THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. JULY 14, 1907. HIS APPEAL A SHAM provincial Parliament, only to be vetoed by the Federal Government. The Legis lature of the Coast province also has passed bills based on what is known as the Natal act. whereby all immigrants are compelled to undergo examinations in the elements of English, and are subject to deportation should they fall to pass. These have been disallowed twice by the Dominion Government, but have been re passed and are now In force in the prov ince. This year's British Columbia exclusion law, compelling Japanese to subject themselves to the educational test, has not been vetoed. Consequently it pre vents the landing of any Japanese, unless a head tax of $45 is paid. m m city Higher Court Turns Down Schmitz' Last Plea. Voliva Threatens to Build a Rival Plant. o i r r . r iV r r - .1 . amiies or oatisraction wrmen on uie race or everyone mat has taken advantage of the greatly reduced prices at ATTACK ON DUNNE FAILS HE DENOUNCES OPPONENTS in St Request lor Mandate Based on Mis representation and Felon Major's Lawyers Are Snubbed Why the " Appeal Is Delayed. SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.-Mayor Schmitz suffered another defeat this morning when bis application to the District Court of Appeals to compel Judge Dunne to set a date for settling the bills of exceptions in the case in which he was convicted of extortion was not granted. C. W. Cobb, representing the prosecution, declared that the peti tion was a sham aad a pretense laid upon a foundation of mis statements and deception. The petition charges that Judge Dunne was biased: alleges that he has refused to settle the bill of exceptions and that he is pur posely hindering the perfection of the appeal In order to keep Schmitz in the County Jail. In his answer to the petition. Mr. Cobb denied these accusations, narrated the circumstances causing the delay, and de clared that Judge Dunne hns been will ing to expedite the settlement as the statute directs. After hearing this, Presiding Judge Cooper said that, as a' question of fact was involved, the court would not at tempt to i.sue a peremptory writ until the issue had been settled. The hearing was thereupon indefinitely continued, the court expressing a belief that Judge Dunne vill do his duty. ' The attorneys for Schmitz sought to have the hearing postponed to Tuesday, but Judge Cooper disposed o it by say ing: 'When tliis alternate writ was issued, it was on a verified complaint charging that the Judge had refused three times to settle the bill of exceptions. The an swer raises a distinct issue, and It will . be necessary to take testimony before it , Is determined. The answer further re cites that the Judge is willing to per- form his duty. 1 don't think the time of I this court should be taken up with such a hearing. We will allow the matter to stand, and if the Judge does not do his duty wc will see that ho does." TROSECUTOIt ACCEPTS DUTY Langtlon Says lie and Assistants Will Xante "ev Mayor. RAN FRANCISCO. July 13. A confer ence was held today by District-Attorney Iangdon, his assistant, F. J. Heney, and Rudolph Spreckels on the question of se lecting a new Mayor. After the meeting Mr. Langrion said: "The prosecution realizes that the re sponsibility of naming the Mayor has been forced upon us and we have decided .to accept such responsibility. While we may not be ready to name the man at .Monday's meeting of the Board of Super visors, we will Bo so within the next few days." Following the Intimation of Mr. Lang lon that no arrangement had been made . or a successor to Schmitz and Boxton. It was rumored tonight that ex-Mayor James D. Phelan is the man. but that It Is uncertain whether he will accept the . office In its present tangled condition. JAPANESE READY TO FIGHT (Continued from First Page.) apposite sides of the globe arouses at Srst a sense of the differences between them. Each matches his superiority Bgainst the other. Each Indulges in contempt of the features in which he pervelves the other Is Inferior. That' Is the first stage. But presently each begins to discover that they have more In common than they had supposed, ind then soon one becomes willing to tdmit that he can learn something from the other. "There will never be lost the pecu liar genius of each race, but binding ill together will be the essential char acter common to all men. The Ambassador is happily married to a German lady of high station. Speaking