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The vol. xxxm BAHN'TELL. 8. G^TIIURSDAT. JANUARY 13. 11)10 HE HAD TO GO a bad jolt Till Fitts PiscWt Beaut He OuuM - . ■: —* IN8UROKNT8 WIN A VICTORY OVER OLD MAN CANNON. SP IRIT WRITES Ftnur Mayer tslto Tells of Life BejiM Ae Cnee MANY LOST AT SEA~ j PLEADS GUILTY am mm SCARCE THEY DEFY HIS DEAL WITH TRUSTS Com- Tl»« < Forester Mid Two Sabor- dinatCM ItismlHsed BecaiMe The/ Kvposed Secretary Gall Inzer's Con- nection With a Deal In Alaska Government Coal Lands. As was predicted would be the case when his letter to Senator Dol- liver, exposing^Secretary of Interior Hallinger's connection with an un lawful attempt to donate valuable government coal lands in Alaska to a former client, who is a coal baron, was read in the senate on Thursday, Gifford Pinchot, chief forester and jntjmate friend of Theodore Roose velt, was dismissed from the servlci of the Cnited States Friday night by President. Taft for alleged insubor dination, but in reality for exposing Ballinger s attempt to give away the people’s land to a trust magnate. Associate Forester Overton W. Price, and Assistant Law Officer Alexander C. Shaw, Ptnchot's Imme diate associates In the forestry bu reau, followed their chief out of government employ. Thoroughly indignant over the ac tion of Mr. Pinchot in inducing Sen ator Dolliver to read a letter from him in the senate on Thursday, ex posing Ballinger, President Taft Fri day would listen to no advice that the forester s violation of executive orders in writing the letter be over looked pending the Inquiry soon to be undertaken by congress In the charges against Ballinger. He de clared the dignity of the office he had been chosen by the people to fill was being attacked, and he would be unfaithful to his trust If he sub mitted longer. Mr. Taft undoubtedly realises ful ly what the dismissal of Forester Pinchot means in a political . way He has been convinced for some tlm** that th»‘ “Insurgents” and other critics of his administration had en listed the services of Mr. Pinchot. and practically were defying him to separate Pinchot from his office. The latter s letter of Thursday. few doubt, was written with the direct purpose "of putting it squarely up to the president." 4 ^ *!*0*' 4 ♦ V, Th '_ ' ^^ourts was but this whiskey al»n Power Taken From Him to A{ the Ballinger Investigating i mlttee From House. la the house of representatives Friday Speaker Cannon lost his first fight to the ‘‘insurgents,’’ who, comb ing with the Democrats, caused to be adopted an amendment to the Bal- linger-Pinchot inquiry resolution so as to take from the speaker the pow- er to appoint the house members of the Joint special committee of investigation. The margin of vic tory was a narrow one of three votes, but the Insurgents and Democrats alike are Jubilant. The dismissal of Pinchot has lent fuel to the flames of their celebration, and they are venturing all manner of predic Hons as to what Is to happen In the future. Three Republicans, not classed as Insurgents, but who profless their friendship for Pinchot, voted with the Insurgents and Democrats fo r the am&dment, which calls for the selection of the house investigators by election from the floor. These two incidents, at the capital and White House, kept Washington In a political ferment all day. The Cabinet was In special session during practically the entire after noon, following the regular session of the morning. Secretary Ballinger, cognisant of the action that was about to be taken remained away from the aftenoon sitting. It was at the end of this special session that the president gave out the let ter he had written to Mr. Pinchot notifying him that his usefulness as s public servant under the present administration was at an end. Speaker Cannon received hts "Jolt” In the house of representatives In the vote en the amendment offered by Representattve Norris, of Nebras ka, the Insurgent leader, and the vote was 149 to 146, Are voting "present.” So unexpectedly was the victory accomplished that the Insurgents and their Democratic allies could scarcely believe their ears. For an Instant almost rompleta silence reigned, then the storm broke, and for almost a full minute the noise In the cham ber was deafening. After that the Democrats, Jubilant that they had helped to pierce the hitherto Imper vious armor of the speaker, seemed willing to abandon their fight against resolution Itself, which all after •.r-a broad SAW HIS OWN FUNERAL He Describe* the Other World as Being Moat Beautiful, With Birds and Flower* in Profusion—A Place Was Given Him to Live in, and He Wa* Happy. A man now dead tells the sensa tion of death he expereienced and how he woke up in a spiritual world, what life is like there, and many oth er ghostly things In "Both Sides of the Veil,” a book published by Sherman French