA, III., Aug. 16.—Jacob Koontz, a farmer of this county, has been hauling water a great distance for several weeks to water stock. Yester- day, when walking through his pasture, he discovered water coming out of the ground where before it had been dry, He began digging and found a spring which now affords water for all his stock. —— — == —the Flowers What Makes the Grass Grow * and the Trees? What makes the little Notion Store grow into a Dry Goods Store, and the latter into a Department Store? What brings out the Shoppers? Showers (nog a little old sprinkling) of principally in the Ask the owners of these palaces of trade. Vesterday s Local Display figures: _ Post-Dispatch ........... 69 Cols and Times combined... 67 Cols. Advertising beyond words. Three next nearest Globe-Democrat, Republic What Brings Forth a Bumper Crop? — Showers of Rain! 2 Post-Dispatch! Actions speak St. Louis’ One Big Newspaper — Medium of the Merchants : RICHES OF WATER CRESS KING MAKE HOUSE DIVIDED: Sisters Do Not Speak to Each Other, but Combiné to Defend $300,000 Will. PATERNITY IS AN ISSUE Widow and One Daughter As- sert Herman Thoele Was Not Father of Mrs. Goedecke. A house divided against itself is the family of Herman Thoela, known as “The Water-Cress King. a suit to break whose $400,000 will has been filed in the Cireuit Court by Mrs. Elizabeth Goedecke of 2903 Wydming street. Four of Thoele’s children are named as defendants in the suit. Although they will join their issues in court, these heirs are not on speaking terms, accord- ing to a‘statement made to a Post-Dis- patch reporter Friday by Mrs. Anna Kuesel of 4202 North Euclid avenue, one of Thoele’s daughters. “The estate has caused so much trouble in the family that none of us brothers and sisters speak to each other,” said Mrs. Kuesel. We haven't spoken for years. My sister, Mrs. Mary Lindhorst of 4084 North Euclid avenue, got a good deal more than her share of the property.“ Paternity Question Arises. But overshadowing the family feud that arose because of the large portion of his estate, which Thoele willed to Mrs. Lindhorst, is the controversy which has arisen over the paternity of Mrs. Goedecke. In her petition Mrs. Goedecke de- scribes herself as Thoele’s daughter. She said in an interview Thursday aft- ernoon that until two years ago she believed herself to be the legitimate daughter of Thoele and his first wife, who was Mary Fehl. She has since learned, she says, that Thoele and her mother were not married until after she was born. In trying to break the will in which only $1 was bequeathed to her, she .will contend that under the law she was legitimatized by the marriage of her father and mother. But Thoele’s widow and one of his daughters say they will offer . testi- mony in court to show_ Mrs, Goedecke was not Thoele’s daughter, and that her patural father was a man named Nivis, who deserted Mary Fehl shortly after the birth of the child in 1857. Daughter Gives Version. On this point Mrs Kuesel said: “Mrs. Goedecke is not the daughter of my father. Her father’s name was Henry Nivis, and he deserted my mother. My mother told my father she would marry him if he would give her child, who is now Mrs. Goedecke, a name. “That ig how it happens that she was christened under the name of Elizabeth Thoele. My mother’s maiden name was Miss Mary Fehl. Her child was about a year old when she married my father. “There has been an endless amount of trouble over this estate. I do not know what it was valued at when my father died, but I know there were nearly forty acres, bounded by Marcus and Eu- clid avenues on the east and west, and by Marguarita and Lee avenues on the north and south. Besides this land, there was another tract north of Euclid avenue, and a large number of houses in several parts of the city.’’ Mrs. Elizabeth Thoele, widow of Her- man Thoele, said: “I married Mr. Thoele in 1877, about one month after the death of his first wife, whose maiden name was Miss Mary Fehl. My maiden name was Elizabeth Gross. I was 4 years old when I married Mr. Thoele. It was my second marriage. “Mrs. Goedecke, at the time of my marriage to Mr. Thoele, was about W years old. She had just married and Mr. Thoele had given her a house and an acre of ground. „Mr. Thoele told me that he was not her father. He said her father w a man named Nivis, who ran away. Mr. Thoele married Mary Fehl when her child was a year old. They lived to- gether until her death in 1877. She was the mother of five children. They were Elizabeth, the one suing now, who was born before the marriage; William and Herman, Mary and Anna. Mary is now Mrs. Lindhorst and Anna is Mrs. Anna Kuesel. All of them are living.