Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 1

lies Ifctwes CI DES MOINES, IOWA. MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1907. PRICE ONE CENT. VOL 1, NO. 116.

A BITTER. PILL JURY TO PROCEED AGAINST ALTON FUND STARTED FOR STRIKERS SHAW SCOFFS AT HARD TIME Former Secretary of Treasury Reveals Vast Resources of Country Says Hard Times Not Probable. Movement Instituted to Tide the Telegraphers Over the Winter in Case of Long Period of Idleness. POSTAL CLAIMS NORMAL SHAPE Western Union Still Crippled Because Lack of Men-Conditions Improving. ooooooooooooooooooo STRIKERS IX CAMP.

CHICAGO, Aug. 19. ArrHiiscmeiits ure being made i) to wild 500 striking telegraph operators und their families to camping grounds near lor (he balance of the -Bummer. ITesiiient Small lias sent an order to 800 electricians em- ployed- try Hie American Tele- phone Telegraph company, to he iu readiness to walk out in order. ooooooooooooooooo Acting on the general impression that the farmers and business men throughout' Ihe country are in sympathy with the striking telegraphers, O.

R. T. No. 126 at a meeting held at the Trades and Labor Assembly hall last night pledged itself through its members to canvass Hubscribtions sufficient to tide the strikers in this territory through the winter. The strikers and the O.

R. T. are confident that they will be able to raise an enormous fund as theyclaim that the people are them in their fight against the gigantic monopoly. Rumors of a threatened strike among B. Q.

operators has spread through the camp of the local strikers and has added joy to their al-'ready confident feeling as to the outcome of the struggle. It is claimed that a striking Western Union operator secured a position with the Burlington road only to be discharged when it was found that was a striker. When word of this action on the part of the railroad officials was The Railroads Is guess there's othing to do hut to take It. The doctor -but It's the bitterent pill I've had to swallow yet. COUNCIL DUCKS LIBRARY BOARD Attorney General Bonaparte Said to Favor Continuance of Prosecution Started Against Alton Road.

SIMS WILL SIDE WITH LANOIS It Is Relieved the Department ill Hold Company Violated Agreement. WASHINGTON, D. Aug. 19. Attorney General Bonaparte, after his conference today with District Attor ney blms, is likely to Inform Judge Landis that the Chicago Alton did not fulfill the agreement under which it was promised Immunity by the government and that the grand jury should proceed to draw indictments against the railroad for granting the rebates which earned the Standard Oil company the fine of $29,240,000.

The scales are on a tine balance. The probabilities are slightly more in the direction of the conclusions above indicated than that the company will receive immunity according to information at hand tonight. The situation is so critical that it has brought a galaxy of Alton officials and legal tal- I ent to Washington. Conference Today. District Attorney Sims and Assist ant District Attorney Wllkerson ar rived in Washington from Chicago last night in response to the summons of the attorney general for the confer ence today.

At a late hour last nisrht former District Attorney Morrison, who entered Into the agreement with the Alton and who also was Invited to the conference, had not arrived and it Is not probable that he will participate. Mr. Morrison has been unable to arrange his affairs so as to come east at this time without great Inconvenience, and he has written the attorney general several explanatory letters which he hopes will be sufficient Should he he unable to reach Washington today he will -east at the end of the week to be present in New York In connection with the case which the Interstate remmerce commission had brought in the, federal court to'eom-pel fi. Harrlman and Banker Kuhn of Loe-b to answer questions which they refused to answer when tlie commission, was Investigating Mr. Harrlman and the Union Pacific.

Sims Is Silent. District Attorney 81ms declined last night to make any statement or give any information concerning the Alton matter. He will the attorney general today and present to him the records In the case. Mr. Sims will also Inform the attorney general whether, In his opinion, the Alton has earned immunity.

