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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK LAND SWINDLE ALLEGED Government Issues Circular Warning Against Fake Rael Estate Men COLUMBUS, OHIO, POLICE BALK RAILWAY GRAFTERH Car Repair Company Officials in Europe or Whereabouts Unknown. STEAL GREAT Chicago — Following the startl.ag Washington—Th« Interior department charge« file J in the Chancery court at ha« issued the following circular, warn ing homeaeekere to beware of •» a! Memphis, implicating sc»en former of Jegsd swindling band now operating ia leers of the Illinois Central Railway in the Indian reservation lands: the »1,500,000 graft frauds on ear re “What probably is an organised bend pairs, the taquiry brought oat the fact of swindlers, posing as real estate men, that but one of the men mentioned is| has been operating throughout the coun ia all leading papers, of try, advertising in available for an expression of opinion Liberal Offers Made to Congressmen the opening of 1,000,000 acre« acres or more General Resume of Important Events of government land in the Yakima la Efforts Are Made to Dynamite Car sad he refused to be called to the tele to Push Crooked Deal Barns- Innocent Strikebreak phone or to receive reporters. The list, dian reservation. Presented In Condensed Form Thieves Fall Out. ers Are Arrested. “They make statements that the so fsr as knows, is as follows: for Our Busy Readers. reclamation service has practically cor lra <1. Raw», es «ice pre«.dent and veyed all reservations with a view of later president of tke Monon Railway placiog the land under water at the '. McAlater. Oklahoma- The “poor In Columbus, 0.— Rioting in a mild form dead; Frank B Harriman, formerly A lfi year old boy at Blockton, Cal., earliest possible date. The water, they was resumed rally Bauday with tne ef general manager, Illinois < eatral, ab dian’* learned a few more things about assert, may be put upon the land for killed four bears. •ent oa long automobile tour, where the proposed sale of $30,000,000 worth about $3<i per acre, and that the bring forts uf the traction cor psny to move about» unknown; William Renshaw, ox of hia land in the hearing before the A cotton famine Is prevalent ia tbs it« cars. The police, while not dieplay ing of the water to this land will create mg any energy in suppressing the dis rupermtendeat of machinery, in Europe congressional investigating committee New England mills. in the neighborhood of "<>00 new homes. with Mrs. Renshaw, expected home in Thursday. Representative C. D. Car Tokio is facing a famine as a result Picture« are being distributed purport order, were especially active la their three weeks; Joseph E. Buker, ex »» ter, of the Fourth Oklahoma district, of disastrous floods ing to be grain fields and orchards with treatment of the strikebreakera. One woman, brought here ae cook for i »istant superintendent of machinery, on testified that in an interview at the in the «ame section as the reservation, The sixth attempt at suicide of Mrs comparing ths lands included in the the strikebreaker«, was arrested on s vacation, wherealiouts unknown, ex home of Richard C. Adams, an attor Mary McArdle, iu Chicago, proved sue alleged opening to th« famous Nob Hill charge of carrying concealed weapons. nested back in two weeks; John M ney at Washington. Adams had said revolver. Taylor, ex store keeper at Burnside coastal. region lands near North Yakima, where She had in her po»«e«>iou a that he had an arrrangement by which but insuted she would not use it iHnwi •hu|Mi, ia Chicago, but will not bo seen; Regular troops are ordered to fight apples, |ieaches and other fruit culture _______ , __ , he was to secure 5 per cent of the O. H.'Keith, ex superintendent of trans neee»«ary to protect _ her life Hhe was forest fires in the Washington and Idaho has attained a high degree of perfee subjected to torrents of vile abuse by [■ortation, out of th« city, return is in ••profits” to be derived from the Mr- tion. districts. definite; II. Met Hurt, ex genera) super Murray certificatea. ( “The facts are that the government the strihrrs and “sympathisers" as the “He also told me,’’ testified Mr. J, Poyntx Spencer, fifth Earl of Sp*n does not contemplate any o;<ening on ¡«ilice took her to the staton with mure intendent, Illinois Central Southern line«, said to be in Europe; W. 3. Carter, “that Congressman B. S. Mc eer, died in Ixindon Saturday. He was the Yakima reservation at thia time, ceremouv than the occasion called for. In early morning nuts, one man wn« King, ei general superintendent Yaxoo Guire was in the deal and