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MARCHING
FIGHTERS
Eight Thousand Blue Jack
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LED BY ADMIRAL EVANS
fhe Admiral Wat Quickly Recog
nized and Bowed Constantly
in Recognition of Cheering
! 7
FORCES OF TWO SQUADRONS
Th Fighting Mn of the Fleets Made
iheir Way Through Four and
Half Milea of Gaily, Decorated
Streets In Review.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7. Eight
thousand blue jacket! and marines the
largest armed force the American
navy but ever put ashore in a time of
peace or war, were landed today from
me combined Atlantic and Pacific
fleet and inarched through the itrecti
of San Francisco in the moit notable
parade the city hai ever known. For
four milei and a half along trceti
lined with colore and in review of the
never ending crowd, the lighting men
of the fleets made their way up Mar
ket street from the ferry to Van Ness
venue and back, to the martial tunes
of their shipmates bands and to the
cheers that began with the first com
mand to march and ended only when
the sailormcn had again embarked in
small boats and returned to the battle
ships and the cruisers in the roadstead.
Twenty-five hundred men of the reg
ular and as many in full dress array
graciously acted as escort to the visit
ing men of the sea and were liberal
ly applauded. Renr Admiral Evans
and six other aub-ordinate rear ad
mirals rode in carriages. Admiral
Evans was quickly recognized by the
thousands and bowed in constant
iffrtrH fit tit j f iirt vU mh
a i vvv'iiiuvii vi 1 111; vinviiig n uv u tt a 3
fj caught up by the throng ahead and
f chocd by those iti file rear, as his car
nage slowly morsd in front of the
moving columns. Secretary MctCalf,
,WVIJIUI VUIIIH mill
rode in the parade and afterwards re
viewed it as it countermarched along
Van Ness avenue.
The parade was the feature of (he
day. Tonight the streets are throng
ed with liberty men from the fleets
ho are being given their first leave
Ashore. The narks are filled with the
holiday crowds and are gay with music
and illuminations. At the I-airmount
Hotel Governor Gillett and his staff
entertained at dinner in honor of Sec
retary Metcalf and the commanding
officers of the fleet. Admiral Evans
was unable to attend and his place
was taken by Rear Admiral Thomas.
LITIOATION SETTLED.
Famous Morgan Mine Suits Amicably
Settled Out of Court
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7. -The
litigation over the famous Morean
Mine near Los Angeles has been ami
cably settled, praparations being
made to re-open the property, which
in early days yielded millions to its
owners. Senator Fair and William
Irvine ought for years to prove title
to the property and after their deaths
the legal struggle was continued bv
their heirs. Through the agency of
Thomas Magee and Sons, who repre
sented Mrs. Oelrtchs and Mrs. Van-
ueroiit, tne legal dimcuities with the TIIC tirir nr Trvitixf
Irvine heirs were settled recently bv till; LALh. Uf 1E11UKR
the payment of a large sum in return
for which they deeded all their rights
and title to the mine.
THE LAWS
Elliot II. Goodwin's Ad
dress on Subject
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
BAKERSFIELD, CaL May 7.-A
E. Loucke, his wife and their babv
were instantly killed this morning,
when an Mitofflobi in winch thev
were riding was struck by Southern
Pacific tram No. 13 at Reedlev. a
station on the line between Emtio
and 1 ulare counties. Scott Manlovei,
driver of the automobile, escaoed un
injured. According to his account of
the accident, none of the occupants of
the automobile saw the train until it
was too late to avoid a collision. The
train was en route from Coalinga to
Fresno. The accident occurred at
10:45 a. m. Loucke was a prominent
business man of Selma.
TAPT AT PANAMA.
PANAMA, May 7.-Secretary Taft
in his reply to questions as to whether
he came ill connection with the rela-
tions with Panama, the United States
and Colombia, said:
"I have not come to make anv trea-
ties, but there are situations leading
up to possible treaties that have to be
investigated. Then there is consider
able agitation, if I can Judge by the
correspondence, over questions that
have arisen between the Isthmian
canal commission and the republic of
'anatna.
"I have also come to see ahout the
boundary differences between Panama
and Columbia and to look into the
matter of the seizure of the town of
Jurado by the Colombians."
