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r' --j-. SSTTafi fires mtmer rage 4 Exclusive Associated Press-Service yr- ZTJJ NO. 2 18 PAGES and OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1912. WRECKS AIRSHIRBIHITI1G WARNS AVIATORS lifiimnrn FANS FAVOR KLAUS IN BETTING lUIUnULRL FALLS A sY7- CURTISS Two of tho aviators who are taking (f i Big Crowd Attends Fight at Auditorium in the City of San Francisco 'Petroskey Money Scarce, but Many Looking for Him to Win SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.

When the doors to the Auditorium opened this afternoon there was a great crowd of fan ready to take their seats In anticipation of the holiday 20-round bout be-Aween 8allor Ed Petroskey and Frank "Bear-Cat) Klaus. The big Goat Island baker and the Pittsburger put in their appearance early and rested In their respective quarters. The odds offered were In favor of Klaus, although there was considerable money put up from the short end of the proposition, Prices at the ringside ranged from 2 to 1 to 1ft. to 4 and 10 to 3. rfrtroskey Is looked upon tis a novice fCWfiied to Klaus.

The-sailor has the record of never sustaining defeat during the two years or more that he has been ergaged in the boxing game At the ringside the spectators took turns In cheering the two men, but It wavafter 3 o'clock when Referee Jack Welsh sounded the gong. Shoots Wife and Friend And Commits Suicide SETTLE. Feb. 22. Monroe J.

Palmer, a mill employe at Issaquah, shot and mortally wounded his wife today, killed Mazle J. Carr, his" wife's, companion, and hen killed himself. Palmer was enraged because his wife had begun Piilt for divorce. Editor Drops From Heart Failure TULARE, Feb 22. F.

H. Van Allen, one of the proprietor 04. -the Tvilare Register, Bead from heart failure here' todayy. He was widely known In this section of the state. 1 i I I' 1 i't, M' 11 4 On the left, HORACE KKARXET.

At TIFT 10 REPLY TO COLONEL'S Difference Between the Political Creeds to Be Outlined WASHINGTON," Feb. 2 2 Taft: will rpply to -Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's Columbus speech. Although the President will make no' direct attack on Roosevelt, and although administration officials re fuse to discuss the flatter's Columbus speech, it became Known today that the President would answer the speech and presont a clear-cut Issue between his political creed and that of his pre decessor. Taffs answer will no be made entirely Jn one speech, but between the present and last of March -he has many speaking engagements which will be-utllired for this purpose. President Taft, it was- said, felt that Colonel Roosevelt had at last given him an- opportunity to make BEACHEY FENCE; 0 NT RUN Famous Birdman Arrives and Warns Flyers Against Gam-bling With Death Farnum Fish First of the Flyers to Leave Ground This Afternoon Despite the fact that air conditions were not the best, there were no disappointments In the program of sensational aerial stunts outlined for the third day of the international meet at the Oakland aviation field thla after noon.

Thousands of persons massed themselves in grandstand, bleachers and field to watch the daring blrdmen in their flights. Farnum T. Fish, the boy aviator, was the first to leave the ground In the opening event of the aviation meet this afternoon, and rising to a height of about iuu feet, he flew ground the race course, followed a few moments later by Lincoln Beaehey. Beaehey circled the field for several turns in the opening of me nve-mue nandlcap. Both men were cheered by the crowd.

BEACHEY IN WRECK. In the second half of the second lap of the handicap opening race, Hlllery Beaehey was forced to come to the ground probably by engine trouble at the north" end of the field and descended just insiae ine track, running with his bl place Into the fence and breaking the two forward wheels. Beaehey scrambled from the machine, and when the ambulance wtth Dr. A. 8.

Kctly was rushed to his assistance, explained that he was unhurt, and shouted for them to take him to the machine shop to get a pair of new wheels with which to repair his machine. He declared that he would be in the air again within half an hour. In the second lap of the race Beaehey was ehe of three aviators to take the air almost simultaneously the other two being Weldon B. Cooke and Phil Parma-lee, The other two aviators saw Beaehey a trouble, hut continued to circle the field In the second -hrp-trlrirlogdicap. In the first half of the handicap the race was run by IJncoln BeaclieyrFarnum Fish and Horace Kearney.

Beaehey made UieJrest speedjh this, and the aviators' descended to the grounding in the (Continued on Page 2, Cols. 6-7) Clark Made Favorite Over Woodrow Wilson OKLAHOMA, Feb. 22. When the Oklahoma Democratic state convention met here today the contingent, supporting Champ Clark for Presidential endorsement seemed to have a technical advantage over Woodrow Wilson workers. 1 A Clark supporter has been selected temporary chairman andof the Instructed delegates the Clark men were in slight majority.

While uninstructed delegates held the balance of power, there was no Indication of the way their vote would swing. A proposition to send a split delegation to Baltimore Is pending. Humors of Increasing strength In Harmon contingent spread Just before the convention was" called to order. Heard Spirit Call and TobkOwn life, Theory HUTCHINSON. Feb, of the death of Edn Meison.

ward of the late Dr. E. took a new turn today when the fact the woman -was a spiritualist was advanced in support of the theovy that she was a suicide. The body, shot through the head'wa found in the home of her wealthy guardian last Saturday. It was a strange Inr fatuatlon, -the police say, that bound the 25-year-old wqman to the white-haired man of 73.

