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Fort Scott Daily and Semi-Weekly Monitor, Established 1862. FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, SEPT. 24, 1910. SATURDAY EVENING. VOLUME 29; NUMBER 264.

PAID THE PRICE OF HIS OARING JOY RIDERS' FATAL END HEAR THIS MAN'S STORY WILLIE JONES FOUND INSANE BEGINNING TO BOIL I AUTOMOBILE PLUNGED INTO CANAL AT NEW ORLEANS. PERUVIAN AVIATOR WHO SKIRT-ED ALPS PASSED A GOOD NIGHT MENTAL ABBERATION SET IN AFTER HE WAS INCARCERATED. CHICAGO LAWYER SAYS BURG LARS USED MOVING VAN. HER GRAVE OF CEMENT FIND1N6 COUPLICAIES CASE If He Recovers He May be Returned Here and Tried for Murders-Jury Out But Short Time. In Probate Judge Russell's court this afternoon a jury comprising E.

J. Chapin, F. L. McDermott, Martin Miller and Dr. L.

W. Griffin declared Willie Jones, confessed slayer of Ralph Larimer, to be of unsound mind The jury further found that the Insanity has existed in Jones ror only seven weeks, which makes its inception after the commission of the crime. The latter statement complicates the case. Jones will be taken to the asylum and cured if possible, and released, after which he will bo returned here and tried on a murder charge. The charge of murder will be maintained and if Jones is placed on trial again his only defense, outside of domestic affairs, probably will be temporary insanity.

The trial began at 10 o'clock this morning. After the jury was called one arose and stated that he was prejudiced. He was dismissed. Public opinion is often stated in faror of violent punishment, for the man who has escaped a charge of murder through the machinations of fate. The first witnesses called were Drs.

McDonald, Carver and Payne. All stated that they had administered medicines to or had examine Willie Jones and that he was now, in their judgment insane. All testified that Jones might have been weak minded before the crime and still have executed business with fairly good judgment. Their testimony was followed by a number of fellow students of Jones during the time he was going to school. All of those examined stated that Jones was always a peculiar, morose fellow, who had little if anything to do with others.

Such names as "Wink-em" were applied to him. Others testified that In a geometry only explained one proposition correctly, even after taking four terms in geometry, much of the time In the same class. Undertaker1 John T. Else stated that Jones passed a satisfactory examination in undertaking. In some studies Jones was shown to be equal to 6ther students, mathematics being the only one In which he might be termed absolutely Sheriff Hesser does not know when he will be able to take Jones to tho asylum.

Application will be made at once and probably a place can be made for him within the next few-days. The second week of October will probably see him under treatment. The authorities here will continue to watch the case and if Jones is cured he will be returned and tried on a charge of murder. During the entire trial Jones sat bowed over in a large chair, hair un-kept, a large beard decorating his face and his hands covering his face, no one seeing his expression during the entire trial. He displayed no unusual temperament in addition to his appearance, except nervousness.

That overcame him at times and his feet would rafse and strike the floor for several moments at a time, audible by a steady rat-tat-tat. Attorney Al Williams of Columbus, and A. M. Keene of this city, represented Jones. J.

I. Sheppard was present and took active part in the proceedings. Sheppard was employed by Jones shortly after he. was arrested. Other witnesses were as Sheriff Hesser, who told of the beginning of the malady and of its development; J.

F. Hughes, principal of the High school; William Childress, Roger Toles, Eldred Toles, Mr. Road-ley, formerly country teacher whom Jones studied under; F. H. Reeds, Will Rollings, Douglas Penniman, Pred Ury and John Ury.

Griswold Made Secretary. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 24. President Taft's mail today contained a letter from President Hadley of Yale announcing; the appointment of William E. S.

Griswold as secretary of the railroad securities commission. Griswold Is an attorney and graduated from Yale in 1809. Taft iny mediately confirmed the appointment President Hadley, as chairman of tha commission, will conduct an investigation of conditions of the European railways and at the same time the other members and the secretary will collect preliminary information In the United States preparatory to the first meeting in Washington, November 8. The commission was created by congress to Investigate tho Issuance of railroad bonds and stocks. Ncrbert Burke, who has been ing his summer vacation with his 4 A A I'dit-uLe in ouuuu arrived the city Wednesday for a few days visit with relatives.

