The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 4, 1908

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EVERYBODY EVERBODY 14 PAGES ft DAHCC 1 READS IT. Mrrnj-LJTji-iTii-vJi-rxrxr NEEDS IT. LAST EDITION. FRIDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 4, 190S. FRIDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. FIGHT HAS BEGUN Organization Effected to Wage War on White Plajue. Kansas Association f irStudy and Pretention cf Tuberculosis. GOV. HOCH PRESIDED. Dr. Fiske's Address Was an Inspiration. Dr. Crumbine Is President Di rectors and Other Officers. The Kansas Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis was or ganized at a mass meeting held in Representative hall of .the capitol build- ing in Topeka yesterday at which were present representatives from 30 Kansas counties and cities from every walk in life. Governor E. W. Hoch presided at the meeting and made a strong appeal for a concerted and intelligent movement to oppose 'the ravages of the White Plague. Dr. D. M. Fiske, of Washburn college, a representative of the Kansas branch of the Red Cross society. W. L. A. Johnson, state labor commission er, W. J. "V. Deacon, statistician for the state board of health. Dr. S. J. Crum bine and medical, professional and bus iness men from different sections of the state, all made interesting talks on the need of opposing the ravages of tuber culosis by organized endeavor. As a result of this meeting and the sentiments expressed the association above referred to was organized, officers elected, constitution and bylaws adopt ed and the campaign against consump tion officially launched In Kansas. Education, sanitation, publicity, fresh air, sunshine, soap and water, exercise, practical precautions, temperance, these are the weapons to be used by the new organization In Its war on the world's greatest plague. Plans of Association. According to the constitution adopted at the meeting the objects of the as sociation are: 1. Dissemination of knowledge con cerning the causes, treatment, and pre vention of tuberculosis. 2. Investigation of the prevalence of tuberculosis in the state of Kansas and the collecting and publishing of useful information.- 3. Securing of proper legislation for the study and prevention of tubercu losis. 4. Co-operation with the public auth orities, state and local boards of health. the national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, medical societies, and other organizations in approved measures adopted for the pre vention of the disease. 5. Promotion of the organization and work of local societies in all parts of Kansas. 6. Encouragement of adequate provis ion for consumptives by the establish ment of sanatoria, hospitals, dispensar ies, and otherwise. The following were elected on the board of directors: William Allen White, Emporia; Dr. H. Comstock, Hutchinson; H. F. Mason, Garden City; Mrs. Elizabeth P. Hutchinson, Winfield; Dr. L. H. Munn. Topeka; Dr. J. P. Cas ter. Topeka; Mrs. J. W. Jennings. Clay Center; Mrs. C. B. Hoffman, Enterprise; Mrs. C. C. Goddard, Leavenworth; Dr. S O Emlev, Lawrence: Dr. D. M. Fiske, Topeka; Dr. J. T. Payne, Fort Scott; Dr. R. E. Truehart. Sterling: Jonathan Thomas, Topeka: W. E. Stanley, Wich ita; W. A. Harris, Lawrence: E. H. Madison. Dodge City; Dr. L. L. Uhls, Osawatomie; Mrs. Atkinson, Parsons; Mrs. A. C. Edwards, Kinsley; Dr. P. M. Hoxie, Kansas City: E. W. Howe, Atch ison; Dr. J. A. Milligan. Garnett; Dr. S. C. Huffman. Columbus: Dr. J. R. Korton. Green; Chas. Wolff. Topeka. Dr. Crumbine President. A further organization was effected by the election of the following officers: "President Dr. S. J. Crumbine. Vice president Chancellor Frank Strong. Lawrence. Second vice president Dr. Harriet Comstock. Hutchinson. Secretary Dr. C. B. VanHorn, To peka. Treasurer Dr.L-H.Munn Honorary vice presidents Mrs. A. C. Edwards. Kinsley: Manford Schoon over, Garnett: Mrs. J. W. Jennings, Clay Center: E. N. Morrill, Hiawatha; S. A. Bramlette, Columbus. The executive committee is made up as follows: Dr. D. M. Fiske. Topeka; E. T. Fairchild. Ellsworth; Governor E. W. Hoch, W. L. A. Johnson, Topeka; L. M. Penwell, Topeka. Gov. Hocb Speaks. Representative hall was comfort ably filled when Gov. Hoch called the meeting to order at 4 o'clock. In his opening addresa the governor said in part: "I need not tell you we have met here to consider a very important problem. It would be presumptuous for me to try to tell you of the solu tion of this question when so many learned medical gentlemen are pres ent. The problem that confronts us is a tremendously Important one. We are proud of the record the Twentieth Kansas regiment made in the Philip pines, but if every member of that fa mous organization had been killed in the war with the islanders the news would have stirred this state mightily. Tet I tell you here today that a larger number of persons than were enroll ed in that regiment are slain every year in Kansas by