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TEDDY'S SHADOW ? Looms Up Large as a Result of the Tafl Ballinger, PiacLt Row. " BACK INTO THE ARENA ? ObiwrTerfl So? * Politic*! Htorrn llrwwing That 1m IJk#Ij to Split tli# ItopnbllcMi Party aad Muk? the Hough llldor a Candidate In 1V12. A Washington dispatch to Th# News and Courier says political storm warnings indicating dangerous conditions all orer the country wore prominently displayed from the White House and the capital there Sunduy. The flag that floats orer the former showing when a president is in Washington was there as usual, hut with It and those 011 the capital dome, keen-eyed politicians, saw floating a red one with a black centre. When thin sign Is seen It indicates that a storm of marked violence Is expected. The Ballinger-l'inchot controversy and the sudden and unexepcted developments of th? last few days threaten at tills timo to cause such a political storm as tho country has not seen in years. At the White House, the capital, In the leading hotels and In many private homes, conferences were held, but. no one "will at this timo even hazard a guess as to what the developments of the next few days may b? Aside from tho personality rf tooth Bollinger and, Piucnot, ana from the question of which of them may bo right, with regard to the country's conservation policies, the fact stands out first and foremost that an lssuo cannot be avoided, which, in the opinion of many per eons, will bring former President jlhoosorvolt back Into >the political arena as the Republican candidate for president In 1912. This being the case that party would be split from Maine to California, and the tremendous vote of the Western States would bo swung In line for the candidate of the Democratic party. It is realized In Washington tkat * this is a fight which will undoubtedly last for a long time and be far reaching In Its political results. A "Washington paper prints the following story: "There Is the keenest interest In the part Senator Dolliver is to play. The senator has for a year past been utterly at outs with the senate leadership. Indeed, ho la easily the most unpopular man In the upper chamber with the dominant forces of that body. It Is understood that I Senator Aldrich has personally taken charge of the arrangements for the f Investigation, knows whom ho want* on the committee and how the work Is to be done. The relations bo tween the Rhodo Islander and the senior senator from Iowa became so sadly strained during the tariff session that the prospoct of another duel of wits and finesso between these two hag added vastly to the Interest in the coming encounter from what might bo called the sport lng standpoint. "With Mr. Pinchot out of the public service, he la free to employ ^ means and go to extremes whicj would have been impossible had he remained in office. If he is denied the opportunity to present the fullest possible case, or if technicalities of proceduro are invoked against him, the appeal will bo made to public sympathy by his supporters." Americans Murdered, President Madrlz of Nicaragua, In a message to the State department, declared the resentment this government has shown at the execution of Cannon and Grace is justified. Madrlz said he made a personal 8tudy of the circumstances of tho executions and found them to be Illegal. Madriz's declaration that the execution was illegal leaves no other recourse than criminal procedure against Zelaya. A Happy Marriage. On last Sunday night at 8 o'clock at the residence of Mr. George Hayden, near Zion church, Mr. Daniel Gray ana iviisg nossiu ujtiLzeisur * were happily married In the presence of a largo circle of friends. Rev. J R. Smith, of Cordova, officiated. The young couple have the best wishes of a host of friends for a long and happy life. Two file in Fire. At Pittsburg, Pa., on Sunday two persons were killed and twelve others barely rescued from death during a flre, which destroyed a frame dwelling house occupied by three families of foreigners. T SUBS! Y?.' MURDER AND SU1C r THK TB1UUBIJ3 DEEDS OF A PROMINENT TEXAS FARMER. H? iUurdon HIh Wife, Sim and Daughter md Wouatk Nioco, Thu? Taket* lib Owa lite. A dispatch from Uallinger, Tex , saye F. 13. Kliu bier, a pro in incut farmer living in the northern part f thin oounty, killed kin wife, his six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, seriously weunded his niece, aged 2k, and ended his own 1 { f A ?i f vi Q nnoh a! tr n I fe ?? ,1 .? ? II W * a few moralnga ago. Kimbler had been ia bad health for a couple of months, but got up at the usual time that moralng and was assisting hlu wife ia making the tiros. lie stepped out aad secured a hatchet, ostensibly to cut kindling. Returning to the room where his wife was starting the ire, with the hatcliot in his baud, he said: "Wife, we have all got to go," and split her head open with one blow of the hatched. doing over to the