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Congressional
0 clear title to Innocent purchasers,
the house public lands commltteo
X hail rcnorted favorably a bill to
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authorlr tho attormy gonemi
with th purchasers of more than 800,
000 acres of railroad grant land In or-
ron at the rate of J2.50 an acre. Iho
v Southern Pacific still holds 2,300,000
:cres unsold and the government has
'Instituted suit to recover it.
: W. A. Massey, uppointed by the gov
emor of Nevada to succeed the late Sen
ator Nixon, has taken the oath of office.
" Senator Bournes amendments to the
rivers and harbors bill appropriating
:$700,000 for Celllo falls, J50.000 for Ore
'gon slough $100,000 for Nehalem bay.
nd I2a,000 for preliminary plans to e-
'cur a 30 foot channel from Portland
"to the sea, were agreed to by the oon
;5ference committee and the bill, carrying
?l33,000r000, passed Thursday.
The Stanley steel trust investigating
""twitiTnlttee-has esreed t -recommend lhe
i dissolution of the United States Steel
' corporation in their report and indorse
'the government suit against it.
Consideration of the resolution for the
.".-purchase of Montlcello, the home of
Thomas Jefferson, was . blocked in the
senate by Heyburn of Idaho, who de-
clared "Jefferson was ' mosi-cwered
"statesman, waa not the author of the
; Declaration of Independence and should
not be deified.
: In a resolution Introduced by Senator
Bailey Tuesday, President Taft was ln
' directly rebuked for his course in con
'nection with the Lorimer affair. Six
Eepublicans Joined the Democrats in de
"TnouncWtryattMrrpt "OT-thv-pan"
; a president to exercise the power of
his office to influence a vote on a ques
tion within the senate's exclusive Jurls-
-dlction." fii ,
5 Before the senate committee investi
gating campaign contributions, August
Belmont testified that he personally
' 'contributed $250,000 to Alton B. Parker's
campaign of 104, and that the total
amount contributed had been less than
$1,000,000. Postmaster General Hltch-
'cock, Chairman of the Republican na
tional committee In 190S, testified that
,'$1,665,618 was contributed to President
Taffs campaign.
I Congressman Sulzer's bill, providing
for the creation of a department of la
" "bor, passed the house Wednesday. The
"measure creates the position of eecro
trv of labor, who shall be a member
1 -nt the cabinet.
i Eight hundred representative business
'tnen of San Francisco have wired to
- (Senators Perkins and Works, protesting
against dlscriminanon m tne oanai dim
regarding railroad owned ships aud ad
vocating free competition.
To secure a favorable Interpretation of
!the three year homestead law, as It was
.recently passed by congress. It has been
.necessary for Senator Borah to introduce
' supplementary bill making doubly
.clear the meaning of the original bilL
3t Is satd thst the Interior-department.
Jiavlng been hostile to the bill, but un
able to prevent its passage, is Interprct-
Ing the land laws so as to prevent them
ifrom becoming operative.
Heavy penalties for gambling In cot
ton "f utures am provided in the Beau
bill, which passed the house by a vote of
95 to 22.
s The house election committee has
'voted to unseat Representative Theron
JE. Catlln, of St. Louis, Republican, and
to eat former Representative Patrick
'Gill, Democrat. Catlin's campaign ex
penses were so great that the commit
tee held his election to have been cor
rupt. I Executive
THE state board of Oregon has ap
pointed Pr. M. K. Hall j of La
Orande auperlntendent of the
branch Insane asylum at Pendleton, at
(alary of $3000 a year. Dr. Hall ) a
democrat and served two terms as may
or ef L Orande. There were seven ap-
ltcants for the position.
BdcretKry of war stimson has ap
I th. ho8e public lands conunUteo ,n grantin U)e permU. tt ItSSSSS .HiiWI MB ' .J OiV iAf ' ' 8 W
proved the bond of the Panama-Pacific
ttternallonat Exposition in the sum if
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$150,000 for the use of the Presidio
grounds at San Francisco, thus com
pleting the final act of the government
in granting the permit.
Slletz homestead entrymen, whose
cases had been held up by the gen
eral land office through the publishing
some time ago of an alleged option of
purchase of a large number of the
claims, have been notified that the sus
pension order has been revoked.
