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HITCHCOCK SEES
PET PLAN KILLED
Senate Rejects Rise in
Magazine Postage.
PARCELS POST DE4LT BLOW
Second-Class Mail to
Impartial Probe.
Have
SUPPLY BILLS HURRIED
Reapportionment of Congress Will
Be Impossible at Thl Session.
Tariff Board Asks for Facta
About Wool Industry.
I .ATE MOTFS FX COVGKT.
ODDoaltlon kr the SVnste to H
bill aukf Congressional repportlon
ir.nt by 6 1st Congress Impossible.
Xymrn conducts sllbuster en N Ktx
Ico bill In Fenate.
T
Senator FsJley nw4 la defest
tng p:an. for prcl. post.
VAMII.TO. Marrk 4V A. 4 .47
VIotbi tar aaa ta; a rr. wwftl
T 'rlsrk tbla BMralas. leartaar Svutar
Owes la p.nla mt tb Soar la -
all la a (a taa Sew Mrxlra ataf rkaa4 res
et at !.
WASHINGTON. March X. Postmaster
General Hitchcock saw his . favorite
schema for tha advance In poatal rates
on advertising sections of magazine
rat nut of tha Postofflcw appropriation
bill by the Senate today. Ila saw sub
. stltuted a provision fur a commlsalon of
thraa to Investigate the whole subject
of second-etas rates. The Mil appro
priates f :SV0vO.00O.
Penrose, chairman of the roatofflc
committee, recognised tha futility of at
tempting to secure the passaae of tha
bill with the nidtint rata feature em
bodied. It was clear that Senators who
opposed It would Impede tha regress of
tha measure so as to defeat t! at. If not
other legislation that offered promise, of
enactment.
Snbatlfnle Adoptrtt.
Though withdrawing tha provision,
renroae. hoped fr Its ultimata success.
Ifa secured the unanimous adoption of
a substitute suthnrlstnic the President to
appoint a commission of three to make
thorough Investigation of the coat of
randllng second -class matter. It Is pro
vided that one of the commissioners
shall be a Judicial offl-er of tha Gov
ernment and the other two shall be per
sona who hold no office and who have
bo connection whatever with tha Post
office Department or with sny maga
alne or newspaper.
Before pasalng tha Poatofflt-e bill, tha
Senate paad tha sundry civil and tha
naval bllla. both great supply messures
Tor administration of the Government.
Filibuster Starts Karlv.
An even score of weary-eyed Sena
tora faced Vice-President Sherman
when at I o'clock Friday morning ha
called tha Senate together. Stone al
most Immediately began a filibuster by
objection to dispensing with tha read
ing of the Journal.
A few minutes later he relented,
withdrew his objections and tha fur
ther reading was dispensed with. Im
mediately tho reading of tha sundry
civil bill was begun. It proved a for
midable document of IJs pages and
carrying fU2.7o:.SOI.
Tha Senate adopted tha House pro
Tlsion of tl.00o.ooo In tha sundry civil
service bill for beginning the work of
fortifying the Panama CanaL
The Senate adopted an amendm'ent
offered by Culberson cutting down the
House appropriation of f 400.000 to con
tinue the work of the temporary tariff
board to t:00.000 and making tha
amount available only for the fiscal
year 1U.
An amendment making conditional
appropriations for the permanent tariff
board la the event of Its establishment
by law was offered by Cummins and
adopted.
Itrpnrt on Wool Doty Ordered.
Culberson off-red an amendment di
recting the tariff board to report to
Congress not later than the first Mon
day In Ievember. 111. the. Iron and
steel, the cotton and cotton manufac
tures and the wool and woolen sched
ules. It was defeated 44 to 41. The in
surgent Republicans voted with- the
Democrats In favor of the amendment.
Culberson then offered the amend
ment requiring a report in tha time
specified on the wool and woolen
schedule alone. Thla was adopted.
tm motion of Owen, the Senate
struck out of the bill the appropria
tion of 110.000 for the prosecution of
Suits to set aside conveyances of al
lotted lands by the five civilised tribes
to Oklahoma. The bill then was passed.
The naval appropriation bill, carry
teg about i:S.00. Immediately was
ailed up.
