The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

in I THE KANSAS CITY STAR. VOL. 27. NO. 163.

AT WORK ON THE ORDINANCE STATION COMMITTEE ACHIEVED MUCH IN A SHORT SESSION TO-DAY. Few Serious Contentions Over the Phraseology of the Sections Read Funny Stories Told to Relieve the Situation Whenever a Hitch Came. The representatives of the city and the railroads settled down to-day to the framing of the language of the Union station ordinance. They unet, o'clock and until 1:30, there was an adjournment to enable the mayor to attend a meeting of the board of police commissioners. Previous to 11 o'clock the mayor held court with a condemnation jury.

It was arranged that the work should be resumed again at 4 o'clock this afternoon after the police board meeting. CONTENTIONS WERE INFREQUENT. In the short midday session considerable progress was made on the ordinance. There were few serious contentions over the phraseology of the sections read. Clean of a revised draft of different sections had been prepared and were followed closely by each of the conferees as Alderman C.

A. Young did the reading. The other aldermen present were: Havens, L. F. Hartman and Woolf.

Mayor Beardsley and E. C. Meservey, Moore city counselor, for the city, and S. W. and John M.

Egan for the railroads, listened closely to the reading, determine that it expressed that been agreed to and that there are 110 legal defects or loopholes. SECTION PASSED OVER. One section was passed over for further study. This related to the manner in which the grant for four additional tracks on the Belt line should be expressed. The mayor and Mr.

Moore agreed on the intent of the section, but could not agree purpose. language. Whenever there was any acute tension resulting from a difference of opinion on the wording the situation was relieved by Mr. Egan, the mayor or Alderman Young telling a funny story. These momentary relaxations enabled the conferees to approach the subject again spirit that promoted a speedy solution to the difficulty, The indications to-day were that the ordinance would be ready for consideration the informal session of the council to at be called for Saturday night.

Plans for beautifying surroundings of the new station were talked over at luncheon to-day by Jarvis Hunt, architect of the station, and George E. Kessler, landscape engineer, and Franklin Hudson, president of the park board. Mr. Hunt's visit at this time is primarily on business in connection new Commerce building, of which he is the architect. WRECKERS STILL AT WORK.

No Trouble to Keep Workmen in DemolIshing the Old Commerce While the walls of the old Commerce building are being torn down work on the north half of the new Commerce building is going steadily forward. The piers deep in the bed rock upon which the building will stand have been completed and the heavy steel supports upon which the fourteen story steel framework is anchored are now being set. Of the old Commerce building only the walls of the first two stories remain. About ninety men are at work to-day, Dr. Eugene King.

president it of the wrecking company, said. Dr. King denied that a large number of men had quit yesterday because of the accident in which one man was killed and several injured. He said men quit every day and that it was necessary to employ others in their places. TO DECIDE ABOUT STOCK SHOW.

Meeting Saturday nt Which the Elm Ridge Plan Will Be Disenssed. The officers and board of directors of the American Royal Stock show will meet in Kansas City Saturday to decide whether the fine stock show will be held at Elm Ridge in connection with the interstate fair beginning September 23. If the managers of the interstate fair produce a bond or a certified check, covering the large premium list, the stock show will probably be at Elm Ridge in connection with the fair. J. S.

Berger, manager of the interstate fair, said this morning that he was ready to comply with all the conditions named by the officers of the American Royal Stock show. NO CHANGE IN THE WEATHER. To-Day's Brand Will Be Again Prevalent To-Morrow, Forecast Says. a. m.

111. 0 a. P. m. 10 8 p.

11 a. p. 56 If the present brand of weather is to your liking you will have no just cause for complaint until to-morrow night anyway. That is if the weather man has called the turn correctly. The forecast for Kansas City and vicinity says there will be little change in the temperature until that time.

ICEMEN MEET TO-MORROW. Some of the Delegates Came This Morn-With a Drop In the Temperature. "You need not consult the weather man about why there was a drop in the temperature this morning. The ice manufacturers from the West and Middle West began arriving in Kansas City this mornannual convention of the Ice Manufacturers' association, which begins Midland hotel is the headquarters of the association. OBJECT TO GLASS ON POSTALS.