A Co., of Boston. The disembodied person who deacrib- es the land beyond the grave is said by the author of the book, one Manning Robbins, to be none other than the late Gen. Augustus P. Mar tin, former mayor of Boston, for mer police commissioner and former water commissioner of that city. He was one of the best known Bos tonians for nearly half a century. Gen. Martin was a bluff, big-bodled man with nothing ethereal, occult or esoteric about him In the flesh. Miss Robbins, the author of this re markable book, was stenographer for the Boston police board for many years and afterward Gen. Martin’s secretary at City Hall. She took down a stenographer reprt of the words purporting to be uttered by spirits through the medium of Mrs Leonora E. Piper, the celebrated Arlington clairvoyant. The reports made by Miss Robbins were for the Society for Psychical Research. General Martin Is quot ed for many thousand words of spirit utterances In this book. Extracts In which he tells about what he re members about his own death and the eternal life which Is now his own In another sphere are appended. Through living Mrs. Piper, and re ported by living Miss Robbins, dead Gen. Martin is quoted as saying . "When I first passed out my mind was cloudy, rather confused. I felt as though I was going Into apace, did not know where, drifting as It were, for a few hours—-that was all —and then I felt as though there wag a strong hand grasping me and said to me: ” ‘It’s all right; It Is all over And I said, ‘What Is over?' I could seem t|> understand what It all - hue «n.'. Tt,e whll, ‘- V” m '• v* nx r fc * SEVERAL FISHING BOATS ARE MISSIN G IN BIG BTOKM That I* Still Raging in Nova Sco tia Water* and Fean Are Felt for Hi* (Yew*. Forty-one fishermen have been claimed as victims of the sea, accord ing to reports received Thursday at Halifax, N. S., from the fleet that is cruising Nova Scotia waters in a wide hunt for eight of the boats driven to sea at the height of the storm that is still raging. More ships were sent on rescue cruises Thursday. Twelve boats were missing when the tally was taken, four have been found, but there If no hope for the others, among those who know the ways of the sea in the North., Four of the missing boats, all of which belonged to the Haddock fleet, hailed from Dover; the other fou’' from Whitehead. In the former were 19 men; in the latter 22. Most of the missing craft are no longer than twenty feet. Without cabins, they afford little refuge to the mariners trapped In such a storm as has raged along the northern coasts for several days. At least one of the missing ves sels Is known to hare met disaster. Her wreck was seen on Dogfish rock by another of the fleet which was scudding to haven The crew of this ship, the W’illlam Feltmaie, were rescued when they were being driven to sea in a dory. All were in a se rious condition from exposure. They told a pitiful story of almost rare severity when they were hurled on the rock by waves, wind and tide. Along the coast much damage has been done on land by the storm. Reports are being received slowely, but the total loss will be enormous. FAVORED RACE SITCIDE. So Hi* Art res* Wife I/eft Him and Seeks a Divorce. “I left my husband because he believed In race suicide," *ald Mrs. Marguerite Walker, a New York ac» tress, in her suit for divorce agains' Clarence J. Walker, a New York business man. "We never had a quarrel durlu B our married life, gala Mrs. Wala-.. but 1 longer for children of m. wn, an 1 It ma .e him angry a h, I talked about them. Otherwise he a as a good husband anr treuteu m kindly." Judge Houser enle Mrs Walke tl i p * » U> .i«^ n fma B«;« Ijipiity tif less ffcu it WmU Cist Bis Is PEOPLE DON'T SEEM ANXIOUS FIGHT CASES IN COURT One of the Star Defendant* la the DiHpenftary Graft Prosecution Finds it Cheaper to Pay a FTne Than Hire Lawyers, 8o He Pay* a F'lne and Goo* F’ree. FOR THESE PLACES. -ini ayV*. * »«* Janies S. Farnum, agent In this State for the Anheuser-Busch Brew ing Company and other liquor hous es which did business with the late State dispensary, In open court in Columbia on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the State, paid a line of $5,000, and was told to go and sin no more. The Columbia Record *ays the end of this case was a great surprise and came without previous intima tion. Wednesday morning Attorney General Lyon appeared In the Rich land county court of general *68- slons with Solicitor Cobb, and pre- smted a new i inctmeut against Fai num, charging him with conspiracy w ith Joseph R. Wylie, formerly mem ber of the State dispensary board, to defraud the State. The grand Jury at once reti.