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I. VOL. XLIII. yO. 13,1G4. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUBBER CRACK-PROOF AND SNAG-PROOF BOOTS Goodyear Rubber Company B. II TRASH. President. 100 PICTURES Club, of Chicago NOW ON EXHIBITION In our new ground floor Photographic Dept., cor. Fourth and Alder Sts THE PUBLIC IS INVITED BLUMAUER-FRAINK DRUG COMPANY Wholesale, Importing and Manufacturing Druggists. ' SHAW'S PURE 6j BLUMAUER & HOCH 108 and 110 Fourth Street Sole Distributer for Oregon and Washington. J. F. PAVIES. Pres. Charles Hotel CO. (INCORPORATED). FRONT AND MORRISON STREETS PORTLAND. OREGON European Plan Rooms 50c to $1.50 First-Class Restaurant In Connection HOTEL PERKINS Fifth and Washington Streets EUROPEAN PLAN Flnt-CIau Cfcrclc Rtitunnat Csmnectsd With Hotel. SHAFTING CUT TO LENGTH, KEYSEATED AND STRAIGHTENED FURNISHED IN CONNECTION WITH OUR Power Transmission Specialties WILLAMETTE IRON & STEEL WORKS PORTLAND,. OREGON, U.S. A. Portland Safe .& Lock Co. Sole Agents BARNES PATENT SAFES HERRING-HALL-MARVIN SAFE CO. Successors HALL SAFE fc LOCIC CO. 76 First Street, corner Oak PORTLAND SEED COMPANY Wholesale and Retail Dealers In Seeds, Poultry and Bee Supplies Roses, Trees, Sprays and Spray Pumps Now Located 180-182-184-186 Large 1903 Seed Annual Free. BANK AND OFFICE RAILINGS BARBED WIRE, WIRE MO liWH faCHB. Portland Wire & Iron Works MANUFACTURERS. 147 FRONT ST MUST PAY SPAIN DAMAGES Heavy Penalty on Scotch Shipbuild er for Sot Finishing Ships, EDINBURGH, Feb. 18. The Court of Sessions today awarded the Government of Spain $337,500 In the action begun here J January 20 by the Spanish Minister of .Marine, sancuez ira, iu recover t,urj i from the Clyde Bank Engineering & Shlp- Bulldlng Company, because or the com pany' failure to deliver In centract time four torpedo-boat destroyers, which had been Intended for use during the Spanleh Amerlcan War. In the course of the Judgment, Lord Killachj. the presiding Judge, said he thought It more than probable that if Spain', even In the Spring of 1S97, had been In a position to establish a really effective blockade in Cuba against the unloading of munitions of war. the In surrection might .have been crushed and American intervention have been avoided. He therefore allowed Spain $2500 per week for the 133 weeks' delay. Bx-Mnjror of Frescott Dead. CONVERSE, Ind., Feb. 18. Judge John .Howard, six times Mayor of Prescott, Ariz., died here today, aged 3 years. BELTING, PACKING AND HOSE GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 73-75 First St.. Portland. Or. Comprising the individual exhibit of MRS. CLAUD GATCH before the Camera America's ORIGINAL MALT WHISKY Without a Rival Today MALT J. TV. BLAIN". Sec ud Trea. PORTLAND, OREGON i. jwa m err ut nooms doubi . Rooms Family . ......fl.00 to 2.00 pr day ....... S.I.BO to . loo psrosjr THB ESMOND HOTEL CSUB AKOEBSOX, Htairer. Front and Morrison Streets, PORTLAND - OREQON FREE BU!I TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS. Rates European plan, 50c. T5c, J1.00. JL50. COO per day. Sample rooms lp connection. Front Street, corner Yamhill Large 1903 Seed Annual Free Poultry Netting WHOLESALE . EETA1L . WIRE AND IRON FENCING WERE ACCUSED FALSELY Rich Americans Arrested at Singa pore Boxers limy in China. VICTORIA, B. C Feb. 18. Two Amcrt- mnc Mpshts. firo sim ever and Hopkins. f e'an Francisco, who were passengers from Hong Kong for England, were taken rr0m tne steamer at Singapore on January 3, according to mall advices from that port, and arraigned In the ponce court. charged with stealing $W from a Hon; Kontr hotelkeeDer. It was shown that : mistake had been made, and the Ameri cans, men of wealth, were at once re leased. According to a Tientsin dispatch to the Asahl. hundreds of Boxers snowing threatening attitude have assembled at Yutlen Chang. Chi LI Province. The Pre fect took measures for the arrest of th- ringleaderr, when the whole body made resistance. The prefect has applied to the Viceroy asking that troops may be sent to suppress the Boxers. The Cheklang rebels were reported to have suffered a reverse. A dispatch from Pckln to Japan papers toys the Governor at Chlnklang reports that the rebel forces were defeated at Toucbowfu and com pletely routed. m MORE Senator Friday Night or None at All. AGONY MUST END THEN Democrats Could Do Things if They Would. FULTON MEN STAY TOGETHER Miillnrmnh Force Still Aloof Possi bilities Are Many, tint What Will Hnppen Before Fateful Mid night Hour So One Know. THE VOTE AT SALEM. Fulto.l 