From the records, however, the attorney general must conclude whether the Alton company acted In good fitith. and Judge Landis will be guided by the attorney general's recommendation, it is thought, because, should the attorney general declde against prosecution of the Al ton the government could not be forced to prosecute, no matter how many indictments grand Juries at Chicago might return. The point Is made that the conviction of the Standard by Itself does not carry Immunity to the Alton. It must be shown to the satisfaction of the attorney general that the Chicago Alton acted In good faith In carrying out the agreement which the government admits was entered Into. Did It do so by presenting all Its documentary evidence? Did It hold back and refuse to give evidence which the government rightfully expected under the agreement? These, are the questions which Mr.

Bonaparte must answer. Should the attorney general Inform Judge Landis that the Alton did not earn Immunity the grand Jury which will reassemble at Chicago September 3 will be Instructed to proceed and may bring Indictments against the Alton as numerous as those upon which the Standard Oil was convicted. The rebates which the trust was found guilty of were granted by the railroad, and another $29,000,000 fine may bp Imposed. Should the government proceed against the Alton the courts will bp appealed to by the railroad for protection undpr the Immunity agreement, and the qupstlon thus arising would have to be disposed of before the rebating cases could be brought to trial. Tnft Speaks In Columbus.

(H Vnlted Press.) morning and was met by a big crowd. He was escorted te the Chittenden ho-ter, and will deliver a speech at Memorial hall tonight. Cow Causes Railroad Accident. CARMI, 111., Aug. 1 T.

J. Scran-ton, fireman, waa killed and Wood Nelson, engineer, seriously Injured yesterday when a Rig Four freight engine struck a cow and was derailed. DAY OF TRAGEDY Roy Ratcliff and Miss Minnie Howard Drowned While Boating on Des Moines River, Sunday. CANOE IS OVERTURNED BY WAVES B. Moore and Two Companions Plunge Into River When Boat Is Sunk by Launch.

Sunday was fraught with Incident, adventure and tragedy on the river. Two lives were lost by the capHlzing of a canoe in the afternoon near the turn of Thompson's bend, and a small gasoline launch, containing three persons, was sunk about 100 yards south of Camp Douglass, late In the fore noon. Two of the inmates of the latter saved themselves bv ellnelnir to a passing steamer, in the swell of which their own craft was caught and' sunk. The mishap occurred where the water was only four and a half feet deep, and besides a sousing and the loss of several tools the boat being later recovered and towed to the dock at the Sixth avenue bridge nothing serious happened. Two Are Drowned.

The one sad tragedy was enacted about o'clock in the afternoon. The victims were Roy Ratcliff, son of former city Welghmaater J. C. Ratcliff, who died suddenly six years ago, and Miss Minnie Howard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

C. W. Howard, who conduct a restaurant on Seventh, between Locust and Grand, Mr. Ratcliff, who was employed In the freight offices of the Chicago Great Western Railroad company, and Miss Howard, had gone to the boat house near the Center street dam, and procuring a light ca noe, started up the river. They took along with them a lunch and a shotgun, intending to go as far as Polk's park, one mile above Flint Valley.

The canoe was a frail cockle, light as a cork and critically responsive to rough water. A stiff gale was blowing up river and small white capa were running. Ail went well until they attempted to make the westward turn at Thompson's bend. This necessitated directing the prow across the waves. Mr.

Ratciitf was not an adept with aquatic craft, and In swinging about, the canoe was brought side-to on the waves. It bob-bled for an Instant Mr, Ratcliff evidently became alarmed, and, attempting to shift his position, he lost his balance and the frail boat turned turtle. Both himself and Miss Howard fell Into the water. Harold Huff, a small boy, waiting on the east bank the return of his father from the residence on the bluff above, was an eye witness to the struggles of the young man and the girl In the water. The depth of the river at the point is perhaps ten feet.

Instantly they were In the water, Miss Howard uttered a scream of terror. Ratcliff, who was about ten feet off, strove gallantly to rescue her, but in the w- 'ful fright of the moment, confronted by the spectre of death. Miss Howard handicapped him by clinging to his head and shoulders. Following a momentary struggle, both sunk. As they were submerged the girl released her hold on her companion.