He "will leave next Thursday to take np his studies at Christian Bros. College, St. Louis, this being his third year at that insti tution. HIS CONDITION IS SATISFACTORY Broken Legs, Fractured Thigh and Great Mental Shock for the Lad of 23 Who Set the World Agog. Domodosoila, Italy, Sept.

24. Geo Chavez, the Peruvian aviator, who thrilled the world yesterday by a flight over the Alps at an altitude of a mile and a half and then lost control of his monoplane when he had descended to within thirty feet of the surface, passed a fairly good night. Physicians say his condition is satisfactory. Broken legs, a fractured thigh arid many bruises, are the price, In addition to mental shock, which the 23 year old boy paid for the glory of lcing the first to fly from Switzerland to Italy, will keei) him in the hospital for some time. He is being showered with messages of mingled congratulation and condolence.

Paris, Sept. 21. The old problem of how to come down safely has yet to be solved by air navigators. This i3 emphasized by the Chavez accident. French aviators were intensely Interested in discovering the exact cause of the Peruvian's mishap, which they consider po3itive proof of weakness in aeroplane construction.

According to experts' accounts, a wire stay snapped, permitting a wing stay to collapse as Chavez restarted his motor after having planed down a distance of more than half a mile. His speed as he approached the airodrcme 13 stated to have been fully sixty eight miles an hour. Constructors agree that glides earthward after the motor has been stop ped subject the, stays of wings to tremendous strains, and they believe the Chavez machine gave way when sud denly put to extra tension by restarting the motor. As the deaths of Delagrange, Le-blanc and Wachter were due to similar collapses, the impression ia strengthened that this serious defect must be overcome. Milan, Sept.

24. A committee of the Italian aviation society of Milan is raising a purse of $10,000 for George Chavez, whose accident at Demodosscla yesterday prevented his Winning the $20,000 purse for a flight from Brig to Milan. The physicians say Chavez will recover from the effects of yesterday's fall. THE LORIMER TRIAL MONDAY To Prevent an Exodlus to Foreigi Countries the Names of Witnesses Will Be Suppressed. Chicago, Sept.

24. 'Fearing that th investigation into the Lorimer scanda might be hampered by the flight witnesses to foreign countries the in vestigating committee of the Unitet States senate decided to suppress th names of all witnesses until they an called to the stand to give testimon: at the Inquiry into the charge tha "The Blond Boss" obtained his sena torial toga by the wholesale purchas of votes of legislators at Springfield. The decision to throw the mantl of secrecy over the witnesses to summoned was reached at an execu tive session of the committee. No witnesses -will know that he i wanted until he is served with a sut poena to appear. A blow was given to the Lorimer df fense by the overruling of his plea fo delay and the announcement tnat would have, to go to trial on Mondaj THEY fiEDUCED PRICE OF GAf New York Company Finds It Cheapo to Please the People Than to Buy Legislation.

New York, Sept. 24. "We think i better to reduce the price of gas an satisfy the public, even if it cuts ou dividend rate, than to pay money corrupt legislators for favorable lej islatlon." This was the explanation today Thomas E. Byrne, general superir tendent of the Kings county lightin company, of the company's applicatio" to the' public commission to be lowed to reduce the price of gas. 'Woman Aviator Flies.

Mineola, L. Sept. 24. Mrs. Bes-sica Raiche, the Wisconsin aviator who came to grief here a few days ago while trying out her new biplane redeemed herself today by talking seven short' flights over the.

"Mineola trying grounds. Her most successful attempt was a flight of amlWand a quarter at a height of thirty feet. 6 BELIEVED HAVE BEEN DROWNED Left Restaurant Before Daylight and Went So Fact Witness Couldn't Tell Number Occupants. New Orleans, Sept. 24.

Six persons are believed to have been drowned when a large touring car returning from West End, a lake resort, to New Orleans, this morning ran off the road, crashed through a fence and fell into the canal. Three of the bodies were recovered. They are John Freeman, of New York City; Thomas Eoutler, the chauffeur, and an unidentified woman. The car left West End shortly before daylight and it is believed to have had six or seven occupants. The waiters at the West End restaurant said the car was driven by Thomas an automobile dealer, former proprietor of the Oak hotel in New Orleans.

