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re1 Hi ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1014. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATcTxi.

JANITOR TAKEN TO SCENE OF MURDER POUCE PUZZLED ATTACHMENT FOR IS 1 F. GOLTRA A NEW IDENTITY SECRET FOR JURY SERVICE TAX CASE TRIAL 1 11 JOHN UN The Empty Bag v-wj -r' zrxr Aqygyry lu BY WOMAN EDWARD REFUSED GIRL IN CHURCH 1 She Denies She Is Dorothy Ar Democratic Committeeman Fails Judge Hitchcock Overrules Motion of Capitalist Ordered to Pay $33,762.20. He Exhibits No Emotion When Police Show Him Traces of Tragedy. w4smm ft mmmitkemr. dor Judge Hitchcock today handed down a written opinion overruling the motion of John Scullin for a new trial in the suit of Collector Koeln to enforce the payment of 123.200 for Scullin's taxes.

A 'jury last June rendered a verdict against Scullin for $33,762. which included the amount of axes and accumulated penalties, and fees for thf Collector's attorneys, Foristel Masking. Former Assessor Brinkop raised Kcul-lin's assessment from $:,000 to and then doubled it because the formei street railway magnate failed to make a as required by law. Scullin refused to pay taxes on the basis of the $1,000,000 assessment, and Koeln filed suit. Judge Hitchcock, in his opinion, sai 1 that in order to grant a new trial it would be necessary for the Couit find that theaax bill against Scullin wa void.

Xo evidence waa introduced t' prove that It was void, the Court held. In the trial tt was shown that Brinkoa directed Michael Cook, the former District Assessor in the district In which Scullin lived, to raise the assessment from $50,000 to Judge Hitehcoclt held that this was not duress, as Cook, who Is now dead, was appointed by tli Mayor and confirmed by the Counci' and that his sets must be regarded a.i having been made on his own Initiative. The uits of Collector Koeln against David R. Francis and Henry S. whose assessments were also raised b-; Brinkop, are pending in the Suprev i Court on technicalities.

The Holidays Are profitable if you use our Facsimile Letters, Mailing Lists, etc. Deems, tha Lttter Ian; 720 Olive Brothers Who 1. 1 veil Alone Slain. THEBES, 111.. Dec.

7. Adam and Dan Brown, brothers, were found lurdered to Appear in Court in Answer to Subpena. Kdward F. Goltra, Iron magnate and Missouri member of the Democratic ational Committee, failed to' aDDear in Judge Hennings" court this afternoon. response to a subnena summoning him to serve on the December grand jury.

An attachment was issued for Goltra at ins office. A Post-Dispatch reporter earned that he left last night for New Louis Essig. lumber dealt r. of Peck avenue, was named as foreman of the grand jury. The other members are: Alcorn, commission merchant.

4.VG Lindell boulevard: Edward t. Bannan-tine, iron dealer. 5647 Bartmer avenue: reaerick Delbel. hav 1737 North Euclid avenue: Moritz Evsell. con tractor, 3842 Flora boulevard: aG.

H. Oberbeck, real estate. 8116 Church road; uinks L. Parrish laundrvman ffi07 Cabanne avenue: RudolDh Sohmitz. clothing dealer.

5385 Waterman avenue; Charles II. Maschmeier, lunchroom proprietor, Dover nlaoe: Charles Glorious, buyer, 4140 Morgan street: Her- en a. l-eldman, marble dealer, 54 Kingsbury place: A. J. Murch.

contract or. Cabanne avenue. Two- alternates named wtro A F. Ebbs, shoe dealer. 6130 Berlin avenue.

and Henry L. real estate. 4550 Berlin avenue. Among the 500 nersons suboenaad for service on the grand jury was a negro, Aaron Lloyd of -3453 Lawton avenue. Lloyd asked to be excused.

and the judge said he would excuse him at the proper time. In addressing the members of the panel the Court said that in April the grand jury had been requested to inves tigate reports of much violence in the city and said that these conditions still existed. He said men and bova aim attack women and' children in' public places and that burglary, highway robbery and murderous assaults are of too frequent occurrence The jury was told conditions should be investigated and if it appears the crimes are due to an inadequate number of policemen, then it may be adv'dable for the jury to recommend that the police force be increased. The Court also called attention to reported violations cf the laws against minors buying cigarettes and frequenting poolrooms. The Judge said he believed more public attention should be given grand jury reports and suggested that the present jury send a copy of its report to the Municipal Assembly.