f the talk of war, the Ambassador said: "I am tired, very tired of protesting lha friendliness of my country for yours not that that friendship will ever tire or waver, but that it could be necessary to protest It eternally, when not an act, not a gesture, not a word, not a passing thought gives reason for a suspicion of It. I am tired of answering questions, for X have freely admitted1 and answered them all, as to what we think of the San Francisco Incidents, how many coun tries would regard the sending of your treat fleet into the Pacific, whether I am on good terms with the German Am bassador, whether I am to.be recalled, and all the rest. Protests Friendliness. "I thank you, but beg you do not repeat hese questions. You know how an In telligent government would regard a local affair such as that at San Francisco. Tou remember with .what contempt for Its Insignificance General Kuroki spoke to you of It. Tou know without asking me, that my government is not so idiotic as to be offended at any movement of the ships of a friendly power, and certainly not so paralytic as to fancy an aggres sion intended, when that movement is from port to port of your own. "Could anything be more preposterous than to attempt to kindle a war out of most incendiary materials than Inven tion can manufacture out of what your jingoes call 'the situation.' "The situation indeed! There is no Japanese situation." JAPANESE STIR" CANADIANS Possibility or Trouble Over Exclu sion Law Grows Greater. OTTAWA. July 13. (Special.) The re ports of strained relations between the United States and Japan interest. Cana dians intensely, not only because of the prospect of war and of the possibility that Canada may be drawn Into the struggle by the operation of the Anglo Japanese treaty, but also because Canada has a Japanese problem of her own that probably will lead to a controversy, if not a direct struggle between the Dominion and tho Province of British Columbia. That province has been engaging for some years in vain attempts to subject Japanese, and even the East Indian sub jects of the British crown, to the opera tion of exclusion laws. Time after time audi statutes have been enacted by. the JAPANESE JINGOES FURIOUS Talk About Mustering Fleet- and Using Stern Measures. . VICTORIA, B. C. July 13. Officers of the steamer Tartar, which arrived today from Japan, reported that much excite-' ment prevailed when the steamer left Yokohama in consequence of the situation that had arisen regarding the United States. Many interviews were published in the Japanese press, many of them, ex tremely jingoistic. Count Itagakl. ex-Home Minister and a prominent Japanese statesman, in an Interview published at Toklo, said: "Warships should be mustered In Toklo 3ay and Japan should confront America In solving this question by presenting an attitude to meet Americans with fire forthwith if they reject the just and le gitimate demands of Japan." Count Okuma, with whom Count Itagaki formed a coalition government years ago, also advocates stern measures in an in terview published by the Jiji Shimpo. He says Japan has become a power, and relations with America are on a footing befitting her new position, and the tend ency to treat Japanese as an inferior peo ple must not be tolerated. PANIC THREATENS ALL JAPAN Financial Depression Causes Ex treme Measures by Banks. VICTORIA, B. C, July .13. A financial depression was being severely felt when the steamer Tartar, which arrived today, left Yokohama on June 29. A meeting of the managers of eight of the most prominent banks of Japan was held short ly before the Tartar sailed, for th pur pose of devising means to check the -depression. The government had redeemed treasury bills, recognized nationalized railway shares as negotiable securities and paid proximate interest on these, but the banks considered a more drastic course, which was adopted. Organization of the banks is being made to guarantee each other against the result of "runs" inspired by the panic resultant from the financial depression. Inquiry About Japanese Spies. WASHINGTON, July 13. The War De partment today took steps to ascertain the facts in regard to the reported arrest of a Japanese at Fort Rosecrans, Cal., for making a drawing and blue 'prints of the fort. Major Getchell. in command at that point, has up to this time failed to notify the department of what had taken place. DEO OF KILLING WIFE ILLINOIS BANKER IS HELD IN CALIFORNIA. Alleged That He Murdered Spouse to Wed Stenographer, Whom He Married After the Tragedy. SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 11 Fred H. Magill and wife, of Clinton. 