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II IHEII In a Special Message Sent to Congress President Urges Railway Regulation. SEPARATE TRIBUNAL PLAN IS INDORSED By Associated Press to THE SUN. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. President Taft's special message dealing with amendments to the inter state commerce laws, looking to a more effective general supervision of railroads and conveying his recommendations for the passage of a Federal Incorporation act, was transmitted to Congress today and read in the House, the Senate not being in session.

Mr. Taft suggests no changes in the Sherman anti-trust law at this time. The anti-trust feature of the message deals solely with the subject of Federal charters. The President thinks that an opportunity should be given the big industrial combinations to bring their business once more into the "zone of lawfulness" by taking out a Federal charter under certain prescribed conditions, before It becomes necessary to proceed against every corporation about which there is a breath of suspicion. Extracts from the message follow: THE PRESIDENT SAYS.

If a railroad company by mere allegation In its bill of complaint, supported by ex-parte affidavits can overturn the result of'dayS of patient "Investigation (by the Interstate commerce commission) no satisfactory result can be expected. The railroad loses nothing, since if it falls it ca i only be required to establish the rate to pay the shippers the difference between the higher rate collected and the rate which is finally held to be reasonable. I recommend the establishment of a court of' the United States composed of five judges from among the circuit court judges of the United States to be known as the "United States court of commerce." I see no reason why agreements between carriers subject to the act specifying the classification of freights and the rates; fares and charges for transportation they may agree to establish, should not be permitted, provided" copies of such agreements be promptly filed with the commission, but subject to all the provisions of the Interstate commerce act. I think the law that a carrier Uion written reauest bv an ADVOCATES UN 1 intending shipper should quote in ing the rate applicable to the pro-1 the posed shipment, and if the party mak- Ing such request suffer damage by refusal or omission to quote the proper rate, or in consequence of a misstate ment of the rate, the carrier shall be liable to a penalty in some reasonable amount. Initiative Favored.

I see no reason why the commission should not be authorized to act on Its own initiative as well aa upon the complaint of an individual in investi gating the fairness of any existing rate or practice, and I recommend that the law so provide, and also that the commission shall be fully empowered to pass upon the classification of commo dities for the purpose of fixing rates. Eyperlence has shown that many, perhaps most, shippers do not resort (Continued on Pare Two) NORTH POLE IS DESTINATION Of COOK PORT JERVIS, N. Jan. 7. The missing Dr.

Cook is now (n Germany perfecting plans for an expedition to the Arctic re-gions next year, according to a statement by Theodore Cook, brother of the explorer, who Is visiting friends in this section. The brother't statement adds that the explorer's wife is with him, and that they both art happy to be away from the public. The expedition which Dr. Cook is planning, according to his brother, is for the purpose of rttina conclusive evidence that he was at the pole on April 21, 1908. FORESTER! IS DISMISSED i As' a TAFT jy Means a Division in the Party and Trouble of a Serious Nature May Follow.

CANNON LOSES HIS FIGHT IN HOUSE SUCCEEDS PINCHOT OGDEN, Jan. 7. The announcement of the dismissal of Pinchot was greeted by the Wool Growers' convention with cheering. Albert Potter, designated as his temporary successor, is here, but said he has no official notification, but will start for Washington at once. The growers demand that a be' named perman- ently.

Potter Is a westerner and a grazing expert. A By Associated Press to THE SUN. ASHifNGTON. Jan. 7.

Gifford Pinchot, chief forestet and intimate of ex-Presidont Koose- velt, was dismissed tonight by Presi dent Taft for insubordination. Associate Forester Overton Price and As-Law -r Swu were also dismissed by letters as angry in lone as that which conveyed ins news of 'If llw'iti'i'a of Vinohot. Indignant at the action of I indiot in inducing Senator rr. vend lits letter to the senate yesterday, President Taft would not listen to any ad vice or overlook the forester's violation of the executive order, pending the congressional investigation. He declared the dignity of the presiden tial office had been attacked and would submit no longer.

President Taft realizes fully what the dismissal of Pinchot means In a political wav, he is convinced that for some time lnsurgeants and other critics of administration have enlisted the services of Pinchot. practicaly defy ing him to dismiss Pinchot, Up to President The tetter's letter, few doubt was written with the direct purpose of "putting it up to the President." President Taft has picked un the gage of battle and with the administration supporters i ready for the fray which is certainly coming. Prili-ticalv observers declare the situation created by today's developments is most acute, and dangerous in possibilities for manv venrs The outcome none are willing to prophesy. In the house Sneaker Cannon lost his first fight to the insurgents who, combining with the Democrats, caused the adoption of an amendment to the Ballineer-Pinchot inaulry so as to take away the speakers power to appoint the house members of the joint committee of investigation. The margin of the victory was small, three, but the insurgents and Demo crats are jubilant.