bed, where the children were asleep, ho battered their brains out with the hatchet, and going to his niece's room, he struck her several blows on the head and arms. Ry this time a young man, a nephew of Kitnbler, was aroused and he and the badly wounded young woman made their escape. Returning to the room where his wife lay unconscious 011 the floor, Kimbler used a pocket knife to end his own life. Mrs. Kimbler and the baby lived for five or six hours, but the sixyear-old Ik)J was Instantly killed. The young woman is In a. serious condition and her recovery is doubtful. Kimbler has been living In that county for a number of years, was a successful farmer, a county officer In the Farmers' Union and was Intelligent and popular with his neighbors. WON'T "DESECRATE" HANG DAY. t C/\ li anuun ? I..^1l.vi-.rt,. l1- A jiMiioiin vn j u iiii^u r 1.1US !Nilnr" I <lay for Two Fiends. "I do not care to desecrate the < day by ordering these two brutes i hanged on the legal hanging day,' 1 said Judge Ralph S. Latshaw in the 1 criminal oourt at Kansas City, Mo., i In sentencing Goorge Reynolds and < John Williams, negroes, found gull- < ty of assaulting Mrs. W. F. Jack- s son. i They will be hanged Saturday, i February 5. "They do lot even deserve to be 1 classed with the murderer who must i pay the penalty of his crime with < his life," continued Judge Latshaw, i "for these murderers have at least 1 a spark of manhood in their hard- < ened souls." 1 The verdict of guilty was return- < ed after the jury had considered the case less than six minutes. i Other prisoners in the county jail < loudly approved the verdict, and be came so demonstrative that it was ; necessary to remove the negroes to another part of the building The two negro lawyers who defended s them refused to prepare an appeal for them. I SAFE GLOWERS AT WORK. Tliey Rob the l'ostolllce at Due West Friday Night. The Due West postofTlce was entered and robbed of Its valuables ] Friday night between 1 and 2 o'clock. The yeggmen obtained some 25,- i 000 one-cent stamps and 32,000 i two-cent stamps 111 addition to $194 i in cash, making a total loss to the ofllce of $1,090. The safo door was j blown to fragments, one of which tore a hole in the floor of the room < and rebounded against the wall, ] tearing off two or three pieces of < ceiling. This is the second loss this < ofllco has sustained of a like na- < turo within seven years. No traco of the safe-blowers has been obtain- i ed. i Ilagman I<euveH Fortune, ' Jeremiah Maynlhan, an aged rag- ? man, died Friday at St. Louis, apparently In destitute circumstances i and was to have been buried in the ' Potter's Field Sunday, but the public administrator found a key to a safe deposit vault in his effects. The safety box contained bonds worth j $60,000. Maynihan was 80 years old. Ho lived alone and, so far as ( known, had no relatives In this i country. Coldest in Years. Eighteen degrees below zero was ' recorded in Kansas Thursday, the lowest temperature In that part of i the Southwest In twelve years. An Intense cold wave covered Missouri, < Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. IRIBE Nil PURIED ALIVE lo a Tunnel He Was Digging so as He Cenld Rob a Bank aid Store. DIRT CAVED IN ON HIM Wm lied to Ooauttlt Mm (>im? by BtMlng Mortal Pictur* IU>bb?ry. Took Suppers am4 Miaera Hours to Fiad mbc! I'swrtli tha iMKiy oi Mi* noil(l-b? Thlttf. With thn recovery of hie body, after manj hours of hard digging by a gang of laborers, the New York police are certain that Isaac Flukoluteiu was killed by the oave-lu of a tunnel he was boring for the purpose of robbing the blast Side branch of the Fourteenth Street Hank and a nearby Jewelry store. Finkleetein, who wan a painter by trade, was last seen at his home in the tenement building at No. 53 Ludlow street, New York, Wednesday afternoon. About 4 o'clock he told his wife ho was going into the cellar to get some wood, and she never saw him alive agalu. Information given by Isador (larbus, brother of klrs. Fuiekleetein, convinced the police that Finekle stein, and probably others, had boen engaged in an attempt to tunnel under the bank, just around the corner of Grand street, and Zirlasky's jewelry store, on the corner of Grand and Ludlow. A force of men was put to work by Building Inspector Uevelle, and after only a few hours' work, a tunnel leading from the teneuVivt cellar and branching toward both the bank and Jewelry store was found. Following up the tunnel. Insneefor Kevell? and his men found that tho tunnel had caved In about twenty toot from the mouth, and thoy were convinced Finkelstein had been caught In the debris. Steady work Thursday and Friday proved their surmise correct the body being found late Friday afternoon. Finkelsteln's feet were first unearthed by the workmen, and it was many hours later bofore tho whole body was uncovered. The body was facing toward the mouth of the tunnel, and was pinned