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HAYTI PRESIDENT PUT TO FLIGHT GEHMANS ATTACK EMPEROR A CHEROKEE INDIAN EDITOR Moroccan Question Settlement Cause of Trouble. John M. Oeklson Qredusted From the Back of a Cow Pony In Oklahoma. , —r Berlin The proMpect of a speedy settlement of the Moroccan question I between Germany and France is wel- corned on every hand, but the terms i of the agreement when they become known, probably will cause considera ble dissatisfaction. Details still remain to be arranged. Both Germany and France have been Government Chamberlain Slain and coni|H-lh«l concede weighty points Five Others of Party Killed- because neither was prepared to press Daughter Wounded. matters too far. 1 hi- first indications of indignation have appeared in the Pan-German I’ort Au Prine«, Hayti The revolu Tost and Zukunft, the organ of Maxi- tion in Hayti ha» triumphed. Presi milien Harden. The leading article of the Pan-German Post not only at- dent Simon tied liie capital Thursday | tacks foreign minister Von Kiderlin- mid took refuge on board the Haytian Waechter and Imperial Chancellor cruiser Seventeenth of December, Von Bothmaim llollwcg, and demands formerly the yacht American. With their retirement from office, but makes a terrific onslaught U| m > ii Em him went his wife and children and u peror William, asking: number of his follower». "What bus happened to the Hohen- < In all »idea the capital la invested xollerna?” by followers of General Firmin, one of , It also calls the emperor the strong the revolutionary leaders. The city est supporter of the Anglo-French it»elf la in the hands of a committee policy. of safety and there ia no general dis The I’an-German Post concludes by order. Foreign interests are believed calling the emperor "William the to be secure. None of the foreign Timid,” and "Thu Valorous Poltroon.” warships ha» Ii«rnl«-<1 bluejackets. Herr Arden in the Zukunft also at As the aged president was embark tacks Ilia Majesty severely, naming ing there was a clash in which his him "William the Peaceful.” chamberlain. Deputy I’rin, ami five other prisons were kill»«! and Clemen MEAT INQUIRY ORDERED. tina Simon, his daughter, and six other persons were wounded. The Freight Rates to Be Special Subject injuries of Miss Simon are slight. of Cominimon’i Quest. Promptly at 4 o'clock Simon camo out of the main entrance of the palace. Washington, D. ('. A sweeping in Over his shoulder the old man, who quiry, numbering 162 railroads in the had declured that he would light to West, South and Southwest, as re the end, carried his rifle. With head spondents, was ordered by the inter erect, he marched down t»i the wharf. state commerce commission into the At his side his daughter, Clemen freight rates charged on livestock, tina, walked. Other members of his fresh meats and packing house prod family previously hail taken refuge on ucts. It is indicated by the commis sion that the purpose of the inquiry ia taianl the Seventeenth of D..... mber. A» Simon ami his daughter reached i not only to secure a parity of rates, the wharf there was a rush from the , but to establish by definite order, mob, which had gathered to witness ' rates which the commission shall re the departure. Miss Simon was the gard as reasonable and not unjustly center of the attack, ami several wo ! discriminatory. Incidentally, commercial rivalry men, howling and shrieking, succeed ed in pulling olT her hat. The chief between two sets of meat packers in of pidice led the young woman toward Chicago enters into the case. In view of the great importance of a schooner, and Deputy Prin offered the several proceedings heretofore in his arm to Miss Simon. As he did so a man rushed up and, stituted, it was decide«! by the com pressing the barrel of his rifle into the mission to consolidate them into one deputy's face, shot and killed him. case. It was regarded as next to im Firing became general and before it possible so to adjust the rates ex to ceased IXe other persons had been insure parity of charges throughout the territory by the consideration and killed ami six wounded. disposition of individual cases. Island Rebels Triumph and Kuler Forced to Quit. HEAT RECORD IS MADE. TOGO RIDES WITH ENGINEER Summer Hottest In Unltsd For Forty Years, States Washington, D. C. Not in the past 4'1 years have temperatures in the United States during the late spring and early summer been so uniformly high for so long a |>eriod and over such a large portion of the country ax this year, according to Weather Bu reau officials. The high temperatures were most pronounced over the more central and northern portions of the country, while the Southern states were comparatively exempt from un usual heat. The intense heat over the more pop ulous sections chusim I severe suffering in the congested portions of the cities and result«! in the loss of probably thousands of lives. Lack of