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AIRSHIP WHICH HAD THRILLING EXPERIENCE Y ESTERDAT, AND INVENTOR, WHO WAS ON BOARD DRIVEN BY STOBM Huge Dirigible Swept Far From Course by Gale Too Strong for Its Motors. BALLOON IS NOT DAMAGED Attempt to Sail From Kriederlch shafen to Munich and Return Falls After Vessel. Has Been Out Eleven Honrs. VrXICH. April 1. Count Zeppelin, who landed safely In hla airship today, after a thrilling battle In the cloud with con trary wind. passed the night clone to where hla craft landed on a marshy tract. 4S miles northeast of Munich. He took up his quarters in the automobile of Count von Oberstadt, president of the Bavarian Automobile Club, which was especially built for camping out. As soon as it wa known that Count 7.eppelln had landed, troops hurried up from various sections to render assist ance. A battalion of Infantry and three squadron of heavy cavalry were the first to arrive on the scene. I-ater came the balloon corps from Munich, having with them aas and apparatus for the refilling of the balloon. If necessary. Great crowds of people flocked to the scene, and they remained near the air ship until long alter nightfall. High Prai.-ie for Zeppelin. Count Zeppelin's feat in safely landing In a gale that was Wowing about 35 miles an hour Lb highly praised by aeronauts who have tried the experiment, lie was desirous of returning to Munich to pass the night, but the wind Increased In vio lence and It was Impossible for him to do so. Count Zeppelin, however. Intends to re sume hie voyage early tomorrow morning and will make another attempt to land at Munich. The airship left Piiederichshafen early thl morning, and five hours later ap peared In the air over the outskirts of Munich. A distance of 111 miles was cov ered In the five hours. ' The Count left Friederiehshafen with the Intention of trying to sail from there to Munich and back. It was his intention to land here In the presence of the Prince Regent and the entire garrison of Munich, but in con sequence of the squally and Increasing wind the maneuvers were impossible. An attempt to land was made over the parade grounds outside the city, but as soon as it was seen to be Impossible the ship was lifted again. The Count then tried to re turn to Munich, but by this time the wind was so strong he could make no head way, and It was noticed that the airship was being driven sideways down the wind. "When the seriousness of the situa tion was realized troops were ordered out to follow the airship, and these prepared to render any assistance possible. Xo Relief in Height. The Count tried to overcome the resist ance of the wind by rising to a greater altitude, but this maneuver apparently was not successful, for the balloon was tlriven rapidly from the sight of the peo- imo or .m union in a northeasterly direc tion. At a quarter past 11. two hours after Its first appearance here, the airship was over Freyslng. The airship Is manned by Count Zep pelin, Mayor Sperling, several officers of the engineer corps, and a crew of sol diers from the balloon battalion of the German army. DOOM OF BALLOON'S INVENTED California Man Has Method to De stroy Dirigibles 10 Miles Off. LOS ANGBI.ES, Cal., April 1. The death knell of the gas-inflated dirigible airship as an Instrument of war has been sounded, according to C. W. Slroh a. inventor, who. it Is said, has devised a method of destroying a balloon at a dis tance of 10 miles. Mr. Sirch is keeping his method a secret, but he says that a single electric spark is sufficient to ex plode the strongest dirigible. He has pat ented a dirigible airship, which' he has no fear of being destroyed by electricity having abandoned both the hydrogen and Illuminating gas and utilized the hitherto novel Idea of heated air to inflate the vnteiope. Canada to llavo Aeroplanes. NEW YORK. April 1. According to t.lcnn H. Curtis, the aeroplane ex pert of Hammondsport. X. Y., arrange ments are under way looking to the nurchas hv K t-,ii .? - --..., i. Kuvernmeni of one or more machines of the Silver 1 ' H r f tVlie fhn-A t 1 . .... ' ' aiau & prODaDliltV that the Silver Dart will be shinned . ,n. ...... .... icaia mere, under th supervision of English army officers EDITOR CHARGES LIBEL FREMONT OLDER SEEKS AR REST OF VXIOX MEN. Complains That They Circulated Re. ports That Ho Conspired to Bring On Car Strike. SAX FRANCISCO. April l.-Warran wer 1 1 wi i .i. i t ... i .. . v. . . , ivx- me arrest or James; M. Bowling, former secretary and . ..l, n iiw mn rTancieco branch of the Carmenja T'nlrt., i c . ... , . - " r. r. ijnvmson, said to be another union leader, upon charges of criminal libel. The com plainant is Fremont Older, editor of the ..u-u tsowung and David son of circulating reports to the effect that Ol (! I- inn.nl . 1 , w . . 