WILSON’S ADVICE TALK STIRS PEACE CONGRESS SPUDS BENT TO OHIO ON SALE EARLY
Speaker Declare« Show of Strength Contribution* to Flood Sufferer«
I
Prevent« Trouble.
Found in Market«.
IS DISREGARDED
MEN IN AFRICA
FEWER VARIETIES OF APPLES
West 1* Urged to Ship Only Two or
Three Kinde.
TRACES OF RACE THAT HUNTED
St. Louis The Peace Congress sym
Cincinnati — Many householders in
Chicago — It I* plain that the past
ANIMALS LONG EXTINCT.
posium on disarmament took an unex Cincinnati who Saturday- bought sacks
j year’s experience ha* brought the
pected turn when two delegate* took
Northwestern apple grower face to
issue with speakers on the platform of potatoes advertised for sale at a
How serious it
and declared their theory of disarm- reduced price by a large grocery of Intereeting Discovery of Mammalian face with a crisis.
Bone* and Human Implement*
ament impracticable.
Andrew B. Cincinnati, were surprised when they
may be uc one can say definitely.
Humphrey, general secretary of the opened them to find they contained
Mad*
by
Sciential
Near
According to the report of the In
American Peace
ami
Arbitration cards saying that the potatoes had »
Bloemfontein—Provee
ternational
Apple Shipper*’ associa
League, and Henry A. Dadmun, secre
Old Theory.
Governor Will Sign "After Reason tary
tion, the apple* in cold storage in the
of the Army and Navy league, been grown In Oregon or Washington
able Time’’—Party Lines
were the delegates who opposed what and had been donated to the sufferer*
A mo*t Interesting discovery ha* United State* on January 1, 1913,
Ignored By All.
appeared to be the general sense of by the recent disastrous floods in the lately been made showing the exists amounted to 6,283,645 boxes of West
the meeting.
Dayton district.
ence of a primitive race of men In ern apples, and 4,645,412 barrel* ot
Mr. Humphrey said he represented a
The grocery firm had advertised South Africa. Doctor Broom, -of Ger- apples grown in Eastern state*. This
Sacramento,
Cal.—The adminis society standing for an armament con that it would sell 10,000 sacks of ml*ton, whose archaeological and geo represent* an increase of 3,379,641
sistent with existing conditions and Western potatoes at about half the
boxes and 751,088 barrel* over the
logical researches have made bis
tration anti-alien land holding bill, sufficient to preserve peace.
amount in storage at the same time a
regular price, or 36 cents a bushel*.
name familiar to scientists In Europ«
drawn by Attorney General Webb,
year ago.
Thu* there was an al)
Mr. Dadmun declared disarmament The buyer for the firm said they had
and America, told of a specially Inter-
around big crop, although, as the fig
passed the senate at 12:45 Saturday ■lid not prevent the war of 1812, nor been offered him at a low price by a
ertlng
discovery
recently
made
of
a
morning by a vote of 36 to 2, after In 1861, when the navy was practical member of the flood relief committee, hot spring 30 miles north of Bloem ures indicate, the rate of increase in
the East was trifling as compared with
ly dismantled.
who had told him the committee han
nearly 10 hour* of debate.
The only
"There is no telling how soon the received huge shipment* of potatoes fontein, In the course of operations that of the West, which more than
negative votes were cast by Senator* United States will have to go to war from the West, and that because the designed to open up the eye of the 'ioubled its output of the year before.
Cartwright, Democrat, and Wright, in the intercat* of humanity,” he con tubers were a perishable commodity spring. To do this it was necessary
In the Northeastern state* the area
tinued. “It was my good fortune to the committee had decided to sell to tunnel Into a sand hill, and in the under apples is increasing, but the
Republican.
course of the operations the workmen
The principal provisions of the bill attend the last conference at The them. He said the price at which be came upon a large quantity of mam output is gaining ground much more
Hague. It was the weight of our bought them enabled his firm to sell
slowly.
In the Middle West, on the
are as follows:
navy that gave weight to our words them at a small profit at 36 cents, malian bones associated with human other hand, the number of trees is act
1. Aliens eligible to citizenship at that conference. A display of force though the prevailing price of pota Implement* and a quantity of charred ually diminishing. In Illinois, Mis
may acquire and hold land to the same makes it unnecessary to usp force.
souri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and
toes in Cincinnati retail market is wood.
The significance of the discovery Arkansas, there are 10,000,000 fewer
extent as citizens.
“If we enter the 1916 Hague con now 60 cents a bushel.
