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A R etu rn « o f th e L e t t Im p o rta n t but
N o t L e ts In te re s tin g Events
o f th e Past W e e k .
The British cabinet stands firm ior
greater Irish liberty.
The church er a's in the French cal>-
inet lias been staved off.
The trouble which caused a suspen
sion of all Butte papers is far from an
end.
Hermann has lost another point in
his trial for destroying letter press
books.
Four separate investigations are l>e-
ing made of the Brewster, New York,
railroad wreck. The death list has now
reached 21.
An explosion in a coal mine near
Monterey. Mexico, caused 30 deaths.
Register Nolan, of The Dalles land
office, has been removed.
T W E N T Y K IL L E D .
F R IS C O B U IL D IN G U P .
M u sic o f S a w and H a m m e r C on tinu es
N ig h t and D ay.
San Francisco, Feb, 19. San Fran
cisco, after all, is not going to nllow the
opportunities
for
civic
betterment
brought about by the earthquake and
tire to go entirely neglected. A begin
niug, feeble enough though it be, ha*
been made. Several of the downtown
streets are to be widened. The heavy
teaming and the congestion brought
about where building is progressing
have moved the board o f supervisors to
decree that portions o f the sidcwnlks
must be sacrificed to the thoroughfares.
While this in itself is of importance for
the future San Francisco, its greatest
significance lies in the fact that it has
met with general approval and repre
scuts the first signs o f a willingneie« to
make sacrifices for the city that is to be.
The magnificent programme o f wid
ened streets, parks and squares outlined
for the city while the embers still
glowed is a gradually passing vision
but those who unselfishly love San Fran
cisco still have hope that part of the
great plan at least w ill be realized. The
street widening is the first ray o f hope.
A walk about the burned section
shows that a wonderful amount o f re
building has been accomplished. Since
the first o f May new buildings to the
value o f $45,000,000 have been begun.
Plans are living drawn for a like
amount. In every case the structures
are erected under rush orders. In sev
eral instances work has continued night
and day. The streets resound with the
sound o f the piiedriver, the saw and
the hammer by night as well as by day
The last traces o f gloom have given way
to an abiding faith.
The promotion committee has issued
a bulletin bearing on the population o f
San Francisco at the present time. The
committee, after figuring by various
methods, com»*« to the conclusion that
the city now contains 428,000 persons.
Before the fire the committee figured
that the jKipulation o f the citv was
500.000. The figures o f the Southern
Pacific agree almost exactly with those
o f the promotion committee. Due al
lowance, however, must be made for the
zeal o f both bodies, and a fair and con
servative estimate o f the c it y ’s (topu-
lation would place it at about 400,000.
IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS
M o n d a y . F e b ru a ry 18.
Washington, F*>b. 18.— Aft»>r more
tlum live hours consldemt Ion of the ag
ricultural appropriation hill, tin* senate
increased from $3,500 to $5,000 the sal
ary of G ifford Pino hot, chief forester.
The ihdiate was devoted mostly to the
mctluida of administralion amt general
policy of the forest service, and at times
broadened to Include the public land
question generally.
Practically
no
progreea was made on the argicultural
bill.
Wasbingtoon, Feb. 18.— The house
today adopt«*,! a resolution present«1«I by
Overstreet, of Indiana, authoiising the
clerk to insert a provision in the |>o«t-
otlice appropriation b ill Usiking to the
reduction o f compensation to railroad*
for «u riyin g the mail
to take effect
July 1.
'1 he amendment to the immigration
bill, as passed by the senate Saturday,
was agreed to m the bouse t«)day. Tbls
w ill, it is believtai, effectively Imr Jap
anese coolies from the United Stat«*s
and settle the Jit|»tn«‘*c ttchooi <|U«atioii.
S a tu rd a y , F e b ru a ry 16.
H eavily L o ad ad E le c tric T ra in L e a v e t
th e T ra c k
tbe b ill. Points of order were made
against many provision* of the bill, ami
were generally *u*Utlne«l.
Washington, Feb. 14. — Tin* senate
today paesod a bill providing for the
investigation of the water sources of the
Unit«sl Stales. The Investigation Is to
lie made by the director of the geologi
es I survey.
Both underground and
surface waters are to Is« investigated.
An amendment was adopted, which
permits «*o-o|a<ration lietween the slates
ami the Ftnteral government In making
hydrogrnphli' surveys.