1 ' 1 xuaoipn Spreckeis to bring about the streetcar It Is further charged that Bowling - ' ut me i trlct Attorney's office affidavits tendl Bupiwr, jus cnarge or conspiracy. Bowling was arrested late todav. m x - - - t- r- Llng FERTILIZER TRUST NEXT? J. I. Morgan C. Rack of 50, 000,000 Combine. ' rv . April I. ir was an. nounred today that efforts to consolidate or me independent fertiliser com panies In the South Into a KM.000.ON cor poratlon. had been virtually oomr.leri.rl ii Is expected that articles of Incorporation win oe iiioa at AlOany shortly. It l, tinaersioon mai j. r". .Morgan Co. will act as ananciai agents of the. company. SSf "'-J' tSCV it ,5LLws ; j - w 1 -s-psssssg " i? Ii L The Advertisement of OLDS, WOR TMAN & KING Usually found on this page, appears today on pages 12 and 13, We have such a host of good things to tell you of that it takes two full pages to hold the story. Read all of this big announcement, every word of it two pages that fairly bristle with bargains BIB QUESTION AT STAKE SUPREME COCRT ASKED TO DE CIDE DELICATE MATTER. Circuit Courts May Be Placed on Same Footing as Highest Tri bunal by Decision. WASHINGTON, April 1. The Gov ernment Is preparing to ask the Su preme Court to decide whether appeals may be taken from state courts to the United States circuit Courts of Appeal. The question Is raised in the case of Anton Hansen Haug, a subject of the King of Norway. Haug filed a petition for naturalization in the Superior Court of King County, Washington. The Government intervened with the contention that as Haug was an alien, papers could not be issued to him. The King County court denied a mo- PRIEST HAD FAITH Father McMahon Believed Fi delity Funding Plan Safe. WILL LOSE ALL IN DEALS Attorney for Bankrupt Concern Saj-3 New Developments In Affairs of ' AVrecked Kleran Company AV111 Create Sensation. , x. famer wuiis McMahon. whn fHn.l will v...i . . --. - ---'- - urn vii ununi ujjicy in the federal Court here Wednesday as a u mo enterprises lathered by P. J. Kleran, president of the Fidelity Fund ing Company, maintains that if Kieran had been successful in securing all the "ccueu 10 iioac nis scnemes everything would have come out all right. ' ' T had fmu t c ; .1 i .. i. .. - v-..iutui.0 .i, mo UUlllLy of Mr. Kieran." said Father McMahon to- uay, oui ne am not get all of the monev from the banks that he neerieri anil fail ure was the result. "I first AllKnecterl T." - Ki . . . . ...II 0 (JiajLB were not working out well when T hunt that he was paying large bonuses on loans. He often paid a bank a bonus of from 25 to 30 per cent of the face value of the note upon which the loan was ob tained, m one instance he gave a banker a single bonus of $50,000." P. T. Brady, counsel for Father Mc Mahon, says the Inside of the transactions of Kieran have not yet been shown, and startling developments may be expected Fathpr MpXTahAn -will . , . t u nothing left but his salary of $900 a year ii no is aeciarea a bankrupt. BRYAN THUNDERS LOUDLY Continued From First Page.) defeat of Congressman Goldfogle, Chief Murphy got Interested, and had a long discission with the Indignant Sulzer. It Is understood that the East Side repre sentative was earnest and emphatic. He disclaimed any personal animus, but de clared that the action of the local rep resentatives was bound to wreck the Dem ocratic party. Outcasts From Party. "We are outcasts now, so far as the Xatlonal organisation is concerned," Mr. Sulier said. "Everybody at Washington calls Tammany Hall a Republican annex. It Is bound to have an effect upon thou sands of loyal Democrats In this city, and will make mighty rough going for us when the time comes to elect McClellan's successor." Mr. Sulxer also said a lot of other things, and some of them did not please the Tammany boss. In fact, the two men parted on the worst possible terms, and the report has been spread broadcast that "this will be Billy's last term at Wash ington." Of the ten Democrat's, only two followed the leadership, of Champ Clark, of Mis souri. Mr. Sulser's associate is William Wlllett. Jr.. of Far Rockaway. who is a member of the Queens County organiza tion, and consequently free from Tam many dictation. The fact that Patrick H. McCarren and Charles F. Murphy Joined hands in this fight has been & source of surprise to persons on the outside. These two great leaders have been trying to cut each oth er's political throats for years, but they lined up their men under the leadership of Representative Fitxgerald. of Brooklyn, when the time for action arrived. There Is no real mystery as to how or why this was done. The Evening Post. In an Inter view, quotes Mr. Murphy as saying:" "And, say, Tammany is a corporation, ain't it? So Is McCarren; why shouldn't corporations all stand together?" Deal With Sugar Trust Senator McCarren has been the political agent of the sugar trust for years. Every body knows it. Even Mr. McCarren will not attempt to deny it. Naturally, the sugar trust Is Interested In the tariff bill now under consideration in Congress. Mr. i McCarren anl Mr. Murphy had votes that were needed. Nobody imagines for a mo ment that these votes were delivered on any other terms than "for value re clved." John J. Fitzgerald, the leader of the Democratic insurgents, is one of the. most demoted adherents of Mr. McCarren. With