down by several heavy boards, which were oov ered by a mass of earth. The position of the body indicated that the man was on his way out of the tunnel when it caved in on him. Finkelstein evidently had no knowledge of tunnel building, the tunnel being planked up in a very irude way. His supports were not strong enough to hold up the earth when ho had bored as far as tho middle of Ludlow street, and the upper portion gave way suddenly, catching him like a rat in a trap. It 's neighborhood gossip that a moving picture show inspired Finkelstein with tho idea of burrowing. The Finkelstein fiat looks out over a row of low shanties, above which looms the wall of the hank with its $10,000,000 legend. Then, hy squinting in a northeasterly direction, Finkelstein could catch the glitter of Zirinsky's diamonds. The moving picture showmen on the Fast Side go in strong for bank robberies. Tunnelling under banks and blowing safes that contain boodles of gold are watched in breathless suspense by tho nickelodeon patrons, and then pnenrmi wen ?n abandon that testifies overwhelmingly to their popularity. Finkelstein knew nothing about tunnelling or tunnels, save what ho saw flashed on the canvas In the Grand street nickelodons and what vague information he could derivw from riding in the subway. He was a painter by trade, an easygoing phlegamatic fellow, and none too prosperous after he had lone feeding and clothing Mrs. Flnkalstein and the five little Finckel3telns. , Mrs. Finckelstein, through an in- ( terpreter, finally made a complete statement: "My husband wa? always away late at night, said she, ( 'and as he was a painter I had a suspicion that something was wrong. ( Last week I spoke to him about It, and he told me he was going to , rob a jewelry store. * Death From liable*. The actual number of deaths from rabies in this country during 1909 1 ! was 82, which while showing the1' iisease to be rare, is evidence that there is such a thing as hydraphobia. The medical profession has taken the disease seriously as do many of the live stock experts of the country, who know the great loss caused vy the disease among animals, hence preventive measures | are now being advocated by a number of the States and by officials of | tho united States government. | IW TO WHAT WE NEED [ DIVERSIFIED FARMING WILL MAKE THIS SECTION RICH. The South ('? C?npct? With the World Grow lag (bra, tuid We Should Grow It. While the general teadeaoy of i hnuai effort* ha* boom towards "epeolallxatlea," the cry of tkeee wko ka?e assumed the duty of adTlBiug ? W - M - * ? i.mm iaruiers or the South ha? been "dlvertdftoatieh," eays the Progressive Farmer, wklok goee 01 to give the following good edvlee on the subject of corn planting: F Unquestionably, It le advantageous p to specialize. The mam who make* cl shoe? only will learn to make bet- o ter shoes than he would If he made c] shcoe, harness, plows, wagens and ( ell th,e other things needed uad ' used by man. " It leoniR that this may be aeeept- n ed as a fact, and If it be, then there j, Is a limit to which the farmer will a And it advantageous to diversify. We r, are not one of those who l>ellev? f, that the farmer to be suceeesful must necessarily return to primitive r conditions and produce everything a If with a given amount of money ^ or effort we can make an ameunt of ^ cotton which, when sold, will buy H more corn than we cau make with t] the given amount of labor and mon c ey soil In the production of the y cotton, then does it pay to raise ^ corn? If this were all there is in the question of diversification and u crop rotation, common sens? would (,| plainly dictate that under such a r( condition It will not pay to grow M corn. jr Hut while a man may make eot- BJ ton to buy corn profitably one year, % be cannot do It for a term of years a for the simple reason that th? growIng of ono crop on the land Is not conducive to large yields. Again _ when the crop of corn is given the ti same attention In respect to its fi( requirements as cotton receives, corn will be as good a crop for the Southern farmer a* cotton. To make the best yields of cot- 0) twn unij require an good land an to make the beat yields of corn, but a (,j crop of cotton that will pay expenn- ' en, and a little more, may be made on land and with management whieh will not produce a paying crop of ()) corn. To grow corn profitably bet- _ r i ter land and more Intelligent man- j agement are roquirefi than are neeessary to grow cotton that will pay j(j a small profit over coat of produo- . tlon. g< llecauno of these facts, and the further fact that most Southern landn are too poor to produce cern profitably some Southern planters and most of our friends to the ** North, erroneously conclude that the ^ South Is not adapted to the growing ,p of corn. The only reason the South ^ is not adapted to the growing of corn?and just as well adapted to this crop as the so-called corn