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ASSOCIATED PRESS Leased Wire WRATH KR POBEC Fair tonight and Wednesday; colder tonight. EL PASO HERALD EL PASO, TEXAS, Tuesday Evening, December 3, Pages TWO SECTIONS TODAY. Aspect of Things With Jury at Pecos Makes It Look Like a Hung Jury. it i 1 luitty nrrimri III I ML ha la IJ 5 ai I i CASE GIVEN TO JURY LAST NIGHT Bulgarians Willing to Make Concessions, but Greece Wants Her Spoils, GREEKS AND TURKS MAY CONTINUE WAR BULGARIANS WILL NOT SUPPORT CLAIMS Bulgaria, Dec. armistice will be signed today at Baghtche on the lines of Tchatalja.

with or without Greece being a party to it, according to information received from authoritative sources here. Greece will be left alone in the war with Turkey it she desires. Pecos, Texas, Dec. 1:30 this afternoon, the jury in the case of Mrs. Agnes Orr.er, of El Paso, charged with the murder of her daughter, Lilly, was reported to be standing eight to four for acquittal.

The first ballot is said to have been seven to rive ror acquittal. This one man has apparently been won over to the side of tliosj are lor acquittal, the jvry has cut vSii-ce before midnight last night, an- other mistrial is looked for. Trial Completed. 1 The trial of Mrs. Orner closed last night at 10:15, after judge S.

J- isaacks had delivered his charge to the From the outset the most sen- Tendon. Dec. national trial that has ever been heard wag the obstacle which threatened to in Reeves county, the close of this case was of the same character. The regular progress of the case was interrupted night, after a speaker had been heard for each side. the purpose of the interruption having i Baghtche, and Adrianople appeared been to introduce new testimony.

again at the end of the negotiations Monday the people of Pecos were most serious hindrance to the given the remarkable sight furnished tne most serious nmurance io me by the witness, Mrs. Lucille Archer, attainment of an agreement, who went, on the stand and stated that At the first session the Turks abso- she had not told all last week, and Jury Acquits Sneed For Killing the Father of the PI Sil Man Who Stole His Wife i wreck the parleys between the pleni- potentiaries of Turkey and the Bali kan allies when they first opened at that Mrs. Orner really did confess having killed her daughter. The sole reason given by Mrs. Archer was that contained in her rather dramatic explanation to the iury before leaving the stand.

The attorneys had finished the direct and cross-examinations, and had excused the witness, wnen she said: want to say this much Here she was interrupted by the attorneys, and fear that she might say something i ha? should not properly go to the jury impelled the court to ask them to retire. Mrs. ArAer then said: want to say that the only reason I answered Mr. Nealon last week as I did when he that ouestion. was because I had received her note not five min- done is to give Bulgaria compensation utes before, in which she asked me to in the shape of territory conquered protect The jury was then re- by the Greeks, Servians and Montene- called and the statement repeated in grins, and which they staked out for their presence, when Mrs.

Archer was themselves. Hence the wail from dismissed. Athens that any concession to Tur- F. Van Horn corroborated JVirs. kev wm the fruits of vic- all lutely refused to surrender ople, but when the Bulgarians finally yielded to them on this point the Greek delegates shrank back and demanded time in which to submit the question to the government at Athens.

Greeks Want Their Spoils. The reason for the objection to such submission is not far to seek, according to diplomats. It is pointed out that it is obvious that if the Bulgarians sacrifice the ultimate possession of Adrianople in the interests of general peace they will expect their allies to share their sacrifice and the only way in which this can be II a I a i TIR PLE1SEDIARCHB1L0 IS WITH MEXICO Evidence Showed the Senior Boyee Planned to Help Get Wife Again. statement relative to the confession. Mrs.

Orner Enters Denial. Mrs. Orner again took the stand in her own behalf, after the noon. denving anv confession at any time to one. She explained her reference to committing suicide in the written to Mrs.

