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I 2 Jrt ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. 3 BASKETS CARRY Santa Will Leave ,600 Autos, Worth More Than $1,000,000, in St Louis Stockings GIRL THOUGHT TO BE HEIRESS SAYS SHE IS ACTRESS GIRL HELD BY POLICE AS MISSING HEIRESS 000000000KK00000KK 50 FEET; RUNAWAY Russell E.

Gardner Buys Three, One for Self and Others for His Distribution of Chickens. Groceries and Candy in Progress at Kinloch Building. Prisoner at Police Station Declares She Never Heard of Violet Buehler. Spirited Team Driven by Mrs. A F.

Miller Finally Dashes Into Post. WALLACE CULVER A GIVER WOM DRAGGED CHRISMS CHEER TO HUMBLE HOMES 9 ON GRAND AVENUE 8 JIM bit 0 0 8 JL 1 1 v. I trim I 1 I "--T I I PHAETON IS DEMOLISHF.il OFFERS TO IDENTIFY SELF F. D. Seward, W.

D. Orthwein and Mrs. George Allen Are on Holiday Delivery List. .4 9 I 0 liristmas iceelc. 4 v5- BEl.I.AH St'tJG.

0KK00X000000000000000 ONCE CHAMPION SUED FOR DIVORCE 0 Warren E. Kuhl Alleges That His Wife Slept With a Knife Under Her Pillow. A divorce suit against Irs. Lillian Kuhl. who once was the chamnion woman bowler of St.

Louis, was filed Saturday In the Circuit Court by Warren E. Kuhl. He alleges she had an uncontrollable temper, which was often expressed in violent rages against him, and that she slept with a knife under her pillow. He also accuses her of having struck him with kitchen utensils. Kuhl says he operated a bowling alleja at Grand avenue and Arsenal street In and 1909, 'nd that while he w-o Attending to business at the a.iry, his wife went motoring and visited wine-rooms with other men.

She spent her afternoons drinking, he alleges, and refused to prepare supper for him when he returned home in the The petition sets forth that Kuhl left his wife in 1D0S, but returned to her in a week on her promise not to annoy him furthtr. In 190S, Kuhl alleges, Mrs. Kuhl became infatuated with a man named Louis Waldecker and insisted that Wal-decker. who had separated from his wife, be permitted to rent a room in the Kuhl flat. Kuhl says his wife induced him to consent to this.

A divorce suit filed by Mrs. Kuhl was heard by Judge McQuillin about two years ago. While the case was under advisement, Mrs. Louis Waldecker presented to tlx; Judge certain information which resulted in a re -opening of the case. A decree was denied Mrs.

Kuhl and the Court of Appeals recently affirmed Judge McQuillin's ruling. Mrs. Waldecker was granted a divorce In June, lftlO. She alleged that Mrs. Kuhl had broken up the Waldecker home.

The Kuhls wwe married In January, 1906. and-separated In August. 1909, according to the petition. Kuhl says his wife Is not now a resident of St. Louis.

MRS. F. W. RAWN WINS PERMIT TO SUE HERE JEFFERSON CITY, Dec. 23.

The Circuit Court of St. Louis has jurisdiction to try the suits instituted by Mrs. Florence Willis Rawn of Chicago against a number of insurance companies to recover insurance policies carried by her iate husband, Ira G. liawn, who died from pistol wounds supposed to have been self-inflicted. Judge Woodson, writing the opinion of the court handed down today, denied the writs of prohibition against Judges Grimm, Allen, Muench.

Shields and other circuit Judges of St. Louis, to whom the Rawn suits were assigued for trial. The opinion Is In the prohibition proceeding instituted by the Pacific Mutual a Judge Grimm. It Is held that noniiftidents of the State or foreign corporations with valid claims may cue in the courts of thin State, provided legal Is obtained. Mrs.

