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TAR IS TRAVELING Eeceives Pittsburg mayor and Del egationSpeaks to Irish. GREAT PAINTING RECOVERED. and uiscusses Baseball With Pittsburg Fans Will Speak on Conserva tion and Visit Hughes. fittsburg, March 17. While the train sped toward Chicago yesterday, Persident Taft devoted himself to Dre- paring his speech to be delivered at the Irish Fellowship club banquet in Chi cago tonight, and up to the time his train arrived here at 6 :52 he gave him- seii assiduously to the "Story of Ira land" and "The Life of St Patrick." Once only throughout the trip was the interrupted. That was at Altoona, where Mayor Hoyer boarded the train and greeted the president, who manf feBted much interest in the situation at Philadelphia. Mayor Hoyer told the president that there were hopes of peace in the Quaker City. Upon the arrival of the train in Pittsburg Mayor Magee and a delega tion irom the American club greeted Mr. Tait. One of the President's callers asked him if he were an Irishman. "No, I am not," he responded. I he nearest to an Irishman the Taft family has ever come is in name That was borne by a Count Taafe, of Ireland. I will confess, however, that 1 have Kissed the Blarney stone." The president assured Mayor Magee that he would be here May 2 and would attend the ball game between the Chi cago and Pittsburg clubs. He asked if it was to be an exhibition game or "one for blood." "Do you know what appeals to me in these games," he said, "is that big Dutchman what is his name oh, yes, Wagner. He looks as if he could not get anywhere, and yet he gets every where. Do you know that if I saw him miss a ball I would think he was bluffing." The news of the president's visit had been spread broadcast and outside the station a crowd had assembled. A few privileged ones were admitted to the immediate vicinity of the car and just beiore it pulled out a big, stout man with a face beaming with smiles saw the president on the rear platform and shouted : "Hey, Mr. President, I'm almost as big as you are." "How much do you weigh?" inquired Mr. Taft. "Two hundred and ninety-five pounds," the big fellow answered. The president: "Oh, you're not in my class. I weighed 313 the last time I was on the scales. " On arriving at Chicago today the president will be the guest of the Fel lowship club at luncheon and at a ban quet in the evening. He will attend a convention meeting at the Hamilton club and the Traffic club. i Stolen by Young German Artist Found In His Studio. San Francisco, March 16. Declar ing that he took the picture merqly to make a copy of it, William Kunze, a young German artist, recently from Portland, Or., was arrested this after noon in possession of the $10,000 Mil let painting "The Shepherd and Hjs riocK, which was stolen last Sunday irom tne uoicien bate f ark Museum. Kunze was arrested in his studio af ter a search of the city which has been prosecuted with the utmost vigor ever since the valuable painting was cut from its frame by an unknown thief last Sunday. Detective Sergeant Edward Wren refused to divulge the clew which led to the arrest. Immediately after book ing the prisoner on a charce of m-and larceny he left the city prison accom panied by several detectives and it is believed that they went in search of possible accomplices. .' lo the questions of Serereant Wren the arrested man answered that he was led to take the picture by his love of the beautiful and a desire to make copy of it. Ihe painting which was lent to the museum by Miss Sarah Spooner, this city, was the work of Jean Fran cois Millet in 1832. It was found the room used as a studio by Kunze and it is now in the custody of the property clerk of the police depart ment. The theft occurred in the mornimr shortly after the museum was thrown open to visitors. While the curator was absent for a short time the canvas was cut from the frame and carried away from the building' DOINGS OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS BIG STRIKE IS AVOIDED BY MEDIATION OFFER. Chicago, March 16. Danger of an mmeaiate strike of 27.000 locomotive hremen, the throwing out of emplov- ment or more than 125.000 other em ployes and the temporary suspension of business on practically everv railroad between Chicago and the Pacific coast, was averted today through the accept ance of offers for mediation from the Federal authorities. At the request of the general mana gers of the 47 railroads involved, Chairman Knapp, of the interstate commerce commission, and Commis sioner of Labor Neill telegraphed an otter or mediation to the union officials. This offer was accepted; W. C. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Enginemen and Firemen, stipulating, however, that action must begin at once. The appeal to Washington was taken as an eleventh-hour move to prevent a waiKout, which, it was declared, threatened the greatest railroad strike since that of 1894. Thirty-seven mem bers of the Western Federated Board of the brotherhood last midnight form ally voted for a strike. The hour for striking had been set for next Monday morning, and the members were pre- pan at) start for their homes and put the strike into effect when the media tion steps were taken. ANOTHER VICTIM IS FOUND. Body of Joseph rurlin, Passenger, Taken from Avalanche. Seattle, March 17. The body recov ered yesterday frpm the Wellington avalanche ruins has been identified irom papers iouna on tne clothing, as that of Joseph Furlin, a passenger, Nothing further is known of him and the railroad has no record of him. The Great Northern will begin at once the construction of snowsheds on the Cascade division that will cost $1, 000,000 or more. General Manager J. M. Gruber is making a detailed study of the work that is needed. There are 11 unclaimed bodies at the morgue, some of which have been iden tified by name only. The bodies un claimed will be buried in a plot of ground purchased by the Great North ern railroad and they will be interred with one ceremony. J MX railroad men and eight passen gers are still in the list of missing, making the railroad s total of 95 dead, Strike halts U. S. Work. Washington, March 17. The govern ment proposes to intervene in the Bethlehem Steel company strike, where a large number of men have been out for four weeks. An official of the department of commerce and la bor will arrive at South Bethlehem, Pa., tomorrow and will go over the sit uation carefully. Investigation of the strike was prompted partly by the fact that the government has large steel contracts with the Bethlehem company and it has been said that the strike has delayed government work. . Socialists are Targets. Keil, March 17.' A huge Socialist meeting was held this afternon in a meadow near this city to express in dignation against the suffrage bill. A great part of the forces of several manufacturing concerns and shipyards attended. After the meeting the crowds marched into the city. As a large number of workmen had absented tnemseives irom tneir places or em ployment without permission, the on ion voted to lock them out for 3 days. Weston Loses 20 Pounds. Great Bend, Kan., March 17. Ed ward Payson Weston, the pedestrian, arrived here tonight at 9 o'clock after walking 36 miles today. He did not appear to be fatigued, in spite of this 72-mile walk yesterday. Weston has lost 20 pounds since starting on his journey, but a physician tonight pro nounced him in good condition. PAULHAN OFF IN HUFF. Injunction Obtained Prohibiting Tak ing Away His Four Machines. New York, March 16. "I am ready and glad to leave this country," de clared Louis Paulhan, the aviator, to day, in reiterating his declaration that he had made his last flight in America and would return to France by the first steamer. Paulhan packed up his machines and prepared to leave, despite every effort which his manager, Edwin Cleary, made to induce him to stay and com plete his contract. Cleary obtained an induction today prohibiting Paulhan from taking with him any of tne four aeroplanes he bought in this country. There are two Bleriot and two Farman machines. With his craft tied up and Clarey threatening a damage suit for $150, 000, friends tried to pursuade the Frenchman to reconsider his decision. but he was obdurate and is determined to sail. ' Washington, March 19. Although congress has been in session nearly four months, practically nothing has been accomplished in the way of con servation legislation, and so far as the records show, not one single recom mendation of the president has yet re ceived final consideration at the hands of the legislative branch of the gov ernment. The senate, it is true, has done a little, but the house of representatives has yet to pass, or even consider, the first one of the bills so strongly re commended by the president in his spe cial message last December. The failure of the hoilse to act is not due to lack of interest on the part oi the members, for whenever any one of the conservation bills is reported, it will be discussed with fervor and it will be passed. t But the house cannot consider a bill until it has been report ed by a committee, and up to this time not a single one of the conservation bills has been reported, or even con sidered, by the house committee on public lands. Washington March, 18. After hold ing the floor in the senate for four days, Cummins of Iowa, today com pleted his speech opposing the Admin istration railroad bill. The Senator's discussion today dealt principally with the provision regulat ing the consolidation of railroads, With this he found much fault. rointing out that the regulation ex tends to