To sell boats, launches and machinery to an advantage and real estate at a profit, use Post-Dispatch Wants. Ilenne Fob; in Memphis. MEMPHIS. Dec. 7.

Two men were knocked unconscious early today in attempting to pass on a street during the worst fog that Memphis ever experienced. Early morning street cars abandoned service for an hour. Xo object could be seen more than 10 feet away. Bulgarian Minister Arrives. XEW YORK, Dec.

7. Prof. Stephen ranaretoff. the first Belgian Minister to the Vnited States and the second from the Balkan nations, arrived here vesterday. He expects to present his credentials in Washington Thursday.

of here, of in "their home, four miles east yesterday. They were farmers, 50 and years uiu, wim alone. It was generally known they kept money in their house and robbery is supposed to have been the motive. I 1 1 1 Yale Prealdeot Oppose Third olleaje. XEW HA VEX, Dec.

7. In hi' annual report made publio yesterdav.f i President Arthur T. Hadley of YalV University opposes the proposition establishing a third college at Yale. -yj points out that the expense would b-i $3,000,000 and that it could not be ot- tained for that purpose. i SEVERE RHEUMATIC i PAINS DISAPPEAR 1 nold, but Says She Has Met Her Arrested Here.

A mysterious young woman prisoner at police headquarters aroused the curi-ousity of Capt. O'Brien today when she said to him: "If you knew who I was you'd be burning up the wires between here and the East to tell what you had found out." "You're not the long missing Dorothy Arnold, are you? asked O'Brien, facetiously. "No," replied the young woman, "but I have met Dorothy." The young woman refused to reveal her identity and said the name Irene Lane which she. gave when arrested last night was fictitious. For the last year, she said, she.

has been beaUng her way about the country as a tramp, dressed in a man's clothing. Her Hair Is Short. When arrested she was in woman's attire. A patrolman was approaching Fifteenth and Olive streets at 6:30 p. m.

when he saw the young woman run, as though trying to get away from him. He chased her half a block and asked her why she ran. She replied she wanted to get in out of the rain. The police-Tian took her to headquarters. When she removed her hat it was noted that her hair was short, and when asked the reason she told of her hoboing experiences.

"I have been a boy a year," she said "I reached St. Louis yesterday. Out in the suburbs I borrowed a skirt and a shirt waist from a woman and discard ed my boy's clothing. I an) 20 years old and come of good family in the East. I was educated in a convent and, after graduating, I taught English to Italians.

She RonKked It With Man. "A year ago I met a young man who was going to rough it as a hobo and I decided to go with him. I didn't have the strength to ride the rods, but I have often ridden on the tops of freight cars and in box cars. I have met many famous hoboes, including A 1 and Railroad Jack. I was never insulted bv a hobo.

I would rather trust myself with them than with some young society men. The young woman said she separated from her young man companion several months ago and lias been ''going it alone" since then. She left the hoboes with whom she was traveling, she said. at Blue Island, 111. The prisoner has light brown hair and hazel eyes.

The hair is cut in mannish style. She says she is not an actress. HARRIMAN SHOPMEN VOTE TO CONTINUE STRIKE BFour Organizations Heard From and Fifth Is "ot Expected to Change Result. j-our or trie organizations involved in the strike of shopmen on the Harriman tines have voted to continue the strike, according to an announcement made by A. O.

Wharton, chairman of the rail way department of the American Federation of labor, who is in St. Ixuis. The vote of the fifth organization in volved in the strike has not been re ceived, but Wharton said the vote of the other four was such that he did not think a contrary vote of the missing or ganization would change the result. The organizations that have voted to continue the strike ate the International Association of Machinists, the Black smiths and Helpers, the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, and the Union of Metal Workers. The vote from the Boilermakers union has not been received.

Prisoner Escapes While Officer and He Drink at Bar Continued From "age One. through his acquaintance with a sister of Martin. The latter is 4tl years old. He was acquitted of murder in Toledo on the ground that he killed his man In self-defense. Convict Worked aja Salesman.

Xelson, wnen seen by a Post-Dispatch reporter, said Martin had been selling motion picture machines for him on commission, but that he had not heaM from him for three weeks, until yesterday, when he got a telegram asking him to meet Martin at Union Station at 10:15 p. m. The train did not arrive until 1:55 a. m. Xelson said only one of Martin's hands was handcuffed when he stepped from the train, niey went to the reading room in Union Station and talked about 15 minutes.