He died of heart dlseaso three weeks ago. To a neighbor Miss Melson ald: "He' is calling me; I want to go to Um. Hi spirit is beckoning mine." Against the theory of suicide Coroner Williams has advanced the fact that the bullet entered the side of the' head above the ear. The girl was right-handed and there were no powder burns, RISKS, HE SI BIG-GROW Los Angeles Eager to See Abe Attell and Johnny Kilbane 'Mix It' Champion Is Favorite in Betting; Both Men Declared to Be Fit LOS ANGELES, Feb. largest crowd that ever saw a prizefight In Los Angeles witnessed the contest between Abe Attell, featherweight champion, and JohnnJ Kilbane, challenger, at arena this afternoon.

Interest lh the scheduled twenty-round bout was whetted by the announcement of the principals' man-gars that the champion and chal-Jengex all VereJnJhOest possible condition and would conform. to very requirement named in the fight articles when they faced each other In the ring at 2:45 o'clock. As It is the policy of many fight fans to bet on the champion until he Is "whipped," Attell was the favorite, although Kllbane's followers asserted that "Old Father Time" would take a hand in the fight this afternoon, through the medium of the Cleve-landejr. Odds offered varied from 3 to lito 10 to 8 in Attell's favor. A hot sun greeted the crowd.

Inside the arena scarcely a breath of air was felt. At 12:30, when the doors were opened, for half a mile on both sides of the main entrance persons were lined up in Promoter Tom Mc-Carey stated that all those then clamoring for admittance could not be accommodated, as the seating capacity was but 8400. It was estimated that the "gate" would amount to about 835,000. By 1:30 o'clock, when the first preliminary was about to be called, betting had reached 10 to 4 on Attell. The only reason given for the long odds was the scarcity of Kilbane money.

The first preliminary was called at 1:60. It was a six-round bout between Johnny Shlat and Joe Walker, local lightweights. dieted Include: John A. Patterson, president; E. A.

Deeds, vice-president; J. C. Edgeler, secretary; W. F. Blppus, treasurer.

The first founf charges that nearly all competitors have been bought out or driven out of business. It Is charged that restraint has been in operation for the last twenty years, although the specific charge is confined to the last three years, It Is said to. have been effected by bribing employes of competitors and transportation, telegraph and telephone companies and in jurying the credit of competitors in libeling their machines. The second and third counts charge the defendants wtth monopolizing the 'cash reg-lnjT business by the same means. Railroad Company for the recovery of land holdings Worth several millions.

During his stay here Mills prepared for the taking of evidence In the suits already brought- against the railroad company to cancel patents held by the company to several thousand acres of oil an.ds. police and was being carried to the municipal laboratory when it ex plode everely Injuring two Neither the companies nor the strikers show signs of giving way. The conflict h'as lasted since November and 8500 of the taxicabs In Paris have been idle sine then. 1 ATMS FIGHT part In tho Oakland Aviation Meet. Ui rlgni lULLtHi mv that the proposed visit to Colombia of Secretaj-y of State Knox would be Inopportune because Colombia's claims ih conneqtlon with Panama have not been arbitrated.

The notification given by the Colombian gov. ernment says that General Osplna is "separated from his post at Washington and the incident between Colombia the United States is thus Colombia, It continues, will maintain her International policy. the sums thus deposited has been discovered. Klarml Kobo, the Japanese butler, who has been in the Hawley employ for nineteen years, claims to have entrusted $10,000 to his employer's care, while Mrs. McCalesthe housekeeper, b'Ueves her savings amounted to more than $7000.

Other servants- claim deposits of small amounts. chest containing $30,000,000 In gold coin Is kept so that It may be ready for immediate use In case of a sudden mobilization of the German-army. The men were kept the guard room for several hours, during which they wero put through a severe examination "by the officers. They-were then released and they at once returned to Berlin. Assemblyman N.

C. CogMan's Sister-in-law Is Killed Instantly Police Decide Tbat Tragedy Is Due to a Strange Accident- BAN FRANCISCO, f. 22. An Investigation by the polio has made it apparently certain that Mrs. Elsie Zohl Rohe, sistor-tn-law of Assemblyman Nathan Ooghlan, was killed last night as the result of an accident.

The statement that he believes 'the woman was murdered at trlbted to Dr. E. P. Drlicoll Is discounted by the circumstantial evidence uncovered at-the scene this morning by the police, who made a minute Inspection of the premises where the death occurrsd. The story told by Coghlan that he had left his revolver on, the rnantleplece tnd that his sister-in-law must have picked It up to look at It and accidentally shot herself, Is substantiated by the nfite -ovhience at the scene," Coghlan had' been out for a walk wtth Ms dog and had returned about 10 o'clock at night, Before going up stairs he plactd his revolver on the mantle In back of which there is a looking glass.