2. All other aliens are limited to ference with a fifth-rate navy and a
No statement from the relief com- was realized by the first finders, but, bearing trees today than there were
fortunately, a Dutch woman In the three year* ago.
the specific right* conferred upon weak naval policy the American dele mittee was obtainable.
Western orchards
district suspected they bad scientific are increasing rapidly, and it is here
them by the existing treaties between gation’s influence will be exactly fifth
the United States and the nations of rate.”
JAPAN WILL ENTER PROTE8T value, and prevented the finds from that co-operation and trained business
being dispersed Doctor Broom went sense must be brought to bear on the
which such aliens are citizens or sub
That the United States is under a
ject*.
moral obligation to admit the ships of Ambassador Chinda Will Deal Di down and examined them. He found problems of production and marketing.
that the bones were chiefly those of
In the case of the Japanese the bill other nations to the Panama canal on
The apple orchards of the Pacific
rect With Washington.
hippopotami, eland, the huge extint Northwest are at present producing
prohibits ownership of farming or ag the same terms on, which it admits
ricultural lands,
while permitting American vessels was urged in an ad
Washington, D. C. - New* that the buffalo of South Africa, whose horns more than 100 different varieties of
them to own residences and factories, dress before the congress by ex-Vice Japanese government had instructed used to attain a span of twelve feet; apples. Of these 65 are listed as be
manufactories and shops.
Ambassador Chinda to make formal the gigantic Cape horse long since ex ing shipped in car lots. Now the vast
President Fairbanks.
3. leases of agricultural lands by
“I do not believe,” he said, "that protest 'against the California alien tinct, which far exceeded the Clydes majority enter Eastern and European
aliens are permitted for a period of we should force Great Britain to re land bill, now awaiting Governor dale In size; an extinct variety of markets in competition with the same
not exceeding three years,
There is sort to an arbitral tribunal to deter Johnson’s signature, was received in wild beeste; the wart hog, and a num varieties grown much nearer the
a question as to whether renewals mine a question that has no basis Washington official circles with inter ber of small buck, not yet identified. point* of consumption.
In most cases
would tie lawful.
Previous discoveries had caused sci this is a hopeless competition; it is a
either In fact or that in good consid est, although it was not unexpected.
4. Aliens ineligible to citizenship eration of national good faith ami na The protest propably will be present entists to believe that man had lived struggle in which the western grower
cannot inherit land.
Upon the death tional honor should be settled by our ed to Acting Secretary John Bassett in South Africa contemporaneously has all the odds against him.
of an alien land holder his property selves; and if we rightly understand Moore at the State department.
In the first place, one of the largest
with the extinct giant buffalo, but the
shall I m - sold by the Probate court and it, there can be no doubt that it will
Pending the return of Secretary proofs -available were inconclusive. apple dealers, who is recognized as
the proceeds distributed to his heirs.
be setted in entire harmony with our Bryan from Sacramento, no statement Dr. Bloom regards this discovery as one of the best authorities on the ap
5. Thu state specifically reserves manifest national duty.”
from the administration is expected proving their co-existence beyond ple market in the country, states that
its sovereign right to enact any and
Mr. Fairbanks, in reviewing the here. It is known that President Wil doubt. The find further proves that while the Western apple is much su
all laws in future with respect to the history of the canal negotiations, said son has had suggested to him the ref extinct animals were killed and their perior to those grown in the East in
acquisition of real property by aliens.
that when the Hay-Pauncefote treaty erendum as a possible means of delay bones broken, and indicates that their general appearance, color, smoothness
6. Present holdings of ineligible was before the senate committee on ing for nearly two years the effect of flesh was cooked by some primitive and shape, yet 90 per cent ot the East
alien* are not affected except that foreign affairs, the right of the United the California law in event it is signed race of human beings. The imple ern trade assert that the home grown
they cannot be bequeathed or sold to States to discriminate in favor of her by the governor, but no intimation of ments found Included stone knives apples are superior in flavor to those
other alien* classified among those not coastwise traffic was considered fully.
how the idea was received has been and large spear heads, but no evi grown in the West. It is even main
eligible to citizenship.
Andrew Carnegie delivered an ad forthcoming.
dences were found of the presence of tained that in some of these varieties
A companion measure, identical in dress at the morning session, and was
what are regarded as typical Bush the East can beat us in appearance as
phraseology, probably will pass the declaring that President Wilson would JAPANESE COMMEND WILSON man stones.
well as in flavor. In the second place
assembly and will be signed by Gover win immortal glory by dealing with
At present there Is some doubt as the big obstacle to competing with the
nor Johnson after “a reasonable time” the question of world peace, when be
Eastern grower, in varieties which he
Leaders in Tokio Advise People to to the race to which the human be can
has elapsed in which to hear possible was interrupted by a man who called
produce as well as the Western
ings who hunted these giant buffalo
Preserve Calm Attitude.
protest* from President Wilson, who out:
difference in
belonged. In this connection it has grower, lies in the
ha* requested the respite.