rainfall over the great agri cultural districts during most of the long heated period greatly retarded vegetable growth and threatened a serious curtailment of crop produc tion. Opportune rains, however, with cooler weather, greatly improv«! conditions, and the outlook at the present time is favorable for the gathering of the usual harvests of most great staples. The |>eriod of greatest discomfort was from June 22 to July 10. Higher temperatures occurr«l at other periods over much of the territory, but the resulting discomfort and loss of hu man life were doubtless augmented in the period just pass«! by the fact that the most intense heat occurred to ward the close of a long heat«! period, when animal vitality had been largely depleted and therefore wax not in condition to withstand further the debilitating effect of still greater heat. The nearest approach to the re cent hot waves was in 191)1. Taft's Stand is Opposed. Seattle Following closely the dec laration of President Taft advocating the leasing‘"xyxtem for the develop ment of the Alaskan coal resources, the Rotary club went on record unani mously ax opposing the leasing system anil favoring private ownership at the weekly luncheon at the New Washing ton hotel. The resolution adopt«! will be present«! in turn to the cham ber of commerce, the Commercial club, the Arctic club nnd the Seattle chapter of the American Mining «in gress. Settlers Securo Relief. Washington, D. C.—The house pub lic lands committee has rejiorted fav orably the Warren bill granting leave of absence until April 15, 1912, to homesteaders in drouth regions of the Coast. At the request of Representa tive Lafferty the bill was amend«! to include the Burns, Malheur, The Ilnlles and La Grande districts. The bill will pass the house as an emer gency measure, taking effect at once. Eastern Mills Shut Down. Fall River, Mass.—Notices were posted in the Fall River Iron Works company mill that after August 4 they will be shut down until further notice. The shutdown affects 5,000 operatives. Noted PROCEEDINGS Washington, Aug. 4. Standing upon chairs, waving handkerchiefs and yelling, Democratic representa tives today acclaim«! Representative Undurw'xxl, of Alabama, Democratic leader of the house, when he attacked William J, Bryan for criticising his opinion on the tariff revision program. It caused the most remarkable scene in the house since the beginning of the extra session of congress. UnilerwtMxi denounced Mr. Bryan's statement as false, defend«! his own attitude as to revision of th» iron and steel schedules, and said Bryan had pine«) upon every Democratic member implications unfounded in fact. He called on his Democratic colleagues of the Ways and Means committee for corroboration. Mr. Underwood was back«! up by Representative Kitchin, of North Car olina, long a devoted friend of Bryan. It all came about from a published interview which purported to be “au thorized” by Mr. Bryan, declaring it was time Democratic Leader Under went! wax "unmasked.” "Speaker Clark and other tariff re formers tried to secure the passage of a resolution instructing the ways and means eommiteee to take up other schedule-«, including the iron and steel schedule, but Underwood and Fitz- geralel the Fitzgeralel who xav«l Can- ne>n in the last congress succeedesl in defeating the resolution,” said the in terview. The* house listen«! intensely to the reading of the interview. Republicans applaueiee] it. Ax the clerk finished reading, Mr. Underwood began to epeak. Washington, Aug. 5. — Attorney Hanecy, «tunsel for Senator liOrimer, texlsy t<x»k up the cross-examination of Charles A. White, confessed bribe taker in the Ixirimer election, who testifi«! yesterday. Taking the position that White might not have had enough literary ability to write the confession which he claims to have written, the attor ney led him through mazes of religion, history and literature, eliciting the assertion that in Roman history it is told how the "Deities levied on their subjects to build the pyramids," and other statements of «jual interest to spectators. Hanecy then secured admissions from White that letters written to Senator lx>rimer and others were "pure and simple lies.” White add- «1 that he wrote them to get material fur his intend«! exposure. Washington, Aug. 3.