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BRYAN AND HARm6n.
Enthusiastic Welcome Given Them at
Birmingham Both Speak.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 23.-
Dryan and Judson Harmon received
remarkable welcome here today.
Bryan spoke tliii morning to an au
dience which taxed the capacity of
IfUC lOnaillOll OI MYin l"ny. There wa, a great demon-
, , iirauon wnen ne wai introduced at
MJCICIV. the "next vice-presIdent."
. i ti i . m
uryan, narmon ana uovernor co
mer poke tonight at the Board of
Trade banquet The banquet wa at-
YIULAlfcD lUfclK 1KU51 "8, " Alabama. In
uic morning ipeecn uryan predicted
a Democratic victory. The principle
of the Democratic party of the past
Neglecting Interests of Policy- by Republican, "Though the Repub-
can party hatched the Democratic
eggs, he laid, "Democrat are en
titled to ome of the credit."
holder! Now as They Have
Done in The Past
MISSINQ SINCE JANUARY IS.
ARE MISMANAGING THE FUNDS! LOS ANCELES, Jan. 23.-Renr.ie
I A, Walker, ton of Mr. and Mr. Wm.
III. Walker, of Canton, Ohio, i
thought to be lost in the mountain.
gay They Art Simply Fighting for ,1Ifl h" b"" m"ing iince he mor"
th PrlvUtg. of Controlling; Narly ' of Jinuary IS. (
Nina Million of Dollar of the
Policyholder' Fund. '
JOS
. F. ULLM
Made and Lost Fortunes
Almost Penniless.
Died
RACE TRACK BOOK MAKER
DENVER, Jan. 23. Commiion
cTof Inturance E. E, Rittenhoue re
ferring to public criticism on hi re
port ' of the Provident Saving Life
Aiaurance Society today, made the
following ttatcment: "The interest
are condemning the Colorado Injur
ance Commissioner for publishing the
true condition of the Provident Sav
ing Society are the very men who
have violated their trust by misusing
and mismanaging the fund of the
policyholder.
"Although the company stopped
writing new business . on December
2, all officers and salaries are still
retained. A motion at the directors'
meeting last week to abolish these
offices and salarie and to correct this
outrage on policyholder, wa tented
by the vote of the factions. They are
neglecting the interest of the policy
holders now as they have done in
the past. The assets of the society
do not contain a single dollar belong- paralysis, from which he suffered for
Ing to either faction of the stock- "early a year. "Joe" Ullman and his
holder. They are simply fighting for two brother were known as among
the orivilefle of controlling nearly the most successful bookie in the
$9,500,000 of the policyholder' funds, country and their operation extend-
ASTORIA, 0REG0VtlDAY, JANUARY 24, 1903
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DEFENDANTS
Promised Partial Immuni
ty for Their Testimony.
THEY WILL BE PUNISHED
Manner in Which Prospective
Settlers Were Frightened off
by Butte Creek Co.
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CROSS-EXAMINED BYWEBSTER
Special Prosecutor Heney Stated Of
ficially That Plea of Guilty Would
Not Mitigate Punishment of Crime
They Had Been Convicted of.
Hi Last Venture Wa Financing the
San Carlo Grand Opera Company
in Which it i Said he Lost 145,000
Spent Some Time in Sanitarium.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23. -Joseph F.
Ullman, the well known racing man,
died in a sanitarium at Amityville.
L I., last night as the result of
These factions felt their interests de
manded the Colorado report be with
held and I believed the interests of
the Society and policyholder de
manded that it be published."
NORDELL HELD FOR MURDER.