would get born in 1*35. and perhaps not for some time. There A Mississippi Valley Railroad and The British cruiser Duke of Edin i is not anything like 1.000,000 acres to •hut and five others were badly beaten Memphis terminals, said to be m Eu his share. He also told me that Dr. by the strikers. In each case the police Wright, a delegate for the Choctaw be opened, and none of the land to lie burgh went ashore in a dense fog on a ;ope; Henry C. Ostermann, president of opened on entry ia likely lol be irrigable '—**•* arrived too late to do more than arrest the Memphis Car Company, where Indiana at Washington, with a salary rocky ledge off i'owrl. hatever, ‘“'tn® strikebreakers, who«« chief offense of »'>,000, was in on the deal, He also or suitable for any purjiose Thera ia no intention on the part of except grarlng was that they bad been speetatora or about« unknown. except gracing. the Vatican to recede from the position Grand jury investigation, w th prison said: ‘We got some others,' but he did It is not probable probable that that there there is Is a a had been licaten by thugs | “ “It is not in the background, is tbs next act iu not mention any other names.” it has taken in Spam. quarter of a section on the reservation. 1 he electric linee tietween this city quarter of a section on the reservstion. **I)id Adams say he was going to get of what included «■ in the »»■! Dayton aro tied up, tue company the graft cases Now that settlements A fl year old boy swallowed a torpedo outside outside or wnsi will will t* oe mriu.ivu •*- ■----------<•- Its ear ---- >k... ,l_ have been made by individuals and 5 per cent of all the money J. F. Mc Indian allotments upon which no person withdrawing fearing their de July 4 at Madison, Wis, and nearly could msec make a a uvia< living by struetioa and probable loss of life it at companies with ths Illinois Central, Murray was to realise on the deal?“ lost his life by poison. coum >>y farming these swindlers tacks tachs under cover of darkness. Smiling club has been orgnnired in “It is rumored that the»« darkness A few whereby it has recovered a large por asked Chairman Charles N. Burke. t on of the money, and protected its _ csrs wers operated in the mornings by “Yea, he said he was going to make London, which pledge, its members to are offering to locate soldiers* claim, clerks and train dispatchers, but their stockholders, tbs conspirators are «aid sure of it, as McMurray had 'double for |25 raeh " smile instead of swearing *"* ««»h • Iperienees oa one trip usually sufficed to t>e in the utmost danger of indict crossed' him at other times, but thia ment. James Radley, the English aviator, j for the day. time he was going to fix it so he could HUNDREDS DIE IN FLOODS. Attorney William Barry, represent not lose out, and when McMurray got Following two attempts to dynamite flew one mile in 47 2 5 second on a th* carbarns, «loser guard waa estab ing the estate of lra G. liawn, declared his 10 per cent, or $3,000,000, or Blériot monoplane. This is a world's Mayor that he did not believe the Illinois Cea Japanese Capital Inundated. Tens of 1 shed around these suburb« record for speed. Marshall has made no call for the re tral officials would sue the estate for whatever it amounted to, he (Adams) Thousand« Starving A warrant has been »«sued for tke _ , , turn of troops, but the Fourth Regiment say portion of the money the company was going to get 5 per cent of the pro arrest of W J. Burns, the noted deter ! Tokio- At fl o M<>ndav "ViT/ o ’eloeh eloch Monday morning |g hr|J 1 n frB(llnr „ »••• rts to be lost through the ear repair ceeds. M rri-l n. „ -, Th, mBri„ rI •« 1 also met Jake L.‘ Hamon at •tive employed by the government in the t was reported the flood was subsiding o, e,„ br ,b, fraud«. He al»o intimated that before land fraud cases He is charged with rh. casualties r.-1-.rte.l up to date are Bu.„n<lbll, b,v thl> He told me to go to long a counter move would be made by Washington. subornation of ¡»erjury, who rsfuw to role oa Ibe car. the Kawn interests provided ths “bom that old man Gore and get him to bardnient" was kept up. Heeretary of the Interior Ballinger, withdraw that fool bill of bis against ren. ot thousand, of person, are ,hu, „.,rrtlI ,be ,,f ,hr It ia reported, is sebedulad to be retired the McMurray contracts.” aff r fBfB bb4 from President Taft's cabinet, also At homcles. and starving One of the "Do you think a majority of the In- ALA8KA VOLCANO ERUPTS. thr«. embankment, guarding Tokio ha. „„ „ , b „ ,, f |p< . li()B rh , torney General Wickersham and Beer« diana are in favor of these contracts broken Should the second and third mBror h , hB| 2<KM( w|ll tary of Htate Knox. Speaker Cannon is dike, break, half ths capital would be ,(1,un)rrr fo, ' Br4 jutr thu. ,volt|,.g Mount Shishaldin Scatters Ashes oo giving 10 |>er cent to McMurray?" also to be relegated to the has been«. “There is no doubt that they are.” ... the “disgrace'' of calling for troops Distant Ship. The first gun in the contemplated he repliod. But there is also no doubt Th. threatened embankment.