—Support«! by Japanese Admires America's all the Democrats and by 30 insurgent Electrical Eminence. Republicans, the Democratic cotton New York Admiral Togo left New York Friday night for Washington. His departure had a feature quite as unusual as his midnight arrival and welcome in New York bay the night before, for he left the city in the cab of a big electric engine, drawing a heavy Pennsylvania train for the capi tal. Although the private car Olivette, which the government has provided for him, was attach«! to the train, the naval hero elected to sit by the en gineer's side and watch him operate the 4,000-horeepower motor. "I am intensely interested in your world pre-eminence in electrical en gineering and railroading,” the little admiral said through his interpreter, "and I wish to avail myself of this op portunity to observe, so I will ride with the engineer.” Work Makes Earth Paradise. tariff bill, the third of the big tariff revision measures brought forward by the Democratic house of representa tives, passed that body tonight, 202 to 91. The bill cuts the average tariff on cotton manufactur«! goods from 46 to 27 per cent ad valorem, a 21 per cent reduction. The Democratic leaders estimate that it reduces revenue by about $3,000,000. Not an amendment was offered to the bill, although the Republicans at tacked it vigorously on account of the alleged increase in certain items over the rates of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Scarcely had the cheers that greet«! the passage of the cotton revision bi!) xubsid«l when Democratic Leader Un derwood, calling up the free list bill as it passed ¡the senate a few days ago, ac«>mplish«i a strategic move which surprised the Republicans. He asked for a conference on all the amendments to the free list bill, ex cept that of Senator Gronna, of North Dakota, putting cement on the free list. He urg«i that the house accept that amendment, adding to it lemons. Pacific Coast Republicans made in effectual attempts to stop this sudden and unexpect«! putting of lemons on the free list, but the amendment car- ried. New York Thomas A. Edison has start«! for a European trip for the first time in 22 years. With him on the Mauretania were his son, Charles, and in Ixmdon Mrs. Edison and their daughter Madeline will soon join them. The family will make an auto mobile tour of the Continent. Edison was asked if he had anything new up his sleeve. He replied: "No, I have just finish«! something new. My talk ing pictures are complete. Two hun- Washington, Aug. 4. — President dr«l sets of them have been made and Taft will send to the senate tomorrow they are wonderful. You ought to see the general arbitration treaties be them and hear them.” tween the United States and Great Britain and the United States and Woman Steam Tug Pilot, France, signed for this government Tacoma -The little steam tug Fawn, and for Great Britain here today, and of Tacoma, rumen now to the front signed in Paris for the government of with a distinction all her own. She France. has a regular "lady skipper,” Captain The brief messages of transmittal Mrs. T. J. Walthey. Mrs. Walthey to the senate were written and sign«l has a pilot license for vessels of 100 by the president today, and tomorrow tons plying between Cape Flattery it will lie with the United States sen and Puget Sound |s>ints. Captain ate to ratify what has been term«! the Walthey, her husband, who is nt pres greatest step toward the abolition of ent taking orders from Mrs. Walthey war that the world thus far has taken. as engineer, says the license would Already there have been mutterings qualify his wife to act as mate on one from the senate over these treaties. of the big steamers that come into port from all over the word. Delegate Quits in Huff. Washington, Aug. 5.—Delegate Fight Bitter in Canada. Wickersham, of Alaska, is packing Winnipeg The report that the Do minion government will insist on his trunk, preparing to leave for home He is thoroughly handling the registration of voters in a day or two. lists in Manitoba for the approaching disgusted that congress has been un election created a sensation here and willing to give credence to his wild shows that the fight is on over reci charges regarding affairs in Alaska, procity. The law says the Dominion and will not stay to submit his has the right to prepare lists in the "proof.” province where they have not been Wickersham says he will never prepared for a year. The provincial again vote the Republican ticket. government, continues, however, to Tariff Board Angered. make its preparations to register. Washington, Aug. ¡5.—The tariff Storm Hits Southwest. board is much put out at a recent Kansas City—Rains which have fal statement fmm Ogden, Utah, attrib len in Southwest Missouri, .Southeast uted to W. C. Barnes, one of the ern Kansas and Norther Oklahoma board’s special investigators, that since Wednesday morning have done sheep could be raised in the United damage estimated at more than $1,- States for $1.50 a head. After an in 000,000. At Ix>well, near Galena, an vestigation the board announced that electric company dynamit«! its 30- Barnes denies making such a declara foot |xiwer dam, which cost nearly tion and that the statement, whether (500,000, in order to save the costly made by Barnes or not, is inaccurate machinery of its plant and unauthorized. . __ _ I * Vinita, Okla.