The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 2, 1908

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1 EVERYBODY 10 PAGES READS IT. EVERYBODY 10 PAGES NEEDS IT. LAST EDITION. CHIEF KILLS HIM. Head of Chicago Police Depart- ment Attacked in His Home. Assailant Shoots Young Shippy and a Servant. HAD DRAWN A KNIFE. The Chief Grabbed Him and Was Badly Cut. Then He Drew His Rerolyer and Began to Shoot. ASSASSIN UNKNOWN. He Is Believed to Be Member of Anarchist Organization. Ray or Basse Also Is Threat ened by a Yisitor. Chicago. March 2. George M. Shippy. chief of the Chicago police de partment, today shot and instantly killed an anarchist, who Invaded his home, wounded the chief, shot the offi cial's son, Harry, in the lung, and severely wounded the family coach man, James Foley. Harry Shippy is seriously hurt; Foley will probably re cover and the chief was stabbed in the hand, his wound being trivial. The assailant entered Shippy's home while the chief and his son were alone in one of the rooms. The man is said to have handed Chief Shippy a letter, which the chief opened and began to read. Almost immediately the anarchist drew a revolver and flreA at Harry Shippy. The boy fell to the floor and his father grappeld with the Foley, attracted by the shooting, rushed to his employer's aid. As the servant entered the room the anarchist broke from the cbtef's grasp, aimed deliberately and shot Foley twice. Again the chief closed with the man and the latter turned on him with a knife. Shippy attempted to grasp the weapon and received a deep cut on the hand. The police official then suc ceeded in reaching his own revolver, and he poured shot after shot into the assassin's body. Every bullet took ef fect and the anarchist fell to the floor dead. Chief Shippy said he believed that the presence of his son saved his life. He has no doubt that the man had planned to kill him. The Chiefs Story. v. "When' he handed the envelope ta me the thought struck me like -a streak of lightning that he was up to some Tirong," said Mr. Shippy. "I did not like his lookes. He appeared to me to be an anarchist. I grabbed his arms and forcing them behind him back called to my wife who was in another room. When she ran in I said: Mother, see if this man has a revol ver.' She felt one of his back pockets and said that he had. "I tried to hold him with one hand and draw my revolver with another. But he Jerked away and fell against a door. I caught him again and he fought hard to reach his revolver. My son must have heard the struggle and Just as he came to my aid the man freed one hand, drew his revolver and fired two shots at my son. Then Foley ran In and the man shot him. "By this time I was able to draw my own revolver. I fired at the man four times. The first shots entered his head and the others his body. He fell at the first shot, but I fired three more Into him. The man drew a knife also in the struggle, but I did not know I had been cut until after the fight was over." The attack on the chief Is believed to have been inspired by the recent activ ity of the Chicago police following the killing of Father Leo Heinrlchs, a Ro man Catholic priest, who was shot by an anarchist at Denver, while he was administering the sacrament to his slayer. News of the shooting In Chief Ship py's home reached the police depart ment when a request was sent to a nearby station for an ambulance. Ev ery available detective in the city was i placed upon the case. Anarchists Suspected. Immediately following the tragedy in Xenver attempts to trace the crime to a conspiracy hatched in Chicago were begun. The local police discovered that a society of Italians had been formed here and had been issuing inflamma tory literature aimed at clericals and also that several local clergymen had received threatening letters. Yesterday, while the funeral of Father Leo was being held in Paterson, N. J., details of police guarded several Roman Cath olic churches here. Especial precau tions were taken in the Italian quarters where officers in citizens' clothes scru tinized every worshipper as the congre gations entered. Later the officers moved to the altars and stood guard over the priests as they conducted the services. In addition to these measures ail well known anarchists in the city, among them Emma Goldman, were warned that they would not be allowed to make addresses In public. So far as is known none attempted to disobey this order and no arrests were made of followers of the cult. The documents sent out by the Italian organization were carefully worded and an examination of them showed that prosecutions based thereon might have fallen because of technical shortcoming. Although all self declared anarchists in this city are known to the Chicago