THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 13, 190G.
DEATH COMES TO
SHftFTER'S RELIEF
Pneumonia Proves Fatal to
General of Cuban
Campaign.
COLD CAUGHT AT ELECTION
Doctors Decide Operation Would Be
Fatal 'and Leave Brave Veteran
to Fight Losing Battle.
Career In 'Two Wars.
BAKERSFIELD, Cal.. Nov. 12. Major
General William Rufus Shatter. United
States Army, retired, died at 13:42 P. AI.
today at the ranch of Captain V. H. Mc
Kittrick, hie son-in-law, 20 miles Bouth of
this city, after an Illness of seven days,
despite the best medical attention in Cal
ifornia. While returning from the polls last
Tuesday, he contracted a severe chill,
which .augmented a slight Indisposition
and necessitated confinement to his bed.
Br. T. W. Mitchell, the local family phy
sician, was at once summoned. The pa
tient failed to improve, and Dr. A. Scha
fer was called for consultation. Intestinal
obstruction was discovered, but It was
determined that this was a secondary
affliction brought on by an acute attack
of pneumonia.
Doctors' Efforts Vain.
Wednesday and Thursday no Improve
ment was noticed and Friday afternoon
Dr. M. H. Herzstein, of San Francisco,
was communicated with, but as he was
unable to depart at once. Dr. I. W.
Thome was despatched In Dr. Herz
stein's place. Dr. Thome arrived early
Saturday morning and, together with the
local physicians, diligently watched the
patient all that day. In the afternoon a
Flight rally was detected and ' relatives
and physicians were extremely hopeful,
but the change was short-lived. At 10
o'clock a sinking spell seized the veteran.
Dr. Herzstein arrived shortly after
midnight Saturday night and a consulta
tion was held with the other physicians
Jn attendance. It is stated that Dr.
Herzstein deemed an operation the only
means of relief from the intestinal ob
struction, but the condition of the pa
tient would forecast nothing but fatal
results in such an attempt. Dr. Herzstein,
accompanied by Dr. Thorne, returned to
San Francisco, all hope of saving the
gallant war hero Slaving been abandoned.
Hope of Kccovery Given Up.
The patient was left in charge of Dr.
Mitchell and the battle against desperate
odds continued. Through It all the vet
eran bore up bravely. Always cheerful
and hopeful, his mind clear and cognizant
of his critical condition, the patient re
mained conscious until 9 o'clock this
morning. Pure oxygen sent from San
Francisco performed a great work in
keeping life up, but after midnight and
early this morning a constant weaken
ing was discerned. Dr. Mitchell and the
trained nurses labored untiringly, but
the General lapsed into unconsciousness
t 9 o'clock and remained in that condi
tion until death.
Captain and Mrs. W. II. McKittrick,
the General's son-in-law and daughter.
Miss Carrie Redmond, a niece, and Mrs.
Courtright and James N. Shatter, a
brother, were at the bedside when the
end came.
Will Have Military Funeral.
The body of Major-General Shafter will
leave this city on Wednesday evening at
7:30 on the Santa Fe California Limited
train and, upon arrival at Point Rich
mond the next morning, will be placed
aboard a Government tug and escorted
by military officers to the Presidio at San
Francisco. Interment will be had in the
post cemetery immediately after arrival,
with full military honors. The body will
rest at the McKittrick ranch until
Wednesday evening.
William Rufus Shafter was born in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 16, 1835.
His father was a pioneer farmer, and
gave the boy as good an education as
the limited facilities of the frontier
town would afford. Young Shafter took
up the calling of farmer, and taught
school during the Winter months.
At the breaking out of the Civil War
lie enlisted in the Seventh Michigan
Infantry, and was elected a Hpcond
Lieutenant. In 1862 he was chosen
Major of the Nineteenth Michigan, and
in lb63 he was promoted Lieutenant
Colonel. In April, 1864, he was honor
ably discharged, his term of service
having expired. On the following; day
he received a commission as Colonel in
the Regular Army, and was assigned to
Hhe command of the. Seventeenth Infan
try, and in IStiti, the war having ended,
he was breveted Brigadier-General
upon his discharge. He again entered
the service in 1867, being commissioned
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-first
Infantry.
During- the Civil War Colonel Shafter
took part, among others, in the battles
of Fair Oaks, Savage Station, Glendale,
Malvern Hill and in the Southwest at
Thompson Station. After the battle of
Fair Oaks he was breveted "for gallant
and meritorious service." In 1879, when
in command of the famous First In
fantry, Colonel Shafter became famous
as an Indian-fighter.
