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Aa Arizona Man Files SenHutional
Statement With Senator Clay.
Kays an Effort Was Made to Involve
Senator Morgan in a TIiiiImt
Scandal?Perjured Evidence Used.
Washington, Feb. 6.-?L. S. Williams,
the Arizona man Who %pe to
Washington to press charges against
the secret service and who claims
that his room at the Raleigh hotel
was entered Sunday night and valuable
papers taken, has filed with Senator
Clay, a member of the investigating
committee, a sensational
statement enumerating his charges
against secret service agents.
The statement revolves around the
conviction of E. B. Perriti, a millionaire
land owner and sheen rais
<er of Arizona, for conspiracy against
the government, but^.according to
Williams, the originin purpose of
pressing^the house was a groundless
and unsuccessful effort to implicate
the late Senator John T. Morgan, of
Alabama, in a scandal involving a
large tract of valuable timber lands
in California.
Williams charges also that the department
of justice lias made an
investigation since the conviction of
Perrin which completely vindicates
him of conspiracy and shows thai
the conviction was scoured by unquestionable
means. The report of
this investigation, Williams claims,
will l.ot be divulged by Attorney
General llonaparte.
Senator Clay will lay the statement
of Williams before the investigating
committtee if he can get
a meeeting. lie states that the investigation
has been delayed by Senator
Galliger, whose th^* for the
present is required by the consideration
of business of the District of
Columbia.
Another of Williams' .rges is
that 10. H. Harriman obtained several
years ago a vast tract of land in
Utah by the same means as Perrin
contemplated using. The lands were
patented to the Harriman interests,
by claims under the Hitchcock administration.
Subsequently, when
there was talk of an investigation,
-Mie Harriman people deeded the
lands back 'to the government and
and there were no prosecutions as
in the case of Perrin, whose methods
were identical.
The prosecution of Perrin grew
out of a transaction he contemplated
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villi u wuii /\# iiciiouii, wi oau r i ?ucisco,
involving sixteen thousand
acres of timber land in California.
When the government investigated
the case prior to Perrin's indictment,
Inspector George C. Hunt
advised against a prosecution. In
his report was an affidavit hy C. P.
Suell, a secret service agent, who was
prev usly in Perrin's employ as a
lawyer, and this affidavit sot forth
that Ferrin remarked to Benson,
the alleged conspiracy that he (Perrin)
had great influence at Washington
with Senator Morgan, and that
he could get him to assist in geting
the lands.
The lirst question asked Perrin
hy Inspector Hunt was: "How much
money had been paid Senator Morgan
hy Perrin," and for what purpose
had it been paid, according to
Williams' statement. Fight months
later Secret Service , Agent William
J. Burns appeared H&fore the federal
grand jury and declared that
he was just from Oyster Bay, and
that President Roosevelt wanted Perrin
indicted."
Snell's affidavit, In which Senator
Morgan was mentioned, grew out of
a conversation which he overheard
between Perrin and Benson, in which
the former spoke of the Alabama
senator only as a friend and not as
a legal adviser, and the impression
conveyed was not justified, according
to Williams, and was malicious.
In this connection the Arizona
man states verbally that the investigation
grew out of a desire on the
part of the president to implicate
Morgan because of Morgan's persistent
fight against the Panama Canal.
It is charged by Williams that
the records of the secret service will
show that about $4,000 was paid to
Snell by the government and his
only services consisted of testimony
against Perrin.
Snell had previous to his employment
by the secret service been
Perrin's lawyer.
The statement charges that Snell's
aworn evidence against Perrln on
trial of the case has since been
proven by Snell's confession to have
been perjured.
Williams claims that In spite of
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BitYAN SPEAKS TO BIG CROWD
AT TAMPA.
In Address at Fair Declares President
Has Delegated to Himself the
Authority of a Czar.
Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4.?Speaking to
an immense throng of people from
the grand stand of the race track
this afternoon, Win. J. Bryan said
he brought to the Democrats of the
South a message of good cheer, that
there Is a steadily increasing sentiment
that makes for the growth of
the Democratic party in the United
States.
He commented on the world-wide
spread of Democracy as one of the
"signs of the times." when the masses
would demand their rights of aristocratic
class, which is now using
every endeavor to hold its own
against such a growth. He cited
the recent charges in the government
of Turkey and declared that
the downtrodden masses of that
country had forced the most auto-1
cratic monarch of modern times to
grant a democratic constitution.
