T0 BE THE BIGGEST
Secretary Meyer Outlines An
Ambitious Plan,
| n ITY { nit
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE IS WILLING.
It Would Place The
In Possession Of A Monster Fight.
ing Machine That Would Put
The Present Dreadnoughts Of The
World In The Shade -— To Be
Bquipped With 14.Inch Guns —
The Naval Program,
{
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11). ~The
record-breaking
D
Ww
£.
1
Washington,
building of a
battleship of no
at a
218.000 00
¥ ed
orl
han 32,000 tons
of
the
i
t
at
i 8
approxi-
making
displacemen
mately
of the United
al
i}. and
ne leading nave
ol
i
power of the worl
Nay
at »
have told
Naval
1
pian a
are planned by
Mever
Meyer is
mberas of
of ths
wh
Seeretary
This
said to
the House
ultimate
Congress
The
ed tha
dor
ably
At
¥
was tary
"mh
Commitee
©
next year
ommittee stat-
il ‘i £
‘s radical plans
were
¥
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1
]
receive
the
the
the
the 1
He said
nava
even
and
with
Navy.
pose that
not follow
rg his plans
that it was
ed States
in wake
nation in nav: aiva
that in essential
take the lead,
refer in this
naval strength
or armament, but
of improve:
shipe and
Big 1
Bidl
the 14¢
Of any
n
1
omen t
particulars it
"he
a
Secretar
particularly t
number of
various featur
1 offels
ia Hit
re i 3
to
F 4 nes
11 y
guns
d.inch Gun
The attiesl
retary Me
to build w
«hy h
whit
United Sta
»lannin f¢
giant Drea«
is planned
ship with
inch guns
The
the en!
of the
committee
made
gre;
and he
°
»
ii
Om
cif
prov!
The
marires Pai
year i ably
Pacific Coast ¢
tion, which told
week agn of the
lesa
against fore
strongly to
submarine
spon.
cC
oast
¥
considered
onal
omm
11
iy
was yO
nEre
the
{ ite
r def
Western
-of-war,
members,
practica
t
¥ *
mer
1
of
ecnais'on ne
i
+ By
flee
i Mts
and 1
ae
o
t has been
74 ESCAPE FROM MINE,
However, Cause
Death,
Explosion May,
One Man'
Central Ci K 1p
it! f
explosion of gr 16 of
Iron Mountain
miles from this
Ir burned Warre:
but 74 men, who,
prised the day
slight bruises,
The men went underground at the
usual hour and were
their rooms, when Gibbs, who
leading the way with, it is said. an
uncovered lamp, hit a pocket of gas
An explosion followed in which Gibbs
was fearfully burned,
retreated hastily,
way into the
their comrade
Meantime the
mine caught fire,
aged to the
The mine is ati
C Company, 3
lace, probably fatal.
Gibbs, a
with Gibbs,
shift, escaped with
but forced
workings and rescued
woodwork In the
but the men man-
surface in safety
itThRing
reach
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GEORGIA DENTIST ACCUSED.
Had Bad 810 Coins And Is Held As
Counterfetior
Valdosta, i
Dodge,
orderod
Special)
Nichols,
+ ¥
bond
J. R
was
$4,000
+8
fentias
held
on charges implicating
LTS neg scheme
hearing before United
misgjoner Powell
ficd that Dodge had on him when
arrested, ten spurious $10 coins.
Dr. E. EB. Dodge, a brother, and
algo a dentist, was arrested, but the
warrant against him was dismissed
a Of Gia
u ’
under
0
foil
States
here, it was
Come
testis
FOR FARMING IN PALESTINE.
dewish Agricultural Experiment
Station Incorporated,
Albany, N.Y. (Special), The
Jewish Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion, with principal offices in New
York was incorporated to establish
and support agricultural experiment
stations in Palestine and other coun-
tries,
It 1a also to promote the advance
ment of agrienltare in arld regions
wie
throughout the world
THE JAPANESE ARE
AGAIN AGITATED
¥
t
MURDERED THE
Chinese Soldiers
Monasteries.
THE DALAI LAMA
Chinese Military
Ordered 2.5
Where
Reports From America Cause
Gloomy Feeling.
i
Secretary
That
Arguing
However,
Mr, Shaw Was Simply
For Ship Subsidy And
General Bill For Increased Appros
riations For The Army-—Not The
Slightest Likelihood Of Any Trou.
ble With Japan,
Knox, Explains
Commander
00 Troops Into Lhesa,
The Lama's Followers
rolled As The “Golden Soldiers
Tried To Oppose Them, But Were
Shot Down Without Mercy—The
Flight Of Dalai Lama.