Cards Decorated With Sharp Particles Have Been Excluded From the Mails, Seven hundred postcards, ornamented with glass or mica particles, were sent to the dead letter office by J. H. Harris, postmaster, this A An order was received here yesterday from the postal authorities at Washington to exclude all such matter mails for the reason that persons handling such matter were liable to injury. Pennsylvania's Dean to Speak. Dr.

Joshua H. Penniman, dean of the academic department of the University of Pennsylvania, will speak at the teachers' institute to be held here March 9. His subject will "Culture, Character and Citizenship." Eight hundred teachers are expected to attend the institute. Kansas City has the greatest institution in the world for the treatment of Piles and Fistula, known as Drs. Thornton Minor system of treatment.

They examine free at 1004 Oak st. KANSAS CITY, FEBRUARY 27. 1907 ROBBED A GIRL OF $50 MISS LIDA ANGLE'S EXPERIENCE LAST NIGHT ON QUINDARO BOULEVARD. 'The Money Had Just Been Collected for Her Futher When a Man Seized Her From Behind and Then Knocked Her Unconscious. Miss Lida Angle, 16 years old, went to the home of A.

W. Akins, Twentieth street and Quindaro boulevard, two blocks beyond the city on the West Side, at 7 o'clock last night to collect $50 due her father as rent. As she was leaving the house, holding in one hand the money tied in a handkerchief, a man stepped from the shadow of the front gate and seized her arms from behind. "Give me that money," he said. The girl resisted and broke away from the man.

As she ran toward the end of Quindaro street car line, two blocks away, the man close at her side, Miss sion of When they had Angle and her assailant, fought for possesfifty the thief struck the girl and she fell against a low tence at the side of the road. When she gained consciousness the money and robber had disappeared. Miss Angle ran to the home of a friend, J. D. Piersol, living at Nineteenth street and Quindaro boulevard.

Mr. Piersol telephoned to J. P. Angle, the girl's father, private secretary to Mayor George M. Gray, at his home, 714.

Washington street, West Side. When his daughter had recovered sufficiently Mr. Angle took her home. rent seven acres to Mr. Akins just outside the city limits." Mr.

Angle said this morning. "The rent for a month, $50, was due yesterday. My daughter volunteered to go for it last evening. Her brother offered to accompany her, but she said she wasn't afraid." "I think I would know my assailant if I were to see him," Miss Angle said this morning, "although I didn't get a clear view of his face. I would know his voice, I am sure." Miss Angle is a member of the junior class in the West Side High school, Oscar Haner, chief of police, has detectives working on the case.

PLATT ADMITS DIVORCE SUIT. MIne Wood's Claims Are Untrue, However, Says the Senator. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-When Senator Thomas C. Platt was questioned to-day concerning the reported filing of an action against him for divorce by Miss Mae Catherine Wood--his old-time Nemesisin the New York supreme court, he said: "It is true that a suit for divorce has been filed.

At present I do not care to discuss the case in the newspaper. I deny her allegations in every particular. They are as false as false can be." Miss Wood has long been threatening to sue Mr. Platt for divorce, claiming to have abundant evidence that she and the New York senator were married. It is 1181- derstood that Miss Wood professes to have in her possession one or more letters from the senator which uphold her contention of marriage.

ST. LOUIS DETECTIVES ACCUSED. Seven Men Under Suspicion on a Charge of Protecting Thieves. Sr. Louis, Feb.

Chief Smith of the detective department suspended Assistant Chief Keely and five detectives to-day on charges filed with the board of police commissioners of protecting thieves and "panel workers" and receiving money and other valuable gifts from them. Inspector McDonnell filed similar charges against a special officer, Tom Mahon, and he was 1 suspended by Captain Reynolds. Each of the men denied strongly and specifically every charge made against him. MARCH COMING LIKE A LION. Steet, Snow and Thunder Storms Out In Western Kansas.

LAKIN, Feb. -The spring-like weather which had continued for some time changed suddenly last night, the temperature falling to 18 above zero. There was a light fall of sleet and snow, with the unusual accompaniment of a thunder storm. GUTHRIE'S NEW COURTHOUSE. The Building Now Under Course of Construction WILL Cost $130,000.