police, the identity of the man who at tacked Chief Shippy is a mystery. Her mann Schuettler, assistant chief of po lice, who has had charge of the crusade against anarchists in the city, was un able to Identify the man. He described him as an Italian or Slav, about 24 years old, weighing 140 pounds and about five feet, six inches tall. On the shoes and underwear was the number 'S99." The roan wore a dark suit of clothes and a new hat, purchased from a local firm. No articles or marks by which the man might have been identi fied were found upon his person. Mayor Busse had an exciting inter view with ian officl:-seeker a few min utes after he had returned to his of fice from the Shippy home whither he hurried on being informed of the af ray. The stranger, who was shabbily MONDAY EVENING. dressed was waiting outside the may or's office in the city hall and as the mayor advanced extended his hand. The mayor, who was pale and nervous after the experience of Chief of Police Snippy, declined the grasp and eyed the man closely. Mayor Is Threatened. "1 want a Job and i am not here to ask you for anything more. But if 1 don't get a Job there will be trouble," said the man. The mayor immediately ordered the man out of the building and the latter, after glaring angrily at the city executive for a moment, descend ed to the main floor and walked away. Mayor Busse explained later that the individual had been calling on him and asking for a position every day for sometime past. Today, how ever, was the first time that he had threatened to create trouble. The incident, following so closely upon the tragedy at Chief Shippy's home caused some excitement in the city hall and several heads of depart ments issued orders to their clerkj and secretaries not to admit strang ers to their offices on any pretext. A circumstance that led the police to believe that the attack upon Chlel Shippy was the result of an anarchist ic plot instead of personal grievances was the fact that a man answering the description of the assailant callea at the Shippy residence yesterday. The chief was not at home and after learning this the stranger left, the in cident causing so little comment that it was not even mentioned to the chief by members of his family at home at the time. The caller of yesterday was met by Mrs. Shippy and she was In the hall when the anarchist entered today. She ran Into another room when the struggle began after calling upon her son to assist his father. Foley had stopped the chief's horso and buggy In front of the residence and was preparing to take the chiet down town to the latter's office. A number of neighboring physicians were summoned to the house imme diately after the shooting to attend Foley and the chief's son. Foley was sent to a hospital and Harry Shippy was also taken there after his fath er's reluctance to have him moved had been overcome. The young man, who Is 21 years old, and a student at Culver military academy. Culver, Ind., is the most dangerously hurt of the three. Two bullets pierced his chest and the surgeons in attendance made no effort to conceal the gravity of his condition. Squads of policemen were sent to the chiefs home and the assistant chief was summoned to take charge of the Investigation which is follow ing the shooting. Mayor Busse or dered detectives sent to the undertak ing rooms to which the body of th anarchist was sent and told the offi cers to arrest any one who came there attempting to identify the corpse. Irp to noon no person had called at the rooms to which the body of the anar chist was sent. A crowd of curiosity seekers gathered about the place and at one time became so importunate that the policemen on guard were obliged to use force in keeping the crowd back. Another crowd surrounded the Shippy residence and kept the police guard there busy. Not until several of the sight seekers had been threat ened with arrest would they submit to control. WILL BAILEY QUIT? Reports From Atchison Indicate Coming Withdrawal. The Atchison Globe indicates strongly that W. J. Bailey is about to withdraw from the race for the Re publican nomination for governor, and this seems to be the growing opinion among Republican politicians. This Is the way the Globe sizes up the situation: "A report sent out from Topeka last night was to the effect that word had come from Atchison, that W. J. Bailey was to get out of the race for governor: that his candidacy was not indorsed at the recent meeting of the Republican county central com mittee, and he had requested' that no indorsement be made. There is abso lutely nothing in it. At the first meeting of the committee, W. J. Bailey's candidacy was indorsed. At the meeting held a week ago Tues day, W. J. Bailey was placed at the head of the state delegation, and