111., were arrested here tonight by Chief of Police Moulton pn a charge of murder, alleged to have been committed in the Illinois town. The report here Is that Magill is a banker and that the murder of which he Is accused was that of his first wife. CLINTON". Ill . July 13. Fred A. Magill was formerly cashier of the Warner Na tional Bank of this place. May 31 last his wife was found dead in bed with a note pinned to her nightgown saying that she had taken her own life by strychnine and chloroform, and that no one was to blame but herself. For some time prior to Mrs. Magill's death. Miss Fay Graham, a stenographer, had lived with the Megills, and on July 5 Magill and Miss Graham were married in Denver. Colo. Shortly after the State's Attorney began an investigation into Mrs. Magill's death. The Coroner's inquest which was held over the dead woman was secret. Magill's family was prominent in Cen tral Illinois. The Warner National Bank, of which he was cashier, was owned prin cipally by Vespasian Warner, Commis sioner of Pensions and for several terms a member of Congress. OPERATOR IS MURDERED Montana Man Killed Under Mysteri ous Circumstances, at Billings. BUTTE. Mont.. July 13. -A Miner spe cial from Billings states that an autopsy upon the remains of G. H. Cran dall, telegraph operator, disclosed that the man was foully murdered. Crandall was brought in a dying con dition to a hotel conducted by Chinese by two unknown men, a room was engaged, and the unconscious form of Crandall thrust into it on the floor, the. perpetra tors of the crime then fleeing. Crandall had his head crushed in by some blunt instrument. Mrs. Duniway Becomes a Granger. Mrs. A. S. Dunlway, of Portland, yester day took the third and fourth degrees of the Patrons of Husbandry, at the Lents Grange, and thus became a full fledged member of the farmers' order. She 'was heartily welcomed into the Grange. In the afternoon, during the hour devoted to educational work. Mrs. Duniway fol lowed George H. Himes. who spoke of the early schools, delivering a stirring ad cress. Among other things Mrs. Duni way said her title to be a Granger was undisputed from the fact that she had handled enough milk in her time to float the Great Eastern and made enough but ter to grease the axles of the universe. Mrs. Duniway told of her personal expe riences on the frontier and pointed out that she had been a pioneer school teach er In Oregon. In speaking of the work of the Grange Mrs. Duniway said it was a noble order and one in which there was absolute equality of husband and wife, brother and sister and that it had done much and was doing more to change the conditions of the country for the better. Medford Man Takes Bride. . Miss Nellie Mclntyre, of Michigan, and Thomas H. Moore, of Medford, Or., -were married last night In the parlors of the Hotel Oregon. Thet cere mony was performed by Rev. W. F. Shields, of Medford, and among those present were Mrs. R. M. Whiteside and Fred Weeks, of the same place. After a trip to Puget Sound, Mr. and Mrs. Moore will go to reside at Medford, where ho is proprietor of the Moore Hot-eL Threatens to Erect Competitive Col ony Within Zlon City Itself. "Dowie's Usurper" Will Appeal to Law for Protection. CHICAGO. July 13. (Special.) Threats to build a rival Zlon City around a new, magnificent temple, and to enjoin Gen eral John J. Lewis, John Alexander Dowle's successor, from interfering with his plans, were, made today by Wilbur Glen Vollva, who has reopened the bit ter war in Zion City. .Before a meeting of his followers in his home. Voliva. "usurper of Dowie'a throne." denounced his opponents as a crowd of scoundrels and declared that the war would be one of extermination. Voliva said he would gather his fol lowers about htm and build the rival colony within Zion itself. He announced that he would at once begin the erection of a new brick temple, to be even more imposing than the present Zlon taber nacle. "I will go into court and will get an injunctioTi restraining General Lewis or any of his aides from interfering with me," Voliva thundered excitedly, waving his arms. "If any one interferes with my rights I will put him In jail. The committee of investors which has been appointed to act with Receiver John C. Hately is a crowd of scoundrels. They want "to sell the lace factories for $250,000. If