The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • Page 1

IT VOLUME LV. WICHITA, KANSAS, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1912. NUMB EE 77. BIPLANE FALLS SAVED DESPITE HIMSELF SUICIDE THEORY li! THE RIGKELS SNYDER NOT AT i'lF'EL DEATH SON -ASSERTS BLOODSTREAMS IT CONVENTION If T1BEE I DICTAGRAPH HID HIT BY GALE; AVIATOR- DY Half Dozen of Fellow Flyers Escape From Wreckage of Ma-- chines, Driven to the Ground in Winds. ONE LOST IN FOG 'FRISCO BAY OVER Conflicting: Currents Sweeping Around Mountain Play Havoc With Aeroplanes on the Opening Day.

Oakland, Cal.f Feb. 17 The opening of an aviation meet at the old Emeryville race track near here, -today, ttm baptized with blood. Tonight Aviator AVI 1 Ham II. Hoff San Francisco, Ilea in a hospital probably and a half dozen of hi fellow aviators more fortunate than he in escaping from the wreckage of their machines are nerving themselves to play again tomorrow, the hide and Meek game with death vrhlca Inrka in the oeean fogs and the goaty wind of San Francisco, bay. Phil O.

Parmalee, Glenn Martin, Horace F. Kearney and Hillery Beachey werg among thoso whose machines were driven to the ground by combating air currents. Before the aviators could pitch their planes to meet one burst of the half gale, another from a different direction would up-Bet their equilibrium. Trying Out New Machine. Hoff was trying out a new machine when he met his misfortune.

As he flew at a height of about 50 feet, an air current, sweeping around Mount Tamalipas, struck the biplane. It buckled and dropped straight to the earth. Hoff was under It. His pelvis bone was fractured, his nose broken, his face crushed and he sustained internal injuries. Lost In Fog.

Famum T. Fish, the youngest aviator at the became lost in the fog. Fish said ho had lost all sense of direction in the fog and "took a chance." Hemmed in by San Francisco and San Tablo bays, he finally alighted on the neck of ground between them. Wan Fly'a Mechanician. was mechanician for Eugene Kly when Ely was killed at Macon, Ga.

Mrs. Ely was- in the grand stand today and sat rigid with horror as Hoff tumbled to earth. She left the Held unnerved. FOUR KILLED AS HIT HITS WRECKER Eleven Hurt in Collision in Fog of Pennsylvania Flyer With Local at Larwill, Indiana. Fort Wayne', Feb.

17. Four men were killed and eleven were injured when Pennsylvania limited train No. 6. westbound, dashed into a wreck train at Larwill, today. No one aboard the limited was injured save a baggageman.

The wreck was due to the fog which was so dense that a flagman sent back from the wreck, train was not seen by the engineer of the limited. The wreck train had been stopped by a trackman who reported a broken rail ahead and while he Investigation was in progress "the limited dashed into the' caboose of the train ahead. The wreckage caught fire and two of th dead were burned. Two or three -of the Injured may die. SAPULPA OFFICIALS REMOVED New Sheriff and County Attorney Named Who Conduct Raids on 16 Joints.

Bapulpa, Feb. IT. Acting District" Judye Allen's precipitated campaign for enforcement of prohibition resulted In sensational developments today. -First he-removed from office County Attorney Decker and Sheriff John Berry. In their places he named, respectively John Overstreet and Holmes Davidson.

They moved raiding sixteen places, where it was alleged prohibition laws were being violated County commissioners ratified Judge. Allen's action. OfflcerN Xawrd. Hutchinson, Feb. 17.

ED Vt Man Whom Swinney Said Was Present At Killing in Ore-: gon Woods Elsewhere Testified by Relative. St. Louis, Ftb. 17. The defense in the Kiromelcase opened before United States District Judge Charles F.

Amidon today with R. M. Snyder of Kansas City, son of the Jate R. M. Snyder, who was said by John B.

Swinney, a rancher, to have been present when George A. Kimmel was shot to death In the Oregon woods, on tht stand. Snyder's testimony and the reading of the deposition of the auditor of a New York-City hotel, ended the case for the day, and adjournment was taken until Monday. Identifies Signature. Young Snyder identified the signature of his father as photographed from the register of the hotel and after giving other testimony, he Was excused temporarily.