only 'Bailey Boomers' were put on the delegation. It was not thought necessary to re-indorse him. An Atchison correspondent sent a re port of the meeting to the Topeka Capital but it was not printed. The same renort was sent to the Kansas City Star, which also failed to pub lish it, which only goes to prove that under the new primary law those two papers can mould the political senti ment of the state and that, to push the candidacy of their favorites, they can suppress news items favorable to any other candidates. The interviews which are being given out generally emanate from the Stubbs camp. Mr. Bailey is giving out no Interviews but is attending strictly to his banking business, which may result. In the present unsettled conditions of finan cial matters generally, of his with drawal from the race. And this last statement must be taken as it is given as the idea of a reporter, not the statement of Mr. Bailey. The hank is more to Mr. Bailey than to be gov ernor of Kansas. The Globe hopes the stories are true that he will withdraw, for he is a good citizen, and can be of more benefit to Atchi son as a private citizen than as gov ernor." SHOT HER NINE TIMES. John Carry Killed Ills Wife and Her Sister in Oklahoma. Brbtow, Okla., March 2. In a fam ily quarrel late yesterday John Curry, living south of Bristow, shot and killed his wife and the wife of his brother, then fled. Officers' and a posse of citi zens are in pursuit. Curry fired nine loads of buckshot into his wife's body. Curry's brother and the latter's wife witnessed the murder. Curry turned his gun upon his brother's wife,- shoot ing and killing her also. Finally he attempted to shoot the brother but the latter escaped. Beekenridge Hall Burns. Danville, Ky, March 2. Becken ridge hall, one of the largest dormi tories of Central university, was de stroyed hy fire today. Loss 140,000. OFFERS PRIZE. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Will Give $500 for Less Cruel Slaughter Methods. ELECTRICITY BARRED. It Is Considered Objectionable in Many Ways. Competition Will End Monday, June 1, 1908. New Tork, March 2. Henry Bergh, nephew of the founder of the Ameri can Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in a letter in con nection with the offer of a prize of $500 by the society for an invention for the humane slaughter of animals for food, objects to present slaughter methods, as cruel. "In all the relations of man to the lower animals there is nothing," says the letter, "Involving so much suffer ing as the raising and killing of those used for market purposes. "To mitigate as far as possible the sufferings Inflicted on them committees have been appointed by the American Humane association and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to investigate the various methods of slaughtering throughout this county and Europe. "Electricity for the purpose has been considered objectionable, because of the danger to human life, its ques tionable humanity, especially In un skilled hands and its possible Injurious effects on the flesh of the animal." Concluding, the letter says" that in the competition for the prize drawings and models, either or both, accom panied by a typewritten, description must be delivered at the offices of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, No. 50 Madi son street, before 6 p. m. on Monday, June 1, 1908. OPPOSE FULTON BILL Commerce Commission Find Several Objections to Measure. Washington, March 2. Responding to a letter of inquiry to the interstate commerce committee of the senate the Interstate commerce commission has written a letter taking a position in opposition to Senator Fulton's bill prohibiting railroad companies from advancing rates in the face of a pro test made by a shipper until the com mission shall have passed upon the reasonableness of the increase. "To give to the protest of a single shipper the effect of preventing the advance of any rate until the reasonableness of that advance was affirmatively deter mined by the commission," says the letter, "would establish a hard and fast rule of doubtful fairness to the railroads and questionable advantage to the public Under existing condi tions we are of the opinion that it would be unwise to adopt the arbi trary limitations which this bill pro poses, whatever may be found desir able or necessary in this regard in the future." The commission also finds an ob jection to the bill in a possibility of Increased burden upon the commis sion. On this point they say: "If every proposed advance had to be investigated by the commission and officially sanctioned before it could take effect, the number of cases to be considered would presumably be so great as to render their prompt dis position almost impossible. In in stances