President Taft has SDDOlnted Secundlo
Romero tp be United States marshal for
New Mexico to succeed Crelghton Fora
ker, a brother of former Senator Fora
ker, who It is said resigned for politi
cal reasons. Another appointment by
the president is that of Sherman P.
Allen, assistant secretary at, the White
House, to be assistant secretary or tne
treasury, succeeding A. Piatt Andrew,
who recently resigned after a row with
Secretary Mac Veagh. Carml Thompson
of Ohio has been selected a the presi
dent' secretary to succeed Charles
HUles. .resigned ..to take charge- of the
Taft campaign, and Luther Connp.t Jr.,
of New York, has received the appoint
ment of commissioner of corporations,
made vacant by the resignation of Her
bert Knox Smith.
President Taft on Wednesday appoint
ed K. P. Morelock to be postmaster
at Wallawa, Or.
Yesterday the last bugle call was
sounded at Fort McHenry, where the
"Star Spangled Banner" was written.
The department has ordered the one hun
dred and thirty-first company of coast
artillery to Fort Strong in Boston har
bor, and the old fort has become a mili
tary post with one inhabitant, a c&re
takei -
The president has paroled George H.
Parker, fiscal agent of th United
Wireless Telegraph company, who was
alleged in court proceedings to have
cleared $1,316,000 by his operations, and
was sentenced to serve two years at
McNeil's Island. Parker invested his re
ceipts in Seattle real estate and is re
puted to be worth several million dol
lars. Regulations governing entries undjr
the Borah three year homestead law
have been issued by Secretary Fisher.
Credit for the three year period must
begin from the actual residence; proof
must be submitted within five years;
cultivation for three years, and ahsenco
from land for not more than five
months in one continuous period, but
continuous residence during the remain
ing portion of the three year period.
Political
F. ircOMBS of New York, Gover
nor Wilson's choice, has been
elected chairman of the Demo
cratic national cpmmlttee and empower
ed to appoint a committee of not less
than nine to take active chaige of the
Democratic campaign. Joseph K. Davies
of Madison, Wis., was elected secretary
to succeed Urey Woodson of Kentucky.
Formation of a distinct independent
party and not the capture of the Repub
lican party, was the course mapped out
by Colonel Roosevelt this week. He
appeals for support to progressives,
without regard to their past party af
filiations. In a conference between Senator Root
and Chairman Hllles it was decided to
notify President Taft of his nomination
at the White House on August 1.
The Progressive party of Pennsylvania
was organized at Pittsburg Monday. An
nouncement was made that the party in
tended fusing with the Keystoners and
Democrats on one set of candidates.
Woodrow Wilson's candidacy was in
dorsed. The province of Saskatchewan has re
affirmed Its wish for reciprocity with
the United States by a vote of about
five to one. Latest figures, indicate
the return in the provincial elections
there of 40 Liberals and eight Conserva
tives, with four seats in' doubt.
Judge John C. Karel of Milwaukee,
best known to the world at large as
"Jkey.Z. the Wlsgonsiu XootbaU .'player,
has been nominated for governor by the
Wisconsin Democratic convention.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of
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NEWS PRESENTED
Photographs by International News Service.
1 A characteristic photograph showing Senator Thomas P. Gore, the blind leader of Olkahoma, discuss
ing "the situation" with Woodrow Wilson . at Seagirt. 2 West Point polo team which took part In
the first army polo tournaniept at Potomac Park, Washington, D. C. 3 Prominent society matrons at
Newport; Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, "with parasol, and Mrs. Burke Roche Batonyl. 4 A blrJseye view of
City IlalJ Park, New York, from the top of the WoolwoVth building. 5 Claude Graham-White, the
Engljsh avia'.of, and his American bride, Miss Dorothy Taylor of New York, who were married at
Chelmsford, London, June 27. In the back ground Is seen a portion of the aeroplane in which the
aviator took his bride for a honeymoon flight across the English channel to France and return. 6
(Copyright by International News Service) Miss Lilla B. Gilbert, daughter of Bramhall Gilbert gf New
York, and heiress to $15,000,000, whose engagement to Howard Price Renshaw of Troy, N. Y., Is an
v flounced. ' 7 Miss Albert:. Clalro of Sheridan, Wyo., who recently arrived In New York afttr an 8100
' mile horsehack ride, photographed on the summit of the WTpolworth building.
corporations, has resigned to Join the
forces of Theodore Roosevelt and the
new third party.