Owen asked why the House had In
serted In the bill a provision that the
amount paid for armor plate should In
ao rase exceed too per cent above the
cost of manufacture.
renroae said he understood the en
tire proviso regarding armor plate. In
cluding the prohibition against pur
tCeaUu4e4 ea 1'aca
VANDAL SHEARS
GIRL'S TRESSES
HAIR XOT MISSED rXTIL MISS
RITTEIl REACHES IIOMK.
"Crownlnic Glory" Stolen Either at
Scliool or While Possessor Visits
Downtown Stores.
Miss EMher Rltter. aged 1L a student
In Lincoln High School, today Is minus
more than slg Inches of besutlful golden
brown hair, often spoken of. particularly
In her caae, as truly a '"crowning glory."
When the hair waa cut or by whom the.
girl is Ignorant, as she knew nothing of
it until her attention was called to the
fact by her mother on arrival home from
school Thursday afternoon.
Miss Rltter. because of her beautiful
long tresee". which exten.ied In two huge
braids far below her waist, has been the
envy of her friends and the pride of her
parents.
She "did her hair up" In the usual
neat, conventional way Thursday morn
Ing and went to school. She pursued
her studies, all unmindful of approach
Ing danger to her braids. After school
hours were done she did several errands
for her mother In the downtown shopping
district.
When ehe retimed homo her mother
noticed that her hair seemed shorter 'n
one braid than In the other. Closer scru
tiny disclosed the fact that someone had
clipped more than six Inches from one
of the braids. Esther waa wholly ignor
ant as to when It was done, whether at
school or In the store a.
Faculty and students at Lincoln High
School are aroused over the Incident and
Principal Davla probably will conduct a
rigid Investigation to aecertatn whether
the act was committed by a pupil. Miss
Rltter Is tho daughter of William Rltter.
of TSC Roosevelt street.
DOG -HURT; OWNER SUES
Hoy Coaster Rons Into Pop; $230 Is
Sought as Pay for Anguish.
Because the young son olCR. Holt,
dentist, coaatlng downhill, ran Into
the pet dog of Peter Jepson. city
fireman, and broka lis leg. the young
ster wss sued In Justice Court yester
day for damagea and the father,
who pays tha bills, la made a co-defendant.
The plaintiff figures that ha
and his dog were anguished to the
amount or ::S. and he says he paid
out 12 4 for medical attendance.
The complaint sets forth that Mrs.
Jepson was walking on Salmon street
la front of the defendant's residence
on Kings Heights, "wheeling a baby
carriage containing her Infant child
and a pet dog." Zip! came young Holt
down tha slippery and step siaewai.
causing Mrs. Jepson. baby carriage and
Infant child to flee In panic.
Less lucky wss the rup. The Jugger
naut struck him on the right hind
leg. crushing It so tltat It was neces
sary to perform an amputation.
GAIN BY PORTLAND FEARED
Washington Legislator Fight Coast
Highway as Aid of This City.
OLTMPIA. Wash.. March . Spe
cial.) Because It Is said that tha S&00.-
000 Pacific highway project would di
vert traffic t Portland, leading Wash
ington legislators have effected a com
bination to defeat the bill which was
Introduced by Senator Bassett of Aso
tin. Instead of a road running from Blaine
on the northern boundary to Vancouver.
It Is now proposed to oulld the Puget
Sound and Inland Empire Highway"
from Spokane to Puget Sound.
Opponents of the Bassett bill contend
that the projected Pacific highway would
be a feeder to Portland while an east
and west rosd would keep traffic be
tween the principal cities of the state.
The advocates of the new measure as
sert that they have a majority In the
Senate.
OLYMPIA PROBE PROBABLE
Detective Burns Slips Into CapHal
City and Slips Out Again.
OLTMPIA. Wash.. March X. Oneclal.)
It became known tonight that Ietectlve
W. J. Burns, who Investigated the Ore
gon and California kind frauds; who
helped clean up San Francisco and who
te now engaged in Seattle probing the
scandal In that city has visited Olympla
and that he la Interested. If not actually
engaged in doing some work for the
Mate.
It is said that he will look Into some
alleged frauds In connection with the
slate land department, and there is talk
to the effect that be is Interested In the
alleged combine among Insurance com
panies doing business on the Psclflc
Coast. Detective Burns came to Olympla
Tuesday night and departed In an auto
mobile without being recognised. That he
had been bere was not known until to
day.
WOMAN DIGS GOLD IN CITY
She Pays There Is Rich Dnst Under
Old Depot in Loa Angeles.