GUTHRIE, Feb. -What is declared to be the finest county courthouse A BLAZE IN A KANSAS TOWN. The Loss In a Mound Valley Fire Estimated at 830,000, MOUND VALLEY, Feb. 27. --The second big fire in a month broke out here at 3:30 o'clock this morning, nearly devastating the business section.

Hulen's new opera house, valued at $12,000, and much of the contents were a total loss. Other buildings Nichols's burned restaurant were and Bird's barber shop. The total loss was about $30,000. ANTI-TIPPING BILL KILLED. It Didn't Take the Missouri Senate Long, Either.

JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. bill No. 23, the Tubbs anti-tipping bill, came up for passage in the senate to-day. Senator McDavid moved its indefinite postponement. The motion carried and the Gasconade county member's pet measure promptly met an ignominous death.

SPEAKS FOR BRYAN'S PLAN. Government Railroad Ownership Patterson's Subject in WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-Senator Patterson of Colorado, addressing the Senate to-day, made a plea for government ownership of railroads. He predicted that such a condition would be brought about within the lifetime of the present members of the Senate, but did not anticipate any speedy action in that direction. The railroads, he declared, were growing more arrogant each year, and he saw little or no relief in the new rate law.

Government control of the roads would supply the only remedy, he said. To show the value of his Mr. Patterson presented figures from fifty-nine countries showing the presence. of government ownership and he saw a steadily increasing sentiment in that direction so far as the United States is concerned. American roads he valued at between 11 and 12 billion dollars.

They could be obtained by condemnation proceedings, the financial end being covered by a mortgage backed by the government's guarantee. Mr. Patterson ridiculed the idea that vast political machine would be built up through federal operation of roads. As a matter of fact. he declared, railroad politics would be abolished.

Among the benebe gained through ownership, Mr. Patterson mentioned extension of the postal system, a postal express and equitable rates. WITH ST. PAUDS COMPLIMENTS. The Minnesota Capital la Interested in Kansas City's New Union Station.

ST. PAUL, Feb. 27. -Discussing St. Paul's need of a new union station, the Dispatch says: "Kansas City, the one city of the West with which St.

Paul can best measure its progress, has determined to erect a 2 million dollar union station for the roads of that important shipping center. Not only is the station to be built, but Kansas City, which has spent a deal of money6 million dollars--in as many years, in making itself beautiful in the way of boulevards and parks, has determined that what is good for Cleveland and for Buffalo is good for Kansas City, and this station is to be made a part of a civic center of a group plan' which shall engage the future public buildings. Kansas City already many excellent buildings, an auditorium, a postoffice, a city hall which cannot be made immediately a part of this proposed new center, but Kansas City knows that it will be in existence for longer time than its present buildings will be capable. So having built for the present and immediate future in its parks and parkings, it will build for a far away future in this group plan, and this will make that future nearer. "JIM CROW" IS LAID AWAY.

The Okinhoma Convention Yields Reluetantly to the Inevitable. GUTHRIE, Feb. The insertion of a "Jim Crow" ordinance in the tution was abandoned finally to-day when the convention voted that the proposition lie on the table. The vote followed the report of the special committee appointed to determine the likelihood of the success of a "Jim Crow" constitution. The committee was unanimously of the opinion that it would be unwise to take the risk.

"Jim Crow" could have been defeated just as easily last, week, but C. N. Haskell suggested that the proposition be THE LOGAN COUNTY COURTHOUSE BEING BUILT IN GUTHRIE. in Oklahoma is now under course of construction here for the use of the county officers of Logan county. The building will cost $130,000 and will be modern and fireproof in every respect.

The exterior walls are being faced with Bedford stone and gray pressed brick. The roof will be of tile. In addition to the courtrooms and offices there will be large assembly room for the public. The architect is P. H.

Weathers. SETTLED IN A VACANT HOUSE. Because Two Boys Made Themselves Comfortable There Each Was Fined $5. L. H.

Allen and G. H. Deeran, white boys, went into a vacant house at 2026 Woodland avenue several days ago. They liked the place so they got a stove somewhere and a pallet. Then they started housekeeping on a small plan.

Yesterday they were arrested. In police court this morning Deeran said that he formerly owned the place. "You just couldn't keep away from the house, could you?" asked Judge Kyle. "It is a mighty nice place." Deeran asserted. "It's a frame know a finer place built of Judge Kyle said.

