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• i "mm fm^^mmmm THE 17AKE SHORE HfiWS, tWIRSDAY; DBCBMBElTtrri912. AT THE EVANSTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ,jrteen Men Were Indicted in Mew York City Tuesday For Fraudulent Selling of Rare Books. ANY ARE CAUGHT The grand jury in New York City 0Sday indicted thirteen men of charge of having conducted a udulent "edition de luxe" book ueme, through which many wealthy rsons throughout the country have en mulcted of $5,000,000 since 1907. Mrs. Amanda L. Patten, wife of .roes A. Patten, was one of the vic- l,n8 who lost $22,700. The men indicted are: James J. 'armer, Glenn Farmer, his son, mem- rs of the Keller-Farmer Book com- ny; "Colonel" William Hartley, illiam H. Scott and eight other lealers in "rare" books. The men are charged with making business of selling "fake" rare edl- ions. Mrs. Patten was swindled in Au- gust and September, 1907, by an agent If the band, who later turned state's ividence and was released. William 4. Cooper, one of the two men under ndictment in the affair, was acquit- ed by a jury in Judge McSurely's ourt. The other, Samuel T. Warfleld, as found guilty and sentenced to two ears in prison and a fine of $2,000. lis case is pending before the su- ireme court of Illinois, where it had teen appealed. Victims and Amounts. Other victims and the amounts ere: Alexander Sellers, Philadelphia, 100,000. Mrs. Pauline B. Durand, Boston, ife of the founder of Wellesley col- lege, $100,000. A Mr. Moore, Greensburg, Pa., $150,- bon. A woman past 80 years and noted or her charities, whose name United tales Attorney Wise declines to di ulge, $130,000. Clinton S. Martin, New York, $8.5>00 Jesse WaiBon, New York, $0,600. (Jlenn Farmer, Hartley and Scott ere arraigned before United States oumiissioner Shields and released i>on bail. Farmer giving $5,000 and artiey and Scott, who were merely talesmen, giving $2,5u0. J- J- Fa* er has been under $3,500 bail since <ov 14, the day on which Miss Bird ecovered her verdict. Warrants have >een sworn to for the others. All are mder surveilance, it is said. Chief Postal Inspector Warren W Dickson, who worked up the evidence 'or the case against the book dealers, s authority for the statement that the kindles will total $5,000,000. The federal government has been Budeavoring to make a case against he dealers for nearly four years, or ilmost since they began operations. The way was opened when Mrs. Emma ^ird of Salt Lake City sued two weeks tgo and got a verdict for the recovery Df $42,000 she had paid the Kellar 'armer company for a de luxe edition >f Col. Roosevelt's books. Roosevelt Book Sold. Jiic company is alleged to have .acticed fraud In various guises. The Roosevelt de luxe edition was a twenty-two volume set that sold for |300 a volume, and each volume was upposed to contain an autographed letter by Col. Roosevelt. Another "trick of the trade" was to sell an incomplete set of rare books it fairly reasonable prices and then to send another agent back to the buyer later with a story that an Amer- ican millionaire living abroad would ?ay $15,000 for the complete set, and that the agent had located the missing rolumes of the set in a private library in another city. The agent would ex- plain that these missing books could probably be bought for a few thou- sand dollars, yielding a net profit to he owner of the nearly completed ^t This usually worked. Guides to grand opera, 19121913: Annesley--"Standard Opera Glass." 1904. 782.1 An7. Carlton--"Operas; Their Writers and Their Plots." 1882. 782.1 C21. Davidson -- "Stories from the Operas." 782.1 D28. .Guerber -- "Stories of Famous Operas." 1897. 782.1 G93. Guerber--"Stories of Popular Operas." 782.1 G931. Guerber--"Stories of the Wagner Operas." 1895. 782.2 G93. Hall--"The Wagnerian Romances." 1907. 782.2 H14. Krehbiel--"A Book of Operas." 1909. 782 K871. McSpadden -- "Opera Synopses." 1911. c782 M 24. Melitz--"The Opera Goer's Com- plete Guide." 1908. c782 M 48. Melitz--"The Opera Goer's Com- plete Guide." 1911. c782 M 481. Singleton--"G u i d e to Modern Opera." 1909. 782 Si61. Singleton--"Guide to the Operas." 1899. 782.1 Si6. Upton--"Standard Light Operas." 1902. 782.1 Up 81. Upton--"Standard Operas." 1906. 782.1 Up 82. The library also contains scores and librettos of almost all of the operas to be given this season. NEWS WANT ADS BRING RE8ULT8 SANITARY DISTRICT WANTS SETTLEMENT That the sanitary district officials are anxious to secure quick action in the Appellate court in the case now pending was proven Friday when the hearing was taken place. In the course of his argument Mr. John C. Williams, counsel for the sanitary dis- trict, said: "Counsel for appellant seem to have the impression that this work is for the benefit of the city of Evanston. This does not appear to be true Whether or not the city of Evanston will derive any benefit from the con- struction of this outlet and conduit to convey its sewage into the North Shore channel of the sanitary district is of no moment and should receive no con- sideration by this court. The object to be obtained, according to the Judg incut of the board of trustees of the sanitary district is to prevent the pol lution aud contamiuatiou of the wa ters of Lake Michigan. TUeso waters form the water supply, uot only of the city of Evanston, but of the whole of said district; and whether Evanston. as a municipality, benefits from the construction or not makes