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The Decatur Heralb VOLUME 33, NO. 83. DECATUR, ILLINOIS. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1913. PRICE 2 CENTS.

THE WEATHER PROMINENT PYTHIAN IS DEAD IN ENGLAND IEN 1NDMIDDLI GALUMET NQUEST REBELS IN MEXICO BEGIN HOSTILITIES QUAKER OATS MEN FACE DAMAGE SUIT CONTROL MARKETS Bonanza Farms Are Being Broken Up Rapidly, the Number of Separate Holdings having 'Increased Eleven Per Cent Since 1910 Total 6,600,000. VALUE OF PAST YEAR.S CROP IS TEN BILLION Department of Agriculture Report Discusses Long Line of Middle men, 'Who Rob Producers and Maintain High Prices Exacted From Helpless Individual Con sumers. WASHINGTON, Dee. 30 Ten billion dollars worth of produds, five billion dollars of cash income a bumper year in spite of droughts and other setbacks is the 1913 record ot six million American farmers. The most successful year of hus bandry in the United States brought forth $6,100,000,000 worth of crops, of which were represented by cereals alone and $3,650,000,000 worth of animals sold and slaughtered and animal producis.

The value of the 1913 crops Is twice as great as that of ISHa; more than a billion dollars over and substantially greater than ll. Of all the crops however, it is estimated that 52 per cent will remain on farms where they were produced and that 20 per cent of the animal produc tion will remain. On that basis, the cash income is estimated by the. department of agriculture at uOO.OOO. Farms More Numerous.

But despite a record year of crop valu; although the record of produc tion has fallen and the fact that the number of farms has increased eleven per cent since 1910 until there are es timated to be 6,600,000 farms taa country, the department in a discuseioa ot the subject made public Monday does not 'take the view that a lower cost-of living will follow as a consequence. "However desirable increased pro duction on farms may appear to be from the consumer's stanupoint, itdok-s not follow that such increased produc tion would result in any increase iu the cash income per farm or per capita of farm population, or that prices paid by -consumers would be. any says the report. "Had the total production in 1K13 equaled or exceeuea tho 1912 prouuction, it seems probable tnau the cash income per tarm would not have been greater and might have been less than in 1912; but it is extremely uoubttul woeiner the cost to the consumer wouid nave been any iess, because retail prices are promptly raised on a prospect of unuerprouue- but are very slow to decline if there is overproouction. Illume liuuiemeii.

'The long line ot uniuuutors and midulemen oetween the taruier and the consumer are in a position to tatce ad vantage of the mai-Ket and to a certain extent control tue maritet in both directions, because tney are beuer or ganized to Keep intormed of crop and market conuiuons and to act promptly than either farmers or consumers, who are not organized, and as individuals are helpless. 'The hign prices paid by consumers, ranging from five, to nearly 500 per cent, in some cases more than the farmer receiver, inuicate that there is plenty of room lor lowering the cose of farm products to consumers and ac the same time largely increasing the cash Income per farm, without increasing farm production. bifcatniaatlon. "This conaition unoouoiedly is a marketing problem which will have oe solved by better organizations ot iarmers and improved methods of marketing. When as the result ot such or ganization and improved methods the price of farm proaucts can be main- ained at a higher level without in creasing the coet to consumers, far mers will be justified in increasing tho output of their larms with a tair prospect of realizing reasonable profits on their investment of time, labor and money, which in the aggregate is cnur- mous.

Corn, with a value of $1,692,000.00 comprised 28 per cent of the value ot all crops, although the volume was un der the record. The other principal with values are given in the or der in which they come. Cotton oo.oiiu; hay wheat tno largest crop ever raised in this coun try oats po tatoes, tobacco $122,000,0 JO; barley sweet potatoes sugar beet Louis iana can sugar rye uOO.000; rice flax seed hops buckwheat $10,000,000. "In Quantity ot estimated production, the record has been broken by wheat, rye, rice, sugar beets, beet sugar and tne total of beet and cane sugar, of the remaining crops, oats, barley, cot- -ion and hops have been exceeded twtco In production. The estimated production of the other crops of which sep arate account is made was relatively low.