of Justifiable Increase the ne cessity -of delay resulting from the probable volume of cases would work injustice to the carriers. Until con ditions become more stable and the substantive provisions of the act are more completely observed in railroad tariffs and policies, we entertain the belief that wider latitude of discretion on the part of carriers than this meas ure allows should be permitted." The committee suggests as a pos sible effect of the bill, the preventing of voluntary reduction of rates. "If," they say, "the rate could be increased without the approval of the commis sion after affirmative showing by the carrier it might happen that many re ductions now voluntarily accorded would not be made." WHIPPED HIS WIFE. EU Brubaker Has to Be Tied Before Taken to Jail. Sheriff Wllkerson and Deputy Ward were called to Seabrook Sunday afternoon to take charge of one Eftl Bru baker, a person who has been be fore courts on several occasions. The complaint was made by Brubaker"s wife, who reported by telephone thai her husband was drunk, and "had not only assaulted her, but wrecked their happy home. The officers found that her report was not exaggerated in the least. The woman was suffering from numerous bruises about the head and face, and the furniture belonging fn the house was scattered in a frag mentary condition, all over the sur rounding landscape. Brubaker was found In the house, and didn't want to be arrested. He began to fight and curse the officers, who worried with him half an hour, trying to pacify the belligerent man without injuring- him. They could not load him into the car riage until a bright thought occurred to the sheriff. Taking the hitch straps from his team, he tied Mr. Brubaker hand and foot, leaving him absolutely helpless. This did not impair Mr. Brubaker's ability to curse, and his threats and vile language were so strong that the officers drove to town by back streets. Before they reached the Jail, Brubaker repented, and said that he would "go like a gentleman" If the officers would release him. Mrs. Brubaker brought her bruised and swollen face te the county attor ney's office this morning and secured a warrant for her lord and master. Dont forget the leap year and moonlight skating party Wednesday night. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH POLITICALGOSSIP Mr. Stubbs Plans to Get His Petition. Would Secure Maximum of Six teen Thousand Names. NEW KIND OF MACHINE Plan to Hare Big Working Force to Rely Upon. F. Dumont Smith Is Turned Down at Home. W. R. stubbs will at once com mence the circulation of his petitions for the office of governor. His plan is to secure the maximum number of signatures which? the t law allows about 16,000, and to distribute those signatures throughout the state se curing from 50 to 150 In each county. The plan will be to send one man In each county the blank petitions for Stubbs and allow f that man to cir culate the petition in his county. An effort will be made to secure the sig natures of the most representative citizens of the county, and the result will be that whan the petitions are all in, Mr. Stubbs will' have enrolled under his banner a working force of about 16,000 of the leading Republi cans of the state, scattered evenly from one end of the state to the other. This will not be a political ma cine of the new style, under which a large number of the people them selves must get behind a man's can didacy, r. The primary election law provides two ways for a candidate to get his name on the ticket as a candidate for a state office. First, he can get at. least one per cent of the voters of the party in at least each of ten counties of the state, and in tha aggregate not less than one per cent or more than ten per cent of the total vote of his party In the Btate. Second, he can get at least one per cent of the total rote 'pf his party in each of twenty counties. Mr. Stubbs wiU take the first plan, which merely limits the total to ten per cent of the total vote of the party in the state. Ten per cent is about 16,000 and the law, does not limit the number of counties. The second plan.' while it limits the number of counties, does not limit' the number of signers. This fact has not been overlooked by shrewd politicians, who have figured it out that a candidate might select the 20 largest counties inline state, which contain a majority, yO( the voters, of the party in the state,' and by putting in enough time and labor might In those 20 counties actually secure a majority of the voters of his party in the state to promise to vote for him before the election. While this plan looks all right in theory. It would be a very expensive undertaking to work it out in prac tice for it would mean that the candi date would have to get about 