He did not reappear, but the poor girl made three or four spasmodic grabs, and there being nothing she could lay hold of, she slowly sunk to the bottom. The cries of Miss Howard were heard by several boatmen on the water eastward of the bath house. They suspected some one was In trouble and hastened to the rescue, but before they could reach the spot, both Ratcliff and the'glrl had disappeared. The bodies were later recovered. That of Ratcliff was first dragged from the watery dppths.

Half an hour afterward the remains of Miss Howard were wrested from the water. When news that they were bereft of their (daughter was broken to the stricken parents, they were prostrated. Rat- cliff was the fiancee of the girl wfc died with him. A Roat Sunk. The other Incident was more In tha nature of a startling adventure, though for a fleeting moment there were not lacking the elements of tragedy.

The bout that was submerged belonged to Byrd Moore, the managing editor of ft bicycle store at KU Grand avenue. Ryrd recently added to his complement of sporting posspsslons a twenty-font gasoline launch. Yesterday morning he fared forth In quest of aquatic fame and pleasure. He was accompa- nled by two persons, one a boy and the other a man, neither of the names of whom was learned. Returning from a trip up the river, Mr.

Moore waa overtaken by a large boat. The rlvr I Is quite shallow, and to prevent run- ning aground, boats have to follow a I narrow channel where the water Is deepest. Mr. Moore was next the shore and I about fifty fept from the bank. As I (Continued on Page 2.) they hardly ever disturb it placid waters by taking a bath.

He has Dlogenea of old mil on phillsophy. arts a AND ADVENTUR PANICS HAVE ECONOMIC CAUSE Every Big Period of Commercial Depression Is Traceable to Certain Conditions. NEW YORK, Aug. 19. An effect ual stopper was clapped over the cries of calamity mourners and "hard times" prophets of the country by a statistically argumentative Interview authorized by Leslie M.

Shaw, form er secretary of the treasury, now preS' ident of the CarrTegl-e Trust company Regarding the present financial and Industrial conditions he said: "Our farms produce more than $6,. 500,000,000 per annum, and the pros pect is good for an average crop. Our mines yield more than $1,500,000,000 and our forests more than 000,000. And neither of these sources of wealth has been exhausted. The output of our factories in other than food products is $12,000,000,000, and no fires have been extinguished.

The railways earn more than $2,000,000, 000 and they are all in successful operation. The pay rolls of our factories and railways aggregate approximate ly $3,500,000,000 and the scale of wages has not been reduced. Wealth Source Not Affected. In other words, the real sources of the people's wealth have not ypt been affected and the ability of industrial concerns to pay dividends Is not measured by the market price of their stocks. Logical reasons for serious conditions are therefore wanting.

"If I judge correctly, the people will have exactly what they expect. If those who have money in the banks withdraw it and lock It up; if the hanks refuse to grant accommodations and if the consuming public decline to place orders, then we will soon witness the effects. Let those who think that times of disaster follow each other at regular Intervals bear In mind that this country never yet experienced a period of severe depression that was not traceable to financial orfen- nomic agitation or legislation, mand usually to both. BARBER CO. WON'T RESURFACE, Asphalt Paving Firm Refuses to Ac-cede fo Demands of Council Hut Files Additional Bmd.

After being Instructed by the council to resurface parts of Atkins street. alleged to bp poorly constructed, the Parber Asphalt Paving company re fused to comply with the request on'; the grounds that their seven-year guarantee is binding and not until the wearing qualities of the material has been thoroughly tested can they be compelled to do any re-surfacing. In order to have the assessments levied and get their pay out of the work the company filed an additional bond with the council today for making their entire bond on the Atkins street work equal to three-fnurths of the value of the paving. The bond was accepted by the council and the request of the residents of Jefferson street for re-surfacing will probably turn out the same way. The aldermen from the Third and Second ward, the board of public works and the city engineer were Instructed to examine the street paving and report on Its condition at the next regular meeting of the council.