"Eve dollars each." Safe Deposit Boxes. $3 to $85. Interest paid on time deposits. Corn Belt Bank, 1019 Grand. WEDNESDAY.

ARGUED THE RAILROAD SIDE THE KANSAS SENATE IS TWO-CENT FARES. Notteger, Smith and Fitzpatrick Much Concerned Lest the Profits of the Common Carriers Be Dissipated--May Vote This Afternoon. TOPEKA, Feb. 27-The two-cent fare bills were the special order in the state senate this morning when the upper house resolved itself into committee of the whole for the consideration of bills on the calendar. Two measures were before the senate the Brewer bill, providing for a straight two-cent fare, and the Noftzger substitute providing for the sale of one thousand mile tickets at $20, and an interchangeable 2,000 mile ticket fo for $50 with a rebate of $9.50 as is now in vogue.

The Noftzger bill makes a reduction in passenger fares in one particular onlyit reduces the price of one thousand mile tickets from $25 to $20. It makes one other change in the mileage ticket arrangement in force now. It brings all Kansas roads under the interchangeable. mileage ticket system when a two thousand mile ticket is purchased. THE SENATE'S ACTION UNCERTAIN.

When the senate adjourned at noon no vote had been taken on either bill so that it was impossible to tell which measure the senate as a committte of the whole me would adopt. Noftzger spoke for his substitute. He said that he did not believe the roads of the state could afford the two-cent fare. There were few main line roads in Kansas, he said. The main lines might be able to stand a reduction in passenger rates, but the greater part of the state was served by the branch lines and the people would rather pay three cents a mile and have better train service.

Senator Noftzger said that he was i in favor of passing laws to compel better train service, but he wanted to know that the roads were making enough money to justify a better service. Senator Young declared that the Noftzger substitute was unconstitutional. He said the United States Supreme court had rendered a decision on that question and read from the decisions of the court to substantiate his argument. The decision was from the Michigan courts where the legislature passed a law similar to the substitute bill by Senator Noftzger. "If Senator Noftzger's bill were CO1stitutional I might be inclined to favor it.

But why should we discuss a question so clearly unconstitutional?" said Young. SMITH'S PLEA FOR THE RAILROADS. Senator Smith said that for Kansas to follow the example set by Ohio was not a logical argument to be used in favor of a two-cent law. It is generally known, he said, that in Ohio the population was greater a mile and that the passenger business in Ohio exceeded the passenger business of the Kansas roads. He said the decision quoted by Senator Young from the United States court did not altogether apply to the Noftzger substitute, because 111 Michigan the legislature made the mileage tickets good for 115e by the families of the purchaser.

He said that he had no question that if the proposed law were tested in the courts it would be held valid. He favored Noftzger's substitute because he did not believe the railroads could afford a straight two-cent fare law. Senator Fitzpatrick also favored the Noftzger substitute. He said that he had examined the court decisions referred to by Senator Young and that he was 111 doubt about the legality of the substitute as proposed by Noftzger, but he was sure, he said, that there was no more doubt about the of the mileage book law than there the two-cent fare law. legality, A TIP FROM THE RAILROADS.

"I am informed." he said, "and I believe that the railroads will not contest the mileage book law. and if they do that the law will be all right and the people who travel will get the benefit of the bill. We don't know whether they will get any benefit from the Brewer bill or not." Senator Fitzpatrick declared that the agitation for a two-cent fare did not come from the farmers and laboring men, but from the business men the state. The traveling men are now paying $25 for a thousand mile ticket and the Noftzger substitute would save these men one-half cent a mile on every mile traveled a and would amount to a great saving in the course of a year. He favored the Noftzger substitute.

At noon the discussion in the committee of the whole had not been concluded and the Brewer bill and Noftzger substitute will be considered again this after- noon. LOWER FARES UP IN THE HOUSE. Kansas Is Getting a Line To-Day on the Representatives, Too. TOPEKA, Feb. house spent all morning discussing the passenger fare bills and even then discussion cent was not nearly completed and the indi-1 cations are that the entire afternoon will be taken up with this one question.