“ Start of Row Recounted. Mrs. Mary Lindhorst & 434 North Euclid avenue, one of Thoele’s daugh- ters, confirmed the statement of her stepmother and Mrs. Kuesel as to the parentage of My. Goedecke. She dented that she had ‘influenced her father against Mrs. Goedecke, and said she had often advised him to treat all the members of the family alike, including Mrs. Goedecke. Mrs. Lindhorst said that when Mrs. Goedecke was married 37 years ago Thoele gave her a house and an acre of ground and advanced to Goedecke $300 with which to start in the packing busi- ness. Thoele regarded the $300 as a loan and when he demanded payment Goe- decke refused, saying the money was a gift. This started the family feud. Some took sides with Goedecke and others with Thoele. When Goedecke steadfastly refused to pay the $300, Mrs. Lindhorst said, her father told her he would so make his will that the Goedeckes would never get any of his money. 0 BAND CONCERTS TONIGHT Dakota Park, Poepping’s Band. Co- lumbus Square, Vogel's Band; 7 to 10 o Glock. e Sulzer Entering the, Capitol on the Day After His Impeachment ~ GOVERNOR WILLIAM SULZER, 2 WOMEN CLAIM MAN'S INSURANCE AS LEGAL WIDOW Each Appears in Court to Contest for Policies Carried by William Edward Roberts. Emma Stewart Roberts and Eliza- deth Roberts, legal widow of William Edward Roberts, who died last April, faced each other in Judge Grimm's court Friday at the trial of the suit for $720 insurance on his life. Both assert they are entitled to the insurance and the insurance com- pany paid the money into court for set- tlement. Emma Roberts testified that she mar- ried Roberts in 1904, and was compeiled to leave him after three or four months because he did not support Her. She never obtained a divorce decree, she said. According to her, the first she knew of the other woman was at Rob- erts’ wake, when Elizabeth Roberts was introduced as the widow of the dead man. Several persons expressed sur- prise and remarked they thought I was the widow," she testified: Other Married in 1910. Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts says she and Roberts were married Feb. 19, 1910, and that she lived with him at the home of his mother, Mrs. Belle Tracy, 224 South Vandeventer avenue, until he died. She now lives at 68% Waldemar avenue. Roberts’ insurance is represented in two policies. The first was taken out a month before his marriage to Eliza- beth. She said she took out this policy as his flancee, and that she: paid the premiums on both policies. The poll cles, however, do not name a befefi- clary. Roberts’ mother, Mrs. Tracy, was called as a witness for the first wife, but after admitting that her son had married this claimant, she exhibited her Sympathy for the other woman. Sev- eral times 4he first wife's lawyer, Harry Walsh, had to object to Mrs. Tracy's volunteer statements. Elizabeth Roberts told the Coprt sne had contracted to pay her husband's funeral and doctor’s bill, also a board bill owing his mother, out of his insur- ance, and she declares that she at least is entitled to enough of the: insurance to settle-these bills as well as to reim- burse her for the premiums she paid. The other woman's lawyer, however, contends his client is not bound by any contract made by her rival, and that she is entitled only to what she paid out on account of premiums, amounting to $79 Midsummer brings auto deals a-plenty for those who watch Post-Dispatch j want ads. each claiming to be the GULLAPSES UNDER STRAIN OF DIGGING BiG CULEBRA CUT Lieut.-Col. Gaillard Brought Home Suffering From Nerv- ous, Breakdown. NEW YORK. Aug. 15.