Swinney's testimony "was to the effect that he met K. M. Snyder, In Kansas City July SO, 1898, and that Kimmel was killed in Snyder's presence August 14, 1898. Snyder, showed attorneys for the insurance company telegrams he had received from his father from New York under the date of Augst 13 and 15. The deposition showed that Snyder's account in the New York hotel was closed July 29, 1898, and that' Snyder paid for a room by the week up to September of that year.

Vouchers from telegraph companies "shdwed that the son sent telegrams to bis father between July 8 and August 31, 1898, at Alexandria, Chicago, St. Louis, Washington, New York and other cities. Had not Heard From Son. The plaintiff closed the case with the deposition of Henry T. Kimmel, father of the missing man.

The claimant, Andrew J. White, while confined in prison, told his sister, according to his deposition, that he buried his father in Pennsylvania. Klmmel's father, who is still living in deposed that he had not heard from his son since he disappeared. PLOT T0TAR FEATHER Canton Mayor Receives a Letter That Seven Wheeling Women Have Planned Evangelist. Canton, Feb.

17. Mayor A. It. Turnbull received a letter today from A. Christian of Wheeling, asking him to aid Billy Sunday against a 'plot of seven big women to tar and feather him." Women to Get Him.

"Some seven big women of the town, 'Big in size are going to get him. Finally they are going to tar and feather him. This I overhead of f've in a parti- "I believe that Billy Sunday fs perfectly able to take care of himself. If any trouble came," said the mayor, "but If he needs any help he can count on me." Johnfon-Flynn Forfeits Posted. Chicago, Feb.

17. Jack Johnson, champion pugilist, Jim Flynn and Jack Curley today posted $20,000 in currency and certified checks with Al Tearney, this sum staked as forfeit money tor the. world's heavyweight fight between Johnson and Flynn. Tht time and place for the bout were not made public. Curley intimated that he would not decide on a place until May 1.

SAYS SUGAR TRUST EXISTS House Probing Committee Finds Combine Keeps the Price Up. Washington, Feb. 17. The Hardwick "Sugar Trust" investigating committee, after many weeks of open hearings here and in Tew York, reported to the house today that a sugar trust exists. The report, which is signed by all the members of the committee.

Republicans as well as Democrats, makes no recommendation as to how the al- leged trust and those responsible for shall be dealt with, suggesting that this phase of the s5tuatioa Is to fce haiullffcd Dv a standing committee of the house. AN LLY SUNDAY? CASE ATTACK Coroner Believes Third Person Killed Farmer and Girl Of-. ficers Are Disagreed, No Clues Found. Topeka, The mystery surrounding the killin of BUe Stick -ney and her stepfather eight miles north-, of here -Thursday remains as complete and baffling tonight as It was when, the bodies Vere- found. This afternoon a.

coroner's jury was Impaneled and viewed the bodies of the two principals In the tragedy at a local undertaking establishment. Tomorrow the bodies will be burled. Snleide Tfceery DU credited. With the efforts of the officers entirely- fruitless In solving the mystery and the probability of no arrests being made growing less every hour, discus sion of the tragedy is becoming more animated. The that the top Nof the man's cap was shot off and the lining left unbroken; that the girl's cap, mittens and -dinner pail had been carefully put down and not dropped: that no newly fired shell waa found at the spot of the killings; that Rickels was shot In the back Instead of the front part of his head; all thoso and other arguments- are being advanced to break down the suicide theory adopted by the sheriff.

The officers are disagreed, the sheriff clinging to the suicide theory and the coroner to the theory that a third party killed botli the victims. No. clues developed which point to arrests" in the near future. The coroner's Jury will meet next Tuesday to hear evidence In the case. SHOT SPOI SE, ACQI ITTED.

Gatesville. Ten. Mrs. Minnie Lee Streight, of McGregor, Texas, charged with the murder of her husband T. Streight.

a newspaper publisher, after having been previously tried and given a life sentence, today was acquitted by Jury in the district court. Mrs. Btreight declared she shot her 'husband because he attacked her. The trial was transferred here on a change of venue when the court of criminal appeals reversed the decision of the trial court. BRIDE KICKED (HORDOBEY -NO WEDDING Invitations Withdrawn When Episcopal Minister Refused to Officiate -Baptist to Wed Them Wednesday.

Richmond. Feb. 17. Miss Besele ti IAiess, auurage ieu(r, ufcunru louay lo subscribe to the word "obej-" in the Episcopal marriage service and In con-sequence, her wedding to Albert IZ. Chamberlain of New York, was postponed.