Believes in a Term of Office for
Commissioners and Removal
Only for Cause
FABRIC RESTS ON BELIEF
ARRESTED FOR ARSON.
BOSTON, May 7. -After several
weeks' work by the state police two
men were arrested last night charged
with being responsible in oart for the
great conflagrant at Chelsea on April
12. The men are Jacob Lewitzky of
Boston and Abraham Wolnitz of
Chelsea. Both are charged with ar
son, ..
Violations of the Law Are in Place
Every Caw Merely Phases of Fall.
ure to Enforce the Law Although
Adequate Power is Given.
NINE BODIES FOUND
In the Private Grave Yard of Mrs4.
Bello Guinness
WILL INVESTIGATE 13 DEATHS
All Suspicious Parts of the Premises
Are to be Dug up With Especial
Attention to the "Soft" Spots Be
neath Rubbish Heaps.
' TO EXCLUDE HINDOOS.
OTfAWA, May 7, An arrange
ment has been made by the British
and Canadian governments for the ex
clusion of Hindu emigrants from
Canada. It was disclosed in the
House of Commons by a report from
Mackenzie King, Canadian deputy
minister of labor, who recently re
turned from a conference with the
British government on the question.
He stated that the British ministers
are in favor of keeping Canada a
white man's country. A solution of
tlW nroblem was found in the India
''! JBt which provides that no native of
yIndia can leave under contract to la-
t bor' in any foreign 'country which is
1 ' i not on a list of countries which have
made laws which tne inoian govern
ment considers are adequate for the
protection of Hindus.
LA PORTE, Ind., May 7.-The
grihley story of the private graveyard
at the farm of Mrs. Delia Guinness, a
mile north of La Porte, is still in its
early chapters. Today the estimates
of the number of persons murdered
at the place through the lure of marti-
inonial bureau, ran all the way from
12 to 20.
The exhumation yesterday of four
dismembered bodies wrapped in bur-
kip brings the total of victims known
tc have been murdered to nine. In
cluding the bodies supposed to be
those of' Mrs. Guinness and her three
children discovered after the fire
which burrted the farm house on April
28, the total' of deaths to be investi
gated and accounted for is 13.
There was scant doubt that Sheriff
Smutzer today would disoover evi
dences of murder- iti two more sus
pected graves as yet unopened. AH
suspicious parts of die premise are to
be dug up, with especial' attention to
the 'soft spots beneath rubbish
heaps, which so far invariably have
been found to conceal bodies.
Ray Lamphere, who is in jail here,
still protests his innocence Prosecut
ing Attorney Smith, however; says he
has positive proof that Lamphere had
guilty knowledge of the Guinness
murders, if he had not indeed partici
pated in them.
The orosecutor is m possession" of
letters, written in Norwegian, which
he is carefully guarding. These let
ters, written to Andrew Helgelcin by
Mrs. Guinness, are said to contain
references which indicate Lamphere'i
gult. That he killed Mrs. Guinness
and her children and set fire to the
house in order to prevent any revela-
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CHICAGO. May 7,-Measures for
enforcing the civil service laws and
the difficulties to be overcome in ap
plying such laws to the service al
ready in existence were discussed at
tonight's session of the second bien
nial meeting of the national assembly
of the civil service commission which
began here today. Several well known
merit board officials front all parts of
the country are in attendance. The
discussion was led by Elliott H. Good
win, secretary of the national civil
service reform league. He said, in
part:
Speaking as a man actively asso-
Iciated with the work of civil service
reform league in helping draft civil
reform laws and watch the workings
of such laws, Elliott H. Godwin, sec
retary of the league, in his address
on "Enforcement of Civil Service
Law, Federal, State and Municipal;
Violations and Prosecutions," called
attention to the comparatively brief
tenure of office of the average civil
service commissioner. To this brief
tenure of office, he ascribed many of
the short coming in the enforcement
of the laws.
"The lack of tenure operates in two
ways," said Mr. Goodwin, "to the
detriment of the enforcement of the
laws. It is continually bringing in new
and untrained men and it leaves the
thoroughly honest and efficient com
missioner alone and forlorn on a lofty
pedestal, supported only by such civil
service reform sentiment as may exist
in his community.