> are now Th>( ,’Bftlob company is firm ia It. sugar war between members of the be.ag guarded by troop. Owing ,„j MT, lt B111 no, Vlf|j ,o tbr Seward. «:>».-■ The •te.im.'r i.rsin that in signing the contracts many Hprcckela family was fired Saturday the inundation of the buildings, the ,(<.mBB(1, ,,f e demagogue., even to arrived from N«w York with the re were influenced to do so by persons with (ha arrival at Ran Francisco of th< lukugaw. gs. and «leetrie light, are ,,iBke |„,rB! ,ur thr mB,„r BB,t port that Mount Shishaldin, the highest who had an interest in them." well known American ship Lyra front failing Thousand, of homeless |^pl« |h..„ b.rbl blm Thr bl(f nBrBl • olcanie peak in the I'mmak Island., | Adams was deacirbed ns a Delaware Yonkers, N. Y., bringing to the Federal are bcm, sheltered in the temples. The ,, „ w,(b |br of ,br is again in eruption. Early in July Indian, * *~ who frequently has been men Sugar Refining company sugar amount v.ctim. of the flood are Wholly depend ;ollrr BB<1 ,h,rB „ „ d^roBB,j Shishaldin wa« very active, but after a tioned as having called on President ing to 10,000,000 pounds. ent on peblie relief Thousand, have |bB( mto wh<> do short time the eruption erased. Taft in matters pertaining to Indian hf(, prop,rtVt officers of the Corwin say that when The Pacific C<»aat fisheries will start iwca unable to find shelter, and are es b„ Ju|r |0 affairs. It was Adams to whom the they passed the island a few days ago a seal farm. The question of feeding the Mnckon j,,,,) fr<>m tbr f0reB the volcano was more active than in Indiana in this state were asked to ad Denver gets tbv next convention of ¡<q.le .. causing apprehension The lt Bh„<rlbt,r ilbe|_ ,fUr lb, ,trik, the former eruption. A great column dress their telegrams urging President vegetable and fish suppliro are failing „ eni,e<| ,hBt ,hj. niB¥of the Knights Templar«. >f fire shot high into the air and vast Taft to approve the sale of the lands. an I th. stock of biscuit, alre.dy D by pubn< o|)1Bltin ,u 'tBbr rB,b<.B1 I volumes of smoke poured from the Before Carter left the stand Mc Oregon troop« in camp at American Murray's attorneys obtained from him crater. The aaow, which at the time exhausted. steps along this line, as the taxpavers Lake helped to fight foreat tires near ‘ R ? have Io*« faith la thi ; es for e of the previous eruption had not melt testimony tending to show that Mc Colville, Wash. almost washing the bottom, of the Htr.hers eontmao their aetiv.tiro, and ed far from the crater, has entirely dis Guire in previous Indian matters had Ibe jM,|irr were kept busy responding appeared from the sides of ths moun supported measures in congress oppos Health authorities In Berlin fear bridges. to riot calle A woman was hit by a tain. the invasion of cholsrs and arc taking ed to the interests of McMurray. l-ong before the Corwin approached AMERICAN MEN PLEASE POLAIRE «tone and seriously injured while riding Carters* appearance on the ata.id fol precautions against IL ¡on aa Eaat Hide ear Eight more police tbs island see waa covered with whit« lowed another day of lively testimony. Federal grand jury in Chicago bring, Women Dress Horribly They Lifted n"'n joined the I police dice mutiny against volcanic ash that bad been thrown out charges against Thomas G. I a * s >. Ar ' riding on ears. The strike was extend by the eruption, and was earned along Hkirts to See Her Legs. ed at Springfield, because the company 1 in the heavy clouds of «moke. The mour 4 Co.'s manager. to reinstate nine out . of > men on the Corwin say the sight pre Paris—Polaire, back in Paris once ¡officials refused * .... Election returns in Alasks give •rated by Mount Rhisbaldin was the men recently discharged. delegate to congress, Jsmes Wicker more, do«« not bear the «ligbte«t resent thirteen moot awe inspiring they have ever seen incut toward Americans for advertising sham, a plurality of 2,000. BIO WORLD'S FAIR BURNS her ae the ugliest woman ia the world New York. Aug. 10.