ed from one coast to another. Al
though he won several fortunes he
lost them again and it is said he died
almost penniless. His last venture
was the backing of an opera com
pany, in which he is said to have lost
$45,000
Joseph Ullman, who died at Amity-
BUTTE, Jan. 23. A Lewiston ville, L. I., last night, was probably
special to the Miner says that Sheriff 1 better known in Chicago than any-
Martin returned from the Schlcutcr where else because of his long' con
home today, bringing Ole Nordell, aslncction with Edward Corrigan, which
a prisoner, i ne coroner inquest re- (covered practicaiy tne entire penoa
suited in a verdict that the death of of racing activity in this city. .He
Mrs. Schlcutcr and her four children started in life as a butcher in St
was by murder by some one unknown Louis in company with two brothers,
and recommending that Nordell be Coley and Alec Ullman but deserted
held for the crime. Nordell refused that business early to become a book'
to talk. It Is stated that a search of maker. He was a contemporary of
Nordell' place revealed a pair of Leo Mayer and George Wheeler, in
overalls damp with kerosene : and I the slate-wrtting profession. Ullman
stained with blood and tome under- became associated with Corrigan in
garments stained with blood, ine the days of the old West Side race-
officers are certain kerosene wa free- track, before the days of Garfield
ly used at the Schleuter home after Park racing. Afterward he went to
the widow and children had been Hawthorne along with Corrigan in
slain. The feeling' against Nordell 1890 anti his business was the opera-
along the Musselshell wa so strong I lion of foreign books, which was re-
that the arrival of the officers pre-1 puted to have won over $600,000 in
six months.
With the close of the Hawthorne
track and the war with Garfield Park,
Ullman engaged in the poolroom
business.
After the resumption of Chicago
vented a possible lynching. ,
CHILE TO BUILD RAILROAD.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 23.-Con-sress
yesterday passed a bill author
izing the president to make contracts racing in the '90s Ullman's associa
for a railroad running north and
outh. The bill limit immediate ex
penditure to about $57,500,000 but it
is intended that the road eventually
will be extended to the northern and
southern frontiers.
When completed the railway will
run from the frontier of Peru to the
Strait of Magellan, a distance of
about 2600 miles. Spurlines will be
J built to coast ports and into mining
9 -districts and agricultural areas.
tion with Corrigan continued without
interruption until all racing finally
stopped in Cook county. Then he
went east and at one time attempted
to establish another Monte Carlo on
"No Man' Land," an island in
Chesapeake Bay. Later on in com
pany with Barney "Kid" Wells, Ull
man ran the famous book a't the
Saratoga track which was known as
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PORTLAND, Jan. 22.-Just fcefore
the federal court adjourned for the
day, W. W. Steiwer, former State
Senator, a member of the Butte Creek
Land Livestock & Lumber Company
and co-defenant with Hall' and May
ana otners in the conspiracy case,
now undergoing trial, pleaded guilty
and took the witness stand in behalf
of the government He had started
to relate conversation held with Hall
when the session came to a close.
Previously II. II. Hendricks had com
plcted the testimony began yesterday
and underwent a severe cross-ex
animation at the hands of Judge
Webster, counsel for Hall.
Following Hendricks, Clarence B
Zachcry, also a stockholder of the
Butte Creek Company and who
pleaded guilty to having conspired
with Hall, Mays, Hendricks, Steiwer
and others to defraud the govern
mcnt, testified regarding the charac
ter of the land enclosed by the Butte
Creek Company and the manner in
which prospective settlers were
frightened off.
Of apparent importance was ' his
statement that neither he nor so far
as he knew, any other official of Butte
Creek Company ever received a noti
fication from Hall to remove their
fences illegally erected around the
government land. Zachary's most
interesting statement was that the
government had granted Hendricks,
Steiwer and himself partial immunity
in the present case in consideration
of their testifying against Hall and
Mays. lie said their punishment in
the present case is to consist of
$250 fine and one day in jail.
Hendricks, Steiwer and Zachary
are already waiting sentence in the
federal court for having suborned
Charles A. Watson and others to per
jure themselves and thereby defraud
the government of public land.
Special Prosecutor Heney, after
the adjournment of court, stated un
officially that pleas of guilty in the
present case and the assitance these
men were giving the government at
present would mitigate their punish
ment for crimes of which they have
been heretofore convicted.
CORPORATION CONTROL,
CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-A legal issue
similar to that involved in the injunc
tion fight between the two factions of
the Illinois Central Railroad was pre
sented to judge K. M, Landis in the
United Spates Circuit court yester
day. Me was asked to decide whether
an Illinois corporation hat the right
to acquire and vote stock of another
corporation. That i just what Mr.
