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THIS MYME EMRAILIED 4 O'CLOCK The Home Paper For Ottawa and Franklin County. Associated Press Report -The Day's Markata 4 By Wire. and THE OTTAWA? DAILY REPUBLIC VOL. XX. OTTAWA, KANSAS, THURSDAY.

DECEMBER 30, 19 ID. No. 35- TNG 6 PAGES BURNED BY GASOLINE LAMP. WOULD PETITION PRESIDENT. CONDITIONS ARE UNSETTLED lASKS SOUTH AfuERICA KANSAS GOVERNMENT COSTS MORE AND MORE ENTENTE SANK TV0 AUSTRIAN U-BOATS DESTROYERS HAD ENCOUNTER IN THE ADRIATIC SEA.

PROBE CONDITIONS AT KANSAS STATE PRISON GOVERNOR CAPPER GOES TO LANSING NEXT WEEK. 8. L. Rogers Says in Appeal he's Unfit for French Army Service. S.

L. Rogers, the Ottawa negro boy who joined the French army in Paris, and is confined in a hospital in that city with rheumatism, continues to write appealing letters to Ottawa people for assistance in getting out of what he considers to be a bad scrape. 'His latest is a communication to a business man asking bim to circulate a petition to President Wilson imploring executive action for his release. Rogers writes that his feet are frozen, he has a "hurting in the head' and has rheumatism in one hip. In consequence he is unfit for military duty and thinks he should be released.

In the ccntingency that he should be compelled to go to -the front, and should get killed he asks the favor of an obituary notice in The Herald. Rogers is a son of Smith Rogers, 124 South Mulberry street. His army number is 36,777 and address, Estran-ger, Las Valbonne, Avr. FEDERATED CHURCH YEAR OLD ANNUAL MEETINGS WILL HELD TOMORROW NIGHT. BE Organization Has Membership of 400 Election and New Plans Will Come Up at Meeting.

The annual meetings of the Federated church, and of the separate organizations, Congregational and Presbyterian which form the Federated church, will be held tomorrow evening at the Presbyterian church building. The separate meetings will be in different parts of the church at 7:30, followed by the Union Federated meeting. There will be election of officers, reports of the past year's work and new plans for next year. Light refreshments will be served. This meeting will be the anniversary of the first year of the Federated church.

The federation was made for a term of two years as a and it is generally conceded that it has been a very successful year for the organization. There are now approximately 400 members. Dr. W. A.

Powell, who came here from the Presbyterian church at Lawrence is the pastor. The federation adopted this expression of faith and purpose at the time the other articles were adopted: We believe in God the Father, whose Will is the perfect law of life, which obeyed will insure the coming of the true social order the Kingdom of justice, righteousness and peace. We believe that the deepest need cf this age is the realization in all human relationships of this Will as revealed in the word, life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Firm in this belief, and seeking through Jesus that faith and love adequate to sustain us in doing the Father's Will, we unite our efforts under the inspiration and the guidance cf the Kingdom of Gcd on earth, and we invite and welcome to our fellowship of service all who are in sympathy with these aims. MORGAN FAVORS HUGHES.

Lieutenant Governor Wants Kansas Republicans to Instruct. An instructed Kansas delegation for Hughes of New York for the Republican nomination for the presidency is favored by Lieutenant Governor William Y. Morgan of Hutchinson, according to a statement made in Topeka yesterday. Besides an instructed delegation from Kansas to the national conven tion at Chicago next June, Mr. Morgan favors some widely known woman like Mrs.

Margaret Hill McCarter on the delegation, and suggests delegates to be elected by primaries, if the plan is feasible. MUST ABANDON POP-POPS. Parcel Post Cannot Be Carried On Motorcycles in 1916. Topeka, Dec. 30.

Two hundred of the 1,900 rural letter carriers in Kansas are preparing to abandon their motorcycles as a result of a recent order of the United States pestmas-ter general prohibiting the use of bicycles of any sort, in the delivery of rural mail after January 1, according to officials of the service. The change of equipment, which has been vrdered, will necessitate the exclusive use of either motor cars or mail wagons in order to safely care for the parcel post business in the state. INDIANA WANTS FAIRBANKS. Indianapolis, Dec. 30.

"Fairbanks for President," signs were posted in all hotels end throughout the business district today and it was understood that the name of former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks for the Republican nomination for president at the party "love feast" here this afternoon. 4 oa time Deposit, JSecurity SteU Bask' Mrs. Rozell Rushed to Aid of Husband Dr. W.