his chief he has been kicked out of every convention that Mr. Murphy controlled. He was first elected to Congress In 1898, and has been re-elected every two years since. Although a brilliant debater and a man of brains and education. Mr. Fitzger ald has always "taken orders from the organization." and has made no bones about admitting It. ' Bryan Men Indignant. Numerous "indignation meetings" have already been held in his Congressional district, and in other parts of Brooklyn, and the action of the local Democratic Representatives denounced. Some of the original Bryan men are beginning to take an interest in the matter, and are now mapping out a plan for a thorough anti Tammany campaign next Fall. One of the leaders in the movement said today: "The only salvation for the Democratic party is to drive Tammany" Hall out of power, lammany is not Democracy. In fact, it Is a discourager of Democracy. We who ro 7 Wi . ct aH . vote for Tammany candidates in local and state elections, and when a National elec tion rolls around, Tammany gaily knifes our Presidential nominees. "Personally. I believe the election of an anti-Tammany Mayor would be a Demo cratic triumph. Murphy runs the organi zation and casts its votes whichever way It will benefit him most. He has made a fortune out of politics, and it is about time that he and his corrupt organiza tion were retired." Tammany men profess to laugh at the "revolt" of straight-out Democrats. Mr. Murphy will not discuss the matter for publication, but one of his lieutenants said: Clark Is Tool of Bryan. "The split at Washington was a very g-ood thing. From the way some people talk, one w-ould imagine that the only Democrats who fought Champ Clark were Tammanv men o n ri tv.- . i. , - . ...... -7 UICU US they did because they were ordered to do so. The delegations from Massachusetts and Georgia joined in the fight, and so did Congressmen from other parts of the country. The facts are that the break Is a notice to Bryan that he must step down and out, and let somebody else -run thine. We oi-a .iii- j i j, - - - ' ' ui ueins lea to defeat year after year, by the same "Champ Clark takes his orders from Lincoln. I am only surprised that he hasn't had a wireless telegraph outfit In stalled in the Democratic cloakroom. As it is. we are not far from It now. "It has always been a popular cry to charge Tammany Hall with dishonesty and corruption, but Democratic leaders forget that New York is the only reliable Democratic city in the North, and that it has been made so by Tammany methods. "The action of our members meets with the approval of the bulk of their con stituents here. These chaps who are rais ing a hue and cry are the same old sore heads who shoot off their mouths, year in and year out. None of them has any influence, and the majority -of the gang lack sense enough to register and vott. Before election day the people will have forgotten all about them." WILL DIE FASTING Lebeau, .Condemned Murder er, Also Sheds His Shoes. HAD FEAST AND CHAMPAGNE Montana Prisoner Has Spent His Time Working on Inventions, , All Rights of Which He Deeds to Sheriff. KALISPELU Mont.. Anril 1 Rln. partaking of a feast of roast duck and cnampagne 12 hours , ago, Frederick Le beau, the condemned murderer, has fast ed. He says he will go to his doom tomorrow morning without partaking o food. Lebeau removed hi .m.. - daring that he did not want to "riie'witK his shoes on." Lebeau has asked Sheriff iicionneu personally to spring the traD Which tha Sheriff Va. a . .a. Lebeau also requested the Sheriff to act as pallbearer. In cnn-tun.tinr, nut, u.. Senator Thomas D. Long, a resident of Kalispell, and four other men, whom he names. He has asked the Sheriff tn that his grave is heaped high with flowers. ' Lebe&u received nhniit inn AoiiA.- j . w ,u..vii o uuijr. Apparently his greatest regret is that he has had Insufficient time to complete a number of inventions started during his imprisonment, all rights to which he has deeded to the Sheriff. tion to this effect, whereupon tha United States District Attorney pre sented to that court a petition for a writ of error to the Cntted States Cir cuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, on the ground that the case lnvplved a Federal statute. The petition -was granted, but with out deciding the case the Court of Ap peals . certified a question to the Su preme Court in which that court was asked whether the Federal Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review an order of a state court in a naturaliza tion case. If the question should be decided in the affirmative. It would give the Cir cuit Court of Appeals the same stand ing in their respective circuits that the Supreme Court itself has In the country at large. The Court of Appeals also asks the Supreme Court to determine the question as to whether, under the Federal law, an alien minor can prop erly make application for naturalization. Cuban Town Is Burned. SANTIAGO, Cuba. April 1. The town of La Maya, 20 miles north of this city, was practically destroyed by fire today." CHICAGO BUILDERS TIED . . . u .