He commented upon the usurpation
of power by the "aristocratic
party," the present administration,
the head of which he referred to as
delegating to himself all the authority
of a czar in the manipulation of
his high office. Hut a change is
surely, if slowly coming, he declared
and added that prospects were
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/.ift'nci tu <111 cut iui ueniocratic
victory in 1912.
Mr. Bryan injected considerable
humor in his remarks by saying
that he knew there were entirely too
many Republicans in the country for
their own good and for the country's
good, saying that he had been
"telling them about it" for a long
time.
In reply to a question, Mr. Bryan
declined to say whether he expected
to be called upon by his party
again "to tell them about it,"
passing the query with a broad
smile.
Mr. Bryan was the guest tonight
at a banquet given in his honor by
the state mid-winter fair association.
Mr. Bryan spoke on the "Future of
the Democracy."
Other speakers were Hillary A.
Herbert, secretary of the navy under
President Cleveland; Governor Albert
W. Gilchrist, of Florida; Ex-Gov.
Napoleon B. Broward, and "private"
John Allen, of Mississippi.
Touching upon the labor question.
Mr. Bryan reviewed the recent decision
of the supreme court of the
Dlst-ict of Columbia, sentencing
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
Frank B. Morrison to jail, and declared
that "these great and royal
leaders of organized labor are entitled
to the sympathy of the entire
people."
Mr. Bryan said that the trust question
remained unsettled and would
he a controlling issue in the next
national campaign; that it would remain
for the Democrats to give the
American people relief.
Planned Ahead.
Quitman, Miss., Feb. 4. ? R. I. McLeod,
a prominent citizen of this
place, committed suicide last night
by shooting himself through the
heart. His body was not found until
this morning. He left a note
to his brother-in-law, A. S. Mason,
stating that he had planned to take
ills own life for the past two years.*
Divorce Mill Shut Down.
Carson, N'ev., Feb.6.?The Nevada
assembly today pased a bill making
the term of residence of applicants
for divorce two years instead of six
months as at present. The senate
is pretty sure to pass the bill. *
Passed Over Veto of Governor.
Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 4.?The bill
prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicating
liquors in Tennessee was
passed by the house over the goveronr's
veto.
Snell's confession to perjury, the
government refuses to indict him for
the offense. He claims that Perrin
was notified only last week in San
Francisco at the door of the grand
jury room that no indictment would
be returned against Snell, unless it
was ordered by Attorney General
Bonaparte, no matter what evidence
might be submitted. This statement,
he claims was made by Assistant
District Attorney A.. P.
Black.
Williams' statement is subdivided
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allegation he cites references, letters,
affidavits and court records to substantiate
them. If the investigation
committee goes into the matter,
much time will be required to investigate
the citations unless Williams
has certified copies of all the
records as he claims he have in the
safe at Raleigh hotel. *
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LOSS OF LIFE
A Death Dealing Tornado In
South Control States.
MANX TOWNS HIT
The Storm Was Accompanied by
I tain, Hail, Lightning and Impenetruble
Darkness?In Addition to
the Lives Lost, There Was (irent
! Destruction of Property.
| Louisville, Ky., Feb. 5.?Death for
probably a score of persons, loss of
hundreds of thnns?n<i?
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property and the crippling of many
telegraph wires resulted between
noon and dusk today from a series
of small tornadoes which swept the
south central States from the Tennessee
line to the Texas Panhandle.
The storms were accompanied in
most cases by hail, darkness, terrific
lightning flashes and sheets of rain.
Most of tin? towns where loss of
life occurred qp-e off the railroads,
so that news front them has been
coming in slowly. Known casualties
a re:
Stuttgart, Ark.?Mrs. Garfield and
a child of Will Story is reported fatally
injured.
Sulphur Springs, Texas?Mrs. C.
Caldwell, from Rolling Fork, Miss.
Just before the telephone wires broke
word came that four had been killed.
Booth, Miss., reported to Brirming
nam. Ala., that six had meet death
there.
In other towns such as Ennies and
Waxahachie, Texas, and Boscoe, La.,
many dwellings are said to have been
demolished by the wind.
Arkansas and upper Louisiana rice
fields were injured to the extent of
many thousands of dollars, while
tlu* larger cities experienced rains
and darkneass and lightning bolts
that made large buildings quiver.
At Chattanooga there was a terrific
storm of hail.
Houses Blown Down.
Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 5.?The
third destructive cyclone to pass over
this community in the past score
of years came this afternoon and
left a trail of death.
The home of CJeorge Stewart,
seven miles east of here was totally
destroyed. His-two-days-old child
was blown half a mile and killed.
His two-vear-old child was blown into
a grate and probably fatally burned.
Mrs. Stewart was caught under
some rafters in the house and so
badly injured that she will die. Mrs.
Tom Ilowner and child who were in
the house were fatally hurt.
Among the homes destroyed are
the following:
C. J. Whitaker's house, four tn
jured.
Tom Hughes' house blown down.
Mort Grimes' house blown down
and Mrs. Grimes injured.
I)iek Ham, who lived with the
Grimes, badly injured.
Many horses were killed and barns
and their contents scattered by the
winds.
Seven People Killed.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 5.?Mayor
George H. Brier, of Cullman, Ala.,
said that seven people are known
to have been klled in that county
this afternoon by the cyclone which
passed over this section of the State
but that wire communication is impossible
with the stricken locality.
At Kayosa, a mining camp west
of Birmingham, on the Southern
railway, today five houses were
blown down, but only one man was
injured, a Mr. Logan.
The properly loss in the territory
north of Birmingham appears to have
been very large. Numerous trees
were bolwn down on lied Mountain
within a mile of the corporate limits
of Birmingham. Telephone communication
to the north Is Impossible
tonight.
Three Negroes Killed.
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. f>.?The
residence of Mr. Stone was damaged,
the wind carrying away the roof and
a portion of the porch; the residence
of a Mrs. Herbert suffered damage,
the roof and chimneys toppling in
the gale. Six or eight, negroe cabins
on the Stone plantation were destroyed
and the inmates who had
gathered in the houses during the
storm were buried in the debris.
Sixteen negroes were more or less
severely injured and three crushed
to death.
Two Killed in Arkansas.
Brlnkley, Ark., Feb. f>.?Two persons
were killed and a third fatally
injured in a tornado which struck
Stuttgart today. The tornado carried
away one residence and five
barns. The residence destroyed was
that of Will Shorri. His wife and
child were crushed by the fal.Mng
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THREE LIVING WIVES
SKNSATIONAIi DKVKLOl'MENTS I
IN XKW JKItSFY CASK.
A Twelve-Year-Old Bey IttHOKuized I
His Father's Picture in a Newspaper.
Newark, N. J., Feb. 4.?There
were sensational developments today
in the case of Frank Wilhelm, the <
contractor who was found nmrr'or
ed In his home here Monday. The
revelations include the charge that 1
Wilhelm had three wives living, and
that ho had never been divorced.
Another occurrence of interest
was the action of the police in suddenly
bringing Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm
and Nicholas Sicca, a hoarder
in the Wilhelm home, both held in
connection with the murder, into the
presence of the body of the murdered
man.
Mrs. Wilhelm, though she became
hysterical, withstood the test fairly
well, but Sicca was so disturbed that
his arraignment in court, set for today,
had to be postponed.
Mrs. Frederick Wilhelm, of Now
York, claimed she was married to
Wilhelm in Jersey City in 1894,
soon after he had deserted his llrst
wife, Hannah 11. Wilhelm, who was
also his step-sister. Two years later,
she said, she discovered his pertidy.
When she accused him, he deserted
her, she alleged, and her year-old
daughter and a baby soon to be
born, and lied with his step-sister
wife.
Since then she had not heard from
him until the child, then unborn,
and now a lad of 12 years, read of
his murder in a newspaper Tuesday,
and recognized his picture in the
paper as that of the man whose picture,
in their home, he had been
told was his father. Mrs. Frederick
Wilhelni does not know what hecame
of Hannah Wilhelni.
Mrs. Frederick Wilhelni and her
sister, Mrs. Maria Armater, of Now
York, fainted at Wilhelm's bier today,
while the funeral was in progress,
and when, as they declared,
they identified the dead man as the
husband of Fredericka Wilhelni.
The last named fell dramatically
across the collin in a complete state
of colapse while her siter slipped to
the floor in a faint.
Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelni, the wife
now held in connection with the
murder, was not permitted to attend
the funeral, although she had requested
permission to do so. *
About a .">og Fight.
Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 1.?Steve
Bridges and Alex Locke, brothersin-law
and well known farmers, engaged
in a bloody tight near Jeff,
Ala., today. Locke was chopped in
the back with an axe and will die
before night. Bridges telephoned
that he would come in and surrender.