He had two women and three or four men as his A workman passing along the shell road which connects New Orleans with West End running parallel wifch the New Bason canal, said the car was running at such a high rate of speed that they could not tee how many occupants it contained. A few seconds later the car was seen to swerve to one side of the road and plunge into the canal. lie ran toward the spot and made out the figure of one man attempting to swim ashore, but before he could reach the bank the man sank. DR. CG0K WAS SEEN IN MUNICH The Much Sought Explorer Was Registered There as Mr.

Coleman and Family. Bridgeport, Sept. 24. Dr. Frederick A.

Cook, the much sought explorer, is at the hotel Stachus, Munich, under the name of Mr. Coleman and family, or at least he was there on September 2, when Michael B. Ryan of this city left Munich en route to Rotterdam to catch the steamer Potsdam, saiiirg for New York on Sept. 10. There is no question about the identity of the explorer, for Mr.

Ryan sailed with Cook in 1S97 on the Paris, occupying the same stateroom with him. Cook was then going to Belgium to secure the position as surgeon witr the Belgian Antarctic expedition, a post he obtained. Miner Picks Water Reserve. Seattle, Sept. 24.

Occidental mine No. 3 at Palmer, thirty miles southeast of Seattle, was flooded by the escape of a large body of water released by a miner's pick. The miner was drowned and his seventeen comrades barely escaped. THE EDSALL CASE TO THE JURY Ail Evidence Is In and Arguments Are Ceir.g Heard in tha Train Wreck Case. T.urlington, Sept.

24. The argument in the Moody wreck case in which S. J. Edsall, a Missouri Pacific engineer, is on trial for manslaughter will be heard today. Edsall and Superintendent Walsh of the Missouri, Kansas Texas Railroad were witnesses for the defense yesterday.

The case probably will go to the jury about noon. To Aid Suffrage Campaign. Guthrie, Sept. 24. Announcement is made from suffrage headquarters that Miss Kate Gordon of New Orleans second vice president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, will come to Oklahoma in October and spend two weeks in the campaign on behalf of the proposed suffrage amendment in the constitution to be voted upon in November.

OPIll IN PRISON That's Report That Comes From Atlanta Federal Prison and Government Orders Investigation. Washington, D. Sept. 24. Investigation of federal prisons at Atlanta and McNeill's Island, Washing ton has been ordered by the depart ment of justice to ascertain whether opium, cocaine and whisky are being smuggled by guards for the use of prisoners.

An investigation at the fed eral prison at Leavenworth recently disclosed such practices there and ro- i ports to the department indicated a probability of its existence at other institutions. -Representatives of the department have been sent to the prisons. FORGED HIM TO REMA IN BED While They Stole $1,000 Worth of Silver, Rugs and Tapestries Then Eurned His $50,000 Home. Ghicago, Sept. 24.

Burglars burned the $50,000 home of W. E. Muse, of Hinsdale, an attorney, early this morning, after stealing $1,000 worth of silverware, jewelry, rugs and tapestry, according to the owner's report to the police. Muse was alone in the house, the domestics having gone with Mrs. Muse on a vacation.

Muse claims he was forced to lie in bed while the burglars carried out the plunder and loaded it in an express wagon, then set fire to the house. The flames had such headway that they could not be extinguished when finally he could call the fire department. PIONEER DEAD. George Patterson, Old Resident and Business Man Pasased Away at Mercy Hospital This Morning. This morning at 6:30 o'clock at Mercy hospital occurred the death of George Patterson, a pioneer resident of Fort Scott.

The deceased was 73 years old and death was due to senile decay. George Patterson had conducted a grocery store in Fort Scott for years past, being in business at the time of his death at Sll East Wall street. He was prominent in the early history of Fort Scott and at one time served as street commissioner. He lived in rooms at the rear of the store and only during the past few weeks had he complained of poor health. He was taken to the hospital for care only two weeks ago.

Mr. Patterson was a faithful member of the Grace M. E. church. He had two step-sons, Samuel and Frank Manalove, the latter conducting a grocery store on Wall street and Samuel a railroad man and lives" af Ash Grovel' A daughter, Miss Mable Patterson, lives at 107 South Little street.

A nephew, F. K. Patterson, lives at Pittsburg, Pa; The funeral service will be conducted tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock from the Konantz undertaking establishment and burial will be made in Evergreen cemetery. Rev. Mackenzie of the Grace church will preacb the funeral sermon.