—From the back of a cow pony to an editorial chair In the ’»Bice of Collier'« Weekly Is the road traveled by John M Osklxon, a Chero kee Indian citizen, whose father was >ne of the pioneer cattlemen of the Indian territory. Osktson left Vinita In 1894 and grad uated In turn from Leland Htanford university and Harvard He entered the writing game by wlunlng a $250 prize from the Century Magazine tor the best abort story. Later be became GŒGTOE ü BOPE ON AGITILE SHIP n e ffrn----- m-------- ------ r-i—---- ---------- Q o M. Oskiton. a reporter and an editorial writer on the New York Evening Poet He be- ?ame an editorial writer for Collier's in 1907. He wrote two of the “Senate Unde sirables” tor C-olller's—Long of Kan sas was one—and a aeries of articles about the loan sharks, that helped to start the Russell Sage Foundation on the job of driving them out of bust ness by establishing good loan agen- dee. He fired a broadside Into the flock of get-rlcb-qulck promoters that roost tn New York, and as one result Collier's has established a department called "The Average Man's Money,* the writing and editing of which Is Jsklson's principal employment Now and then be gets time to writs a short itory and. more happily than tn ths Barller days, finds s market for It But the land of the Chsrokses—the Spavinaw, the “flint hills” and the bay prairies—know him no mor«. SLEEPS NAKED IN THE SNOW Demented Indian Lives In the Opeix Winter and Summer, Without Shelter or Clothing. Ogden, Utah—Near White Rock. Utah, is a demented Indian who ia known as “Crazy Indian." There la no doubt about bls deserving this ti tle. He has slept In the open for over 30 years without any shelter or cloth ing. If bls Indian friends build him a "wlckeyup” he burns It down tn a few days. He generally baa an old overshoe on his left foot. The picture shows a winter scene with “Crazy Indian" lying at tbs en trance to bls tent while the ground is covered with snow. He is about 50 years of age. Strange to say he does not seem to be any the worse ms T HE great trans-Atlantic liners carry thousands and thousands of Americans Into the great ports of the old world, Most of them pay a good round price for the service, although there are some people who go in the steer- ige rather than miss the trip, But there are many American college ■tudents and perhaps some others who go to Europe and who do not worry ahead of time about cabin quarters or staterooms They are the fellows who work for their passage on cattle ships. Without a doubt the experiences of pne who crosses the Atlantic as a cat tleman are unique. Twenty or thirty rears ago a man was paid from $30 to $60 together with all of his ex penses to cross the ocean as a cattle man. but now there are two men In Boston who are getting rich charg ing college students $5 to get them positions (for want of a more approp riate word) on cattle ships. The boys jet no more for their services than their passage and board. Having been assured that we would lave to “rough It" and have lots of work to do, a college friend and I sent over to the Cunard docks in East Boston on a beautiful morning. There we signed up to work for our passage is cattlemen and to get accommoda tions same as the seamen. We didn't mow what we were doing, but we mew ten days later. There we met he rest of our “party.” Cattlemen Third Class. Sleeps Without Shelter. for his exposure to all kinds of weath er, being quite robust physically. He will sit for days at a time un der the poles of his tent after having torn the covering from It, evidently thinking that, “be It ever so humble, there's no place like home.” Deer Takes Cow’s Milk. Bedford, Pa.—For some days Hart Bush, a farmer at Oppenheimer, this county, had found no milk from his cow at milking time. The cow was kept In a field near the house and It was thought the calf had stolen It. so It was locked up In the barn. This morning Mrs. Bush thought she saw In the early dawn the calf with the cow and started to drive It away, when a large deer lightly leaped a fence and made off. Antiques Bring Big Prices. Paris.—A carved wooden bed. arm- chair and screen, which were made for Marie Antoinette at Versailles, were offered at auction on June 2 at a reserve price of 1,000,000 francs, or $200,000. There were no blds, and the articles were put up again today. They were bought In for 180,000 francs, about $36,000. They were the prop erty of the Marquis Caieau, whose father found them tn a concierge's room and bought them very cheap. There were 400 cattle on board, The ehlp carried 70 first-class or cabin pas lengers and. according to our friend, ’.he Scotchman, the cattle were second class and we were third class. I be lieve he was right. At any rate, the petty officers of the ship wasted lots pf good time telling us that we were -attlemen. and can not and must not lo this and that. We sat In a fine-looking group on the for'ard end of the main deck as the ship left the Boston harbor that morning. There was little wind. No ane was seasick, and each was deter- min«l not to be. Up