tuberculosis. We read with horror of the tremendous fatality that resulted from the battles of the civil war but every year more people die in this country from con sumption than perished in the early sixties from armed strife. "If an invading army penetrated this far into the country we would use all power to repel its advance, yet here is an invasion of our homes more calamitous than that of any for eign power in the world. "Tour experts tell us that it is jn our power to repel this invasion. Such an accomplishment is worthy of this splendid meeting of people here to day from every section of the state who have come to start the fight in Kansas against the ravages of con sumption. I am glad to learn of .the hopefulness of the conflict. "In my judgment no body of peo ple ever assembled in the state capitol to consider a more important subject than the one before this meeting today. I look for in intelligent crystallization ot results In this opening battle of the j war. I believe that Kansas is less subject to this disease than any state in the union. Her high altitude, pure air. absence of crowded cities, wealth more evenly distributed, fewer hovels of abject poverty, should all go to prove that we have a lower death rate than other states, but at that, even in Kansas, we have too many deaths from tuberculosis. I am glad to see Kansas take the lead among the states of the central west in this movement against the common enemy of man kind. I welcome you here today. You are entitled to the gratitude of the rest of the state, for you are the pion eers in this plan." Gov. Hoch was elected permanent chairman of the meeting and Dr. Emley of Lawrence, secretary. Mr. Deacon's Facts and Figures. W. J. V. Deacon, statistician for the state board of health was called upon and responded in a most interesting and startling speech. He pointed out the large map that had been hung be hind the chairman's seat and declared that it was a plat of the city of Tope ka and that every one of the black headed tacks stuck in the blocks and lots in this map represented a death, and its location in this city during the cast ten vears from tuberculosis. There were 480 tacks in the map. In this death list was represented 2U1 mi nnrl 279 females. The tacks were placed closer together in the "bottoms" district and in "Tennessee town," the negro settlements, and in the Scandinavian settlement in Topeka. In the death list were 161 negroes. Mr. Deacon then went on to say that an average of 4 8 deaths a year from consumption in Topeka. a clean and sanitary city, would, if the same ratio was carried over the state, mean 2,034 deaths a year from the disease in Kansas, or 20.840 in ten years. In the course of his speech Mr. Deacon made the following terse recommen dations for fighting the disease: "Education before medicine. "Prevention, rather than cure is the campaign before us. "The death rate among the negroes who pay less attention to fresh air and hygiene is twice as high as it is among the whites. "In the midst of congestion, nltn, poverty and vice, there you will find the tubercular germs. "Sanitation, sunshine and fresh air are "the weapons with which to fight the disease. It is a great fight ahead, but with God's helr we will win." Dr. Fiske Speaks. Dr. D. M. Fiske of Washburn col lege was the next speaker called and he responded with an address that was an inspiration. He told how 140, 000 people die every year in this coun try from consumption and a billion dollars is spent per annum as a result of this plague. Our national debt is less than S975.000.000. "If we recognize the fact that we are human, that we are brothers, that I am my brother's keeper we will not hesitate to begin the struggle -against tuberculosis. "It is not enough for the doctors to known of the terror and the preven tions of this disease. Millions of the common oeDDle must know it too and co-operate with the physicians if great good is to be accomplished. "Does the average man know of the magnificent battle that is being fought in his body, in his blood, his tissues, his lungs to save his life from the germs of tuberculosis? Does he know how to best help nature in her fight to save him from destruction? We must democracise medical know ledge, simplify it and make it prac tical eo the common people can join the doctors and the experts fn the fight against the white plague. Pure air, pure food, temperance and cleanliness are the allies to help us in the struggle. These have won the vic tory for modern civilization over yel low fever and the cholera, why not tuberculosis? The health depart ments, the colleges, the newspapers, the schools, all should join the doctors to teach the people the lesson of pre- j vention. Tribute to Dr. Crumbine. Gov. Hoch, in introducing Dr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the state board of health, paid a high tribute to the doctor's continued and successful fight for pure food, pure water, sanitation, hygiene and health