Darjiling, British dia
The circumstances surrounding the
flight from Lhasa of the now
posed Dalai Lama, the nominal
the Tibetan i,
follows:
The
vide
{Spal
ial)
newspapers
I'okio, Special Yy
: I
atch to ti fr
ie
S
a recrudescene
at
tates report
d
!
the anti-Japanese movement
the
San 1 ol governmen
an il
Fras of
featur
isco
tha
{ e th
pers
Shaw
: speech
ry of
ves y 4 gs
reporte
0
i 4
i following
d at Lh:
ithority |
Dalal Lama,
wanderings, arr
h
fOrn« ta
¥
h
th
ive
i
(
rr K¢
’ . i
ich he i hav-
he United | p,
iney
{ {
is
1at war |!
1d Japan
ch has Calls
ression among Japane
like, The
ral J,
that
Was
18 %
i, cember
,
. wit r
etween t }
t ike over zo
rs (tani y
wi Laie
A
a
18
slong
3 most gloomy !
and fo
specials quote
Franklin Bell
war between
likely to 1
The
to
violen
i
ge I~
{
i
4
:
a
Ger
said
Te
niri
{ Major
I
i
{ having
the |
\WO
8 Ireax
1oment
ahi me
Maid i
il
Hn
I
irc
NEW TRIUMPH FOR EDISCN
Storage-battery Cars Cross The Oi
Of New York.
cal
the
d
age battery in pract
traveled f
horse
in
Cars
pli
back
Is
Twenty-ninth
subs an
mad £
Far East
ordinars
Manhattan land
and
on
ar gireels
ar
t had been known
Mr. Edison,
endeavor, bad perfe«
proved storage battery
car this public trial] was
demonstration that his
could make money in he
{ only proved that a street car company
using the new car could make money, |
| but more money than it could make
i with horse carg or trolley cars, !
A! Thus was sounded in New York
{ the doom of the horse car, and, per-}
haps, the doom of the trolley car
The horse car will be abandoned by
the Twenty-eighth and wenty-ninth
street lines, and within three months
i they will have in operation the Ell
son storage-battery cars
i
that
of
es ¢
v
»
the
Wor
i after
ts
y F'ri
that
¥
San
knows ¢ n
fapan
tor] If,
11 talk
1
ir
ment wi tu
Hse,
¥ fa
agitators
wv
g
gaf V i 1
i invention
no fact, not
AN ODD DEATH NOTICE
That
Broken
Wife Died
Heart,
Declares of
“Jenks
bro-
New York,
On Sunday, February a
heart, May, unbeloved wife
Thomas* Jenks."
Miss Ida May Jenks ‘in compli-|
ance with her mother's wish, today!
the above death notice in|
the local newspapers :
Mrs, Jenks and her husband sep-
arated several yearg ago, and it was
the Jdying woman's wish that her
husband be not peérmitted to look
upon her face after death.
{ Special)
20, of
! ken of
i
DISHONEST FOR MOTHER'S
SAKE.
The Court Had Mercy, But Youth
Commits Suicide,
Eaton, Ohio (Special)
he had used money obtained hy
ing a worthless check pay
rent and buy fuel for his mother,
Gall Crouse, 18 years old, had Leen
released by the court probation,
but he closed suspension of sentence
by suicide
Crouse passed the check at a hotel
Richmond, Ind., and was arrested
told his companions that he felt
he had been disgraced forever, He
drank four ounces of chloroform and
died
|
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Because
cash.
to house
ALASKA'S HIDDEN WEALTH
Washington, D. CC. .-<(Special)
{ A graphic picture of Alaska with her
{ millians in gold lying hidden beneath
hundreds of feet of frozen earth was
drawn b Delegate Ja Wicker
Ja
sham n a statement the
House Committee on Ter in
support of a bill for the rivision of
the He told
Alaskan mining laws
of of the ploneer prospector
the luc)
hia pathetic failures the
on
¥
1
commiiting
¥
mes
be ore
rritories
at
He
w
and of
crudeness and the inadequacy of the
mining laws in that territory and of
| the frequent resort to the rifle an
| pistol, even the occasional summary rattled and
punishment of violaters by the!gousos shook enongh to awaken
rougher code of the* hangman's pearly all the inhabitants. No dame
To Lay Another Cable.
