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14 SECOND SECTION CLASSIFIED PAGES VOL. LXXVI. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1912. NO.

128 MMY ME LIED JAf DESPE MIL BOY WONDER OF MR TO BE PROTECT HQM STAR AT THE LOCAL MEET 15 REBELS DIE IN SHARP -v FIGHT MASKED THUGS HOLD UP STORE 1 1 iSIli CLOSELY farnum fish Ah -a HY' A iiILL I LI a "14 HERE 5t Weldon-' Cooke Defies. Dare- I i A 1 Devil Beachey to Do His Worst. (k PP i Young Oaklander Says That V.Jf:!. I He WiF'Go Some" at the SfJ Emeryville Track." f'alV, A Seven aviators signed con- tl-acts and are ready to participate in th meet to be held at the Oakland A jj. aviation field, formerly the Bmery- ville race track, commencing on Feb- tj i 5.

ruay 17. Horace Kearney; sensa- sl" ttoiaL Curtiss aviator, Is the latest to "P'tC Ji slgn-trp. Kearney Is expected to re- port at ths headquarters in the First National Baflk this week. Vjl aviator, -i 'WlW-ifjLWjiiJ Jr INDUSTRIES Alameda Sugar Co. Addresses Open tetter to Oakland Tribune.

Calls Attention- to Necessity of Retaining Duty on Cane Product. EDITOR TRIBUNE The Alameda Sugar Co. is 'located at Alvarado in Alameda county. Its factory is the oldest snd at one time It was the only beet sugar factory In operation in the United States. The company, has seen the progress and the growth of the beet sugar industry from 45,000 tons in 1187 to 600,000 tons in 1911.

This growth has becdmesv menace to the Eastern refiners of duty-paying, raw-cane and they combined in a persistent attack-on the beet sugar Interests, seeking an abolition of the duty under the cloak of servinr the ultimate consumer. Their professions In this regard are Insincere and their motives ars purely selfish, Our company Is a member of the United States Beet Sugar Industry, which defensive organization was made necessary by the operations of the Eastern cane refiners. Wa enclose one of, Its published leaflets, compiled from testimony recently taken bv the HarriwlrV California produced in. 1911 nes'rly YEA AAA i ujiui oi peei sugar, nearly one-, quarter of our entire beet product. If vour views in iiu protection of American Industries un- iu mo pinciai auinormes become satisfied that protection is no longer needed to make our country self-supplying in the matter of we would be glad If you would make such comment In your rnhimn.

cord with your opinions on the sub- 11 VOU Should ha in wan r.t formation We will be glad to give it Tours truly, JOHN L. HOWARD. President Morse to Sail on Oceanic Tomorrow NEW YORK. Feb. 9.

Not a word be obtained todnv ti menta In West F1ftvw.lhh where Charles W. Morse, the pardoned sonvlet banker, is pre-paratory to, a trip to Bad, Nauhelm Reportawsre current that Morse would sail tomorrow, perhaps on the Oceanic, having decided that was best to start for Europe at once instead of remaining here for a week ne first proposed EQUEST I FARNXM FISH, the youthful a1ator, and his passenger-earrylng flying I meet In this city. machine, whlch-he -will use at the "v- States Why Fraud Order Was. Issued Against St. Louis Publisher.

Denies "Extraneous" Influent ces Prompted Action in Lewis Case. WASHINGTON, Feb. B. Cor telyou told ths house committee on expenditures In the postoffice department today of his action In issuing fraud orders against E. O.

Lewis of St. Louis In 190V and 1907, while he was postmaster-gen, eral. A publishing company owned by Lewis, and also ths United States bank St. Louis, were affected by the Frank Madden, who was third assistant postmaster-general under Oortelyou, Is now counsel for Cortolyou said Madden had refused to issue fraud orders against Lewis and that he had Issued thm personally. T.l Cortelyou denied that any Influences" had to do with his action lit ths Lewis case.

His attention was called by Third Assistant Postmaster Oenerat Brltt to testimony taken In the Invest" gatlon of the case suggesting that format! Untted States Senator Piatt and the Ex" press company interests nan sought ths destruction of the Lewis company's bank, and that it was through Piatt's influence that Cortelyou had been mads post master-general. TINOR OW EXAMINATION. "Did former Senator Piatt or any sxi press company trust," asked Brltt, "elthtf influence you or attempt to Influence you in your action In this case?" "Not in any way, whatever," Cortelyou replied. "Senator Piatt never appeared In the caso at any tkns to my knowledge. There was no such Influence that I evor heard of." Reading from the record, Brltt reviewed iwiimonf oi maouen in wnicn Jnrerences were, mads that ths express companies had sought to break up ths bank because it did a mall banking bual-ness, which Interfered with the money order business and that Senator Piatt had Cortelyou appointed to attack the bank and dstroy It.

