The Morning Union from Grass Valley, California • 1

THE TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY MAXIMUM! 6 IM.TJM WEATHER PREDICTION RIDGE RESIDENT NEAR DEATH MANY TRACK MEET ENTRIES CHAMBER COMMERCE IN SESSION FORECAST FOR TODAY IS FOR CLEAR AND WARMER; STORM PERIOD RAPIDLY PASSING established 186a GRASS VALLEY AND NEVADA CITY, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1913 PRICE, 5 CENTS Two Types of Hydro-Aeroplane Being Tried Out at Sandusky, O. Top, Atwood's Flying Boat. Bottom Weldon Cookes Hydro-Aeroplane. Declared to Have Dismissed Cases in Court for Consideration. MARKED BILLS FOUND ON HIS INTERPRETER Judge Denies Having Any Part in Schemes of Petty Officials.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28. The name of Judge Edward F-. Shortall; a police magistrate, was dragged into circumstances surrounding, the arrest today in the hall of pustice of Nikalos Valianosr a Greek Interpreter In the police courts on whose person $140 in marked bills was found. Captain Mqoney, chielf of detectives and William A. Mundell, private defective, made the arrest.

Theodore Paliopolos, charged with resisting an officer, had complained to Mundell that Vallonos had on payment of $140 to have dismissed the case against him and two other cases against Greeks charged with selling liquor without a license. He made a statement to the police hat Vallonos had told him that the money was to be divided between Judge Shortall, the two. officers who made the arrest and the interpreter. Mlundell advised Paliopplos to pay fhe money and marked it. It was passed in the corridors of the hall of justice, after Judge Shortall hand dismissed- the cases, and.

the arrest foU owed immediately. Judge Shortall denied all knowledge of the transaction in which Vallonos is alleged to have been a party. 1 Vallonos never spoke to me abqut the cases in question, he said, I dismissed them because there was a lack of evidence. The arresting officers eagerly sought a conviction hut the case of tlie prosecution did riot convince me, So far as the charge that the court was to receive a portionof -the mpfiey Is concerned, I want to' say that the same accusation may be made' at any time against any one of the four police courts by irresponsible Men who accept bribes, fresifently get the money boasting of a pull with officers and. courts which does not exist.

Danish Engineer Has Plan to Make Wars of Future Bloodless. CofcpENHAGEN May 28. The dream of a Danish engineer named) Aesen of seeing the next war waged by automatons in place of soldiers has developed' into an hastening of an invention ivhich it is claimed would revolutionize defensive tactics. Aesens; contrivance is a cylinder which may be buried in the ground for years in the same fashion as submarine mines are' placed in harbors. The cylinder is operated by electricity from a station four or five miles distant.

When a button is pressed the cylinder jumps two feet from the ground and fires four hundred shots horizontally, the shots being effective at a range of 3,000 yards. Aesen asserts that crops might be grown over the automatons in time of peace, I j. i i i Many Testify That Ex-President Was Always Extremely Temperate. COURT MAKES AN IMPORTANT RULING Rumors, Coming From Unqualified Persons, Not Admissible as Evidence. MARQUET, May 28.Men who have been associated with Colongl RbOSe.velt in public and private who met him on the Nile when he returned irom liia African hunting trip, newspapermen who accompanied him on various political campaigns testified today that ftlie Colonel not only was not a drunkard but that he was notably and extremely temperate in the use of intoxicants.

Court Makes Ruling. The day's proceedings were marked by an important ruling by Judge Elan-nigan which in introduction of evidence by the defense will have the effect of excluding certain kinds of hearsay testimony. Rumors Not Admissable. In substance the ruling was that Roosevelt's general reputation is at issue in the case and that testimony bearing upon his reputation may be introduced, but that rumors or reports about his reputation, coming from persons not qualified by experience to judge, shall not he admitted. Rumors Were Current.

