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4 XXIK aiOKill UKKUO-YIAX. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1907. COURTS ON TWO CONFLICT CENT LI Federal and State Judges in Missouri Issue Contra dictory Orders. RAILROADS IN A QUANDARY iVndge McPherson Forbids Enforce ment. State Court Orders Obedl ence and Everybody Is En-. Joined From Any Action. KANSAS CITY, Juno . 14. SpecUl.) The conflict -between the State and Fed eral Court that arose here today over the enforcement of the Missouri maxi mum freight and 2-eent fare action which went Into effect at midnight last night, caused great confusion, and the end Is not yet In sight. While Judge McPherson was In the United States District Court awaiting the arrival of the attorneys for the prin cipal railroads or .Missouri, who bad brought a joint suit asking him to enjoin the enforcement of those new laws, the attorneys were holding a conference over a new turn in affairs. During the morn ing the 6tate Circuit courts, both In Kan sas City and St. Louis, had upon peti tion of Attorney-General Hadley, Issued Injunctions against the railroads, com pelling them to obey the laws. The suits were filed In Kansas City by John C, Kennlsh, Assistant Attorney-General, and In St. Louis by Mr. Hadley. Forbids Obedience to Law. When the railroad attorneys finally came into the Federal Court, the suit was postponed by Judge McPherson until tomorrow. The railroad attorneys urged a postponement of the case for 10 days or two weeks, but Judge McPherson re fused. Yesterday the Judge had Issued an or der, upon request of the railroads, re straining the complainants from putting into effect and complying with the laws. and today, when the complication of the Circuit Court's action arose, he con tinued his order in effect. This, the court said, he did. as "great harm might be done and much confusion arise if the status quo should be changed." Railroads in Confusion. Much confusion did result during the day in the minds of the railway agents as to what rates they - should charge, and among the railway counsel as to what court had the proper Jurisdiction, and which ajbuld be respected. The railways ultimately respected the order of Judge McPherson and did nqt comply with tne new laws. Mr. Kennlsh declared that the Injunc tion asked by 'the' railroads was most remarkable. "The railroads," said he, "ask the court to enjoin the roads from putting into effect the new law. The state will hold that because of this fact, the state and Its people are not enjoined by the Federal Court and that the State Court has Ju Mr. Hadley is expected here tomorrow to argue the state s side. State Court Sustains Law. 8T. LOUIS. June 14. Attorney-General Hadley today filed a petition here, simul taneously with similar action in Kansas City and secured injunctions against 18 of the principal Missouri railroads, com pelling them to obey the 2-eent rate law and maximum freight rate law now in effect. WILL CANCEL CANAL BONDS Cortelyou Will Reduce Surplus and AVI 11 Issue Ko More. WASHINGTON, June 14. There Is no lopger any doubt as to Secretary Cortel you's Intention with respect to the Issue of Panama bonds. After giving the question much thought, he has definitely decided, and so announced today, that there is at present no necessity for such Issue. The matter therefore may be regarded as settled for at least several months, and possibly for a much longer time. The $36,000,000 4-per-cent bonds which will mature July 2 next will be re deemed in full on and after that date, the J30.000.000 Government deposits which were called from the National Depository banks last Wednesday being used for that purpose. OFFER TO PAY 50 CENTS 6an l'riincisco Claims to Be Settled on Cheap Basis. CHICAGO, .Tune 14. M. Sydney Van Wyck, Jr., who Is in Chicago repre senting the interests of the 1900 pol icyholders of San Francisco . In the German Insurance Company, of Free port. 111., today succeeded in having the objections to several hundrod of the claims removed by stipulation. The Insurance company Is now In the hands of a receiver on account of the big losses Buffered in the pan Francisco earthquake. The objection to the payment of the 1900 claims was made by Adolph Loeb & Pons, of Chicago, and according to Mr. Van Wyck, all of these objections will be waived and a ettlement will be made with the pol icyholders on the probable basis of 50 cents on the dollar. Head-on Collision in Texas. EI, PASO, Tex., June 4. A head-on collision on the Southern Pacific, be tween the eastbound Sunset Kxpress and the westbound Golden Gate Limit ed, east of Dcming, 85 miles west of here, at 10:30 o'rlock tonight, is