The debate this morning showed that practically every member of the house was satisfied that a reduction in fares would be proper and just to the railroads. The only question was how much of a reduction should be made. W. Y. Morgan, chairman of the house committee on railroads, opened the debate by showing the differences in the four bills under consideration.

The differences are only in minor particulars and all the bills ended 111 the same place, making the max1111 rates for passenger traffic two cents per mile. The railroad committee made no recommendations for any of the bills and decided to let the house select any bill it might wish and if there were any good points in one bill they could be taken out and inserted in the bill so that a composite bill would result. On a niotion by W. T. Cunningham, the house decided to take up W.

B. Ham's bill and insert amendments from other bills. A. C. Mitchell of Douglas county moved FOURTEEN PAGES.

that mile. the He rate said be a that changed he did to not see cents ante crying need for a reduction of passenger fares, but they did want better service. J. D. Brown of Harper county, author lof one of the bills, answered Mr.

Mitchel! insisted that as the people were traveling more they were entitled to as low a rate as was compensatory to the railroads. He insisted that there was a crying for lower passenger fares as the question was thoroughly discussed during the campaign and in the newspapers. W. A. S.

Bird of Shawnee county, who voted against the anti-pass bill, took up the railroad side of the question. He wanted same that Senator Waggener proposed 111 the senate regarding the maximum freight rate bills, give the board railroad commissioners a large fund with instructions to investigate the passenger traffic and if it were found that the present rates were too high the board could order a lower rate. Representative Stubbs answered Mr. Bird with the argument that the through rates would not be affected as these rates were now less than two cents a mile and that the rates proposed would only affect the 38 per cent of purely state traffic. A.

Enright had a substitute bill which he presented. This measure cut the passenger rates for those who traveled at least 1,000 miles a year or more as it provided for the sale of interchangeable mileage tickets good for 1,000 miles or more at the two-cent rate. This is along the same lines as the amendments proposed in the senate two-cent fare bill. Michael Sweeney of Pawnee talked for two or three minutes about the action of the Republican majority in the house which he said had not passed a single measure for "dehorning" the railroads unless forced to do so. He roasted the Republicans for electing Charles Curtis as States Senator.

"You had a chance," he said, "to elect the man to the Senate who would support President Roosevelt in regulating the railroads and you did not do it. In The Kansas City Star a few days ago there was a list of senators, their occupations and what interests they favored. In that list was the name 'Charles Curtis; occupation, lawyer; controlled by the Gentlemen, you did this." W. B. Ham of Rooks was the last speaker before the committee took a recess for lunch.

He argued that as many other states had ordered the two-cent fare and as railroad men had testified that it cost little more to operate trains in Kansas than in other states he thought that the fares should be the same. PLAIN WORDS TO NOFTIGER. Clark County Voters Demand That Their Senator Represent Them. ASHLAND, -The following petition has been circulated here and forwarded to Senator in Topeka: We, business the undersigned representative stockmen, men and citizens of Clark county, having kept tab OIL the acts of the state senate, respectfully urge you to act favorably upon wenite bill No. 561 (house bill No.

900), and the Berryman bill, to reduce the freight rate 001 live stock, as well as other railroad legislation now before the house and senate. Our observation of the daily proceedings, as reported, leads us to the conclusion that you are personally against the interests of the people, whose suffrage has elevated you to your present bonor. able position. We believe it is time our terests received consideration at the hands of the senate, and we demand that you, as our personal representative in the senate, give the service and consideration to which we are 11- titled. We would further impress upon you the fact that you are our servant and were not elected to business favor the interests which are throtting our by unjust discrimination and excessive charges.

We whether believe in it is time our paid representatives, state legislature or in national congress, gave heed to the will of the people, who know their own needs, and turn deaf ear to the paid hirelings of corporate greed and Orfar oppression. Such disregard of the popuganized will has stained the pages of history with blood, and will yet again produce like occurrences if continued. free We further believe in free speech and in and untrammeled press, and condemn the act of the senate in excluding a representative of the press from its chambers as a piece of highhanded assumption of power. M. G.

Stevenson, secretary Republican committee. W. B. Nunemacher, treasurer Republican committee. Dick Mackey, county surveyor.

W. L. Ainsworth, clerk district court. Daniel Berket, William Fox, R. N.

Nunemacher, Charles McCasland, Charles B. Dugon, Porter Scott, R. Rice, IT. Hedrick, Rice, F. P.