-u tr. luiaua iiom in Strike. CHICAGO. April 1. A tie-up in build ing operations which were given a first blow by the walkout of the tilelayers and glaziers March 1 was made more complete today when about 1000 union stenmfitters and elect-lclans went out on strike as a result of a refusal of their demands for Increased wages. ! Unless the new strikes are settled I within a few days. It Is declared, demor- ! allzatlon of building in Chicago this Sum- i mer win be threatened. t Grand Trunk Has Dow Rate. i MONTREAL, April 1. The Grand Trunk Railway put into effect today the new law requiring it to provide third-class ac commodations for travelers between Mon treal and Toronto at a 2c-a-mile rate, which was recently sustained by the Privy Council of England. No passen gers from Montreal, and only one from Toronto, took advantage of the low rate. AUianceat Trusts' Behest. Whether a McCarren-Murphy alliance at Washington means harmony In the coming city convention has not been de cided. The general belief is that the two great leaders joined hands in that one in stance, simply at the behest of some great corporations, and that they will continue their local warfare just the same., unless more influence is brought to bear upon them. Controller Metz. Mr. McCarren's enthu siastic ally, voiced the prevailing opinion when he said: "It is a long walk from Washington to ew Tork. and conditions that prevail in National politics are not the same as those that exist in the local arena." From which it might be inferred that, although Mr. Murphy's men take orders from Mr. McCarren's msn in runu the Tammany boss has shown no desire to aance tne ilerry widow waltz with the long Senator on the floor of the city convention. LORD NORTHLAND APPEALS With Mrs. Stirling He Seeks Relief From Court's Decision. EDINBURGH, April 1. Ird Northland and Mrs. John Alexander Stirling have lodged appeals against the d?crec of di vorce In favor of Mr. Stirling, handed down in this city last month by Lord Guthrie. IS SEE T GEORGIA ABOLISHES LEASE SYSTEM, TO THEIR JOY. Takes 1600 Men From Mines, Kilns and Factories to Make Roads for State. ATLANTA, Ga., April 1. At sunrise to day Georgia shook off the last rag of her convict lease system. The 1600 human beings were led from the mines, choking Kilns and damp factories into the sun light, from the control of harsh and often brutal taskmasters. Into the serv ice of the state. Georgia has no state penitenitary. For years her convicts have been sold to those' who would buy. The prisoners, most of them negroes now will work on the public roads. Though shackled and ironed, the con victs greeted the change with shouts or joy. Negro preachers were at most of the stockades and led the blacks In the impromptu praise services. Some con victs wept at leaving scenes which had been a part of their dally life for years The new system, it is believed, will Rot only Improve the health of the convicts but will assure Georgia the finest turn pikes in the South. PREFERS JAIL TO ALIMONY Roland II. Perry, Sculptor, Will Serve Six Months, Save $1000. NEW YORK. April 1. Because he refused, to pay his first wife's alimony to the amount of $1000. Roland Hlnton Perry, a sculptor and painter, was com mitted today to Ludlow-atreet Jail for six months. By going to prison Perry Is relieved of the alimony obligation, or at least of further Imprisonment as the penalty for failure to pay. as the state laws provide that six months is the limit of jail confinement for the delinquency. In 1908 Perry was divorced from Irma Hlnton Perry and later married Mrs. May Hanbury. of San Diego. Cal. He alleged inability to pay alimonv. as me oiorce court ordered. During the in jail his wife and theii 4-months-old son will live with ilr. i x-erry s motner trere. V '3'-sV iT"? J M y re unable to pro- t i , XN. - , ' " W V kindly advise us. Write WCCWX'i ' 'ltfj ft to-day for the Michaels- ':lJZrKi? VJrSSSSs V" if " n " ill ? 1 STERN Fashion Portfolio xSuUww5))I f -S it I i t ' I f Spring tyUit is free C" j 1 sl5ir V The True Inwardness of Clotting Value Ever hear of the vitals of a suit? Buying clothing is like buying a melon. If the inside isn't good. you lose. Be sure. Quality is more than skin deep. Don't gamble on looks alone. - Michaels-Stern Clothes will stand the probe. Cut em up. dissect 'em, analyze "em and you'll find conscience and capacity and extreme care in every thread and seam. That's why well dressed men all over the country wear i?lir4iad-gtent Clothes: because they give a clean bill of health for their 1 inwards as well as ' their " outwards." s I Cocoa F et c t No. 1 There are nine or ten spe cies of cocoa trees, the best being t he Theabroma Cacao, a name bestowed by Linnams, (the father of botany) and meaning "food of the gods. Cocoa trees grow over a wide tropical area, principally on tha American continent. The goodness comes not from the making, but from the cocoa. Tk - 5fca is good, because it is perfect and pure. Don V ask merely for cocoa ask for GhirardellPs. id o 1 fPk. El II