Ilawn sued the Pacific Mutual f- $14,000. Lawyers i'ay the companies were anxious to prevent the trial of these cases by Missouri courts, because the Supreme Court of this State has held that suicide Is not a defense against the payment of a policy unlesj it can be shown that the person contemplated suicide wh'-n he took out the policy. G32 01 1 i 9 77 1 3 9 9 WOMAN BOWLER IS PERFECT Large Force of Volunteers Worked Four Days Packing and Getting Baskets Ready. The distribution of 2W Christmas baskets to poor invalids and shut-Ins and others who cannot attend the Post-Jis-pftch Christmas Festival at the Colist-un. Monday, was begun at 9 o'clock Saturday morning at the Kinloch Building, Tenth and Locust streets, where for four days a force of 55 women and pi.

men, under the direction of Sheriff Nolte and Mrs. A. II. Sippy, have been parking them with the good thing's that are to provide Christmas dinners In 2400 homes and several good mea's alter Christmas has passed. Id the distribution as in the packing the work was accomplished with tee greatest expedition through the perfec-tior of the system that has been developed during the 12 years that Christmas baskets have been packed and distril-nfed.

There was a long line of men. women ana children waiting for the distribution to begin. A3 each one entered and pr.V sented the card that bad been -sent out by the committee, that one received a basket which had been packed witn peck of potatoes, one pound peaches, one can of tomatoes, one can of soup, onions, one pound of coffee, on i pound of sugar, one pound of rice and one pound of candy. Arranged in great piles were -40" chickens, 4SO0 loaves' of bread and 2Vv stalks of celery, which had been o'eliv-eved at the building Saturday morning, As there had not been time for packing those In the baskets, the re cipients of the baskets passed along In a line and the chickens, bread and celery were placed in the baskets. They passed out through another door an'' scattered to their homes in parts o' the city.

Worked I.Ike Clockwork, From the time that the packing began Tuesday morning the work progressed with the precision of clockwork under the direction of Mrs. Sippy and Deputy Sheriff Edwin Nolte, brother of Sheriff Nolte. In the 10 years that Mrs. Sippy nas been looking after the' packing she has gradually perfected her system. The supplies that had arrived i-n bulk were assorted, the canned goods counted and the coffee, sugar, rice anc candy carefully weighed and tied in parcels.

The potatoes and onions were placed In the baskets. The other articles were in huge piles around the big building. All day Friday the baskets were being filled with the groceries and candy. They were placed on trucks, which were pushed arou-nd the room by women and girls who had volunteered. The trucks were first pushed to a young woman who placed a sheet of paper over the vegetables that partially filled the baskets and on top of that placed a card wishing the recipient a merry Christmas.

AH Daaketa Inspected. The trucks were then wheeled from one station to another around the room and volunteers placed the different articles in them as they passed. All day long there was an endless procession of trucks around the room and the baskets, ag fast as they were filled, were piled near. the Tenth street entrance for distribution. In all 8000 pounds of candy was weighed and tied packages.

For the Coliseum festival 11,000 packages were prepared, each containing over half a pound. Twenty-four hundred packages each containing a pound were prepared for the Christmas baskets. AH of the baskets, before they wer piled up for distribution, were inspected by Mrs. Dr. J.

A. Dixon to see that they had been properly filled and that the jb reels were all well tied. The expeditious manner in which the baskets were packed and distributed was due to the favt that Mrs. Slppy'a helpers were in th main the same ones who have helped jr year after year and who have become amiliar with and proficient in her syfti i. Ti stan of Christmas approval, a box of Plo fa Famous Candles.

JUDGE RESIGNS AS PULITZER TRUSTEE on Bench Too Heavy, He S.r Ralph Pulitzer Is to fake His Place. NKy YORK. Dec. 21-Harrington I'utnam. Supreme Court Justice In the Scond Judicial District, yesterday lilej with Surrogate Cohalon his resignation, both as executor of the will of Joseph Pulitzer and Trustee of the New York World and the St.

I.ouis Post-Dispatch, the Ihilltzer newspaper properties. Justice Putnam's place will be taker, by liilph Pulitzer, eldest son of the lute Mr. Puliltzer and President of the less Publishing which publishes World. The other trustees are George L. lilves, president of the board of trustees of Columbia University; Frederick N.