Sughrue, Wallingford, Elmer J. Pope, Wallingford C. R. Murray, Charles Wallingford, I. Brown, M.

A. Wallingford, D. Pope, B. Brown, A. W.

Hoover, F. Mastin. I. McKown, George L. Johnson, 0.

G. Hamilton, Messing. Fred Staccie, G. W. Baker, William Michel.

TO GIVE CITIES MORE POWER. Bill Such RA Kansas City Desires Passes the Legislature. JEFFERSON CITY Feb. The senate this morning passed Representative Catlin's bill to give the cities power of eminent domain. It is ready for the governor's signature.

While it purports to apply to all cities having 100,000 inhabitants it cannot be made to apply to Kansas City except by an amendment of the charter. similar bill by Casey applying to Kansas City passed the house Monday and will be taken up in the senate soon. The bills give the cities power to take property condemned as soon as the money provided for in the condemnation proceedings has been paid into court. Kansas City is seeking this power to facilitate the construction of the viaduct for the West Traffic Way. QUIT POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT.

The President Accepts One Resignation and Another Is Expected. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of the second assistant postmaster general, W. S.

Shallenbarger. Representative James T. McCleary of Minnesota, who 1S to retire from Congress at the close of the present session. will be appointed as Mr. Shallenbarger's successor.

The resignation of the third assistant postmaster general, Edwin C. Madde, it expected, will be submitted to the President 111 a day or two. No intimation is yet given of his suc- cessor. To Ran a Daily 011 Traia. TULSA, I.

Feb. -The Prairie Oil and Gas company, the Western branch of the Standard, has closed a contract for a daily train from the Glenn pool to Beaumont, where the Standard Oil company maintains a large refinery. This is the first train taking oil from this field to be put in operation by the Standard. It will make the journey south via the Midland Valley and Kansas City Southern roads. Loading tracks will be built at Jenks at once.

The train is to be running within thirty days. But What Does Bonct Say! NEW YORK, Feb. Conried says has engaged Bonci, tenor at the Manhattan opera house, to sing next season at the Metropolitan opera house. Mr. Hammerstein says it is not 50.

Kerr Bros. Garvey Wall Paper 1185 McGee. We understand our business fully. PRICE TWO CENTS. SO HE TOOK THE HAT AND RAN.

Boy in a Clothing Store Waited Until the Dealer's Back Was Turned. Three boys went into the clothing store of E. Hermer at 1208 Grand avenue this morning and one of them announced that he wanted to buy a hat. Mr. Hermer showed him a hat, but it didn't suit.

He then went into his display window to get another sample. While he was gone buyer took a sudden liking to the first hat walked with it---without paying. and. was chased for three blocks, but got away. The other two a boys were arrested.

They gave their names as Frank Anderson and Harry Jones. FOR A NEW BILLBOARD LAW. Charter Amendment Planned to Relieve Residence Distriet. A new plan to abolish billboards has been devised by E. C.

Meservey, city counselor, with the approval of the mayor. It involves an amendment to the charter to overcome all of the objections that have been made in the courts against the efforts of the city to regulate billboards. Heretofore the city has tried to reasonably regulate. The billboard companies fought this. Now it is proposed to obtain a method that will abolish billboards altogether in the residence districts.

The courts have held that a billboard is a vested property right; that the owner of a vacant lot derives a value from the property through his right to rent it for billboards. When this right is taken away it is held the owner is damaged. After consulting all of the legal decisions on the subject the counselor has drawn an amendment empowering the city couticil to pass an ordinance prohibiting billboards within any block or any number of blocks It provides then for condemnation proceedings to ascertain what damages, if any, would be sustained by any lot in this area by reason of the exclusion of billboards and the amount of this damage be assessed against all of the property in the area affected. It is the theory of the counselor that it will be a rare case where any condemnation jury will assess any great amount of damages against any block because of the removal of billboard rights, but this gives the owner of the vacant lot his day in court. This 18 deemed essential by the courts.