The minister who was lo have officiated refused to leave out the objectionable word. He was sustained by his bishop. The couple withdrew th wedding Invitations and will be married next Wednesday by a Baptlwt minister, who has agreed to respect the suffragist bride's objection. hibltion in this city and I believe I will go and take a look at If. Knew Itran Knew.

After that, Mr. Nichols said be had! no doubt Ryan knew of the dictagraph, As further showing the operation of i the dictagraph. Mr. NIchois gtive ut a sample of a conversation known to' have taken place last W-ineeday soon after the arrents were made. "Voice: 'Is your Idea the government will pay the eipense rf th men coming to Ird'atsapulis on March 12 for arralgnrcentr "Hockin: 'It the government ought Rysn was then told tbere was a dictagraph his offlre.

He consented to have his informant search the oSTIre. A quick examination of Ryan's dak i -v -a- THC Swill, 3 I ED Six Men Knocked Down. Witt Chairs and Guns Ars Drawn -in Meeting of First Dis- trict Republicans. CHAIRMAN HIT ON WITH GAVEL HEAL Table Nominee For Congress of One Faction Is Standing On-Pulled From Under Him and Smashed. Greeaevllle, Tenn Feb, IT- With blood streaming down his fneo rem wound reeelved In ffebt In which at leant all men wero felled with rkalra and alatola were drawa, Adaam S.

Ben man. rhalr Mil of th first dlatrlet RrpaW. I Irs a roateatloa today flaally made his yells for "order heard aad the body proceeded to work This was not the last of the -ilo-leaco for whea 1 when lit. former roaareoamaa aad nominated by faction today attempted to make a sneek, the table -a which ho waa standing waa jerked from ander him. Ills op (moral then gate vent to their wraik by axaashtag the table.

Admitted by Ticket. Congressman Sam H. Ken was opposed for nomination by Ir. Msnwjr. Trouble etarted when the coiiRrrsslonal committee decided to admit only persons holding ticket where the convention was to tak placer.

JF-ll adherents were at the doors in lar; numbers. The doors wrre opened there was a great rush and rc-on tfcs house was filledbut very few tickets were collected at the doors. When Chairman Fhipley of the congressional commit. called the cuss-ventlon to order and snnrtur.ced tht selection of Bowman as chjirrnsn. five members cf the committee said.

Off jr favored another chairman. travel -naleetl ajr, Bowman, however, lo ik which was stiAtrhed fr.ni Ms Substituting his heavy wlKinij -i for the savel, be brgan "order." when he was trsi i t' head with the jtavet. A K'nl ensued. -i A itemblsnce of or1er fiivalSy Was rentored and two convrntloiis wetr -14 on the sxt. one" retionh 4lin and the other naming Ti f'Hi convention endorced Tsfi for re-nomlRatlun.

It wa during ine speech of scceptanc that the a f.ils was Jerfced from under tht awing him heavily t' the Muff, i i ii orrr.iirj iititF.i) man TO Kll.l. II I Amepbury, M.i. Fb. 17- I- muel O. Hatch, farmer.

dmd here, a suicide, a a ibo reluctsnce of his hired man accept nn offer of fJO tt kill huu. I'll nivc you if you'll me, I'm rlk atd lir.ij of life," told the farm band. The hired man trJe.J iiulet htn snd then went to polire, he returned JfaJ'h hJ Mown off Ms head with a thtgvjn, uing a cne lo discharge tt- a.in. eiposM a-inunr th atus hanftrrsby its wsre back wall of the dek. oj ihir.a atut lT" 5l Ryan.

"How did tht get in hrers When that retard 1 J.n taktn vt tonver In tie lat t'to1er. Jtjn the ernment matt have a many eor uUtUn ft-er ofTi-jJa sf the union tf.e eabj! of t. Sriamftint t.ni-r ST- "The are -t 1 have aJ II l. "Sot: rj Lit bt: ir.rritn'f ir becaa" 1 bs Ve- wrocs. tiiti Mi-tt sTe ehri, but rr Trt hgtit ws -'ir phone wije mlfiirl 1 i -r Hi QPt OFFERS TO SELL SPOUSE TO WIFE XO.

2 FOR 75. Yonkers, N. Feb. 17. How much is a husband worth, reduced to figures In.

the base coin of the realm? Wife 1 of Joseph Acker-ly quotes, her husband at $73. In a letter read at hearing of Ackerly here today for bigamy she offered: to sell him to wife No. 2 of New York for that; sum. CHEROKEE BARKERS WOH'T OFFER Stout and Titus, Charged With Misapplication of Funds, Not to Take the Stand. Guthrie, Feb.