Pinchot Not Surprised Three Renublicans not classed a insurgents, but nrofessing frlendshin to Pinchot. voted for the amendment which calls for an election of the house Investleators from the floor. Secretary Wilson of agriculture, is One of Pinchot 8 chief accusers, it was his Information that stirred the President's wrath. Secretary Bal-linger was not present at the special session of the cabinet all the after noon. Forester Pinchot received his latter of dismissal tonight but nothing indicated that he was surprised or dls- tresed.

He was with a parly of guestg when he met the reporters. In evening dress, smiling. I have nothing to say, and don't know when I will break silence," he said. Sound of Merriment All the while sounds of merriment came rrom tne party unfair, rns dismissal will In no ay divert the Investigation by congress of th affairs of the interior department The only Continued on Page Eight THE- 1 6 OF OFFICE JOLTED BALLINQER Says Mr. 'Taft jyKtblUtDJ 1 lArlji) letter informing torester fin- chot of his dismissal is as follows "Sir The Secretary of Agriculture informs me that on December 28, Associate Forester Price went to him and proposed to resign, on the ground that he had been engaged with-Shaw, assistant law officer, in instigating the publication of articles in various newspapers and magazines, attacking the good name of Secretary Bollinger, charging the Interior Department and Land- Office with corruption.

The Secretary thereupon wrote, asking your recommendation. You did. not answer, but on January 4, you had a conversation with him in which yon said you wished to make a statement to be read to Congress, at the same time my message transmitting the record in the Glavis case, and that you thought you could induce Senator Dolliver to introduce it. The Secretary advised against this course, but asked for a recommendation regarding the acceptance of the resignation of Price, in order that he might bring the matter to me, to whom, he said, it must ultimately come, because I had considered and passed upon the Glavis charges. Without further conference with Secretary before piaking a report to him, you succeeded in making public a letter stating you had sufficiently disciplined Price and Shaw, with the recommendation that no fur- ther punishment was required.

In order to understand the full purport of your letter, in which you admit the tomplicityof Price and Shaw id publications' in the press, it should be said that the gravest of.GSavis' charges was that Ballinger and others were all affected by' the corrupt wish to patent the33 so-called Cunningham claims in Alaska. That the facts were understood is shown by the plain intimation in your letter that for the first time you had reached a wrong conclusion as to the good faith of Secretary Ballinger and the officers of the Land Office, although you and your subordinates had only seen the evidence of Glavis, the accuser, and had never seen or heard the evidence of the accused. Second, that under the circumstances without the exploitation by Price and Shaw in the-press of the Glavis charges, the administration, including the President and officers of the Interior Department, would have allowed certain frauds. You solicited an opportunity to make a declaration to Congress for the purpose of offsetting the public mind and the President's decision in the Glavis case, supported by. the Attorney General, after a full examination by both Your letter is in effect an appeal to Congress, a public excuse in advance of the guilt of your subordinates before I could act and against my decision in the Glavis case.

I would be glad to regard what has happened only as a personal reflection and take unofficial cognizance. But I must maintain the dignity of my office and discipline. By your conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate of the government; therefore it becomes my duty to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to remove you from the office of Chief Forester." DETAILS OF DEAL DCDDIC Ullllil If the interests which yesterday contracted to buy the Perrls ranch, owned by the Nnevo Land company, put up $25,000 within 30 days, it may be considered a sale, on the basis of As Announced in THE SUNyes-terday, Los Angeles brokers met" the directors ot the Nuevo company In this city yesterday, and entered Into an agreement for the purchase of the property, which Includes a little more said to be New York capitalists, of; large means, although the terms of the contract do not make it a cash transaction. According to the agreement, $25,000 Is to be pall within 30 davs. another $25,000 a year later, and $75,000 October 1.

1911. at which time possession of the ranch will be surrendered. There are also certain stipulations bv which the final transfer may be made to1 I for are Up to FIGHT to Mr. Pinchot earlier, on the making of earlier payments. The basis of the sale is $50 per acre for the land.