The outbreak of the Spanish War
found General Shafter, now a brigadier.
In command of the Department of Cal
ifornia with headquarters at San Fran
cisco. He was ordered to Washington
nnd put in command of the army sent
to occupy Cuba, having under him such
noted division commanders as Lawton,
Wheeler, Hates, Lee and Kent, and
Colonel Roosevelt with the Rough
Riders.
Ho was In chief command of the
nrmy which fought the victorious bat
tles of Guasimas, San Juan Hill and F.I
Caney, and to him the Spanish garri
son at Santiago finally surrendered on
July 3, the day when the naval battle
of Santiago was fought. After the sur
render he returned with the troops to
Montana Point, N. Y., where he only
remained ten days, as he was placed
In command of the Department of the
Fast. In 1899 he returned to San
Francisco, where he remained in com
mand until his retirement as Major
General in 1901.
General Shafter owned the ranch in
'Kern County, California, where he died,
and was much interested in fruit cul
ture and cattle-raising. The station on
the Santa Fe Railroad at his ranch
bore his name, and quite a village Is
building up, a suburb of Bakersfield,
the county seat. The General was a
frequent visitor to San Francisco,
where he was prominent in social and
business circles, a member of several
clubs, notably the Union League.
General Shatter was a man of huge
physique, and was frequently Indis
posed in health. On several occasions
he became so ill that his death was re
ported, and during the Cuban campaign
he was prostrated, but through his in
riomltablo -will power so far over-
1 came his malady that he was able to
direct his army, sometimes from a cot
from which he was unable to rise. He
was a notable figure at Grand Army
reunions, and was always hailed by the
members of his former commands as a
hero of two wars.
$1,000,000 FORTHE JETTY
General Mackenzie Proposes Liberal
Oregon Appropriations.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. General An
drew Mackenzie, Chief of Engineers, has
reported to the Secretary of War that
$16,052,431 will be required to complete the
engineer work upon the fortifications pro
jected by the board, convened under the
President's order of January 31, 1905. Dur
ing the year, the number of guns avail
able for service was increased by the ad
dition of eight mortars, four 12-inch guns
and 94 rapid-fire guns, so that altogether
the status of the emplacements for which
Congress has appropriated funds was 376
12-inch mortars, 105 12-inch guns, 133 10
lneh guns, 99 8-inch guns, and 687 rapid
fire guns. For continuing the construction
of gun and mortar batteries an estimate
of $4,247,400 is submitted; for modernizing
old emplacements, $342,500 and for fire
control engineer works, $1,564,834. For the
purchase of sites for fortifications to car
ry out the plans of the defense board, an
estimate of $3,310,500 is submitted, and for
searchlights and connections, $2,987,700; for
preservation and repair of fortifications,
$300,000; supplies for seacoaet defenses,
$40,000; sea walls and embankments, $326,-
y TVf. j
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:
The I Jit General W. R. Shafter.
315; preservation and repair of torpedo
structures, $50,000; submarine mines, $1,-
3o2,819; construction of batteries, insular
possessions, $2,303,000, $250,000 going to
Guantanamo Bay, $350,000 to Honolulu and
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: $344,000 to Subig
Bay, P. I., and $1,359,000 . to Manila, P. I.;
fire control at batteries In these stations,
$752,630; fortification sites, Hawaii and
islands, $276,100; submarine mines, insular
possessions, $3S2,500. -
General Mackenzie-states that the fol
lowing amounts stated, among others, can
be profitably expended during the next
fiscal year in the principal river and har
bor works, as follows:
Deepwater Harbor, San Pedro Bay, Cal
ifornia, $192,900; Columbia River, between
the foot of the Dalles and the head of
Celilo falls, $750,000; canal at the Cascades,
$105,000; Columbia and Lower Willamette
Rivers below Portland, $450,000; mouth of
the Columbia, $1,000,000; Honolulu harbor,
Hawaii, $400,000; Mississippi River (Com
mission s estimates), head of passes to
the mouth of the Ohio, with salaries of
Commissioners, $3,000,000.
BUYS NO SILVER AT 7C CENTS
Shaw Says Price Is Too High and
Stops Purchase.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The Treas
ury Department today received offers for
the sale of silver to the Government at
72 cents per fine ounce. These offers
were rejected, and Secretary Shaw stat
ed that no more silver would be bought
at present high prices. The Government
has on hand, he said, silver enough to
keep the mints in operation for some
time to come, and he regards the pres
ent prices as too high to warrant the
Government in making any more pur
chases at those prices.