O. Rozell. Dr. W. O.

Rozell of Appanoose Creek, three miles west of the city, was severely burned yesterday morning by oil from a gasoline lamp. The flames seared his neck and badly burned the left hand. The opportune assistance of Mrs. Rozell probably saved him from a far more serious injury. Dr.

Rozell was taking a faulty force feed lantern apart, early in the morning, in the kitchen of his residence. The fluid in the lamp was suddenly and unexpectedly released and a quantity was thrown by the air pressure on to the hot kitchen stove, a portion falling on Dr. Rozell's neck. The volatile fluid instantly ignited the flames spreading over the doctor's chest and'neck. In tearing at the neck cloth his hand was burned, Mrs.

Rozell saw the bright flash from another room, anticipated an accident, and grasping a rug ran to her husband's assistance in smothering the flames. Dr. Rozell's injuries are severe but not necessarily dangerous. FIRE FROM AN EXPLOSION 1 AND FIRE HORSES FELL INTO A DEEP CISTERN. In Series of Disasters the Building at H.

F. Smith Home, 534 Ash street, Was Destroyed. Fire starting from an explosion of a coal oil can destroyed a shed at the home of H. F. Smith, 534 Ash street, early last night and ne of the teams hitched to lire fighting apparatus narrowly escaped death when it fell into a 10-foot cistern, partly filled with water.

Boys of the Smith neighborhood had been playing games in the shed where a stove had been set up. William Showen was in the shed at the time of the fire. It is -said that he poured coal oil from a can into the stove and that it exploded. Showen was slightly burned on one hand. The building was ignited and an alarm was turned in 5:45 o'clock.

As Willis Rodgers, driver of the hose wagon, the scene with the apparatus he drove into the -back yard to lay a line of hose from a hydrant up to the shed. Snow covered the ground and boards placed over the top of a cistern could not be seen. The course of the team lay directly ever the cistern and bcth horses crashed through the boards into the hole. Firemen immediately came to the rescue of the animals and worked over two hours before extricating them. It was necessary break out part of the wall of the cistern and to cut a slope down to the bottom so the horses might come up the incline.

Blocks and tackles were attached to the animals and they were pulled out. The horses are Mac and Prince, the big grays used on the hose wagon. Mac sustained a severe cut on the right foreleg and both received numerous scratches and bruises. Neither is seriously injured. The exposure in the icy cold water was the most seripus but the horses were taken to the department headquarters, blanketed and treated by Dr.

L. P. Centry. Both were better this morning. The shed was consumed.

In it were some valuable tools and other property belonging to the Smiths. After the accident to the fire horses a team belonging to E. C. Horney brought the apparatus to the head-Quarters and was kept there during the night. JUDGE BENSONJS STRICKEN FORMER OTTAWAN VICTIM OF CE-REBRAL SPINAL HEMORRHAGE.

Has Been Unconscious Today at Home of Daughter, Mrs. H. Ward Page at Topeka. Topeka, Dec. 30.

Judge Alfred W. Benson, former United States senator and supreme court and district judge is today critically ill at the home of his daughter Mrs. H. Ward Page. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage early today and throughout the day has been in a comatose state.

A telegram to Judge C. A. Smart received at 3 p. m. today, brought tho distressing news here that the well beloved former Ottawan had sustaain-ed a stroke today that reduced him to unconsciousness from which he had recovered, and that his condition is very dangerous.

Judge Benson has (been suffering from an attack of the mcn ueveiupeu severely unnst- mas day but-he had supposedly been improving. H. FORESTER'S MOTHER DEAD. Ottawa Merchant Left This Afternoon for Willow Springs, Mo. M.

H. Forester of the Forester Dry Gccds Company received a message today telling of the death of his mother at Willow Springs, Ma He left here this afternoon to attend the funeral. Arrangements are not known. jHis mother died suddenly. Today Was Mild but Cloudy After Cold Spell.

Forecast Unsettled weather tonight and Friday. Not much change I. in the temperature. Streets and road were slushy today with melted snow which was rap idly disappearing everywhere. This morning was somo what sunshiny at periods but clouds filled the sky this afternoon.

The day as. a whole was damp and raw. Temperatures were mild. The maximum this afternoon was 36 while the minimum last night was 18. The prediction for to night aand tomorrow is for unsettled conditions with not much change in the temperature.