Archer by the statement that a hung jury would mean that she would be kept in jail still longer, Turkey on the subject of Adrianople and she burst into tears as sne i tc ahna-n claimed: would rather die thando She insisted that she had writ- 4 4 fA 4rcher ctncl to the offoct while 0 that she Tad that is prompted by the most peaceful mo- lial 4 A rOTl Alin PA 11 If AV Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. Beal Sneed was today found not guilty of the murder of captain A1 G. Boyce, sr. The demonstration by Sneed and his attorneys over the verdict was spectacular. Walter Scott and W.

P. McLean, lawyers for the defence, were fined for throwing their hats over the chandeliers in the court room. Sneed emitted a cowboy yell but the court refused to censure him or to fine him. Mrs. Sneed awaited the verdict is a downtown hotel.

Sneed telephoned the news to her. Couple Reconciled, Sneeds relatives denied today that Sultan Telegraphs King. Mrsu been closely guarded The firm and unchangeable attitude Lj1ere; i She has been free to come and go as she they said. is happy over the verdict and sae her husband and her tory gained by the those of Greece and Greece, apparently, fears that in case Turkey ultimately retains her northern fortresses, Bulgaria will more actively dispute the Hellenic claims to the possession of Saloniki. Says He Is Happy Over the on Foreign Relations.

WORKING ON THE CHAMIZAL MATTER Senators Convene as High I Will Dangle Patronage Be-' Court of Impeachment to fore the Lawmakers throughout the negotiations is shown in a telegram from the sultan to king History of Case. John Beal Sneed killed Capt. A. G. Boyce in a hotel in Fort Worth Jan.

13, 1912, shortly after the elopement tin the truth and the whole in tives, he is unable to renounce Turkeys each of notes. Mrs. Orner denied. hold on Adrianople, which all Ottomans too that Van Horn was present on the consider as a Mohammedan sanctuary. night in question, though she admitted i Diplomats in all the European coun- i of wife with Al.

Boyce to Can- that someone had told her he had been 1 tries are anxious to see the real peace ada. Sneed had trailed the couple to at the house. 1 negotiations begun, as they consider Canada and had succeeded in bringing Mrs. W. F.

Lucase Mrs. in is. he a better chance of I his wife back to Texas and incarcerat The Evidence All In. the state rested and defendant did likewise. The case was closed and a short recess was had while it was being decided whether the case should be reargued In toto.

After some discussion it was announced that the speeches made Saturday afternoon were not to be considered, and assistant district attorney Robert Neill, of El Paso, opened for the state. Mr. NeiH spoke for almost an hour, dwelling more on the new evidence than on the other phases of the case, and made a strong: appeal to the jury. He closed about 3:30. Chas.

Owen then opened for the fence, and made another cogent plea for his client. He called attention es says the delay in effecting an armistice seems to be due to the Greeks desiring the surrender of Janina to themselves and Scutari to the Montenegrins and to their objection to raising the blockade on the Albanian coast. The Sofia correspondent of the London Times says: "The Turks would only consent to raise the Turkish blockade on the Black sea on condition that the Greeks raise the blockade on the Aegean. It is doubtful whether the Greek government will agree to this. Austria Forms Three Armies.

The Belgrade correspondent of the rejon who was still in Canada. Sneed killed the senior Boyce in a Ft. Worth hotel I and stood trial for the offence, but the jury failed to agree the first time. a couple of months after the return of young Boyce from Canada to Amarillo, Sneed waylaid him in the streets of Amarillo and killed him also. It was brought out at the pureliminary hearing for bond for Sneed, that young Boyce had been again communicating with Mrs.

Sneed in the sanitarium, in an effort to get her out of the place. Sneed has yet to stand trial at Amarillo for the killing of young Boyce. Both Wealthy. The Sneed and Boyce families are Washington. D.

Dec. Taft sent a message to congress today on the foreign relations of the United States. The message is the first of a series of such communications which he will make to congress in the early days of the session, and deals entirely with the foreign relations of United States. Beginning with the usual reference to the existing good relations with foreign powers, the president adds that these have been strengthened by greater insistence upon justice to American citizens, or interests wherever it may have been denied, and a stronger emphasis of the need of mutuality in commercial and other The Mexican situation, the Chamizal matter at El Paso and the Imperial valley trouble with Mexico over the waters of the Colorado are touched upon among other things. Most of the message is devoted to what has been done in reorganizing the state department and the president declares that the merit system has been applied absolutely in the consular and diplomatic service.