Judson of St. Louis, president of the Pulitzer Publishing Co. and J. Angus Shaw of this city, formerly president of the Press Publishing Co. Justice Putnam In filing his resignation, ald his duties on the bench made It Impossible for him to accept the trust conferred upon him under the Pulitzer will.

Boay Bee Op a Tomorrow, everything In Christmas Candles." SYSTEM Occupant Escapes From Experience With Only a Few Bad Bruises. Mrs. A. F. Miller of 4'M9 Maffitt avenue was tlrrown from a phaeton and was dragged 30 feet Saturday when the team she was driving became frightened and ran away at Grand and Finney avenues.

The phaeton struck a post and was demolished, throwing Mrs. Miller to the pavement. She was bruised about tha head and shoulder. After breaking away from the vehicle the spirited team ran two blocks and were stopped by Thomas Mahoney, proprietor of a dry goods store. Mrs.

Miller was assisted to a drug store by persons who saw the runaway, and she was given medical treatment. She was able to walk to her home. The team Mrs. Miller was driving is valued at $2000 and has ben driven by bf-r almost daily about the residence sec tion of St. Louis.

Saturday she left her home and drove along Grand avenue. At Finney avenue a strap broke in the harness and one of the horses shied to one side. As the harness broke wticn the horse lunged, both horses started to run. Mrs. Miller held to the flniil-tho lhaeton struck a hitching post near Grand and Easton avenues.

The busgy was turned over and the horses broke away. Mrs. Miller fell on the pavement, alighting on her head and shoulders. MAKES GIFTS TO HIS STRIKING MEN 265 Out on Strike, Receive Bounty for Good1 Christmas Dinner. CONSHOHOCKEN.

Dec. 23. Unique in the history of labor strikes Is a Christmas gift being distributed here today. Victor Mauck, president of the" John Wood Manufacturing- has set aside a fund of $2000 which Is being distributed in gifts of $3 and $10 each to every one of the 266 men who have been out on strike for 10 weeks at his plant. Mauck says his gift is Inspired bv a desire that every one of his old employes can be sure of a good Christmas dinner.

New Money DEPOSITORS and other customers of the American Trust Company may now obtain crisp, new bills and coins fresh from the Mint for their Christmas money. American Trust Co. "POn SAVIN08" 710 Chestnut St. Si Louis Capital On Million Dollar TheAuIenriettiHotelGo, OF CJJVYTON, MO WHE Sem a Tab! a d'Hote Dinner CHRISTMAS EVE. from fi p.

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nlrk ln. im. Ht Urn Jibttt, tomato Ptturin. iottn an rtHturrl; ir Join of l-f. mtifhroom sau-e, brown potHto; or rrtant young turkv, muffiM.

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515 Cr I m-h if STREET Gives Her Name as Beulah Sugg, Age 22, but Is Held for Other Girl's Foster Mother. A young woman who says she is Beulah Sugg, an actress, is held at police headquarters on suspicion that she Is Violet Buehler, a 15-year-old missing Chicago heiress. Miss Buehler's mother is on the way to St. Louis to try to Identify the prisoner. Miss Sugg says she is 22 years old and that she never heard of Violet Buehler until she was arrested at the La Salie Hotel Friday night on a telegram from the Chicago police.

Miss Sugg says she was born in Seattle and reared in Nashville, and that members of a theatrical company now playing in St. Louis can vouch for her Identity. Gervais Lamertson of 3309 Eads avenue, cousin of the missing heiress, called Police Headquarters at 10 a. m. and said the prisoner la not Violet Buehler.

Started on Thanknglvlnpf Vlnlt. Violet Buehler, 15 years old, an heiress to a considerable fortune, disappeared Nov. 25 when she left the home of her mother, llrs. Herman Buehler, in the Meyers Hotel. Chicago.