SPATTS IN JAfc AT OMAHA BUT REFUSES TO WAIVE EXTRADITION TO KANSAS. Sheriff Will Leave Tomorrow to Take Charge of Man Who Escaped From Jail Here August 8. Andrew Spatts, alias Arthur Spatz, alias who broke out of the jail here on Aujust 8 is now in jail in Omaha, according to a telegram received this morning at the offices of Sheriff Nick Johnson from H. W. Dunn, chief of police there.

Spatts refuses to return to Kansas without requisition papers and Sheriff Johnson will progably leave tomorrow for Topeka to secure the, necessary documents from Governor Capper. Then he will go to Omaha and return with his prisoner. Spatts who was in jail facing a charge of violating the state prshibi tory law was arrested at Omaha last night on advice turned over to the officers by another violator, Under-sheriff C. A. Luce said today.

The officer said the informant is a negro but refused to disclose the person's name. Spatts served one term in the state prison for violating the prohibitory law for the second time. He was arrested again after his release from the Lansing penitentiary but he escaped. Sheriff Johnson arrested him ijj the Kansas City postoffice one day when a trap had been laid for the man. Spatts was brought to Ottawa.

One night in August, while allowed the liberty of a corridor, he sawed bars and escaped. Juan Yelasco, a Mexican charged with carrying concealed weapons escaped at the same-time. His sentence would' have expired the following day. Spatts who is white is the husband of the former Frankie Patterson, colored. It is said that she went to Omaha about six weeks ago to join Spatts.

The informant, the officers say, gave them complete details of the whereabouts of Spatts, even to his street address. PRESBYTERIANS ELECTED ANNUAL U. P. MEETING WAS HELD TODAY. Excellent Condition of Finances Was Revealed in Reports of Organizations.

The annual congregational dinner of the United Presbyterian church was held at the church building, corner Third and Walnut streets, at noon today. Tables were spread for about seventy-five persons in the parlors of the church. The service was by the ladies of the church under the immediate supervision of Mrs. A. M.

Spears and Miss Myrtle Bell. Following the dinner the annual business meeting of the congregation was held. The following officers were elected: Of the congregation: J. R. Killough, chairman: A.

M. Spears, secretary; J. R. Johnston, treasurer. Trustees, W.

Latimer, J. P. Burk, N. A. Burney; Mrs.

L. P. Gentry, treasurer of pastor's salary Of the Sunday School: W. M. Irwin, superintendent; A.

M. Spears, assistant superintendent; Julia Burney, secretary; J. R. Johnston, treasurer. Reports for the year were made by the secretary, treasurer, the Sunday School officers, and treasureres of the Ladies Missionary Young Ladies Missionary society and the Junior Missionary society, all showing funds on hand.

Every church fund shows money vn hand with all bills liquidated. The congregation is at present without a pastor, or any regular supply, a condition since the resignation of Pastor Rev. Woodburn in September. A call has been extended to Rev. W.

J. Hawk of Shushane, New York, and he has it under advisement. In O. Interest The Rev. E.

I. Huckell, field representative of Ottawa University, hag just returned from a trip to Southeastern Kansas and will go to Central Kansas the first of nert week. 'ttOvx lt A MAN'S i TO Hri -4 IF HE. HKbNT GrOT Zimnue TO JOIN HACE UNION LANSING'S PROPOSAL IS LAID BEFORE HOME GOVERNMENTS. One Result of Pan-American Scientific Congress May be Strong Organization to Choke off all With Revolutionary Tendencies.

Washington, Dec. 30. Secretary Lansing has suggested to all the nations which with the United States comprised the Pan-American union, that they join in a convention for the arbitration of all boundary line disputes and for the prohibition of shipments of war munitions to revolutionaries. Secretary Lansing's proposal, Avhich has the full support of President Wilson, is being forwarded. by the Latin-American ambassadors and ministers here to their home foreign offices for consideration.

Will Cement Friendship. It is regarded as one of the steps in a wide plan, in which the Pan-American scientific congress now in session here is a part for the preservation of peace on the western hemisphere and a closer union of all the Americas. The status of the negotiations and the details of Secretary Lansing's proposal are so far being held as confidential between the state department and' the Latin-American chancellories here. Mr, Lansing today declined entirely to discuss the matter in any phase, and the diplomats uniformly declared they could not discuss a matter which was in its preliminary stage and under consideration by their home foreign offices'. All Were Consulted.