Nelson said he pledged himself responsible for Martin only while he was with him. He said he heard Huegel suggest the visit to the bartender friend. Martin, he said, asked Huegel If he wanted him tor walk over there handcuffed, and Huegel replied he would take off the handcuffs. Martin escaped three hours later, Xelson said, and he had not heard from him since. Nelson said he obtained Martin's parole at the request of Martin'p sister, snd that he had known the family many years.

Korea Stopa Opium "molting. SEOUL, Korea. Dec. 7. The Government has suppressed the opium monopoly and put a ban on the smoking of opium.

These steps of the Government were advocated by American missionaries. Window Broken Cloth Stolen. A brick was hurled through the glass show window of the Red Diamond Clothing store. 113 North Eighteenth street, laat night and several bolts of cloth, ware stole; HAS PENITENTIARY RECORD David Fountain Is Said to Be Fugitive From Insane Asy lum in Iowa. By Associated Press.

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 7. David Fountain. Janitor of the jchurch in which the body of the 10-year-old school girl, Margaret Milling-, -was found, showed no emotion yesterday when the police took hlra to the little room under the belfry of the church, where the murder ia be lieved to have been committeed and where the floor still bears traces of the tragedy. The police also took Fountain to ti moving picture house from which said, after hla arrest Saturday night be had just returned when he found the child's body, with a cord twisted aboul Its throat.

He said the Future he had seen was an Indian romance, in which a murder was enacted. "It's all beten killing with me today," Fountain Is said by Mrs. Charles Oehler, wife of the pastor of the church, to have told her, after his return from the show, and after he had reported the discovery of the body in the basement the church. Stains Found on Trousers. One of the statements Fountain is saM by the police to have made, while being sweated, was that he had left his work at the church Saturday afternoon, intent upon stealing a horse and buggy.

"I have no luok here," he is reported as saying-, "and I wanted to get back to Texas, where 1 used to live." Fountain exhibited a trace of dismay when several stains were pointed out on his trousers. He said he had killed a eihicken, but Paul Oehler, son of the pastor, asserted that Fountain had killed a turkey Thanksgiving day and that his clothes had been spattered. Fountain, the police assert he said, served two years in the penitentiary at Cherry Hill, and two, five, two and seven years, successively, in the Fort Madison (Io.) prison. Fugitive From Insane Asylnm. Fountain is also a fugitive from the Clarinda State Hospital for the Insane in Clarinda, Iowa, according- to a statement by Dr.

Hatch, head of the State Lunacy Commission, who examined him. I "I learned from him," said Dr. Hatch, "that he was first committed to the Mount Pleasant asylum in the city of that name in Iowa. He was transferred from there to Clarinda. He says he made a daring escape and came West.

He told me that his father was an inebriate and that he undoubtedly inherited some of the tendencies. He told me nothing of his antecedents or his family other than that he was an American, born in Illinois." Fountain Was) in Iovra Asylum Two Tears Before lie Escaped. CLARINDA. Dec. 7.

David Fountain, under arrest In Sacramento for the murder of a 10-year-old girl, was formerly In the Clarinda insane asylum under the name of Frank Fairchild. He was received at that institution from the insane asylum at Mount Pleasant, in September 1S87 and remained here unUl May 22. 1SS9, when he escaped. He simply walked out of the yard and failed to The asylum records of his case are meager, but indicate he was a degenerate. His insanity was said to be due to an injury to his head.

At the time' he "was sent to the Mt Pleasant hospital he lived in this county, and for that reason he was returned here. RAILROAD TOLD TO CUT ITS COMMUTATION FARES Rate From Liberty to Kansas City to Be Slightly Over One Cent a Mile. JEFFERSON CITY, Dec. 7. The Public Service Commission today ordered the Kansas City.

Clay County St. Joseph Railway Co. to issue commutation tickets between Kansas City and liberty and all intervening points, which will permit passengers to ride for slightly more than 1 cent a mile. This is the first order by the commission reducing railroad passenger fares below the 2-cent minimum and the company is ordered to subm monthly statements to the commission of all sales of such tickets. The order provides that a 53-ride single trip ticket, valid for SO days, between Kansas City and IJberty, shall be sold for $8.50, making each ride cost a fraction more than 16 cents.

The distance oetween the two points is 14.13 miles, which makes the cost per mile little more than 1 cent. The rate per mile on the same kind of tickets to intervening points is about the same. COLLECTOR FINDS WOMAN UNCONSCIOUf Odor of Gas Causes Him to Push His Way Into Hartford Street Home." Lw Hamilton, collector, of 344J Hartford street, received no respons" when be rang at the house, S41S Bell revenue, at 10 a. m. today.