The Treasury Department began its
present purchases August 6, and since
that time approximately 6,500.000 ounces
have been purchased at prices ranging
from 65 1-6 cents to 71.92 cents per ounce.
METCALF COMPLETES WORK
Has Investigated Japanese Question
From Both Sides.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12. Secretary
Victor H. Metcalf, who has been in Cali
fornia, investigating alleged discrimi
nation against Japanese school chil
dren, has comoleted his labors and
leaves tomorrow morning for Washing
ton. During his visit Secretary Met
calf has conferred with the leading
educators of the state and with the
leading Japanese'as well, and has heard
arguments on both sides of the ques
tion as to whether special schools, aside
from the common schools, should be
maintained for the young Japanese.
Reports of his investigation have been
wired often to President Roosevelt.
Most Drunken Army In World.
CHICAGO, Nov. 12. The United
States Army is the drunkest in the
world, according to figures contained
in the report of Surgeon-General
O'Reilly, head of the medical depart
ment of the Army, which has just been
made public. Though General O'Reilly
does not state specifically that this
undisputed eminence has been attained
since the abolition of the canteen system,-
several commanding Generals
have made this claim. The report also
makes clear that many diseases from
which soldiers suffer are caused by
driving them outside of the post for
amusement
Must Pay Double Duty.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. In deciding
the case of the United States vs. George
Riggs & Co., of New York, today, the
Supreme Court of the United States held
that figured cotton cloth imported from
foreign countries must pay a specific
duty under paragraph 131' of the Dingley
tanrt law in addition to the ad valorem
duty required to be paid under para
graphs 306 and 307. The case was a
test one, and tne decision has been
awaited with much interest by both im
porters and manufacturers all over the
country.
Scio Passes Blue Law.
ALBANY, Or., Nov. 12. Hereafter a
man who gets drunk In the town of Scio,
Linn County, may be put to work on the
streets or fed on bread and water, accord
ing to the provisions of a unique ordi
nance passed by the Council of that town
last. week. Not content with living In a
"dry" county and having no saloons, the
iCouncllmen of Scio have adopted this nn
usual procedure in dealing with the liquor
question.
TO CURE A COM) IN ONE DAT
T.k LAXATIVE) BROMO Quinine Tablet
DrUKirists refund money If It falls to cure.
E. W. GROVE'S denature is oa each box. 25a
DISSOLVE THETRUST
Government Plan of Action
Against Standard.
WILL INVOKE SHERMAN LAW
Stock of Oil Octopus to Be Appropri
ated Among Constituent Com
panies, Which Must Make
No Contracts.
WASHINGTON, Nov.. 12. While no
authoritative statement could be obtained
in regard to the matter, there is good
reason to believe that the Government
has decided to institute proceedings
against the Standard Oil Company under
the Sherman anti-trust act with a view
of obtaining an order of the court dis
solving the company as it now exists and
restoring to .each of the 75 or 80 con
stituent companies its proportionate share
of the stock and also compelling the
observance of the law Inhibiting them
from entering into any contract, agree
ment or understanding with each other
with a view to maintaining prices on oil.
OHIO CONTINUES THE FIGHT
Moves to Oust Subsidiary Companies
of Standard Oil. - v
COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 12. Suits were
filed in the Circuit Court at ' Lima, O.,
today by Attorney-General Wade Hellis
against four subsidiary companies con
trolled by the Standard Oil Company, of
New Jersey, to prevent the further opera
tion of the alleged combination popularly
known as the Standard Oil Trust. The
companies named as defendants are the
Ohio Oil Company, the Solar Refining
Company, the Buckeye Pipe Line Com
pany and the Standard Oil Company of
Ohio.
The petitions ask the court to oust the
four companies from their assumed right
to permit their stock to be controlled by
the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
and that they be prevented from continu
ing their operations as auxiliaries of the
so-called Oil Trust. The suits are the
outgrowth of the recent trial of the case
against the Standard Oil Company at
rinoiay.
APPEAL AGAINST HOG KATES
Frye & Bruhn Say Northern's Ad
vance Is Prohibitive.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 12. Meatnackers
of the State of Washington have brought
an action before the Interstate Commerce
Commission against the Northern Pacific
and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail
roads, alleging tlfat these railroads have
raised the rates on shipments of hogs
from the corn belt states to Seattle,
Wash., to a figure that practically pro
hibits the shipment of hogs west.
the chief complainant is Frve & Bruhn.