The same amendment will also give the city the right to establish building lines on boulevards and other streets, back from the property lines by condemnation proceedings. This power is deemed to be desirable in many residence blocks, where one building set out close to the front property line would damage all of the other buildings in the block. If one lot is a business property a jury would establish damages against that lot if the right to build near the front property line of the lot for business purposes is taken away. It is proposed to ask the council to submit this when the election 1. to vote 011 bonds and other municipal propositions is held.

FUNERAL OF JUDGE WOFFORD. The Crowd Mo Large That the Services Were Delayed Nearly an Hour. So many persons called at the home to attend the funeral of the late Judge John W. Wofford this morning that it was necessary to delay the services for nearly an hour while they filed past the casket. Among them were persons from every walk in life A few were recognized as members of Judge Wofford's parole class, and the sorrow of none was greater than theirs.

Many negroes were among the callers, The home could not accommodate the crowd and many stood on the porches, the yard and in the street. Among those who attended were most of the city and county officials and many membets of the Bar association, Many of the older residents of the city were present. Calvin Smith of Smithville, who 15 now 93 years old and has lived in Missouri ninety-one years, was among the callers. Many members of Camp 80. United Confederate Veterans, attended.

The sides of the room 111 which the casket lay were covered with flowers from friends and various organizations. Upon the casket lay large bunches of roses and lilies of the valley. The funeral services began at 10:45 o'clock. Prayers were said by the Rev. F.

C. McConnell of Calvary Baptist church, after which Virgil Conkling sang "Nearer, My God. to Thee." The Rev, Mr. McConnell. who was a boyhood neighbor and friend of Judge Wofford, delivered the eulogy, after which Mr.

Conkling sang "Lead. Kindly Light." The pallbearers were Bernard Corrigati, Thomas A. Mastin, I. B. Kimbrell.

William L. McClanahan. Judge Richard H. Field and Judge Frank G. Johnson.

Burial was 111 Elmwood cemetery, IN THIS COUNTY 61 TEARS. Mrs. George Ann Smith Died This Morning: nt the Family Home. Mrs. George Ann Smith, for sixty-one years a resident of Jackson county, died this morning at the old family home, Ninth street and Belmont avenue.

Old age was the cause. Mrs. Smith came here with her father, Larkin Steele, in 1836. She was then 16 vears old. The little family settled on land in the Blue river bottoms, just east of where Kansas City now stands.

Not long afterwards her wedding to Wallace Smith occurred. Mr. Smith died about twenty years ago. Four sons and two daughters survive them. They are Richard I.

Smith, Thomas L. Smith, Robert L. Smith and James Smith, Kansas City. The daughters are Sophia Smith and Mrs. Cassie White.

The funeral will be held from the house at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery, HID TO MOTE THE BODE. Flan the House Where a Young Girl Died Last Night. Miss Ruth Stimson, 16 years old. a student 111 the Westport High school, died of diphtheria last night 111 her home at 3612 Bell street.

Persons in the neighborhood noticed smoke. coming from one corner of the second story of the house this morning and it was found that fire had originated from a gas heater in the bathroom. The upper story of the house soon was in flames. Three young men, neighbors, and the family servant carried the body of Miss Stimson to the home of E. H.

Farrar, 3620 Bell street. The fire department put out the flames. damage amounted to $1,000. West Side Building Sella for $12.000. The new two-story building at 507 Minnesota avenue, West Side, has been purchased by Mrs.

Catherine Bicknell, for $12,000. The sale was negotiated by the Montgomery Realty company. For Sore Throat and Cold in Chest use Omega Oil. Trial bottle 10c. JEROME AFTER EVANS A Sharp Contrast Between the Witness and Expert Wiley, Who Fell Before Cross-Examination.

DELMAS AIDED THE DOCTOR The District Attorney Checked Constantly by the Court, Who Upheld Objeotions by the Defense. MRS. THAW UP AGAIN The Indications Are That Mr. Jerome Will Put the Howard Nesbit, on the Witness Stand. New YORK, Feb.

Attorney Jerome put Dr. B. D. Evans, the chief expert insanity witness for the defense, on the stand this morning for cross-examination in the trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White.

It was quickly apparent that Mr. Jerome would have a more difficult task to break down the testimony of Dr. Evans than he did that of Expert Wiley. Dr. Evans, who is the head of the New Jersey state hospital for the insane at Morris Plains, is an old hand at testifying and has a ready wit and a facility to retort which he used to advantage this morning.