— Mayor W. J. CARLISTS ARE BLAMED Aviator l^e Ulnae in a 4H8 mile race Rhe said: Gaynor, of New York, lies at St. "American women are charming, but ',_ in France made the remarkable speed Marys hospital tonight with the seg Brussels May Reach »100,000,- * of 100 miles in one hour and 55 min they crrtamly have a sense of modesty Spanish Premier Charges Rich of Order ments of a split bullet fired yesterday 000 Nothing Saved. that is purely their own Would you by James Gallagher, who Bought to ute«. With Directing Move tmlievo, they even pulled up my ak’irte „f the coetliest eonfla assassinate him, still buried in hia Mrs. Dells Totten shoots and instant to see my legs. grations in European history wiped out Faria—The Paris Times prints a long neck and mouth, but he has shown not ly kills James E. Sutton in a dispute “No American man would have al )he 1^)^,!, rl|H,altson Sunday night, over a line fence, near Wenatchee, lowed himarlf to do that. I like Amer entailing an euormou» loan, eatimatrd at sensational interview with Jo«o Canal one alarming symptom. It is beyond ejasy Mendes, the Spanish prime min Waah. iran men immenadjr They are alway« |)oo,ooo.000 Ho far an kn..wn only tw<» ister. covering the events which eulmi human power to say whether he will An cxpkmion of dynamite in an ex well groomed, smart sn.l elegant, person« arc dead and two score injured. uated in the severance of diplomatic recover, for not even the most re ...,---------- 20 everything .boot him .ugge.ts he bs< ] u h ( ||, ,,f |h,_ , f,lr relation« between the Spanish govern nowned specialist can say whether cavation in New York City injures in tbc a daily bath In dealing with women „ thr n,|gt,n. have called their 1910 ment and the Holy Bee, ae well u his blood poiaoning will be the aftermath, persona and causes a panic | - he may not have a Frenchman', esprit, rarly in the evening wa. a future programme. The paper says but as yet the mayor's temperature has neightiorhood. charm and delicate little ways, but he mBM of BB1| uow u ,uiouid«rillg that the premier dictated the interview given no cause for alarm. Every indi- .. _ Senator Aldrich denies profiting by is all right. . ruin»- A spark falling into . inflammable Premier ianaleja« begins by assert cation is that the wound is healing sat • 4 • The American woman i. too slack ,„at«.riaI in tbc tel r k bullJ,ng> burBl the tariff on rubber through his in ing thnt the movement in the north of iafaclorily. She doe. not make flBmM wblfh ,| ’ r ivcn by • hj<h vestments in concerns interest«! in the in her appearance. Spain is directed by rich Carlists, and as good an impression as the American wind, swept rapidly in all directions. affirms that he ;«.»•«••«« knowledge, rubber industry. Five Crushed to Death. man, and dre.se. horribly. She stick« Soon the Belgian. English and French that the committee behind the move The forces of General Lee Christ on immense hat on her head, without sect tona were destroyed The firemen Cape May, N. J. Five persons were ment spent »*0,000 in giving the man! mas. supfiorlng the Bonilla movement knowing whether It will suit her ot and detachments of soldiers, called to featant« of July 10, meal tickets, be ■rushed to death when an express train in Honduraa, are approaching the city not. It ia a fine hat, «he thinks, so the scene, found themselves baffled by «ides their railrosd fare« on the Pennsylvania railroad daubed long as it ia adorned with immense , gale, 7 ’ which earned ■ - the burning of Celiba rapidly. “After the failure of the manifeeta into an automobile at Mill Lane cross fiathrr. They are mad for embers" to all parts of the grounds, lion,” Honor Cannlejae rar«, “the agi ing — on — the West Jersey A Seashore Pensions for Alaskan dogs who have over there. If they were not afraid of — the -* left • *- of • -• n_. arose - To the — mam building ", The express train was hid- served their time In the harness la pro topping on them tficy would have them ,bn picturesque roof* ■ and spires of tators organised junta«, of which—and railroad. ! announce this publicly for the first den from view by a cornfield, As the •. - pose«! by Msrion P. Maus, commander •I “Bruxelles Kennens,“ a Belgian Coney time v llag<* priests are the leaders.*' automobile bore down • wing to their feet toward the of the department of the Columbia. Island, with water chutes, toboggan train, Mrs. Thomas McNeill, who livea «litio« and scores of side show«. The Illinois Central railroad com Road Caves In. One Dead. Juneau In Coal Famine. near the crowning, saw the approaching pany, by order of the corut, will re Juneau, Alaska With millions of express and waved her hand for the Mammoth Hot Spring«, Wyo. When _ Work Not Military. cover losses from the Memphis Car ton« of coal lying untouched in the auto driver to atop his car, bat the man hich defrauded road >»•» <•*»»«•*» Saturday passed through VBBe(mv„t B Geaeral R. B. Ba Katalla coal fields, Juneau is in the company wl..