70,000 signatures on his petitions in 20 coun ties. Such an undertaking is not to be gone into lightly. It means a tre mendous expense. Mr. Stubbs plan, of securing sign ers in every county In the state, is better politics, because It places In every county an active. Interested force of men who will, after signing the petition. It Is hoped, take an ac tual personal Interest in the success of the candidate. Politicians are predicting, how ever, that after the primary plan has been In use for a few years people will become wary of signing any peti tions at all, and a candidate will have to hustle to get the minimum. Instead1 of figuring on how close he can come to the maximum without slopping over. The Edwards county Republicans in delegate convention Saturday voted down resolutions indorsing Senator F. Dumont Smith by the decisive vote of thirty-four to seventeen. Resolutions indorsing Roosevelt, Taft, Madison and Stubbs were adopted. There was a bit ter and protracted fight over the Smith resolution, which read as follows: "At this time we express our partic ular approval of the course of Senator F. Dumont Smith of our county in the last special session. We realize that upon public questions there Is always room for difference of opinion, but we assert that upon the whole the public services of Senator Smith In the last eight years have been of vast benefit, not only to the people of this district but to the whole state at large, and if he shall be a candidate for renoml na tion and re-election we pledge him our best efforts to that end." Smith was also defeated for delegate to the state convention. The delegates elected to the state convention are: M. C. Tubbs, M. Parkhurst, Clay McXib ben and D. D. Baxter. The delegates to the district convention are: C. G. Sprlgg, F. D. West. J. 8. Craft, B- F. Brown and A. Hardy. The latter were instructed to vote for W. M. Kennison for district national delegate. Senator Smith's friends say that he will be a candidate for re-election not withstanding the action of today's con vention. The Republicans of Lyon county un animously indorsed the candidacy of William H. Taft for president of the United States, and emphatically com mended the administration of Theodore Roosevelt in spite of the contrary ef forts of Taft's enemies. Only one other indorsement was made by the conven tion, that of W. C. Austin of Cotton wood Falls for state printer. Repre sentative J. M. Miller arrived here to day from Washington, prepared for a fight against George H. Tucker, state senator of Eureka- who is a candidate for congressman against Miller. No fight materialized, however,., and the work of the convention was completed In little more than an hour. Tucker was here, as were also W- C. Austin and F. B. McKercher of Marion, chair man of the congressional central com mittee. Tucker's-friends gave Senator Curtis and Senator Long and Congress man Miller a slap in the resolutions which were adopted, in which was em- (Continued on Page Eight.) 2, 1908. FELL IN A SV, Artist Model Is led Blindfolded Into a Boom Full .of the Bodies of Dead Human Beings. SIGHT WAS TOO MUCH. She Went Into Hysterics and Later Collapsed. She Had Previously Waltzed With a Skeleton. Chicago, March 2. Miss Frances Kings north, an artist's model, was led blindfolded into a room filled with cadavers yesterday and was photographed for a picture to be en titled "Asleep With the Dead." She fainted when the bandage was re moved and her eyes opened on the grewsome grinning hulks of human forms that surrounded her. Her col lapse was followed by hysterics, in which she screamed and struggled to free herself from what seemed to her a living tomb, until she fell in an un conscious heap on the floor of the anatomical laboratory. For hours after her experience, she was in a precarious condition following the scene created as the re sult of an effort to a b tain a photo graph that would eclipse all the imaginative horrors conceived by art. Miss Kingsnorth previously- had nerved herself to waltz with an arti culated skeleton and to pose with the same bony remnant of a departed personality upon her lap, and several pictures were taken. RAILROADS IN FEAR. They WiU Have "Heart to Heart" Talk With Nebraska Commission. Chicago, Maroh 2. Several of the large western railroad system have de termined to try the gospel of co-operation on the railroad commission of Nebraska. At a conference held iiere the roads having lines in Nebraska ap pointed a committee to call upon the state commission and to try to imbue that body with the spirit of co-operation and the spirit of mutual helpful ness. This undertaking, novel In charac ter, is to be in response to an order of the Nebraska commission for the rail road to show cause by March 10 why