All such Inferences Cortelyou emphatically denied. That anything entered, the case except the evidence before him through regular channels, he also dented. "There never was anything before me or lit- my mind to cause me to Issue an Order prejudicial to the Lewis company, said Cortelyou. "I acted in this case because it was the duty before ALBANY ELECTRIC LINE -TO TAP RICHMOND RICHMOND. Feb.

.9. At the last meeting of the Richmond elty eounoil i. E. Oftvlnrd train ern. Pacific; stated that the Albany elec trie service was heading in this direction ind that Richmond cohM wi mni aome time during the coming POST STREET faJ5 Aflt.J PQST.8T&, State Department at Washington Fears Situation Is Grave.

Madero May Be Powerless to Quell the Rebellion 1 Against Him. Feb. 9. Sixty federal troops today fought w4t FnnnH.tnt TiMr Penlamo. state of Guanajuato, near the Jalt-co railroad line.

Seven federals and fifteen rebels were killed. Bandits have been operating In Guanajuato and Mlchoacan, for several days and as a consequence the express companies refuse to receive valuables, for shipment. In those states. railroad bridges at Torreon have been hastily repaired and Abram Gonzales, minister of the Interior, proceeded to Eagle Pass, by special train, last night. FACES PROBLEM.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Although Mexloan federals have been victorious against the Zapatistas in several instances, according to reports to the state department, the federal government still Is facing- difficult problem. Chapala. In the state Of Jalisco, is reported to have sgone over to the rebels and events' In the state of Mlchoacan are reported to have taken serious turn. A -report from the American consul at Chihuahua notes the situation there unchanged.

The purpose of Lieutenant-Colonel Sturglss' trip from San Antonio for Hpuston, It was explained at the war department, was to obtain Information of sites for maneuver, camps in the event sof a GAINING GROUND. Intimating that the revolutionists In JVexIco are rapidly gaining ground, the State Department last night issued the following official statement: "The situation -reported at Cases Grande, in Mexico, seems serious, as the Ibeal authorities have declared against the Madera government, and the soldiers si well as the officials seem to be in sympathy with the movement. "Between Juarez and that section the railroad communications has been abandoned end apparently that region Is in control of the antl-Maderlstae." Commenting on the situation. General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, said: J'The situation looked very bad to us Sunday, and so the orders that all troops should be readiness were Issued next day. tVe have had no exceptionally alarming news since that time.

It has been deemed wise, however, not to cancel the orders." WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. A request from the Mexican government to move its troops through States territory was yesterday granted. A regiment of Mexican soldiers tomorrow will travel through southern Texas from Eagle Pass to El Paso, in an effort to reach Chi- 1 huahua. American officers will escort them.

The arms will be shipped as a coal consignment. CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 9. Stirred by the' rebellion northern Mexico, Prssldent Madero yesterday asked the permanent committee of Congress, for permission to call a special session of the national senate, from which the president desires authority to communicate with the American government, relative to sending troops through United States ter-v rttory to enter Chihuahua from the north. President Madero told the committee conditions were such as to make It impossible to aid tfc rebaJ Infested region without great delay unless such routing of troops was permitted.

The com-mtttee also considered today the petition of a group of deputies who asked- that a. special session' of congress be called to -eonslder the best means of coplngjwith therowlng revolt. The committee sent both petitions to a is expected to report --within eight days. Dispatches received in the today, show that rsilty'communlcatlon between Torreon snd Chihuahua Is still broken, and that since yesterday Tor- reon's only way of reaching the north by railroad was stopped when three bridges on the line connecting that dry a with Monterey were burned and another torn out on the International railroad, whese northern terminus is ths border towp of Ciudnd Porflrto Diss, known since the Madero regime as Pedro Nlgras. Another temporary blocking of traffic occurred when the rebels derailed a Mexican Central train of' 14 freight cars a short distance north of Clapuato.

On the same road at VUlanasor rebels last. night raided the station. "Reports from Torreon say the number of rebels Is In- 4 creasing. From southern Mexico reports indicate Spring's Advance Styles A woman owes it to herself to take advantage of the big savings we are In a position to offer on the newest Ladles' and Misses' Suits, Dresses, Coats, eto. We were never so ready with all that's beautiful and wanted In women's garments.

And you can open an account 616 Twelfth Street, a Wuhlsgtoa sad 01y. Two Robbers Are Believed to Be the Footpads Who Stopped Pedestrian. Thieves Secure $375 From Chinese, Who Is Robbed -Early Today. Two hold-ups have been committed by two bandits, armed and masked, within the last 12 hours and the police are working on the theory that both Crimes were committed by the samo The money taken by the bandits amounts to approximately $40ft. Two masked bandits, armed with revolvers, last night confronted M.