It was a question put to a Washington newspaperman that brought about the argument of attorneys over the admissibility of certain testimony The witness was asked whether he ever heard a general report circulated among newspapermen that the colonel was in the habit of getting drunk. After the court's ruling the witness said he had heard such rumors, but he regarded them as wholly unfotinded end not worthy of notice. 1 MORE SPECIAL Postmaster General Issues Order Stopping Their Use Hereafter. WASHINGTON, May 28. General Eurleson issued an order today discontinuing the use of the tpeoial ten cent registery stamp and providing that no additional registery stamps shall be printed after the present supply is exhausted.

Hereafter or-ri inary postage stamps may -bo or the prepayment of registery fees. P. MUST GIVE UP C. P. Attorney General Decides That No Compromise Can Be Accepted.

WASHINGTON, May 28. Attorney General Reynolds has decided to contend that the Southern Pacific must give up the Central Pacific, the line from Ogden to San Francisco, in the pending dissolution of the Union Pacific merger. He will begin a suit under the Sherman law to accomplish that end if the dissolution plans fail to include it. EDITOR GETS POSTOFFICE'. WASHINGTON, id.

Arnold, editor of the Sierra Y.ailei News, has been nominated for post-( master at Lcyalton, Sierra county- HUSBAND SEEKS FOR KILLING HINTS AT NEW YORK, May 28. Officer, I ant to give myself up. I killed my ife today and I want to go to the lectric chair. Henry Steger, a young salesman, ran to a policeman tonight with this onfession. Elsa Steger, his wife, had een found dead earlier in the day, upposedly a suicide.

Steger, iken to the police station, was greatly wo Named by Japanese Association of America to Undertake Mission. WILL CONFER WITH AMBASSADOR CHINDA George Shima, California Potato King, One of Dele-r gates Selected. SAN. FRANCISCO, May 28. At a meeting of the Japanese Association OT AmeripA: today a resolution was r.

adopted which provides for sending two delegates to Washington to conifer with Ambassador Chinda on the anti-alien land law and the general conditions of Japanese1 subjects In California. The delegates selected are George Shima, president of the association, known as the potato king, and K. Abiko, proprietor of the Japanese-American, a local Japanese newspaper. Baron Juichi Soyeda, who recently arrived from Japan, will accompany the who-Intend to start for Washington about June 8th. London Standard Advises.

LONDON, May 28. In an editorial on the California situation, the Standard advises Japan to deal with the question as a purely business ipattep. rather than to import' into it sentiments of offended racial and national pride. As allies of Japan and firm friends of the United States, the British; people would deem it a misfortune of the first magnitude if the negofn-tioDs left behind feelings of exasperation on either It says. Slow progress Reported.

TOKIO, May 28. The Japanese foreign office has jflveri out statement that the; efforts of the foreign office in the. California question have not been as successful as might be-wished, but that negotiations with the United States government are proceeding. i STEALS CIGARS Has Habit of Slipping Out Two or Three More "Than He Pays For May Grant Stafford, vice president of a local bank, accounted one of the wealthiest men in-Winfield, has been convicted by a jury on five counts charging the theft of cigars from local dealers. Testimony was that on -seven occasions he took more cigars than he paid for.

It was testified that asked the salesman for three cigars for a quarter and while the latters back was took one or two others from the box Sentence was deferred. The trial lasted three days and thq courtroom was packed at every session. STRIKE MAY BE ENLARGED. FRANCISCO, May 28. Strike managers, for, the electrical employes of the Pacific Gas and Electrical company threaten to call out the members of the Gas and Wlater Workers Union as an expedient for winning the strike.

Mrs. Josephine Fear then became alarmed that he had deserted her and the other women and applied to Mrs. Lawrence. The other women thjen filed petitions also, giving their names as Mrs. Mrs.

Dear and Mrs. Bear. I found that I could not work peace in this city, Fear told Mrs. Lawrence, so shipped them all hack to It Lake, where I wont he Saints Deny Fear. SALT LAKE CITY, May 28.

No record showing that George Fear, whose marital troubles were aired In a Cook county court today, has ever lived in Salt Lake, are to be found here. Latter Day Saints church authorities declared today that they had no member of that name. WASHINGTON, May 28. Congress in all probability Will yield to the protests of foreign nations against the provision of the Underwood tariff bill granting a five per cent tariff discount on imports in American owned or controlled vessels. That the provision can be eliminated without harm and that congress has no desire to insist upon legislation that will be embarrassing to foreign nations or will interfere with treaty obligations, was admitted by administration leaders in charge of the bill today.