-ed and Wylie was examined as a wit ness. In a short while the grand Jury returned with a true bill. Farnum and his attorneys then came Into court and other proceedings were Interrupted while the attorney general announced that Farnum de sired to plead guilty and he would accept the plea. Farnum stood up and Judge Prince asked for the written plea, which Farnum signed. Judge Prince at once Imposed sentence, saying that In view of the plea he would be lenient but not as lenient as Farnum might wish. The Judge said he knew Farnum'g humiliation was punishment, but that h« described further punishment, though hla mor 1 guilt was not as great as that of he officers of the State who had artielp: ted In the conspiracy and ?. "e'te ’ bribes. He woul! therefore Impose a sen tence rf $5,000 fine or one year’s imprisonment on the chainiang or in the penitentiary Farnum’a at torney pro'ucel a certificate of de- \ $5,000, which had beeu ’-f " ''i ven per 11 V/'jlay, anl which waa ac- --r* Ocastu Director Durand Appeal* to the Pablk Spirited People In the Metier. Census Director Durand stated on Wednesday in Washington that, as a result of bis conference with the supervisors of census throughput the country he finds that In ipany sec tions, especially in the larger cities, there have not been as yet sufficient applications for the positions of enu merators. It looks, he thinks, as If the country Is so prosperous that people are not aa anxious to get these responsible plaecs aa had been expected. The scarcity Is giving the director some concern, as only a few weeks remain before the date for closing the consideration of application*. It will be Impossible generally to ex tend the application time limit, as to examine the "teat” papers, with the necessary care to Insure the des ignation of qualified persons, will consume every moment of the time allowed for thia phase of the work pf aelecting the enumerators, leav ing nothing for an extension of the date for shutting down on appli cations. The director therefore urges all persons desiring places as enumera tors to make application as quickly as possible, and he hopes that, In order to help get a perfect cenaus public-spirited and energetic people throughout the country will offer themselvee for theee positions, even though they may not care for them from the standpoint of the pay in volved. He also trusts that employ ers will deem It their duty to give leave of absence to thetr employees who may desire to act as enumera tors. Some slight sacrifice of this sort will be amply repaid by the Im proved quality of the census returns. Continuing, the director said; “Although the actual work of taking the cVnsii* will not begin until April 15, It is essential that those who wish to act as enumera •ors shout 1 apply immediately. Ex e r t under unusual circumstances, no application received after January 25 will be consilertd. About <8,- 000 enumerators will be required. Evch will work In hi* own locality. Any competent person Is entitled to pply for this position, and will be ’airly considered for appointment "Pclltlcsl ’’ecomotfendatlons are net necessary. The supervisors, to whom application must be made, bar* been Instructed to consldar all and to aelect solely on "The Insurgent Republ -as of the bouse are not Intimldatod by tko |pK tlon of the administration la .with- holding patronage from them, sad are not scared into alienee by may apparent combination of Preatdeat Taft and gp—tirr rmaH us." - This was the declaration Thurs day of Representative Norris, of Ne braska, one of the leading insurgents of the house. Mr. Norris rsasated stories published to the effect that the Insurgents were “lying under the edict of the edmlnlstra' tlon. On the contrary, Mr. Norris criticised President Taft blaiaelf for the act of the administration la singling oat Rep a bl lean insurgents for punishment. "President Tsft Is making a grave mistake by aiding Cannon la way, and I waat to say unhesitating ly„“ continued Mr. Norris, “I do not object, nor do any of tko lasar- genta object, as far aa I know, to the withholding of patronage ue, bnt I denounce this singling out of the men who here opposed Can non end the house organisation for an infliction of panlshmeot. “How can the president eey that we ere opposed to his pottdee declare thet we are to be punishel for it, when we have not opposed Its policies la any way? We do in fact, know yet what President Taft’s policies are to be. -Btlll, we have been punlsbed. Postmaster General Hitchcock baa admitted that we are being discriminated against right now, although we have don* absolutely nothing to merit, log to oppose Cannon and the bon machine. "The president la aiding Cannes There Is no other conetr can be placed upon thig *dministration. If hp have the 'Insurgent* whs oj Cennon been singled out as the upon which the presidential die pleasure Is to be netted? If the president la not alfflOg Senator Cai non, then why art only the Anti the - - - — — w » — - mu w w i ‘ A Coast Moe RatU t N » l / . f t .*■ * F