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TITE MORXTXG OREGOyiAS. fllUItSDAT, OCTOBER 20, 1910.' MRS. LAI BEGS CHANGE TO SLEEP Dynamite Suspect Is Kept Awake by Constant Questioning. PLOT KNOWLEDGE DENIED 19 Angele Potto Expect to Make More Within IVw llonn Sns pecta In San Franclaro Arc Also dourly Watched. hnS A.SGEI-ES. O-t. 1. -Too may Y p me In tnl roop for 100 years, b it you cannot e-et any more out of m. for I have told you everything I know." Thu wa all that a three-hour art -ministration of tii- third drarree could elicit today from Mrs. Belle I-arin. the lodctna-hixiiM- keeper who waa arrested eater. lay In San Kranclsco. on a war rant chars-Ins; murder In sympathy with t)e blowing up of the Ioa Angeles Tlmra. iierl(r Ilammel began the esamlna tlon of the woman loun after she waa plated in a cell thl" mornlnc. follow-1"- her arrival from taii I'rtnclnco. Tlien rami Ix-tecttve Fori and Captain Taul Klamtner. of the city detectlra bureau. Kach one subjected the woman to a rlctd examination, but through It all, according to the statements made br the ofnVers afterwards, she main tained her first assertion that she knew nothlnc of the Identity or the move ment of thm conspirators who de stroyed the Times and killed II of IU men. Mrs. Ijivln will be arraigned tomor ro Teaselem questioning by tha police have kept Mra. Lavln awaka over s neo ber arreet. mora than 14 biura aro. This was learned to nlKht when Jail attendants said that before the ordeal of examina tion was ended today she v as beggtoaT to be allowed to go to sleep. rollce- officials said tonight that tha arrest of one or more alleged conspira tors In this city waa expected In a few hours. At the same time It waa satd that another arrest probably will be made In an Kranclsco before tomorrow night. lira. Lavln wis arrested yesterday in Pan Francisco on a Jane Doe warrant charging murder In connec tion with tha dynamiting of the Los Angelea Times and brought to Los Anxelea today In custody of two fit-, fleers and waa locked In tha county taiL Arriving at :!. the party entered an automobile and were driven to tha county JalL Although tha newa of Mrs. Lavtn'a arrest waa widely published here today, t here waa no crowd either at the depot or at tha JaiL Only a lew newspapermen and photographers met tha officers and tha woman at tha laU. Tha officers declined to allow tha reportera to talk to Mra. Lavln and were themselves reluctant to give out Information about tha case. The wom an waa hurried to tha desk and booked en tha charge of murder and taken Immediately to a cell In tha women's department of tha JalL Mra. Lavln. shed no tears and showed no signs of breaking down. She walk ed firmly and quickly up tha steps to her cell. It was tha belief of those at th county Jail that Mm. Lavln had been brought hare to get her away from Influences In San Francisco and Induce her to tell what she knows about the man V. W. Schmidt or "Smithy." who roomed at her house, and who la believed to be the much wanted "J. B. Bryson" or J. B. Leon ard." or F. A. i'erry." It wan sur mised also that she may hava been brought hero to Identify some man who haa been arrested among tha two score or so taken to tha local jail and booked on suspicion, since tha Times disaster. ALLEGED ANARCHIST BOl'GHT San FraiK-iaro Police Think They Have Important Clew. SAN FRANCISCO. C-l- Oct It. Lo ral police activity In the Loa Angeles Times dynamiting case Is being concen trated on a search for a man known as D. Cap lan. an alleged anarchist, believed to bo the dark-skinned "William Capp." who played a prominent part In con. crallng the too pounds of dynamite found in a vacant house here. Caplaa Is said to be known to tha police In various cities of this country and Eu rope. He lived In a flat with W. P. Lawaon. a confessed anarchist, accord ing to the police, and from whom the Investigators learned thct Caplan dis appeared from t..e flat about October 1 and has not been seen since. It haa been learned that the suspect known as "Smithy" or "Perry." who was a member of the trio t at pur chased the dynamite at Gicitt. CaL. la supposed to be o-e kl. K. L'mith. a Kan sas City draftsman, who eama to San Kranclsco about eight months ago. Ha boarded at tha lodging faou e of lira. Belie Lavln. tha woman arrested hero yesterday In connection with the dyna mite rase, on a "Jane Doe" warrant, charging murder. John Lofthouse. a rablnet-maker who lived in the Lavln house, volunteered tha Information re garding "Smithy's luentlty. 