It became known, however, that soon after Mr. Lansing delivered his Pan-American unity speech before the scientific congress in which he advocated a Pan-America "one for all, and all for one," he began inviting the Latin-American" representatives to the state department -two at a time and outlining to them his proposal. At same time, it is understood, the secretary's public declaration which has attracted much favorable attention among the Latin- Americans because of its suggestion that all the Pan-American nations should, if necessary, constitute a united bulwark against any unjust invasion or aggression upon a neigh-' bor was liscussed in some detail and 1 uniformly, it is understood the Latins Americans expressed their approba-" tion of Mr. Lansing's statements. SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON.

German Gunpowder Makers Use Product of Home Forests. Bremen, Germany, via London, Dec. 30. Germany's experiments with substitutes for cotton in making gunpowder has been so successful that for eight months no cotton has been used. This statement was made by the president of the Bremen chamber of commerce to a convention of merchants.

"I have had opportunity to establish officially that for eight months not a kilogram of cotton has been used for making powder," he said. "Thanks to German science and indus- -try we have succeeded in winning from the immeasurable German forests a cellular material which is cheaper and better suited for powder making than cbtton. Even after the war German ammunition factories will not buy another bale of American cotton. MANY CLOSE ON NEW YEAR'S BUT PART OF STORES KEEP OPEN SATURDAY. Dry Goods Stores Close Clothing and Shoe Stores Open Until 12 Gro.

cers Open. The fact that New Year's day come3 on Saturday may possibly curtail that degree of observance of the dayt on the part of retail merchants that would be most agreeable to the hard-worked clerks. announcement has been made that the dry goods'stores will air close for the day and that the clothing and shoe stores will at least keep open until noon. The druggists are considering tho proposition of closing at noon. The grocers, it is.

announced, will all-remain open for the day as usuaL. The service of the Merchants' delivery will be maintained on full schedule. The city library will be closed during the day but will open at 7 o'clock for the evening. The union barber shops will close at 5 p. m.

for the rest of the week. The postoffice will be open until boon. There will be one city delivery in the morning. The rural carriers will make no The offices at the court house will' remain open during the usual day time hours. City hall will be dosed at noon.

The banks will close all day. Security State Bank, Deposits Guaranteed. 100 PER CENT INCREASE IN YEARS REPORT SHOWS. 10 Bulk of $2,562,705.60 Additional Was Needed for Operation of Big State Schools Assistant State Audi, tor Organ Finds. Topeka, Dec.

30. Expense of stat3 government in Kansas has increased virtually 100 per cent in 10 years according to a report issued today by Frank Organ, assistant state auditor. The Organ report shows state expen-sas of $2,739, 824.91 for the fiscal year ending June 30 1905. For the fiscal year of 1915 the expenses for maintaining state institutions and departments amounted to $5,302,530.51. From the increase of $2,562,705.60, the bulk went to the big state schools.

Of the increase as shown over 1905 the state schools in 1915 received more than ten years ago. With the exception of the governor's office, every state department showed an increased expense over ten years ago. The last six months of the Hodges term and first six months of the Capper term, however, show a decrease of $1,596.84 in cost of maintenance. State expense, as paid from the general revenue fund, increased from to $4,478,942.17. It -is the general revenue fund of the state which is provided by direct taxaton.

The 10 year period showed an increase in this direct expense of slightly more than 2 million dollars. Expense of the state departments and institutions as paid from the fee funds, increased from $275,409.63 in 1905 to $822,585.34 this year. HOLD WATCH MEETING. Oyster Supper Will Be Part of Cen- tral Affair. There will be a watch night meeting at Central Union church near Princeton on New Year's eve, and an oyster supper will be served in connection.

Many are expected to attend from the neighborhood and from nearby points. TO INVESTIGATE HEALTH FOUR DOCTORS NAMED TO MAKE A REPORT HERE. Dr. J. P.

Blunk is New President of Franklin County Medical Society Banquet January 26. Four doctors who comprise a committee of the Franklin County Medical vsociety will investigate and report conditions relative to the city water supply here and the conditions for the past three years, and will also investigate Ottawa's death rate and the causes. This committee which is composed of Drs. R. C.

Du-gan, V. E. Lawrence, C. W. Hardy and H.

W. Gilley was appointed last night by Dr. Alexander Haggart, retiring president of the society. "We feel certain that there is an error in statistics for Ottawa as given by Dr. S.