Prices Are Higher. "Tho prices of fourteen principal crops average about 20.2 per cent, higher than a year ago, and 4.6 per cent, higher than two- years ago. Their total values average about 3.8 per cent. higher than a year ago, and 7.6 per cent, higher than two years ago. "In these days of high prices of food.

It -seems to be overlooked that tho fflrmnrs of this emmfrv rt npwt.i.. enormous surpluses for export to foreign countries. Prices are high in other countries as well as in this one. The value of the agricultural exports of domestic production In the fiscal year 191-3 was (1,123,021,469, and amount which has not before been equaled. The re-exports, otherwise fncte Ihn ftvnrtrt OF FARM PRODUCE FORECAST FOR ILLINOIS Fair Tuesday and Wednesday; Hgbt west winds.

LOCAI, WJEATHKR. Weather reading for the last 24 hours as reported by J. H. Coonradt, government observer, are as follows: 7 a. m.

27 12 30 7 p. m. 29 Highest 31 20 Sunrise 7:23 Sunset 4:40 THE HERALD WANT ADS Will Ee Found on Page 8. CITY. Wabash receivers to end work soon Page 3 Mr.

and Mrs. J. F. Miller in gclden anniversary Page 3 Decatur teachers to Springfield Page 3 Chicken fancier shot In ankle. Page 3 Commissioners admit vacancy on police, force Page 10 JIBAtiitAL.

Panic in Calumet started cry within hall Page 1 Middlemen blamed for high prices Page 1 Quaker Oats men face 000 suit Page Mexican rebels resume activity.Page Frisco expects no strike Page 1 SPORTING. T. M. C. A.

loses lirst Page 4 Many clubs after Distiller manager Page 4 Dyer will make trip with Giants Page 4 STBUHB.VW. Mrs. Hugh Moore dies in Shelby ville Page- 5 Moultrie county court convened Page 5 Guinnea dies in Tower Hill Page 10 PAGES TODAY TOTAL OF TWENTY-SIX ENLISTMENTS COUNTED Decatur Recruiting Station Seta New Monthly Record, Registering Five Monday. Five men were enlisted in the United States army Monday at the local recruiting station, making a total of twenty-six for the month of December, which Is a larger number than had enlisted from this office for any month since it was first established three and one-half years ago. Lieut.

G. H. Paine, commanding cf-'icer of the central Illinois recruiting district of the United States army. in Decatur Monday and he brought the news that the Decatur station is now second best in the district in the number of secured- Peoria, is Tirst and Springfield, Bloomington and Streator are the other towns in the district. Visiting Small Town.

The great increase in the number of men enlisted here is due to the active methods employed by Sergeants Edwards and Schwab, in charge of the station. Not content with advertising nd a campaign in the city, they have been out scouring the country around, visiting practically every small town 'n the county and many outside. The fact that a large proportion of the recruits are from these small towns indicates the success of their work. The men enlisted Monday and sent to Jefferson barracks in St. Louis are: Harry P.

Johnson and Frank P. Whit-worth of Assumption, enlisted in the coast artillery; Joe Smith and Frank Adkinson of Moweaqua, enlisted in the and Ben F. Sailing of Lint-ner, enlisted in the coast artillery. CALIFORNIA'S EXPERIMENTS A los Angeles Man Buys Farm on WhJeh to Prove the Comparative Value of Fruit and Grain. KSCONDIDO Fred C.