0MAH4 GAINS 21 PER CENT Xaehvllle Census Show Bulge of St,4t9 Over 1900. WASHINGTON. Oct. it. Population atatistlcs of the 12th census were Issued tn.lrht fur the following eltlea Omaha. Neb.. i:.0i. an Increase of tl.itl or :i per cent over 101.553 In 100. CI. nnukt. Kh Sfi ?&9l an inereaa of s: or 1 per cent over 16.001 In 100. Zanesvllle. O.. 3S.02C. an Increase of 4t or lt.l per 'cent over 23.53$ In 100. Nashville. Tenn.. 110.3(4. an Increase of 79.49). or It -i per cent over 10.3(5 In ltOO. Columbus. Ind.. fill, compared with 1130 in ltOO. Oak Park. TU-. lt.444. Shenandoah. Fs 15.774. an Increase of 5443 or - per cent ovtr 10.321 In 1900. Norrlstown. Pa I7.75. an Increase of 5(10 or 15. 1 per cent over 23.2(5 In 1900. HOMESTEAD FILINGS WIN Prior Right to Aspen Lake Claims Conceded by Land Office. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Oct. IS. (Spe cial.) The homesteaders hava won In their first contest with tha timber men over whJUi fcii oaa lis jeceaUy -opened timber land In the A -pen Lake coon try. Tha Lekevlew Land Offlce holds In favor of the homesteaders. Eighteen quarter sections were thrown open for settlement July 1. Before mid night preceding tha date of the opening. Is men were lined up Just over the line of tba opened land, and at the stroke of 11 each man stepped onto his chosen quarter section and posted his notices of Inten tion to file. A month later these men went to tha Land Office at Lakevtew to file, rpon their arrival at the Land Office they were told by the Register that each of tha claims had been filed on by others as a timber claim. The timber men had stolen a march by appearing at tha land Office before the date of filing and registering their names. Bach morn ing at 10 o'clock these men lined up at tha office in turn, and the roll was called to see that all were present, and the first IS who answered as called each morning up to the date for accepting the filings received the preference and their filing fees were accepted for the land as tim ber clalma. To thla the homesteaders demurred, asserting prior rights by vir tu of having posted location notices and made Improvements with tha Intention of living on the land. ' The decision giving the homesteader the preference over the timber locator and his filing has Jut been given. PQTHiER TO BUN AGAIN RHODE ISLAND GOVERNOR NOM INA!" KD XK THIKD TERM. Jtcpobllcan Convention Penlrs That Tariff Has Increased Com of Single Necessity. FROVIPFTiCE. R. I, Oct. 19. Oovernor Polhler waa renominated for a third tenn bv acclamation at the Republican state convention held here today. All the other state officers were unanimously renomi nated. Tha ticket follows: Oovernor. Aram J. Pothler: Lieutenant-Governor. Zenas W. Bliss; Secretary of State. J. Fred Parker: General Treasurer, Walter B- Greenough. The platform waa adopted without op position. It Indorses President Taft and the Payne-Aldrlch tnrlff bill. Of the tariff It says: "Duties have been decreased on over (00 necessities, while Increasing the duty on 6:0 articles, largely luxuries. "The maximum and minimum provision has Insured tha entrance of our ex ports to foreign markets on terms as favorable as thoae granted to any other nation and tn accordance with which Important agreementa have already been made. The new law has changed In a single year a deficit of 16S.0C0.00O In our annual revenue, to a surplus of $:0.000. 000. A tariff board haa been created for tha scientific study of tariff sched ules. With Its textile Industries. Its Important Jewelry Interests and Its large variety of miscellaneous manufac tures, no state in the Union la mora Intereated than Rhode Island In an ade quate tariff to protect tta labor and capital from ruinous foreign competition. Even the threat of reduction Is sure to produce a great disturbance In our ac tivities and we protest against any fur ther tariff revision until the newly cre ated tariff board has had an opportun ity to furnish Congreea the data for Intelligent action. We deny emphatical ly that the tariff haa raised tha price of any artlclea of the common necessities of life. "Tha election of Republican members of Congreea la absolutely necessary to maintain protection for American labor and tha continued prosperity of Rhode Island Industries." Discussing state Issues, tha platform advocates the submission to the peo ple of a constitutional amendment pro viding for biennial elections to state offices, the immediate establishment of a State Department of Taxation and such fundamental changes In tha rev enue lawa of the state as will distrib ute tha burdens of taxation. Regret for the retirement of Senator Aldrich Is expressed. Tha Republicans of