they do, It will be one of the greatest steals ever perpetrated. Zion City will be doomed if the lace factory is sold." Voliva declared that he will earry the fight now in the United States Court to the Federal Supreme Court if necessary. PROBE LAND MONOPOLY (Continued from First Page.) throughout the West perhaps who are not what they should be. We have men in all branches who should be dis missed, perhaps, but it is up to you you should make recommendations, not because you want to get rid of these men, but because of their poor quali fications. , "When I wanted a man who had the interests of the West at heart, I was fortunate in finding an old college mate of mine, Judge Ballinger. But if you think he will disregard the public weal in deciding In favor of his friends, you are mistaken. "We know that the frauds perpetrated against the land laws have been smal.1 in percentage, although it has been large in some localities. But because it has been small in percentage, wc do not expect to let up in our prosecution of frauds. Y'ou are mistaken if you think we are. "The reclamation w-ork has passed the experimental stage. We are spend ing toO.uuO.OOO in this work, to facili tate the settlement of our public lands by the honest entryman. . "Your water powers, if properly con served, will run every railroad and will operate your manufacturing plants and your fuel and forests, if properly con served, will not cause your grandchil dren to suffer as our grandchildren in the Middle West have suffered. "You have just scratched the surface of the mines and agricultural lands of this great section. You are just on the threshold of development, out here. The policy of this administration is to give the equality of opportunity to the small shipper as well as the large ship per. When I speak of the administra tion, I do not mean the President alone, for his policy is effective because he is backed up by every officer of state and nation. "I ask- you not to think that Wash ington is many miles away, for the In terior Department is open always to every Oregonian whenever he wants to present his cause. You have your rep resentatives there, who are always wel oome to our department." Judge Williams then introduced Sena tor Charles W. Fulton, who told a number of good stories. He said he did' not recall that Oregon has ever had during the past 30 years a visit from the Secretary of the Interior. Most of the Secretaries of the Interior have believed they. could administer the affairs of the West without consulting the West. It was not a matter of what the West wanted so much as what the East thought best. As Secretary- Garfield had said, there is no question but the Fast is making common cause with the West and has the interests of the whole coun try at heart,, but the East has assumed that It knows what the West wants with out consulting the West. Congratulates the Secretary. "I want to congratulate Secretary Gar field," he continued, "that he has taken pains to come out here to learn first hand the needs and wishes' of the West. I was very much pleased when I learned that the present Secretary was to be advanced to this -responsible position." Senator Fulton very highly compliment ed Commissioner Ballinger of the General Land Office and said that while some have had hazy ideas of the construction of the land laws, it must be said that the great body of the people of the West Is Just as strongly in favor of the land laws as the masses of the East. Senator Fulton said men have been seriously handicapped by the way the affairs of the land office have been administered in the past. . The speaker said that while Oregon has contributed more to the cause of irriga tion than any other state, she has secured less. He said he hoped to see soon the active beginning of work on the Malheur project. Judge Ballinger, Commissioner of the General Land Office, was next introduced. He said he expected to remain In Ore gon several days to aid in every way to encourage the honest entryman to secure his land, but to discourage the dishonest entryman from stealing the public do main. The speaker said Oie honest entry man should feel encouraged and should go ahead and improve his property, but every entry must be in good faith. Com missioner Ballinger said he felt confi dent that Secretary Garfield will prove the beet Secretary of the Interior that has ever held the office. Judge Lowell's Speech. Judge Williams then Introduced Judge Stephen A. Lowell, of