“How about Japan?”
Tokio—The] Japanese press Sunday been noted that the bones of an ex freight rates.
In the closing hours of the debate
“Well,” replied Carnegie, “Japan expressed a general appreciation of the tinct buffalo and horse possibly Iden
partisanship was lost sight of. Demo has 19 battleship* and we have 33 and efforts of President Wilson in behalf tical with those discovered in South JAPAN SEEKS COAUNG BASE
crat* and Progressives voted together more coming. ”
The questioner ad of a land bill in California that would Africa have been found in Algeria. It
in response to what they took to be mitted this, but said, "Right now we not be objectionable to the Japanese. is thought possible, therefore, that
Wants Island 50 Miles From Elast
the almost unanimous demand of the are in mortal terror.”
Leaders of public opinion in Japan are the tribe which hunted them migrat
End of Panama Canal.
people of California. Their only dif
Then Carnegie appealed to the au advising that an attitude of calmness ed south along with these extinct ani
ference in the end was over the ques dience :
New York—An alleged plot of Jap
be maintained in the present situa mals during the last ice age. It Is
tion of whether the bill was drastic
"Lot every one who is not afraid of tion. Such men as Baron Shibusawa further thought that those ancient peo anese to secure a naval coaling station
enough.
Japan stand up,” said Carnegie.
and Chairman Nakano, of the Tokio ple were probably white and of Euro in the Caribbean sea, within 50 miles
The futility of Secretary Bryan’s
Virtually the entire audience, which chamber of commerce, publicly assert pean stock. Doctor Broom has sent of the Atlantic end of the Panama
mission was shown in the vote of hi* filled the large music hall where the confidence that the American govern a representative collection of th* canal and in violation of the Monroe
own party.
Nine of the ten Demo sessions are being held, stood up^
doctrine, became known Wednesday
ment and people alike are opposed to bones to Cape Town.
crats voted contrary to the advice
Camegie then turned to his ques discriminatory measures of legisla
when the steamship Sixaola docked
which he brought from President Wil tioner, saying: “Nobody is in mortal tion.
here. George T. Burns, agent of the
They
Locked
Him
Up.
son, while not a single Progressive terror but you.”
Caribbean Guano company, who was a
Miss Fola La Follette, apropos of
Priest Will Lead Troops.
yielded to his eloquence.
“If a man wishes to select the saf
passenger, said that the Japanese gov
est life possible, the one freest from
El Paso, Tex.—Father Felix Gar- the late clothing strike. In which she ernment was negotiating for the pur
HEAT RECORD BROKEN EAST all danger of violent death, let him randa, parish priest of Guerrero. Chi took an active interest, said at a tea chase of Roncador island.
enter our army and navy,“ said Mr. huahua, is to lead a group of Federal In New York:
“The island,” said Burns, “is now
"Such kind conduct as you mention
All Record* for First of May Bro Carnegie. “There is not a workman troops in the campaign against the tn your argument would be aberration, the property of the Caribbean Guano
attending machinery or erecting build revolutionist* of Northern Mexico.
company. It has a superb harbor and
ken in New York.
ings, or a railway employe, or a po
“I am changing the cassock for the or almost aberration, on the operator’* would make a good coaling base for
It
makes
me
think
of
a
lunacy
part,
New York The thermometer regis liceman, the soldier of civilization, sword,” he wrote General Antonio Ro-
any navy. Ostensibly the Japanese are
tered 87 degress at 3 o’clock Saturday whose duty is never to attack, but al bago, military governor of Chihuahua story.
negotiating through a steamship com
“A commissioner in lunacy had pany, of which a man named Aral is
afternoon. This broke all records in ways to protect, not one but runs far state.
“Having been marked for
New York for the first week of May greater risk of sudden injury or death death by the revolutionists, I offer my called a woman to the stand.
the head, for a harbor for a steamship
" ’And now,’ said the commieslon’s
since the United States Weather Bu than the soldier or marine of our coun services, promising to raise a force of
i line which shall communicate with
attorney
to
her,
‘
what
is
your
ground
reau began operations here in 1871.
try does today.”