railroads alqne. he declared that, in the omission of water lines, there was possibility of great abuse, and said it would be impossible to pre vent the transcontinental railroads from acquiring the water lines through the Panama canal, thus cutting out all competition. He also pointed out that electric roads of every description had been specifically excluded from the provis ion and declared it would be possible for an electric line to gain control of all the railroads in the country., speaker Cannon was importuned by Republican congressmen today to re sign from the speakership, or at least announce his purpose not to be a can didate for re-election, and thus end the turmoil that has torn the' Republi can party asunder. To all such sug gestions the speaker turned a deaf ear. He declared that he would not vol untarily retire when under fire. . The forest service announced today it would ignore the decision of the Su preme court last Monday in the Cali fornia grazing case and continue to in stitute criminal prosecution of all per sons who drive livestock on the forest reserve without a permit. the conferees on what is known as the "white slave" bill, and the measure will become a law as soon as it is signed by the president. The provis ion which made it a felony to furnish tickets to send a person from'one state, territory or district into another for the purpose of prostitution was elimin ated. Hearings on the postal savings bank bill, which recently passed the senate and is now in the house, began before the house committee on postoffices and post roads today. Representatives of the American Bankers' association. which organization embodies the prin cipal opopsition to the bill, appeared and stated their objection to the pos tal savings banks. It is expected the hearings will occupy some time. E. R. Guernsey, vice president of i. VT.i; , T- l me r irui national cariK oi iremont, weD., and a member of the executive council of the Bankers' association, said that the establishment of Dostal savings banks in Nebraska would cause withdrawals of large amounts of mon- ey from the banks of that state, ser iously upsetting business. PUPILS TO EAT OWU COOmjffO Law Requires Strenuous Journey. Cleveland, Or,. March 16. Joseph Burns, who recently raced from the in terior of Alaska to Cleveland in a fu tile effort to reach his baby before she died, was today summoned by the Fed eral government to return to the snow bound territory as a witess in a stab bing affray, in which he was injured. In a wooden hut in the wilderness near Fairbanks, Alaska, a errand iurv has been summoned and it will take Mr. Burns 40 days of strenuous travel and cost the govermennt $1,040 before he can give his evidence,. Cable Fouled on Wreck? . Victoria, B. C, March 16. A renort has been made to the Marine depart ment by Captain Heater, of the whal ing steamer Orion, that the steamer fouled her cable when taking a whale ix miles south of Uclulet on what some assert to be a submersed rock. Captain Heater is of the opinion it may prove to be the British sloop of war Condor, which foundered in De cember, 1901, with 104 officers and men. Washington, March 17. Represen tative Hamer of Idaho, made a con vincing argument today before the ways and means committee in support , i .i . n . oi me Din to raise $3U,uuu,uuu ior re clamation work. He produced records to show the Reclamation Service had encouraged settlers to take up land un der the Payette-Boise project and else where, and now those settlers were unable to raise crops because the gov ernment was not able to furnish water. In that way, he argued, the govern ment was obliged to hasten the com pletion of that and other projects. Hamer also insisted that a return to cooperative plan of building, under which the settlers were credited for work done, would not solve the difficul ty, for that plan merely hatsened the completion of distribution systems and d not advance construction dams, res ervoirs and headworks, which are the key to irrigation developments. With the passage of the pending bill, he said, reclamation work would become an income-producing proposition inside of three years. The committee seems more favor alby inclined towards the bill today than ever before. Secretary of War Dickinson today sent to congress a report recommend ing that $10,000 be appropriated in the river and harbor bill for dredging and maintaining a channel four feet deeD and 100 feet wide frcrm La Conner to Saratoga Passage, in Swinomish slough, Washington. Engineers report adversely on the proposal to build an eight foot channel through the entire sloueh. on the ground that the commerce to be bene fited would not justify the cost. $260.