St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 9, 1901

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¢ oF Sit a ay ie , > Ky E - 5 "ae . =u « - SPOS SE HPSS OSS 2 + & “ oo & CONFIDENT OF ACQUITTAL. Whether Keller lives, or whether dies—my motive was the same. Whether I am tried, for assault or for murder my justification hold’ rood. Il am ready for hearing. I am con- fident of acquittal.—Thomas G. Bar- ker to a friend. \2 7. RS > * 2 \2 * e * .” ” 7 > o = 7 ° + * > © ° > “p09 o > >» & eo o> 2 ¢ ?. . °° es 2. 9 ¢ “ah *. o a . o °, 2, * 7 ° _ * 2. ~ 7 “9 “9° “9 oe “,° °° oe *,° o,° ad “ “9 o,° °° *,° Se J © 2 ) Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 9.—The probability of a murder trial as the result of the Ar- lington tragedy looms up with the latest announcement from the bedside of the Rev. John Keller, who was shot by Thomas G. Barker last Sunday morning. Complications have set inin the wound in the right eye, and, if it extends to the brain, Keller will die. Barker talks freely of the shooting with a few of his most intimate friends. Chief of these is John O. Stevens, secretary of the Commercial! Cable Co. Nearly every day Mr. Stevens visits his friend in jail. Hie said to a reporter: ‘‘Barker is confident that he will be ac- quitted and so are his friends. Iam myself thoroughly posted as to the cause of the shooting, and I do not hesitate to say that there was abundant justification. “TIT have seen both Barker's statement and the statement of his wife, which were taken stenogranhically for the use of the lawyers for the defense. ‘‘No man who loves his home and honors his wife can read Barker's statement with- out meting out to him unstintingly praise and sympathy. “The clearness and fearlessness with which Mrs. Barker has told her story as- tonished me. Hler statement is the most convincing I ever read. It leaves absolutely no doubt as to the guilt of the rector. Those medical experts who have hypothetically discussed her case saying she must have been suffering from hysteria or: haliucina=-4 tion would be ashamed of their utterances were they to read the statement. ‘‘Barker is not the hot-headed, impetuous fellow that the rector’s friends have made him out to be. He is, on the contrary, one of the quietest of men. He has been close- ly associated with me for many years, 0oc- cupving the same desk and sitting every dav face to face with me. He never drinks intoxicants. He doesn't even drink coffee or tea at meal time, and is not in the least Yexcitable. He could be the first man to caution a person against rashly shooting down a fellow man. It has been said that he was a frequenter of saloons, that he spent his time in Arlington loafing around public places. This is far from the truth. The man’s whole nature was averse to such things,”’ The women of Arlington continue telling wonderful tales about Mrs. Barker's ex- citable temperament and her disposition teu have a fit whenever she got into a hot argument. These things Are denied by her and her friends. fo JAPAN'S TOBACCO CROP. Commissioners Are Here to Study Our Methods for Introduction There. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.—K. Oyeno, the newly appointed Japanese consul at this port, has arrived here and will at once assume the duties of his office. He succeeds Count Mutsu, who has been appointed sec- retary of the Japanese legation at Rome, but who, it is reported, may not assume the duties of his, office, owing to ill-health. S$. Hotta and B. Uyeda, officials of the financial department of the Japanese gov- ernment, arrived here in company with Con- sul Oveno. In speaking of their mission the consul said: ‘They are identified with a bureau of the! ¢ department of finance, known as the Bu-| reau of Tobacco Monopoly. Henceforth the Japanese government, to more thoroughly control the tobacco business in the islands try, will cut all the tobacco grown in the islands and sell it to the manufacturers. All tobaceo manufacturers must buy their material from the government. The bu- reau in charge of the government tobacco interests is anxious to learn all at is to be learned of American methods in handling tobacco, and Hotta and Uyeda have come here on a mission that has for its purpose the study and investigation of these mat- ters.”’ RELEASED FROM PAROLE. Young Edwin Fry’s Conduct Has Been Exemplary. | Edwin Fry. the 16-year-old son of Dr. Frank R. Fry. was released from his par- ole Saturday morning. Fry was a student | at the Christian Brothers’ College and took | | ‘an overcoat belonging to another student. | His father had him arrested and taken for udge Clark. | a coatenced to the reform school | at Boonville. later the father relented and | Judge Clark gave the boy his liberty on ®% days’ parole. Saturday morning it | was shown that young Fry's conduct had e was released from the parole. THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. COLDER. For St. Louls and vicinity—Fatr Saturday night and Sunday; colder Saturday night. Missouri—Fair tonight and probably colder east and south portions tonight; northwest portion Sunday. lilincls—-Fair Saturday night and Sunday; colder Saturday night. Indiana—Fair Saturday night and Sunday: colder Saturday night; westerly winds, becoming variable. lowa—Feir Saturday night and Sunday; colder in east portion and warmer fn extreme northwest portion Saturday night; warmer west portion Sun- day; variable winds. Kaneas—Fair Saturday night, probably followed by snow Sunday; rising temperature; easterly winds. Miasissippi—Fair and Colder Saturday night and Sunday, frost probable Saturday night; freeb Sunday ; warmer P Oy >. £S “* : SP ie Pe ee ! AS ae ee tert ee Cee PRES te Mn Coe - ™ t a ie D Sieg. ne Aes ar ee SI 5 ae ee . Oe ‘- ts pl SRT h- Ng. 92ers o sae _ ay “3 . she ? f : = BS J SORE Sp aI 1 RT Bye re a ; : > aa eo fhe Merk a ba PRICE | Be eyatse 03s Site conte ee : REV. MR. KELLER AS HE ‘LOOKS TODAY. CRALY SNAKE, A Mind, NATION oe Cherokee Chief Says Creeks Meant No Harm. HE TRIED TO ENFORCE LAW} OVATION i j | { READY 10 Dit IN DES MOINES Mrs. Nation Declares Her Mission in-lowa. TO THE CRUSADER DISTINGUISHED INDIAN WILL GO| URGES WOMEN TO THROW STONES TO WASHINGTON. AT SALOON WINDOWS. Is Entrusted With the Task of Secur- | Advises the Mayor of Chicago to Mind ing the Amendment of the Dawes Treaty, Several Features of Which He Thinks Ob- jectionable. His Own Business and Declares That She Will Do Her Duty. DES MOINES, Io., Feb. 9—Mrs. Carrie moprr ation; © ttre Kansas saloon smasher, re- | ceived an ovation all along the Rock Island a WwW ." 4 \& CHIEF BUFFINGTON. ©OOSSHHHCSHSH SHOE OOOSD © ® CHEROKEE CHIEF ON , THE CREEK “UPRISING.” Crazy Snake did just what Mrs. Nation Is doing. He executed the law which the offi- cers falled to execute because they were @ afraid they wouldn't be paid. e @® This is the way T. © OO ® M. Buffington, ©O OOOO OOO DY) the | Kansas Will Make Charges Against 'and incidentally create, | ‘stirring up of the dry bones.”’ | | Moines. Railway this morning from Atlantic to Des Moines, where she will lecture tonight she declares, a At every little station where the trainn stopped the depot platforms were crowded with peo- ple to catch a glimpse of her. She was accompanied by A. C. Rankin, the prohibi- tion orator, and by Miss Madeline South- ward of Topeka, Kan., the special friend and champion of the crusader. Fully 1000 people were at the depot in Des In the crowd were delegations from the local W. C. T. U. and from the State Anti-Saloon League. The latter was | headed by Superintendent H. H. Abrams, ; } | who has declared his purpose to secure Mrs. Nation's services in smashing certain drug stores in the city which He claims are violating the law. Mrs. Nation's contract with the local sec- retary of the Y. M. C, A. for her lecture contains the clause: “There is to be no saloon smashing ot joints legally conducted,” Mrs. Nation interprets this mean that if there are any joints which are running without due process of law that she is per- mitted to do her worst, In an interview she said: “T left my hatchet at Topeka and it may be that I will not do any smashing in Des Moines, but there is no certainty of that, | | for I do just what God calls on me to do. > 1 I shall remain in Des Moines over Sunday. | I shall certainly, during the day, visit the *,; saloons, /| threats of the keepers of these places to! neacefully I hope, but if the | kill me are put into effect then I am ready } chief of the Cherokee Nation, explains the’ recent disturbances in the territory. Chief Buffington arrived in St.. Louis early Sat- | urday morning and left at 1 o'clock for Washington, where he will appear before | a committee of Congress on behalf of his people. Some provisions ' aibility. of the Dawes) treaty do not suit the Cherokees, especially | the provisions for the leasing of prospect- | ing rights on the Indians’ lands to syndi- cates. Chief Buffington*says he will do ail he can to have this changed. The Crazy Snake agitation. seemed to interest him more Washington visit. He said to the Post-Dispatch Saturday: however, than his , $1000 fine. ' hard “The white officers in the Territory aren't | very particular sometimes about punishing petty offenders because they don't always | get paid for it. They let all these lively young Indlans who disturb religious meet- ing, Sunday-schools and the like go just that because they couldn't afford to bother with | them. “Crazy Snake and a few others didn't think that was right. They didn’t think meetings ought to be disturbed and they decided to stop the whole proceeding. fo one day about 235 or 3 of them got togeth- er and whipped some young bucks who had been trying to break up a Sunday-school and do a little other devilment. There wasn't a white man touched and there wasn't any intention of touching a white man. “Tt was just about like Mrs. Nation tn Kansas, only not quite so bad. Crazy Snake and his mea didn’t destroy any property. They just punished a few young Indians who needed to be punished.” Chief Buffington is a ee Se — the tor kee. His complexion ts swarthy i the flash of the I eye has al i § ne ae old days. Bailey fashion, w bert and a biack ; attention at the Plan deposit Des Moines."’ STATE TO PROSECUTE. to die in Mrs. Nation. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 9.—The state of Kansas will prosecute Mrs. Carrie Nation and relieve saloon keepers of that respon- Under a decision of the Supreme Court, if the state prosecutes Mrs. Nation can be tried upon a charge of malicious destruction of property. There are three charges of that to serve one year in jail and with their client under scheme. Jerry Simpson says that Mrs. fight and much blood will be shed. He says the officers are to blame, as they fall to enforee already on the statute books. « Nation's trial is set for Saturday BT. ‘in the City Court. Her bond ts placed at $100. There was some uestion about her leaving town, and Rev. Emerson ted S100 with Dr. Eva Harding, who is on har bond, so that Dr. Hardi might be safe from loss, and Mrs. Nation was allowed to go. The trial has been postponed. Friday night Mrs. Nation lectured in Kan- sas City. Today she will lecture In Des Moines, Io., In Muscatine Monday and in “hicago Tuesday. : on the trip to Kansas City she was 4c- companied by her business agent, Rev. A C, nkin, and Mrs. Goodwin, Miss M. M. Southers, Mr. se Crist, Mre. James White and Mrs. Smith, who belong to the hatchet —— Rev. F. W. Emerson, pas- tor of the First Christian Church, goes with her.on her lecture tour as Manager. te is understood Mrs. Nation signed a contract with Rev. Rankin to lecture for $700,,a month, Rankin goes ahead of the pa , Medicine . and after taking Topeka. * Mental Science.—The St. Louis Men- tal Science siana ‘avenue, and there at 7:46 o'clock ; ‘the overhead ' SUBURBAN BILL HAS OPPOSITION Property Owners Seek to En- join Its Passage. SAY PROCEEDINGS ARE ILLEGAL JUDGE FISHER MAKES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. Suits Are Based Upon Allegations That Petition of Property Owners for Franchise Has Not Yet Been Filed. Four suits to restrain the Municipal Ase sembly from passing tHe Suburban Raile way’s franchise bill were filed In the cir cult court Saturday morning. Judge Fisher issued a temporary restraining. order in one of them, commanding the assembly te show cause next Saturday why a perma- nent injunction shbuld not be granted. The plaintiffs in the four cases are the Barnes Medical College, James M. Carpen- ter, Alexander Dean Cooper and Francis Cooper, and Lucia M. Robbins and vharies Gildehaus. Specifically, the suits