RVHIAL WILL HE TOMORROW. Funeral of Roy Katcliff and Minnie Howard Will Be Private. Miss The1 funerals and services of Roy TlatclKT and Miss Minnie Howard, who were drowned Sunday afternoon, wlll.be held Jointly at the residence of the parents of the dead girl, 843 Fifteenth strePt tomorroy afternoon. The casket will be Identical in pattern and appearance, and the two bodies will he interred In one grave. The sentiment that dlctntes this unique burial Is a beautiful tribute to the memory of the dead young man and young woman, who were soon to have been married had they lived.

They had been paving the way for their wedding, he by a ludlclous economy of his wages, and the young woman by giving him all the assistance In her power. The funeral will be private and will be at 2 o'clock, tomorrow. treadmill had not the heart to drive them off. She kept them for several days. The burden of their keep began to irk her small means, aa she had to buy milk for the puppies, there being too many for nursing by the mother dog.

She eased the economic pressure by giving away four of the pups. Rut at Intervals there are time when Mrs. Fulton chances to miss a day at work, and this necessitates the most pinching economy of her slender resources. The breaking strain came this morning whpn Mrs. Fulton telephoned the Humane society the situation and requested that measure be taken to relieve her of the burden of keeping the mother and her little mane siclety, called upon Mrs.

Fulton this morning and promised to relieve her of the burden. 0 passed down the line the operators were greatly incensed and it is quietly given out that they will Rtrike this evening unless the discharged operator is reinstated. Companies Hopeful. "Strike! Huh, do you see that force of men at work back there? Doesn't look much like a strike, does it?" asked Manager Fox of the Postal Telegraph company this afternoon In answer to a query as to the condition of the Postal service. "The strike has not effected us at all," continued Mr.

Fox. "The wires were down in part of our territory last week and this fact delayed and bothered us somewhat, but everything Is all right now." The Postal office had a large working force this morning and appeared to fcs doing a normal business. However, the strikers declare that Manager Fox has imported a lot of men whose hard work it is to sit In front of the key and pretend to take and send out telegrams. This is done for the moral effect it is supposed to have on the strikers and the general public. Wire Chief Ainsworth of the Western Cnion reports that there is nothing new in the local condition of affairs.

The Western Union Is taking some dispatches and claim that they are getting in hPtter shape every day. Strikers Reach City. Four strikers arrived in the city this morning, one each from St. Louis nnd Omaha, and two from Chicago. They says It's for the good of my ajgteaji GETJOGETHER Plans Discussed for Division of Property of Outlying Dis tricts Meet Again Tonight.

Members of five of the Independent vi i ly wunoui ine ciiy aneciea Dy ine school consolidation law conferred Wtn a committee of the West Des Moines school board this morning In regard to the means of adjudicating the school property in an equitable manner. The districts represented were Pleasant Hill, Woodlawn, Allen Plum Grove and Oak Grove. Mem bers of the Center district (Oak Park) 'phoned that it would be impossible for them to confer at this time, but that they would be present later. None of the other five districts were heard from and nothing Is known as to their determination In the matter. Jerry Sullivan was chairman of the committee appointed to confer with the outlying districts.

At the meeting this morning harmony was the general sentiment. The regular meeting of the West Des Moines school board will be held this evening and plans will be discussed and a general modus operandi outlined for the consolidation of the districts and the turning over of the books to the West Des Moines board. WILL SET PRICE FOR Hl'RBELL Five Men Appointed by Mayor Mat-tern lo Determine Worth of Small Triangle. Whether the decision is 30 cents or $3,000, K. M.

Hubbell has agreed to accept the price placed by five aldermen on the triangle necessary' for straightening the east side of West Second street from Locust street to Grand avenue. The men appointed by Mayor Mattern today fo made the appraisal are: W. H. Frereton, alderman at large, Ream Johnson, Fourth ward; Eugene Waterbury, alderman at large; W. S.