He asks for better salaries for ambassadors and wants the United States to keep on building embassies in the different foreign capitals. He says diplomacy is the handmaid of commercial intercourse and peace and thinks the consuls of the United States have done much for both causes. Referring to Mexican relations, he says: The Mexican Situation. two years revolution and counter revolution have distraught the neighboring republic of Mexico. Brigandage has involved a great deal of depredation upon foreign interests.

There have constantly recurred questions-of extreme delicacy. On several occasi arisen this trying period, the policy of the United States has been one of patient Try Jurist. HOUSE CAST VOTE TO REMOVE HIM Get What He Wants. HUNDREDS AFTER EACH OPEN Washington, D. Dec.

senate convened today as a high court of impeachment to try judge Robert W. Archbold, of the commerce court on 13 separate charges alleged to constitute crimes and Counsel for the judge has admitted the commission of all the acts alleged, but denied that any was improper. Judge Archbold and his attorneys entered the chamber promptly, as did the (By Winfield Jones.) Washington, D. C-, Dec. Woodrow Wilson, as president, will use tne patronage club to drive senators and members of the house into iiae lor policies and for the legislation he is the word received in Washington from, certain ot the close friends of the preeH dent-elect.

Perusal of the utterances of Mr. Wilson indicates a disposition on his part' house members. to believe it proper for the chief execu- I The court adopted formal orders, set- tive to wield the executive ting the hour of meeting daily at 2 vigorously. He does not apparently sub-! oclock and providing that the opening to the notion that the executive statements of the case should be made i i rnnfjnp himself strincrentlv to by one person on each side. That wm should conrine nimseii to confine the opening statements to rep- executive duties and leave congress resentative Clayton, who had been i liandie the legislative situation entirely.

i designated by the house managers, and A. S. Worthington, chief of the counsel for judge Archbold. The court then took a brief recess. Impeached By the Honse.

The charge against judge Archbald arose in connection with private and official acts both as a judge of the court of commerce and as United States district judge for Middle Pennsylvania. He was impeached by the house of representatives after a full investigation of the facts by the department of justice, and extended hearings before the house judiciary committee. After the house committee on judiciary had concluded its hearings last spring it recommended that judge Archbald be called before the senate under impeachment proceedings. The Has Done It Before. When Mr.

Wilson became governor of! Xew Jersey, he held back certain choice, appointments until he got legislation which he sought. Now, taking it for! granted there will be an extra session of congress next spring, the new president will be in a position, if he desires, to refrain from making a long list of appointments until the tariff has been revised and lie has obtained' the sort of tariff bills he wants put through. It is not the highest order of statesmanship. perhaps, to line up a senator to vote for a given bill by dangling before his eyes an ambassadorship lor a friend or an appointment as minister usions very difficult situations have bv representative Clav en on our irontier. Throughout cbosen to act as for some political lieutenant.

But prae- last time the house had its fj method ot aettino- votes impeachment powers was in 1904 when ucaiV tins meaioa oi getting judge Swane, United States judge for founded uo been treelv practiced iri the northern district of Florida, was ashington. Sometimes the success ot such methods has been striking. Every recent president has done that sort of thing, more or less. Many Big; Appointments. Wilson will have more big: appoint- called to account for misconduct and was acquitted by the senate.

The house of representation on July 11, 1912, adopted articles of impeachment by a vote of 222 to 1 and a committee headed of Alabama, the managers on inents to make than anv incoming exeeu- the part of the house to try the case tive since McKinley in his first term, before the senate. The house managers lth theSli 0ffices at his disposal, nonintervention, steadfast recognition urged the senate to grant an immediate 0 1 trial but that body declined to hear i and a. disposition to use them toof constituted authority in the neighboring nation, and the exertion of every effort to care for American in- i sion. terests. I profoundly hope that the Mexican nation may soon resume the path of order, prosperity and progress.