Germany, France and England have made strong protests against the clause. FACING SHORTAGE Forged Notes to Amount of $52,000 Found in Banks Paper. KANSAS CITY, May 28 Following the recent discovery of a' shortage of $52,000 in the fund of the Farmers Dank at Smithville, Preston Aker, former cashier of the bank was arrested today at the request oif the prose-cutingattprney of Clay county. Forged notes amounting to were among the bankb paper as- disclosed, by the Investigation; of Abe banks affairs; two weeks ago. Policies Will Be Paid in Full When Holders Reach Age of 70 Years.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen today approved a change in the organizations insurance methods. All policies will hereafter be paid in full when the holders reach seventy. Proposals to adopt a form insurance, such that offered by and also to make the loss of one eye total was defeated. OF RECENT Detective of N.

E. A. Acquitted of Charge of Assaulting Frank Ryan. INDIANAPOLIS, May 28. Robert J.

Foster, a detective employed by the National Erectors Association at the time of the investigation of the dynamite conspiracy, was found not guilty cif assaulting Frank Ryan, president of the International. Bridge 1 and Structural Irqrt ti)day. FpstierJ was fined $175; hbwever, on charges -of- carrying concealed weapons and -of carrying rdeadiy weapons. PRISON HIS WIFE; SUICIDE excited and talked incoherently. He blurted out something about a suicide pact, and that his wife left one bullet in the revolver for him, but that he lost his nerve.

On Stegers statement a charge exf homicide was entered against him. The police express the opinion that Steger died by her own hand and. that the husband is suffering from mental shock. be able to get to New York from Sandusky in less than twenty hours. Later on I hope to be able to reduce materially the.

time of the Twentieth Century Limited and other fast trains. i Atwoods device is in reality a boa. equipped with aeroplane wings and an air propeller. It also has wheels that it can land upon or start from the The bow of the1 craft, is fitted like an automobile and the mu-chine is' cranked and started just like an auto. The.

boat is thirty feet long. The planes surmounting it measure forty feet from end to end. The flying boat, as a whole, weighs 1300 pounds, notwithstanding the fact that it constructed of the lightest materlv available, mostly violin wood and bamboo. The motor weighs 330 pounds. The total weight of the craft, League games played yesterday resulted as follows: Coast League.

At Los Angeles Los Angeles 1 5 3 Venice 5 11 2 Batteries Tozer, Krapp and Boles; Raleigh, Elliott. At Portland II Portland -8 17 1 San Francisco 0 4 1 Batteries James, Fisher; Hanley, Hughes, Sepulveda. At Oakland H. Oakland 8 13 0 Sacramento 7 13 3 Batteries Christian, Rohrer; Mun-sell, Kinsella, Stroud, Reitmeyer. National League.

At Pittsburg Pittsburg 1 7 2 Cincinnati ..3 9 0 At Chicago- Chicago a 14 3 St Louis ..7 16 3 (17 Innings). American League. At St Louis St Louis 3 7 2 Detroit 6 11 At Cleveland (first) Cleveland 2 5 Chicago ,...1 6 At Cleveland (second) Cleveland 5 10 0 Chicago 3 8 2 SUMP CLERK CHARGED Will! EMBEZZLEMENT SAN FRANCISCO, May 28. Ernest Trost, stamp clerk employed at the San Francisco general postoffice, will appear tomorrow before United States Commissioner Krull on the charge of embezzlement. Postal inspectors report a shortage of $541 found in Trosts account.

LORD AVEBURY DEAD. CUONDON, May 28. Lord Avebury-died today of heart disease, after a short illness. He was 79 years of SANDUSKY May 28. A mile a minute In a flying boat is the promise of Harry N.

Atwood of Boston, the long distance aviator who achieved fame by bis flight from St. to New York a couple of years ago. Since the beginning of the present year he has been working on his (device in this cit He has had several successful flights. My boat will navigate both vVSteV'ankl air, says Atwood. It Will make a mile a minute and then sortie.