LOS ANGELES. March . That gold
In large paying quantities lies mixed In
the dirt beneath the old Southern Pa
cific Arcade Depot. In the heart of the
East Side business district. Is the belief
of Mrs. Margaret Hunter, who filed to
day a notice of a placer location on tha
X acres of railroad terminal property.
Mrs. Hunter, who recently arrived
from the East, claims to have panned
much gold dust from tha dirt In her
back yard which abuts on the railroad
yards near the station. She proposes
to work her mine and build sluices and
riffles without reference to the conven
ience of the railroad.
It
RUEF MUST SHOW
HAND, SAYS COURT
If Appeal Is Made, He
Goes to Prison.
JUDGE LAWLOR FEARS TRICK
Order Is to Prevent Violation
of Agreement;
BOODLER STAYS IN JAIL
Ex-Boss Must Give District Attorney
Five Honrs' Notice, If lie Appeals.
Lawyers Say No Plan Is on
to Carry Case Higher.
BAS FRANCISCO. March Z. That
Abraham Ruef must give notice to the
District Attorney five hours before
taking any further legal steps looking
to the forestalling of his committment
to San Quentln Prison to serve 14 years
on a charge of bribery, was the order
made late today by Judge W. P. Law
lor. The court Indicated that the stay
of Judgment would be revoked lmmedl
ately upon such notification.
Ruef was summoned to Judge Law
lor's court this afternoon to explain
the rumored action of bis attorneys In
preparing to carry an appeal to the
Federal Courts against the order com'
mlttlng him to San Quentln.
Judge Explains Order.
When the ex-boss appeared In court.
he waa accompanied by Attorneys
George Keane and C. W. Cross. In ex
plaining his order. Judge Lawlor sub'
mltted the record msde on March 1 by
which Ruef was granted a six-day stay
of Judgment for the purpose of per
mlttlng the defendant to attend to his
personal business affairs.
Judge Lawlor said that when this
stay waa granted. Attorney Henry Ach.
representing Ruef, had promised that
the atay would be used only for the
stipulated purpose. Attorney Cross as
sured the court that no action had been
taken by Ruefs attorneys looking to
ward an appeal and Keane Joined him
In thla assurance.
No Appeal Prepared.
On being questioned concerning the
activities of his attorneys, Ruef de
clared that they had not prepared an
appeal, but said that If he had been In
court when Ach agreed to the stipula
tion of the court, he would not have
consented to It, as ha felt that It de
prived him of his constitutional privi
leges. Ieclar1ng himself not entirely satis
fied by the assurances of the defendant
and his attorneys. Judge Lawlor made
the order stipulating that the District
Attorney's office must be notified five
hours before any legal steps should be
taken to perfect an appeal.
Ruef then asked the court to allow
him to make frequent trips into the
city for the purpose of attending to the
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTER DATS Maximum temperature. 87
degrees; minimum 34 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; southeasterly winds.
Foreign.
Faterno proves to have brutally 'treated
Princess Trlgona and blackmailed her.
Page 8.
National.
Bill honoringCaptain R. E. Peary passed
by Congress. Paga z.
Government sues to dissolve company which
controls Incandescent electric . lamps.
rase 1.
House committee on Philippine land ssles
finds no wrongdoing by Ulana oincuua.
Psge S. .
Senate kills provision for higher postage on
znagasines. Fsge .1.
Taft abandons hope of passing reciprocity
tbls session and determines on extra ses
sion. Page 2.
Politics.
Senator-elect Sfyers states his political
creed. Paga 3.
Domestic
Ruef must keep District Attorney apprised
of legal moves, orders Judge. Page X,
Anna Bertha Grunspan grows hysterical
r when examined In suit against Walling.
Page S.
Howard Elliott offered presidency of Gould
roads; Gould family quarrel, rage 1.
Commercial and Marine.
Active demand for wheat for shipment to
Japan. Paga 19.
Upward tendency of wheat at Chicago.
Page 19.
Stock market nervous but firm. Page 19.
8teady Improvement In general trade condl
tions. Page 19.
Japanese lines start cereal rate war. Paga
IS.
Sports.
Crowd gives Brown victory over Ad Wol-
gast. paga 7.
Fine weather enables Beavers to have best
practice yet. Page 8.
Pactflo Korthwest.
Governor West Is besieged by applicants for
. superlntendency of btata Penitentiary.
