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UNGOVERBIGFRAUDS Government Asks Million Dollars to Recover Stolen Lands. VALUE KEACHI S $110,000,000 Thirty-Two Thousand Casa* of Fraud ulent Holding* Wait of Missis sippi Many In Oregon. Washington, Jan. 19. Startling in formation of allege«! aatuunding frauds upon the public lands has come into the possession of Secretary Garfield through special agents. The allega tion is made that approximately *110,- 900,000 worth of lands tn stales, prin cipally west of the Mississippi river, have been acquired fraudulently within the last twu years, by corporations and individuals. With a view to recovering these lands. Secretary Gartleld sent letters yesterday to Chairman Hale and Chairman Tawney, of the senate and hou e appropriation committees, re- apectivrly, asking for an additional ap prupriation of *600,000, which, if granted, with that already asked fur will give the department 61,000,000 for that purpose. Secretary G irth-Id also submits n statement of II. II. Schwarts, chief of the field service, showing over 32,<00 distinct cases of alleged land frauds demanding further investigation. Of such cases awuiting itiv» »ligation there are In Oregon 1,402; California and Nevada, 1,40«; Washington and North Idaho, 1,326; Montana, 3,606; Colorado, 3.621; Arison*. 406; Wy oming, 21,166; Utah, 1,432, and New Mexico, 1,209. Much Land In This Slate. Washington, Jan. 19. According to a statement sent congress yesterday by Secretary Garfield, the government in now endeavoring to recover title to *1,636,000 worth of public lands fraud ulently entered or sought to be rnt. rsd in Oregon. This includes *760,000 worth of timber land nc<;uired by C. A. Smith, *200,000 by Fred A. Kriba. (435,000 involved in 123 fraudulent limber entries (names not given), *260.000 worth of fine pine timber, ami «200,000 worth of coal land within forest reserves. He also hope* to re cover *559,000 worth of land in Wash ington and a large quantity in Idaho. COSGROVE DELAYS JOURNEY Washington'* Governor-Elect Will Re main South a Month, San Francis o, Jan. 19. Acting on the advice of Dr. Sawyer, who ia at tending him at Paso Robles. Cal., Gov- ernor-elect Cosgrove, of Washington, has decided not to go North for at least a month. Cosgrove ia improving every day and hi* physician is confident that he will ultimately be as well as ever. The reason for the postponement of the trip is that Dr. Sawy- r does not believe Csogrove strong enough yet to face a North- ni winter, after having been in the warm climate. ABE RUEF VERY HARD UP. Decide* to Sell Hit Big Maroon Burr Wagon for Cash. San Francisco, Jan. 19. -Former Hoss Abe Ruef, now under sentence of 14 years in San Quentin for bribery, is very hard up and has decided to sell hi* tine maroon-colored touring auto mobile, in which he waa wont to spin around town. Ruef * financial condi tion, insofar a* available funds are concerned, ha* not been anything to lioast of -for some time. Nearly all his property holdings are ti<-<i up for bail. Since the shooting of Hcney, the convicted boss has derived but little pleasure from hi* buzz wagon. The last tune it appeared on the street was New Year » eve. Over at San Quentin Ruef will have les* need for an auto mobile. Harriman Gulf Outlet. New York, Jan. 19. Negotiation* looking to a traffic agreemi nt between the Kansas City Southern Railway company, the Union Pacific Railroad company and the Southern Pacific com pany are under way and the papers will b»> signed in a few days, according to a report current here. The closing of such an arrangement would again make the Kansas City Southern a con necting link between Knnsas City m d Galveston for the Harriman roads, as it war a few years ago, when it formed a part of the Harriman system. Nevada Cities In Darkness, Reno, Nev., Jan. 19. High water and landslides put the several power plants that supply electric lights and power to Reno, Carson and Virginia City out of commission last night. Streetcars, electric elevators, the Sparks railroad shops and all plants depending on electric current are clos ed. Damaged railroad tracks have been repaired and the first trains from the West in three days are due to ar rive from San Francikco today. Rescuer* Fear Pestilence. Rome, Jan. 19. Owing to the mias- mic condition of Messina, the rescuers there have been sent a petition here asking that steps be taken at once to compel the survivors of the earthquake to abandon the city at once. The res cuer* fear for their own live* and have asked to be withdrawn. WOOL POOL FAIL«. AN Tl-JAFANEBE BILL8. EIGHTEEN ARE DEAD Buyer* Offer High Price* and Break Measures Before California Lagiala- Proposed Combine. tur* Attract Attention. Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 18. -Chief . Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 16. — Tha three anti-Japanese bills introduced in Forester Pinchot turned down two Invi tea assembly byGrova L. Johnson, of tation* to attend the convention of the Tuo*day, January 18. four fleet collier*. Sacramento, and the one by A. M. National Woolgrower«’ association, Drew, of Fresno, prohibiting aliens Washington, Jan. 19. Th* salaries which adjourned In thl* city Saturday. of the president, vice presilk nt and Friday, January 16. from holding land in the state, have Washington, Jan. 16.—An amend attracted such wide interest that the Mr. Pinchot'* refusal* were baaed on speaker of the house were again under what he termed the aelflah and narrow discussion in the senate today, when ment in the legislative, executive and 1,000 copies of each ordered printed the legislative, executive and judicial judicial appropriation bill Increasing are already exhausted ami there ia a policy of the association toward the appropriation bill was taken up. the salary of the preaitlent to (100,000, demand for more. government forestry service. The Johnson bills are designer! to Amendments were adopted increasing of the vice president and Speaker of On a final showdown on the Chicago th»» president's salary to *100,000. that the house of repreaentativA to (20,- prevent Japanese being members of Westbound Passenger Crashes Into w< ol storage ; reposition it was found of the chief justice of the Supreme <>00, with (6,000 additional allowance corporation*; to segregate all Japan Eaitbound Freight — Doctors c> urt to *16,000, and thoeeof associate ese by defining the limits within which that the signatures to the Chicago con ¡justices to *14,500. An amendm» nt for carriages and coachmen for the •nd Nurses to Scene. vice president and speaker, araj in they must live. The two first named tract were 4.600,000 |x*unda short of i was also adopted providing for an un- creases for the judiciary aggregating were introduced last session by Mr. the required 25,000,000 pounds necea ■ «1er secretary of state at a salary of (328,500, precipitated a lively discus Johnson, arid action u;»on them was suspended at the telegraphic r<*queet of sary to Insure the Chicago market. At *10,000 a year. sion in the senate today, Glenwood Springs, Colo., Jan. 16.— Presi»ient Rooaevelt during the diplo In a collision between Veneer A Rio a meeting of those already signed up Washington, Jan. 19. Disposing of Washington, Jan. 16.—Private bills matic negotiations betwanrn the United Grande passenger train No. 5, west it was found to be impossible to secura the speech of Willett, of New York, had their inning in the house of repre- States and Japan over the action of pledges of the required amount among yesterday, attacking the president, by ««•ntatives today, almost tb«- whole ses the San Francisco school board in ex bound, and east bound freight No. 666, at Dotsero last night, 18 persons were delegates present at the Pocatello con referring it to a special committee to sion being given up to their consider- cluding Japanese youths from public killed and 30 injuied, so far aa known. •»-bools and assigning tjiem to the in vention, and a campaign will be inaug report what disposition should be made tion. Many were pusiw-d. As soon as the information reached of it, the house proceeded today td urated on the outside. The bill of Representative Hawley, stitution* set aside for "Mongolians.” here that a wreck had occurr«xl, a Wool buyers from Chicago and St. take up the var.ou* appropriation bills. of Oregon, to pay surviving volunteers The Japanese claimed they were not special was made up and ail the avail Butler, of Pennsylvania, occupied of the Cayuae Indian war of 1847 and Mongolians, and Assemblyman John Ixtuis have been active during the con able doctors and nurses in the city vention in buying the 1909 clip at the chair during the debate on the 1846 (1.50 a day tor their service* a* son introduced an amendment specify- preaaed into service and carried to the | mg "J »panes'»" in the law. It was pension appropriation bill, which aboi- from IM to 21 cents. Many woolgrow- shown by the muster rolls, passed the scene of the accident. Thia train, it ers, heretofore considered us staunch I oihes all but one of the 13 pension house today. The benefic.arie* are thia measure to whose enactment the was expected, would bring the injured supporters of the Chicago plan, have 1 agencies throughout the country. The John Minto, Charles Bold*, Ellen E. president obje» ted, and it was killed. back, arxi possibly the dead, last night, The bill relating to directors of eor- but it waa not expected to reach here contracted their clips to private buy bill, which carries a total appropria Hackett, M. A. Cornelius, Mary J. ers, allured by the remarkable price*. tion of (160,369,000, was paaiu-d vir Keizur, Amada Reeae, Mary Carnahan, I orations prohibits aliens from being before 2 o'clock. Ogden was Selected as the next place tually aa reported by the committee on i Fully U. Butler and Sarah E. Schautz. members of such boards, and its pur- Meager detail* of the wreck are to ; ; m usions. of meeting. Preaident Roosevelt today sent to ;>ose is to prevent competition of pow th“ effect that the freight train was The urgent deficiency bill, which | the house of representatives a special erful Japanese concerns with Ameri- attempting to take a siding to let the Fred W. Gooding, of Shoshone, Idaho, v,as re-e acted president; carries uppropriatton* amounting to message vetoing the bill authorizing | cans. passenger pass, but had only partly run The third Johnson bill is new. It off the main line when the passenger George 8. Walker, of Cheyenne. Wyo., | *1,062. 