re ported. Both engines were badly dam aged and turned over, and nearly all the passengers were shaken and bruised, but no one was killed, and none seriously injured. Engineer Wilcox was badly hurt. The accident was caused by an open switch while the limited was standing on the siding. Both passenger engines and a freight engine standing on a nearby track were demolished. - Calendar for Remembrance. Tit Bits. By committing to memory the follow ing lines one Is provided with an easy method of stating offhand the day of the week of any date in the present year: Jelly of my apples made, I Joyful ate; Slcklsh often: no delight! The number of letters In each word represents the date of the first Saturday In the particular month to which It cor responds. Thus "jelly." representing Jan uary, has five letters, so the first Satur day In January Is the 5th of that month; "of." representing February, has two let ters, so the first Saturday la February Is the 2d of the -month, and so on through all the 13 months. Each word of the 12. excepting "or' and "I," has Its first letter the same as the month it represents, thus "Jelly" be gins with "J" because January begins with "J," "my" begins with "m" because March begins with "M." and so on. all NEW YORK RABBLES. Southern View of Their Dissimilar ity to Dixieland. Mobs. Louisville Courier-Journal. As a rule the New York mob may be described as a large body of excited persons unable to screw their courage to the sticking point. A woman is in sulted in a streetcar perhaps struck in the face by a negro a mob Immediately forms. In its proportions it Is vast, and in Its Intentions bloody. It Is dispersed by a "policeman who arrived upon the scene Just in time, and bravely beat back a surging mass of men and boys who had been crying "lynch tne nigger, and would doubtless have strung him up to the nearest telegraph pole. A -baby is crushed by a truck. A mob forms to kill the driver Just as If he had drawn a bead upon the baby at the other end of the block and killed it as he would a mad dog and heaps curses upon him in angry and excited tones until two policemen come up and re store order. The near-lynchlngs in New York are as the sands .of the sea, and the near mob Is more terrible than an army with banners until a "copper" with the might of Cyrano and D'Artagnan combined with the modesty of a stevedore calmly pushes the Infuriated populace out of the way, and calls an ambulance. As a rule the New York mob may be counted upon as going on record against bru tality -rather than to commit any act of violence and that is fortunate In any civilised community. But a mob with more courage and less sense than the average New York mob committed an atrocious crime when it almost killed a motorman because his car ran over a boy. The car was coming down Franklyn avenue, Brooklyn, when a boy ran in front of it. The motorman apparently had no time in which to stop it. The boy's head was severed. If a skyscraper had fallen upon him It would have been as logical to mob the Janitor as it was to drag the motorman off his platform and beat him into Insensibility. Mobs in the South have committed many inexcusable murders, but the "hot blood of the South" stirs in the veins of men who have at least some sense of Justice. Many negroes and a few white men have been lynched when the law should have been allowed to take its course, but victims of mob vengeance are almost always' criminals who rlcjily deserve the infliction of the death pen alty, and the crime of the lynchers is not of murdering an innocent victim of popular rage, but that of killing by law less methods a man who should be killed by law. There Is no defense with in the bounds of sanity for lynching any criminal, but, . to the credit of even this vicious and lawless element In the South be it said, it would hardly be possible to Incite a mob tn the South to murder a motorman for the crime of being un able to stop a car In time to prevent a tragedy for which no man in his right mind could hold him morally respon sible. Will the courts of New York convict anyone for murder If the motorman dies or send anyone to. Sing Sing if he re covers? If they do not make a vigorous attempt to do so the spectacle of an alarming state of barbarism existing in our chief center of civilization will be presented. FEUD GROWS OUT OF RIOT Prominent' Texan Killed for De nouncing Brownsville Witness. HOUSTON, Tex. June 14. Colonel S. H. Wreford, a prominent business man, was shot and 'killed today at Brownsville as the result of a circular he Issued yester day in which he bitterly denounced Cap tain William Kelley because of Kelley's testimony