IMPROVEMENTS START AT ONCE W. E. Cassell Gets Contract to Remodel Power House Addition on the" Northwest Side of Plant. The Fort Scott Gas Electric Co. has awarded the contract for remodeling the power plant to W.

E. Cassell and he will start work at once on the same. The improvements to be carried out will aggregate some $7,000, and include an addition on the northwest side of the piant. The northeast wall will not be molested. The plant is to be remodeled throughout, making it one of the largest and most up to date to be found in any city the size of Fort Scott.

Mr. Cassell announces that he will commence work right away on the improvement, possibly by Monday, and that the work will be finished within thirty days, possibly. He will put a large force of men on it. COLORED SOLOIER DEAD. Warwick Moore Succumbed to Paralyses Last Evening Burial Tomorrow.

The flag at the court house square hung at half mast today in honor of Warwick Moore, la colored soldier, who served through the civil war and who made his home in this city continuously for twenty years. He died last evening at the home, 623 South Barbee street, after an illness of one week, of paralysis. He was one of the more prominent colored men of the city. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home. Rev.

Fairflax of Parsons, will conduct the services. Moore was member of the colored Masonic lodge of this city. Interment will be made in the National cemetery. SULK SULTAN HERE Titular Head of Mohammedan Church In Philippines and Four Jolo Attendants Reach New York. New York, Sept.

24. Hadji Mohammed Jamulai Klram II, Sultan of Sulu, titular head of the Mohammaden faith in the Philippines, arrived today, accompanied by Dato Rajo Moda, his personal advisor; Chas. J. Worble, Interpreter, -and a retinue of four Jolo attendants. The Oriental potentate will remain Ne.w York for several weeks.

(Copyright. 1910.) HARMON OPENS MSCAMPA OHIO GOVERNOR'S KEYNOTE OF CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENCY. TALKS NATIONAL EXTRAVA6EKCE Says Wasteful Expenditures at Wash-. ington Amount to Millions Annually Attacks the Tariff. Canton, Qhio, Sept.

24. The Democratic state campaign opened here to day with Gov. Judscn Harmon a candidate for re-'election. In a speech Harmon turned to a discussion of national issues long enough to score the present national administration and to tell his hearers that the only hope for the people lies in the success of the national Democratic ticket. The speaker declared that wasteful expenditures had led the Republican party to over-taxation to the extent of $.100,000,000 and scored the Payne- Aldrich tariff revision as legislation opposed to the interests of consumers.

who would not be deceived by fair talk in attempting to defend it. He declared the Republican party had not kept its campaign promises. "Congress is now appropriating a billion dollars at each session, every cent of which is levied on the people by taxation," said Harmon. "It is confessed that extravagance and mismanagement cause waste of not less than $300,000,000 each year in the ordinary conduct of the government. Tt is surely time the people should bestir themselves.

"And every one is not only compelled to contribute to this, enormous outlay of the federal government, but is also made to pay a much greater amount in" the form of increased prices in goods because the tariff law is framed to swell the profits of manufacturers. "The people were long deceived, but they were so aroused at last that the Republican leaders were forced to promise prompt relief by reducing tar Iff taxes. A special session of congress was called to make the promise good. How they did it has been told by many Republican members of high standing and authority. "The promise to reduce tariff taxes so as to give relief has now been referred to a commission to decide at some future time." CHESTPEAKE S.

OHIO TROUBLE. Company Filed a Big Mortgage on AM Its Properties and Receiver is Asked As a Result. Logansport, Sept. 21. Suit was filed in the Cass county circuit court here today asking that a receiver be appointed for the Chesepeake Ohio railroad and that its charter be revoked and the corporation dissolved.

The immediate cause of the suit was the filing on September oth by the railroad company of a mortgage for $40,000,000 ia favor of the Mercantile Trust company of New York covering all of the property alleged to be held by the company. Mexicans Murder American Contractor Torreon, Mexico, Sept. 24. Word has reached here of the murder early this week of G. H.

Hughes, an American railroad contractor, who was shot by his Mexican employes. Hughes' Mexican foreman was seriously stabbed in defending Hughes. GN PACKERS BUY MEXICAN RANCH Morris Gets 1,250,000 Acres and Will Build Packing Plant at El Paso. El Paso, Sept. 24.