- 000. Washington, March 15 That he would oppose the administration rail road bill even thoueh it mieht result in an effort to read him out of the party, Senator Cummins, of Iowa, in effect, declared in the senate today, in the initial speech on the railroad bill. He commented especially upon the history of the measure, which he said, had originated in the executive branch of the government rather than In congress. After occupying its place on the senate calendar for 18 days, the bill was taken up at 2 o'clock, and thus was launched the discussion of what the members of the senate regard as the most important legislation before congress. The Iowa senator had spoken about two hours when he asked leave to suspend until tomorrow. Vice President Sherman and Speaker Lannon will have to content themselves with riding to and from the capitol in common streetcars or in out-of-date horse-drawn vehicles. The house to day declined to provide them with 60- horse power touring cars. The vote was 113 to 94, the "insurgent" Repub licans throwing almost their entire strength with the Democrats. ine proposal to have congress re ward Commander Peary for his discov ery of the North Pole met with another setback in the house committee on na val affairs today. Representative En- glebright, of California, at today's meeting of the full committee, moved to discharge the sub-committee which has been considering the award bills. and was defeated, 17 to 1. Another motion to direct the sub committee to consider bills providing for honoring Mr. Peary was adopted by a unanimous vote. New Rnla Expected to Male Work for w Jersey Phyalclana. Schoolgirls taking up the course of domestic science at the Carrol Rob- bins school will be compelled to eat what they cook hereatter, because of the belief of the Instructors that this will force the scholars to exercise more care and pay more attention to Instructions, a Trenton (N. J.) cor respondent of the New York Evening Telegram says. Just what the result will be Is a question. It Is claimed that some scholars who study domestic science only take the course as a pastime and make all sorts of uneatable things just to pass the time away. It is feared that the new ruling will provide more work for local physicians and the hospitals. The course is compulsory at this particular school. Heretofore the pupils were only compelled to taste their own cooking and then make a report of the value. Now, If a scholar makes six biscuits she will have to eat them all or suffer a penalty to be fixed later. Some good-sized schoolboys have suffered as a result of pranks pfayed on them by the girls In the domestic science department "Eat this biscuit, aJmes; I just made It In school," was responsible for a boy scholar's, who thought this girl was the "only, only," having to spend a week in a local hospital. Gastritis of an acute nature was the record made by the attending physi cians. Numerous cases of Indigestion have been reoprted among the boys because of some of the "eatables" turned out by the girls. One boy recently admitted to several chums that he almost died while eat ing a mince pie forced on him by one of the girls, but boasted he was will ing to "die for her." E WEEKLY .11 , 4 1690 Schenectady, N. T.. attacked and burned by the French and Indians. 1763 Treaty of Paris signed, by which France ceded to England In full right "Canada with all its dependencies." LEGAL INFORMATION J Guatemala to Borrow $40,000,000. New York, March 16. Guatemala has closed a deal for a $40,000,000 loan, but F. Sanchei la Tour, national treasurer of Guatemala, who made this announcement, refused to make public today the names of those had negotiated the loan. It is generally believed here that the loan was ar ranged by prominent New York bank ing bouses. Washington, March 16. Although the Republican members of the house took radical measures today to prevent repetition of yesterday's defeat at the hands of the Democratic-Insurgent Re publican combination on the question of maintenance of an automobile for the speaker, the allies scored another victory over the regulars even more de cisive than that of yesterday. On an appeal from a decision by Speaker Cannon, on the question of precedence for a joint resolution the house voted against the speaker, 163, to 111. In addition to the full Dem ocratic vote and the 30 insurgents who have always stood aeainst the sneaker. a dozen other Republicans, heretofore regular, voted to overturn the ruling of the chair. An agreement was reached today by Pellagra to be Studied. Washington, March 16. Passed As sistant Surgeon C. H. Lavinder, of the public health and marine hospital ser vice, was today designated to go to Milan and other places in Italy for the purpose of making an investigation in to the origin and prevalence of pella gra and into the measures being taken to combat the disease. Surgeon Lav inder also will inspect establishments In Germany which make