She was to go to Racine, to spend Thanksgiving with relatives. She left the hotel late in the afternoon and took a Northwestern elevated train for Evanston, a suburb, where she was to change to a railway train for Racine. She never reached her relatives. Detectives put on the case by Mrs. Buehler traced he girl over the elevated and the steam railway to the outskirts of Ra cine and there they lost the trail.

Said to Be Foster Daughter. She was gone two days before she was missed. Mrs. Buehler discovered her disappearance when she went to Ra cine and was told that had not been there Mrs. Buehler tried to keep the matter secret and the Chicago police began a still hunt.

The of the disappearance became public Dec. IS, when it was said that Miss Buehler was jiot Mrs. Buehler's own daughter, but the child of Mrs. William Holzapfel of Chicago. Holzapfel was the wife of Frank Bobzin when Violet was born and Bobzin deserted the mother and child.

The, mother was too poor to support herself and the baby and Violet was given a home by Mrs. Buehler. it is said she never was legally adopted. Oyster Loaf. 25c and 50c.

Ready In a jiffy to take Milford's Oyster MINERS TRAPPED BY CAVE-IN RESCUED Comrades Work at High Speed in Short Relays and Liberate Comrades for Christmas. SHENANDOAH. Dec. 23. Joseph Reed and Thomas Levari, two miners, who were entombed in the Packer Colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal last night, will spend Christmas at home with their families.

They were rescued uninjured today. The men were working on the night shift when there was a rush of coal and refuse, preventing escape. So immense was the wall that mine officials feared it would take several days to dig through and that meanwhile the men might be asphyxiated if not crushed to death by a further movement of the cave-in. All avallab'e men, working in short relays at. high speed, made rapid progress and the men soon were reached.

The men had prepared themselves for r- long siege. With pieces of mine timber, they had built a stroncr hrattice work to prevent the-coal from rushing rpon them and took precautions to guard their food and water supply. Dlnmond Sale, Give vour weethart a diamond rir.g. Credit. IX)ftis Uros.

1M fioor. 80S X. it.h. DEAF MAN SAYS WIFE USED ABUSIVE WORDS Couldn't Hear Most of Them, bin Neverless Thinks He Is i Entitled to Divorce. Martin Hosenfelder Jr.

filed a suit for divorce at Clayton Saturday and took a deputy sheriff home with him to serve the papers on Mrs. Bella Hosenfelder as a Christmas present. They live on Geyer road farm, near Klrkwood and, the husba-Td says bis wife has often threatened to do bodily injury to him and to their three-year-old son. In the petition he says his wife uses abusive language to him, much of which he has not heard, being extremely deaf, but on -some occasions she raises hei voice sufficiently to make her hus-ba-id understand what she really thinks of him They were married April 11. 190S.

Diamond for Workhouse Superintendent. A diamond pin valued at $200 was presented to Cal White, superintendent of the workhouse, at noon Saturday by the guards" at the institution. The workhouse officials gathered at a dinnei during the noon hour and at its close the pin was presented. Several liforma talks "were made expressing apprecla tlon to White of his management or th place. PART OF SANTA'S AUTO GIFT LIST RUSSELL E.

GARDNER and his two sons, three six- cylinder touring cars. Miss Julia coupe. G. Lacy Crawford, coupe. Mrs.

Hanford Crawford, coupe. Mrs. E. Holmes, touring limousine; Miss Anna R. Garrels, six-cylinder torpedo.

Louis Dennig, seven-passenger touring car. F. D. Seward. 48-horsepower touring roadster.

Mrs. George Allen, under-slung coupe. Mrs. Minnie ForsteK electric runabout. George T.

Stack, five-passenger touring car. Mrs. "Wallace Culver, four-passenger tourabout. Santa Claus showing his generosity this Christmas by figuratively putting automobiles in the stockings of many men and wonjen in and around St. Louis.

Through St. Louis agencies about 600 cars, costing more than $1,000,000, have been purchased for delivery in the hoii- dav season. Many already have been delivered and will be used for the first time Christmas day. Russell E. Gardner has three 2ix-cylinder Packards, one for himself and one for each of his sons.