17. The trial, of A. 11. Stout and A. J.

Titus, the Cherokee bankers, under indictment for misapplication of bank funds, came to a sudden end In the federal court here today 'when the defendants' attorney announced they would put no witnesses on.the stand, but rest their cases on the testimony, produced by the government. The trial has been In progress two weeks and will go to the Jury following the closing arguments by attorneys Monday. Defendants Don't Testify. Neither Stout nor Titus took the stand and witnesses for the defense, who have been here twelve days waiting an opportunity to testify, were not used. The defendants' attorneys demurred to all the evidence and' then filed a motion, asking Judge Cotteral to instruct the Jury to bring in a ver diet for their clients, but both demurrer and motion were overruled.

Is also under a separate indictment, charging embezzlement in connection with the closing of the National bank of Cherokee, in November, 1910. CLARK LEADS ACCORDING TO EARLY RETURNS With Fifty of Oklahoma Counties Heard From Speaker Runs Ahead of Wilson. City, OHla-, Feb. 17. Re- fifty of the seventy-six Oklahoma turns from Democratic county iy couvennoca Le.a conventiocs beld throughout Oklahoma today to select ceiegates 10 tne state convention snow that.

189 of the S5 delegates accred- to these been n- structed to vote for Champ Clark as the presidential nominee; 13 were Instructed for "Vsodrow aad 31 delegates from Oklahoma county were linlnstrncted. iinlnstructe-1. In the Oklahoma county convention In the Oklahoma county convention rarr oraadzatfan. but feour fight which ctilminated when one of tae -ielegates regardea a leader. he favored Clark, the convention voted to send nnlnatructed delegates.

i trol of the tempo- I after 'an mm spot Every Word Spoken in Ryan Of-f ice Since October 'Said to Be Recorded Through Phonographic Device. INSTRUMENT SECRETED DESK DRAWER IN Two Stenographers Reported to Have Been Thus Enabled to Take Notes of All Conversations. Dever Feb. 17. Mrs.

Tlenry Lejcleltner, t-fco- noahand Is held In the eounty Jail for removal to Indlanapolla to tuner an Indictment eknr-ring him wtth being; connected with the dynamite conspiracy woald take her haaband'a plaee In Jail If he roald "tree. "Ills bralth Is broken. He will Ale In tkat jail. He ban tnber-roloals, and If he la to litre he nana hnve good. vrholeaoaao food," she aald today.

Learned by Dietorraak. Iadlaaanoila, Ino Feb. 17 Whatever Frank M. Ryan and other Indicted a a Ian ffirta.la hnve anid la their offlee nbont the dynamite onan4rny alne laat October i alleged! to hnvo be learned by the Et-naa through dtetagranh shows to. day In th keadqnartera of the International Aanoeiatioa of Bridge aa Strnetaral Iron Work em.

The dictagraph, hldn ucer a drawtr In a desk about which the president; Herbert S. Hockin. tbs secretary-treasurer, and T. Butler, first vice-president, ar.d other officials eonferred ccrrrxing their defense snd pleas is said to ha.ve enabled two gov- mam K- stenotrra'cers in a root! iow to taJte re-Kjrt, versatloa. Its I Ca.

xse ci in ciciarrap was c- closed today, when the goveratnest elded It was no Issuer of vwtae. bo- I 0 1 -va was heard to say, I stippoie thsy now wnsiever we say- i nifiBc.i ay i. ran. ma- BOYCE FEARED SON'S III FH CANADA Letter Victim of Sneed Wrote Asked That 'Pull With Taft' to Head Off Ex- tradition Be Used. WAS OPPOSED TO ELOPE MENT SHOWN State Probably Will Conclude Its Evidence Today and Jury WiU Get Case This Week Expected.

Fort Worth, Feb. 17. Tending to contradict the assertion of the, defense that Captain A. G. Boyce looked with favor on the elopement of his son A.

G. Boyce, and Mrs. J. B. Sneed, whose husband is on trial charged with having murdered the elder Boyce, the prosecution had rad Into the record today a letter in which Captain Boyce described Mrs.