Page 6.
Idaho Legislature falls to pass direct pri
mary measure over Governor's veto.
Page 8.
Washington woman hates schools; goes to
Jail for keeping children from public ed
ucation. Page 1.
Split In Washington Senate may bring
about defeat ox administration measures.
rage ft.
Portland and Vicinity.
Railroads expect msny settlers from Europe
to take advantage o colonist rates.
Page 14.
Bar association split with factions In forth
coming election. Page 12.
Elk canvassers for $125,000 convention fund
pass half-way mark. Page 11.
Harrtman llnee to occupy greater part of
Wells Fargo building. Page IS.
Central Oregon lines bid fair to carry 100
carloads of stock In first month of op
eration. Page 12.
Baker stock company to discontinue; noted
stage stars to appear at theater. Page 7.
Vandal mysteriously clips girl's beautiful
tresses. Page 1.
Syndicate burs Bend townstte adjoining
acreage and valuable concession for Sooo,-
000. Page 4.
SUNDAY CLOSING ASSURED
lfoqalam's Fight to Shut Up Tost-
office Is Won.
HOQnAM. Wash.. March t. (8peelal.)
The Postofflce at Hoqulam la to be
the first in the state to close on Sundays.
Announcement was made today by Post
master Ralph L. Phllbrlck as the result
of a communication he has received from
the department at Washington, D. C.
The change will not be put Into effect
next Sunday, but the following week.
Some time ago a movement was
torted by postal employes and was taken
up by the Commercial Club and the
churches and Improvement clubs of the
city to close the Postofflce on Sunday.
Petitions to the Postmaster-General
were prepared ana circulated, neing
signed by a large number of people.
These were forwarded to the Postmaster-General
and the communication re
ceived today Is the result.
Postmaster Phllbrlck will allow an
other week for protests to be made, but
probably will try out the experiment a
week from Sunday. The outgoing mall
will be dispatched and mail will be dis
tributed to the boxes but the general de
livery windows will be closed. -j
THE BIO END OF THE WISHBONE.
JAP,, ',) .AfMW
FIGHT BEGINS
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ELECTRIC TRUST
Government Says Mo
nopoly Makes Lamps.
EXTORTIONATE PRICE CHARGED
Bulbs Sold for 17 Cents at
Home, 10 Cents Abroad.
MARKET UNDER CONTROL
General Electric Company Said to
Head Combination of 35 Com
panies Wlckersham Asks In
junction of Wide Scope.
CLEVELAND. March 3. The United
States Government began a fight here to
day against what Is alleged to be one of
the most complete monopolies In the coun.
try, when suit was filed eLgalnst 35 con
cerns engaged In the manufacture of in
candescent lights.
The National Electric Lamp Company,
which has its headquarters here, and the
General Electric Company of New York
ere named as two of the defendants, and
together are charged with being the key
stone of a trust that haa ramifications in
every state in the Union.
According to the Government's peti
tion, the defendant companies are In a
conspiracy In restraint of trade and
thereby have control of 97 per cent of
the country's supply of electric lights.
The truat Is alleged to have had Its
origin soon after 1904, the year In which
the patents on, carbon filament lamps ex
pired, in 1906. it Is charged, a combina
tion known as the Independent Lamp
Manufacturers Association obtained con
trol of the lamp output and fixed prices.
allotted business and prescribed rules of
lie for Its members.
Exorbitant Profits Made.
The General Electric Company of New
Tork Is stated to have owned 7S.2 per
cent of the stock In this combination and
la accused of having obtained exorbitant
profits by restraining trade and forcing
high prices.
The petition asserts that the profits of
the combination, as paid In dividends.
were JSO.OOO in 1904; J260.000 In 1909 and
J300.000 In 1910. Last yeaT the company
mid to have held . 439,158 as an un
divided surplus. The capital is now
listed at 5,000.000.
The extent of the industry thus brought
under fire la shown In the statement that
approximately 0,000,000 lamps are sold in
this country every year for an aggregate
purchasing amount of 113.000,000.
Sweeping Injunction Asked.
The petition aska that the National
Electric Lamp Company be enjoined from
voting the etock or, or receiving any
dividends from the 30-odd corporations
alleged to have been acquired and con
trolled by It; that the other companies
be enjoined from paying dividends to the
National Electric Lamp Company; that
the General Electric Company, which, the
petition says, controls the holding com
pany, be enjoined from using Its stock
In that company; that existing agree-
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SCHOOLS BALKED;
MOTHER TO JAIL
BREMERTOX WOMAN DEFIES
AUTHORITIES ; PAYS PENALTY.