A Packard limousine will be deliver-'! to Mrs. E. R. Holmes at the Pucl-ingliaiu Hotel. Miss Julia Rumsey, 4346 Westminstei place, will get a Cole "30" coupe fos Christmas.

A Hupp coupe will be added to other presents received by Mrs. Conrad Eudktr oZ 7 Princeto-n, avenue. After Santa Claus makes his visit, Mrs. M. E.

Tainter, 6141 McPherson avenue, will have the privilege of driving in a new Hupp coupe. Mrs. G. Lacy Crawford of 42M West Pine boulevard, will get. a Hupp coupe as a remembrance of the Christmas of 1911.

Mrs. Hanford Crawford, 4442 Lindell boulevard, will be another, possessor ot a Hupp coupe after the Christmas gifts are distributed. As a Christmas present for his wife, C. E. Gilleni proprietor of the Illmo Hotel, in East St: Louis, has purchased a $6500 six-cylinder Oldsmobile limousine.

Wallace Culver of 5923. Cabaine avenue has bought a. four-passenger Olds-mobile for his wife, and O. Haight of Mascoutah, 111., came to the St. Louis market for an Oldsmobile tourabout as a Christmas gift for his son.

A. M. Dietz of the Standard Co. is giving a Oldsmobile touring car to his family. Maxwell special cars will be delivered to George E.

-Brazier of Butler Bros, and to W. -A. Fix pf 2023 Fair, avenue Saturday. Saybrook for Fred Ort lutein. Fred Orthwein will find a 4S-horse power Saybrook model Stoddard-Dayton on his Christmas tree and Henry T.

Renshaw will have occasion to tha-nk Santa Claus for P. 4-passenger Stoddard- Dayton. A Peerless six-cylinder 38 limousine will bring Christmas cheer to the garage of Louis Dennig Copeland avenue. Another r-V int of a Peerless gift will Louis Stockstrom of 3263 Hawthorne His car will be a six-cylir-f jf 3S with a Berlin limousine body. Miss Anna R.

Garrels of 4531 West Pine boulevard will receive a six-cylinder Stevens-Duryea torpedo. George T. Stack's Christmas gift will be a five-passe. Cutting. F.

D. Seward-of the National Candy Co. will ring out the old and ring in the new in a fine Saybrook model 48-horse-power Stoddard-Dayton W. D. Orthwein will be ready Christmas morning to give Santa Claus a ride in his new seven-passenger Silent Six Matheon, and W.

G. Brenneke will have one just as silent and seating flv pasetigers. Mrs. George Allen of the Washington Hotel will have a beautiful Regal un- Oerslung coupe. Klt-etrtr.

for iVir- 1 omen. Dr. Archer. O'Reilly's present from his I Mrs. Evans of the Buckingham, Is a Regal car of the same type, and a similar car will be received by- the family of F.

A. Sudholt of 3537 Sidney 'street. W. E. Parsons of St.

Charles. gets torpedo underslung Regal. A favorite gift to women is the electric ruifabout. Those who will receive electric Ohios for Christmas are members of the families of F. W.

Peters, 1215 Madison "street. F. K. Peters. 22T4 St.

Louis avenue; Wells H. Blodgett. 441'i West Pine boulevard; Mrs. Minnie Forster, 4324 McPherson avenue; F. W.

Hoffman. 3233 Hawthorne boulevard; Max A. Meyer, 5159 Von ersen avenue; A. G. Brauer.

2421 South Eighteenth street; A. Koenigsmark. -2911 Russell avenue; L. W. Hemp.

3669 Flad avenue, and J. II. Hlmmelberger, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Among those who wiil get Fla-nders electrics this Christmas week are: Mrs. AugustWeldner, 3100 Iowa avenue; Mr.

T. Dawson, Webster Groves; Mrs. B. M. Wright, S48 North Spring nvenue: Dr.

C. A. White, soo Lincoln Irust Building; W. A. Layman, Wetster Park, and T.

J. Barrldge, Clifton Heights. Donors and LETTER HE FORGOT TO MAIL, AFTER 20 Virginian Finds It in Old Coat, Writes to Former Sweetheart, Honeymoon Follows. Srei'ial tn the Post-DlsDatch. BALTIMORE, Dec.