to this point we knew nothing of what we were to do and just what »ort of "accommodations" we were to Pave. A petty officer, with shining face and shoes, and the characteristic thin mustache, which Is quite the :hing among the young Englishmen, informed us that our dinner, stores ■»nd "dishes" could be had at the gal- ey. He gave us, In a large black pan. i big chunk of greasy meat, together with some potatoes which had been Polled dry and then boiled again. In mother large pan was the hash—fa- nous hash—with nameless Ingredients »nd a terrific odor. Our first meal and pan washing on '.he main deck attracted too much of the attention of the cabin passengers >n the deck above, and the captain »ent down orders for us to repair to ;be cattlemen's quarters In the fo'cas- le. The seamen pronounce that word In two syllables. The name applies to the quarters of the seamen and the -attlemen, with a partition between :hem running back front the bow of the boat to the first hatch. We were an the port, or left, side. Our quar ters had been used as a storeroom for iverythlng that had a bad smell, such is rotten rope, heavily tarred; pulleys, «halns and paint. We slept there the 3rst night, but the odor was too much 'or us; we all awoke more or less sick. The Cattleman's Work. Now. something of the work that 'alls to the lot of the cattlemen, We were called by the night watchmen (when they were not asleep) at 4 ■»'clock In the morning, and we literal- y rolled out of the hay. Our crowd of five, all working together, attended to every want of the 200 cattle. The first job was to water the stock. The story about making a horse drink was invented by a man who never tried to water a wild steer from a bucket, for certainly by substituting the latter for the former the point would have been more forcible. We used ten wooden buckets, dipping the water from large tanks that we filled from overhead pipes. There were two main alley- ways along each side of the cattle deck and they, dear things, lined each side of the alleys with their horns sticking half way across. They bad been tied to the head board by the longshoremen; we bad nothing to do with the loading We put the buckets In the corn trough along In front of them, then poured water In the buck ets as they were emptied. It all sounds very well but each steer wanted to drink from a bucket of his neighbor. They fought and jerked and pulled and upset the buck ets. but we must make them drink or they would die. So. with water splash ing on us and running down our shoe tops, we would pat them kindly on the nose and say nice words. Three steers often would not drink when offered three buckets, but if two buckets were taken away all three would fight to drink from the same one. Feeding the Brutes. The next course was hay. It was stored near the first hatch in large bales, averaging about 200 pounds apiece. Some one forgot to put a hay hook on the boat, so we had to roll the bales with out finger nails. It was the early morning duty of each man to roll a certain number down the alley, and that was fine exercise be fore breakfast. Then we cut the wires, shook the hay with care, remov ing all lumps, and fed it to the brutes. Our morning work generally was finished at 11 o'clock and the work in the afternoon lasted from 2 to about 5:30. The afternoon menu was an other round of more buckets and more hay. We swept alleys again tn the afternoon. Our brooms were very artistic, being a bundle of twigs tied together and a stick jammed Into one end of the bundle. I don't know how rich the Inventor has become who first thought of that method of water ing cattle and sweeping alleys. The first sight of the lights off the Irish coast looked pretty good to us. All that day we could see either Ire- land or England. In the afternoon the ship kept pretty close to the Welsh shore. The coast is high and rocky and In the sunset It was a beautiful dull reddish color, The hills beyond were green and divided by the old stone fences Into small irregular farms. The stone houses, most of them white, were scattered here and there along the fertile valleys. Our pilot came on at Lynns Point at 5:30 in the evening and had full charge of things till he reached Liverpool. The cattle could smell land, so the seamen said, and were restless the last night and we slept but little. We turned down the broad Mersey shortly after midnight That was Saturday morn ing and we reached Birkenhead, on the west bank. In a short time. Here we landed our 400 cattle, all In ex cellent health and we shed no tears at seeing them depart Each of us carried some cargo down the gang plank and set foot for the first time on English soil. We bought English bicycles and spent two months on the perfect roads of England and the continent. The cattleman has hts joys and sor rows but the latter are very soon for gotten and one finds himself planning to go again—even as a cattleman.