Pendleton, who told a number of witty anecdotes and warmly indorsed the policy of the Administra tion. He commended especially the pub lic land policy of Secretary Garfield. F. H. Newell, director of the reclama tion service, spoke briefly of the work of his department and of the great value of Irrigation projects to the Pacific North west. C. B. S. Wood made a notable address, which he opened with a number of witty stories and followed with a serious talk in which he contended that all hope of reformation of the Government depart ments Is vain until all possibility of graft is removed. He said there la a law of C T? TS1 1 A TVT TVT T A 3 7 " TP A f OJtLilVAfi--tf-.l 1 U'kLi JILi XJkXj. This sale is a grand success and we intend to make it the greatest we have ever known, so we have made still de.eper cuts in our prices and intend to close out ev ery article that in any way conflicts with the new stock just purchased by our Mr. Powers now in the market. This does not cover, any one line in particular, but in cludes every line we carry, and a glance at the prices and reductions below cannot but interest the thrifty shopper. FOR THE DINING-ROOM. $25.00 6-foot oak Extension Ta ble, 45inch top, pedestal base, weathered or golden finish, round top, reduced toijJIT.OO $17.50 6-foot Extension Tabic. 6-inch legs, 45-inch top. finished golden, reduced to.... $12. 50 $29.00 Extension Table, in quarter-sawed golden oak, top ex tends to 6 feet, hand polished.1 reduced to $21.50 $26.00 pedestal Extension Table, square top, 6-foot ex tension, quarter-sawed oak aid polished, reduced t ..$19.00 $58.50 quartered oak combination Buffet and China Cabinet, weathered or -golden, reduced to.!.. $44.00 $35.00 weathered oak Buffet, 18x40 oval French bevel mirror, reduced to $23.50 $37.50 Buffet in quarter-sawed oak, finished weathered or golden, reduced to $25.50 $48.00 weathered oak Buffet, 12x40 French bevel mirror find glass front, reduced to $31.75 DEN FITTINGS. $17.50 combination Cellaretta and Magazine Cabinet, dull brass- trimming, finished in weathered oak, and reduced to $10.5O .36.50 Smoker's Table, with pipe 'rack, made in quarter-sawed oak, iimslied weathered, re duced to $4.25 $32.50 combined Card Table and Cellarette, dull brass trimmed, reduced to $16.50 $30. 0C Den or Library Safe, made of steel with weath eied oak case, combination lock, reduced to $16.50 $33.50 weathered onk Den Table, round top, 3i-ineh in diameter, genuine leather top, reduced to.... $19.75 $10.00 Desk, made of quarter-sawed oak, finished weathered, reduced to $6.50 $7.00 Pedestal in quarter-sawed weathered oak, re duced to $4.25 $7.00 Magazine Rack, two shelves and book rack top, made in quarter-sawed oak, finished weathered, re duced to $3.95 Porch Furniture $5.00 Porch Chair, made of Adlrondnojc sil ver birch, rattan seat and back, roducd to S4.00 t.50 Rocker, full comfort seat, rattan seat and back, finished in whle maple or paint ed green, reduced to $2.85 $8.00 rattan seat and back Morris Porch Chair, finished in white maple, redu-d to S5.75 J3.53 Chair or Rocker, finished in white maple 'or painted green, rattan sent, re duced to 2.50 $13 50 Mammoth Pon-h Chair -or Rocker, double cane seat and back, Adirondack sil ver birch frame, reduced to. . . . , -S8.50 $3.50 maple Settee in natural ftnish or painted Kreen. rattan seat and ba-k re duced to. 96.75 Refrigerators, Stoves and Ranges $10.00 Refrigerators, zinc lined, hardwood case, with mineral wool insulation to keep ice, reduced to. $7.95 $16.50 Refrigerators, same description as aboye. onlv larger in size, reduced to $12.7 $20.50 "Wisconsin Peerless Refrigerator, lined through out with finest grade white enamel, reduced to $16.75 $25.00 A Refrigerator with ice capacity of 75 pounds; the Peerless, white enamel upon galvanized steel re duced to $19.50 $30.00 No. 6 "Wisconsin Peerless Refrigerator, ice ca pacity 90 lbs., white enamel lined, reduced to.$24.00 $12.00 No. 8 Cook Stove, large oven, reduced to. $9.65 $36.00 Ajax Range, double body, with asbestos lining, full nickel trimmed, reduced to $29.75 $1.50 single burner 6 as Tlate, reduced to 95 $2.50 two-burner Gas Plate, reduced to $1.75 $11.01) No. 7 cast iron Cook Stove, reduced to. .588.25 $6.00 50-piece wkife Dinner Set, reduced to $4.25 Bedroom Pieces $40.00 Dresser, in genuine mahogany, 24x30 French bevel mirror, full serpentine front, reduced to.