"The remedy is two fold. I believe
in a term of office for civil service
commissioners and removal only for
causes stated and after an opportunity
to answer the reasons assigned for
removal. Far more important is it
that public opinion should be brought
to realize the peculiar and delicate
situation which the commission oc
cupies and should make it possible
that commissioners should not be re
moved simply because they have en
forced the law and in so doing have
trodden on the corns of those having
th power of removal. .
"The necessity that the law shall
be impartially enforced is one- of the
principles which seems to have the
hardest struggle for recognition both
with commissioners and with ap
pointing officers. Underlying all suc
cess in the administration of a civil
servcelaw must be public confidence
in' the honesty, the impartiality, the
freedom from partisanshp of the ad
ministration. The whole fabric rests
'oh confidence. One that is destroyed
the right' class of men will not consent
to enter competition because , they
fear they will not get a square deal.
"Violations of the law are, in al
niost' every case merely phases of
failifrtf tb enforce the law. With few
exceptions the laws in forsce give to
eceptioris the laws' in force give to
secure enforcement,"
DAM DYNAMITED,
SEATTLE, May 7. A larffe ilam
in Ravenna Pafk, near the State Uni
versity, was dynamited fast night de
stroying the lake in the park. The
county bridge was washed awav and
a bridge was weakened so that trains
on the Sumas branch of the Northern
facific cannot pass. The nrooosed
sale of the park to the city has arous
ed a great deal of bitter feeling, which
has resulted in the outrage.
Claim of Defence in Ruef
Case
CHECKWASFO&$30,Q00
The Fact Was Brought Out That
the Check Was Deposited
Before the Fire
FORMER TESTIMONY REFUTEg
POSTMASTER ARRESTED.
CAMAS, Wash., May 7.-J. T.
Poindcter, postmaster at this place,
was arrested on a charge of assault
with a deadly weapon, the
being made by F, J. Maey, a merchant
ot this place. Macy alleges that Poin
deter struck him with a pistoL The
trouble arose over Mrs. Poindeter
with whom, Poindeter alleges
Macy took undue liberties. Prelimi-
, nary hearing will be before Police
Judge Self tomorrow. The defendant
will probably be bound over to the
Superior Court, as this court will not
have jurisdiction over the matter.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7,-Wm.
Carman, a theatre usher, this morn
ing shot Louisa Galla, 18 years old, a
waitress in chop house at Broarfwav
and Stockton streets. He then turned
the pistol on himself. He was madlr
in love with the girL and swore two
weeks ago when they separated' that
he would kill her on sight They
will both die.
HAS NARROW ESCAPE.
BODY RECOVERED
Partially Covered by Brush and
Leaves in Dense Thicket
HER SKULL WAS FRACTURED
It Was" Testimony Previously Given
This Statement Discredited Umb
een's Testimony and That of His
Associates in the Realty DeaL
SAN FRANCISCO. May 7.-The
defense in the Ruef case tonight
brought out the fact that the $30,000
paid to Ruef was for professional
services by the Parkside Realty Co.,
were deposited in the bank March 17.
before the big fire. The testimony
previous given was that this money
was deposited after the fire. Thomas
A. Henderson, a brother-in-law of G.
H. Umbsen was the witness from
whom this confession came. This
testimony discredited Umbsen's tes
timony and that of his associates in
the Parkside Realty deal and the
grand jury which indicted Ruef and
it was this point that Ruefs attorneys
attempted to make.
PHILADELPHIA, May 7,-The
"Roval Bin'
H'-i 1 i nam on me
iladelphia & Reading Railway had
a narrow escape from being wrecked
last evening at a twitch nr v.v.
town. Two men, said to be foreign
ers, jammed the switch with old iron
just before the express was due. A
tower man saw the men tampering
with the switch and telephoned for a
railway policeman, who removed fti
obstruction. Wencys KoowL. a Pole,
was arrested on suspicion. The tower
man identified the prisoner.
FORESTRY SERVICE
Denounced By Teller as an Un-
wise Measure
DEPEW DISAGREES WITH HIM
The Crime is Believed to be Ont of
the Most Atrocious Evef Commit
ted in That Section of frW State
Bud Barnes Suspected.