Kather Than Allow Children to Go
to Public School, Lockup Is Wei
corned to Fine Payment.
SEATTLE, 'Wash., March 3. (Spe
cial.) To uphold her principles, that,
the public schools are no fit place to
send children, Mrs. Mary M. Brown,
a well-to-do divorcee of Bremerton, be
gan today to serve a sentence of five
days In the King County Jail. She Is
doing this in preference to paying $10
and costs Imposed on her by Justice of
the Peace Turner, of Bremerton, for not
permitting one of her three children to
attend school.
Mrs. Brown, who Is reputed to be a
Socialist, has been in trouble before
Vith the Bremerton authorities.
T. M.. Alcorn, Superintendent of
Schools In Kitsap County, has made re
peated efforts this Winter to have Mrs
Brown send her children to school. She
persisted in her refusal, and when
brought before Justice Turner, declared
she would not send her children to the
public school, no matter what was done
with her.
Justice Turner strongly hinted to
Mrs. Brown that If she would give him
the least chance he would not punish
her4 but she scornfully refused to take
back anything she had said or to make
any appeal whatever for clemency.
Turner then Imposed the sentence.
NEW THEATER IS FAILURE
Company Loses $400,000 in Two
. Seasons and Will On it.
NEW TORK, March 3. (Special.)
Net losses amounting .to 3400,000 were
sustained by the directors of the New
Theater In the two years it has been
in existence. Owing to these losses
and the present unfavorable outlook
for the enterprise, the theater will not
be utilized by the New Theater Com
pany next year.
It is planned to lease it to managers
or companies desiring to produce plays
or give performances, much on the
plan that Carnegie Hall is leased. It
Is understood that the Metropolitan
Opera Company will use the theater
to give a series of ballet performances
next season. Possibly it may rent the
theater for performances of several
operas to be sung in English, and for
the appearance of Russian dancers in
their ballets.
The playing company of the New
Tueater win ba Kept in existence. Next
season It will make an appearance in
Manhattan in repertoire and later may
go on an extended tour. The directors
of the theater are said to be contem
plating the construction of another but
smaller theater In Broadway near
Forty-second street.
ALASKA ROMANCE ENDED
Mrs. Gibbs' Divorce Recalls Dog
Team Honeymoon In North.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3. (Special.)
A romance which had ita becrinnlne in
the icebound gold fields of Alaska, during
the Winter months five years ago, when
pretty Dorris Wright plighted her troth
to Stacey W. Gibbs, an assistant cashier
in the Washington-Alaska Bank of Fair
banks, ended today when Mrs. Dorria
Gibbs filed" suit for divorce In the Su
perior Court of San Francisco.
Gibbs, who Is an assistant cashier of
the Seattle National Bank at Seattle, Is
charged with commonplace non-support.
Mrs. Gibbs is now with relatives in San
Francisco and has been for more than a
year.
The wedding of Miss "Wright ani Gibbs
was a social event in the North. The
honeymoon waa begun by dog team over
the snow and on the return of the
young couple to their home, predictions
of a long and happy life on the matri
monial sea were everywhere made.
PORTLAND SETS FAST PACE
Bank Clearings In Last Two Weeks
Put City In First Rank.
Leading the country in the increase of
its bank clearings one week and the next
week being 3Cond only to one other
city Is the proud record of Portland for
the weeks ending February 23 and March
2 respectively.
Portland"a clearings for the current
week total 311,103,000, an increase of 29.3
per cent over the corresponding week of
last year. Los Angeles alone surpasses
this city in the volume of increase, the
advance there being 33.1 per cent. All
other coast cities- show smaller gains,
that for Seattle being only 8. per cent
and for San Francisco 3.S per cent. Ta
coma and Spokane report decrease of 1S.1
and 2.4 per cent respectively.
AVIATION RECORD BROKEN
Two Fly 106 Miles In Z Hours 1
Minutes in Army Aeroplane.
LAREDO, Texas, March 3. A world's
aviation record was broken between
this city and -Eagle Pass today when
Lieutenant Benjamin Foulols, U. S. A.,
and Aviator Philip C. Parmalee drove
an Army aeroplane 106 miles in 2 hours
and 7 minutes.