Djetroit is seventy-two miles from Sandusky as the crow flies. I am ready, to guarantee to deliver a passenger' at Detroit within seventy Vninutes after setting sail from Sandusky. New Yrk is; between seven and eight hundred miles in a direct line. Flying ov'erland isnt as easy as flying over water, where you can sail if you dont want to soar. But I believe that in my flying boat I shalt TUITION CANNOT BE COLLECTED STUDEDTS State Superintendent Rules That Boards Must Settle That Detail.

SACRAMENTO, May 28. The State Superintendent of Education today de cided a point in connection with high school tuition that will effect the high schools of the State by prohibiting Ithe collection of tuition from students or their parents for attendance when the student does not reside in the district. A student living in Merced county, which is a high school district, wanted to attend high school in Stanislaus which was nearer his home, but the high school authorities asked a large tuition. This complaint brought out a ruling that if a student in one district desires to attend a high school in another, the. matter of payment for tuition must bP settled by high school boards of the counties or districts involved.

BABE GALDWELl WHO WEIGHED 408, DEAD VENICE, May 28. George Comstock, known among circus people as Babe Caldwell, the Fat Mian, who weighed I 408 pounds died suddenly today. It required twelve, men to carry Corn-stock to the automobile in which he was taken to the hospital. GIRL SHOOTER EXONERATED. I SACRAMENTO, May 28.

Miss Mabel Thornton when shot and killed Les- lie Turner last week because of the fact that he was annoying her, was 1 exonerated today by the coroners jury. It was stated, however, the grand jury would investigate. with the aviator and two passengers, will be approximately two tons. Atwood employs a dozen different men, in his prominent among whom is Weldon B. Cooke, the California birdman, who, with a second flying boat, of an entirely different model, has entered the international; Great Lakes flying cruise, which will start from Chicago July to finish, at Deu-oit ten days later.

Almost daily Cooke flies over the bay and lake. The flying boat," if itiproves to be the success that Cooke and Atwood predict, will revolutionize flying. It will enlarge the field of travel to such an extent, they think, that an over-the-ocean trip will be a pastime rather than a possibility. Atwoodj admits now that he had a flying boat in mind when he considered a flight across the Atlantic some time ago. And he may attempt this flight in the not distant future.

AIDED BY OIL Donation of $150,000 Made by John Keith to University of California. SAN FRAN CISCO, May 28. The largest donation ever made to; a university for the purpose, of conducting research into womens diseases ha.s been made ito a fund for the construction of a medical research teaching hospital at the University of California by John Keith, the octogenerian oil operatorof the Kern river fields. Keith has given $150,000 as a memorial to his late wife, according to announcement today made by Dr. Herbert Moffitt, dean of the medical college.

UNWRITTEN LAW FREES VALLEJO MAN KILLER VALLEJO May 28. Acting as his own counsel and pleading the unwritten law as his qnbr- defense, Joseph -Hoversby, an-employe of the Mare Island navy yard, won complete vindication today for. J. F. Rainey, on May 17th, at the preliminary hearing here today.

BATTLESHIPS ASSEMBLE IN MEMOBY OF MAINE NEW YORK, May 28. Ten battleships of the Atlantic fleet came here today to do honor to the memory of their lost sister, the Maine. On Memorial day their crews will participate in the dedication of the national Miaine monument, at Columbus-, circle, the entrance to Central Park. INVENTOR FINDS FOUR WIVES AND 29 CHILDREN TOO MANY TO KEEP PEACI CHICAGO, May 28. Petitions asking that George Fear, 65 years old, be compelled to support a total of twenty-nine children, which were filed by four women who claimed to he.

his wives, were dismissed today, in County Judge OWens court when Fear told Mrs. Josephine Lawrence, an investigator, that he had shipped all the women back to 'Salt Lake City, whence he and they had come. Fear said he came to' Chicago to develop a patent and brought only one of his wives, Mrs. Josephifie Fear, I with him; leaving her nineteen chn I dren at' Salt Lake. That was early last winter and recently other three women arrived.

All was peace- ful, he declared, until he had to leave Chicago for a short business trip..