Epperson, with offices in the Trust and Savings Bank building, Los Angeles, proposes to demonstrate that it is more profitai ble to raise deciduous fruit than grain I in the iarming section of the' Tscondi-jdo country known as Lilac, seventeen miles north of the city. The demonstration is under way on 1 the Crouch and Smith ranches, which Epperson has bought, and which ag-j gregate about 600 acres, two-thirds ot wmch is tillable. The ground is. being prepared for the planting of 201 acres of apples, pears and cnerrles. Eventually all of the tillable land, about 400 acres, will be devoted to the growing of deciduous fruit That the trees will thrive in the deep, rich red soil of the section, with the generous rainfall which -visits the section; whose elevation is about 1100 feet, is the opinion of experts.

Rev. Samuel Montgomery, Anti-sa-Icon League superintendent for the district composed of San Diego and Imperial counties, devoted yesterday and a portion of today in the interests of the league here. Yesterday he made two addresses, one at the Congregational and the other at the Methodist church. This morning he met with the local ministers, as represented by the ministers' union. Citrus growers assert that there has been no damage thus far either to fruit or bloom by the frosts.

OPPOSE FRATERNITIES Phi 'Gamma Deltas May Bar High School Members. ATLANTIC CITY, N. Dec. SO High school fraternities were criticized Monday by speakers at the annual convention of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. It was said the method of initiation of these societies was "the cause of much trouble that has come to the fraternities in general" and that resolutions will be presented at Tuesday's session which would make all members of high school fraternities ineligible to membership in the Phi Gamma Delta.

Dole-gates also planned a campaign to assist school authorities and state legislatures in remedial measures. WILL MfcfcT WBOSBSDAV. Olive branch. No. 218.

R- N. A- w'H meet in a call meeting "Wednesday afternoon at 2:50 o'clock to beiliot on applications. Judge of Morgan County, 111., Watt Past Sulreroi" Chancellor of Order. CHARLES A. BARXES.

CHICAGO, Dec. 30. Charles A. Rarnes, former county judge of Morgan county. 111., is dead in Cheltenham, England, where he was visiting, according to dispatches received here Monday.

Judge Barnes' home has been In Jacksonville, 111. He was past supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the world. Railroad Agrees to Wage Increase and Telephone Circuits Are in Operation. ST. LOUIS, Dec.

30. There will be no strike of telegraphers on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad according to indications last night and the strike committee of the Order of Railway Telegraphers will meet the receivers of the railroad again Tuesday in an attempt to reach an agreement. Conferences that began Monday morning continued, with one intermission until last evening and when adjournment was taken for the night, James W. Lusk, chairman of the said he thought an agreement would be reached.

The outcome of the conferences thus far may be summarized a3 follows: The railroad company has agreed to a wage increase, but not to the 15 per cent increase asked and also has agreed to pay overtime. The chief--points- technical matters regarding the conditions of labor. It -was announced at Frisco headquarters Monday afternoon that the company had polled the telegraphers and agents and that the result indicated most of the men would stay at their posts and that not more than 300 men would go out, if a strike order shouM be issued. Telephone circuits were operated over most of the system. W.

Nixon, receiver, and chief operating officer, did not say whether this would continue if a strike is averted. PROHIBITION IS ISSUE IN CALIFORNIA STATE Drastic Measure Proponed Will Go on General election Ballot Next Year. SACRAMENTO, Dec. CO. With the filing Monday of petitions from ten counties aggregating 25,693 names, the proposed law providing for total prohibition in the state of California will go on the general election ballot in 1914.

The total number of names now represented on the petition is 41,045. The measure prohibits the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors in the state of California except for medicinal and scientific purposes. It Is said to be one of the most drastic prohibition measures ever proposed in the United States. GRAPES SELLING AT HIGH PRICES PrvviooM Iteeords Broken Kerently By The Sale of Several Carloads in 1 City. FRESNO All previous records for the sale price of a carload of Emperoi grapes "has been smashed at Mexico City, according to word received here today, when 600 drums were sold for $9600 in Mexican money, or approximately $4800 in: the United States.