A solution of Hie Ju|mno*e problem
is threatened w ith complete failure
hecaus«« of Senator I ¿sign's Irritating
and bulldozing tnithw.
Republicans
are alarmed at the situation tonight
and apprehensive Hint tin» exclusion
amendment added to the immigration
hill w ill lie op|*i*i*d by a strong Demo
cratic filibuster that cannot prove other
thun successful at this late |>eriod of
the sr-ssion. Democratic senators lire
also con*id«>ring the advisability of
calling a conference on the amendment
and making it a party measure.
W ednesday, F e b ru a ry I 3 a
New York, Feb. 18. Hlxteen passcu-
gers were killed outright, four olhcre
have died o f their injuries, and at least
50 more Were more or less seriously in
jured ill the wreck o f the White I’luins
and Brewster express oil the llnrlem
division o f the New York Centra! A
Hudson River railroad, licitr Woodluwu
rond in the Bronx borough of Greater
New York Saturday evening.
The trnln left the Grand Central sta
tion lit •1:13 o ’clock, drnwn by tvtfo
heavy electric motors, mid loaded with
a matinee crowd mid commuters on
their way home from business iu the
city. It consisted o f a combi nation
baggage and smoking car, and five
coaches. A fter stopping at One Hun
dred anil Twenty fifth street, the train
was scheduled to run express to White
i'lahis. At Woo,llawn road the four
tracks pass through a rough, rocky cut
mid take a sharp curve. When the
(ruin reached the curve it was running
nt u speed estimated at fit) miles an
hour. Moth motors and the smoking
enr swung safely around the curve, but
the other cars left the rails and plunge.)
over the sides with a terrific erash,
tearing up the track* for a hundred
yards before they collapsed.
The muse of the wreck has not been
officially determined. A t Grand Central
station there was inclination to blame
the accideut to spreading rails, but
later it was said that it was believed
that the axle o f the first passenger
coach broke.
Washington. Feb. ltt. -The Adminis
Washington, F’ob. 13.— The senate
tration plan to settle the California t**U»y passed a hill giving the govern-
Japanese situation was approved in the inent the rigid to appeal to tlie Su
senate today by the adoption o f the sen preme court for a construction of the
ate committee report on the iiuinigra- mmstltutionailty of any law involved in
A forest tire is raging in the 800,000-
tion itili. This report continues a pro
a crim inal suit.
This measure has
acre for» at reserve in the W ichita
vision which authorizes the president to .............7 ‘
, , , , :n
mountains,
Oklahoma.
The entire
ex,dud* Japanese laborer* fro,,, th ei\ *H’n UMî,,,r «MMidemllon for several
tract is threatened with devastation.
Unite«! States at his discretion. The re davs and was pass, d only after muny
port will now go to the hoiffec for its umeiidments had Iteci! ttdoptod ut Hi«,
Street railway employes of Helena
approval, which is assured. The entire suggeritimi of senatore w ho bave en ti-
went on strike for an increase o f 50
lay was devote«! to debate on the re cized thè provisione <>f thè b ill.
cents a day.
Four hours later they
port.
The Distri,*t of Coiumbin appropria-
A G R E E M E N T W IT H J A P A N N E X T .
were at werk w ith the advance granted.
tion bill, currying iieurly $11,0110,000,
Washington, Feb. 16. - Fn the discus was pascsi after liti hour’s consid, ra
An ice gorge in the Missouri river,
sion o f the postofHce appropriation bill tina .
F o llo w F a s ia g e o f Im m ig ra tio n B ill—
near Verm illion, S. P ., has caused the
in the house today Overstreet said the
C a lifo rn ia 's C a te W e a k .
The
bill
eetahlifhing
un
agriniltiiral
river to leave its banks. One hundred
committee had reach**,i the conclusion
1
wink
in
thè
IMiiiippines
was
taken
up
fam ilies are homeless and farme<s are
Waakiingttm,
F«*b, 18.— The state de
that a reduction in the railway mail
‘ i for considemtion, but ditliculty was en* partment ia awaiting th<* ilispueilmo by
greatly alarmed.
was absolutely necessary.