Fish has asked Judge Ball in the
superior court to decide. It i now a
question which arm of the judiciary
will deliver its opinion fint '
The action in the, federal court is
brought by the Chicago Real Estate,
Loan & Trust Company against the
Standard Oil Company and the Corn
Products Company. The charge is
made that the concern was endeavor
ing to absorb the Corn Products
Company, whose capital is $80,000,-000.
FARMER BURNS LOSES.
SEATTLE, Jan. 23.-B. F. Roller,
of Seattle, took two straight falls in
a wrestling . match, from Farmer
Burns tonight. The time was 70
minutes. Burns seemed to be content
to lay on the mat and try to prevent
Roller from pinning his shoulders
down. It was the most miserably
co iducted affair of the kind 'ever pull
ed off ia this city.
BROVNSON'S
CONTENTION
Correspondence Furnished
by Sec. Metcalf.
TO GILL'S RESOLUTION
VERY SUCCESSFUL
Say's Cable Engineers Are Not
Putjn Command of
Cable Sbips.
RIXEY REPLIES ON SUBJECT
Divided Authority Lead to Confu
sionNothing in a Medical Man'
Training Which Fits Him to Com
mand a Sea-Going Ship. , - ..
Annual Convention of Western
Stock Show Association.
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TAFT WANTS NO FIGHT.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-In a
letter to Chairman Parsons of the
Republican county committee . of
New York," Secretary Taft makes it
clear that he does not want his
friends to , prosecute a campaign
against Governor Hughes. He says
that he has uniformly urged his
friends not to attempt to divide the
delegation in his interest and that he
will deprecate a contest which might
iinperia Republican victory in New
York in November.
WILL CONSTRUCT STADIUM
Colonel W. B. Skinner, of the Stock
Yards Company, Offered to Con
struct Buildings to Cost in Neigh
borhood of $300,000.
DENVER, Jan. 23.-The Western
Stock Show Association met in an
nual convention last night and elected
a board of directors which includes
the secretaries of all the large breed
ers associations. This board will meet
on Friday next and select officers for
the coming year and an executive
committee. The present show was
voted the best ever given by the asso
ciation and second only to the famous
international event at Chicago. Plans
for improvement of the grounds by
the erection of a beautiful stadium for
exhibiting prize stock and immense
sheds for quartering the animals were
decided upon. Colonel W. B. Skinner,
of the stock yards company, offered
to construct the buildings-to cost in
the neighborhood of $300,000, provi
ding a fund of $50,000 was raised by
the association and held in escrow
to guarantee reimbursement. This
money will be accumulated by means
of life membership at a cost of $100
each. The mohey paid in for these
life memberships will be returned in
ten years with interest The crowds
attending the present show have been
so large that it was found necessary
to repeat the show each day for the
benefit of those overflowing and this
will be continued through the week.
NO COADJUTOR APPOINTED.
ROME, Jan. 23. Archbishop Rior-
dan of San Francisco, left for home
today without getting from the Pope
decision regarding the choice of a
coadjutor in his diocese. The pope
is still considering the charges of
modernism against Father Hanna of
Rochester, New York, who is a can
didate for the place.
IN HANDS OF RECEIVER.
BOISE, Idaho, jan. 23. The Col
lins Printing Company, publishing
the Boise Sunday Times, established
six weeks ago, went into the hands
of a receiver today. The publication
of the Times will be continued by the
receiver for the present at least. J. H.
Hatch was appointed to take charge
of the plant
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The
Speaker laid before the House today
the response of Secretary Metcalf to
Gill's resolution calling for the cor
respondence relative to the designa
tion of staff officers to naval com
mands. The correspondence is vol
luminous and includes Admiral
Brownson't letter of resignation and
his memoranda on the subject One
of the papers is the disapproval of
Admiral Converse to placing medical
officers in command of hospital
ships. ,
Brownson holds the same view
stating that there is nothing in a
medical man's training. which fits him
for such a command. He says exist
ing regulations are sufficient tor
medical officers to control and care
for their department yet the surgeon-
general, says Brownson, seems to be
lieve that navigation, safe conduct
and general administration of sea
going vessels is secondary-1 as re
gards the responsibility to command.