States j of Illinois, Iowa, Missouria, etc.? 111 are that we have not given enough attention to building up and mainc\ tnining the fertility of our lands ^ and that we do not apply the same ?r< agricultural knowledge to its production. j That there is nothing in our cli- ^ mate and nothing in our soil except . , lack of fertility?which may he easi- . ly supplied?to justify the statement that this section of the country is not well adapted to the growing of corn, is unmistakably shown all over the South, and frequently by rc school hoys. When school boys in T North Carolina, Alabama, Mississip a pi, and Louisiana make 125 to 150 a bushels of corn to the acre, and v< make It at a coat of from 15 to 01 25 cents a bushel, and when men gi make 226 2-3 bushels on an acre pi as Mr. Batts, of North Carolina, did ai this year, or 254 bushels on an acre ? as did Mr. Drake, of South Carolina, hi some years ago, It is absurd to state aj that this country is not as well adapt- pi ed to the growing of corn as any 11 other section. tti When we Improve our lands, as w we may easily do, and give that In- fa telligent attention to its production cc which corn demands, this will be a as corn-producing country, and until ve we do that, no crop will be produced profitably by the average man. it We do not advise the growing of to wheat, and some other food crops ca which we use, as money or sales th crops, nor do we advise growing th some of them at all unless the indl- e.\ vldual farmer first demonstrates to that ho can grow them cheaper than in he can buy them; but we do contend en that corn, meats, fruits, legumes, pi and many other' crops which we cr might mention, can be grown by the ai Southern farmer cheaper than any other people on earth can grow them in for him, and that, therefore, he at should grow these crops for his own tc use and for sale. I ci Even under present conditions it|g< THE HO DEFIES TA1T >inchot in the Anti-Ballinger Fight to the Bitter End. HE TALKS OUT PLAINLY a R|Me?h to 1YIh HubordlMtM, 1'|k>m ItolinquiHliiug lli.s I'mIUoi, Sajrn tii? of tUo People ll?Nt !!v looked After, u.,i nr>?. u ?u JiU?f HU.n I H? 1U Oifford Plmohot, who wa.s removed riday by Proeident Taft from hl? oeition um chief forestor, made it loar Saturday ia addresses to th? fBoara of the forest servlo? anil ttaa lerks of that org'.nidation that hi* attla with Secretary of the Interior ullingor and th? adininistration wad of ended. While smilingly deollnig to express any personal opinion bout his removal from office, he also efueed to discuss his plans for the nt are. Mr, Pinchot arrivwd at his ?ffioo | arly, in order to arrange his afTa'.ra nd withdraw as quickly as possible, i ? meeting; of tho officials who had een under him had already been rranged for 10:15 o'clock, and hre? quarters of an hour later the lerlcal force of the forest, service rrived in his office to nay goodye. In addressing the men with whom ? had been most intimately assolated, Mr. i'inc.hot declared he wantrl them to remember first that they nist never forget that "the ight 1 which you are engaged for the if? and decent handling of our timer lands Is infinitely larger than ny man's personal presence or per>nal fortunes. Cqntlnuing ho said. "This fight must go on, and you re the men who must carry it on. tay by tho work; hold fast to the anilardfl wo have set together, ever allow yourselves to forget lat you uro serving a much greater lastor than the department of agriilture or otpii the administration." In addressing tho clerks Mr. Plnlot commanded them to maintain mvice at the suine standard and to rese alone the name lines, and nev to forget they wero the servants f the people of the United tales, 'sponsible te them, aid to them one "I do not want yon to get the ea?and this is my personal end ' It?" he Huid, "that because I am jing out of the service I am In any ay losing my Interest in it or ly touch with It or you. Con'rvatlon Is my life work, in the nernment service or out of it. nd this is the most Important piece r conservation work. there la. herofore, I propose to know about , to follow tho work you are all oing, to keep my interest in it id, so far that is in any way poshle, to keep in touch with it aid y knowledge of it." None of tho officials would disiss the roal and hidden meaning of r. Pinchot's declarations. It was morally conceded, however, that ley breathed defiance, and were In in nature of an announcement that ie former chief forester regarded iniself still ns a guardian of "tho iterests of tho people." Knrth Swallows Hospital. An extraordinary accident occurh1 Saturday at Rnlbi, in Carinthla. he sudden subsidence of the site of disused mine completely enmilfod small hospital building. Not a ^stige of the hospital remains, and nly a huge cavity appeared in the round. Seven inmates of the hosItal, including Surgeon Wesseley id his family, perished. is been demonstrated, tlmo and ;ain, that the Southern farmer can oduco hogs at 3 to 4 cents a pound, ve weight, and make money on iem.. If this ho so, and it is, then hy should ho not rejoice at the ,ct that live hogs are selling at 8 snts a pound, and by growing hogs i a money crop reap a rich hariSt? Wo need diversification because is necessary, or at least conducive i increasing soil fertility, and beinso we can produce many of these lings cheaper than wo can buy iem. Wo do not need to grow 'erything we use, but wo do need i grow those things of which wo *o large quantities and which we in produce clieaner thnn rOhoi- ???