$28.00 $38.50 birdseye maple Dresser, 24x30 French bevel minor and full swell front, reduced to $27.50 $23.50 ladj-'s Dressing Table, in golden oak, birdseye maple and genuine mahogany, 16x26 oval French bevel mirror, reduced to $14.75 $30.00 birdseye maple Dressing Table, full French leg. 16x36 French bevel mirror, reduced to $19.00 $35.00 Empire Beds, made in quartered golden oak, birdseve maple and genuine mahogauv, reduced to . .." "..$24.00 $52.50 full Napoleon Bod, quarter-sawed oak and genu- ine mahogany, reduced to $46.50 $4.50 Iron Bed, single iron head and foot, all colors; reduced to $3.00 $7.50 white enamel Iron Bed, scroll pattern, angle iron head and foot, reduced to $4.25 POWERS The Home of Dignified Credit We Are Head quarters for Office Furniture St graft just as certain as the law of gravity. As long- as there is land to steal, people -will steal it. "How often," said he, "has New York been purged and - how often San Fran cisco? It is a vain hope for a few honest men to purge the whole department of the interior. We remember the rank graft of the desert and the swamp land acts. They were all graft. I am at torney for one of these grafting wagon land grant companies. Who did the graft? Your representatives in Congress. Who turned over the graft? Your state Legislature. The timber-land act is a graft and it originated in Congress. Work ot Land Thieves. "I say the wrong Is not altogether on the part of the land thieves for the land offices in this state have been parties to it. Swedes who could not speak Eng lish have been allowed to take up public lands when the officials knew they were acting for others. "The remedy is not in seeking personal honesty. You will never get honesty in land administration while there is prop erty left to graft. The only real title to land is in the use and occupation of land, and when this ceases, title should cease." Clifford Pinchot. Chief Forester, spoke briefly of the benefits to accrue to the people of the country from the forest policy of the Administration. He said: "Oregon has been the battleground for years in the establishment of the Presi dent's forest reserve policy. The Denver convention showed that the fight for the forestry policy is won. Every other in dication of the year shows also that it is won. The general forestry policy is established and the details alone remain to be worked out. The forestry policy Is a wise one, it is along the lines of the con servation of natural resources, and is the longest look ahead the United States has ever taken along this line." Those- attending the banquet besides Secretary of the Interior, James R. Gar field; Commissioner of the General Land Office, R. A. Ballinger; director of the reclamation bureau, F. H. Newell; chief forester, Gilford Pinchot; secretary of the Inland Waterways. Commission, W. J. McGee, were: John H. Albert, Everett Ames. H. Beckwith, Whitney L. Boise, G. G. Bing hun. W. C. Bristol. Walter F. Burrel'. George W. Bibee, Philip BuehnervB. M. Brannick, R. M. Brereton. C. P. TJishop, John K. Bays, L. E. Bean, John 8. Braduur. Joan . i-axrou. j-r. jienry Waldo Coe. H. M. Cake, A. J. Capron, Henry Ij. Corbett, W. W. Cotton, Henry F. Conner. H. C Campbell, C. C. Chap man, Governor Chamberlain. F. R. Cham bers. Jr., R. L. Durham, A. H. Devers. A. S. Dresser, James K. Davis,' William H. Dodge, H. C. Bckenberger, C. W. Fulton, O. S. Fulton. F. H. Fogarty, Leo Friede. Charles M. Gunn, S. H. Gruber. J. W. Ganong. W. B. Gilbert, J. K. Gill, Ralph W. Hoyt, G. B. Hegardt. K. W. Haines. C. K. Henry. C. W. Helser, John H. Hall, William Harder, D. C. Henny, E. G. Hopson. Louis W. Hall. Frederick V. Holman, M. G. Hall. R. V. Holder, T. W. Harris, C. M. Idleman, C. S. Jackson, C. H. Jackson, W. H. Jenkins, A. C. Jackson, Benage S. Josselyn, Charles H. Jones, Thomas B. Kay, A. D. Katz. F. W. Leadbetter, R. IJving stone. Stephen A. Lowell, J. D. Lee, G. L. MacGibbon, W. H. Moore, W. C. Morris, P. J. Mann, Malcolm A. Moody, P. S. Malcolm, F. W. Mulkey. R. B. Miller. George G. Malr. L. B. Menefee. ( K. Moulton. C. L. Morgan, J. H. Mc Nary. C. Moreland. Robert A. Miller, Thomas B. Neuhausen, Thoma." O'Day, S. R. Oldaker, Lute Pease. J. Thorburn Ro3S, E. F. Riley, J. W. Rowland, John M. Scott. J. O'B. Scobey. D. Or Scobey, A. M. Smith. Harvev W. -ott. Colonel Standifer. John H. Scott, Charles K. Spanieling. J. N. Smith, J. L. Stockton. F. S. Stanley, H. B. Thielsen, Victor Thrane, Dr. J. P. Tamleaie. R. Ml Tuttle. B. D Townsend. F. A. Turner. W. A. WillianSs. A. King Wilson. Charles E. Wolverton. G. A. Westgate. C. B. S. AVood, William