To that nation in its sore troubles, the These embrace dealings between judge the case before the end of the last ses- Set the legislation he wants, it is clear ihat the new president is going to have Thirteen Separate Articles. a large hand in the carving oi the tariff Thirteen separate articles constitute pie. the basis for the impeachment trial. In the diplomatic service alone there picture that of Sfli 9. B.

Sneed, who eloped with Al. Boyee, whose father killed by J. B. sympathetic friendship of the United has been demonstrated to a high degree. Happy About Mexico.

were in Mexico at the beginning of the revolution some 30.000 or monies of other witnesses. Mr. Owen two directed against Russia and one 1 J. 4- lonorfh mi. x.

did not speak at so great a length as on Saturday, but was more than ordinarily eloquent. judsrc Rosw's Masterly Speech. When he took his seat there was a general air of expectancy in the court room, for Jas. F. Ross, of counsel for defence, was the next speaker.

The unusual character of the crime, and the unexpected break in the case Saturday night had combined to draw a large crowd at the morning session. In the afternoon, however, there were still more people in attendance, and were no seats left vacant against Servia. The first, or northern armv to defend Galicia is being cen- eentrated in the fortified formed by Cracow, Tomassew and Przemvsl. Around Lemberg and also the frontier, entrenchments are being dug and the vast plain covered with wire entanglements to check the possible advance of Russian cavalry. second, or eastern army is gathering in Transylvania and BukC' wina, along the Russian frontier.

The third, or southern army, will operate of Hungary against Belgrade and Semendia, to force a passage over the Danube into Moravia valley and partly from Bosnia and Herzegovina against the western Servia frontier and the Sanjak of CHINESE GAMBLERS TRAP POLICEMEN many partly from the south who heard him. delivered the most eloquent plea that has ever been heard in the district court room of this county He ran the gamut of the emotions and worked upon every premise of his versatile and logical mind in the fence of the woman whose cause he represented. the verdict be what it said one who had heard the whole' of the trial, have to admit that the defendant could not have been more ablv or more conscientiously represented. and the opinion reflects well the attitude of the citizens of this place. Break in A rgument.

A discussion with reference to the contents of the record made a break in the argument, and court adjourned until 7:30 oclock last night, when judge Ross resumed his argument. The intangible influence of the night time that lawyers have for so long recognized, was also in his favor, and his flood of eloquence seemed to help largely to blot out the damaging evidence that the state had been able to shape up. At :15 Will P. Brady, attorney for Patrolmen Chop Their Way Out, After Being Imprisoned in Gas-filled Chambers. San Francisco, Dec.

gamblers resorted to desperate strategy last night to evade the police, and lured two officers to imprisonment in gas-filled chambers, leaving them to The fact that each officer carried a small ax saved them, as they succeeded in chopping holes through the walls to obtain air and aid. Corporal Goff, the first victim, was walking alone, when an unknown were suitors for the liajid of Mrs. Sneed many years ago. Boyce renewed his suit after Sneed and wife had been married several years and the wife finally confessed to Sneed that she loved Boyce. Sneed had her confined in a sanitarium and it was from there that she escaped and went to Canada with young Boyce.

The families involved in the two tragedies are wealthy and have had prominent parts in the up-building of Texas. After the elopement Sneed spent $20,000 in a chase across the continent to find his wife. first trial on the charge of killing captain Boyce resulted in a disagreement. Friends Elated, lower picture is that of J. B.

I 40,000 American citizens engaged in SnecMl. today, bnt who must now Miami trial for killing Al. Boyee at Amarilo. NEGRO SLUGGER TO WED WHITE GIRL Will Marry Girl Whose Associations With Him Caused His To Have Moving Of the Wedding. Chicago, 111., Dec.