The car was sent to Mexico City oy Lucius Powers of Centervllle and was sold to the Lubein Grocery company there. The car of Emperors was contracted for some time ago, and when about ready to ship Powers received an order to cancel the shipment. He then billed the car to Omaha, but received another telegram from Mexico City to ship the 'grapes. The car was stopped at San Francisco, oaded on a steamer and shipped to Escondldo, Mex. From there the grapes were carried to Mexico City on trucks.

The price paid lor the grapes is twice that usually brought by 600 drums. Nine carloads sold in the East recently by the Stewart Fruit company brought an average of $2550. PLAN FOR LEGISLATION Railway Trainmen Appoint Committees In. Springfield. SPRINGFIELD, I1U, Dec.

30. The triennial convention of the Illinois legislative board of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen opened in this city Monday with the appointment of committees and the discussion of legislation. The committees, which will serve for three years, are: Resolutions J. Ordeu, B. A.

Shee-han, O. Williamson, R. H. White-leather. Legislation H.

Lee, Ralph D. Powers, E. W. Atlin, J. Sears and R.

SL Wisher. Finance A. E. Banta, J. S.

Williams, A. W. Huff, J. Kennedy and A. Horton.

FAILSIO VERIFY Score of Witnesses Saw No In-! signia on Man Who Started Panic Christmas Eve by Cry of i "Fire," and Union Members, Assert Alarm Was Given From Inside of Hall. EXCITED LAD OF 15 SAYS HE SAW BUTTON "Someone Hollered 'Fire' and We All Started to Run," Says Chad on Stand Evidence Indicates That Member of Audience Started Rush Which Ended in 72 Deaths. CALUMET. Pec SO. Only two cut of a score or more witnesses testified before a coroner's jury Monday that tlie n.an who caused the Christmas eve disaster here wore a white button like the badge of the Citizens' Alliance.

Immediately after adjournment of the hearing O. N. Hilton, the Denver attorney, in charge of the Western Federation of Miners' legal lnteret-ts, announced that lurther development of this phase of the inquiry would be attempted Tuesday. i The union lawyer did riot comment upon the fact that the president and a dozen members of the Women's 'Auxiliary of the Federation swore that fihey saw no insignia on the man and union members who stood in the T.estibule of Italian hall for an bout before the panic started said the alarm came from within tiie ball and no person wearing such a button had passed Lhem. In the opinion of Attorney Lucas, prosecuting attorney of Houghton county, who conducted the examination of witnesses, facts fairly well established Monday were that an excitable member of the audience raised the cry, that there was no actual fire in the hall ar.d that the doors were open and.

stairway clear when the pan.c started. "All wo want is a finding based upon facts developed at the inquest," said Mr. Hilton. "The -di-nUty of the miscreant who started the mad rush for the stairs is of paramount importance and we intend to do what wo can to clear this up." Picture Film Stolen. Moving pictures which had been taken of Sunday's big funeral probabij will not be exhibited.

The operator re ported that his room In a local hotel had been broken Into and the films stolen. The case was found several blocks away from the hostelry in thi middle of a street, but beyond this circumstance the local police said they had no clue to the details of the robbery. At federation headquarters there was no hesitancy In laying blame for the disappearance of the films upon the same spirits In the community who sent President Moyer out of the dis iricL The theft was denounced an attempt to stifle publicity for the strikers. Another employs of Tyomies, the Finnish Socialist paper published in Hancock, was arrested Monday on a warrant issued at the request of Sheriff Cruse Saturday, None of the men have obtained release on jail, the justice who issued the warrants notifying attorneys for the men ne could not consider such appli cations until all warrants in the case nad bten served. Testimony of Iltitton.

The testimony as to the button mo me beginning and end of the after noon session 01 the inquest. John Burcar, who gave his age as 15 and said he had lost a sister in the disaster, excitedly told of seeing a man muffled to his eyes in a fur collared overcoat enter the hall. "He hollered and then ran out," said the boy. "I ran out too. He had an Alliance utton on his coat." The other witness.