and gave him the credit for starting this movement against the ravages of tuberculosis. Dr. Crumbine was greeted with hearty applause when he arose to speak. He wasted no time with preliminaries but got down at once to the serious busi ness of the meeting by reading a con stitution and by laws revised from those of the national organization which he proposed for the Kansas branch. His motion was carried and Gov. Hoch was instructed by motion to appoint a nominating committee of seven to select officers for the new organization. Drs. Crumbine, Jack son, Munn and Eva Harding of To peka and Emley of Lawrence and Mrs. W. A. Johnson of Topeka and Mrs. J. S. Simmons of Hutchinson were appointed. While waiting for the committee to report the conference listened to short talks by Dr. Van Horn of this city. State Labor Commissioner W. A. L. Johnson, Dr. Frank Lynch and others. In the course of the discussion of teachers in the public schools being affected with tuberculosis. Gov. Hoch took occasion to say that he favored a rigid physical examination for all pupils and teachers entering school and then it wound be found who had the disease and who had not. "The state should take its responsibility to see that tubercular infection is not spread in our public schools," de clared the governor. After the election of the board of directors the conference adjourned. Wliat Tuberculosis Is. "The general term tuberculosis." said Dr. L. M. Powell today, "embraces a number of socalled infectious inflam matory diseases which are the result of the implantation and proliferation of the specific germ called the 'tuber cle bacillus.' "The name and character of the dis ease depend upon the parts invaded by the bacilli as well as upon their mode of growth. "If disseminated at once throughout the entire body, we speak of the re sulting disease as acute miliary tuber culosis. This form is rapidly fatal. There may be more or less localization even in this form as in tubercular meningitis. "The ordinary pulmonary tubercu losis is a chronic form of the disease, known as consumption of the lungs. "The progress of the disease in the lungs is slow or rapid, depending largely upon the extent to which the tubercle bacilli are -distributed throughout the system, to the patient's resistance, and to mixed infections. "This is the form most commonly met with. The expectoration or sputum Continued on Page Eight MONEY A DRUG. Panl Morton Say the Abun dance of Idle Cash Is So Great That Prosperity Is Menaced by It. HAS BEEN HIDING OUT For a Year or More on Account i t the Panic. The Farmers Hare More Than Any O'.her Class. Chicago, Dec. 4. Money locked up in safety deposit boxes a year ago by panic stricken persons is now coming out into the channels of trade, accord ing to a statement by Paul Morton, president of the Equitable Life Insur ance company, in a New York interview by William E. Curtis, printed in the Record-Herald here today. "Money is a drug in the market," said Mr. Morton. "Call money loans for less than 2 per cent. Time money may be had for 3 per cent for 90 days and 4 per cent for six months. Gilt-edge real estate loans in New York are 4 and 5 per cent. The insurance companies are making many loans at those rates on similar property to that they have been getting 6 per cent for. There is an abundance of money looking out for investment. This abundance is a men ace to prosperity, however, because it is apt to stimulate speculation, encour age booms and promote wildcat enter prises. But there is a very healthy at mosphere in New York financial circles just now. People are confident, but they are cautious. There is a good deal more speculation than I care to see, and prices of stocks have gone up quite rapidly, but I think there is a justifi cation for it in the future and that prices will go considerably higher be fore they are lower. "Where does this abundance of money come from? Much of it comes from the west; from the banks in which it has been deposited by farm ers who have no use for it. The farm ers are the richest portion of our popu lation today; they were buying pianos and surreys a few years ago: now they are buying automobiles. It Is cus tomary to hold automobile expositions out in the west and they are attended by thousands of farmers who come to buy new machines or trade their old machines for the later patterns. The crops this year are bigger than ever; the prices are higher than ever, and the farmers will have more money than ever. They will deposit it in the local banks, which will send it to New York for investment. "Much of the money that is now seeking investment has come out of safety deposit boxes.' wliwa II" was locked up a year ago by people who were frightened bv the panic. It is dif ficult to over-estimate the amount of currency and gold that was hoarded last winter and lay idle for nearly a year, but now it is coming out and seeking investment." WHERE IS THE TROUBLE? Commission Investigating Gas Fields for