The Nuevo com pany bought less than three years ago. about $16 per acre, and since that time has taken off three bie crons. while the outlook for she present sea son is the best the company has ever had. In addition to this 6.000 acres of land, the company also farms aliout 5.000 acres of leased land, and plans FOB 1 TRANSFER BELOW Coldest Weather in Several Years Is Experienced By Chicagoans. KANSAS CITY HAS A STORM PROMISED CHICAGO, Jan.

7. Chicago experienced its coldest weather in several years early today, when the weather bureau theremometer registered 5 below zero. Street thermometers recorded temperatures as low as 10 below. DEATH AND SUFFERING FROM COLD IN COLORADO DENVER, Jan. 7.

Delated reports from mountain districts bring stories if death and suffering from snowslides tni low temperat.ires and interruption railroad traffic from heavy falls of mow. Fit 1 i.iumrj, DOS Wl BUSIMEI ECONOMY MSN who s.d?wtl Jnvtts you to trad with thtm, wlill those who do not advertlM should lmpren you with tho fact that they do not oar anougrh for your trad to aik for It. TS COMJffX JTDABLB bat It Isn't rood baiint policy to advertli It by cutting1 your aavartlilnff. do not need reformation In our advertising a much aa need re-animation. News EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE All As Time VOL.

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-1 i PINCHrS Wednesday a snowslide ran in which sweep the torrents of water vdiauii aiauici, uear iaie uiiy. jjoio- rnnn lHlHnnr Tonl. T) 1 1 i uuLji uauicii. a. vciciau miner.

A report reached Durango that a snowslide carried away the boarding house nt the Tom Moore mine, with a number of fatalities. Teriperatures ranging between zero and 38 below are reported from mountain districts. FREEZING TEMPERATURES PREVAILING IN SOUTH LOUISVILLE, Jan. 7. The coldest-section of the United States today, according to the weather bureau, lies in the territory of the southern boundary of Tennessee to the country bordering on Lake Superior.

Freezing temperature prevails as far south as the gulf of Mexico and a9 far east in the southern country as the" Appalachiacola river in Florida. Pa-iucah, Kentucky, reports two below zero, the coldest since in 1886. LAKE MICHIGAN STEAMER CAUGHT FAST IN ICE CHICAGO. Jan. 7.

The steamer Puritan, which stiled from here for Benton Harbor, Michigan, yesterday, fast in the ice. tlhe was due at Ben-'on Harbor yesterday afternoon. Communication was established by wireless telegraph today. The Puritan caroled no passengers and a crew of about 20 men. ICE IN ST.

LOUIS HARBOR FROM ONE TO FIVE FEET THICK ST. LOUIS. Jan. 7. With the cxcep-l of a few places, the Mississippi Ivor wo a rsxinn mrm tnrlnn Ct I qui, miiiiitsuiu, il urauii lower, rt 111 IflnnnnntH rH 11 I was something The ice in the St.

Louis harbor Isvvas a closed book, a ivim gjo hi uvc ieei mien aua an iver are ice iocKen. 3ISE IN TEMPERATURE REPORTED IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS CITY, Jan. 7. There was a decided rise in temperature in this part of tne southwest in the 21 iours ended today, the mercury climb- iv jt ursicca, uujPastt and to get in touch with his rela- the wind from the south. The short age of natural in Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas appears to be over.

PEACE AGENT DROWNED. By Associated Press to THE SUN. P.LUEFIELDS. Jan. 7.

Gen. Fofnas Diaz was drowned today In Lake Managua on his way' to 'meet Madriz to treat for peace, a gigantic wave shattt red the canoe in which he was trying to make a landing. DEATH IN EXPLOSION. By Associated Press to THE SUN. GRAND JUNCTION.

Jan. 7. An engine on the Uintah road blew up at Daxter Pass today killing a fireman anj roadmaster. The engineer escaped. UNITED STATES JUSTIFIED.

By Associated Tress to THE SLN WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. Midriz has 1 telegraphed the State Department that I the government and neonle of the United Stales are lustlfled in their re sen'ment against Zelava for the execu-1 tion of Cannon and Groce. I COLLISION AT SEA.

By Associate! Pitfs to THE SL'N. ICTORIA, Jan. 7. News has been mun ouuif. ivi riiiMt-r in.

i ne oe- stirrer v.as sunk anj two officers lost. BLUFF SALT LAKE PEO 10 BUILD LINE 10 110 TROUBLE CANYON Call en te Is to be Left Miles South of Rail Route SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 7. (Special to THE SUN.) When overland traffic on the Salt Lake, interrupted by the recent floods, is restored it will te over a route materially different. Rainbow canyon, the scene of repeated disastrous washouts since the building of the road, will be abandoned.