Announc-ment was made here by Morris packers of Chicago, of the purchase in Mexico of 1,250,000 acres of land, which is to comprise one of the largest ranches in the world. The track reaches within a few miles of this city on the Mexican side of the river. At the same time announcement was made that a packing plant to cost $1,000,000 wouJsex established here the 'purpose of transforming the products of the ranch into food staples. PRESIDENT HAS IT Application tor Pardon Walsh, Bank Wrecker, Filed Physicians Say Liable to Die in Prison. Washington, D.

Sept. 24. The petition to the President for the pardon of John Walsh, former president of the Chicago National Bank, from the federal prison at Leavenworth, was filed at the department of justice today by Attorney George T. Buckingham of Chicago, on behalf of the wife and sons of the prisoner. Accompanying the application were thousands of letters from individuals throughout the middle west urging the President to grant the petition.

In 1907 Walsh was found guilty of a violation of the U. S. banking laws, in having made excessive loans to railroads in which he was interested. In December, 1909, he was sentenced to five years. He is 73 years old.

He is suffering from heart disease. Phy-sicians say he is likely to die at any moment. TWO GUILTY Assistant Weighers of Customs, Cor-rupted by Sugar Trust, Convicted Chief Clerk Acquitted. New York, Sept. 24.

One of the former customs officials was acquitted and two were convicted as a result of the customs fraud underweigh ing trial which was concluded in the United States circuit court here today by a verdict of the jury rendered by Judge Martin. George E. Bedell, chief clerk under former Deputy Surveyor Vail, was acquitted. His codefendants, Charles H. Ward-ell and Charles Draw, former as sistant weighers in the customs ser vice, were each found guilty.

Killed at Coffeyville. Coffeyville, Sept. 24. C. Fausnauct, of St.

Louis, a Missouri Pacific switchman, was run over and killed by a train while switching cars in the company's yard today. He was 24 years old. THE WEATHER, Chicago, Sept. 24. Kansas and Mis souri Generally fair tonight and Sun day.

New -Orleans, Sept. 24. Arkansas Tonight and Sunday partly cloudy; colder tonight in the northeast. Oklahoma Tonight and Sunday generally fair; warmer tonight in the ARE SCHOOL TEACHER MURDERED BURIED IN CEMENTED BASEMENT BODY BADLY EATEN WITH ACID Girl Believed to Have Undergone a Criminal Operation, Resulting in Death Tried to Conceal Crime. San Francisco, Sept.

24. A widespread investigation was begun by the police today of the death of Eva Swam, a Paso Robles young school teacher, whose acid-eaten body was uncovered last night under the basement of an unoccupied house here. Gallons of nitric acid had been poured upon the body, which had been crushed into a shallow grave in a basement bath room of a cottage in a sparsely settled district; but so carefully had the burial place been sealed with ce ment that the body was well preserv ed instead of destroyed, as the, mur derers had planned. Dr. James Grant, accused by his assistant, Ben Gordon, of having performed the operation which resulted in the death of Miss Swan, was questioned at length today, but refused to discuss the case.

PERSONAL MENTION. Judge C. E. Cory returned this afternoon from a business trip to Parsons. 'Alfred ha sreturned from Kansas City, where he attended the funeral of his father.

David Stidworthy has decided to attend business college. He will begin on the first of October. He will resign his position at the Miller implement company. C. B.

Griffith went to Harding this morning to deliver an address at a Sunday school picnic and convention. Chester Ramsey also went there and will stay until tonight. Boss Kaiser, of the Kaiser-Cohn-Prager cigar stores will leave next week for a three weeks' stay in Coffeyville. He will take the position of "Sully" Prager, relieving him for that time. Warren Hedman, son of A.

J. Hed-man, a prominent machinist of this city, who is at Kansas City for a few days, is following in his father's footsteps. He is learning the machinists trade and is in the K. T. shops at Parsons.

The coppersmiths of the road today are having an K. T. system banquet at Denison, Tex. The shops closed down in view of the occasion and Warren came up last night. He will return tomorrow night.

THERMOMETER CHANGE AT LAST Dropped Ten Degrees in Short Time Frost Probable Next Cool Spell. Little Rain. Weather Observer E. A. Shaver this afternoon said: "It was a delightful drop in the thermometer last night.

Ten degrees cooler was the result during the night. The thermometer has been warping things at G9 right along each night. There was only a trace of rain, the test showing .10 of an inch. I expected to see a frost accompany the coolei weather, but I think I will be The next cool drop will bring-it." i.