Cause of Shortage. Independence, Kan., Dec. 4. The commission sent by Mayor Crittenden to investigate the shortage in the nat ural gas supply for Kansas City has started its work. The preliminary dis cussion with J. M. Landon, assistant general manager, and W. M. Welch, chief engineer of the Kansas Natural Gas company, developed the admission that the supply furnished was inade quate. An effort to place the respon sibility caused a division. Mr. Landon asserted that an ample supply from the wells was being de livered to the compressor stations and that the fault "was with the pumping equipment. Mr. Welch, on the con trary, maintained that the pumping equipment is adequate and that it is capable of delivering to Kansas City all of the gas furnished. He said that Kansas Citv consumed 55 million cubic feet Wednesday, an increase of one million feet over the largest con sumption last winter. Mr. Landon has promised to furnish the commission definite figures as to the volume of gas in the field. He said that the Kanass Natural Gas com pany has 550 wells, 400 of which are owned by the company. At the sug gestion of the commission Mr. Welch detailed two men to prepare a sketch maD showing the number of wells be ing drawn upon, the size and lengths of pipes forming the collecting system, together with a record of pressures at the wells and at the station inlets. The gas supply comes from two fields, the north field, including Allen, Wilson and Neosho counties, centering at Petrolia, and the south field, con sisting of Labette and Montgomery counties. Mr. Landon submitted a report made by Sela T. Brown, county gas inspector for Montgomery county, dated October 15, 1908. The report shows that Mr. Brown tested sixty-two wells In the Independence field owned by the Kansas Natural Gas company. He says all are in good condition and that their aggregate capacity is 397, 397.920 cubic feet a day, an average flow of more than six million cubic feet for each well each day. Mr. Landon stated also that the company was using only from 18 to 25 per cent of the well flow, the law of the state permitting a use of 50 per cent. THREE BLOCKS BURN. Moving Picture Sliow Starts Another Disastrous Fire. Centralia, Pa., Dec. 4. Sixty-five families are homeless in this city as the result of a fire which during last night wiped out three squares of property in the heart of town. It started in a mov. ing picture show and spread rapldly among the frame houses. Fire com panies from Ashland and Mount Car mel responded, but a lack of water left the town at the mercy of the flames for a time. The loss is about $100,000. Weather Indications. Chicago, Dec. 4. Forecast for Kan sas: Fair tonight and Saturday. Cold er tonight and warmer Saturday. CLEAR AND WARMER. Weather Brightens Following Rain and Sleet.' The weather offering for the past 24 hours again vindicates the weather observer at this place for during the night a little rain fell, about the same amount of snow and less sleet and all the time the mercury receded. The total precipitation during the past 24 hours including all classes and kinds amounted to but .11 of an inch. The temperatures today have been uniformly lower than those of Thurs day and though the sun has shone bright and warm, a chilling, piercing wind has prevailed from the north west. Weatherman Jennings has come to the conclusion that there will be a drop in the mercury column tonight with fair weather prevailing, while Saturday there will a higher table, of temperatures with corresponding fair weather. The following are the tem peratures which have prevailed since 7 o'clock this morning: 7 o'clock 30)11 o'clock 27 8 o'clock 30112 o'clock 28 9 o'clock 29! 1 o'clock 29 10 o'clock ...;.28 2 o'clock 30 TO GO RIGHT ON. Tariff Hearings Will Continue Until Deo. 19 at Least. Washington, Dec 4. The house committee on ways and .means has decided to continue the tariff hearing until uec. 19. Chairman Payne was authorized to offer a resolution' in the house when congress convened on Monday, which will give the committee authority to subpoena witnesses for these supple mentary hearings.. This is the last day of the original schedule of hearings but on Saturday Herbert Miles, ehairman of the tariff committee of the National association of manufacturers will appear before the committee. Other witnesses are expected to appear Saturday and Monday there will be a supplemen tary hearing on lead scheduled. The other session will take place on days designated by Chairman Payne. It is believed some will be held occasional ly throughout the short session of con gress. The committee will begin the consideration of the new tariff bill as soon as the record up to this time has been printed. Briefs may be filed by parties in terested any time before December 19. Chairman Payne -would not say what witnesses would be summoned "if the power to subpoena is granted but it is generally understood that J. W. Van cleve. "president National association of manufacturersiwill be on the list. OYER THREE BILLIONS Stock' of Money in the United States Breaks All Records. Washington, Dec 4. Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the United States in his annual report caMsv attention to the fact that owing-to the disturbed rela tions between the income and outgo of the government there was a deficit last year-of $o8,070,201 as against a surplus for the preceding year of $84,238,586 and points out that the total revenues for 1908 exceeded any preceding fiscal year except- 1907. Treasurer Treat declares that thus it is apparent that the trou ble is not in decreasing receipts but in increasing expenditures which situa tion the treasury was able to meet with the excess of revenues which had ac cumulated during the previous years. The amount of gold coin actually used in the channels of trade is less than one-half the general stock of gold coin in the country owing to the increas ing popularity of the gold certlflcate. The general stock of money at the close of the last fiscal year was $3,378,764,020, an increase of $263,203,013, as compared with that of a year ago. The money in circulation for the past eleven years has steadily increased; the growth per cap ita advanced from $22.87 in 1897 to $34.72 in 1908. Population has more than dou bled every 30 years while the wealth of the nation has more than doubled every 20 years. There is a legitimate demand for an enormous amount of money in developing the growing Industries and expanding trade relations, but no meth od emdoved by which that demand per capita can be measured. The volume of currency should not De Dasea on tne individual man. but on the volume of nroducts produced by man, measured by the market value thereof. HURRY UP ORDER. Is Granted General Bonaparte New Haven Railroad Case. In Boston. Dec. 4. The certificate of Attorney General Bonaparte request ing that the government's case to compel the New Haven Railroad com pany to relinquish its holdings of stock of the Boston Maine railroad be expedited, was granted today by three judges of the United States dis trict circuit court and the contention of the attorneys of the railroad that the expediting act is unconstitutional was overruled. AFTER HER SCALP. w C. T. U. Starts a Fight on a Chi cago Scliool Teacher. Chicago. Dec. 4. Miss Grace Reed, principal of the John B. Drake school, is looked upon by the school authori ties as one of the ablest educators in the city, but she will lose her job if the Chicago Woman's Christian Tem perance union has its way. But she will not lose it if President Schneider of the board of education can pre vent it. In a speech delivered last Sunday af a suffrage meeting held in the Fine Arts building Miss Reed declared that a saloonkeeper of good character should receive as much consideration as a business man, as a baker or a banker. The prohibition sections of a city, she added, are dead sections, being crippled in one of their legiti mate arteries of business. These remarks did not please the temperance women. On the contrary they aroused their wrath to such an extent that a special meeting was held at the union's headquarters in the Women's temple. A resolution was adopted and a copy was sent to Presi dent Schneider of the board of educa tion condemning Miss Reed's speech. filORGANLET OUT Libel Action Against G. A. R. Commander Dismissed. Protests and Demands a Trial by Jury. USED AS A WITNESS. Calied to the Stand by the Pros ecution. Charity Ewing Case Is Rehears ed in Court. The Coney libel case is progressing slowly in district court, only one wit ness having been through the mill up to 2 o'clock this afternoon. At 11 o'clock, court was adjourned while the attorneys took the deposition of A. H. Case, the veteran lawyer, who Is eon fined to his home with a serious illness. The only witness on the stand this morning was W. A. Morgan, depart ment commander, and one of the de fendants In the case. The introduction of Morgan as a state witness was ac complished by County Attorney Schenck who moved to dismiss the case as to Morgan, for the purpose of using him as a witness against the others. "I wish to make a statement to the court," said Mr. Morgan. "You may do so," replied the court, and Morgan said: "Six months ago a warrant for my arrest was issued upon complaint of P. H. Coney while I was a candidate be fore the department encampment for department commander. In due time, I surrendered myself to the proper au thorities. That fact was sent broad cast over the state, and there appeared at intervals, sensational articles under flaring headlines in which I figured as a criminal, humiliating me and inter fering with my duties as commander of this department. Therefore, I insist upon being tried in the court and by a jury, and if I am acquitted, I want a jury to do it I don't want the county attorney who is prosecuting me to set me aside as a matter of charity." Judge Dana replied that the county attorney had the right