This Is a world record in point of time
and also a record for the United States
for a two-men flight.
Under Ideal weatlier conditions the ma
chine arose at Fort Mcintosh at 2 o'clock
this afternoon and the landing was made
at Eagle Pass at 4:07. Speed of a mile a
minute was made on several spurts.
Great crowds cheered the aviators when
they started and greeted them on land
ing. I
ELLIOTT TO HEAD
GOULD RAILOOADS
Best Paid and Most La
borious Job Offered.
FRIENDS ADVISE ACC3TOCE
Task Is to Reconstruct and
Re-Equip Whole System.
GOULD FAMILY QUARRELS
Frank Objects to Being- Displaced
While Klngdon, Mere Tyro, Holds
Place on Board Lawyers Aro
Seeking for Proxies,
ST. LOUIS, March 3. (Special.)
Howard Elliott is the choice of the
dominating group in the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad for successor to George
J. Gould. He has the proposal under
consideration and his friends have ad
vised him to accept it.
Should he come to St. Louis as head
of the principal Gould lines, and It la
deemed a certainty that he will, Mr.
Elliott will be the highest-salaried
and most powerful railroad executive
in the United States.
Such a burden as has been offered
to Mr. Elliott never weighed on the
should rs of an American captain oi
transportation. He will be expected tc
reconstruct every mile of line, provid
new equipment, reorganize all depart
ments of the service and manage 730t
miles of railroad, stretching from St.
Lov'. to Pueblo and from St. Louis and
Omaha to Texarkana, Texas, Lake
Charles, La., and Ferriday, La. An
other problem which will confront him
is the extension of the system to Gal
veston and Laredo.
The reconstruction and reorganiza
tion of a magnltudlnous railroad Ilka
. Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain & Southern, comprising
approximately 7&00 miles, never has
been undertaken before. At least
$110,000,000 will be furnished for re
construction, expansion and better
ment. FRANK GOULD . BEGINS FIG 111
He Will Resist Removal From Board
and Solicits Proxies.
NEW TORK. March 3. (Special.)
Missouri Pacific events, at odds with
the railroad's peaceful-sounding name,
have divided the house of Gould
against Itself. Frank Gould, now a di
rector in the road, strenuously objeqfs
to , leaving the directorate, while
George Gould's young son, Klngdon.
j remains on the board, and Wall street
beard today that Frank Gould had re
tained George S. .Graham, a Philadel
phia lawyer, and the services of Llddel
dorf, Williams & Company, of Balti
more, to make a fight for his place on
the board.
The agreement which followed the
determination of the allied anti-Gould
Interests to force representation in the
directorate of the road and to supplant
George J. Gould as its president pro
vided that Paul "Warburg, of Kuhn,
Loeb & Company; W. S. Marston, of
Blair & Company; and E. D. Adams,
representing the Interest of the
Deutsche Bank, should go on the board
in the place of Robert Galloway, and
Howard and Frank Gould. But as the
time drew near for the annual meeting
at St. Louis, March 14, the situation
grew' more and more displeasing to
Frank Gould. It is stated that he re
sented the idea of being taken from
the board while Klngdon Gould, only
Just entered upon the state of manhood,
was retained as a member.
It is asserted that Frank Gould then
employed the Baltimore firm and the
Philadelphia lawyer to ask for proxies
to be voted for his own interest in the
board, and that these proxies are now
being procured as rapidly as possible.
The Baltimore firm admitted today
that they desired representation on the
board and were making a fight for it.
CZAR WILL
HELP SERFS
He Will Complete Grandfathers
Work for Their Emancipation.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 3.; In an
imperial rescript today. Emperor
Nicholas announces his intention to
complete his grandfather's work for
the emancipation of the serfs by trans
forming the peasants into economically
strong land-owners.
This may be achieved, the Emperor
says, by affording the peasants facili
ties to leave their communes ind by
Improvement in agricultural science.
BOXER UPRISING FEARED.
Anti-Foreign Agitation in Manchuria
Becoming Serious.
ST. PETERSBURG. March 3. Re
ports received from Mukden tell of
growing anti-foreign agitation in Man
churia and rumors of a probable Boxer
uprising.
According to reports, the Eastern
newspapers are urging their governments-to
take measures for the pro
tection of their subjects in the affected
districts."