noose. Joes in 1poried
New York (Bpecial). George a. | Paulban's Flights Stopped,
Ward, vice president and general! Oklahoma City, Okla, (Special).
manager of the Commercial Cable |Louls Paulhan, aviator, who was un-
| Company, announced that, in view (der contract to make aeroplane
|ot the public demand for increased | ignes in Oklahoma City, received
tras h “, BF #heed of la telegram saying that the Wright
tranamigsicn, the Commercial Cable
Company wll proceed at once to ‘ay | Brothers had procured an injunction
an additional trans-Altantic (able. in the federal court in New York
preventing Paunlhan from making fur.
| This will be the sixth cable which the
| Commerelal Cable Company will own ther exhibitions. Paulhan sald he
would make no more flights until
{between Europe and Ameriea, and
the ease was cleared up.
Earthquake Shocks In Nebraska,
Columbus, Neb. (Special) Two
earthquake shocks occurred here at
2 AM. Windows were
i
i
|
i
1
| will greatly accelerate the trans-At-
ilantie enable service,
|
pi WASH NGI
ELEGRAPH
SAYS SHE FELL
OFF THE
Seyler’s Story of the Death of
Jane Adams. ary
Adm
tired
§
He Denies That He Attempted To y
Assault The Girl, But Does Not Ex.
plain What Caused Her To Try
To Get Away From Him And Back
Over The Railing Of The
The Man Held For Trial
Police Investigating.
re
|
fs
sana,
as
Pierre
’
4
Atlantic City
{Jane Adams
|
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|
wa
morning
| over
1
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BWHY
pler
110 Feet On Skis,
810,000 OR DEATH, Jumps
Threatening Received Dy
Tres
Letter
(Ohio Connty Sure,
£)
' n
Hall.
Mrs
Memorial
Henry
r
jo
05 §
NEW APPENDIX RECORD HELD.
As
The
Seven Inches,
p
which
Pennsylvania Leads List At
£1
petit
worll's
miform
winner
The standing is now as follows
First Edwin Ross, of Sharon
inches
Second-—Howard Gould.
throp, Maes., 6% inches
Third Rous,
Yale athlete inches
Dre. O'Brien, Reed and Ker
fe ] of them to
from Ross at
we liove that i
1 ¢
stand for quit
iaron, a. (Special) The com-
h recently developed for
the |
dis
on r
f
records ength of promis«
d
in
; » § AUS
appendices lose a new :
Seventeen Prisioners Escape,
Hot Ark
} want ranc
i
Win-
v
rs Pa. | Pprings,
©
of
George a
it vo three
the
H
Killed 19 in 30 Years,
Cal
of the
and killed a
Albert Phi
engineer,
service had
and
death in
iil kt A
on 1 ial)
¥
ft where
spot
*”
he
Christm
Southern
during aD
run over and
one woman Wars
A colligion
Father Of & yards
Ne { Special) 1
the American fathe
said Deniel Bulger, of Fivshing, 1. 1
B he is the father of
His claim is based on the!
hat whereas Darling has father.
ed children, he has been married
twice, while Mr. Mr. Bulger has been |
married but once, “My fatherhood! Germany's first
has kee; poor in this world's |g,scossfully unde
goods,” said Bulger, “but I do not (set which was highly
that Every one knows that| cai officers All her
children are an expensive luxury, and | od small. were fired sit
| therefore 1 may be called rich in-|y un battle ammunition
$end **
slightest damage to any
tings or installations
The
York
champion
ave
Ev
Pacific
Years
killed
crushed
r an
a
5
32,
2 |
} : :
u \ who
©
of
Te oH ik
i 3
chil
fact
nen
fo
or Says
fen
y
Dreadnought,
The
Dreadnought,
re
Germany's First
Berlin { Special)
“
NABSUSA,
has
» Ine
one a severe
gratifying to
EK Inara
nultaneously
without the
of her fit.
regret a
“as
Shoots Wrong Man.
Tex { Special) Charles
renks shot and killed Josie Dono
| fataliy wonnded Roy ‘Anderson
iand Lulu Holt and then killed him-
lgelf in a rooming house. Franks
entered the bullding and saw An-
jderaon talking to the Holt woman,
and mistaking him for another man,
opened fire,
Wi
co
Choir Singer Drops Dead.
New York (Special). Mrs
Waldron, wife of the president
the New Brunswick (N. J) iron
Foundry Company, dropped
while singing in the choir at the
fecond Reformed Church, of that
place. Heart disease was probably
the cause.
Two Killed in Wreck.