to dismiss, and that the court had no right to in terfere. "If this action of Coney and the county attorney is allowed to stand," said Mr. Morgan, "it will leave me liable to the suspicion that I purchas ed my discharge, and be one more of the many vindictive movements made by P. H. Coney to injure me and my comrades, and to set me right,. I ask to have my protest to being discharged before the case was ended and a verdict rendered by the jury." The court assured Morgan that he would have that privilege, and Morgan was sworn as a witness for the state. He admitted that he told a reporter in Kansas City during the encampment, that part of the charges against Coney were true and could be proven. In the cross examination three pages of the report of the national encampment at Denver were read, wherein it was stated that Coney had been court-mar tialed and dismissed from the G. A. R. The principal witness of Thursday afternoon was Judge L. S. Ferry, who, years ago, was appointed administra tor for the estate of Charity Jawing, the colored soldier's widow named in the "Coney of Kansas" circular. Judge Ferry's testimony showed that in 1894, after he had been ap pointed administrator for Charity Ewing. he sought an accounting with Captain Coney, who has been her legal legal advisor and business man ager for some time. Coney turned over the papers relating to her busi ness ventures and admitted to the witness that he owed Charity Ewing about $100. Later Judge Ferry dis covered that Coney owed her some more, about $1,250 in all, and brought suit against Coney to collect the sum. Five hundred of this, admitted to be the money belonging to Charity Ewing. had been loaned on a note to General J. K. Hudson, who gave a mortgage on three Highland Park lots as security, and the remainder to one Meyer Myers on similar security. It appeared, from the testimony, that Captain Coney had assumed these two notes in his own name for collection, and not for the purpose of robbing the widow. Judge Ferry testified that he did not see anything crooked in Coney's actions. In the, "Coney of Kansas" circular, the subject of this prosecution, Coney is charged with having "robbed" this Charity Ewing of her money. The next witness heard was Captain J. S. Collins, custodian of .the state house, who testified that Ed G. Moore, one of the defendants, had previously attacked Captain Coney's honesty, stating that he was unfit for the posi tion of department commander of Kansas. W. L. Roney, one of the old soldiers whose name appeared as signatures to the "Coney of Kansas" circular." testi fied that his name was appended with out his knowledge or sanction, and that he did not know the author of the document. S. H. Hamilton of Barton county, another old soldier whose name was connected with the circular, testified that he knew nothing of the circular until a copy of the same was mailed to nim rrom topeka. Hamil ton refused to stand on his constitu tional rights, although there was a chance of making him a defendant, and told his story. Tillotson. attorney for the defense, obpected to Hamil ton's testimony on the grounds that Hamilton was an attorney for E. G. Moore, one of the defendants cited In the case. The court ruled that Hamil ton was the best 3udge of this ques tion, and unless he desired to take advantage of the constitutional pro tection, he was quallned to testify. It was 5:20 o'clock and grown dark when the x:ase was adjourned to 9 o'clock this morning, when the taking of testimnoy was resumed with Hamil ton on the stand. lied in Their Xight Clothes. SDrlngfleld. Mo., Dec. 4. Two hun dred students' of the Springfield Busi ness college fled in their night clothes from the dormitory of the college building early today when the build ing caught fire from spontaneous com bustion in the coal bin. Edward Boyd ston, a one legged student, dragged his trunk from the building and then went back after his crutches. No one was hurt. i HER STORY IS TOLD. Abbie Kice Completes Her Direct Testimony. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 4. When the trial of Charles E. Davis, charged with the murder of Dr. Rustin, was resumed this morning in Judge Sears' division of the district court Mrs. Abbie Rice again went on the witness stand. It is expected that the greater part of the day will be consumed in her examina tion, as the defense is making frequent objections notwithstanding the ruling of the court, which practically lets in Mrs. Rice's entire story as it has been so frequently told In the previous hear ings. The state has 12 more witnesses, so it is hardly expected that it will be ready to rest Its case today and it is likely that the defense will not begin introducing testimony before Monday. The court room was again the scene of a crush of spectators today requir ing the constant alertness of the bailiffs to prevent interruption of the proceed ings. The question pending when the court adjourned yesterday was allowed to be