For giving out a statement that he
was opposed to the formation of a third
party. Senator Works has received a
telegram from 40 ""California Progres
sives asking his resignation. The sen
ator replies that these people are not
members of the Republican party And
have no right to ask him to resign.
Senator Dixon, who has managed
Roosevelt's campaign from the start and
rounded up more delegates than any one
ever thought the ex-president could get,
is not in sympathy with the third party
program and told friends this week that
he was going to take a rear seat in the
movement as soon as he could do so
gracefully.
At a conference between Colonel
Roosevelt, George W. Perkins and Sena
tor Dixon Wednesday, It was decided
that Roosevelt would remain in Oyster
Bay until August 2, when he will de
part for Chicago to attend the conven
tion of the new party. After the con
vention he will make a few speeches in
the central west.
Chairman Charles D. Hllles of the Re
publican national committee, has opened
headquarters in the Times building In
New York.
Lane county Socialists have nominated
a complete county ticket and adopted
a platform in which is .advocated the
abolition of the state senate, laying of
Income and Inheritance taxes, purchase
by the state of all land sold for taxes,
and opposition to all laws lhfrlnglng
the right of free spweh.
With representatives at Seattle from
22 counties of Washington, the Insurg
ents of that state agreed to put Roose
velt electors in the field, but turned
down a motion to put up a third party
ticket on state and county offices.
Fourteen delegates to the third party
convention at Chicago, were selected.
Commercial and Industrial
REPORTS from the harvest fields in
dicate the largest wheat crop on
record and the price is rapidly
slumping. Minnesota and the Dakotas
will exceed 260,000,000 bushels, the Kan
sas crop will yield 6,000,000 bushels
more than ever before, while Indications
point to an enormous yield on the Pa
clfio coast. The price of corn .and oats
has also taken a big drop.
, The Sunset railroad, which operates
out of Bakcrsfleld through the oil fields
to Shale. Cel., Is without a parallel
among railroads for Its earning capacity.
While capitalized at $500,000, it paid
$300,000 dividends in 1910 and followed
it up with another dividend of $500,000
in 1911. What might have been the prof
its in 1912 can only be surmised, for on
Tuesday the railroad commission or
dered a cut in rates of from 10 to 60
per cent.
...The .Pacific .Gas & Electric company
of San hranclsco is to expend $5,000,000
In the execution of plans for the exten
sion of Its power capacity. ..The plans
Include the construction of three addi
tional plants In the Bear river In Placer
county, which with the nine now in op
eration, will give the company a hydro
electric power service of 290,000 horso-
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A reduction of 15 per cent in express
rates to apply to the entire United
States is ordered by the lrtterstatb com
merce commission-In a report just made
public The report reveal -that the
capital stock of the 13 express com
panies Is $63,623,300; that they have
amassed property, in addition to dividend
payments, valued at $l$0,090,t)00j .that!
$1,000,000 would suffice to equip the
companies and enable them to carry on
their business; yet for the fiscal year
of 1911 they collected from the Ameri
can people $149,311,485 in express
charges.
Trade figures for the fiscal year 1912,
just issued by the department of com
merce and labor, show that the imports
were $1,653,426,174 and the exports $2,
204,222,088 in value. Imports exceeded
the former high record, that of 1910,
by about $100,000,000, while exports ex
ceeded the 1911 record by nearly $155,
000,000. The receiver of the defunct State Bank
of Commerce of Wallace, Idaho, has
been paid $75,000 by August Paulson, a
Spokane millionaire, Stanley Easton,
manager of the Bunker Hill and Sulli
van mine, and the estate of T. L. Green
ough, in full settlement of all their lia
bility in connection with the bank's fail
ure. Sociological
A BILL to subsidize motherhood by
the state, and backed by Judge Ben
B. Llndsey.'wlll be presented to the
voters in November under the Colorado
initiative and referendum law. The pe
tition provides for regular cash pay
ments to widowed or needy mothers with
children to support.