Mrs. John Koski she was 20 feet from the man who wore a dark blue coat on which was a ivhite button. "It "ooked like an Alliance button," ihe said. "But I was too far away to read it," One or two witnesses said there had been some confusion in the hall before the panic started but women in charge of the celebration denied this. Practically all witnesses agreed that the first alarm came from a man, that it was taken up at once in different parts of the hall and that the rush for the exit was instantaneous.

"Some one hollered and we all started to run," said ono child. Deportation Puzzles. Little progress was made Monday toward solving the puzzling circumstances atter.iing the deportation ol Charles H. aloyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, last Friday night. Union attorneys were busy with the coroner's inquiry into the Italian hall disaster and the county officials who are Investigating the case had little or nothing to announce.

Local interest centered in the un-tanglemetit of statements bringing the name of James McNaughton, general manager of the Calumet and Hecla Mining company, into the case. O. N. Hilton, chief counsel for the federation, and Mr. McNaughton each issued a stat merit.

"Mr. Mer told me in Chicago that he was thoroughly convinced In his mind that the man in question was James McNaughton," Said Mr Hilton. "This man was addressed by "ther members of the mob as and more a general air of authority that agrees with MeNaughton's fTer-oonality. The man told Mr. Moyer that if he ever came back to the copper country he would hang him." McXnuichtun Denies.

"Let me repeat that any charges by Mr. Moyer connecting me in tny way with the event at Houghton maliciously false," said Mr. McNaughton. "I was in Calumet all evening, calling with my wife on a Continued on Sixth Page.) STORY OF A Army of 5,000 Prepares to Close in on Huerta's Litte Band of 1,200 Veterans NO RETREAT LEFT OPEN People in Northern Sinaloa 'Reported to Be Starving and Lacking in Clothes WASHINGTON, Dec. SO.

Official reports reached the state department Monday of renewed insurgent activity in Northeastern Mexico, with the announced purpose oi clearing out the federals from the whole northern tier of Mexican states. Monday the constitutionalists forces were reported as closing in upon Naevo Laredo, but the understanding is that if the campaign in that quarter is successful, it will be followed immediately by an attack fn force upon Ojinaga, where the remnant of the federal garrison of Chihuahua has taken its final stand. At Nuevo Laredo the federals have 1,200 men well armed with machine guns and entrenched in earthworks and rifle pits. Closing in upon them is a force of 5,000 insurgents, 3,000 under command of Gen. Jesus Carran-za, brother of Gov.

Venustiano Car-ranza, tha present head of the constitutional party, and 3,000 under-- the lead of Gen. Gonzalez. Must Fight or Flee. As there seems no avenue of retreat left open in Mexico for the federal garrison they must either defeat their enemy in a frontal attack or cross the international line into the American town of Laredo to be promptly disarmed and interned. In the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo are nine Americans besides Shelby J.

Theriot, the American vice consul, and there are 21 Americans outside the city in this consular district. It was said at the war department Monday that while every effort would be made by the commander of the American troops at Laredo, Texas, to keep heedless spectators back and away from the border in the event of actual hostilities, the general order to the American troops still stands to return promptly any fire of bullets or shells from across the line if they are satisfied that the firing by Mexicans is intentional. Belated advices from Durango are to the effect that constitutionalist forces now occupy Gomez Palacio and Laredo. Before the abandonment of Torreon, the revolutionists are said to have moved large quantities of provisions, consequently the iood supplies are short. About fifty Americans remain in Torreon.

About 8,000 refugees, composed of the worst element of the population, are said to have entered Durango from Torreon. Their lodging and feeding offer a difficult problem and serious trouble is feared. The American embassy in the city of Mexico has been assured by the manager of the Bank of London that the institution is solvent and on Jan uary 2nd it would meet all obligations. Terrible stories of the sulferings ot the people in Northern Sinaloa from continue to reach the state department, and, like the preceding re-poi ts, they have been turned over to the Red Cross, which will extend relief of food supplies into the difficult mountain country. Dr.