__ __________ that ___ ____ i of " •ither did not see the danger signal or Silver Gate, I about " ‘ three , miles • from' thousands of dollars in car repairing. , den ’ lowell, hero of . the siege of Mafe grip of a coal famine. The steamship thought he could cross before the train. here, the road caved in and the coach i king in the Boer war, arrived here Sat companies have completely exhausted rTRHIVI IVIAHV» s 1 . S a Encouraging weather reports URIC' indi-i Aviator Badly Hurt. ill than hud 10 wh„ ur.lay on a world tour of the . boys* «rout their retail supply, and the situation ill ne netter mannan „ , „ , _ peopU w Vofk eate that cm;« will lie better ovm-r town uwu Wlth is becoming acute. The city has s been expected. Daniel Mackay, of New York, who, Johannistal, Germany — Aeruplaniat the ______ park,. compaaies, having organised that move •mall supply, and is selling small with his wife, waa touring I__ _______ Hiem was seriously hurt at the avia President Taft receives visitors three was killed Mrs Mackay received in ment in Great Britain several years ag<> amounts to those who ere in grenteet tion meet here. While he was flying days a week only, reserving the others juries, but her condition is not reported I'ommenting on the recent spread of need. in a Wright machine, at the height of for recreation and rest. as serious Others who were bruised the movement to the t’nited States, he about 225 feet, one of the propellers Population* W1U Exceed 90,000,000. ueual energy the ,, u . . . . . or suffered from the shock of ths aeei «aid: ' “With ‘ the ‘ The other continued to run, United States han protested against j u Louch.eai.r, New American people display, they have Washrington.—Census official« esii broke. ------- up _r t he question splendidly; but mate that the population figures will cauaing the craft to turn over several injury to American property In Nicer« York. Mi„ Mueller, Chicago, and W taken are inclined gva by Madrix soldier«. p. Almon, of Helena. Mont are inclined to give it too much of a mil exceed 90,000,000 when the thirteenth times. It fell with a crash and waa itary tinge; the subject is not so much census count is completed. Although completely demolished. Hiem waa The famous Beat AfRsIrher mine, military as to make boys good chitons. “ SOO clerk« are working at top «peed on carried off the field uneonaeimia. Honduran Insurganta Till Jolla. one of the famous Comstock group, of the statistics, the totals will not be Orleans —It is repur.« reported . hers ..... that 1 Nevada, waa destroyed by fire. • New >*'w “ “ - scores of />-»»• prisoners have heen thrown Thirty two Die In Train crash. given out officially until October. Twelve Die in Wreck. •core« of prisoners have been thrown Trouble between’the Catholic church lato Honduraa prisons following their Royan, France- An evenrsion train Ignacio, Cal. — Disobedience of or Tour CsnU a Hundred for Flies. and Spanish government has been tern- alleged complicity in recent uprising« from Bordeaux with 1300 passengers Waahingtoa.—Determined to extermi ders, according to the railroad officials, pnrarlly averted and permanent peace there Rumors here arc that President and running at a speed of SO miles an on the part of a conductor waa retpon- overtures are being made. Davila has issued a statement declaring hour, crashed into a freight train at nnte the typhoid breeding housefly, s that insurrectionary movements have Raujon Thirty two persons were killed bounty of 4 cents ner 100 insects ha» •ible tor a head-on collision between a Officers of a Jap warship in the har- been completely quelled. Wholesale ar and 100 injured. Many of the victims been offered by a sanitary society of passenger end a work train on the bor of Shimidl, Japan, refused to aid rests of alleged leaders la the movement w«re school girls. Several of the pas women. In pnrtienlar the offer is made Northwestern Pacific near here, that an American steamer in distress, and against the government are being made, senger ears were torn to splinters A to small boys, who are already gleefully took a known toll of 12 lives and In committing numerous insecticides. jured about 20. who had asked for assistance. it is said. split switch caused the aeeideat. > Rioters Are Ruling City In Streetcar Strike Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. Representative Carter of Okla homa, Implicates Many. F MAYOR GAYNOR IMPROVES; INDICATIONS FAVORABLE