The railroads are trying to stain . , cornitele»! tastili*«* th«* l'h ilippin e tarlff r,mgr«--sa o f the pending immigration bill
There has been an anti-British out
jede
the house,” he said, “ vet there , b ill, which passed t il« house at l be last
break in India.
before proceeding further with the con
is not a scintilla o f evidence to show s«*ssion, was int«*r|xi*«*<l us an ainend-
sid,'ration
o f the Japan,**« exrluaion
A FYeneh cabinet crisis is threatened
that the reduction is excessive,
'
on the church question.
question. I f the bill ia enacted, tin im
postal service will not be impaired in
the slightest degree, and not a train
A Chicago gTand jury may indict
Tile first night session was h«*ld to mediate effort will lie made to come to
will he eut off, notwithstun<Ling the night to consi,l«*r private j»*ii*ioii bills.
Mayor Dunne for not enforcing the law.
a formal agreement with the Jupanrao
threats o f the railroad companies. There
S T A T E H O O D S T R IK E S S N A G .
Brownsville citizens testified at the
Washington, Feb. 13.— Headway was government that w ill insure the ron-
has not been a telegram received bv the
senate investigation that many families
members of this house from a business mild,* to,lay by the house in it* consid tinuanro o f the pre*«*nt policy o f that
left the city because they feared negro F a rm e r» A re W e a ry in g o f O k la h o m a concern or a commercial body which has eration of the naval appropriation b ill,
government withholding pnsnporta to
soldiers.
not been prompted by the rnilroads, ami and more than half the b ill perfected. America to Japan,**« laborer*.
C o n s titu tio n a l C o n v e n tio n .
for one 1 refuse to be stampeded by
The investigation of Senator Bailey,
Guthrie, Okla., Frb. 19.— Anxious to their threats or deflected by their en A number of [loints nf order wen, made
Ho far a* tho pending b*gi*lntion is
o f Texas, has proven that the senator
and sustained against minor provisions
get
busy
with
their
plowing
and
fearing
treaties.”
concerned,
it i* state,i that there is
received money from the Waters-Pierce
in the hill.
General debate on the bill was not
they will not receive pay for a long
ev«»ry
reason
to b«*lieve that it will be
Oil Company.
The appropriation for a steel floating
concluded when the house adjourned.
drydock to «*o*t not exeoedingg $1,400,- acceptable to the Japan,*»« government;
In a head-on collision between two time, i f ever, for their attendance on
Northern Pacific trains near Helena, the constitutional convention, many of
000 was struck out of the bill on a at any rate, there hn* not yet !>een the
F rid a y , F e b ru a ry 15.
two firemen were killed and nine pas the farmer delegates have scattered to
point of order, which was made by slightest sign o f disapproval in that
Washington,
F'eb.
16.
—
An
agree
sengers injured.
their homes, intimating that they will ment to vote tomorrow on the confer M r. Mann, of Illinois.
quarter.
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The Western Retail Lumbermen’s As not return unless it is to vote for the ence report on the im m igration bill,
An interesting fact that ha* devel
T u esd ay, F e b ru a ry 12,
sociation, in convention at Salt Lake, document as a whole when it is com which includes the provision int«*nded
oped
in the dincunaion o f the respective
Washington, Feb. 12.— The senate
adopted resolutions against prevailing
pleted by the few men in control o f the to settle the California Ju|«nese ques occupied the day in argument of the right* o f ntate and nation wliere treaties
high lumber prices.
tion, was rtjached in the senate today ( pm granting the government the right are involved is that, in nt leant one
convention.
The
Japanese - Corean
Exlusion
as the result of an entire day of discus to take un iipis-al on points of law it.
The
expense
o
f
the
convention
to
case, the- ( 'alifornia courts have taken
League, o f San Francisco, says Mayor
sion upon that measure.
crim inal eas,-s. No action was taken the most advanced grounds in favor o f
Schmitz and the school board surren date above the $100,000 appropriation
The principal speakers were Bacon
dered to President Roosevelt.
made by congress is nearly $150,000. and Tillm an in opposition to what they on the measure.
tho supremacy o f the treaties, in one
The District of Columbia appropria-
H ayti and Germany are quarreling. Pay o f the delegates has stopped, and regarded ns un effort to prevent the u on bill, carrying $10,724,523, an in- instance holding that the treaty rights
i f congress does no come to the rescue Bonth from getting a «lesirable class of |
<if $087,298 over the amount as of alien* to )><>*•<’** real «Ntate could not
The floods in Nebraska are receding.
with an additional appropriation, some immigrants.
passed by the house, was taken up and bo destroyed by a state law.
A bill for woman surffage has been o f the delegates w ill be in a bad way,
1 illman s remarks on the Japanese n,,tjce has ls*«*n given that tin* bit! w ill
introduced in the house of commons.
as they cannot afford to stay longer at question brought a warning from L s lg e I hj put on its passage tomorrow.