D. Wheelwright. Georee H. Williams. Dr. J. R. Wetherbee, R. R. Wood, John C. Young. ROOT INSISJS0N CLAIMS Demands Answer From Castro to Arbitration Offer. CARACAS, Vza.. via Wlllemstad. Island of Curacoa. July 13. The American Min ister, Mr. Russell, on July 2 handed Presi dent Castro Secretary Root's reply to the Venezuelan president as to the American demands of February 20 and February 28, for the arbitration . of the five American claims against Venezuela. Mr. Root said the department could not accept President Castro's answer, which refused to grant the American de mands on the ground that the claims were not matters for diplomatic inter vention, and he again requested the Presi dent to consider immediately the advis ability of giving a satisfactory reply to the claims presented. MAKES MONEY IN PRISON STENSLAXD CLEARS $20,000 OFF VICTIMS OF CRIME. Charges Fee for Releasing Mort gages Movement to Pardon Chicago Bank-Wrecker. CHICAGO, July 13. (Special.) Paul O. Stensland. wrecker of. the Milwaukee Avenue Bank, ruining thousands of de positors, who was captured In Algeria after an exciting chase, will clear t20.000 within a year by signing mortgages which his victims are giving on the remnants of their property. Powerful Influences are at work to secure his release from the Jollet peniten tiary. A petition hns been started among the 20.000, depositors In the failed bank in an effort to -secure their .signatures to an appeal, which will be made within a few weeks to the State Board of Pardons to parole the imprisoned banker. Stenpland's cause will have plenty of financial back ing other than that contributed by his family and friends. Stensland is making money, even while a prisoner. When his bank closed, there were 400 mortgages held in the institu tion as collateral. In straightening out the affairs of the bank, it is necessary for Stensland to sign a release for each one of these mortgages. Under the law he is entitled to a fee of from 13 to J5 for signing the release. Stensland nas not overlooked this opportunity. He Is charg ing one and all the fee. A depositor who lost money in the bank is charged Just the same as anybody else. Stensland will secure about J20.000 in this way. When asked why he charged this, fee, he Is said to have replied: "Well. I have no money. I will need this money when I am released from prison." Tornado Wrecks Houses. MITCHELL. S. D., July 13. A cyclone swept over the Northwestern part of this city this evening at 6 o'clock. The storm came up from the west, and In the vicin ity of Mount Vernon a number of houst-a were swept away. The storm gathered greater velocity by the time it reached this section, and it was seen coming with a large drop, sweeping the ground. The Cassem Addition, in the northwestern part o fthe city, was considerably dam aged. Two houses were completely swept away. The families took refuge in the cellars and the houses were taken off clean, leaving the bare floors. No one was injured. One barn was blown down. TIRED OF BEING GOVERNOR Judge Wlcker-sham Creates Sensation by Speech on luska. SEATTLE. Wash.. July 13. (Specials Federal Judge James Wickersham, of Alaska, speaking before the State Bar Association tonight, created a sensation by declaring that he was tired of acting; as the government of Alaska, and that the bar of this state must whip the Con gressional delegation Into line to grant some power to the people pf Alaska. His speech overshadowed that of Vice President Fairbanks in Importance, or he insisted that the only authority of any kind in Alaska is that of the Judiciary and the Governor Is a mere figurehead with only authority to ap point a private secretary and notaries public. He denounced Seattle for (fuietly en joying a $20,000,000 annual trade with Alaska and refusal to aid Alaskans in getting a system of government. The Bar Assocation Banquet lasted until 1 A. M., Mr. Fairbanks, Governor Mead, Congressman Humphreys, Senator Piles and others speaking in response to toasts. Many Fall in Examinations. The examination of a class of appli cants for appointment to positions on the Portland police force was concluded be fore the Civil Service Commission yester day. Originally the class consisted of 41 members, but the physical test was too much for 20 of the would-be bluecoats and they dropped out of the contest. Th written examination yesterday was taken by only 21 members of the class. The result will not be announced by th Commission for several days. !