Denver, Colo. — (8pecial)
persons were killed, two
fatally injured, and twenty
hurt in a collision of a Union Pacifle
passenger train and a street ear in
Denver. The locomotive of the pas-
genger train, which was running at
high speed, struck the front of the
street car, hurling the car across the
tracks. The moterman and a woman
passenger were killed. It is feared
» nomber of the Injured may dis
of
and
dead
Germany Wars On Oil Trost,
New York (Bpecial) German con.
gumers have opened war on the meth.
oda of the Standard Oil Company, ac
cording to Dr. Paul Bchwartz, who
arrived In New York from Germany,
He comes to this country to investi.
gate the independent supply of oil,
with the view of reporting to the
German government the advisability
of establishing Government monopoly
in the oll business to erush out the
Frandard. He will visit oll producers
in Texas, Mexico and elsewhere in
{hin snnniry
Two
periiaps
INDICTMENTS PASSED.
AGAINST BEEF BARONS
| Iwenty-Seven Big Corporations
in the Grip of the Law,
{
| MANY MILLIONAIRES 10 ANSWER,
| Nationa)
The
And
Packing Company,
Swifts, Armours,
Must
Parkers
Morrises
Stand Triake-
Liable To Fine
And Imprisonment—Compelied To
(x0 Before (1
OD — Fits t
Of
Hammonds
Wealthy
Jury Oppose Extras
Centers On Control
And Poultry Supply
Through Cold Storage Plants Near
New York,
Beef
150,000,00¢
nr {
Paegk- |
mpanics
Lonal
$2,600,000
1,750,880
250,000
200.800 ;
|
!
3
i600. 800
16.000
06.0090
08,000
ek
H9,600
he
@
>
2
106 0046
336,000
I ——— —————
508.000
Indwiment
ralee prfoos
to the pu Tir
als and di
Packing Oom.
Bee! Truet
i Swayze,
PH ,
am
iy ka In-
X great pask
packers, seve
ilres, social-
prominent, were
Hudsor
coREpIY
1
ni
in
ed with
under the
provides
im penalty
ilentiary or
I'he ofon
means (hat
barons of
ncoeegfaully
to
1
Jersey
prosacuier of
cod that he
the dofend
and would
adition in each
the individog?
to face rin
says, will be
ii
iy
ent
and
COnec«
voluntarily,
spared
T
follows:
Corporati
The National
Armour & Co.
Swift & C
Morris & Co
Hammond Pac
GG H Hamn
Individuals
J. Ogden
A. Wats
Louis F
¥
edward
or
-
roe
defo
i
he
as named, are ds
ns:
baad
Pa
k
Company.
EK
oO
3
sil
ond
-
ig
&
Company
Co
Armour
Swift
Charles
Edward
ira N
Arthur
Edward T
A. Carton
E. Wilson
I {
A Fowler
H. Heyman
E. Bathgate, Jr.
George J Edwards,
Fred’ B. Cooper
D. E. Hartwell
Henry 1. Darlington
A A Fuller
Lemuel C. Patterson
il indictment, which Wistics fn
fle arraignment of the men names
refers to “"diveryg others” ag be
responsible These latter, how-
ever, are not specified The foros.
ing list of names, it will Lo som,
represents the very backbone of fhe
great packing industry of this eogs-
try. containing. as it does, two Te
mors, three Swifts, and two Mor
i rises all for mosl par’ residents
of Chicago. together with long fh
| portant figures in the packing wort!
Onnors
las
y
K
{also
ing
the
830,000 For Thaw's Creditors
Pittebure The first ans
{ partial account Rorcr O'Mara.
| trustee in bankruptey for Harry
| Kendall Thaw, was filled wlth Ref.
erec Blair After all 4tvmas of ex.
pense dre deducted Mr. O'Marm stotes
that $30,000 remains for digiribution
fo Thaw's creditors. A meoting of
creditors will be held hore March 3
{ Special)
of
Mrs, Cyras 1
{ Philadelphia,
| Mrs. Cyrus H
. K, Corti Dear
Pa (Rpeoal)
K. Curtis, wife of the
{ head of the Curtiz Publishirz Com.
| pany and the first editor of fhe
Ladies’ Home Journal, died at hes
home, in Wyncote, a snburdh, Dents
{ wag due to heart discase Shoe was
| 58 years of age. Mrs Curtis heeame
editor of the Ladies’ Home Jouwrns:
when that publication was started is
1883. She retired from odors
ahin aly vyaars later, the