LO SSES MADE K NO W N.
that if they were continued lie should
The house land committee has yield their own expense. Advices are com
Washington, Feb. 12. — A fter the
move that tlie discussion proceed b«*-
ed to Roosevelt's plea for the leasing of ing in from the state that citizens here
hind closed doors. International re (sissage of u ntmils-r of hills under F ire In su ran ce C o m p an ies S u ffe re d to
coal land.
and there are subscribing to funds to ferences were not made afterward by unanimous consent the hous«* today ri*
E x te n t of S I80,O O O .O O O .
Discharged negro soldiers declare send the delegates back to their jolis. Tillm an.
solved itself inu» committee o f the
New York, Feb. 18. -Tho committee
there was a plot to k ill them at Neighborly farmers who do not wish
whole to consider the naval appropriu
to see the convention entirely in the
Washington. Feb. 15. — The house, tion hill. A number of reooinmenda o f the five o f tho thirty flvo in*urancn
Brownsville.
hands o f the lawyers, the politicians
after a highly inter«*sting delsite, t,slay tion* of the naval appropriations com companies which acted in unison in set
The house pension committee ha« an and the urban element, have promised
passed the naval appropriation hill, mittce were elim inated on points of tling their San Francisco losses by fire
nounced that it has completed its work to take care o f the farm work o f the
rural statesmen. The daily attendance which carries in round numiiers $96, order. The army appropriation hill and earthquake, today made public in
fort his session.
at the session is now less than 75 per 000,000. Burton o f Ohio made an un the fortitb-atlons appropriation* hill this city the list o f their net losses by
The president has reached a final eent o f the 122 delegates, and manv o f successful effort to strike out the pro and the omniube lighthouse hill w* r,
tho disaster. The estimated round vnlue
agreement w ith the Californians on those still here sit sullenly in their vision for an additional Isittleship of sent to <*onferpn<*e
o f the destroyed or diimaged property
the school question.
seats and let the leaders run things to the Dr«*adnaught type.
The naval appropriation hill was con
insured by tho 233 companies in San
suit themselves.
An
amendment
by
F
’oss
was
adopted,
sidered
by sections under the live-
Senator Hopkins of Illinois, threat
Francisco was $315,000,000, and there
Prominent delegates from Indian T er lim itin g to $800,000 «*aeh the cost of minute rule.
ens to talk the river and harbor hill to ritory and some from Oklahoma are
was a net insurance loss o f $180,000,000,
death. H e would have a three weeks’ openly charged with a plot to defeat tw o torpedo Imat destroyers authorized
S e a ttle F a ir Bill M u s t W ait
covered by 102,000 policies. Tho gross
in the b ill, exclusive of armament.
task.
statehood entirely by dr-w ing up a con
Washington, FYb. 12.— Senator Piles
Another amendment, also by Foss,
loss o f all kind* by tho disaster is esti
The Postal Telegraph company has stitution that will be rejected by the was adopted, providing that, of the today attempted to call up Senator A n
people at the election next August. Those
keny’s bill appropriating $700,000 for mated by tho committee at $1,000,OOO.
announced an increase in pay for its
involved in the alleged plot have been vessels authorized in last year's naval government buildings and exhibits at OOO. The 35 companies, in th«*ir settle
employes following the action of the against making one state out o f the two b ill as well as in this year’s, not more
the Seattle exposition, but was unstic- ments, handled 42,077 claims.
Western Union in advancing wages.
territories for political reasons. Dis- than one battleship and one torpe«lo
c«*ssful. He has hope« of piissing the
The eight largest settlements on indi
Railroads of the United States need i a1fT,,''tion has now begun to pervade the boat destroyer or two torpedo boats
j j democratic members as well as those shall be built by one contracting party, hill through the senate later this week, vidual building* were: San Francisco
$500,000,000 for improvements, but
! on the republican side, and charges of
The postoffice appropriation b ill was hut it is understood no attem pt w ill he Hotel, $992,200; F’alrmount Hotel, $200,
since the Interstate Commerce com
..................... . i bossism have become so persistent that
taken
up under an agreement that gen made to have it a«*te«l on by tho house 000; Merchant*’ Exchange, $582,000;
mission inquiries they cannot obtain there ¡,
hnn<linn *'hp
before next winter.
is 3r,rir„
apprehension
the convention eral debate should cease at 12 noon.
the money on watered stock and the may break up.