viruses and analagous products for American use. I Washington, March 14. H. Sonne hill, a grocer of Baltimore, this after noon read to the senate committee on the cost of living a statement giving a number of comparisons of the cost of commodities for several years back. Among the articles mentioned as having increased An price were butter, eggs, cheese, flour, beans .and rice. He declared that during the last ten years the price of potatoes had de creased 15 per cent and chocolate and cocoa 10 per cent. The witness estimated that the price of Hour had increased 12 per cent dur ing the last 12 'years, but his figures for five years back showed it had in creased about 25 per cent. Representative Englebright, Repub lican, of California, the only member of the house committee who favored bestowing congressional honors upon Commander Peary without an inspec tion of the explorer's proofs, does not intend to let the matter rest. He says he will force the committee to vote definitely for or against a Peary award if he can. The various bills for the Peary award are still before the committee. Without active co-operation of the president, the Western members of the house will not be able to secure the passage of a bill making available $30,000,000 to hasten the completion of government irrigation projects. Lands to be Restored. Washington, March 17. The lands in Idaho, withdrawn under the first form of the reclamation act in 1904. 1907 and" 1908 for use in connection with the Minidoka irrigation project, will be restored to settlement, with the exception of about 944 acres along the Snake river, which have been incorpor ated within a power site withdrawal, a3 it was thought they contain power possibilities. The lands that will be restored are no longer needed. New Schedules to Be Signed. Washington, March 21. The presi dent, at Albany, New York, will sign a proclamation giving to the products of France and Algeria, imported into the United States, the minimum tariff rates of the Payne-Aldrich act. A special messenger from the State de partment left Washington today for Albany, where he will deliver to the president the form of the proclamation, which he is expected to sign at once. Oregon's Modified Sheep Quarantine Washington, March 15. The secre tary of agriculture has removed the quarantine against sheep scab in all of Washington and in that part of Oregon east of the Cascades. Western Oregon will remain under quarantine, but the department will continue its efforts to eradicate the disease., Tle Louisiana Code provides that If A donee has attempted to take the life of the donor, or If he has been guilty toward him of cruel treatment, crimes or grievous Injuries, the gift will be considered revoked. In Grandchamp v. Administrator of Succession or Billis, 49 Southern Reporter, 998, It appeared that Billis had conveyed property to his wife, who later had re conveyed It to him. The conjugal as sociation seems to have been stormy, concluding In the assassination by Billis of his wife while she was fleeing from his house and his suicide on the same night. The wife's heirs contend ed that ingratitude sufficient to annul the reconveyance by the wife had been demonstrated by the husband. The Louisiana Supreme Court held that the death of the donee extinguished the action, because the revocation is a penalty which can be pronounced only against the guilty. Even when the donee dies Immediately upon the com mission of the offense, this rule ap plies. The law having made no ex ception, the courts can make none. It was not Intended to visit the Sins of the donee upon the heirs at law. To the merciless broadsides of un constitutionality, the Federal Employ ers Liability Act, created to decrease the number of railroad fatalities, suc cumbed in Hpxie v. New York, N. H. & H. R. Co., 73 Atlantic Reporter, 754, The Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors criticised as impolitic and vio lative of the long-accepted common law the provision allowing employes to re cover for injuries received through the negligence of fellow servants. The prohibition against railroads exempt ing themselves from liability for neg ligence by contract with their em ployes was deemed violative of the fifth amendment of the Federal Con stitution, prohibiting the deprivation of liberty and property without due process of law, In that It denied the parties the right to contract Arbi trarily making railroads while en gaged In Interstate commerce liable to employes for Injuries was consid ered invalid, except as a regulation of Interstate commerce, it not being suffi cient that It remotely affected such commerce If that result was secured by Invading the settled limits of the sovereignty of the States as to their own Internal police. The section pro viding for the distribution of the fund