FINDS WOMAN DEAD. He had hardly reached the upper floor When hs heard the hot and rushed down' to find Rohs lying near the mantle dead wtth Mr. Coghlan bending over ber. The latter, hj'sterlcil and unable -to control her emotions, explained this morning that she had been fitting In a chair and had known nothing of the occurrence until she heard the shot. Mrs.

Rohe was a woman who liked to look at herself in the glass to see how her hair was arranged, and she was In the habit ot doing so In a sort of playful fashion. The revolver lay In front of the mirror and as hsr eye caught It she undoubtedly picked it up and then It slipped from her grasp and fell to the floor. The trigger must have struck and as she leaned forward, probably to pick the weapon up, tho bullet struck her In the temple, passing through her head and lodging In the wall near the celling where there Is a Mpod mVz ind where the piece of skull undoubtedly struck as It' was carried through by the shot. ON TABLE. Hafinyona deliberately shot the bullet would scarcely have such a peculiar course, as It would have been necessary for tho pistol wlelder to have been JylhgjJri the floor at the lime The trigger, was puller.

If ls evident" that as she was shot she staggered bactl falling against a table and making ths wounds which led Pr. PrtscoU to believe that the bullet could not have marked her so seyerely and crushed her skull In the manner in which It was Detective James McUowan Is convinced that accident was responsible for the affair. Mrs. Rohe hod only been staying with the Coghlans for a few days. Her sister; Mrs.

Coghlan, Is prostrated over the affair and was scarcely able to speak today. "I was sitting In my chair when I heard the shot," she explained, "and I aw Elsie fall back against tits table. I rushed over to her and found that the revolver which had been on the msntls had fallen to yths floor. My husband and I carried her to a bed and the tels-pbone operater sent us Dr. Drlicoll.

We were all feeling wwell and happy and had had a dinner party which was much en-Joyed and which Included another sliter, Mrs. Frank Bates." There's Moral Here; It's Clear at That Don't Take Rent Receipt for Flat Noi Two Into Flat No. One. CHICAGO, Feb. 22.

Corneliut Klley found himself In an unexpected dilemma last night because of a rent receipt for a flat other than the only one he was supposed to be occupying, left by him Inadvertently in a pocket of his clothing. Mrs. Klley found the receipt and a hasty investigation followed. The result was a grand Jury true bill for blgamv. which was returned yester- day afternoon.

Mrs. Klley went to ine second aa dress. She ws met "by. a young' woman, who. when Inquiry for Klley wag made, said he was her husband.

The two women conferred. the conference wife No. 1 left or the home of her parent, while No. I 1 sought a warrant (or Klley! arrest CASH REGISTER OFFICIALS IREACCUSED OF BRIBERY TfiVy Members of Naioiia Company Are Indicted by Federal Grand Jury Colombia Recalls Minister For Insult to Sec. Knox BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb.

eral Pedro Net Osplna, Colombian minister to the United States, was recalled by the Colombian government this morning. The action of the Colombian government was taken be- cause It nor the Colombian people uphold the position taken by the Colombian minister at Washington in notifying the state department CINCINNATI, Feb. 22. Thirty officials and employes 'of -the National Cash Register Company of" Dayton, Ohio, -were Indicted on charges criminal violation of the Sherman law by a special federal grand Jury here today. The Adams Express Company was Indicted on eleven counts charged with having attempted td tollect more than established rates.

Seven manufacturing firms were indicted; charged, with attempting to secure (transportation at lower' rates than those established by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The' officers and employes of the National Cash Register: Company lnr Servants in House of Hawley After Savings Seek to Recover Land Worth Millions From S.P. NEW YORK. Feb. 22.

One of the tangles which the administrator of the estate of the late Edwin Hawley, millionaire railroad man, will be asked to unravel, concerns the lifelong savings of the servants In the Hawley household. All the household employes entrusted their extra earnings to him for Investment, but so far as-has; been learned no account of f'LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22. Willis Mills, special assistant attorney-g eri-eral, will leave for San Francisco tonight it confer with Special Agent TowiiEna of the department of Justice wfch reference to the filing of against the Southern 'Pacific Gaze at a $30,000,000 Tower; Put Under Arrest StrikincfrChauffeurs in Paris Become Dynamiters his position clear -without-Indulging In any personal attack. With many of the doctrines the former President enunciated at Columbus President Taft Is In agreement; to others he Is known to be unalterably o.ppotsed.

Among those are tho initiative and referendum, the ret-all of Judges and the recall of Judicial decisions. (' The' President has speaking engagements jn New York, Ohio, ChU (Continued on Page 2, Col. l. BERLIN, Feb. 22.

The espionage craze whjch Is so prevalent throughout Germany resulted today In the arrest of an American tourist, together with his German, companion, by aj sentry on guara at tne rortress or Spandau, a few miles from Berlin? The men protested, declaring they were merely Interested In the famous Julius tower, where the imperial war PARIS, Feb. 22. Several dynamite bombs were exploded by striking taxi-lab chauffeurs today in the. garages of tlM taxi-motor cab companies not accepted the terms of the strikers. Many cars were burned and otherwise damaged.

One of the bombs was picked up by the V'.