Menzendieck, in the little town of Agua Caliente de Baca, reports thai on October 25, owing to the drouth, inhabitants were not only starving, but were without clothing, the well-to-do as well as the poor, so that the women and young girls were obliged to hide in their shacks absolutely naked, and all were suffering terribly from exposure during the cold nights. He predicted even worse conditions at the expiration of two months, or about the present date. ARMY IS DESERTING. PRESIDIO, Tex Dec 30 Part of the Mexican federal army last night was reported to have deserted from the fort at Ojinaga, opposite here and after going up the river, to have crossed to the American side. The federals were said to have become demoralized by the threatened attack of the rebels who had marched from Chihuahua.

Running away from their commanders they plunged into the Kio Grande to reach safety in the United States. United States cavalry received word that the federals were crossing at various points and troops, commanded by Major McNamee, were sent to arrest al lthose -who came over. It was reported that a number of federals had been, killed nthe Mexican side before the exodus began. Owing to the fact that Ojinaga stands in an angle of -the river about a mile from Presidio and no Americans were allowed to cross, it was impossible in the darkness to determine how badly the federals had scattered. Before the federals recently received their pay, forwarded from 'Mexico City, some of the federal soldiers went to the river bank and yelled across to the American soldiers that they surely would desert if attacked.

Discord also was said to have broken out between the volunteers under Orozco and the regulars, many of them who had been forced into military service. PRESIDENT WINS GAME Dr. Grayson Cold Mas Left Him and He Needs Only Rest. PASS CHRISTIAN, Dec. 30.

President Wilson played IS holes of golf Monday for the first time in many weeks. He made "some of the holes under bogey and succeeded in defeating his opponent, Dr. Cary T. Grayson! U. S.

N. something he rarely does. A half dozen youngsters clambored on the running board of the President's automobile when it entered the golf groundSyand engaged in a free for all fight for possession of his golf clubs, yhe President laughed heartily as he leaned out and separated the contestants. After that a truce was declared. After the golf game, the President spent the rest of the day indoors, sleeping during the afternoon.

"The President is mending slowly," said Dr. Grayson Monday. "His grip and cold have entirely left him; what ho now needs is a rest from work and some exercise." Former Red Manager Says He WOl Have Five National League Men With Him. CHICAGO, Dec. 30.

The final papers by which Joe Tinker and Mordecai Brown, for many years National league baseball stars, cast their lots with the Federal league, were signed in the local offices of the league Monday. This was confirmed by both players who said also that their salaries had been guaranteed by a bonding company which assured them full payment for their three years' contract regardless of what fate may befall the league. Both said, too. that their departure from organized baseball into the new league bad not been made without full investigation, which convinced them that the Federals had sufficient financial backing to make it a real competitor of the older leagues. Salary la Certain.

Tinker's cdntract calls for $35,000 for the three years, according to a statement by Charles Weeghman, president of the Chicago club, whose entrance into professional baseball affairs became known Monday first. Weeghman owns a string of lunch rooms and billiard rooms and is reputed wealthy. Tinker appeared jubilant but was reticent about his plans for players. "I'm a Federal leaguer from now on," he said. "I'm a stockholder in the club, Tinker Intimated he thought there was little dlkelihood of the forces of organized baseball going into the civil courts to hold him to Brooklyn on the reserve clause of his Cincinnati contract.

"I won't say anything about what players I'll have," he said. "I want to wait and do something first and then I'll talk about it-" After leaving word at his home that he was going out of the city, he hid himself in the offices of Charles Weeghman, owner of the Chicago club, and sent messages to half a dozen big league- players he would like to have in Chicago next year. He would not say who any of these were, but declared that the club would have at least' five men who were in the National league as late as last year. So Plana Made, Brown, who is to manage the St Louis club, said that he had made no plans yet except that he would go to St. Louis Tuesday night to consult the owners of the club there.