before the Senate committee, which is Investigating the Brownsville af fair in Washington. Jesse Thorham, a stepson of Captain Kelley, Is charged with the killing. WASHINGTON, June 14. Ths Senate committee on military affairs today adjourned its investigation of the Brownsville affray until November 18, when the committee will meet to consider whether a sub-committee shall be sent to Texas. SEARCH FOR MANY HOURS Grappling Party' of Naval Men Fi nally Locates Sunken Launch. NORFOLK. June 14. After many hours of weary dragging" of the waters of Hampton Roads, in a systematic search by the Navy for the bodies of the 11 victims ' of the battleship Minne sota's launch on Monday, the grappling party located the launch and bodies of the men in eight latnoms ot water on the ripraps. . All day long the search had been kept up in the vicinity of the course likery to have been taken by the party on Its return from Discovery pier at the Expo sition grounds to the warship lying at anchor In the roads. The mystery of the vessel, if -any, which caused the sinking, is still unsolved. THE DAY'S DEATH RECORD Albert Johnson, San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, June .14. Albert Johnson, a well-known attorney, brother of Hiram ' Johnson and son, of Grove L. Johnson, died last .night at the Fabiola Hospital, in Oakland. Bartolmco 51 a so, Cuban Patriot. HAVANA. June 14. Bartolomeo Maso, who was President of the Cu,ban Repub lic during the 10 years' war, and who was candidate for the Presidency against Tomas Estrada Palma in 1902, died today at his home at Manzanlllo. The Blessing of Content. System Magazine. There is. a microbe called unrest. It breeds in many a busy brain. It blurs many a clear vision. It unbalances many sound Judgment. It sours a neaitny ambition. It ferments It Into a mad pas sion for quick riches. It urges us on to undertake things, overnight, that need years of mature effort to accomplish. It makes us unfit to do our daily work. Acquire patience a willingness -to wait! Seek content content that smothers un rest and enables us to do our present task with a true eye, a clear mind, a keen judgment! Morgan Again Despoils Italy. NEW YORK. June 14. A Herald dis patch-from Paris reports J. P. Morgan purchased the splendid collection of fifteenth-century marbles and bronzes belonging to the Princely house of St. Rozzl of Florence. The price named is said to be $200,000. W. F. Kremer, Pioneer. GRANT'S PASS. Or.. June 14. W. F. Kremer. pioneer physician, died tn San Francisco yesterday. He leaves three chil dren. Dr. Maud Kremer, of Portland; Dr. Roy Kremer, of San Francisco, and Clara Kremer, GATHERED AT HAGUE Delegates of All Nations Will ' Talk of Peace. UNITED STATES ARBITER Jealousies of European Nations Give America Commanding Position. Germany Isolated and Is Sus picious of British Designs. ative to the race issue, and the mem bers of the Japanese delegation dis claim all responsibility therefore and scoff at the idea that It is Intended to raise this question. Although the exchanges -with St. Petersburg regarding the text of M. Nelidoff's opening speech were still in progress tonight, it was stated posi tively that they contain no reference to the question of limitation of arma ments. A great demonstration of Dutch and other continental Socialists against the conference as not being representative of the wishes of the - proletariat in favor of disarmament, -will occur in a public park of The Hague on Monday. Among the speakers will be Oustav Herve, the French anti-military agi tator, and other anti-militarists. ALBiY MAIDENS ATHLETIC RECEIVE SCHOOL EMBLEMS, BUT BOYS GET NONE. THE HAGUE. June 14. With the rep resentatives of 46 countries gathered here for the opening of the second peace con ference, which will take place tomorrow, there is a remarkable contrast between ths sentiments prevailing upon the eve of the original conference of 1899 and to day, which has become a subject of gen eral comment. In 1899. although less than half of the present number of govern ments were represented, the hope of the world was high and there was a vision of disarmament and the banishment of the curse of war from among civilized peoples. Men who were here eight years ago recall how the delegates of the powers met in response to the generous appeal of the Emperor of Russia and en tered upon their work with the zeal and enthusiasm of men upon a holy mission. Yet three months later this dream faded and nothing beyond the adoption of a pious vow remained of the avowed object of . the conference. Sobered by Two AVars. Today, with the conference a world parliament in the fullest acceptance of the term, the delegates meet in a more practical and more sober spirit. Two wars have been fought since 1899 and the military budgets of the powers are heavier, but disarmament has not been broached even and the prospects of mak ing a step in the direction of the limita tion of armaments are very slim. At the same time all these delegates admit that the recent agitation in favor of disarma ment is stronger than in 1899.