Sneed as a woman "so mean as the devil; so smart as a whip." The letter was written to a friend of the Boyce family in 'Chicago ajter the younger Boyce and Mrs. Sneed had been detained In Winnipeg, Canada, and urged that whatever Influence the friend might have been exerted to prevent the extradition of Boyce as his return to Texas "I fear would bring a bad ending to both parties." Henry Boyce on Staad. The letter appealed out of sympathy for the aged couple that efforts be made to prevent his extradition. Mutual friends are named as possibly having "some 'political, pull might induce Secretary Knox and President Taf to use their Influence to have him -The greater part of the day's session was taken up with the cross examination of Henry Boyce. He told of his brother's trip from Santa Rosa, N.

to Fort Worth, to have Mrs. Sneed released from a sanitarium after she hati written "for God's sake some and take me away." The state 'probably will conclude its evidence Monday. It is believed the case will not go to the Jury before the end of next week. STARTED WHAT SHE CAST STOP Girl as Joke Advert tea for Sorted With Hf-piie. Chicago, Feb.

17. -A letter Intended as a joke and written by Mamie H. Dennie, to the sheriff of Sheridan county, has served to bring about a greater of annoyance than fun for the author. Inquiry was made ir tne letter as to whether there was a nice -young man who wanted to correspond with a pretty girl of IS. Miss DennSe described her eyes as blue, her hatr as brown, and stated her willingness to exchange She wrote them, she says, just to see.

what would happen, She promised to answer all letters stamp bat now she has changed her mind. Biie com plains her borne looks Ilk the room a posteffice and she I wonders how she can. step the In-! icoming letters. They.r;av co-ne fron. young, -poor.

One of the ftlpulstions 'ln. her lettert 1 llca- 1 i i i i As to the effect of the combine on thelthe cost of sugar to the consumer, the state Y. M. C. A.

convention the fol- committee expresses tne belief that lowing officers were elected: Presi- monopoly keeps the price up, but dent. Dr. Frank K. Sanders. Topeka; maks ro attempt to fix accurately First Vic President.

W. Y. Morgan! extent to which reasonable prices Hutchinson; Second Vice President. might exist under competitive I Taylor, Pittsburg; Fourth Vice conditions are exceeded. t15" Afstar.t District Attorney Carat Nicholas that the -iifiagrapb was T.

R. Drawn Jrr. I Velosseo of ote Taketa. X. Feb.

17. -Col The- Attorney Ctarle vr. dore Roosevelt of Oyster Bay said rtssay voim stacrpI drawn today among other residents of sotes Had been takes on cocntr to serve ctt trial laror i rph and w3d be used at tN trials President, Dean E. H. Webster of Man hattan; Convention Secretary, A.

B. Cowden, Salina; Assistant Secretary, Rupert Stanley, Manhattan. Doesn't Know Own Name. St. Louis, Feb.

17. With part of his memory gone so that he cannot recall his own name, whero he lives or when he came to St. Louis, a man upposed to be W. B. Staker of Marion, Ohio, is nt the city hospital.

He was picked up at the union station Wed nesdaj when he told a patrotoian that he thought he was losing bis mind. Chinks All CitUlsed. Pendleton, Feb. Believing himself disgraced because he would be forced to enter the Chinese New Year with a debt of $200, Wong Tong, an aged Chinaman, ended his life today by hanging himself. Jg Tim r.

locger a.eeru. The dlK-overy of the ditsgrsp 1- 4 A receives jr.tJm that, sorr.e of tae defendants were r4y "to all ttey know tTh Jo tt rumor. still was werksr-g to- 5r whea tr wis reror- WoscaVs vfe-ice; I it wirtt go tho eJ whether they I are l.stecirg to now?" -Voice; I jp; oe I I i Srd on! where th tnar.A: 5 feor2 I Hc yars ye Sksow 1 Iwteat iks I.kr j. 1 A mm i. a am sat I utitr tt orr.e i i sr i Say Inquiry Incomplete.

Philadelphia. Feb. 17. Commenting upon the report of the Hardwick committee, James M. Beck, general counsel of the American Sugar refining com- P311.

who was 5aiJ: in this city today. "The findings of the committee are not likely to give the investors in the sugar company any concern. for, for- tunately, these questions of law and facts-are the subject matter a Judical inquiry now pecding-in the United States courts. However, fair the purpose of the. congressional- committee may have been, its inquiry was very incomplete and fartiaU The cosnraittee only called such witnesses" aa.

It chose to hear. It refuted to callow counsel for the connpanjr to cross-examine such witnesses or even to make an oral are'umeiU. at the term' of court beginning Stared four. Most of the others are farmers and business mes. 7 HE WEATHER Feb-" 17.

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