answered. Mrs. Rice said that Dr. Rustin told her that he had secured a man to kill him and that she would not have to do the deed. She told of Dr. Rustin calling up a drug store to secure aconite on the afternoon before his death. She told of the visit of Davis to the doctor's office during the afternoon. She told of her visit to the doctor's office at night during which Davis came. Meantime the doctor showed her a bottle of poison which he said he was preparing for Davis who, in exchange for it, was to kill Dr. Rustin. During Davis' second visit to the of fice while he was temporarily absent from the room witness said she tried to dissuade Dr. Rustin from dying but he declared that it must be that night. She said Dr. Rustin explained to her his plan of sending Davis to the vicin ity of his home. She left the office after 9 o'clock that night, going to Meyer Dillon's drug store and later walking on Farnum street near Six-, teenth waiting for Dr. Rustin. She saw the. latter approach accompanied by Davis, who boarded a westbound car after which Dr. Rustin Joined her and they walked to Fortieth and Farnum streets. On the way Dr. Rustin told her his plans were all made. Arriving at Fortieth and Farnum she said she saw Davis standing on the sidewalk. Dr. Rustin here left her for his home, which was near and she shortly after wards took a car for her boarding house. Before leaving her Dr. Rustin told her to wait a little while and if he found Davis would fail him he would return to her. She did as directed, taking the third car that came along. She went to Clara Gleason's place at Twelfth and Douglass streets, where she lived, and telephoned twice to Dr. Rustin's home, and was told that he was not at home. She arrived at the Gleason home about 20 minutes after midnight. After 5 o'clock next morn ing she called the Rustin home again but did not learn of the shooting until she read it In the newspapers later. Here-the witness was turned over to the defense and the cross examination began. The cross examination of tne wit ness was apparently almost perfunc tnnr nlthoueh in some instances It seemed to bring out contradictions to the testimony of other witnesses. At no time wan the witness in the least embarrassed nor did the opposing at torneys seem desirous of causing her any disquietude. It was announced that the state expects to finish before adjournment today. SUIT IS STOPPED. Prosecution' of Standard Oil in Ohio Ends Suddenly. Findlay, O., Dec. 4. Standard Oil company prosecutions In this county fame to a sudden termination today. when at the request of Prosecuting Attorney David, all the indictments against the company were nolle prossied. Prosecutor David's action resulted from the fact that alleged illegal prac tices that he sought to correct have, it is declared, all been eliminated, and further that suits against the Stand ard Oil company are now being prose cuted by the attorney general of the United States, the attorney general of Ohio and the federal courts of Mis souri. MESSAGE ON TUESDAY. It Will Not Be Read on First Day of the session. Washington, Dec. 4. The president's annual message to congress will be read to the second session of the Six tieth congress next Tuesday instead of Monday, the opening day of congress, according to the plan announced. The senate will adjourn Monday out of re spect to the memory of Senator Al lison, immediately after appointing a committee to wait on the president and after the new members are sworn in. Speaker Cannon said that the house also would adjourn in the same man ner. BOOKS AT $10,000 EACH Sale of Ijortl Amherst's Library At tracts Many Buyers. London, Dec. 4. The dispersal sale of the famous library of Lord Amherst of Hackney, one of the greatest book sales of modern times, attracted biblio graphers and collectors from all parts of the world. This magnificent collec tion was brought together during the past half century at a great cost In money and labor, and It Is being sold in consequence of financial losses sus tained by Lord Amherst. At a private sale 15 fine Caxtons were disposed of. supposedly to J. Pierpont Morgan, but numerous treasures stiil are left and the bidding is spirited. The celebrated Mezarina Bible was sold to a London dealer for $10,250, while the Apocalypsis Joannis, an original block book of the Low countries, brought $10,000. This same volume was auc tioned at the Crawford sale In 1887 and brought $2,500. The sale will continue for three days now and will be re sumed for four days in March. At the Episcopal Bazaar. Auditorium, Full-Worth booth, many are leaving names for Gavltt's new perfume. Bring your name and ask to see the perfume. SHOWOFNRCE. Three Dutch Warships Make a Demonstration' Along the Coast of South Anier ican Republic. Fit 051 POKT TO PORT They Sail at a Distance of 3,000 Yards. Performance Is to Be Repeated at Other Points. Willemstad, Dec. 4. Three Dutch warships, the battleship Jacob van Heemskerk and the cruisers Friesland