Johnson, negro pugilist, declared today that he planned to marry tonight Lucile Cameron, the 19 year old Minneapolis girl, whose mother caused his arrest on serious charges. The prize fighter said a moving picture concern had agreed to pay him $5000 to make a film of the wedding, which is scheduled to take place at the home of his aged mother on the south side. Johnson today procured a license to wed Miss Cameron. When Johnson first made his appli- a the gin was not with him and Amarillo, Texas, Dec. th rlerk (feclincd to issue it upon reecipt of the news of the acquit- tno cKrK accuma TO tal in Fort Worth of John Beal Sneed today on a charge of murder, growing out of the killing of Capt.

A. G. Boyce in that city, numerous telegrams of congratulation were forwarded to Sneed. Amarillo neighbors and friends are elated over the acquittal. Johnson then appealed to Robert M.

Sweitzer, county clerk, who overruled the clerk and Johnson went away grinning, with the document in his pocket. Johnson explained to the county clerk that the records in court show that the Cameron girl is over 18 years enterprise contributing greatly to the prosperity of that Republic and also benefiting the important trade between the two countries. The investment of American capital in Mexico has been estimated at $1.000,000,000. The responsibility of endeavoring to safeguard those interests and the dangers inseparable from propinquity to so Uirbulent a situation have been great, but I am happy to have been able to adhere to the policy above policy which I hope may be soon justified by the complete success of the Mexican people in regaining the blessings of peace and good Imperial Valley and Mexico. Of the Imperial valley, the president says: order to make possible the more effective performance of the work necessary for t'lie confinement in their present channel of the waters of the lower Colorado river, and thus to protect the people of the Imperial valley, as well as in order to reach with the government of Mexico an understand- ment of American capital in Mexico ing regarding the distribution of the waters of the Colorado river, in which both governments are much interested, negotiations are going forward with a view to the establishment of a preliminary Colorado river commission, which shall have the powers necessary to enable (Continued on next page).

Archbald and railroad officials and others in regard to Pennsylvania coal or dumps and coal lands; contributions by attorneys and others to the judge's vacation trip to Europe in will be a remarkable lot of new appointments to make. 2So less than 10 ambassadorships are expected to be left vacant anil no less than 32 ministerships. Each ambassador and minister will re- Tricks of Newspaper Voting1 and How the Conte an Is A orked By H. H. FRIS, Manager Outside Circu- iatioQ, El Paso Herald Each Is Made to Think He or She Will Win, but Usually the One With tne Kich Father or Male Friend, Is 1910; reputed correspondence on March 4, as a matter of course, by the judge with a railroad attorney fWe is no reason to doubt that concerning a pending £ase; alleged tnere is no lea.

on to aouDt tnAC attempts to have notes pavable to judge I sooner or later every Republican place Arch bald discounted by attorneys and as the head of an embassy or legation litigants before his court. will be taken bv a Democrat. This would In presenting the case to the house be in accordance with custom, and not in violation of civil service requirements, judiciary committee was of opinion that judge of moral responsibility had become and that he had his high office for personal The principal charge grew out of the Katydid Culm bank deal. In this charge it was asserted that while the Erie Railroad company had pending before the commerce court two suits, judge Archbald, corruptly taking advantage of his official position, induced the officials of the Hillside Coal Iron company and of the Erie railroad which owned that company, to agree to sell the coal interest in the Katydid dump to judge Arehbald and Edward J. Williams.

Jndge Denies Charge. In his answer judge Arehbald denied Important Patronage. These diplomatic appointments provide some of the most important patronage offerings in the hands of the new president. It is not unlikely that judicious distribution of these appoint- ments alone would serve to help the cause of some struggling tariff measure that does not have quite enough in house and senate to put it But if to these appointments is added the immense amount of other patronage, in all departments of the which the new administration will have; to bestow, perhaps with the organization- of a new department, that of labor, A added, it is not difficult to see that the that he had acted corruptly, or had tak- en advantage of his position. His at- President be in a position, A losing argument.

Mr. Brady was equal in to the occasion and made the strongest Without waiting to call his squad, and most clean-cut speech of his life. 1 Goff rushed to the club, which was his friends said. Thread by thread and lighted up as usual. He thrust aside shred by shred he took up the cireum- the doorkeeper.