It was Dr. Evans who on his direct testimony enriched the language with a number of such expressions as "brain storms," "mental fulminations" and "psychic explosions." JEROME AND EVANS ENEMIES. Mr. Jerome and Dr. Evans are not on friendly terms, as was evidenced the other day when the district attorney refused to shake hands with the alienist in the courthouse corridor.

In the cross-examination this morning Mr. Delmas was constantly on his feet with objections which Justice Fitzgerald in nearly every instance sustained. The judge further warned the district attorthat he was taking too wide a latitude. The of Dr. Evans contrasted sharply with that of Dr.

Wiley, the first alienist for the defense put on the stand. Dr. Wiley was left entirely to the mercy of the prosecutor, not an objection being registered by Mr. Gleason, who at that time was examining the witnesses. Mr.

Delmas announced that the defense will be finished this week. TO PUT HER BROTHER ON THE STAND. There were important developments today in the Thaw trial as affecting District Attorney Jerome's future conduct of the case. By recalling Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw to the stand to question her about a conversation with her brother he indicated that he intends to put Howard Nesbit on the stand to contradict his sister as to a material fact.

The wife denied positively that she had ever told Howard that Thaw had treated her cruelly because she would not tell lies about Stanford White. Mr. Jerome further stated that he would call as a witness for the state in rebuttal Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, who for a time was employed as an alienist for the defense. Dr.

Hamilton's last public statement was to the effect that he believed Thaw to be still insane. Mr. Jerome also said he would call Dr. Bingaman, the Thaw family physician, as a witness for the state. He was prevented from cross-questioning Dr.

Bingaman to-day as to hereditary insanity in the Thaw family by objections from Mr. Deimas. MRS. THAW RECALLED. Five minutes before court opened for the Thaw trial to-day Mrs.

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw entered the courtroom, accompanied by Mr. Delmas and took a seat at the end of the table occupied by the defendant's counsel, next to the chair occupied by her husband. While waiting for the trial to go on, she chatted with Dr. Graeme Hammond, one of the defendant's alienists, and Mrs. J.

J. Caine, who occupied a seat close to her. Immediately after court convened Mr. O'Reilly of counsel for Thaw, led Mrs. Thaw and Mrs.

Caine from the room. Mrs. Thaw did not get a chance to speak to her husband. Mr. Jerome then stated that he had overlooked a point on, opening his cross-examination of Mrs.

Thaw and asked that she be recalled for a few questions, stating that it was not merely matter affecting the credibility of the witness, but a matter which he might wish to attempt controvert on rebuttal, and he wished to lay a foundation for such action by calling her attention to the matter. Mrs. Thaw was therefore recalled. ASKED ABOUT HER BROTHER. "Did you see your brother at Marion, after your return from Europe in 1003?" asked the district ottorney.

"I did not," replied Mrs. Thaw. "Where did you see him?" "In New York." "Did you not tell him in substance that while you were abroad you had been brutally abused by Thaw, who had tried to induce you to tell lies against Mr. White to the effect that Mr. White had drugged you; which statements you then and there told your brother were false?" "I did not." DENIAL TO EVERY QUESTION.

"Didn't you tell your brother that Thaw at a pistol's point had compelled you to make statements against White?" did not." "And that the statements were lies? "I did not." "Did he not ask you M- you- permitted to die by easy stages and in furtherance of this plan the special committee was appointed. FIVE CENTS TO INDEPENDENCE. The Holcomb Bill, Which Lowers the Street Car Fare, Ordered Engrossed. bill. which is designed to make a fare of JEFFERSON CITY, Feb.

-The Holcomb five cents between Kansas City and Independence on street railways was ordered placed on the calendar for engrossment in the adverse report committee on the house this morning, notwithstanding private corporations. The bill as it stands at present does not apply to Jackson county alone, but Representative Holcomb has agreed to amend the measure SO that it will affect only Jackson county. A NEW SEABOARD PRESIDENT. The Late Alfred Walter to Be Succeeded by W. A.

Garrett. NEW YORK, Feb. 27 -W. A. Garrett was elected president to-day of the Seaboard Air line to suceed Alfred Walter, who died recently at his home in this city.

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