1' 2. w «» piii-»-1 hft»r a roll »-all William H. Stand-sh to construct a again was chosen seer- tury, ami Lewis und several votea had been cok'd fur dam across the James river, in Stone I give* municiapalities power to pre train came tearing along and crashed Penwell, of Helena, Mont., once more ¡on an amendment offered by Heflin, of connty, Missouri, to divert a portion scribe th«- limit* within which "unde »nto it. The chair car of the passen selected as treururer. A. H. Knollin, I Alabamn, providing for an appropria of the water* of that stream through a sirable, improper and unhealthy per ger was torn in two and one tourist car of Chicago, succeed« d Joseph E. Wing, tion of *300,00 for further distribution tunnel, to create electrical power. sons, or persons whose practices are telescoped. The passenger train waa of Mechanicsburg, 0., as Eastern vice of seeds by th* department of agricul The president hold* that the bill guar dangerous to the public morals and well filled with passengers, most of president, and A. J. Delfelter, of Lara ture. antees valuable monopolsitic privileges ’ health of a community,” shall live. whom were asleep. mie, Wyo., succeeded Dr. J. M. Wil and does not provide for condition* es • ........... It is feared that the list of dead will Monday, January IB. son, of Wyoming, *a Western vice sential to protect the public interest*. be greatly augmented when full details ONE JUROR PASSED. Washington. Jam 13.—The provi He refers to former communications president. are received. In the resolution* adopted any reduc sion* for an increase of the sslary of showing a tendency to monopolist»* tion in the present tariff on wool and the president to *100,000 and of the encroachment* upon natural resources. Difficulty of Securing Talesmen to Try DENOUNCE FOREST SERVICE United Railrosds Official hides was opposed, ami the proivieed salaries of the vice president and establishment of a central wool market sfieaker of the house of representatives Thursday, January 14. San Francis«»*, Jan. 16.—Patrick to (20,000 each, contained in a senaate in Chicago approved. Washington, Jan. 14.—The Ananias Calhoun, traction magnate on trial for Woolgrowers Say Pinchot1« Subordi nate* Have Too Much Power. amednm« nt to the legislative, execU' club was discussed in the senate today alleged giving of a bribe, adopted his tive and judicial appropriation bill, by Tillman, who declared that state expected defense today, when Attorney Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 16.—The sec no C hange in policy . were taken up in the senate today and ment* tnadc by Attorney General Bona Stanley Moore, by his questioning of ond day’s session of the «»invention of the point of order made against them parte and Postmaster General Meyer I August Hansen, attempted to show the National Woolgrowers’ association Dismissal of Yuan Shi Kai Will Not by Borah was further considered, re in reply to his reply to charges readi that the indictment was the result of a in this city was marked by another at Affect China. sulting in the adoption, by a vote of 34 ngs ins t him by the president in rela- plot hatched by Rudolph Spreckels to tack on the forest service. S. Goeney, Pekin, Jan. 18. Prince Ching, pres to 32, of another amendment, fixing t on to hi* contemplated purchase of make out a ease against the head of of Flagstaff, Arizona, in an address in the speaker's salary at (16,000. Other frag the afternoon, declared that justice to Oregon timber land made them eligible | the United Railroads. ident of tlie board of foreign affair*, Senator Fulton has offered an amend to membership in that organization. mentary evidence of Calhoun’s scheme the sheepmen of the West demanded a has assured the American and British ed rate bill, which provides that when Tillman wanted to know what degree ; of defense has been brought out in the change in the present methods of ad ministers that the dismissaP of Yuan the Interstate Commerce commission of falsehood was to be charged to the «■xamination of prospective jurors, ministration of the range control. ■Shi Kai means no change in Chinese suspends » pruposed higher rate the two cabinet officers "or head clerk* or i touching on the late car