As the door swung stances' of the case and pieced them back he heard bolts click and simulta- together again. Ca.re.ful, forceful, with neously the gas lights went out. Try- no attempt at brilliance, he covered ing, the door, he found himself each minute phase of the evidence ami imprisoned in a narrow hallway seven out a case that will long and almost immediately be- edly stiek long in 1 came aware that gas was rushing from jurymen who heard the Qpen jetg Mr Brady closed a few minutes be- After 15 minutes furious work with I fore oclock, and judge Isaacks read i his ax, he penetrated the wall and was his carefully worded charge to the rescued nearly overcome, iury which then retired. The court Officer Bailey was trapped similarly announced that he would remain in jn another club at almost the same the building tintil 11 oclock. in the time, hope that the -iury might by that time reach a verdict.

He was better than his word and remained until 11:30, but no word came from the jury room. ORNER WITNESSES RETURN. Following the closing of the Orner ease at Pecos several El Paso returned to El Paso Tuesday morning. Among them were: J. J.

Raster, Mrs. Sadie Irwin, Mrs. N. B. Larock, Mrs.

W. F. Lucase, Mrs. Lucile Archer and Mrs. A.

K. Thomas. SAYS WOMEN AND RACE HORSES ARE CAUSE OF HIS DOWNFALL Trinidad, Dec. that his conscience compelled him either to confess or to commit suicide, W. H.

Seed, a Santa Fe railroad telegraph operator, surrendered himself to the police here, saying that he was wanted at Fernald, for the embezzlement of $375 from the Adams Express company and the Chesapeake Ohio Jiailroad company. RABBI LOSES LIFE IN FIRE. He had been an employe of the ex- New York, Dec. Levy, a press company 10 years, was a promi- rabbi, lost his life early today nent Y. M.

C. A. worker and sang in a in a fire which swept away an apart- church choir. He said the attractions ment house in upper Fifth avenue, of women and race horses had been the Seven jpersons wer? injured. 1 c.

FEW days ago I received a letter from one of the newspaper trade journals asking for an ar- on voting contests. Then it occurred to me that an article of that kind would be of interest to the readers of The El Paso Herald. I am opposed to voting contests, and for good reasons. From a money making standpoint, the voting contest is a big success, as far as the contest manager and the owner of the newspaper are concerned; but for the young and innocent contestant, it is the next thing to business suicide. The contest manager comes to town and calls upon the newspaper which is interested in a voting contest.

The manager of the paper and the contest man come to an agreement as to the amount of money to be put into prizes and the number of new subscribers that must be secured. The newspaper, of course, is safe, as the contract calls for the collection of a certain sum of honest contest managers, but the requirements of the contest system make fair dealing almost impossible. Out of the 25 or 30 names that appear as workers in the contest advertisement, only eight or nine are active contest answer is: So-and- so, if you put in that money, and your girl does not win, I will give her an automobile, same make and model as we offered for the grand The contest man now has it all torneys took the position that it was not a crime for a federal judge to become interested in an attempt to purchase property from one who was or might become a litigant before his court. They declared that no attempt was made to get the property for less than its fair value. Another prominent charge was that judge Arehbald undertook for a consideration to assist George H.

Watson, an attorney of Scranton, to settle a reparation suit brought by the Marion Coal company against the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad company, and to sell for C. G. Beland and W. P. Boland, a large portion of the stock of the Marion Coal company to the railroad.

In his answer judge Arehbald declared he acted in this matter merely as a friend of Watson and C. G. Boland, withoxit ever hav- ing received a suggestion of compensation. after the fifth week of the contest. The I So-and-so will win the grand prize, others, for one reason or another, have But on the day before the close of the dropped out.