33 Geer "r Wood Scattering 10 Absent and paired 9 Total 00 SALEM. Or., Feb. IS. (Staff correspond encesA United States Senator must be elected within the next two days, or the possible deadlock. will within that time be a reality. The Legislature, has, after a brief tussle, decided to end Its more or less fruitful labors Friday at midnight. Mr. Fulton wanted to terminate the agony then, and opposition was Indifferent. The House, however, at first thought It should have one more day to clear the congested calendar, and amended the Senate reso lution for Friday adjournment to Satur day. The Senato refused to accept the amendment, and appointed several able strategists on the conference committee to settle the little dispute. The result was that the Houso cheerfully receded and concurred In the original Senate resolu tion, and adjournment Friday and a dra matic midnight finish to the 40 days war may now be regarded as assured. Then everybody "will know where "he Is at,' which is the thing nobody knows now, and can not know until the end. It has been a restless and unsatisfactory day for all the candidates. Much has been doing, but nothing determinate. The Ful ton people held their own in the Joint convention, and opposition accelerated the movement toward Geer, giving him an' other vote. Senator Johnston was on hand, and the exGovernor's figure was. therefore, run up to 275 less thai Ful ton, whose total, however, is really 34, counting himself and one member absent and paired. This handsome aggregate gave Geer"s friends a fine chance to spec ulate on what might happen if any one of several contingencies were to arise. Sup pose the 17 Democrats were to be over come by a sudden and irresistible desire to obey the mandate of the people and rush In a body to the Geer camp. It would give him 44 votes, or within one of an election. It was to easy think that If he had 44, some complacent member of the Fulton forces, or the Multnomah del egatlon. or the scattering opposition would yield to the popular clamor and complete the great transaction by adding the needed Cth. This thrilling speculation was quick- ly dispelled by speedy adjournment of the convention, and the man who got 45.000 votes In June did not get 45 on this day of grace. The Democrats could be a potent fac tor In the Senatorial scramble II tney would. But they will not. With unfalter ing devotion and at the sacrifice of a yearning desire to break into the game, they have decided to stand by C E. S. Wood to the last ditch and die with him there. They have in mind the example of other, though not belter, uemocrais who have aided a Republican to cut the pie, nnd It Is not of record that they were ever in at any subsequent feast. The voice of the people has not gone thunder ing into their respective tympanl so nois ily as It has been dinned into tne ears ot the Geer followers: but it has got there lust the same. So tne .Democrat ana what they might do if they would may a? well be eliminated from all calculation, except so far as by their attendance they make It more difficult to get the required majority. Mr. Fulton Is satisfied for the present to make no headway. He Is diligently pur suing the herding process. His tactics are to keep his flock Intact and then force the opposition to him. All things come to him who waits. If he can wait long enough. If then he can endure to the end he thinks hla reward will be a cer tificate of election. If this Is the way he long has sought and mourned because he found It not, he remembers, too, that Joy cometh in the morning sometimes. It may come next baturaay morning about 12:01 o'clock amid a great sounding of timbrels and beating of .drums. It all depends on the clock and President Brownell with his little gavel, and inci dentally the Legislature. The Multnomah delegation haa to date eluded all efforts of the Clatsop gentle man to draw support from it. It cannot be said that he has at all given up hope In that direction, but It can be said with reasonable assurance, that the 19 men from Multnomah show 1cm Inclination than ever toward him. What will happen in the final fateful moments no man can say. Under pressure and excitement there nay be a break, but it is to be re membered that the same influence work ing on the men from Multnomah at that time will surround the Fulton people themselves. If the Multnomah delega tion develops a plan of campaign that looks practicable, and Is at all inviting to the Gcer people, an alliance between them would be natural and even certain. Or. vice-versa. If