Weeghman said that every club in the league had deposited a $25,000 forfeit that it would live up to all its agreements. In case any of the clubs do not go through with their contracts, the money is to become the property of the league. He also said he would announce the make-up of the local club within a few days. The new Federal league park is on the property bought several years ago by -the late Charles Havenor, of Milwaukee, and the Cantillon brothers of Minneapolis, when it was planned to undertake a Chicago invasion by the American association. The Federals before buying this property It is said, sought' to obtain an option on the old park of the American league club, four blocks from its present park.

When President Comiskey, of the Americans, learned that the old park was to be used for professional baseball he declined to dispose of it. GOMPERS' FATE NOW RESTS WITH COURT Strength of Brief Will Determine Whether Labor Leader Must Go to Jail. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. On the strength largely of a brief filed Monday with the supereme court of the United States will depend whether Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, must jro to Jail for contempt of the District of Columbia supreme court The brief was filed by Alton B.

Parker, Jackson H. Ralston and William E. Richardson. The contempt sentence arose out of the injunction of the district supreme court against boycotting the Bucks Stove and Range company. The district court of appeals reduced the sentence imposed by the trial court from one vear to 30 days.

It also reduced jail sentences imposed upon John Mitchell, former member of the American Federation of Labor executive council, and Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, to a $500 fine for each. Oral arguments as to the validity of all these sentences will be mado before the court about January 5. One of the principal points relied unon by the labor leaders is tnat contempt of court is a crime and that prosecutions thereof are limned 10 three years in the district. CHILDREN OFFERED FOR SALE BY FATHER Stephen Godo of M. Loaia Asks 92,000 for Daughter and 1,000 for His Son.

ST. LOUIS, Dee. 30. "For Sale To whom it ma concerii: 1, the undersigned, Stephen Godo. of 4210 Sarp avenue, will sell my daughter, Mar-saret, 6 years old, for $2,000, ami my son, Stephen, 8 years old, for $1,000, to any person who 'will give them a good home.

Stephen Goro." This advertisement was inserted In the local newspapers Monday by a widower who is canning $10 a week as a cattle slaughterer. He says he Is unable to care for the two children, but unwilling to part with them without recompense. He demands $2,000 for tin girl and $1,000 for tho boy, but will not divulge his reasons for such an appraisal. FILIPINOS ARE FRIENDLY Policy Announced by President HroiiR-ht About Chanue. Has WASHINGTON, Dec.

30. Manuel L. Queezon, resident commissioner from the Philippines in congress, returned Monday from Manila with the declara tion that since the announcement ot President Wilson's Philippine policy the Filipinos are more friendly toward the Americans than they ever were and that they now look to" the United States government aa well as to its representatives in the Philippines as their real benefactors. Mr. Quezon went to the Philippines with Governor General Harrison.

Directors of Great Western Cereal Company Involved in $10,000,000 RECEIVERS STARTACTI0N Control of Ninety Per Cent of Oat Meal Interstate Trade Alleged in Charge. CHICAGO, Dec. 30 The Quaker Oats company, its directors and the directors of the Great Western Cereal company were made defendants in a suit for $10,000,000 damages filed in the United States district court here Monday by William A. Tilden and Charles D. Thompson, receivers of the cereal company.

The suit was brought under section seven of the Sherman anti-trust law and was the result of sale of the trade names and principal properties of the Cereal company to the Quaker Oats company on June 22, 1911. The $1,000,000 realized by the sale, it was charged, was taken by the ho.ders of $1,000,000 of the cereal company's bond, leaving the holders of $3,000,000 worth of stock only the name of the company and minor property as assets. The law, it was held, provides that complaining stockholders can claim punitive carnages in three states the amount of the capital stock. Directors Named, Directors of the cereal company named in the suit were Joy Morton, Sterling T. R.