The new line will be constructed to the west of the old canyon route and Caliente, at thte north mouth of the troublesome gorge, will be left Isolated many miles to the south, as the road heads for an eastern connection. The authority' for the statement was made tonight and the building of the new route will be commenced at once. It has been fully decided to abandon all efforts to again attempt to reconstruct the roadbed in the canyon, where annual floods have wrought immense damage. To avoid the route through the Meadow valley and Rainbow canyon the new course will be to the west of the mountain range, from the eastern slops i 1 I I I I I I once more become a little desert Shoe Man For Years Veiled a Past in Which a Bit of Romance Developed. LEFT BUSINESS IN EAST FOR A PASSION CHA bi HARLES H.

WILSON, the cob- er, who died the first of the week, after several weeks' ill- ness, was a man with a past. Few his many patrons and acauaint. ances. if any. ever suspected that in his life that na re win oe a source of surprise today when the public learns, for the first time, that his name was not as known here, but that he was really Hiram H.

Mason, once prosperous shoe man of a populous Kansas town. This remarkable discovery was made through the efforts of Rev. Mark shim tn k. II BUlllb.lllllU VI 1 1 1 1 1 tives. Many a time during the years he has lived here those who took a kindly interest in him.

tried In vain i to get him to raise the curtain on his life prior to his coming here, and disclose the names of his relatives. To all inquiries he turned a deaf ear. As he lay dying, though realizing that his end was fast aporoaching, friends who had ministered to him, pressed him to impart the names and addresses of his famifv, and his only rcplv was to close his eyes and pathetically shake his head, and he passed awav firmly believing that the grave could hide his secret. DISCOVERS A CLUE Before oVath sealed his lips forever he pave Rev Shaw a bill of sale of his little cobbler shon. and1 gave funds to cover all expenses of hM in-temipnt.

In looking over his effect Dr. Shaw. discovered a letter, the only one amone numerous scraps of paner. 11 ws evidently written bv a nephew Jo an uncle. The postmark was "Los Angeles." and the name of the writer H- Mason." member of a prominent firm In that cHv.

Shaw communicated wHth the writer, wro arrived hore nfer the mvp tfr'o'is old man's funeral. tV 4Knfltch to him hnvinsr reached his office tlnr Ine an alispnoe fmn tr- citv. The jus( a Mystery The lause Is wrapt In mystery, ex- HERE ASSUMED NAME- VMI i IT I already afoot for the leasing of bronght nere of "colll. larger acreage so that It may have a the steamer Minryu Maru and the mulshing announcement tW all these place on which to use Its big farming Japanese destroyer Inazuma, famous years he has been going under an as-outfit, after it has sold the land It th wiVLwinl in Ta'- sumed name here. that wipe out the roadbed along the IDEfipTHERS ARE ASKED TO IN ha i I.I I I I fe I I as it was found.

Native Sons Wish Several Organizations to Aid in Plan For Celebration. A COMMITTEE OF FORTY IS NAMED A GENERAL committee of 40 members will handle the one hundredth anniversary celebra- tion next May. A meeting of the Na- tive Sons' enmmitt nf mmhM was hirt lact nunninn wh.r. i Icided that the Wnman' rlnh. r.himh.K of Commerce, the Merchants' associa- tion, the Mayor and Council, the Na tive Daughters and the Pioneers each be invited to name five persons who shall serve as members of the general committee, in connection with the Native Sons.

These various organizations are ex- pected to Mnn their reoresentativea as possioie, so inai me gen eral committee may be organized and things gotten Into shape for effective work as early as possible. HAVE YOU AN IDEA. No official attempt will be made to outline the scope of the celebration until the entire membership of the general committee is named, as it Is desired to have the views of as many as possible in that matter. In the meantime everyone who may have an Idea that might be valuable in working out some distinguishing features of the celebration should present the plan to some member of the committee. Ideas are what Is wanted, as It Is especially desired to make the hundredth anniversary celebration of a.

"something different" character, as was the Festival of the Arrowhead. R. E. Swing was chairman of iast night's meeting, and Edward Wall secretary. f.

it Is known that In some way a woman was Involved. Rccause of her strante hold on -Iram H. Mason, ho suddenly dropped from the slcht of hli mciias, leaving ane.i. PnVl I i nnt .1 muium a moments warnlnf. days, weeks and months Ms proved one of the big sensations of the conin unity.

never returned. Ry some means B. If. Mason, his nephew, learned of hit (Continue Tag To).