the Gcer men -were to offer a candidate satisfactory to the Multno mah delegation It would result In amal gamation and possible success. But the difficulty la and has been to find o meet ing point. The Multnomah people as a whole show no disposition or purpose to accept Gcer, and the Gccr people say the real candidate from Portland. If It has any, has not been seriously or finally pro posed. E. B. P. FOR KX-GOVKItSOIt T. T. GKF.lt, 27. Bailey of Mnllnomnh Goes to Marlon County Sinn. , SALEM, Or., Feb. IS. (Special.) Repre sentative Bailey furnished the only sensa tion of the Joint convention today, nnd It was Just a little one. The roll call had proceeded to the end. and there was noth ing doing, except that everybody recorded his vote exactly oa he had done the day before. The eight Multnomah men who yesterday left the geographical limits of Multnomah and marched Into the Geer camp were In the same place. Bailey, who Is first on the roll call after the ab sent Adams, had voted for George 1L Williams. Bailey arose while the Clerk was casting up the totals. The hum and buzz and mild uproar which had followed the calling of the latft name. Instantly subsided and all eyeo were fixed on Bailey. He paused a moment In order that what be had to say might have due weight. and then ho uttered these words: "Mr. President, I desire to change my ote to T. T. Geer." There was a shout from the Geer lobby. The Joint convention then adjourned. The vote resulted: For C W. Fulton Booth. Both. Brown ell. Carnahan, Carter, Cornett, Dlmmlck, Eddy, Edwards. Emmltt, Farrar, Gault, Glnn, Hahn. Hale, Hnnabrough. Harris, Hawkins. HInes. Huntley, Kuykcndall. LaFollett. Marstera Miles, Phelps, Purdy. Rand. Riddle. Shelley, Smith of Yamhill. Webster, Williamson 32. For Geer Bailey, Burgess, Cobb. Crol- san, Daley, Danneman, Davey, GUI, Hay- den. Hobson, Holman. Howe, Hudoon, Hutchlnoon. Johnson of Grant, Johnston of Wasco. Judd, Kay, McGinn. Mulkey, My ers, Nottingham. Paulsen. Reed, Sim mons, Stelwer, Whealdon 27. For C E. S. Wood Bilyeu, Blakloy, Burleigh. Contrail. Galloway. Kramer. Miller, Murphy. Olwell, Pierce, Bobbins, Smith of Umatilla, Sweek, Test, Wade, Wchrung 16. For George H. Williams Fisher, Hod- son. Jones of Multnomah, Mays, Smith of Multnomah 6. For Dan J. Malarkoy Banks, Orton 2. r or jj. v. Jlulkcy Hume. For M. C George Hunt For A. U Mills Malarkey. Paired Hermann and Jonca of Lincoln. Absent Claypool, Adams, Fulton 3. MAJOR GLENN ACQUITTED Bnt General DnvU Ill-inpproTex Or. der for Shooting of Gnldra. MANILA. Ftb. 18. General Davis has approved the finding of the court-martial In the cae .of Major Edwin G. Glenn, of the Fifth Infantry, who was acquitted January 29 of the charge of unlawfully killing prisoners of war. with the qualifi cation that he disapproves of, the orders isuea oy iujor Glenn. The General says he recognizes the prln clple that guides may be Impressed and that treacherous guides may be executed, but hi adds that Major Glenn's orders showed a reckless disregard for human life which the General condemns and renrob-itts. Cnptnln Persuing; Sovr a Dntto. MANILA. Feb. IS. While Captain Per- shlng was at Bayan, the Moro stronghold In the Lanao district of the Island of Mln danao, the Morus consecrated him a datto. which Is a priestly office. After the con secration the Moro leaders and Captain Pershing subscribed to peace over a copy of the Koran. When the United States flag was raised over the Bayan forts Cap tain J'ershlng't batteries saluted It with firing shrapnel shells, having no saluting cartridges. The execution done by the shrapnel deeply impressed the Moros. CONTENTS OF TODAY'S PAPER. Satlonnl Affairs. Government wins first decision In suit against beef trust, rage 1. House disagrees with Senate on Army bill after hot debate. Pape 2. Senators protest asalnst attempt to end state hood debate. Page 2. Cortelyou sworn In as Secretary of Commerce. rate 2. Mother ot dead soldier says officer killed htm ilth water cure, rase -' Domestic. Italian Insurance swindlers accused of whole sale murder, rage Blizzard continues unmitigated everywhere east of Hocky Mountain. Page 7.