He thought detected an odor of gas, so pushed open the door and Investigated. In a bathroom upon- the second floor, he found Mrs. Elisabeth Gang, years old unconscious, with the gas Jet turned on Mrs. James Skelly, mother of Mrs Gang, was In a rear room. Mrs.

Cane was taken to the city hospital and Is reported to be in a serious condition. Her mother says she has been ill and despondent. lor Presents Jou Cant Do Better Than This- Rheumatism depends on an acid in the blood, which affects the muscles and joints, producing inflammation, stiffness and pain. This acid gets into the blood througlt some defect in the digestive process. Hood's Sarsaparilla, the old-time blood tonic, is very successful in tha treatment of rheumatism.

It acts directly, with purifying effect, on the blood, and improves the d'ses-tion. Don't suffer. Get Hood's today. Self-Blling, Saiotr mm! Rognlar Typoa. Ilka stmt od FoWer Upon Request.

Christmas Boxes. Avoid Substitute. at the Leading Stores. Company, 173 Broadway, Now York. Iwatermaii 3v Nine Industrial Unrest Reasons Sent to Congress Continued From Page One.

unions." Employes Side tilven. A similar presentation of the employes' side is as follows: "Normal and healthy desire for better living conditions. "Protest against low wages, long hours, insanitary and dangerous conditions existing In many industries. "Demand for industrial democracy, and revolt against the suppression of organization. "Unemployment, and the insecurity which the wage-earner feels at all times.

'Tnjust distribution of the product of industry. 'Exploitation of the many hy the favored few. 'Demand for full share of production." "Unjust attitude of police and courts. "There is one law for the rich, another for the poor. "Immigration and the consequent over-supply of labor.

"Existence of a 'double' standard." The Home Doctor (Clip out and save) How to Cure Rheumatism Here Is a presrrtptlen fnr rheumatism lio hr mixed at horn) uaed all ovpr the U. S. for manv years and said to be the miri'it known remedy: neutralizes arid In the blood and gtvea results after first doe "One ounce of Torts compound and one ounce syrup of tarsaparilla. Put these two Innredlents in half pint of whtakev. Use a tallspoonful before ach meal and at bedtime." flet Ingredients at any drug atore.

Genuine Torts oomca in one-ounce scaled yellow packages. Surest for Coirhs and Colds rton't experiment on a cough or cold. It la very risk. The following formula, easily mixed at homa. makes one of the surest and quickest couch and cold remedies obtainable often cur-tot the worst couKh or cold in a day.

Pine as medicine Is as old aa the Bible, but hera Is best form: "Two ounces of Crlyccrlne and half an ounce of Globe 1'lne Compound Concentrated Pine); add theae t' half pint of whiskey) Cse teaspoonful frequently as recjulrsd. Smaller dosaa to children .) Be sure to (tet tha senulne Olobe Pine Compound (Concentrated Pine). It la put up only In half-ounca bottles each, enclosed -In a screw-top can. Sore Feet, Corns and Callouses nrluro foot tfonjr. Hare la 'a remedy that knocks all foot troubles In a hurry: It work throurh the porta, removing the causa: "Two tablespoonfuls of Calorld compound In warm foot bath." Olves Instant relief for aching and sweaty feal corns and callouses ran be paaled right off.

Specially af-f active for sore bunions and frost bites. I.arae boa of Caloclde twenty-fly cants at any druc ator. The above recipes published bv the MsdUal Formula laboratories. Carton, o. which sanctions only a poor living in return for the hardest manual labor, ar.d at the same time luxury for persons who perform no useful service whatever.

"Disregard of grievances of individual employes and lack of machinery for redressing same. "Control by 'Eig Business' over both industry and Stata. "Par on the part' of those in comfortable positions of being driven to poverty by sickness, accident or involuntary loss of employment. "Inefficiency of workers on account of lack of proper training. Prison Labor Opposed.

"Unfair competition from prison and other exploited labor. "The rapid pace of modern industry, which results in accidents and premature old age. ture old age. "Lack of attention to sickness and accidents, and the difficult and delay incident to securing compensation for accidents under the common law and the statutes of states which have not adopted modern methods of dealing with, those' questions. 1 "Arbitrary discharge of employes.