23. Out of the garret of his home R. S. Schmidt, a wealthy fruit grower of Winchester, brought a collection of odds and ends of clothing that had been accumulating thert for many years. An overcoat that he had worn 20 years before had been tne most pleasing garment of the kind he had ever possessed, and be sent it to the tailor to be remade.

Later the tailor's boy came to Schmidt's home with the renovated coat. "And here's an old letter Pop fouud In the Inside pocket," said the young-Bter. The faded address, in his own handwriting, was that of Miss Augusta Jacobs, In Baltimore. Augusta Jacobs ha() been his sweetheart. They had com1 from Germany on the same ship.

Schmidt wrote a letter asking her to marry him. He received no answer. Believing himself jilted, he never tried to see her again, left Baltimore and settled In Winchester. In the faded letter he recocnized the fact that he had forgotten to post the love missive. In the passing of ye.rs he had prospered and married, but his wife was dead.

The widower had heard that Augusta Jacobs married Edward Ki'pp of Hiiltimore. He investigated and found that Klpp was dead, but that Mrs. Kipp hud rnarriec? again. Her husband was Frederick Gallion. and they lived at! Waynfsboro, Pa.

But later Schmidt found that there had been a divorce. He wrote to his old sweetheart, inclosing the letter he had written two decades ago, and, taking no chances with his memory, carried it to the postoffice. She replied that if she had received the letter which be wrote and forsot to mail she would never have married any other man. Now they are on a honey-moor, in Germany. Voo'll Drrin It nisrht If DEEMS did tt.

See Deems, the Form Letter Man. for Lists. Letters. Addressing or Distributing. 3d and Olive.

152,235,000 LOBSTER BABIES PUT TO BED If They Grow Up the Supply for 1 91 2-i 3 White Ways Diners Be Plentiful. BANGOR. Dec. 23 Commissioner James Donohue of the Sea and Shore Fisheries Department of Maine, today gave out a statement that should bring Joy to all gay White Ways. J.e has finished planting snugly in their gravelly beds, with grass curtains, baby lobsters, which.

If they have their health and manage to sidestep their natural enemies, will soon grow Into big lobsters. Last year 17.600.000 pounds of adult lobsters were taken from Maine waters and the fishermen got $2,150,000 for them. This year the catch has been about the same. To make up for this drain on the supply Maine, assisted by Uncle Sam, has perfected a process of artificial propagation. Mother lobsters are bought from fishermen, taken to the United States hatchery at Booth Bay harbor and stripped of their eggs, which are then hatched an iistributed in the places from which the mother lobsters were taken.

YEARS BRIBE recipients of automobiles iltirintj BOY BURNED WITH ALCOHOL IN FIRE TESTINJTIATION Doctors Fear for Life of Victim of Alpha Psi Epsilon Rite at Academy. Special to the Post-Dispatch. Philadelphia; Dec. 23. victim of an accident while undergoing an initiation into a fraternity connected with the Episcopal Academy, of which he is a student.

Henry Br.ssett, of wealthy parents, was so frightfully burned about the head, face, neck anil shoulders, that his physicians fear be will 'die. Bassett, a boy in his teens, was a member of the junior class at the fashionable educational institute. For a iong time he had besjed his mother's consent to his becoming a member of the Alpha Psi Epsilon "frat" of the school. Finally she consented and on Friday of the youth appeared for his initiation. The boy was- attired in a harlequin costume and his eyes bandaged.

He was led into a darkened room. Judson Meyers, a graduate, was one of those present and Bassett was told, to bow his head. He did so. and a cold liquid was freely applied to his hair, face, neck and shoulders. Put to he Test of Fire.

"We are about to put you to a severe lest." said one of the boys, "you have been washed in alcohol and a match will be applied." The boys declare they believed the bottle whose contents they poured on Bassett contained witch hazel. But in reality it contained alcohol. They also deny that they had -any notion of directly applying a match. "All right. Go ahead; touch it off," laughed Bassett.