- Venezuelan court awards American heavy dam ages against Venezuela. Page 3. Foreign. All European powers "M ct together against Turkey. Page 3. Dancer nf war In Central America Is over. Page ' Xorthwrst Legislatures. A Senator roost be elected FrIJay night, the deadlock will be a reality. Page 1. Lower Uoue paes three Important flsh laws. Page 4. Banking and county division bills bring many lobbyists to Olympla. Page 3. Lower Hotve passes bill to pay Indian war veterans tlMMOO. page 5. Bill orovldlmc for two tax payments paisss lower Boose. Page 4. Pacific Coast. BtreeKar Is teld up In Los Angeles. Page 0. Provlrloa Is made for wlrles telegraph system to Honolulu. Page & Senator Simon reports favorably Foster's bill aiklng S73.O0O for Improvements to McNeil prison. Page 0. Moodr discovers why Indian war veterans' claims are rejected. Page 1. Inquiry Into administration of land laws not to be held. Page 3. Sports. Minor Learue Association will carry baseball war Into California. Page 12. Louis Cure, the Frenchman, wins bulla ra championship from SlcfWJB. Page 12. Commercial and Marine. Review of trade In the local markets. Page 13. Wheat declines at Chicago on report of Argen tine shipments. Psge 13. Postponement of gold exports. Page 15. Eastern prune market In better condition. Page 14. Henry Clews' Wall-street letter. Page 14. Progress of work on the Port of Portland dry dock. Page 14. Regulator steamers to receive oil bnrnsrs. Pare 14. Two steamer loads of wheat for San Kran- cbjco. Pajre 14. Captain Illff writes about his stowaways. Page 1. Portland nnd Vicinity. Oskar Ruber Is elected engineer and suoerln- tendent of grounds for Lewis and Clark Fair. Pace' 10. Council postpones action on oil tanks until March 4. Page 10. Council votes that street lighting stall be by arc lights only. Page 10. North Dakota editors arrive today. Page 12. LAW IS BROKEN Decision Given Against Beef Trust. AN INJUNCTION IS ISSUED udge Grosscup Says Packers Are Conspirators. HEY HAVE RESTRAINED TRADE First of Knox's Suits Against Trnsts Is Won liy Government Packers Will DanbtlCHs Oppose Grant ing Permanent Injunction. Judge Grosscup. of the United States Circuit Court, at Chicago, yesterday granted a temporary Injunction re straining the meatpackers from con tinuing their combination, known as the beef trust. He holds that they have entered into combination In restraint of competi tion. In violation o the Sherman anti trust act. The packers In question, who control 00 per cent. of the business, have 20 davs In which to deny tho facts" on which the decision is based. Then evi dence may be taken, and Judge Gross cup will decide whether to make the In junction permanent. They may appeal now, or await Judge Grosscup'a final decision before doing so. CHICAGO. Feb. IS. The so-called "beef trust" case was disposed of today by Judge Grosscup In the United States Cir cuit Court, the demurrer of tho packers belnc overrulfMl nnrl n tomrwif-n-,. ini,nA- tlon granted. The attorneys for the pack- ot-o . . .v..,. , Intentions. They have until March 4 to ' dlsrussi ihf matter with fk,! t i i - tr lh. , t.l.u -t..J nJr::,. Z Cr . . .T .. Grosscup based his decision, the matter might go before a Master of Chancery, who will hear the evidence, and the case will again be argued before Judge Gross cup. An appeal may be taken. In order to hasten the final adjudication of the case. It is not believed likely that the packers will let the matter go by default, thus making the Injunction permanent. "Commerce," .said Judge Grosscup In his decision, "is the sale or exchange of commodities. But that which tho law looks upon as the body of commerce Is not . . . , . ' , , f , , V " " ,, f . H,63. ,,n,ercu"n" the initiatory and Intervening act. 'nstnt- mentalities and deallngs-that directly bring about the sale or exchange. Thus, though the sale or exchange Is a com mercial act, so also is the solicitation of the drummer, whose occupation It Is to bring about the sale or exchange. The whole transaction, from Initiation to cul- 1 mlnatlon. Is commerce. When commerce, thus broadly defined, Is between parties dealing from different few days at a Ume to lnduce iarEe ship states, to be effected, so far as the Imme- ments. and then ceasing from bidding to diate net or exchange goes, by the trans- hfnl ,.. ii..Mtnpk thus shlDDed at urlces portation from state to state, it Is 'com- much lesg than It would Drinfr , the reg. merce between the states' within the , u,ar way; (c) ln agreeing at meetings be meanlng of the Constitution and the stat- thpm ,, DrlCeS to be adoDted by ute known as the Sherman act. But It Is not tho transportation that makes the transaction Interstate commerce. That is an adjunct only, and only essential to commerce, but not the test. The under lying test Is that the transaction as an entirety. Including each part, calculated to bring about the result, reaches Into two or more states; and that the parties deal ing with