Mrs. Hetty Green, America's richest
woman, who is In her seventy-eighth
year, was baptized a few days ago by
an Episcopal minister of New York In
order to prepare for confirmation as a
member of the church.
Women's heroism and self sacrifice
during the Civil war will probably be
immortalized by the erection in Wash
ington of a home for the American Red
Cross. The house public buildings com
mittee has favorably reported a resolu
tion, already passed by the senate, grant,
ing $400,000 toward, the cost of such a
building.
Dowager Queen Alexandra has been
Informed that the rose sales in London
on Alexandra day amounted to over
$150,000. This sum wHl be distributed
among the queen mother's favorite char
ities and hospitals.
By reversing the decision of the lower
court la tha case of, S. ,A, Baylcssnegro,
against the Phoenix board of education,
the supreme court has upheld the con.
stltutlonality of the recently enacted
HORNING, JULY 21, 112.
state law to segregate negro from white
children In the public schools of Ari
zona. Legal and Criminal
TUDGR HANFORD. of the United
I States district court at Seattle, has
J allowed entry of appeal In the case
of Leonard Osson, the Socialist whose
naturalization he recently revoked.
The United States circuit court of ap
peals at San Francisco, has decided that
a marriage accoraing to Indian tribal
ftt Is- legal srtd btndiTig; - -
For sinking the steamship Columbia
off Eureka on July 20, 1907, in. which
80 lives were lost and a $200,000 cargo
destroyed, the United States circuit
court of appeals has limited the liabili
ty of the steam schooner San Pedro to
$16,600.
The Jury in the case of Mrs. Delia
Olds, charged with the murder of her
husband, Dr. W. H. Olds, at Spokane,
on May Zff. returned a verdict of not
guilty. Mrs. Olds' defense was that her
husband drank heavily and beat and
abused her.
A suit started in New York 90 years
ago has Just been concluded. It Involved
the ownership of $3000, which, has been
deposited In the state treasury all these
years. Heirs at law of the original
claimant have succeeded in proving title,
but will get.only the $3000, although the
sum at compound Interest would reach
$585,000.
The Jury at Los Angeles in the esse
of Gorham Tufts Jr., accused of having
gained possession of $100,000 from his
wife by fraudulent power of attorney,
returned a verdict finding Tufts guilty.
Tufts was the head of a mystic oriental
sect
Herman Rosenthal, proprietor of a
gambling house in New York, whose sen
sational charges that the police were
guilty of grafting and oppression were
to be investigated Tuesday by the grand
Jury, was shot and killed In front of the
Hotel Metropole early that day by five
men who escaped In a motor car. Three
men are under arrest and alleged con
fessions have Implicated the police in
the murder.
Mrs. Anna Christensen, charged with
poisoning her husband, a' Pasco banker,
who died on a train June 1, was taken
from Walla Walla to Pas'tfo Tuesday
and her ball fixed at $20,000, which she
was unable to furnish.
Sullen, unruly and a persistent dis
turber xof prison discipline, J. B. McNa
raara, elder of the McNamara brothers,
confessed dynamiters, has been placed
n solitary confinement at San Quentin
until he shows a willingness to conform
to the laws of the prison. John J. Mc
Namara, on the other hand. Is proving a
model prisoner. Both the McNamaraa
are Hi good health.
News is received In Ran Francisco
that "Sir" Harry Westwood Cooper,
alias Ernest Moore Chadwick, is in
South Africa uul-wUl soon -be arrUd.
He is known as the cleverest gentleman
rogue of the day, his swindles covering
both Europe and America. At Oakland
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he posed as Dr. Milton Abrahams and
eloped with Miss Anna Milbraith pf that
city, whom he later deserted.
The mystery' of the death of 12 year
old Julia Connors In New York last
week, who was found outraged and with
40 Knife wounds In her body, was
cleared up by the father of Nathan
Swartz, who said Nathan had confessed
to him that he committed the fertme.