Bliss, Edward H. Stearns, S. T. Peterkin, Mark Morton, Mendell J. Wright, J.

P. Gates, V. S. Lawrence and F. P.

Sawyer. Henry P. Crowell, Robert Stuart, James H. Douglas, John Stuart, A. Stamford White, John P.

Weiling, J. R. Nutt, James H. Andrews and Whiting G. Sncw are named as directors of the Quaker Oats company.

The ueclaratlon charges that the two companies controlled ninety per cent, of the interstate trade in oat meal products. It charges that the transfer of brands and the plants at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Joliet, 111,, plants was made by Jay Morton without the knowledge and consent of the stockholders. Obtained Proxies. "In order to accomplish the sale and to procure a colorable ratification thereon on the part of the stockholders of the cereal company," the declaration charges, "the directors contrived to obtain proxies from the stockholders to be voted at a general meeting of the stockholders." The proxies were obtained, it alleges, without disclosing the purpose of -disposing of property and were voted at a meeting at which Joy Morton and Mr. Sawyer were the stoclthold ersr "present," The receivers alleged "the sale was void as having been made without the consent of the stockholders.

The receivers were appointed in May, 1912, on the complaint of a creditor that the company was Insolvent. The transfer of the properties in 1911 was made the basis 'of a civil suit against the same set of defendants charging violation of the Sherman law. It is now pending. WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE IN ALASKA Laud Office Commissioner Fnvors Liberal Concessions to Homestead, era. WASHINGTON.

Dee. 30 Liberal I concessions to the homesteaders oi 1, .1 Alaska upon i in opment of the natural resources of the territory depends are recommended 'by Commissioner of the General Land Office Clay Tallraan, in his annual report, submitted to the secretary of the Interior Monday. In order to encourage the homesteader to go to Alaska, Mr. Tallman points out, it is necessary that the laws be made as liberal as possible, "commensurate with proper protection to the public from fraudulent acquisition fo the lands." The homestead laws now applied to Alaska have been found to be unsuitable to conditions in the territory. Commissioner Tallman recommends the area of entries subject to hoine- stead usages be reduced to 160 acres; the area of required cultivation suouia be reduced to one-fortieth of the entire area, the second year and one-twentieth the third year, and that an absence of six months each year to I homesteaders snouiu oe pernimeu further, that the right to make a homestead entry jn Alaska, should exist notwithstanding that the applicant may have acquired title to a homestead outside of the territory.

Pending the consideration of legislation aClecting the development ol Alaskan coal fields and railroad construction by congress. Commissioner Tallman asserts he will make no recommendations relating to these projects. ORIGINAL TITIAN FOR CINCINNATI Mrs. T. J.

Emery Hua Bouieht Painters Original Study of Philip II. CINCINNATI It Is announced that Mrs. Thomas J. Emery has- bought Titian's original study of Philip II. of Spain from Sir Hugh Percy Lane oi London.

The famous painting is thi Cincinnati Art Museum awaiting unpacking for exoibltion. The prioe paid Is estimated as not under $400,000. The purchase was effected through Miss Mary Morgan Newport of New York. Mrs. Emery bought the Titian to add to her private collection.

The painting is well known, with an authentic pedigree and attiacted attention when it was recently acquired by Agnew Sons, London art dealers. It is of extreme importance being a preliminary study of Titian's great painting of Philip II, in the Prado. IDENTIFY MAN KILLED. CHICAGO, Dec. 30 A man killed at a grade crossing at Oak Park, a suburb, Saturday night, was identified Monday as Frederick Weisscrodt, a brother of Ernest Weisscrodt, post master at Berlin.

Germany. Decedent lived at Chabbona, 111. Identification was made at the inquest by A. Wallenweber, a merchant at Sbabbona. i' -vt ortvul-v tural products, are estimated at $12 The so-called balance of trade in -agricultural products Is in favor if the exports of domestic farm product bv $296,000,000..