The difficulty arose over a dog
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Two Hrakt'iucn Perish.
Waxahachle, Tex., Feb. 1.?L. B
Smith and T. L. Galloway, brakemen
on the Trinity and Brazos Vailey
Hailroad, were crushed to death
under a locomotive near here today.
Galloway's head was severed from
his body. The engine was derailed.
. . Costly Banquet.
New Orleans, Feb. 1.?It will cost
$2.1 to attend the Taft banquet here
on Saturday night, February 12.
This was decided upon today by
the executive committee in charge
of the details of Taft's reception
on his approaching visit here.
JOXHtt FOl'XI) CillLTV
Of .Murdering; His Wife by Poisoning
Last July.
Union, Feb. 6.?-"Guilty of murder,
with a recommendation to mercy,"
was the verdict in the case of
the State vs. \V. T. Jones, rendered
here at three minutes after 3 o'clock
this afternoon, the jury having deliberated
since 8:45 last night, in
all eighteen hours and eighteen minutes
The law has answered affirmatively
the question propounded last
July, "Did W. T. Jones force his
j wife, Marion Jones, to take strychnine?"
Thus has ended one of the
most interesting criminal cases ever
heard in this State, and by far the
most remarkable in the history of
this county.
To some the verdict was a great'
surprise, the jury's lengthy deliberation
giving promise, and to some
nope, 01 ? iniHiriiti. However, reliable
Information Is to the effect
that the jury hesitated between an
extreme verdict and the one rendered,
there being for some time nine
members in favor of inflicting the
death penalty.
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THREE HOBOES
ROOK ACROSS TIIK CONTINENT
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IN CHEAT STYLE
lly I'sing tin* Household Kffwts of
Col. Join's, Who Wns Moving
From the Pacific.
Atlanta, Feb. 6.?The Journal of
yesterday published on amusing story
;>f how three tramps crossed the continent
in palace car style at the expense
of Col. S. It. Jones. Chief
Quartermaster of the (Julf Department,
who was inovelng his household
goods to the East. About one
week ago the Colonel ordered his
household goods to be shipped here
from Vancouver ltarracks, which is
in Washington State, towards the
northwest end of the continent. After
the car had neon packed, but before
it had been locked, three tramps
who felt the nip of the north, peeped
in through the crack of the door,
then crawled in cautiously. When
the car began its long trip southward,
they were ensconsced snugly
inside.
The first day on the road they
unpacked Colonel .tones' white iron
bed and set it up in one corner, then
they equipped it with warm blankets
and a fringed counterpane, and one
drove a nail into the side of the car
and hung up a copy after Titian,
and unpacked a box containing the
creatn of Colonel .tones' library. One
seemed to take a liking to a are
copy of Omar Khayyam, another
selected Huton's 'Anatomy of Melan
cnoiv, and the third turned his attention
to Bernard Shaw.
Through the day they regaled
themselves on pure literature, hut
towards evening, when the train
stopped at a town in the northwest,
one slipped from the car with a few
of (lie books under his arm, and
returned with a round bottle, rye
bread and bologna sausage.
Then it was that they discovered
a collection of claret and champagne
glasses Colonel Jones had stored
away. While the train flew southward,
they ate and drank, and as
each glass was emptied, carefully
smashed it.
The tramp who had selected the
copy of Omar Kahyyam, marked
this quotation:
"Drink! for you know not whence
you came nor why;
Drink! for you know not why you
go nor where."
Then they appropriated the only
two nighties the car boasted, and,
since there was not a third, a dress
shirt was donned as substitute, and
the three snuggled into the white
iron bed. More books were sold,
more food was got, and the joyous
life of the day before was continued.
One by one the claret and
champagne glasses were smashed,
and steadily the books dwindled
Wi Hi em;u ?IU|I lliuru l)OOK S
were sold, and at each draught a
glass was smashed. The philosophy
of this seemed to ho that use of the
same glass twice took the flavor off
the liquor.
The second night there apears to
have heen some dissension over one
of the nighties, for it was torn from
neck to hem; then another dress
shirt was pressed into service.
The train veered southward toward
New Orleans, and the care-free
life of the three men in the boxcar
continued. They sold more hooks,
bought more to eat and drink and
lived like true epicureans. One must
have had a touch of the aesthetic,
for he unpacked all the pictures and
carefully hung each, then tore off
the wrapping of chairs and arranged
them about the car. The final effect
was that of a drawing room or saloon.