oertaln radical reductions should not be made In all freight rates and why a maximum'- distance .tariff should not be established. If the commission does the things which it threatens to do unless the railroads "show cause," It will endanger the net revenue of all railroad lines in the state of Nebraska. The railroad traffic men deolare that they will be able to show this beyond question, but declare that In the past railroad commissions have not been prone to accept the showing made by railway-made statistics, especially if the people are clamoring for a reduc tion in rates. It Is, therefore, now purposed not only to present convincing statistics to the commission, but to also have a "heart to heart" talk with the mem bers as "man to man." It is probable that E. B. Boyd of the Gould lines will be chosen to make the appeal to the commission. Mr. Boyd has been on both sides of the fence In the traffic game, and on each side he has been assiduously spreading the doctrine of "get together" and "co-operation." Now he is to be given the task of try ing to bring about something practical in the line of co-operation. One of the members of the commit tee said: "It is all right for the ship pers and the railroads to get together at dinners and talk oo-operation, but the time has come when we want actual co-operation. We are, there fore, going to try to induce the Ne braska commission to see. the interests of both sides. If it is true that it will be impossible for the commission to do what it purposes -without serious injury to the railroad interests of the state, we believe that the members will be able to see that such an Injury will also be a serious injury to their state, and even to the shippers, who may be Insisting upon lower rates. We are going to try to talk this thing over from the standpoint of both sides and try to arrive, like sensible men, at the best result for all. If the commission meets our efforts half way we feel that we have gained an important victory for co-operation." TWO MORE FOR TAFT. Iowa and Nebraska Considered Certain for the Secretary. Des Moines, la., March 2. Iowa and Nebraska have been engulfed by the Taft wave. In spite of bitter factional difficulties with reference to the sen atorshlp and other state offices, Iowa Republicans are united for the secre tary of war. In Nebraska thes move ment for La Follette has collapsed, and today it is certain that a solid delega tion will go to Chicago instructed to vote for the nomination of the Ohio candidate. The strength of Taft, both In Iowa and Nebraska, lies in the general ac ceptation of him as the man best qual ified to carry on the policies inaugu rated by President Roosevelt. Origin ally both states were Roosevelt states. Kven today they would jump at the chance to return the president In the White House. In Nebraska there are voters who decline to take the presi dent at his word not to run again. Lan caster county has instructed its dele gation to the state convention to vote for Roosevelt. In the primary at Bat tle Creek, In another part of the state, Roosevelt received 94 votes,- as against 69 for Taft, 21 for Hughes, 12 for La Follette and a few scattering votes for Foraker and Fairbanks. In other sec tions Roosevelt's tally was not so high, but enough ballots were cast for him to make apparent the strong sentiment that exists for his renomination. The feeling for the president is Just as deep rooted in Iowa. There is not, however, the same opportunity for vot ers in this state to express their will as In Nebraska. In the latter state primaries for. the presidential nomina- MONDAY EVENING. tlon are prescribed by law. In Iowa and caucus and convention system Is in force. Nevertheless, the Iowa Re publicans demonstrated unmistakably they were for .Roosevelt, and It was not until the president In December issued his emphatic anti-third term declaration thot Mi,i,anti. ni1 consideration to the qualifications of me ocner canaiaates. The Indorsement of Taft by the pres ident has been effective both in Iowa and Nebraska. In the latter state he Is regarded as the man next to the president Who will have the best chance of taking the electoral vote away from Bryan. WILL BE NO SLATE. Ohio Republican State Convention to Be in the Open. Columbus, O., March 2. With the ar rival of the morning trains the army of politicians who are to take part in the state convention Tuesday was heavily Increased. By night, it is said, that the city will be filled to overflowing. The announcement that there will be no "slate," no prearrangement of any kind, and that the nominations for the various offices are to be the result of a free-for-all fight and the prize of any body who can get them, has greatly stimulated the interest in the conven tion. The