no differ ence in determining the question as to the power of the sanitary district to perform the work. For illustra tion: Suppose that the city of Evans- ton should deem it advisable to con struct a filtration plant (and this is. in fact, now contemplated), and that such filtration plant would be effec tive to the extent of purifying the water taken from l>ake Michigan to be used by the city of Evanston. In such a case the city of Evanston might properly take the position that it would not be Justified in expending $400,000 or $500,000 for the purpose of preventing the discharge of its sewage into Lake Michigan so long as that sewage did not endanger the health of tho people of Evanston. Would the sanitary district, and the vast population Included therein, then be helpless and Impotent and unable to prevent the contamination of the water supply of the villages of Wll- mette, Gross Point, Kenilworth, Win netka and Glencoe, on the north, and Rogers Park, Lake View and other portions of the city of Chicago on the south? The answer is too obvious to require argument" GOAL MINED BY Classified Business List ES Great Increase in Past Fefw Years of Machine Mining of Coal,According toGovern- ment Report. REPORTS ENCOURAGING an lie- How Empress Punished. •The first person I saw punished in the palace at Peking was a servant girl- she had made a mistake about her'majesty's socks and had brought two which were not mates. Her maj- esty finding that ©ut, ordered another tervant girl to slap her face ten times on each cheek. This girl did not slap bard enough so her majesty told the one who had been slapped to slap the other. I thought that was too funny for anything and wanted to laugh the worst way, but did not dare."-Two Tears in the Forbidden City, by the princess Der Ling. As an indication of the improvement in coal-mining methods the statement contained in the report on coal, by E. W. Parker, now being printed by tjhe United States geological survey as advance chapter from "Mineral sources for 1911," is of interest. The number of maehines used in mining coal in 1911 was 13,819, an In- crease of 565 over 1910. The leading coal-producing state, Pennsylvania, is also first in the total tonnage mined by the use of machines and in the total number of machines in use; tut in the proportion of machine-mined coal to the total output Ohio far out- ranks all other states. In 1911 Penn- sylvania's production of machine- mined coal was 69,131,923 short tons, or 47.7G per cent of the total. Ohio's production of machine-mined coal wjas 2G,556,G30 short tons, or 86.33 Pjer cent of the total. Ohio is third in the production of machine-mined coal, though ranking fourth in the total pro- duction. West Virginia, the second state in coal production, is also sec- ond in the output of machine-mined coal, which in 1911 was 29,121,4180 short tons, or 48.67 per cent of the total. Illinois is fourth in the quan- tity of machine-mined coal, with 2|3,- 093,807 short tons. i Decreased in 1910. Although the total production 'of bituminous coal in the United States decreased from 417,111,142 short tofes ! in 1910 to 405,757,101 short tons in 1911, the quantity of coal undercut or otherwise mined by the use of ma- chines increased from 174,012,293 short tons to 177,971,976 tons. The percent- age of the machine-mined tonnage to the total output increased from 41.74 in 1910 to 43 89 in 19H Thf progress made in recent years ,„ the: substitution or mechanical inched* in the niiniuB o£ bituminous coal has oeeii one of the most interest- ing developments in the history of the industry. It has been stated by those who are familiar with bituminous coal mining in the United States that the mines at present developed are capa- ble of producing, with a plentiful sup- ply of labor and ample transportation facilities, from 50 to 75 per cent more than the high record of 1911 and even higher record of 1910 It is probably not an exaggeration to state that the bituminous mines of the United States could produce from 600,000,000 to 700,- 000,000 short tons of coal without opening another new mine. In order to meet this condition, aud also to meet the general tendency to- ward increased cost of labor, operators have been impelled to the utilization of labor saving and expense-reducing machinery. Greater Human Safety Secured. In addition to the lessening of the mining cost, however, there are two other aims to be accomplished by the use of mining machines. The under- cutting of coal by hand is one of the most exacting kinds of labor, and the use of machinery materially reduces the arduous tasks of the laborer. More important than this, however, it is Mr Parkers belief, is the greater safety secured through reducing the practice, too prevalent in many min- ing districts, of "shooting from the solid." This practice can not be too strongly condemned, for it increases the liability to accident and is con- trary to the principle of conserva- tion in that it produces a consider- able quantity of undesirable or unmar- ketable fuel. _i-----------------■--------------- PATTERSON BROS. On theirJeasy payment plan find that pcmsficc fifteen Yesls^Chlckejfng & Sons ,"en Yetr»,fW) wmmbtll Co. R«*idenc9tf07 Elmwood A vs. Telephone 767 Evanston. Ill l Resident Tuner for W. W. Kimball Co. DY PLANTS mial Garden Phone 1106 818 Noyes St. t /Private 4xLmn£\nO Wfeunday DIM*- a Bpdblalty, Phone 1110. 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