recovered In an action for death was assailed thus: If the damages recov erable are to be treated as represent ing the estate left by the decedent, it Is for the State of his domicile to reg ulate the distribution thereof, and. If the damages are treated as a fund cre ated by the act, Congress may not bring into existence a new duty of executors or administrators to collect and a new duty of masters to pay what the decedent never owned. Left 'o Truoea. Mr. Smith ordered chicken broth at the Fatted cafe and after testing It he caleld the waiter and said: "Will you kindly tell me how you make this chicken soup?" "Jes take de boil In hot watah and run de chicken fru, mlstah." "Well, Rastus, I think this chicken must have had Its rubbers on." Bos ton Courier. 1776 The Gadsden flag presented to the American Congress. 1793 Salary of President of the United States fixed at $25,000 a year. 1796 Franca and Tuscany concluded a treaty of peace. 1806 Joseph Bonaparte entered Naples1 and soon afterward was chosen king. 1807 United States coast and geodetia survey organized. 1813 Spanish Cortes abolished the In quisition. 1833 Henry Clay Introduced the com promise tariff in the Senate. 1838 Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, famous British commander, born. 1841 Sir George Arthur, last lieuten and governor of Upper Canada, retired from office. .. .Union of up per and lower Canada. 1861 Abraham Lincoln left Springfield for Washington to be inaugurated. 1862 Bowling Green, Kentucky, evacu ated by the Confederates. 1870 Prince Arthur attended the open ing of the third session of the first Parliament of Canada The pro visional government of the North west Territories formally organized with Rlel as president 1876--First telephone patent granted to Alexander Graham Bell. 1879 Dominion Parliament opened by the Marquis of Lome, the Princess Louise being present 1880 Robert Duncan Wilmot appoint ed lieutenant governor of New Brunswick. 1883 Toronto ' opera house destroyed by fire. 1886 A mob expelled 400 Chinese from Seattle. 1887 Sir Alexander Campbell appoint ed lieutenant governor of Ontario. 1888 Treaty respecting Canadian and American fisheries signed at Wash ington. 1889 United States department of ag riculture established as a separata department by act of Congress. 1890 The President proclaimed the Sioux reservation, In South Dako ta, open. 1892 The Behring Sea commission met at Washington. ' 1893 Treaty for reciprocal trade rela tions between France and Canada signed at Paris. .. .Gov. Le welling of Kansas called out the militia to retake the legislative hall for the Populist members. 1894 W. W. Sullivan became lieuten ant governor of Prince Edward island. 1898 United States battleship Maine destroyed In Havana harbor. 1901 Strathcona's Horse reviewed by King Edward In London. 1902 Large part of the business dis trict of Peterson, N.' X, destroyed by fire. 1903 United States Senate ratified the Alaska boundary treaty. 1904 The czar of Russia proclaimed, war with Japan. 1908 Labor unions in New Orleans in dicted for violating the' anti-trust laws. 1909 Centenary of the birth of Abra ham Lincoln celebrated throughout the United States. .. .Germany and France concluded an agreement n Moroccan affairs . . . .Electoral col legs made official announcement of the election of Taft and Sherman. ....Several hundred lives lost In a theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico Preparatory, Redd The college men will soon begin preparations for next season's football." Greene Why, they don't play foot ball until the fall. "I know It; but they must begin to let their hair grow pretty soon." Yon kefs Statesman In death benefits the carpenters paid out $221,742.56 last year. Organized labor In Minnesota is pre paring to enter politics again. Wellesley College girls sent $1,000 to the shirtwaist strikers In New York City. Of the 600,000 coal miners in North America, only 260,000 are within the) United Mine Workers. Canadian labor disputes of 1909 in olved 17.873 work people, and the work days lost totaled 842.275. There are 27.700 cotton mill opera tives in New Bedford, Mass., and about the same number in Fall River. There were about twenty national or International unions In the United States in 1881; in 1907 there wers up ward of 125. Six countries already have agreed to. sand representatives to the interna tional congress on child welfare at Washington in May. The Great Northern railroad, of Ire land, has Issued a natlce that employ es reaching the age of 65 years must resign their positions. No pensions will be granted. The International Typographical Un ion this month will take a special ref erendum vote on tha proposition to a tabllsh a mortuary benefit in accord ance with a resolution adopted at tha racsst ccsvsstics cf tha Iniarnaiionaj.