Fraley, Seventh ward; Dan O'Grady, Second ward. ITALIAN SOCIETY ELECTION SCHO BOARDS SHIRT ONLY CLUE IS Strange Eind Leads to Arrest of Jacob Williams of Des Moines in Moline In Davenport Jail. A bloody shirt left In a livery rig In which a robbery was committed near Davenport, led to the arerst of Jacob Williams of Des Moines at Moline, 111., yesterday. He is charged with having slugged and held up John Linden of Rockford, 111. In company with Homer Hill of Burlington, Williams fell In with Linden while crossing the Mississippi on the ferry from Rock Island to Davenport.

They enticed the stranger to start on a drive with them and back of the Fairmont cemetery slugged and robbed him of his watch and money, It is alleged. During the struggle with their victim Williams got his shirt deluged with blood and after the robbery removed the garment and left It in the buggy. Through a laundry mark on the shirt the police obtained a clue which led to his capture In Moline. Williams and Hill are both In the Jail at Davenport. OVER 90 YEARS OLD: WANDERS FROM HOME Mm, C.

O'Leary. who Ik thought to live somewhere on Chestnut row on the west side, hi rayed over on the east side this morning and lost lice, way, The woman In very old and In licr second childhood. When picked up by Officer Cohen she was unable to tell her name or hcre she lived. The patrol was called and she was (alien trt police headquarters, where nor name was ascertained and her relatives communicated with, The lady looked lo bo over 90 yearn old. jo 6 KRE.MFR IN ACCIDENT.

Ca-lilcr and Honk keeper for Imperial IlottliiiS Works Struck by Street Car Saturday Night. Fred Kraemer, bookkeeper and cashier of the Imperial Bottling works of the east side, waa dragged beneath a ear at Sixth and Locust, west, late Saturday night, and sustained a badly rrusneq loot, ne waa removed to Mercy hospital by the police patrol and still confined there. It being as yet Impossible to state Just what wllf be the extent of the Injury to his foot It la said he tried to board the while It was in motion and was ordered to get off hv the He fell and one foot was carried under the car. There Is no evidence that the wheel pas.cd directly over his foot, however, or it would have been Injured more severely. Kraemer lives at 1B20 Seventh street, west, and! is about 35 years old.

Roosevelt Will Make Address, (fly I'nlted Press.) OYSTER RAY, N. Aug. 19. President Roosevelt left, at 1 o'clock this 'morning on the Mayflower for Provlncetown, where he will deliver an address tomorrow at the laying of the corner stone of tha pilgrim memorial monument. BLOODY I Resolution Recommending the Levy of Additional 1-2 Mill for Library Grounds Turned Down.

Because the members of the library board in asking the council last year for a special levy of three mills stated that such an appropriation would complete the work of beautifying the grounds, the aldermen this morning i defeated a resolution asking for an ad- niiionai une-naii. sum iu huiko me work. Alderman Hamery led off in the opposition and he was ably supported by Brereton and Johnson. The one-half mill levy would amount to $8,500, and the council judged that the library commissioners should have estimated their wants more closely and kept within the original appropriation of three mills. MRS.

SWEENEY- ASKS DIVORCE, Charges He is a Confirmed Inebriate and Has Not Supported the Family. Alleging her husband, Dennis Sweeney Is addicted to the excessive use of intoxicants, that he has abused her and neglected to support herself and children, and that he is at present serving but a sentence of three years In the hospital for inebriates, Mrs. Sweeney has filed a petition for divorce. They were married in this city twenty years ago. Mrs.

Sweeney asks to be given custody of their two children, Roger, nineteen, and Kath-erine, three years of age. She sets out in the petition that her husband has failed to support the family, making It necessary for herself to seek employment In order earn a livelihood for herself and children. WEATHER WILL BE COOLER The local forecast, based upon partial returns from some of the back precincts. Is that the weather will ex evuie iimmcrsauii, ana ine temper- ature be much cooler. The predlc- tlons are for cooler weather tonight and Tuesday.