tha First Dis trict unanimously renominated William P. Sheffield for Congress. In tha Sec ond District George If. Utter, a former Governor, was nominated on the first ballot to succeed Andy B. Capron. who declined to run because of III health. FIVE BISHOPS CHOSEN EPISCOPAfc CONVENTION ADDS TO HEADS OP CHURCH. Chins and Southwest to Have More Care Petition From Bollard, of Loa Angeles, Referred. CTNCTNNATL O.. Oct It. Tha house of bishops of the triennial convention of the Protestant EplscoreJ Church today elected five new bishops and one mis sionary bishop, but announced that the namea of those selected would not be made public until tha report la aent to tha bouse of deputies tomorrow morning for ratification. The new bishops will have charge of the dioceses of Wyku, China; Eastern Oklahoma, Northern Texas, San Joaquin, CeO, and Arlxona. A new missionary bishop to take the place- of Bishop Graves, of Kearney. Neb, waa also chosen, but hia name will be withheld until tomorrow. A "petition of right" was presented to tha hpuse of bishops today by Rev. Will iam Bollard, of Loa Angeles, who waa Inhibited from occupying a pulylt In Los Angeles. The house of bishops refused to take any action on Jha caae and re ferred It to the bishop of Los Angelea. The last Joint session of the house of bishops and the house of deputies took place thla afternoon, when church work In Mexico, Porto Rico. Brazil and Af rica weal discussed. ' AX IN BED, HER PLAINT AFTER FIFTH REPARATION, THIRD SCIT, WIFE TIKES. Walla Walla Woman Starts Proceed ings Again to Obtain Divorce Decree Cruelty Alleged. WALLA WALLA. Wash- Oct. It. (SpeclaLV-Flve times separated from her husband and having twice before be gun divorce proceedings against him. Mra. Rose Warren Elslcr, of this city, la now finally determined, she says, to be rid of her spouse for all time. She has filed her third divorce proceedings, alleg ing cruel and Inhuman treatment. She aka for the custody of her six children. 1X0 alimony and that the property they own be act aakie for the children. .They were married In Nebraska. Jan uary 1. 1SS. They separated Ann No vember 17. 1907. Then In June, 1906, she left him again nrd again In February. 1910. In May. 1910, she left him again and recently she deserted him again. She filed her first divorce suit In Aug ust. ISO, the second last Slay and tha third yesterday. She says that prior to their last sep aration her husband, John Elsler. drove her from the house and when she re turned slept all night with an ax be tween them in bed. IRRIGATION IS PUT INTO EFFECT Interior Department Makes Regulations Under Acts of Last Congress. LEAVE OF ABSENCE GIVEN Where Water Is Not Available, Set tler May Quit His Claim, Upon Compliance With Formali ties Prescribed. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Oct. 19. The Interior Depart ment haa Just completed regulations carrying Into active operation various laws passed at the last session of Con gress affecting settlement and settlers on Government Irrigation projects, there being four such acts, all signed by the President on various dates In June. 1910. Section 5 of the $20,000,000 Irrigation bill contained provision that no entryman may hereafter go upon public lands reserved for Irrigation un til the Secretary of the Interior has es tahllihml the farm unit and fixed the water charges and the date when water can be applied. Local land officers aro Instructed, In regard to this law. not to recognize any settlement on such lands mada after June 25. 1910, or to allow any entry thereof during tha period of their with drawal until the conditions fixed by the law have been compiled with. Kx- l.tln, antrD. mrm no affeeted ST thlS act. and where settlement waa made In good faith prior to June i on lanas embraced In second-form withdrawals, such entrymen may perfect their en tries. Leave of Absence Allowed. Another act signed June 15. grants 1 . K n homesteaders on Government projects. The Instructions relative to this law proviae in an entryman on a project files In the i.h4 nf f i- nnllrftdon for leave of absence, tha application, with rec- . .. - 1 al.