J. Crumbine here recently," said Doctor Haggart today. "Many of, the deaths recorded in Ottawa were non-residents and bodies of persons who died in other places but were shipped here for burial are listed also in Ottawa's records. These increased the rate here not only on the whole but more especially in regard to typhoid fever. "The wells in1 Ottawa and the condition of the closets are more responsible for health conditions in Ottawa than the city water supply." Last night's meeting of the medical society was the annual one when officers were elected.

Doctor Haggart has served during the past year as president and the year has been a successful one under his guidance. The society now has twenty-seven members, including every practicing physician in Ottawa. Dr. J. A.

Stil-well became a member last night. Most of the physicians in the county outside of Ottaw a are members. The officers elected last night are: President Dr. J. P.

Blunk. Vice president Dr. R. C. Dugan.

Secretary-treasurer Dr. C. F. Buckley, re-elected. Dr.

Blunk will announce the appointment of committees later. The 1916 program will be arranged soon. Doctor Hardy in whose offices last nieht's meeting was held, made a few remarks on general matters of interest to the members after the election of officers. Dr. J.

A. Fuller or Lane was tne only member from outside this city city present. The annual banquet for the mem-l bers of the society will be held at tho Nelson hotel on Wednesday January 26. The Rev. Dr.

H. E. Toothaker, a former practicing phy-J sician, will be the toastmaster. The' principal speakers will be Dr. F.

O. Hetrick. a dentist, and the Rev. Dr. W.

A. Powell, pastor of the Federat- ed church. The banquet committee is composed of Drs. F. C.

Herr, R. C. i Dugan and C. E. Buckley.

Turkish Island Held by French Suppurating Phlegmon on Neck of Kaiser is Lanced Shell Hit King's Palace. Paris, Dec. 30. Two Austrian torpedo boat destroyers have been sunk an a result of an encounter with sea fortes of the allies at a point outside of Cattaro, in the Adriatic. The information was contained in sin official announcement of the French marine department given out today, which reads- "An Austrian naval division having come out of Cattaro for the purpose of bombarding Dyrazzo, certain squadrons of the allies went forth to give battle.

The Austrian torpedo boat destroyer Lika encountered a mine and was blown up. The destroyer Triglav of the same type, was destroyed by fire from the ships of the allies. The remaining warships of the enemy were pursued and fled in the direction of their base." French Take Turkish Island. Paris. Dec.

30. French troops have occupied the Turkish island of Custelorizo (Kasteloryzo) in the Aegean sea, between the island of Rhodes and the gulf of Adalia, according to the morning newspapers in Paris. The possession of Castelorizo as naval base is characterized as indispensable. Italians Occupy Geneva, via Paris, Dec. 30.

It is reported here on good authority that Italian troops have occupied the Albanian seaport of Durazzo. Last Fall to Germans. Uerlin, via Sayville, Dec. 30. Heavy fighting continues in the Vos-ges, announcement is made by the war office that positions near Hart-ma ns-Veilerkopf have been reconquered by the Germans A British surprise attack near Liilie failed, lianred Kaiser's Neck.

London, Dec. 30. A dispatch from Zurich, Switzerland, to the Central News says: "Emperor William who is suffering from a suppurating phlegmon in the neck, has been given some relief, his doctors having resorted to lancing." Hit Ferdinand's Palace. London, Dec. 30.

King Ferdinand's palace at the Dlack seaport of Varna was hit during the recent Russian bombardment of the Bulgarian town but the damage was unimportant, says a dispatch from Athens to the Iteuters Telegram company. TRINITY REVIVAL OPENS WATCH SERVICES WILL BE HELD TOMORROW NIGHT. Rev. Sampson and Family to Receive Friends New Year's Day Rev. J.

M. Mason Will Assist. Watch night services will be held tomorrow night from 7:30 o'clock until midnight at the Trinity Methodist Kpiscopal church, Massasoit and North Cedar streets. There will be two sermons. The Rev, Renson M.

Powell of Baldwin, district superintendent, will preach at 7:30 o'clock. Floyd Sampson, son of the pastor, the Rev. A. L. Sampson, will speak at 11 o'clock.

Prayer service will be held as the old year dies and the new is born. Mr. and Mrs. Sampson are sending out New Year's greetings to all members and friends of the church. They and family will be at home to their friends from 3 to 8 p.

on New-Year's Day. The greeting sent out says: "The old year is slipping rapidly away and a New Year is at hand. The Past is gone forever. The Future lie: before us. May our chief ambition be, during the coming year, to do our Master's will, that we may grow in grace and in the knowledge of Him, that we may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect vlll of God and that we may know the exceeding riches of His grace toward us through Christ Jesus.