J. Perry of 1300 Eighty-first avenue as be was on his way home, and held him up, taking $8 from him. The robbery" occurred shortly before midnight at Eighty-first avenue and East Fourteenth street. Perry offered no resistance, as the two footpads came Upon him without warning and had him covertd with their revolvers before he realised his predicament. After taking his money, the men ran down Eighty-first avenue.

The second robbery was committed at 7:80 o'clock this when two men answering in many ways description of the men who attacked Perry," entered the store of Gee Chuck, a Chinese merchant of 1112 Franklin street, and held up the plac.e. Both were armed and wore black masks. They took $375 and a revolver from. Gee Chuck, who had Just opened the store. Aftercommandlng Chuck to remain quiet, ths robbers hurriedly left the place.

Other thefts reported to the police are as follows: "TT H. C. Hermanson of 1050 East Tweifth street, house entered and gold watch valued at $35 stolen. J. E.McNamara of St.

Mary's College, stolen from gymnasium, watch and chain, valued at $35. Forty Will Be Jailed At Once INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 9. Federal authorities In the twenty cities where the forty or more men Indicted In connection with the dynamite conspiracy case are known to. were Informed today of the identities of the defendants.

Plans for simultaneous arrests of the men, probablj on Monday, are progressing. Reports that some of the men were not to be found at their usual haunts caused no alarm at United States District Attorney Miller's office. When word for their arrest Is sent out, it was said, It would be found that the government had been kept fully advised as to their movements. Many of the defendants, It Is reported, have taken steps toward furnishing bond for their sppearance for arraignment here on March 12. will fly against Beachey in any kind of a trick that the intrepid aviator may dare.

"If Beachey or Miss Scott get awy from me In any flights at Emeryville they will be going some," said, Cooke. "I Intend to show them, that they have no monopoly on sensational flights and that I can do a few hali-ralslng tricks in. the air myself. I will dp some that will astonish' the people. "Oakland Is my home town and I made my first flights here.

I am sure that many of my college friends will be present when I fly and I will take a great deal of pleasure in competing against Beachey under such conditions." The work of preparing the hangars is expected to be completed soon, when the machines will be unloaded. and set up. Hillery Beachey, brother of the dating William H. Hoff complete the list of blrdmen now In Oakland. Miss Scott and Kearney will be on the ground soon.

BUTTER EGGS Ol'R FANCY GOODS PRICES TOMORROW Mb. Full. Wt 2-lb. Full Wt 79c Eggsr per doz. 30c Royal Creamery 319 12th Street Also all Branches Royal Ice Cream, $1.50 per Gal PABST SPELLS QUALITY That's what you will always And here.

BEST THINGS TO EAT BEST THINGS TO DRINK NOVEL AMUSEMENTS Excellent Table d'Hote Every Sunday $1.00 R. Kessler, Store will be closed Monday (Linceln' Birthday) TRIBUNE ANNUAL ATTRACTS INDIANAN SOUTH BEND, Ind. EDITOR TRD3TTNE Sir: Permit me to acknowledge the receipt of THE OAKLAND TRIBNE ANNUAL, and to thank you forit': It Is. certainly a splendid portrayal the possessions and of Oakland and Alameda county. For editorship and cleanness of diction and description I've' not seen Its equal, and the frank, manly preface; by Mr.

Joseph E. Baker Is a winner. I'm especially Interested in It because I hope, within a year or so, to make Oakland iny homo. Sincerely, February 4, 1912. V.

P. McHENRY, A ESTABLISHED 1834 ENTRANCES SUTTER STREET RANT AVttNUI BOT BEATEN BY 6AHTB DIRECTS ATTENTION TO THE LINE OF, GUARANTEED HOSIERY, WHICH WILL BE REPLACED IF UNSATISFACTORY AS TO WEARING QUALITIES; CONSISTING OF MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SILK HOSIERY, IN BLACK AND COLORS, AT MOD-' ERATH PRICES. WOMEN'S EXTRA SIZES IN BLACK ARE ALSO GUARANTEED LISLE THREAD HALF-HOSE FOR MEN. and while not of the type of Lincoln Beachey and Miss Blanche Scott, "the tomboy of the air," he can be depended upon to furnish thrills and to cause the chills to run up and down the spines of the spectators. Kearney Is a man of Intense nerve.