only offices for which there will not be a struggle are governor, where Governor Harris has no opposition; secretary of state, where the present Incumbent, Carmi A. Thompson, will be nominated by acclamation and dairy and food commissioner for which Ren- nick W. Dunlap will have a walk away. It is also highly probable that Judges John A. Schauck and James L. Price, present members of the supreme court will be nominated, although Judge Wildman of Norwalk, is also a candidate. The four delegates at large to the Republican national convention have been selected and there will be no op position to any of them. They will be Governor Harris, Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland, Arthur I. Vorys of Lancas ter, the political manager of the Taft campaign, and Charles P. Taft of Cin cinnati, the brother of the secretary of war. The platform will be short. The draft of it has been approved by Secretary Taft and Attorney General Wade Ellis is now polishing up the literary side of it. The present subject of acute dis cussion in relation to the platform is whether mention shall be made of Sen ators Foraker and Dick and the charac ter of such mention. No uncomplimentary allusion to them will be made, the question be ing whether or not any allusion shall be made to them. The feeling among the Taft leaders Is that they should not be Ignored but Just what to say and just how to say It, Is the prob lem. Governor Harris gave out the fol lowing signed statement: "I am not a candidate for United States senator and have no expecta tions about it. I hope to be nomi nated and -elected governor and serve out my full term to the best of my ability. I have no ambition beyond that." FISHCROWD LOSES. Attempt to Eli Join Union Pacific Again Fails. Chicago, March 3. Judge Ball this morning denied the petition of H..W. Lena an for an Injunction restraining the voting of 281,231 shares of stock held by the Union Pacific railway and the Railway Securities company at the an nual meeting or the Illinois central to day. The motion for a restraining writ was Kv l ttnrnn- TPmj-ilr H. Culver, an associate of Mr. Leman. Little time was required by the court to deny the motion. Judge Ball having decided ad versely to similar suits based on prac tically the same grounds, which was brought recently on behalf of Stuyves ant Fish and other stockholders of the railroad. rrViA .nial rt th motion will nnorate to place the suit on the regular trial calendar of the superior court of Cook county where it w.UI not be reached for several months. Attorney uuiver in formed the court that all questions are eliminated In this suit except the right of a foreign corporation to own and vote stock in an Illinois Central cor poration. This is the point upon which the greatest insistence was piacea oy Mr. Leman whan he argued the former a-.,i an nttnrnw for Mr. Fish. Mr. Leman brought the present suit as-a stockholder of tne Illinois uomra, icii shares of stock standing in his name. The annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Illinois Central railroad ad journed after a fifteen minute session until two o'clock tomorrow. The in ability of the proxy committee to pre sent a complete report caused the ad journment action. 740 CARS BURNED. Fire Destroys Barns of the New York City Railway Company. New York, March 2. Two fires that brought all the fire apparatus in the upper section of the city and raged in lively fashion from midnight until dawn Sunday, burned down the car bams of the New York City Railway company on Second avenue in Harlem and the paint factory of G. W. Grote Co. only a few blocks distant. There were 740 surface cars burned In the destruction of the barns and the loss to the company Is estimated at $2,500,000. The loss on the paint fac tory is given as $126,000. BRYAN IS "ALL IN." He Makes a Bee Line for His Home in Lincoln. Memphis, Tenn., March 2. Suffering with a severe cold and a bursting head ache, William J. Bryan announced here last night that he would make a bee line for his home in Lincoln, cancelling dates in St. .Louts on Monday. The Weather Indications. Chicago, March 2. Forecast for Kansas: Partly cloudy' tonight and Tuesday; warmer in north portion to night. TWO CENTS. TRY T0FIX IT UP. Effort to Aroid a Fight in Re- publican Convention. Long and Stubbs Factions Talk of Compromise. LONG IS IN TOPEKA. Refuses to Discuss the Local Situation. Not a Candidate for Delegate to National Convention. An effort is now being made to ar range a compromise between the Long and Stubbs factions in the organiza tion and work of the Republican state convention to be held here Wednesday. Some of the state leaders, and espe cially those who are expecting to be candidates for state office, do not want the Stubbs-Long fight