and Gelderland, have made a demon stration against Venezuela. Together they steamed yesterday along the coast from Puerto Cabello to Laguaira at a distance of 3,000 yards from the shore. The Jacob van Heemskerk returned here this morning. The cruisers are going to Maracaibo. where they will make a similar demonstration. The demonstration Is regarded as Indicating that preparations for an ef fective blockade of the Venezuelan coast are completed. It is reported here that the Netherlands battleship DeRuijter left Holland yesterday for this port. WANT A COMMISSION. Manufacturers StIU Insist on Their Plan of Tariff Revision. Washington, D. C. Dec. 4. H. E. Miles of Racine, Wis., chairman of the tariff committee of the National As sociation of Manufacturers, arrived in this city last night to appear on Sat urday before the ways and means committee of the house. He will ap pear, however, as an individual and not as a representative of the asso ciation. 'Mr. Miles is one of the larg est independent manufacturers of ag ricultural implements, carriages and wagons in the country. Mr. Miles agrees with President Van Cleave of the National Association of Manufacturers that in some form the preliminary work of changing the tar iff schedules must be put into the hands of a board or committee who shall go to the bottom of things, as he claims the ways and means committee can not do unless its members forego their other duties and in that way be come a special committee. Mr. Miles said that this means nothing else than the tariff commission which the man- ufacturers are asking for. He declares that great progress has been made during the past few weeks In demon strating, the utter Xutility and inade quacy of the old method. While the reports of consular agents to the house committee on ways and means, through the state department, on the cost of production In foreign countries of articles manu factured here are not as complete In most instances as Chairman Payne de sired, they all tend toward the estab lishment of one claim. That is, that the present cost of living to the Euro pean laborer Is woefully out of pro portion to the average wages paid. The comment about the big com mittee room concerning this feature of the reports is generally to the ef fect that the. attitude of the European governments is largely responsible for this condition. Representatives point to the action of Germany and France, in parlcular, in shutting out American cattle from their markets and In creasing not only the price of meat but indirectly the price of all agricul tural products, necessary for the la borer's subsistence. Another feature of the reports In that repeated statement that home manufacture of goods, so much com plained about by the American manu facturer because he is unable to com pete with this class of labor. Is giving way to factory labor. The introduction of improved machinery, frequently of Yankee Invention and design, has led to the building of factories and the growth of manufacturing centers. Still another frequent observation made in the reports of the consuls for the guidance of the committee Is the tendency of the European population to drift from the country to the towns and cities. A number report that this is not offset, as In America, by th shifting toward the suburbs, although there has been a rapid improvement in the electric railway service in Europe. DEFENDS THE RULES. Speaker Cannon Dlsmsse Work of the Committee. Washington, Dec. 4. "A piece of ma chinery necessary to assist the majority of the house of representatives whether it be Republican or Democratic In working its will," Is the way In which Speaker Cannon characterizes the house committee on rules. The speaker told of the necessity of such a com mittee and gave his reasons for believ ing the present fnethods of providing rules of procedure of the house are best. "The committee on rules," he said, "it composed of five, three Republicans and two Democrats. It has happened as often as there are fingers and thumbs on my two hands." continue 1 the speaker, in his expressive way, "that Mr. Dalzell or some other mem ber of the majority of the committee has unavoidably been absent from a meeting. In that case, with two Re publicans and two Democrats present, according to custom one of the Demo crats pairs with the absent member. With three members voting this gives the Republicans a majority vote, and this is as it should be that the majority can work its will. "There is- a general public belief due to a lack of knowledge, misapprehen sion and demagogic editorials, and press reports that the committee M rules issues an order to the house anj that it must. obey. The committee as rules does not wish to have defeated o the floor of the house any measure which it may present and as It should assist the majority to work its will th Republican members of the committee endeavor to learn sometimes, by cau cus or conference, what the desires of the majorities are."