Hhreve building, $384,497; Hprecknls
railway magnates don’ t know where to
Washington, F'eb. 16.— The Navy de ( • ’a ll) building, $515,000; Uhronicle
T h n rs d a y , F e b ru a ry 14.
look for relief.
partment was informed t«*lay by cable building, $480,000; Palace Hotel, $1,265,-
Sm oot's V ictory A ssu red .
Washington, F'eb. 14. — Tlie naval that the cruiser Chicago hud arrived at 000 ,
Floods in Nebraska have blocked
Washington, Feb. 19.—There appears appropriation b ill occupied the entire Acujutlu,1 Salvador, whither she hud
railway traffic.
to be not the slightest doubt that the tim e of the house today, and it was al be«*n sent from Magdalena Isiy to look
H e a re t W ine a R ound.
Castro has caused the wholesale ar senate will vote to permit Reed Smoot most completed. The single remaining after American interests during the ex
Albany, N. Y., F’eb. 18.--Supremo
s«*ction is that increasing the naval es isting friction between Nicaragua and
rest of suspected enemies.
to retain his spat when this famous case
tablishment. I t wa* allowed to go Honduras.
The vessel w ill lie kept Court Justice F'itts hns handed down
is
closed
on
Wednesday
next.
Smoot’s
Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, de
over until tomorrow, when it is expe<*t- w ithin rea :h of cable connection with decisions sustaining the position of A t
fends Smoot’s right to a seat in the friends claim to have 43 sure republican ed an effort w ill l>e made to reduce the the department for a few days, ready to torney Genernl William S. Jackson in
votes and anywhere from six to ten number of battleship* provided for in
senate.
meet any demande upon her.
the matter o f tho proceedings in the in
democrats. The probabilities are the
terest o f William R. Hearst to oust
The British cabinet has announced senate will hold that it will take a two-
C o n g re s s L e a d e rs to H e lp .
N e w 8 a n to D o m in g o T re a ty .
George B. McClellan from the office o f
thirds vote to oust Smoot, in which
the first step towards Irish home rule.
event 31 votes would save him; but i f
Wa*hington, F'eb. 13.— That the San
Washington, Feb. 13. — The pros!- mayor o f New York City. Justice F'itts
The Massachusetts legislature has it is decided that a majority vote would Francisco school question w ill be set d ,nt today sent to the senate tlie new decided that the attorney general hnd
petitioned congress to revise the pres vacate his seat, he will still have the tled is the general opinion in official tr aty with the repuhplic of Santo Do authority to hear the application o f Mr.
ent tariff laws.
necessary 46 votes and some to spare.
circels. Mayor Schmitz and his asso mingo relative to the revenues o f that Hearst for leavo to begin quo warranto
proceedings ngainst
Mr.
McClellan,
ciates
received a message from the pres country. It sets forth In the preamble
The Thaw trial has been postponed
hich was denied by Mr. Jackson’•
Kansas M ay Give * 7 5 , 0 0 0
Domingo has predecessor, Attorney General Mayor.
ident saying he desired to confer w ith the fact that Santo
on account of the death o f the wife of
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 19__ A bill appro them to«lay at 2:45 o ’ .clock. Secretary entered upon an agreement with her
one of the jorois.
priating $75,000 for the Alaska-Yukon- Root ha*l a long conference w ith Speak credit*« which is made contingent upon
S ig n al H o n o r fo r M u lk e y .
Pacific
Exposition was introduced in er Cannon and w h ile both declined to the fa«*t that this county shall collect
Hermann’ s original letters have been
Washington, F’eb. 18__ F'or half an
the senate this morning bv the commit talk, it is the general belief that the the money and it is then ageed that the
admitted as evidence in his letter book
tee on ways and means. The exposition
tria l.
Postponement has also been is to be held in Seattle in 1909, and the Japanese school question was discuss- president of the fJnit«Ml States shall ap hour Saturday Senator Mulkey, o f Ore
granted to give further tim e for the de- appropriation is to cover the cost o f a ed. It is admitted that communioa-1 point a representative of the govem - gon, presided over tho senate, whilo
fense to prepare for the admission of i building and making an exhibit for tions have been exchange*! between tlie rrient as receiver general to take charge the Japanese question was under discus
Ja|>aneee ambassador and Boot.
¡o f all the funds collected.
sion.
these letters.
I Kansas.
The merit by M cCriery, of Kentucky.
action retailt«*d.
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