WALLA WALLA, May 7.-The
body of Mrs. Anna Aldrich, who dis
appeared from her ranch eight miles
east of here Friday was found today
in a wild unfrequented region near
the headquarters of the Copper river
about 10 miles from the woman's
ranch. The skull of the dead woman
had been crushed in two places with
some blunt instrument and the body
has been hurled headlong into a hole
at the base of an uprooted tree. She
has been dead several deays and the
body was in an advanced stage of de
composition. The sheriff hs secured
much evidence which is believed to
cotWiett "Bud" Barnes with the
tragedy. Barnes and his two brothers
are- now tinder arrest, Barnes being
charged1 with the murder and his
brothers feeing held on the charge of
being1 accomplices.
What fe declared to have an import
ant bearing off the case is the alleged
statement" made by a woman to whom
a man nswerihg ..Barnes' description
is said to have- dictated a letter to be
sent to Mrs. JV R. Gose, Mrs. Aid
rich's daughter. This woman's story
is partly corroborated by a myster
ious message received by C C. Gose,
a well known attorney here who is a
brother-in-law of Mrs. Aldrich's
daughter in which lie is asked the in
itials of his brother and' whether or
not he had a teleporte: Before a
coroner's jury Barnes maintained his
innocence and claimed to have seen
Mrs. Aldrich alive and' well in Walla
Walla as late as last Moridy. At that
time the prisoner was not' informed
that Mrs. Aldrich's body liad' not discovered.
TRYING TO SAVE WIFE.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7.-Whik
endeavoring to save his insane wife
from self-destruction at the Fairmont
Hotel this morning, Leon Calone, he
second, cook, fell a victim at her hands
and is now dying. Genevieve Calone
became possessed of the idea that
priests had tried to seperate her hus
band from her. She entered the serv
ants' dining room of the Fairmont this
morning and sent for her husband
W hen he arrived she pointed a pistol
at her head and said she was about
to kill herself. He attempted to se
cure the weapon, but before he could
do so, she fired three shots at him
He was hit twice, and one wound
will prove fatal.
-SENIOR PAYMASTER RETIRED.
WASHINGTON, May 7. -Walter
L. Wilson, senior paymaster in the
navy was placed on the retired list
yesterday for physical disability. He
has been under treatment at the naval
hospital since December last. Pay
master Wilson is a son of the late
William L. Wilson, who was post
master-general in President Cleve
land's administration nd wa-s
also a representative in Conurress
from West Virginia. He was once
chairman of the committee of ways
and means. Paymaster Wilson en
tered the naval service in March, 1904.
COMMERCIAL TIDE RISING.
Culberson Called Attention of the
Senate to Reports That the Presi
dent and Interstate Commission
Had Agreed on Increased Rates.
WASHINGTON, .May , 7. The
forestry provision of the agricultural
appropriation bill was before the Sen
ate several hours today. Senator
Teller denounced the forestry service
as unwise; and administration as arbi
trary and Senator Depew spoke in
advocacy of the extention of the world
of forest reserves. Senator Culber
son called the attention of the Senate
to the newspaper publications to the
effect that the President and the in
terstate commerce commission haA
agreed to allow railroads to increase
their freight rates. This suggestion
precipitated a discussion as to the
powers of the President and the com
mission to make such an agreement
MORTALLY WOUNDED.
LONDON, May 7.-A desoatch r,.
ceived from Landy Khotal says that
it is reported that Major Cooe Smith.
commanding the 50th Camel Corps,
wniie seeking with a mounted escort
to recover stolen animals, was mortal
ly wounded by snipers and died before
reaching camp., - .
NEW YORK, May 7.-As an indi
cation of the rising commercial tide
the diamond importers are pointing to
the figures for recent importations.
The custom house records show that
precious stones valued at $493,052
were brought into this country in
April, as against $389,51 in March and
$200,443 in February. 1
The value of the uncut stones im
ported in April was $205,821 or nearly
half that of the corresponding month
last year. One of the importers says
that prices are as high as when the
market was active.
OMNIBUS BRIDGE-BILL,
WASHINGTON 7.-An om
nibus bridge bill, the first measure of
its kind to be framed and introduced
in Congress has been reoortcrf f,.
ably by the house committee on in
terstate and foreign commerce. The
bill authorizes the construction of 24
bridges in various parts of the coun
try. These two dozen districts au
thorizations were consolidated in
one act on account of the democratic
filibuster in prograss in the house and
this means that 23 roll call nn
floor will be escaped.