- ommenaations oi me shall be forwarded at once to the Gen i t rtim ThM annlicatlons for leave must be In the form of affi davits, corroborated by two witnesses, and murt establish the good faith of tha entryman and set rorui in arum the character, extent and approximate value of the Improvements on the land, -huh mi,-t Mtisfv the reaulrement of tha law that the entryman has made substantial Improvements, and .must show also that water Is not available for the Irrigation -of the entryman s land. When sufficient showing is maae leave of absence will ba granted until u i atr la available for Irrigation Is turned into the main Irri gation canals irom wnicn mo to be Irrigated, or in the event that the n,ni la abandoned by tha Govern- . i i - Ae nnfli of innh UUlll . " . abandonment and tha restoration to the public domain of the lanas emoraceu in tha entry. Settler Is Protected. Tk. Lttm-t of r run tine- leave of ab sence under this law la to proteot the entry trora conicit iui and, by tha necessary implication of the act. the period of seven years within which the entryman Is required to sub mit final rive years prgon wn r ,i-,t mryA the entrv will not be sub ject to cancellation for failure to sub mit proof until seven years from the data or entry, exclusive oi me iji for which leave of absence ma be granted. Tba Instructions carrying out tha act of June 13. 1910. permitting entrymen on Government projecta to assign, read as follows: "Under tha provisions of this act persons who have made or may make homestead entries subject to the recla mation act may assign their entries In their entirety at any time after filing tn tha General Land Office satisfactory proof of realdenoe, improvements and cultivation for the five years required by the ordinary provisions of the home stead law. The act also provides for the assignment of homestead entries In part, but such assignments, if made prior to the establishment of -farm units, must ba made In strlot aooord anoe with the legal subdivisions of the publlo survey, and If made aftaa-such units are established, must conform thereto. Assignments Are Regulated. "Such assignments which shall be made expressly subject to the limita tions, charges, terms and conditions of the reclamation act. will be accepted by the local land officers, duly noted on their records, and forwarded to the General Land Office, and the assignees In each case will be allowed to submit proof of reclamation and make pay ment of the water right-charges as would tha original entryman. and after full compliance with the law will be given final certificate and patent." Tha fourth law covered by regnla tlona provides for the reappraisal and sale of unsold town lota on Govern ment projecta. being tha act of June 11. 1910. The lots to ba reappraised will not. from the data of order for reap praisal, be subject to disposal until offered for sale at the reappraised value, which offering will he conducted under the regulations providing for the publlo sale of lots In such townaltes. The lots so offered at publlo sale will then become subject to private aala at tha reappraised price. MANY IN DIVE PROFITS Seattle Graft Trobe Committee Said to Have Startling Information. SEATTLE. Wash.. Oct. 1. The City Council's graft investigating commit tee has obtained evidence which will be the basis of criminal action against several stockholders and business men alleged to have participated In tho profits from open gambling, accord ing to Information that leaked out to day. t , The committee has also unearthed the aecrets of the firm that operated the notorious Arcade Dance Hall. In the King-street district which was closed by order of Max Wardell. Act ing Mayor, during Mayor GUI's recent absence. The committee has learned that In addition to the two ostensible owners of the dance halt, several city officials and men well known In the business world were beneficiaries of the dive. : NEWS WRITERS FORM CLUB Pendleton Men Organize Press Clnb, G. A. Robblna President. PENDLETON. Or.. Oct 19. (Special) With a charter membership embrac ing every newspaperman in Pendleton, the Pendleton Press Club was organ ised at an enthusiastic meeting held in the office of the Dally Live "Wire tonight Officers were elected as fol lows: George A. Robbing, president; E. B. Aldrich. vice-president; M. R. Chess man, secretary-treasurer. A committee was. appointed to draw up a constitution and was instructed to report at a meeting next Monday. While the Press Club is quite -new. there are already a large number of applicants before the club fo- associate membership. The various candidates for county offices here are practically as a man desirous of becoming mem bers and the prominent business men of the city have s'gnlfied their desire of also' being enrolled witnin the ranks. It Is understood that the Commercial Club Is desirous of giving a dinner at an early date to the club. "KICKS" NOW NUMBER 300 Board or Equalization Hears Many ' Complaints on Valuations. The roimtv Board of Equalization al ready has over 300 "kicks- to consider -- ni-Atauii -nav be entered UD till 4 o'clock next Monday afternoon. Assessed valuations on which reductions nave not been aeked by that time will remain as they now appear on the rolls. The C. J. CooK mrapanj mi . Jn,fn from U00 to 337.000: uovn-nnt Rros A Wakefield from 3125.500 to 3105.000; Roundtree & Diamond, agents for the Sweeney investment i wupauj. from 3660.O00 to 36.000. and Closset & Devers from $117,300 to $103,300. Rountreo & Diamond say that the property occupied by the Dekum build ing, at the corner of Third and Wash ington streets. Is worth $305,000 and the building $145,000, County Assessor Siglcr .. a uflinoH Mia Ifind At 3315.000 and the building at $145,OfO. The building on lot . block 43. on the east side of Fourth street between Washington and Alder streets, was assessed at 3,uuu ana tney it mfiicei to X15.000. Thev have entered no objection to the valuation placed on tho lota, 31S5.000. COAL LAND GOT BY FRAUD Spencer and Hodgson Say Prominent Canadians Cheat Them. VICTORIA, B. C. Oct 19. Sensational chArges of fraud, conspiracy to defraud and manipulation of company accounts are made in the statement of a claim filed in an action begun here today by David Spencer, Jr., and Ephraim Hodg son against the Vancouver Island Tim ber Company, limited, of Victoria; John Arbuthnot of Victoria, ex-Mayor of Winnipeg; Luther Swishard, of New Tork: James P. Savage, of Victoria: John C. .McGavin, of Winnipeg: William J. Moran. of Winnipeg; the Pacific Securi ties Company, of Winnipeg, and the Pa cltlc Coast Coal Mlpes Company, limited, of Victoria.' Hodgson transferred coal land licenses and applications for licenses to the de fendants In March. 1908, and was to get 2430 shares In the Pacific Coast Coal Mines Company. limited, for them. He charges that the defendants are with holding the shares with intent to defraud him. He charges that the accounts of tha South Wellington Coal Mines, limited, have been falsified to make it appear that John Arbuthnot president of both companies, was entitled to $325,000 from of the alleged manipulation. CAPITOL DESIGNER HELD Philadelphia Architect Sentenced for Desk-Bill Fraud. HAKRISBURQ. Pa., Oct 19. Joseph M. Huston, of Philadelphia, architect of Pennsylvania's State Capitol, was today sentenced to imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than two years In the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadel phia. He was also fined $300 and costs. having been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the state by certifying a false bill for desks. Immediately after the sentence had been recorded, counsel for Huston took an appeal to the Supreme Court. He was released on $25,000 ball until the higher court acts on his appeal. - MONORAIL ROAD PROPOSED Cities of Puget Sound to Be Cnlted If Scheme Is Winner. niTireii Wnh Oct 19. (SDeclal.) Belllngham. Mount Vernon, Port Townsend. Irondale and port Angeies will be connected by a mono-rail rail road, according to articles of Incorpo ration offered for filing with the Secre tary of State. Owing to some defects the papers are being held up. Charles C. Gentry, Walter Strange and Arpad Tokay are the incorporators and the capital stock is placed at $7,- nnA AAA It la nronORAd to 1186 BOTeS monorail in connecting up the North western Washington towns mu no opposite sides of Puget Sound. ALL THOSE WHO ANSWERED THE REBUS CONTEST We Accept Piano Checks And Charge No Interest We Accept Piano Checks 33. . PROHIBITION FOE HERE REV. W. A. WASSOJf COJIES TO LECTURE IX STATE. Clergyman Says Only Way to Down Liquor Traffic Is for All to Stop Drinking. Hev. W. A. Wasson, of the Episcopa' dlocess of Long Island, who Is to de liver a series of,' lectures in the state under the auspices of the Greater Ore gon Home Rule Association, arrived In the city yesterday and is at the Im perial Hotel. Mr. Wasson wears hii.t clerical garb. He resigned as rector of Grace Church, at Rlverhead, a month ago, after spending eight years with that congregation. "I resigned that I might give my time and thought to true temperance leiorm along the lines of regulation and against prohibition," said Mr. Was son last night. "Prohibition is con trary to the teachings of the Bible and is also inconsistent with sound public policies. The people cannot vote in telligently on the issue presented in this campaign until they understand precisely what the question is that they are called upon to determine by their votes. The prohibitionists in this state, as everywhere else, have be fogged the whole issue and befuddle! the minds of many people by introduc ing into the discussion of the exclsa question matters that are entirely ir relevant to the real issue. 