Incorporated, operating at Seattle, which
concern alleged it would not be able to
continue business except for the fact of
having established an extensive plant
under favorable rates that had existed
for seven years. The continued existing
high rates, this firm says, would threa
ten it with bankruptcy.
DYNAMITE TRUST TOBACCO
Tennessee Night Riders Blow Up'
Three AVarehouses.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 12. The
warehouses of the American Snuff Com
pany, at Eddyville, Princeton and Fre'
donia, Ky., have been wrecked by dyna
mite. Two .of them were blown up last
night. The Eddyville warehouse was
blown -up early today. Citizens of that
place were awakened by the shock of the
explosion, which shattered windows for
a wide radius. Bloodhounds were secured
and followed the trail of the wreckers for
10 miles into Caldwell County. Several
months ago the trust warehouse in the
southern part of Kentucky was dyna
mited, and growers who vold tobacco to
the trust received warning messages from
the "Night Riders."
Drug Trusts Demurrers Heard.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Nov. 12 Oral
arguments on the demurrers of the de
fendants in the case of the United States
against the National Association of Re
tail Druggists and others was begun in
the Federal Court here today. The case
is commonly known as the suit against
the drug trust, and is brought under the
Sherman anti-trust law.
MISSION BOARD DEFEATED
S. H. Chandler's $1,000,000 Estate
Will Go to Relatives.
AUGUSTA, Me., Nov. 12. The Maine
Supreme Court today decided against
the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Mission, which contested
the will of Solomon H. Chandler, of
Portland, Me. Wrhen Chandler made
his will in 1896 he directed that his
estate, valued at $1,000,000 should go
to tire American Board, but in" 1902 he
wrote a codicil leaving his entire prop
erty to relatives.
The American Board contested the
codicil on the ground that when it was
added to the will the testator was not
sound in mind.
MURDER COLORED WOMAN
White Men Charged With Fiendish
Crime in Alabama.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Nov. 12. The
body of Annie Shirley, a negro woman,
was found at Pratt City this morning
with indications that she had been crim
inally assaulted after which she had
been murdered.
D. W. Sparrow, a guard at the state
convict prison, and L. G. Stovall, a
former guard, both white men, have
been held for investigation. '
It is said that cards and money alleged
to oelong to these men, were found near
the scene of the murder.
Discharged From Bankruptcy.
TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 12. The Iroquois
Theater Company, of Chicago, whose the
ater was destroyed by tire three years
ago, attended by great loss of life, was
discharged from bankruptcy today by
Judge Lanningin in the United States
Court here today. The company had lia
bilities of $2,000,000 and no assets.
Now Charged With Murder.
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 12. Lauero A'gu
irre, recently arrested In connection wrth
the alleged Mexican revolutionary move
ment here, has been rearrested on a
charge of "murder committed In Mex
ico," at the request of Mexican Consul
Mallen. Aaulrre edited a revolutionary
paper there.
Mail Orders Promptly
Filled at Sale Prices.
Send for Catalogue.
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Good Merchandise Only Quality Considered Our Prices Are Always the Lowest
Window Shades Made to
Order at Lowest Prices.
Wo Do Picture Framing.
Second Day Pre -Holiday Leather Goods Sale
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This is an extraordinary opportunity to buy your holiday presents at half holiday prices. The best leathers in the world have
been employed in the making of these goods, such as finest quality English seal, pigskin, Morocco, walrus, elephant and goat skins.
This is incomparably the greatest sale of leather goods of selected quality ever inaugurated in Portland.