strike, the Mr. Gosney asserted that he could policy, but bitterness has arisen be rate then in force shall continue in bootlick* and whatever the pre* dent granting of immunity, and the juror's cite numerous* instances in bis own . force until the complained of rates tween the British and Japanese repre ¡have been settled by shearing; also, has around him.” He suggested that general sentiment in the matter of state where favoritism, prejudice and there should be a meeting of the exec j unionism. graft have figured in the administra sentatives here on account of Japan's that several road* may enter into The third day of Calhoun’s trial saw tion of the national reserves. utive committee of the Ananias club to refusal to join Great Britain in her , agreements as to rates. deteimmenshat degree should be con i the first juror in the case temporarily After the election of officers and se- Senator Fulton’s bill to create Sad feree 1 upon "Charles J. Bonaparte and passed. He is Joseph Dixon, a sales lection of the place of meeting for representations to Prince Ching. The dle Mountain National park was favor- British p sition is that Japan act* in this man Meyer.” man for Marcus H*rt, a haberdasher. , 1910, the convention will adjourn. bad faith, while th«- J ajúmese legation , ably reported today. The lands includ He sits subject to peremptory chal Salt Lake has withdrawn in favor of ed lie in townships 5 and 6 north, Washington, Jan. 14.—For a time lenge. Dixon was passed by the de- Ogden, which city is now in the lead. explains that it was agreed to concur today in the house it looked as though I fense last night, and after a brief ex In the opinion of the majority and that rpnge 3 went. Contending that any change in the Senator Fulton has introduced a bill that body would further resent th»- amination tni* morning wa* accepteud existing protecting tariff on wool a majority of the minister* favored the to include in the Blue Mountain Na president’s statement affecting mem , by the prosecution. During tbe exam would work great injury on tbe sh’ ep taking of no action in this direction. William M. Rockhill ami Sir John tional forest, sections 17 to 24, town bers of congress sn I the secret service ination the clerk said he could try the industry in America, C. H. Harding, Jordan, respectively the ministers to ship 13 south, range 25 east of the by ordering t"e printing of 2,000,000 case thoroughly and squarely. of Philadelphia, ex-president of the China from the United State* and Willamette meridian. copies of the proceedings yf last Fri The juror said he knew Abe Ruef, National Association of Wool manufac («rest Britain, today expressed them day, tabling his remarks. A resolution but did not care to comment on his turers, addressed the convention. He Washington, Jan. IB. When Repre to that end was presented by Landis, conviction, that he favored Calhoun's compared the recent hearing before selves as pleased with the reception sentative William Willett, Jr., of Far accorded them by Prince Ching. They of Indian* but so strong was the sen stand in the last car strike, and that the house committee on tariff revis’on say the prince received them in the Rockaway, N. Y., representing the timent against it that it was tabled. he was at one time a union man, but to a minstrel show, with some of the Fourteenth New York district, was in spirit in which they came, aa repre withdrew because of the hours he had congressmen as end men. the midst of a bitter attack on the sentatives of two friendly |>owers. He Wednesday, January 13. to work. listened to Messrs. Rockhill and Jordan president today, the house of repre Before the prosecution finished the Washington, Jan. 13.- -Senator Ba respectfully, who inquired whether the sentatives by. a vote of 126 to 78 re con today introduced a resolution as examination of Dixon the juror made NO TRAINS RUNNING. dismissal of Yuan Shi Kai meant a fused to allow him to prove«»»! on the serting the right of congress to call on complaint to Judge Lawlor that ar. ground that he was “villifyihg the change in the policy of China. the executtee departments for all pa agent had approacted his wife yester- Overland Traffic on Central Pacific Prince Ching authoratively assured president.'* The question was raised pers and information in their posses I day afternoon and questioned her in re- Stopped by Floods. on a point of order. his callers that this was not so. This I gard to her husband's feeling in the sion. Although Roosevelt ’ s nam.- w,is not San Francisco, Jan. 16.