There were heavy rains I in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska i last night, and Judging from the temperature today, they were accompanied by hall, If not snow. A high barometer Is forging southeastward from tha British possession. It la expected to pass over Iowa tonight or tomorrow, causing ki very considerable drop of the mercury. MICHIGAN MAN Pt'LIR TOOTH AND FALLS DEAD FROM PAIN DETROIT, Aug. 19.

"It's bothered me enough. I'll get rid of It right now," said Samuel Kelly, and he fastened a string around a troublesome tooth. goes," he announced to members of his family n-ar by. and gave a Jerk. Out came the tooth, and Just as it did so Kelly dropped Into a chair with a gasp and became unconscious.

A physician was summoned, but Kelly was dead when he arrived. He had a weak heart and the pain waa probably greater than he had expected. oooooooooooooo report everything quiet In those citirs. with all indentions pointing toward the suceesR of th-3 striking operators. A late bulletin from Chicago reports that th Western Cnlon Is turning hock sperlni dispatches.

In New York City the strikers contemplate the publication of a daily newspaper to supply unprejudiced information for tho, members of the unions throughout the country. According to late bulletins from A('hicago the strike breakers have or-'SHnized a 'scab" union and propose to bar out the incompetents who are being furnlrhed by the management. Sock To Annul Clinrlers. Special to Dallv TrlhunP. CHICAfiO, 111., Aug.

t. President Small of the Commercial Telegraph union a-s the funds being collected in Bid of telegraphers will be divided to two purposes. First, in aid of the strike; second, in support of a bill to be presented at the next session of (Continued on Page 2.) I UIA in Aug. is. rccre- Taft arrived at 10 o'clock this Mother Dog and Puppy Brood r-Present Real Humane Problem Leaders for Ensuing Year at Sunday Meeting.

At the regular meeting of the Socle- ta Gulseppe Garibaldi held yesterday the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Pletro chlesa: vice nresident. M. A Vita: corresponding secretary, L. Jacopettl; financial secretary, Felix Colavccchlo; treasurer, G. Chlesa.

JILTED GIRL SERVES PAPERS IN 130,000 DAMAGE Sl'IT TOLEDO. Aug 19 Trap- ped by a "date" with the girl who, it Is alleged, he had Jilted after promising to wed her. oi Charles Curtis Hardwlck, a wealthy young capitalist of Peru, was served with a summons In a $30,000 breach of promise suit, filed against him by Daisy P. Smith. Miss Smith, learning that Hardwlck waa coming to town made a "date" with him and presented him with a summons.

00000000000000000 Modern Diogenes with Family Lives in Old Piano Box Special to Dally Tribune. of a wife and five children, now have MC8CATINE. Aug. 19. A modern a piano box for a parlor, a furniture Dlngenese with a family has made his 'crate for a front porch, a dry goods appearance in Muscatine.

box for a dining room and ditto for a Diogenes lived In a tub, but this kitchen, man and hla family live In two dryj The family sleep In the parlor dur-goods boxes which he thoughtfully Ing tha night on shelves on the Wall, provided aa a home for his family. For a bathtub they have Mad creek About a month ago Andrew Leedy which runs close to their domicile, but A pathetic instance of the bond of sympathy between a poor woman and a mother dog with a brood of puppies was exemplified today by an appeal made to the Humane society this morning. It appears a pretty English female hound with seven puppies trailing at her heels, evidently having been abandoned by the owner, billeted themselves upon the meagre hospitality of a widow Woman, Mrs. Fulton, residing at 3017 Fifth street, several days ago. Mrs.

Fulton earns a livelihood by scrubbing and washing. Somehow she seemed to find analogy between her own condition in the fabric of human society and the abandon- 01 mother and her little brood of the InlDs world. Life waa a hard struggle tor bath, and tha woman of the arrived from tha aouth and started looking about for a home. He picked a vacant lot on the edge of tha city for tha alte. He and hla family, compoied.