reference thereto deal from dif ferent states. An interstate commercial transaction ln this sense Is an affair aiis- RETIRING JUDGE lisssssssssssssssilsslS JUSTICE: GEORGE SHI II AS, JR. Ing from different states and centering In the acts of exchange, each essential part of- the affair being as much commerce a? is the center. With this definition In mind, let us see what the transaction made out In the petition Is. Fncta of the- Case. "For the purpose of clear exposition, the facts set forth In the petition should bo separated into two groups those that are IntendeM to bring the transaction within the body of Interstate commerce, and those those that are Intended to fix upon such transaction the character of unlawful combination and conspiracy. The first group may be stated as follows: The de fendants, controlling CO per cent of the trade and commerce In fresh meats In the United States, buy lh the course of their business livestock, shipped from points throughout the United States, which, hav ing been converted into tresh meats. Is sold again by them at the places where prepared to dealers and consumers In other states; or Is sold through their agents, located In other states, to. dealers nnd consumers In the states where the agents arc located. The shipments In the first class of sales are made directly from the places where the meat Is prepared to the dealers and consumers In other states, and in the latter class to tho agents In the" other states, who. upon sale, deliver CIrectly to the dealer and consumer. What may be called. the body of these transac tions Is twofold. It reaches backward to the purchases of cattle that come to de fendants from states other than those In which defendants manufacture, and It reaches forward to the sale of meats after conversion to parties dealing with respect thereto from other states, followed by ' shipments Into other states. Each of these transactions constitutes. In my Judg ment, Interstate commerce. "Coming to the other branch of the ' transaction the sales by defendants a like result follows. Unquestionably, It Is Interstate commerce when purchasers from other states buy directly .from the defendants, and have the meats shipped to them by the vendors. Tho status of such a transaction, both as to the Initiatory ' intercourse, and as to transportation in furtherance of the exchange. Includes a ' state other than the one from which de fendants deal. I think tho same is true of meat sent to agents and sold from their stores. The transaction in such case in reality Is between the purchaser and the agent's principal. The agent represents , the principal at the place where the ex . change takes place, but the transaction, i as a commercial entity. Includes the prin cipal, and Includes him as dealing from his place of business. Indeed, such priv ity exists between the principal and the transaction that he could, at the Instant, as a citizen of another state, sue upon the ! transctlon ,n . have I any que the Federal courts, nor any question that. If the conditions of this case were reversed, so that the de fendants were Invoking the shelter. In- ' ' e commerce clause. Federal law ,., . , . . , , asked. "Because a thing can be taxed by tho state, ft does not follow that it lies out side the body of Interstate commerce, for commerce. Interstate as well as .domestic Is subject to the police and taxing power of the state, so long as the exercise ot such power does not interfere with the National Government's exclusive right of regulation. i .. ., . ,, grouping tlx upon the transaction, even though the transaction be within the body ' of interstate commerce, the character of unlawfu, Tne averments - . .,,,0, ra engaged In an unlawful combination and 1 conspiracy under the Sherman net ln (a) directing and requiring their purchasing i agents at the markets where the livestock was customarily purchased to refrain from ' j bidding against each. other when making i th.,p .,.,. the Drlce of livestock for a all, and restriction upon the quantities of meat shipped; (d) ln directing and requir ing their agents throughout the United States to impose uniform charges for cart age for delivery, thereby Increasing to dealers and consumers the charges for such meats; and (e) ln making agreements with transportation companies for rebates and other discriminative rates. "No one can doubt that these averments iConclJded on Second Page.) OF SUPREME COURT. GUTS RED TAPE Moody Makes Find of Indian War Records. BURIED IN PENSION OFFICE Veterans' Claims Rejected on Technical