—Beyond the assurance, it is understood, put* an end An appropriation of *161,018,000 for } graft cases. Mrs. Dixon said the man destruction of the Southern Pacific to the bad impression that followed tha mentioned by the speaker, innuendo pensions was agreed to today by the claimed to be a real estate agent left no possible doubt as to the person company’s bridges at Sacramento and dismissal of Yuan Shi Kai. •ommittee on pension* in drafting the • • designated. the Western Pacific crossing near FLAY FORESTRY POLICY. President Roosevelt today sent to annual pension* bill. This amount is there, the damage resulting from the Bodies of Cheney* Found. over *2,000,000 less than the appropri congr. as a special message requesting great rain storm which has deluged the Washington, Jan. 18.- The bodies of that Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, ation last year, which was *163,053,- Work I* Total Failure, Gooding Tells central part of Cal forma for the last 000. In th* report to the house it will the American Consul, Arthur S. Che be made a national holiday. Sheepmen's Convention. w«»ek is slight. The danger is not ney and Mrs. Cheney were found in Among the measures passed by the b*shown that the republic has expend Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 15.- One thou over, however, if the rain continues, the ruins of the American consulate at house today was that extending the ed since it* beginning *3,751,108,809 though apparently the storm is ceasing. The committee inserted sand sheepmen attended the opening Messina yesterday afternoon by the provisions of the Carey act to th«- in pensions. So far very little of the grain land session of the National Woolgrowers- ’ in the bill a provision that the 18 pen sailors of the American liattleship Illi Territories of Arizona and New Mex Hn the Sacramento and San Joaquin convention in this city yesterday and sion agencies throughout the country nois, which arrived at Messina yes ico. vdllegys has been inundated, and the b* reduced to one, to be located in listened to a bitter arraignment of the terday from Suez. The bodies were F«-deral forestry bureau by President crest of the flood has passed several of Washington. Congress has failed to prepared for shipment and taken Saturday, January 16. F. W. Gooding, erf Shoshone. Declar the most dangerous points. I agree to sjch a proposal heretofore. aboard the Americanuiupply ship Cui- The principal danger is also at Sac Washington, Jan. 16. The entire ing that the government in its admin goa, which will carry them to Naples. ramento an«i Stockton, wl ere an im session of the senate today was devot Washington, Jan. 13. — Working istration of the national forests and Arrangements are being made for the ed to ji memorial service for the late with only a small quota of members, the reclamation service has failed woe- mense spread of farming land will be shipmi-nt of the bodies to the United Senator William Pinckney Whyte, of the house of representatives devoted i fully. President Gooding urged that under water if the levees give way. States. The Illinois has returned to Maryland. Alter the adoption of reso its entire time today to consideration congress be asked to name a commit Tonight's reports from those points are Malta. lutions of respect the senate at 2:38 p. of the District of Columb1* appropria tee of Western men to intesvtigate and reassuring. m. adjourned. tion bill. Mann, of Illinois, furnished report any needed changes in the rules Uncle Sam Help* Brave*. Heavy Rain* in Cal fornia. a little diversion for an otherwise dull and regulations governing these two Helena. Mont., Jan. 13. The gov Washington, Jan. 15.—An elaborate bureaus. Sacramento, Jan. 16.—At the weath ernment has now taken charg«» of the analysis of the Sherman anti-trust law, day by defending the house rules, and From nearly every Western state er bureau in this city today reports re indigent band of Chippewa Indians, by Jenkins, of Wisconsin, was the this led him into several sharp brushes dyletfates are- present. The biggest ceived indicated that floods might be whose pitable condition during the cold feature of today's session of the house. with Gardner, of Massachusetts, one of single delegation arrived from Boise, exDected at Stockton andon the islands spell excite«! the charitably disposed The pension appropriation bill techni the so-called insurgents. Idaho. It included Governor Brady in the delta of the Sacramento and San residents of the state in no small de cally was under consideration, but the and a number of state officials, also Joaquin rivers, on account of the heavy gree. with the result that they were time was given over to general debate. S438.OOO for Bremerton. about half the members of both houses rainfall along the watersheds of the afforded every porsible relief. The Other speakers were Nye, who enter Washington, Jan. 14.