The schedule of votes is printed each day, but from the number of votes one cannot get an idea as to the running. The contest man gener- ally runs the names of girls who are getting discouraged at the head of the list, and keeps the winners far down, i To do this he issues back" receipts for votes and tells the girls, who hold the receipts, to put them in the ballot box on the last night of the contest. The contest man tells these hard working girls to get these secret of tremendous power. Of course, some of the appointments, such as cabinet mem-' bers, will have to bo made at the outset of the administration. But a large share- of them can be permitted to drift along lor months after inauguration.

All Want Jobs. Nearly half a million throughout the United States are, not going to see Woodrow Wilson fail in his administration of the affairs of the United States if they can help it. I hey are willing to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of patriotism, even if they are compelled to accept job.s at salaries ranging from $700 to $10.000. in order to help him out of the tight hole he is in. There several hundred thousand Democrats distributed throughout the In response to everv charge attorneys 'UK.

Barkis, are for judge Arehbald replied that the although they are not going acts charged did not constitute an im- jobs with spurs on their boots. But peachahle offence, or a high crime or there are more than 200.000 who intend (Continued on page 6.) (Continued on next page.) contest. Mr. Contest Manager looks up each of the girls in turn, and the same story goes to all. It is this, or some; thing similar: look here.

Miss So-and-so, you want to come across with at least so much more business to enable you to get a look in on this grand With this line of talk. he the life out of and they get busy. Not all of them, but most of them, get what they can from I their friends, and they themselves put in a bunch of their personal money just 'Tgltfc. MPC CTFVFS iS, jii JF CRACKSMAN DRILLED THE LOCK OF SAFE FC a j-r Ur riLL receipts for votes when i before the close, each being led to be cause of his downfall. The deal closed, the contest man hunts up girls to enter the voting contest.

Tt is easy to get a list of 25 or 30 contestants. He gives to all of them about the same line of talk: Miss So-and- so, there is no possible chance for you to lose. I know you will win the grand prize. The other girls in the contest are You are the only live one in the If it is not this, it's something similar the same to all. True, as in every profession oar vocation.

there are some they turn in their subscriptions. He also instructs each one of these girls not to tell anyone how many votes she is holding. He does not wish this information to get to the other contestants. Consequently, the contest manager is the only one who knows what the actual vote is. When the contest is drawing to a close, if the contest man has not already it with one of the contestants to win the grand prize, he will pick out the girl who has the father, brother or friend with the necessary money, and tell him that the girl has only one chance to win and that it takes $t)00, $700 or $800 to win the first prize.

The man with the money, if he is easy, then asks: you guarantee the first prize if I put that much money in the box on the closing The lieve that she has a chance, Then the judges start counting votes, within a few hours the winners are announced. Miss So-and-so wins the grand prize. This is the girl who had the father or brother with the money. The other girls, who worked day and night for over two months, receive the small prizes and go home disappointed, physical wrecks from constant worry and hard work. In some states, within the next year, laws will be passed prohibiting voting contests of all kinds.

The better class of newspapers, instead of running these contests, are giving girls various prizes for securing a stated number of scribers. This is strictly a business proposition to them; nobody stands to lose, and each is paid in full for all the work done. Indianapolis, Dec. 3. Frank M.

Ryan, president of the Uon union, testified at the trial today that his office was when J. J. McNamara, the secretary, was arrested in April, 1911. Ryan, asserting he had no suspicion McNamara had stored explosives at the union headquarters, said he protested when officials of the National association joined detectives in searching the files. While he was endeavoring to furnish the combination of the safe, he said a cracksman proceeded to drill the lock.

Meantime, McNamara was being hurried to California. During the search of the premises, Ryan said, he sent for his attorney and compelled the authorities to produce search warrants. Eighty-two quarts of were found in tiie vault. When cross-examined, Ryan was asked what he meant in writing from New York in April, 1009, to union headquarters, will not have a report this month. Nearly all my work can not be referred The government charges that as head of the union, Ryan, from New York, was directing union officials in otner cities about jobs to be blown up.

meant by that that I was trying to settle disputes among the iron workers in New answered Ryan, I did not think it wise for members in other cities to know there was so much dissension in the Ryan added he gave little attention to the a month used by McNama(Continued on page 5.).