'It the Prohibitionists wish to wipe the liquor traffic oft the face of the earth there is only one way they can do It, and that Is by persuading every body to abstain from the use of liquor. Let everybody in the State of Oregon, ! who is. in the habit of drinking alco holic liquors give up drinking for one ! month and every brewer and distiller , and retailer would be put out of busi i ness. But when you prohibit the sup ' ply of liquor without lessening the de mand one iota, it is like attempting to dry up a river by building a dam. ' Howard Protests at Sale. ' R. S. Howard, receiver of the Title Gimrnntec i Trust Company, who ap- Read BRING YOUR PIANO CHECKS TO US We will accept them as part payment on any new piano in the house and we'll sell you the piano WITHOUT CHARGING YOU 'INTEREST We don't want all the PROFIT, but will share some with you. lush&fimt?. 3)hw0 In. r And Charge THE LADIES' and MISSES' DEPARTMENT of BEN SELLING Announces the arrival of LADIES' and MISSES' SUITS and RAINCOATS in NOVELTY EFFECTS MANNISH STYLES Imported Fabrics This department has more than doubled its capacity in the last week assuring prompt attention and deliveries. MODEST PRICES ALWAYS. : LEADING peared as an lntervenor In the suit of Frank R. Shinn and others against the Deschutes Irrigation Company , for the appointment of a receiver, yesterday asked Judge Bean, of the Federal Court, not to confirm the sale by the receiver of the irrigation company. Howard holds bonds In the company. His petition as an lntervenor was denied and he ap pealed. The appeal Is now pending. In the meantime the receiver of the Irriga tion company sold the property and filed its report with the court. Judge Bean haa the matter under advisement. Hercules to Begin loading. To begin receiving a large consign ment of flour, destined for ports across the Pacific, the Portland & Asiatic Steamship Company's liner Hercules will shift this afternoon from the Al bina dock to the flour mill. It is ex pected tnree or four days will be spent there before proceeding to Tongue Point to load lumber Sign on Tree Aids Engineer'. When notice was given the Corps' of Engineers, U. S. A., that a large tree trunk was projecting from the bank op posite Ash Island, on the Upper Wll lamette, a party from the Government When You Think Of the pain which many women experience with every month it makes the gentleness and kindness always associ ated with womanhood seem to be almost a miracle While in general no woman rebels against what she re gards as a natural neoossity there is no woman who would not gladly be free from this recurring period of pain. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription mates weak women strong and sick women well, and Aires them freedom from pain. It establishes re&olartty, subdues inflam mation, heals alteration and cures fe male weakness. Sick women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter, . : ...I.. n , mnA aaeredlv Jree. All corresponucucc .u.uj " . , . kir 'u. r-.- , confidential. Write without fear and wtthout fee to World's Dispensary Med-; ical Association, R. V. Pierce, M. D., President, Buffalo, N. Y. If you want a book that tells all about woman's diseases, and bow to cure them at home, send 21 one-cent stamps to Dr. Pierce to pay cost of mailing a, and he will send you a fret copy of his great thousand-page illustrated Common Sense Medical Adviser revised, up-to-date edition, in paper covers. In handsome cloth-binding, 31 stamps. " This! - m . .sr 'v No Interest , . asJ. -Saw CLOTHIER snagboat Mathloma visited the scene and blew out what they supposed to be the obstruction referred to, but which proved to be on the other side ef the stream. Yesterday the crew of the steamer Ore gona posted a sign on the tree and In formed the engineers how to get their bearings. The outer end of the tree was blown off sometime ago, but the bank caved In this season, exposing the end, which navigators regard as dangerous. ELKINS FAILS TO RALLY West Virginia Senator May Now Be on Deathbed. ELKINS. "W. Vs., Oct. 19. Friends of Senator Stephen B. Elkins are much concerned over his failure to rally from the illness which held him at home last Summer. It Is reported he is suffering from a nervous disease, which is said to be ncar Ing a critical stage. Mrs. Elkins, Miss Elkins and Blaine Elkins are at home. The exports from Australia of rabbit skins to the United States have nearly doubled within a year. We Accept Piano Checks And Charge No Interest .We Accept Piano Checks