- The trou ble, they say. lies In the European situation, which is so delicate that no Blngle power apparently is ready to pro pose a formula, lest It jeopardize the ex tremely useful work of ameliorating the horrors of war, defining the rights and duties of neutrals, perhaps extending the principle of arbitration, etc., which may be accomplished; - - Will Probably Favor Publicity. - The powers favoring a discussion of a proposal to reduce armaments fear that, unless It Is brought up, the whole idea may fall into universal ridicule. At the outset it is seen that the Important thing to avoid is discord, and with the purpose of permitting a further exchange of views and in order that the delegates may get better acquainted. It has been decided already to postpone the second session of the conference until Tuesday. Some optimists Incline to the opinion that the fact that the difficulties are fully ap preciated in advance is only likely to make the ultimate result richer. Upon the single question of publicity the jealousy of the powers has con tributed directly to bringing about a view totally different from that which pre vailed in 1899. Then not a single power supported Sweden's motion for public ity. Today Germany believes that pub licity will prevent her being placed in a false position and the fact that Germany refuses to shoulder the odium of advo cating secrecy forces her opponents, some of whom doubt the expediency of publicity, to support it. Germany Is Suspicious. It is idle to deny that the antagon ism of Great Britain . and Germany overshadows the conference. The Ger mans come to The Hague extremely suspicions that the group of powers of which Great Britain is the backbone Intends to try to maneuver her Into a position -where failure to do anything in the direction of the limitation of armaments will be laid at her door. Although some aid from Italy may be expected and Russia is not unfriendly, Germany is only sure of Austria, and she fears a trap. For Instance, she is afraid of compulsory arbitration, lest it compel her to submit Interests which she deems vital to an unfriendly tribunal. Great Strength of America. In the event of a clash, the Immense strength of the United States possibly, free as it Is of European suspicion and backed by Latin America, is univer sally recognized. For this reason, the American delegataa to the conference will act with circumspection. They held two conferences today, in -which the situation was canvassed. xne Americans maintain great reserve, but it can be stated positively that they will make no sensational move in the matter of limitation at present. The conference is already developing its light sides. For Instance, the ex treme formalities of the Old World are causing - much .amusement ' to the younger school from across the water. An attache of the American delegation calculated today that to leave a card upon every delegate on the calling list would involve the handling ' of two pounds of cardboards, as in addition to the exchange of calls with each of the 250 delegates and attaches, the Dutch Foreign Office has supplied a list of 30 government and court functionaries upon whom they are expected to call, and who will return those . visits in the course of time. Scoff . at Peace Issue. . j iNoming-nas y oeea nra ii ui. Education In India is advancing. Tn letter of Count Okuma, of Japan, to Bengal the government's expenditure under M. iseiiaorr. tne Jtussian oeiegate. rei- tnis head last year -vras S3. 678. 116. Clause in Constitution Deprives Teams of Rewards of Hard won Victories. ALBANY. Or., June 14. (Special.) unique situation has developed in the ath letic circles of the Albany High School. Not a boy in the school received the offi cial "A" of the High School for this year's athletic work, but the honor went to four girls. At the public exercises last evening marking the close of the High School year, the emblem of athletic merit was awarded Dollle Bending, Melissa Martin, Ella Howard and Louvia Davis, members of the girls' basket-ball team. It has been generally understood In the High School, so the boys of the Institution say. that any student who is a member of a football, basket-ball or baseball team which wins at least two victories