At New Orleans the last of the
books, with the exception x>f the
copy of "Omar Khayyam" and "Hernard
Shaw" and Huston's "Melancholony
of Anatomy," were sold, and
the remaining glasses were smashed.
Then the three tramps slipped
quietly out and disappeared. It was
at some station between here and
Now Orleans* that they alighted.
The car arrived in Atlanta and
was switched to Fort Mcpherson, and
there Colonel Jones found it as it
had been left by its occupants across
tho continent. The three books lay
on the floor; in a little pile were
the smashed claret and campagne
glasses, and on the bed were the
two nighties and two dress shirts.
Abotit the walls hung the pictures.
Two Old Women l>ie.
Milledgevllle, Ga.. Feb. 1.?Two
ante-bellum negro women met tragic
deaths from opposite causes in this
county yesterday. Kach of them
was a hundred years old. Sarah
Reeves was caught In the flre that
burned her home and was lnclner-|
ated. Florine Davidson froze to
death in her Isolated home and was
found soon after the death of Sarah
Keevea.
ORRY HE
THE RACE ISSUE
Senator Newlands of Nevada
Says Its a Serious Problem.
SHOULD BE SETTLED
In Di*<us*iiiK the "Vellow Peril**
He Declare* That Congre** Should
Not l<enve the Viiration to Diplomat*,
Hut Should It*elf Take
Ste|?s to Preserve White K?cc.
Washington, Fob. 7.?Senator
Newlands, of Nevada, in a statement
given to t lie Associated Press tonight,
asserted that there should bo
htoad, national legislation, covering
the whole Japan question. "The
legislation proposed by the Pacific
coast States, intended to meet certain
purposes of what constitutes a
national peril, had been opposed by
the President as involving violation
of our treaty with Japan and imperilling
her friendship," he said.
"Whilst the Western States will,
in all probability, practically yield
to such suggestion, there is danger
that the abandonment of such legislation
may be misunderstood by the
Eastern States, whose people are unfamiliar
with tho ?wr? Iinniin
rial dangers attendant upon Asiatic
immigration, and that they may
think we acquiesce in the view that
a groat question of national and domestic
policy, should bo turned over
to the negotiation of diplomats. No
question involving such important
consideration as race honiogenity and
domestic industrial peace can safely
be turned over to diplomacy."
Continuing the Senator stated that
"the Nevada Legislature should
adopt resolutions making the following
declarations:
"That the race question is now
the most important question confronting
the nation; that already we
have drifted regarding the black
race into a condition which seriously
suggests the withdrawal of the political
rights heretofore mistakenly
granted?the inauguration of a humane
national policy, which, with tho
co-operation and the aid of tho
Southern States, shall recognize that
the blacks are a race of children
requiring guidance, industrial training
and the development of selfcontrol,
and other measures intended
to reduce the danger of the race
complication formerly sectional, but
now becoming national.
"That our duty to our race and
our institutions and the maintenance
of friendship with races differing
in color, till demand that we abandon
the attempted adjustment of
these questions by international
treaty and pass a national law to
take effect upon the expiration of
existing treaties, emphatically declaring
that our country is onen to
white immigration alone; that such
immigration shall be restricted to
those of a constitution, character
and training that will ultimately fit
them for American citizenship; and
that other races shall be excluded
from immigration except for purposes
of trade, travel anil education."
TILLMAN'S FICHT SUCCESSFUL
Leading Republican Says Cruni Will
Not lie Confirmed.
Charleston, Feb. 6.?The Evening
Post says Crum will not be confirmed
at this session. The Post SA.va
its Washington correspondent gets
this important information from a
leading Republican Senator. Whether
Mr. Taft will reappoint Crum to
the coilectorship is problematical.
There 1s some talk that Crum
might be appointed recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia, a position
which for years has been held
by a negro, or he might be appointed
register of the treasury.
The Post's Washington correspon
miii ?uy? me nepuoucans would
vote to confirm Crum, but if the
Democrats continue to debate the
confirmation as they have done,
then because of pressure of other
important matters the confirmation
will not be passed by the Republicans
to the exclusion of other business
which means that there will be
no vote on the nomination this session.
No combination has been made
with the Republicans because it is
not necessary. It is known that Mr.
Taft would like the Crum case disposed
of but it can not be done for
want of time, and so it will go over.
Ingratitude covers more than half
the sins mentioned in the Ten Commandments.
:RALD