Telegraph operators, he said, or cable
engineers are not put in command of
cable ships nor postmasters in com-
mand of mailships. Brownson also
declares that it is contrary to the law
for medical men to exercise military
command; divided authority leads to
confusion. Experience in the Span
ish-American war demonstrates that
it is necessary to have a full naval
crew and officers and sea-going, ships
to be efficient, and must be com
manded by sea-going officers. A new
paper on the subject is the reply of
General Rixey to Brownson's state
ment. Rixey denies ever having ask
ed that navigation be entrusted to
medical officers but that sailing mas
ters and crews should navigate ships,
only that all orders should pass
through the senior surgeon's hands.
What follows is practically the same
as in Rixey's letter to the President
recently made public
APPROPRIATION BILL,
Occupied Attention of House Today
to Exclusion of All Other Business
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Th
urgent deficiency appropriation bill
Occupied the attention of the House
today to the .exclusion of all other
business. A surprise was sprung when
Chairman Tawney of the appropria
tions committee warned the members
that the country wa confronted with
a certainty of $100;000,000, deficit un
less the estimates for the next fiscal
year should be cut down very mater
ially. Tawney's warning wa seized
upon by Underwood as a text for a
lengthy address opon the recent de
pression. The method of making ap
propriations was criticised by Keifer,
of Ohio, who said it was unbusiness
like. : He said if Pearl Harbor and
perhaps Manila were properly forti
fied, it would not be necessary to go
to millions of dollars of unnecessary
expense to send battleships around
the Horn in order that we may show
that we have some spirit left if war .
shuuld come.
LEWIS WINS FIGHT.
NEW HAVEN, Jan.- 23.-Harry
Lewis, of Philadelphia, knocked out
Frank Mantel!, of Providence, in the
third round tonight
BUTOHUEK
to .
Thaw Trial Will Probably End
In That Time.
PUBLIC IS GETTING WEARY
The Dry Details of the Hypothetical
Questions Put to the Alienists Will
Not Attract General Attention
Jerome Keeping His Own CouncfL
THEATRICAL ORGANIZATIONS
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-The vaude
ville Comedy Club and the "White
Rates," organizations composed of
vaudeville performers, have appointed-committees
to confer, with regard
a plan for a working agreement
between the two organizations. Now
that the competition in the vaudeville
business is practically ended so far
as the managers are concerned, the
performers are of the opinion that a
great reduction in salaries will re
sult and the two organizations have
therefore practically agreed to com
bine in an effort to keep up salaries.
It is stated by members of the or
ganizations that there is no idea of a
strike of performers, but
joint committee will act as a
of arbitration to settle disputes be
tween performers and managers.
that kthe
board
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-The end of
the second trial of Harry Thaw,
charged with the murder of Stanford
White, is in sight The greater part
j of the evidence in the case is now in
the hands of the jury, and save for '
the technical evidence of the alienists
practically all the testimony that the
defense is expected to offer has been
given. Two or three physicians who
attended Thaw at various times in
Europe are expected to testify, their
stories having been promised by Mr.
Littleton when he opened the case.
These witnesses, it is said, may take
the stand today. The first of the
alienists, Dr. Charles Wagner, has
told a portion of his story of Thaw's
action in the Tombs after he was in
carcerated in the prison, but he will
be recalled to the stand and to answer
the inevitable lengthly hypothetical
question. It is probable he will be
followed by over six other alienists,
each of whom will be called upon to
express an opinion as to Thaw's
sanity at the time he fired the shots
that cost Stanford White his life. It
is not known what District Attorney
Jerome and Assistant District Attor
ney Garvan expect to offer in the way
of testimony in rebuttal, but it is not
expected that they will have many
witnesses. It is likely that several
I alienists will be called upon to dispute
the defendant's experts and some of
the minor points of the defense may
be questioned or contracted by the
prosecution, but there is now little
doubt that the case will be finally
! placed in the hands of the jury by the
latter part of next week.
An early adjournment of the Thaw
trial was taken today in order to
enable the attorney for the defense
to prepare a long hypothetical ques
tion. At present there seems to be
no longer any doubt that next week
will bring the case to a conclusion.
Two of defense's three alienists were
heard today as to the facts of mental
and physical examinations made of
Thaw after his arrest. No experts
for the state have yet appeared.
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