A boy struck a match. It split, the l.ids say, and the lighted end fell on. youni Bassett's head. shot up. The boy stood complftely enveloped in fire.

Young Myers tore a curtain from the window and wrapped the lad in it and beat out the flames. The bandage saved the youngster's eyes. P.assett screamed in agony. Frightened lads ran for a physician. Bassett was carried to a barber shop and iil lotions were applied until an ambulance came that bore'him to his home.

As a result of the accidert it is declared that the head master of the academy has issued an order abolishing all fraternitsef. but Dr. William H. Knapp. who holds that office, said today that the matter was in no way officially before him.

"The parents of the students must decide on the advisability of their boys belonging to these secret societies," he declared. To Relieve Rhenmatlam Take Elmer Amrnii's N. Y. 2S.M. Its is teclallv rpc-fMTiniemled ty thie who have tried Volff-Vllson lrug St.

Louts, carry it. AMERICAN TRUST PRIZES Miss Tessie Benderoth Wins Essay Contest William King Second. Miss Tessie Benderoth of 3963 Del-mar avenue, won the prize of $100 in the "thrtftometer" essay contest offered by the American Trust Co. The money was paid to the young woman Saturday at the office of the trust company. The second prize.

50, was awarded to William King. The judges in the contest were: Ben Blewett. Superintendent of the St. Louts Public Schools; the Rev. A.

B. Garthoeffner. E. Lansing Ray, A. Ferrre and William C.

Hilmer. CONFERENCE GIVES LITTLE HOPE OF PEACEJ CHINA Belief Prevails That Rebels. Are Preparing to Move on Pekin by Way of Pukow. Dec. 23.

In Government cir cles here there seems to be little doubt that the conference at Shanghai be tween the representatives of the Imperial Government and the revolutionary party will prove a failure. The Relief prevails that the revolu-tionaiies are preparing to advance to the north by way of Pukow, which is their possession. Premier Yuan-Shi-Kai continues to eSschange frequent telegrams with Tang-Shao-Yi, his representative at Shanghai. It is understood here that Yaun-Shi-Kai desires 10 have ail the differences settled in advance of the formal sittings of the peace conference so that the sole business of the delegates will be to sanction the decision already reached. Government officials here insisted that the throne will be retained, but there is a difference of opinion as to what future form the monarchy will take.

Yuan-Shi-Kai lias been endeavoring to propagate' the view that foreign interference will be detrimental to both parties, evidently hoping that his action will bear weight during the nominations at Shanghai. ARMISTICE MAY BE BROKEN BY REBELS They Regard Shanghai Negotiations as a Ruse of the Imperialists. NANKING. China. Dec.

23. The pres-enf temper of the revolutionary troops here gives ground for the fear that the armistice now existing may be broken and a serious encounter may occur in the territory to the north of Pukow. Within the last two weeks Chang IIsunt who was formerly in command of the Imperial Government troops at Nanking and who wa- incorrectly reported to have been killed, has received heavy reinforcements both of mon and guns. With these he has advanced south as far as Su-Chow-An, retaking many towns and living on the country. In the meanwhile the revolutionary forces have advanced northward to Linh-Wei-Kwan with strong supporting columns, occupying the best positions.

Chang Hsun has commanded the entire north section of the Tientsin-Pukow railway. Including the. whole of the rolling stock. The revolutionary forces, o-i the other hand, hold the southern sec-t'on. Chang Hsun's force is 10,000 strong, while the revolutionaries number 15,000.

A distance of less than 100 miles separates thtm. Chang Hsun declares that he will retake Nanking, while the Southern or 1 evolutionary forces are keen to advance on Pekin. The revolutionaries, both officers and men. are firmly convinced the conference at Shanghai is merely a ruse to afford Chang Hsun the time to concentrate his reinforcements and to enable the Imperial Government forces to strengthen their positions. nn Bee Opea Tomorrow.

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