precipitated Into the convention. There is serious dan ger of a wild fight for control of the convention unless the compromise is all fixed up ahead of time. The fight would come on the elec tion of temporary chairman of the convention. This fight would settle the whole struggle, for the next thine would be to elect a permanent chair man, and appoint a committee on cre dentials which would see to it that the defeated faction got the worst of it In the seating of delegations. The dominant faction would prob ably have its appetite for blood so whetted by this time that it would ride rough shod over all opposition. and endorse all its own factional can didates. Such a convention would ao a long ways toward splitting the party wiae apart, ana the party leaders gen erally recognize that it would be a serious political error. So it seems likely that the two fac tions will compromise by electing some man for chairman of the convention who Is satisfactory to both factions a man who is not aligned with either crowd. If such a man can be found. The agreement would also provtde for the appointment of a strictly Impar tial committee on credentials, in which both factions would have equal repre sentation. This committee would have. to fight It out, and would probably be forced to compromise by seating half of each delegation in case of contests. 1 VI V 1 1 ,J 1 VI 1 1 1 1 VJ 1 11 1M 1.1 W IIKIUUB the selection of four delegates to the national convention, two from each fac tion. Long and Curtis might be chosen from the machine crowd, and Stubbs and Bristow from the other crowd. Grant Hornaday and -J. S. Simmons are the men talked of as representing tne maenrne, tnougn Dotn are recognis ed fair and able representatives;- G. S. land of Troy may be chosen for the other two delegates, in case of a com promise. Senator Long and W. R. Stubbs both arrived In Topeka this afternoon, and the politicians are expected to arrive In large numbers this evening. Long Not a Candidate. Senator Long arrived In Topeka this afternoon, and is now at the Copeland hotel, where the political friends and enemies of his "crowd" are flocking. Asked concerning the report that he will be a candidate for election as a delegate to the Republican national nnnvAntfnn. Senator Lnnar nail?: "I am not a candidate. That is a matter which is entirely In the hands of the convention; Whatever the con vention thinks best to do Is satisfactory to me." "Have yon anything to say concern ing the appointment of A. A. Richards, which has been considerably criticised out here?" was asked. "I have nothing to say about it." re plied Senator Long. "That is a matter which will take care of Itself. There was considerable criticism of the ap pointment of Judge Pollock; there has been considerable criticism of a good many appointments, but they have all come out right. The appointment of Richards wjll be the same way." Senator Long declined to enter into a general discussion or political con dition, or the possibility or a fight in the state convention. "T his. -liia arrived in Torjeka. ne said. "I have not had time to talk with anybody. Perhaps I win nave something to say to the newspapers later on." The oonventlon which meets in To peka Wednesday win elect four dele gates to the Republican national con vention. The other 16 are chosen In the congressional districts. Tne con vention, will endorse a presidents candidate and that is all. MABCH COMES IN LIKE LAMB. Weather Prophets Say It Win Go Out Like a lion. March came in like a lamb Sun flay and the weather conditions today are mucn tne same as inoee 01 yes terday and according to the predic tions of the goose bone prognostlca tors the month will go out like a roar ing Hon But Kansas Is not gov erned by the rule or guess of such and the guess is that the winter will go on record as one of a continual spring- of bright sunshiney days. A square of white surmounted by a' pennant of blue, waves in a gentle breeze from the top of the flag pole on the building occupied by the gov ernment weather station. The wind today if the gentle movement of the atmosphere may be so characterised, is from the east and is moving at the rate of 9 jiiles an hour. The follow ing temperatures tell the story more aptly than words couio possible oo: 7 o'clock. .28 11 o'clock. 3 12 o'clock 37 1 o'clock 39 2 o'clock 41 8 o'clock. 29 9 o'clock 31 10 o'clock. .84 Bishop Duncan Is Dead. Spartanburg, S. C March 2. Bish op W. W. Duncan of the Methodist Episcopal church died here today. Bishop Duncan had been in ill health for some months. He was born at Randolph-Macon college. In Virginia, on December 27. 1839. Mr. Duncan succeeded his brother as president of Randolph-Macon college and it was from that position he became a bishop of the church.