He has suffered accidents and at the recent Los Angeles meet Just missed death by a few feet when his machine was caught In a whirlpool and tossed dangerously near another aeroplane. Kearney walks with a limp, a result of an accident when he had his leg splintered Just below the knee. YOJJNG FISH ARRIVES. Farnum. Fish, the 17-year-old aviator, is In the.

city and ready to. set up his machine. Fish has Inspected the Emeryville grounds and. like Lincoln Beachey, Is enthusiastic over the prospectspf flying there. Fish's work has always been sensational.

He entered in varloua contests in Log Angeles and has always come off with flying colors. His passenger-carrying flights have ever been During the show at Los Angeles he carried several of his school friends aloft. Fish owns a passenger-carrying. Wright biplane, besides a Wright racing machine. Fish followed the intrepid Beachey In making a flight over the sea at Dominques Los Angeles, In spite of a forty-five-mile gale.

Beachey, the man who made the "wind check" a thing of the past, soared out "over the water in the face of the wind. Fish watched him make his flights and determined that if Beachey could do It successfully he would follow him. The boy did It, and the flight was one of the sensations of the meet. WOMAN IS DCE HERE. Miss Blanche Scott Is due to Arrive in the, city with her machines today.

A wire informed the management yesterday of her intentions. Her machines have been shipped and she expects to be here in time to superintend their unloading. Miss Scott's antics aloft at Los Angeles, and in fact wherever she has appeared, have been wonders, and she is expected to do more than duplicate her performances here. Oakland will be repersented at the meet in the person of Weldon Cooke, the boy aviator, who made the first flight over Mt. Tamalpals.

Cooke has been aroused by tha taunts of the other aviators and determined to abandon his former plan- of safe-andean flying and to go after, Lincoln Beachey, the most dare-devil flyer of the Curtlsg tam. Cooks was scorned when he took his machine to Los Angeles. Ths other aviators told him It was too heavy and that his engine was not good. They offered to lay him big odds he could not move the aeroplane from the ground When Cooke arrived In Oakland he was again the butt of the Jokes. Tea-terday he announced that If he can Lincoln Beachey and Miss Scott wfll Ne forced to share their laurels wltft In tha past Cooks has always been a careful flyer, but for this meet ha Misses' and Children's Spring Garments ADVANCE STYLES IN MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S SUITS DRESSES AND LIGHT-WEIGHT COATS ARE BEING RECEIVED DAILY.

DRESSES OF WASHABLE MATERIALS ARE IN STOCK IN 4 TO 11-YEAR-OLD SIZES AMONG THEM GINGHAMS. LINEN AND LINGERIE FROCKS. little Improvement In the situation. The report that Geheral Felix Diss, nephew of the deposed president, had arisen in revolt In Oaxaca has proved untrue. TROOPS BARRED.

AUSTIN, Feb. 9. Governor Colquitt of Texas has not' granted permission to Mexican federal troops to move through Texas territory from Eagle Pass to Juarez. The state department is reported to have given such permission to the Mexican government, but the state department wired Governor Colcjultt to know if there would be any objection, and the Governor has the matter under' consideration. If Mexican troops attempted to cross Into Texas territory from Eagle Pass they could be stopped the Taxes It is explained here.

BAN FRANCISCO," Feb. 9. Simultaneously with the beginning of the third trial' of ex-prlzeflghter Jimmle Lawler for an alleged attack on Ada Fulton, Captain 'Dukes issued orders to run LawHsr out of the tenderloin. Shortly before Judge Shortall called the case Lawler asked for a chanoa of venue to San Mateo county, buy the application was denied. Captain Dukes' order to the Barbary Coast police Is as follows: "As I have gathered evidence that convinces me that the notorious Jimmle Lawler has been making a practice 'of drugging and robbing visitors to the Barbary Coast, I direct that officers shall make It their business to see that he keeps away from this neighborhood and if he fails to do so arrest him or rancy at tvsry opportunity." JIMMIE LAWLER Student Night School Attacked by Ten Young Roughs.

Is SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9. Dlonyslus McGinn, a'. student at the Washington night school, which Jimmle Kane, who was killed In the feud wWh the Chinese boys, also attended, was attacked by a gang of- ten young teughs at Jackson and Mason streets, last nlfrht. McGinn was on Ms wajrfrom schsoTTSrheffrwltBi out warning, he was surrounded by ths lads.l who boat him severely.

8evera pedestrlnrs mimed the- pnnr to disband. Get Your Next Suit HERE WE ACCEPT PAYMENTS OF $1 .00 A 1 WEEK Isn't That "Fair? Small Deposit Down Columbia, 575 12 tb St. Boys Clothing ADVAjfCE SPRING GARMENTS ARB SHOWN AND ORDERS, WILL BE TAKEN FOR COMPLETE OUTFITS. Moderate. Prices Prevail VALENTINES TN THE BOOK DEPARTMENT CUTTER.

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