Shopping Bags, to $3.00 values 1.98
$1.00 seal grain Letter Cases 6o
Real Alligator Purses, to $2.00 values. 98
$1.00 Walrus Leather Bags.. 69
$2.25 Leather "Writing Pads .81.50
Seal grain Music Rolls, only.......... 69J
$1.25 seal grain Letter Cases......... T56
$1.75 seal Letter Cases .81.23
90e French seal Card Cases 50
$1.25 pin seal Card- Cases 75
$1.95 seal Card Cases 1.25
$1.00 seal grain Bill Rolls. . . ; 50
$1.75 alligator Coin Purses jjjl.00
Pin seal Bill Books, special... 90
Solid seal Bill Books, special 81.48
Men's pigskin Coin Purses, special 48
Squeezer Coin Purses, special. 25
Pin seal Bill Rolls, special 75
Extra fine seal Bill Rolls, special 81.98
$1 seal and walrus Coin' Purses 48
Leather-covered Whisky Flasks, sp'l. 73 $
Leather-coveredJ Whisky Flasks, sp'l. 98
Real pigskin and Alligator Flasks 81.23
Pin seal Flasks, special $1.48
French Morocco Playing Card Cases.. 50
Seal grain Playing Card Cases 75
Morocco Memorandum Books, 25c and
Leatherette Engagement Books, sp 1
50
50
Genuine leather Telephone Books 50
Genuine leather Telephone Registers.. 75
Out and In Hangers, special 25
French Morocco Cigarette Cases, sp'l. 25
Calfskin Cigarette Cases, special 38
Pebbled goat Cigar Cases 81.23
Real seal Cigar Cases, special 48
Pocket Medicine Cases, special 89
Pocket -Medicine Cases, special 8100
Genuine leather Perpetual Calendars,
23c and .. 48
Large Desk Perpetual Calendars, sp'l. 75
Leather Penwipers, special
Leather case of Coat Hangers, special.
Five-piece Manicure Sets, special....
Pretty Imported Trinket Boxes, special
Solid leather Stamp cases, special....
Seal leather Initial Fobs, special
Large seal leather Initial Fobs, sp'l..
Mark Cross Monogram Pigskin Fobs. .
$2 grain walrus Shopping Bags
Desk Pads for office use, 65c and'
Sole leather Collar Cases, special....
Solid leather Work Boxes, special
Large seal Work Boxes, special
Collapsible Drinking Cups, special...
Seal Traveling Cases, special
Pegmoid leather Suitcases, special....
Imitation alligator Suitcases, special..
Keratol leather Suitcases, special
Cowhide leather Suitcases, special....
35
65
50
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25
25
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81.00
81.48
81.O0
75
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81.00
50
81.50
81.75
82.25
84.25
85.97
Regular $25 Long Coats, $12.95
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HE VERY BEST coat bargains of the fall is what we are claiming for these
smart ultra-stylish coats that we have gathered to sell at $12.95. They
meet especially the needs of the woman who wishes both style and economy
in the same garment, and the most critical judge will admit that they com
bine both of these sterling qualities in every way.
Theie Coat have been choen from Coats selling regularly to
$25.00, to sell in this ale for $12.95, in order to call attention to
our great stock of Women CoaU, in the greatest of coat year.
200 full loose back 50-inch Coats, of fancy plaids
and mixed cloths, in plain tailored and fancy
velvet and cloth' trimmed styles. Infinite variety.
Two or three of a kind only.
$12.95
$12.95
NEW JUMPER WAISTS
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Made like
to be
worn over
lingerie
blouses or
guimpes.
The only
real novelty
in dress this
season and
Mm now tne
rage in every 1'VJ-tern cityt where its
newness, smartness and beauty made
it an instant favorite. Made of ex
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The price
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JOIST COJIMITTEE CONSIDERS
MAKING IT ELASTIC.
Bankers and Congressmen Confer
and Reach General Agreement on
Principles Two Plans in View.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Gratifying
progress, according to the members, was
made at the meetings today of the com
mittees representing the American Bank
ers Association and the New York mem
bers of Congress who gathered here to
endeavor to agree on a measure for the
consideration of Congress giving author
ity to banks to issue emergency circula
tion in cases of financial stringency. The
meetings were presided over by President
A. B. Hepburn of the Chase National
Bank of New York City, chairman of the
bankers'- committee. and James R.
Branch of New York acted as secretary
Secretary Shaw, Controller of the Cur
rency Ridgely and United States Treas
urer Treat were present a portion of the
afternoon session and each of them ad
dressed the members. Without com
mitting himself to -any one plan, Mr.
Shaw told the bankers of his desire for
some reform in currency legislation
which, when put into practical opera
tion, will meet all the legitimate demands
of trade.
Two plans are being considered by the
bankers: One, proposed by the bankers'
committee, which contemplates the ap
pointment of a nonpartisan commission of
seven members of whom the Controller
of the Currency shall be one, to pass
on all applications by banks for permis
sion to increase their circulation: and
the other, advanced by the Chamber of
Commerce of New York, proposing to
make the Issue of credit currency auto
matic. Both plans have been discussed
very thoroughly by the banking public.