The murderer later committed siiJcllle'
having been advised to do so fcy his
father. I
Arthur F. Schmldler, the mlsslhg as
sistant cashier of the Fidelity State
bank of Uniontown, Wash., who1 it is
Alleged Is short $8500 in his accounts,
Is under arrest in New York.
Mrs. Rene Bacon Morrow, prominent
been acquitted of the charge of murder
beerr acquitted of he. charge tjf murder
ing her husband, who was found on the
porcli of his home last December with
a bullet in his head and another In hia
heart.
Foreign
UP to Friday there had been 39 cases
and 27 deaths from bubonic plague
on the Island of Porto Rico. An
other case was reported Wednesday in
Havana, Cuba. Bo far 600 rats have
been killed and examined in the infested
district of Havana and no plague has
been found in them.
Bearing an ultimatum to General Oroz
co either to turn ovec his private for
tune to pay his army or. relinquish
command, General Yuez Salazar is in.
Juarez from Cassas Grandes. Orozco, it is
said, has been given three days In which
to make a decision.
The Italian government has Informed
the powers that it was ready and anx
ious to bring the Turco-Italian war to
an end, and is willing to pay a heavy in
demnity to the Turkish government for
the transfer of its sovereignty rights in
Tripoli to Italy, with the Turkish
Islands in the Aegean sea already oc
cupied by Italy.
News has reached Paris that Hubert
Latham, the French aviator, was gored
to death by a buffalo while hunting
in Egypt. Latham was well known both
in Europe and America. He gave up
flying some months ago for the sake
of his mother.
The entire Turkish cabinet resigned
Wednesday in consequence of the revolt
in the army against the methods of the
committee of union and progress. It is
said a plot has been discovered to place
Prince Mejid Effendi, son of former
Sultan Mourad, on the Turkish throne,
owing to discontent with the Sultan
Mahamed Rechad Khan
Federal soldiers are looting stores and
robbing citizens in the state of Sonora,
Mexico. Mormon colonists have suffered
heavily. They are alarmed at the ac
tion of the federals and will resist any
attempt to take the Soldiers back to
Colonla Morelos, where 600 Americans
are living.
Jules Henri Polncalre, Illustrious
mathematician and cousin of the French
premier, died In Paris Wednesday. Ho
was 81 years old and the author of many
scUdUIIo- works.
The police of Hamburg have Issued
an order whereby ahy woman who en
ters a street car with unprotected hat-
pins is liable to ejection by the oo
ductos. !
The government is engaged at present j
lrt reducing tho Chinese army. "When
President Yuan Shi Kal took office the
army totaled about 1,000,000 men, end1
they are loing mustered out in batches-
of 10,000 to 60,noo, the Intention beinj
to retain 400,000 permanently in thai
service.
Suffragettes gave. Premier Asqultb. a
hot reception on his arrival In Dublin
Thiirsduy. While on his way from the
landing place to his hotel a hatchet was
hurled at hia carriage, and in the Dub
lin theatre, where Mr. Asqulth was to
speak, two sutfragettes threw a blazing
chair from a box Into the audience. The
box curtains caught fire, but the flames
were put out without further damage.
" The Cuban revolution was entirely
wiped out Thursday by the surrender
and death of General Pedro Ivohet, the
last of the leaders of the recent negro
uprising.
Labor Notes
EMBERS of the Weavers' union at
New Bedford, Mass., are out on a
strike because mill owners refused
demands for the removal from the mills
of notices concerning the adoption of a
grading t.ystem In the cloth mills. About
20,000 operatives are affected.
In his address before the annual con
vention of United Mine Workers
at Victor, Colo., President Charles H.
Moyer censured ex-Senator Flynn and
William Randolph Hearst as mtneowners
who, ho said, were oppressing the la
borer by reducing wages. He also de
nounced the Industrial Workers of the
WVjrld who, he declared, were opposed
to the best interests of organized labor.
Thfl strike of the Londbn dockworkers,
which began eight weeks ago, was
brought to an end last Tuesday, when
the strikcra voted to return to work. The
strike coot tho men and the shipping in
terests many million dollars. All union
funds were exhausted and the families
of many of the strikers were on the
verge of starvation.
The meetlns on Manhattan Beach this
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An eminent skin specialist recently
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