_ c can produce for us. Of those ops wo stand pat on corn, moats, id fruits. Wo can compote with tho wor'd i the growing of these crops, and j long as wo buy them at from two > three times the cost at which wo in produce them, we are not using rod farming or business sense. j RRY HE GETS A BAD JOLT INSURGENTS WIN A VICTORY OVER OLD MAN CANNON. a . v Power Tukt'n From Hlui to Appoint lite Ilallioger Iurotttltfjitliig Com* JttAM From Houm*. la the house of repreeentatlTee Friday Hpoakor Caaaon loot his first fiflkt to tha "Ibhu rgan tH." who, combI las with tha Damacrata, oaaaad to be uaopiea an an?idm?at to the Hal' llugyr-IMuchot Inquiry resolution no a* ta take from the speaker thy pow r to appoiut kouM members of th? Joint special cnmmltu^ of ( larawtigatloii. Thy margin of ricj tory was a narrow oae of three votes, but tho insurgents and Democrats allka urn Jubilant. Thy dismissal of Piachot ban lyat fuel to the Hanae* of their celebration. and they i are venturing ail manner of prediction* a.4 to what is to happen In the j future. Throe Republican*, mot classed as insurgents, but who prolVsH their friendship for IMnchot, rotod with thy insurgent.* and Democrats for the amendment, which oalla for the selection of the house investigators 1>7 election from thy ioor. These two lacldeatH, at the capital and White House, kept Washington in a political ferment all day. Thy Cabinet was In special session during practically the entire afternoon, following the regular session of the morning. Secretary Ralllnger, cognizant of the action that was about to he taken remained away from the aftenoon sitting. It was ! at the end of this special session that, the president gave out the letter lie had written to Mr. IMnchot notifying him that his usefulness as a nubile servnnt nrwl*** uuvixyi ?? 10 |M touilb ad in inlst ration was at an end. Speaker Cannon received his "Jolt" In tho house of representatives In the vote on tho amendment offered by Representative Norrls, of Nebraska, tho insurgent loader, and the vote was 149 to 140, live voting "present." Ho unexpectedly was the victory accomplished that tho insurgents and their Democratic allies could scarcely believe their ears. For an instnnt almost complete silence reigned, then the storm broke, and for almost a full minute the nolso In tho chamber was deafening. After that tho Democrats, Jubilant that they had helped to pierce the hitherto impervious armor of tho speaker, seemed willing to abandon their light against the resolution itself, which all afternoon had appeared too broad to suit them, and all of thorn voted for it on a viva voco vote. Tho organization leaders mado no attempt to conceal their confusion. It developed that tho three regulars who voted for tho amendment were all staunch friends of Chief Forester PInchot, and that they had favored the election of members of the committee by the houso to insure an Impartial jury to try what Is popularly known as the Pinehot-Rellinger caso. They were Representatives Ames, of Massachusetts, and Fish and Parsons of New York. lias tho !<n/.y Rug. Consternation prevails among 100 students of Tulane college,'at New rwisv** i wnuaiM, lunowing tno examination of every student for hookworm. It is now announced that a third of the members of the class were found to be infected with the paraslto. Practically all students thus affected apparently are robust specimens of manhood. Hticks to His Party. President Taft Thursday broke another record by naming two District Commissioners, Cuno H. Rudolph and John A. Johnson, both Republicans. Heretofore It has been the Invariable custom to name one Domocrat and one Republican, the third being an army ofllcer, not supposed to have any politics. This Is the office Taft tried to give Mr. J. J. Hemphill. General Diaz Drowned. General Pedro Forno Diaz, who started for Managua Saturday to treat for peace with President Maoriz, of Nicaragua, met a tragic end on tho Greytown bar that night. The canoo in which ho was attempting to make a landing was caught by a gigantic wave and broke amidships and Diaz disappeared from view In tho sea. Killed by Robbers. At Ypsllanti, Mich., a baggage man at the Michigan Central depot was killed In a flght with robbers. One of the robbers was taken to a hospital badly wounded. Two others escaped, one being wounded. BALD