Today Frank A. Vanderlip and Charles
A. Conant, the representative of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, explained in
detail the scheme advocated by the
Chamber, the motives which Impelled the
members to advance it for consideration
and the good results which they believed
would follow its adoption. Following the
presentation of this plan there was a
general discussion of various motions set
ting out in principle the views of the
members introducing them as to what
should be recommended to Congress to
secure the reforms desired.
Votes were taken on the various pro
positions and the results, it is said, dis
closed general agreement of opinion on
the principles there declared for, which
gives hope to the members that some
form of recommendation to Congress may
be reached at the present sessions of the
committees. The sessions of the com
mittees are In secret and neither the text
of the resolutions nor the results of the
votes on them were made public. The
meeting adjourned at 6 o'clock until 10
o'clock tomorrow morning."
mittee in relation to standard forms of
policies and standard provisions for pol
icies will favor the' tandrdization, al
though the American Life Convention
adopted a resolution opposing it. It was
expected that the report would favor lim
iting investments of insurance companies
to bonds of the United States, or of any
county, city or town or duly organized
school district; to loan upon improved
unencumbered real estate " to an extent
not exceeding 30 per cent of the value of
the property.
It was planned that the report of the
committee shall be followed by the intro
duction of laws regulating insurance com
panies, which will take the place of the
Ames bill which was dropped some time
ago.
MAKES VACANCY ON TICKET
Administration Candidate of New
York Iiifo Is Dead.
NEW YORK. Nov. 12. Ewald Fleit
mann, of the firm of Fleitmann & Co.,
drygoods commission merchants of this
city, died at his home here today of
heart failure, aged 60 years. Mr. Fleit
mann was a trustee of the Atlantic
Mutual Life Insurance Company, a di
rector of the Germanla Life Insurance
Company and was a candidate for elec
tion as a trustee of the New York Life
Insurance Company on the administra
tion ticket- His death causes an un
looked for complication In the election,
which will not be over until late next
month.
STANDARD POLICY FAVORED
Chicago Committee Sleets to Prepare
Its Insurance Report.
CHICAGO, Nov. 12. The committee of
15 appointed at the meeting of insurance
commissioners. Governors of states. At
torneys General and Insurance attorneys
held here last February to formulate
plans for the regulation of insurance in
the central and western states, met today.
With them were officers of the America
Life insurance Convention, which met at
Chattanooga September 28.
Unofficially, it was stated that the corn-
New Pythian Insurance Chief.
JACKSONVILLE, 111., Nov. 12. Charles
A. "Barnes, supreme chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias, announced tonight
that Zeno Host, Insurance Commissioner
of Wisconsin, will after January 1 be
general manager of the insurance depart
ment of the Knights of Pythias.
DENY THEATRICAL TRUST
Klaw & Erlanger Issue Signed State
ment Regarding Rumor.
NEW YORK. Nov. 12. The following
statement was issued by Al Hayman. for
Klaw & Erlanger, today in reference to
telegrams dated from Chicago and St.
Louis, respectively, speaking of the for
mation of a $50,000,000 theatrical trust:
"There is absolutely no truth in the
statement; not even the slightest founda
tion for it. The so-called theatrical syn
dicate is proceeding upon the same lines
that it has for the .last eight or nine
years, booking the time of the theaters
entrusted to it and not paying any at
tention to vaudeville combinations or any
thing else. Somebody Is using the press
for his own ends in this particular mat
ter and we desire to state in the most
emphatic terms that there is no truth In
this announcement.
(Signed)
"AL. HAYMAN, Klaw & Erlanger."
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SHE WILL NOT DIE RICH
Mrs. Sage AVill Give Her Millions to
Deserving Poor.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12. Mrs. Russell
Sage will give away the bulk of a for
tune of about $30,000,000, bequeathed to
her by her late husband, to individuals
whom she considers worthy, who, through
no fault of their own, are so unfortunate
as to need assistance and too proud to
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DELMAS TO DEFEND THAW
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for the murder of Stanford White. Mr.
Delmas was in consultation with his
client today at the Tombs prison and
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which will be justification of his deed and
the demanded enforcement of the "un
written law."
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Thaw. He has been admitted to practice
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Captain F. M. Koehler Is Tried.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov. 12. Ad
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Koehler, of the Fourth Cavalry, by court
martial for an alleged show of disrespect
to Major-General Leonard Wood, started
at Zamboango, Mindanao, November 1.
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Cavalry, as counsel, and Captain Fred E.
Buchanan, formerly of Kansas City, Kan.,
as Judge-Advocate. The findings will be
forwarded to Washington, where the ver
dict will finally be stven out.
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