It is our earnest desire that every department of the church may flourish, and that the coming year may be a. time of gieat activity and aggressive Ism. Let us join heartily in the great forward movement which is engaging the attention of our people throughout the hole connection." Revival services at the church begins with the New Year. The Rev. J.

M. of Walnut, will assist the pastor with these services. MEN DON'T KNOW HOME. Manhattan, Dec. 30.

Men do not know the working requirements of a home, and consequently the average farm house in Kansas and elsewhere In this csuntry is anything but ideal from the standpoint of the housewife, averted Mrs. H. M. Dunlap of Savoy, In an address here today in connection with "Farm and Home Week' of the Kansas State Agricultural System of Discipline and Other Con-sicherations Will be Viewed for Second Time in Year Recent Mutiny Cause. Topeka, Dec.

30. Governor Capper will investigate conditions at the state penitentiary. He announced today he expected to go to Lansing next week. Reports concerning tht recent mutiny aim otner conditions at the prison are said to have determined the governor to personally inspect the prison. Conditions as reported to him from Lansing, Governor Capier stated, did not occasion alarm.

He expressed confidence that the situation at Lansing was being properly handled by the managing officers. In view of several conditions, however, the governor will personally inspect the penitentiary and the system of prison discipline. It is his second official visit to the prison since becoming governor less than a year ago. TWO MEN ADMITTED THEFTS OFFICERS FOUND LARGE QUAN-' TITY OF GOODS IN SHACK. William Higgins, 35, and George Tebo 19, Arrested After Latter Had Sold Two La probes for 75 Cents.

Two men now in jail here admit stealing lap robes and various other articles during the last two weeks and the officers suspect them of numerous thefts which have been committed. The men gave their names today as William Higgins, 35 years old, and George Tebo, 19 years old. Tebo went to the firm of John Nelson Son late yesterday afternoon with two laprobes which he sold for seventy-five cents. That firm then notified the officers who suspected th3 robes as belonging to J. E.

Elwell from whom two were stolen recently. Under sheriff C. A. Luce and Special Officer Roy Stewart made a search for the voung man but could not find him. Charles Johnston, an employe of the Nelson firm, saw Tebo in a restaurant and notified the officers.

W. of the city force arrested the youth and placed him in jail. About 9 o'clock Higgins was taken into custody by Langdon and Elvie Allison. A wagonload of lap-robes, clothing, shoes, beddings, tooU and various odds and ends which, the police believe, are stolen property was taken to the city jail. In talking to a reported today both Higgins and Tebo admitted stealing part of the goods from various places on the West Side.

They have sold much of it, they said. Stolen articles are said to have been sold by the men to the Nelson firm, Pember Young and possibly others. The amounts they received were small. Tebo says he came here two weeks ago from near Claflin, but lives in Guymon, Okla. He was once arrested in Texas as a vagabond, he said.

Higgins says he came here from Wichita three weeks ago. The two have been living In a tent and small frame shack near the river on the east limits of the city. Both men denied having any knowledge of hold tips committed in the City Park recently. The officers have requeued that persons who have lost property call to identify any artcles taken in last night's raid. WALTER CAPLE OX TRIAL.

Took Change nf Venue and Lawyer Was Reprimanded. Walter Caple was on hand today to answer the charge of stealing hides from L. S. Slankard. So was his lawyer, C.

E. Whitaker. The case was called this morning in Justice J. W. Brinkerhoff's court.

A change of venue to Justice J. M. Edmundson's court was requested. During some questioning of Caple by Judge Brinkerhoff the justice ordered Undersheriff C. A.

Luce to take charge of Mr. Whitaker who, the justice believed, was in contempt of cour for remarks made. Later the attorney was ordered released and no complaint against him was made. In Justice Edmundson's court this afternoon the trial was in progress before a jury composed of J. Defen-baugh, D.

K. Emerson, L. G. Bauman, C. F.

Avenarius, J. E. Cunningham and J. B. Jackson.

Many witnesses were called from the Chippewa hills neighborhood where Caple and Slankard Caple has been in the county jail, since Tuesday, having been taken into custody after three postponements of his case on the excuse of sickness. Still Sick Robert L. Latimer of the Jones Clothing Company is still quite ill at his home and is threatened with pneumonia. A special nurse Is attending 'him..