during the season, will receive an emblem at the end of the school year. About 15 boys who played on the different athletic teams had participated in at least two 'victories and confidently expected to re ceive the "A." But when the time for distribution came it was discovered that the constitution of the Student Body Association had been changed to read "two victories over oth er high schools." This excluded the toot ball and boys' basket-ball teams, which had won most of their victories from club teams and had not defeated two high schools, and gave this season's baseball team no possible chance, for It had played only one high school team this season, its only competitor in that class In this part of the state. Though It won from strong college teams, the greatly desired letter was not forthcoming. The only team which had won two victories from other high schools during the year was the girls' basket-ball team, and only four of the players had participated in two victories. This provision that the victories must be over other high schools was not in the student-body constitution at the begin ning of the year, the disappointed boy athletes say, and they think it was "rail roaded" through some meeting when they were not on their guard. They claim to be victims of a neat coup by the basket ball girls. Anyway the affair has caused a furore in High School circles. The High School Student-Body Associa tion has chosen the following new officers for next year: President, Eugene Dooley; vice-president, Nita Schultz; secretary, Agnes Thompson; treasurer, George Doo ley. Executive committee: School Super tendent A. M. Sanders, Mrs. F. M. Pow ell, principal of the High School, and President Eugene Dooley, ex-offlcio mem bers; Ina Dow and Evans Houston, student-body members. THE DAY'S H0RSE RACES At Gravesend. NEW YORK, June 14. Gravesend race results: jFlve furlonsa Mag-azlne won, Zlphen second Theronldor third; time, 1:02 8-5. Mile and a sixteenth Hermon won. Don Creole second. Araho third; time, 1:49 8-5. Hanover stakes, 5tt furlongs George Russell won, Blue Heron second, Holllster third; time. 1:09 2-5. Mile and a quarter -Beacon Llgnt won. Dan Buhre second. Bartender third; time, 2 '00 3-5. About six furlongs They're Oft won. Jacobito second. Royal Onyx third; time, 1'm!1 and sixteenth Ellis Dale won. Incachee second, Dr. Lee third; time, 1:50 4-5. At Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, June 14. Latonla race results: Four and a half furlongs Ben San won. Rexall second. Water Cooler third; time 0:50 4-5. t , Six furlongs Cygnet won. Hyperbole second, Delia Thorpe third; time, 1:06. Six furlongs Dr. Lee Huffman won. Little George second. Demo third; time, 1:15. Six furlongs Bellestrome won. Haughty second, Beatrice third; time, 1:15 4-5. Four and a half furlongs Esther Brown won, Bute second, fcabado third; time, 0:54 4-5. Mile Sultry woo. Henry O. second, Florizel third; time, 1:43. At Oakland. OAKLAND, Cal.. June 14. The results at Emeryville today were as follows: Six furlongs, selling Kruka won, Avon second. Senator Warner third; time, 1:10. Futurity course, selling Royal White won. Dr. RoweU second. Degramont third; time, 1:13. Third race, futurity course, selling The Mlssourian won, Felham second. Revolt third; time. -1:12. Fourth race, mile and a quarter, selling Baron Esher won. Harbor second. Flaunt third; time. 2:07 4-5. Mile and 20 yards, selling Treasure Seek er won. Convent Bell second. Frascuelo third; time. 1:48. Seven furlongs, selling Meada won. Little Mirthful second, jacKIui tmra; tune, 1 :Z7 8-0. Improper Food The persistent eating: of imtroDer food much food causes fermentation and the production ot gases and acid substances, finally failure of strength, irritable temper and chronic dyspepsia. WHEAT FLAKE CELERY is an improved wheat food, furnishing; all the ele ments requisite for the nourishment and growth of the human body. 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If you have a curtain need you'll find this a money-saving opportunity. llifiii 6 Cups and Saucers. 45c 6 Plates, 35c SPECIAL SATURDAY SALE-1 TO IO P. M. Watch for our great Saturday After noon Special Sale in our Crockery Department in the .Basement. Among other bargains see those Cups and Saucers, set of six, beautifully decorated semi-porcelam, for A C only Six full size Dinner Plates to' O C match the above only .00 W . tor 5.00 Screens See our window display of these fine $5.00 Screens. Several styles to choose from. We made a great sp ecial buy, so we are able to offer a great special bargain. Saturday only these will be sold, . fl! 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