- Among the of the state legislature. Calaveras river and other streams ris government has sent an inspector here tained the house with an address on appropriation* to be made for the Pug The forenoon session of the conven ing in the Sierras. Steamers arriving and he has received instructions to pro law and lawmakers; Douglas, of Ohio, et Sound navy yard in the naval appro tion was devoted entirely to the mid from the north this morning reported a vide clothing and food for them and who advocated autononmy for the Por priation bill are the following items: winter sheep show. More than 600 break in the levee on the Yolo county this is being done. Continuing construction of the new to Ricans, and Burton, of Delaware, sheep are entered. side, below Elkhorn, 12 miles above drydock, *400,090; railroad extension, who made a plea for postal savings here. The break is 75 feet wide. Nicholas Get* Off Throne. *10,000; sewer extension, *8,000; im banks. Predict* Tree Famine. Paris, Jan. 13. Prince Nicholas, of In reporting the naval appropriation provement of construction plant, *20,- Valuable Freight Burn*. Washington, Jan. 15.—"The time is Montenegro, has abdicated in favor of bill to the house today the committee 000. Representative Jones has been coming in this country when trees will Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 16.—A Cana his son, Prince Mirko, according to a on naval affairs fixed the amount need- requested by the people of Spokane to be as scarce as diamonds, unless im dian Pacific silk train with a cargo dispatch received here thia evening ed for the maintenance of the naval secure an apprporiation to aid the Na mediate steps are taken to preserve our valued at *1,000,000. which arrived from Vienna. Th«» report lacks con service during the fiscal year 1910 at tional Irrigation congress. forests.” This was the dark picture by the Empress of China, was run into firmation, though it is generally cred (135,662,388, aa compared with *122,- painted in an address by Secretary of aby a fast freight while standing on a ited, a* Nicholas had not met the full 662,485, the present appropriation. Pitchfork Prepare* for Jab. Agriculture Wilson at the 29th annual siding 17 miles east of Swift Current desires of his subjects in his attitude The bill contains recommendations for Washington, Jan. 14.—"Many peo meeting of the American Forestry as last night. An error of the brakeman toward Austria. He was confronted an increase of the navy by two 26,000- ple are sending me material in regard sociation. The secretary declared our in not closing the switch after the with the same situation as now con ton battleships, five torpedo boat de to Roosevelt's dark and crocked ways f> re »try growth is getting scarcer and train had taken the siding caused the fronts King Peter, of Servia, whose stroyers,' four submarine boats and and I am preparing a speech in which scarcer and we are using three times accident. The train immediately abdication ia expected at any moment. I will try to redeem my promise," said as much wexxi as we are growing. caught fire and four cars with valuable Provide Enough Officer*. Senator Tillman today. He said he freight were totally destroyed. No Rlvar and Harbor Bill. Washington, Jan. 20.—“I am con did not know how soon he would be Japan Take* Slight Notic*. Washington, Jan. 18.--The house vinced that the only remedy for the ab able to deliver his speech, but he would Colonize Quake Victim*. Tokio, Jan. 15.—Though certain of committee on rivers and harbors has sentee evil ia to provide enough officers make it before the president retired the Japanese newspapers are seriously Paris, Jan. 14.—The Duke di Litta, voted against a general appropriation on the active list of the army to per from office. exercised over the anti-Japanese bills an Italian nobleman and owner of vast hill for river and harbor improvements. form all of the duties required of it.” before the California legislature, estates along the Miakka river in Flor The committee will report a bill pro This is the substance of the reply which Sign Canadian Treaty. others style the matter as a tempest ida, w«ll throw open his lands for col viding for carrying on important work Secretary Wright» today made to the Washington, Jan. 14. — Secretary in a teapot. There is no tendency to onization to 5,000 falimilies made des already begyn, for surveys of urgent house, which recently passed a resolu Root and Ambassador Bryce, of Great find sinister design in the increase in titute by the earthquake in Southern projects proposed and for any emer tion seeking information with a view Britain, signed tonight a treaty for the American navy, new-spapers gene- ; Italy. The only condition named by gencies which may arise. This bill to having a number of retired officers the settlement of international differ rally expressing the opin on that ( the duke ia that each family shall take will probably carry not to exceed *10,- perform duties of active officers de ence between the United States and America’s growing interests in the Pa-1 two farms, cultivating one for them- 000,000. tached from the various commands. Canada. cific demand a stronger navy. felves and the other for him. Trains Collide on Denver ft Rio Grande In Colorado. THIRTY PERSONS ARE INJURED