Grounds. BECAUSE RECORDS WERE GONE He Proponei Dill to Put Them "Where They Can lie Founil Pension Of ce Stick to Letter of Lxivr, Denpite Promises. Representative Moody has discovered the reason whj- many aDDllcatlons veterans of Indian wars for pensions are rejected, and Is neeklnff to have the remedr applied. Claims are rejected because the rec ords fall to how ftervlce. but Mr. Moody haa discovered that years ago the records In question were stowed away ln the archives of the Pension Bureau and forrotten. He has introduced a resolution to have thee records placed In the War De partment. When this Is done claims can be verified and allowed. A ftimllar discover" was made regard lnt; repords of the Cayuse war. The Pension Bureau lnMsts on strict compliance with the law, despite prom ises to the" contrary. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Feb. 18. Since hla attention his been called to the fact that a number of claims Of Oregon Indian War veterans are being rejected either because "the records of the War Department fail to show service of .the claimant," or "there Is no record of his having received pay from the United States," Reprcsentitlve Moody- has been conducting a systematic Investigation to determine why the rec ords are deficient. After several weeks' search he. finds that the rolls of many of the old companies are not properly filed ln the record divisions of the War Department, but had years ago been put away In bundles In the archives of the Pension OJfice, without classification. without any record whatsoever; In fact, their presence there was ;iot known to a. single official of the Pension Office. He further finds, since through his efforts the records have been recovered, that pensions are still disallowed because the records of the War Department" do not show service, a mere technicality upon which adverse action is being taken ln many cases. To cure this evil, and ln order to have the records properly filed and recorded, he has Introduced and will secure tho passage of a resolution authorizing the transfer of all Indian War rolls from the Pension Ofllce to the record division of the War Department, where all other military records are now kept. When th Is done, many of the Oregon and other Indian War claims that have heretofore been rejected or still an alt action, will be passed to Issue. Cbju.c War Claims Old. Mr. Moody further discovers that many claims of survivors of the Cayuse War are being rejected because clilmants cannot show pay by the Government and the rolls of this war do not show tho length of service. In running down this class of claims many of them of men who have received bounty heretofore. Mr. Moody discovers that years ago an Ort1- gon commission filed with the Auditor for the War Department a. list of men who served ln the Cayuse War. Those whoso names appeared on the list were paid for their services and the Territory ot Oregon reimbursed to the extent ot J100, 000. Those veterans of the war whose names were not certified by the commis sion were never paid and the territory never drew from the Government any al lowance for their service. Apparently, therefore, owing to the lim ited information contained on the old company rolls, the only salvation for these, deserving veterans Is to now file claims for pay with the state and have the.state seek reimbursement through the Government. This, of course, will prob ably make It necessary for the next Con gress to " amend the Indian War pen sion act so as to recognize the claims of survivors of the Cayuse War without this suggested requirement, for these claims are as meritorious, as those of veterans whose names were certified by the old commission. Pension Bnrenu Strict. Mr. Moody discovered the status of these Cayuse claims In running down the case of Mary E. Carnahan. of Clat sop," widow of Hiram Carnahan. who served ln the Cayuse War ln 1S47-4S. Car nahan had secured 160 acres of land war rants, but his name was not listed by the commission. The Pension Office holds that the granting of a bounty or the evi dence upon which said bounty was granted cannot be held sufficient for tho allowance of pensions. 'Despite protestations to the contrary. It is evident that the Pension Office Is demanding a very strict compliance with, the law In all Indian war pension cases and Is not showing that liberality which had been expected. Japanese Envoy Dies. YOKOHAMA. Feb. IS. Prince Komatsu, who was the envoy of Japan at the coro nation of King Edward, died today of an affection of the brain.