"Blacklisting of individual employes. "Exploitation of women and children in industry. "Promotion of violence by the use of gunmen, spies and provokers hired by employers. "Attempt to destroy unionism by the pretense of the 'open "Monopolixatlon of land and natural resources. "Suppression of free) speech and right of.

peaceful assembly." On the principle of collective bargaining the investigators found virtually all witnesses with the exception of those representing the Industrial "Workers of the World to be in accord. As to any suggested method of application of that principle, however, wide divergence of opinion was noted. Vnlonlam Taken p. Ths report takes up in detail criticisms' of existing trade; unions which it says came from employers and radicals who advocats other forms of labor organization. White virtually unanimous agreement of witnesses was found in favor of the formation of a Federal commission of mediation and conciliation, the report points out that "practically every witness has expressed the strongest disapproval of any form of compulsory arbitration." "Ths testimony of a majority of the employers," the report says, "was in favor of a ruls similar to that of the Canadian in -atrial disputes act, which prohibits strikes and lockouts in public utilities pending Investigation by the m-dators, assisted by representatives of ths employers and employes." Such a law is uniformly opposed by the representative; 'of 'labor on the ground that i (Copyright Life Puoiisnmg to i reau of Employment in the Department of Labor, which would co-operate with state and municipal employment offices, regu'ate private agencies doing interstate business, and establish clearing houses for distributing information, uniting all labor exchanges into one national system." Proposals for, constructive legislation, the report announces, will be submitted to Congress covering labor ex-hanges; industrial education, vocational guidance, and; apprenticeship; safety, sanitation, health of employes, and administration of laws relating there to; smuggling of Asiatics; medication, conciliation and arbitration; women and child labor, minimum wage, hours of labor; agriculture and farm labor: social especially workmen's, sickness and invalidity insurance! and labor and the law.

COULD NOT SLEEP OR DO HOUSEWORK The Grippe Left Mrs. Findley in Such a Weak, Nervous Condition That Her. Case Was Serious. "The Grippe left me in a very weak, nervous, rundown condition I was too weak to do my housework and could not sleep. I tried different medicines without benefit and finally one day read about Vinol and decided to try it.

in very short time I could see an improvement and after taking two bottles I have a good appetite and my health and strength was restored. "I think Vinol is a grand medicine and every weak, nervous, rundown woman should take it." Mrs Geo Findley. Severy, Kan." Vinol creates strength because it contains all the medicinal tissue-building elements of cod liver oil actually taken from fresh, healthy cods' livers. To this is added pep-tonate of iron, a most essential element for the blood, air dissolved in a delicious tonic native wine Vinol creates an appetite, kids digestion, makes pure healthy blood. In this natural manner It builds up the rundown-, weak and nervous system, replaces weakness with strength.

If Vinol fails to create strength after sickness we will return your money. Chester Kent chemists For sale by Wolff-Wilson Drug St. Louis. Mo. Note: You can get Vinol at other leading drug stores In SL Louis.

Look Xor the VIno sign displayed on their windows. ADVf it is entirely in favor of the employer, who utilizes the period of delay to make preparations for breaking the strike. It is also insisted that such a delay would be In violation of that provision of the Constitution of the United which prohibits involuntary servitude Regarding trade unions and employers' associations, the commission announces that it is making a comprehensive study of a large number of typical organizations. The commission's experts also are looking into questions of unorganized labor, scientific management in shops as it affects employes, women and children in industry, land problems, unemployment, social legislation and labor and the law. Vievcs on Unemployment.

Of unemployment the report says: "Nothing comes so clear to the commission as the imperative necessity of organizing a market for labor on a modern business basis, so that there will be no vacant jobs and idle workers in the. same community at the same time, or within distance where the transportation is practicable. The consensus of opinion is that legislation for a national system of labor exchanges is an immediate necessity. The plan of the commission proposes to establish a I3u- If you ha eczema, ringworm or other itching, burning, raw or pimply skin eruption, try Resinol Ointment and Res-inol Soap and see how quickly the itching stops and the trouble disappears, even in severe, stubborn cases. Rasina! Ointment, with ths help ef Resinol Soap, clears away pimples snd blackbamds.

and is a most valuable household reared- far sores, bursa. Soils, til, ste. fey anjMlsJJU esJ8ilI heals skin diseases I I 1 I 1 1 1 I i 1 n-A asasss.M 1 5 1(1 111 rTLiircP tTSfl KA7T I i i 1 1 1 'i Willi TMs is the only cleanser that is guaranteed to equal the 10c land I tJX 'in --r iii is I -t 1.

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