are brought to pre- vent the granting of the franchise so long as there are provisions in it allowing the company to run its line along Lawton avenue from Twentieth street to Grand avenue and along Forest Park boulevard from Grand avenue to Sarah atreet. Barnes Medical College is at Lawton and Garri- son avenues and it is alleged that a street railway operating at that point would disturb lectures in the college and be a ocr be othet platthiiie oun anneal The other plaintiffs own p ton avenue and Forest Park bo id the passage of the bill in its present orm. The plaintiffs say that under the sta cf Missouri the geccens of the bill illegal unless it is secured upon the tion of property owners represen than one-half the eine! streets along which the proposed is to run. It isa said that such a petition has not been filed in regard to the t The Suburban franchise bill had its reading Friday night. The assembly _ will meet again Wednesday afternoon and, at that time, the bill to be referred to the rail- the plaintiffs are road committee. The a for ton Rowell, J. H. Zumbalm, Jacob and Warwick M. Hough. PLAN UNDERGROUND TROLLEYS Board of Improvements Will Insist ~ Upen Themp-eat.One Point. To compel the St. Louls Transit Co. to employ the underground conduit 8ystem in the construction of the new Central Trac- be is the purpose of the board of public im- provements, The members of the board belleve that if their endeavor is successful the superior- ity of the underground will be so plainly demonstrated that the overhead trolley system will eventuallly be aban- doned on all electric lines in the city. City Counselor Schnurmacher took under consideration Saturday a request from the board for information concerning the law granting the franchise for the tral ‘raction lines. Members of the board say the law, as passed by the Nee As- sembly, forbids the use of overh trolley wires in the district bounded by the river, Spruce, Twenty-second and Wash streeets. A short time ago the company com- menced erecting trolley al Twenty-first street, both nort of Pine street. The board called upon Su- pervisor of Lighting O'Reilly for a Seton Mr. O'Reilly produced copies of letters which had passed between himself an President Whitaker of the transit compan”, in which the latter claimed that existing or- dinances authorized the companyto place lis poles along Twenty-first street. “Mr. Whitaker claims, as I understand,” said Sewer Commisssioner Hermann, ** the ordinance granting a franchise for the | whie | ing that the British freasury has invited kind | against her here. If convicted she will have ' pay | Her attorneys admitted that this) , ’ , > 9 ; day. was a new move to them, and it would £0 | Of the former tasue of this neW) ponds in August, 1900, $28, ed to American subscribers. Nation's | - / about $61, crusade will plunge Kansas into a terribie| ’ ee construction of the Cass avenue line gives the company the privilege to place poles along Twenty-first street. This is the point we have asked the city counselor to If it is possible to dispense with trolley svetem on even one electric line, the first step will have been taken toward a reform that will have te come some day.” decide. GREAT ENGLISH LOAN ASKED: London Invites Tender From Wall Street on $55,000,000 Issue of Exchequer Bonds. Epecial to the Post-Dispatch. i ie -— A; : Sy - * % i 5 7 “ny wi ¥ aN ee See iN te tah re My. Lay ie, 1, i R % ‘ 3 7 be a gate i4-, b 9 Se : i... : . oi ae - Law- u - which, they say, would be greatly ep tow | tion line, at Pine and Twenty-first streets, — «§ = = —< : | | : NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Wall street has ro" ceived a cable dispatch from London stat- tenders from it for an issue of $56,000,000 of exchequer bonds with interest at 8 per cent. The bonds will be dated March 7, 1901, and , are payable at par | subscription lists will be opened on’ Mon- — yon scriptions 1 emtame financiers were 80,000, WARRING COUPLE MAKE TRUCE, on Dec. 7, 196. Thei / i day that she had been reconciled to Sam" Kaplan. “Sam catied last night,"’ she we made it ail up. We will be so0on.”’ Re nt Boyd of lice ration is atti) seau t b Bierman and which cu said, “and, over to was turned om