—Lieutenant-Col- onel David Dubois Gaillard, corps of en- gineers, U. S. Army, who, since the army took over the construction of the Pana- aa Canal, in 1906, has been the engineer officer in charge of the central ‘division of that great work, a division that in- «eludes the world-famed Culebra cut, has arrived in New York on the Panama liner Advance, suffering from a severe nervous collapse, due to nis arduous work of seven years in the canal zone. It was said that it might be months before Gaillard again would be able to resume his active duties in the -engti- neering arm of the service. A few weeks ago, when his condi- tion became serious, the matter was brought to the attention of Gen. Bixby, the chief of engineers in Washington, and by Gen. Bixby called to the at- tention of Secretary of War Garrison, who immediately granted the stricken engineer a long leave of absence. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles F. Mason, medical corps, U. 8. A., the director of the Ancon Hospital, in the Canal Zone, Mrs. Gaillard and ‘ Lieutenant-Colonel Gaillard’s young son, came with him and went with him to Baltimore, where he will enter the Johns Hopkins Hos- pital. There he will be under the care ~ GLYNN DENMAN By Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 2 Formal Demand for the surren der of the executive chamber . and offices, the privy seal all books papers, records an aocuments relating to the ex - ecutive department, was made upon Gov. William Sulzer = afternoon by Lieutenant- 4 ernor Martin H. Giynn. “ark? Gov. Sulzer refused to com ply with the demand. 8 The second day of the dual h. whirlpool of confusion in the tol. A steel chain with a heavy ‘lock decorated the great seal; ; privy seal lay under lock and the way to the executive William Sulzer’s citadel, was bolt and barred and from two offices’ rival claimants to ‘the chair continued to exercise functions. | 4. Control of the Na dess to the great seal and by New York’s Secretary of were prerogatives stripped from Gov; Sulzer by Lieutenant-Governor Glynn, who claims to be the acting chief ¢ ex ecutive. Possession of the privy seal, whose imprint validates all documen ing before the Governor on wholly within the State, and occ pancy of the executive chambers mained with Sulzer. 1 Preparations as if for @ tong were made by Gov. 2S utive chamber upon the arrival of Liete tenant-Governor. The locks on every coor leading to. the chamber and Governor's private office were and a guard was stationed at onch em trance. Resentsa Use of Wife's Name, “The only thing that is worrying me about this whole business is Mrs. zer's condition.“ Gov. Sulzer told T W. Simops of Washington, as” entered the Capitol together today. | is very ill and the d—— scealawags brought her name into the affair This is the first public 8 Governor has made to the that Mrs. Sulzer had used some bee: campaign contributions without knowledge to invest in stocks. 2 ir the presence of the newspaper | : “It is too bad.“ agreed Col. ves, replied the Governor. “TI like punching the noses of the scala who brought her into it.” Can Fight t Out Himeet?f. To another friend the Governor ald »I can fight my own battles for my- celf. It was wrong to bring a woman into the case. I wish there was some way we could keep her name out from now on. Abe is very in and I was up with her nearly all night.” Mr. Sulzer looked gaunt and notidwt eyed when he Med into the grounds this forenoon. The strain night of waiting upon his wife to have told heavily upon him. — of some of the most eminent specialists in nervous diseases in this country. With Lieutenant-Colonel William I. Sibert, classmate at West Point, where | both were among the first five to grad- uate in the class of 8, Col. Gaillard has been one of. Col. Goethal's chief aids in the great work of the isthmus. From the first these two men have held the two highest commands under Goethals. Sibert is the officer in charge of the work on the Atlantic side of the canal, which includes Gatun. Dam. Gaillard had the digging of Culebra Cut, without doubt the greatest. and most difficult work connected pith the construction of the canal. Just es that work is about gone and the flooding of Culebra is un- der way the man who directed it is stricken. 8 sel, Frank A. Tierney. His ; 3 to serve Mr. Sulzer with Mr. ae tion in his private office with his left the Lieutenant-Governor’s 12:0 p. m. for the Executive official demand that he vacate fice of Governor. At the — „ — — Mts dl ee ee ae r 1 m+ a 4 ie