200 men loyal to the government.”
ports on the eastern coast of the
Officials in charge of the weather
General Rabago accepted the offer, for claiming that the prisoner is in United States and South America.
bureau said that Albany at 2 o’clock
“The harbor is perfectly fitted to
Powers Urge Peace Conference. commissioning the priest to raise a sane?*
"The woman gulped, wiped her eyes, make a coaling station. The water is
had a temperature of 88.
This also
London—No date has yet been fixed volunteer corps.
and
answered:
oroke all records for Albany for the
Guerrero, in the mountsninous dis
sufficiently deep and the channels are
•"Well, gentlemen, he took me to straight enough to admit the largest
first week of May and broke al) rec for the reassembling of the peace con trict west of Chihuahua City, was the
the theater twice in one week. Each warships, while at the same time
ords for the entire state of New York ference at Ixindon, but the powers are birthplace of the Madero revolution.
time we went in a taxicab, we had there is sufficient protection for the
urging Turkey and the Balkan allies
in the same period since 1871.
supper each time after the perform smallest submarine or torpedo boat to
to send their delegates as quickly as
Miners Vote to Return.
ance, and each time he bought me be perfectly protected from any stress
Philadelphia—With the official ther possible, in the belief that the conclu
Nanaimo, B. C.—Although well or- chocolates and flowers.
He didn't of weather.”
mometer registering 88 degrees at 4 sion of peace will assist in the settle
ment
of
the
other
problems.
Although
ganized
efforts were made by union once go out to see a man between the
o’clock Saturday afternoon, this city
It was recalled that Mr. Arai was
experienced the hottest day of the the tension arising over the fate of representatives to call out all mine acts, either.’
head of the steamship company that
** ’But, madam.' said a commissioner, tried to get a station in Lower Cali
year and the hottest beginning of May Scutari has been lessened, the danger workers in the Nanaimo district, when
It is understood that the question was decided by ballot 'surely these action* do not prove In fornia about two years ago.
ever recorded by the weather bureau. is not past.
Montenegro is willing to evacuate that more than 90 per cent of the votes sanity on the prisoner's part.’
“ 'But you forget, sir,’ said the lady,
Courtney Shown Jap«
town on condition that territorial com- cast were in favor of fulfilling the
Ship Found Under Gotham.
agreement with the mine owners and with a sad smile, 'you forget that th*
Washington. I). C. - Seeking agri- P«n’“tion U «Bowed.
New York—The hull of an old ship
' continuing work. The vote was taken prisoner is my husband.' ’*
cultural information for Japan, R.
Roads Order New Car«.
in the court house and all clubs, hotels.
was unearthed Thursday 40 feet under
Shoji, professor of agriculture in the
St. pBul. Minn. — To provide
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ade- »«loon* and breweries were closed by
the street at Fifteenth street and
Obviously Untrue.
Imperial University at Tokio. called quate facilities for the movement of <1r'ler ot the mayor, perfect order pre-
The managing editor was dlsap- Tenth avenue by workmen digging a
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on Secretary Houston with a letter of Pn,p, of the year 1913, approximatey railing in the municipality,
The
pointed, and he told the city editor so. foundation for a new building.
introduction from Viscount Chinda, 20,000 units of rolling stock will Bian 2000 men were interested,
"Why didn't you print that story old hull, which apparently had been
the Japanese ambassador. Prof. Shoji „hortly be placed in servic* by three
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young Pounder turned In last night?” burned, w«s fully a block from the
is planning a tour of the country, |ar(fe railways centering here at an in- Fire-Prevention Congress ’Called,
water front.
One explanation ad
he wanted to know.
studying special crop and plant breed- ¡tial expenditure of $25,000,000. The
Philadelphia—A call for a national
"Which story?'* asked the clty vanced was that years ago the water
ihg, particularly tobacco cultivation, road<< are the Great Northern, North- fire-prevention congress in this city editor.
extended that far up.
The hulk at
cotton standardization
and foreign ern Pacific and Chicago, St. Paul, October 13 to 18 next has been sent
"The only about the crazy man one time was a good-sized fishing
seed and plant ^introduction methods. Minneapolis A Omaha.
According to out by Powell Evans, chairman of the scattering money through the city schooner.
He was told that the department’s fa- purchasing officials of the roads, the Philadelphia Fire Prevention commis- streets. That was a good story and
The dirt will be dug off the deck
cilities would —
be C xt
at ...7
his command.
new equipment will be of latest type. sion. The call was sent to the gov full of interest. It would have been and the hull raised.
ernor* of all state*, mayors, fire mar exclusive, too. I see the other papers
Woman Backed for Bench.
Ice Higher to Hotel*.
shals and insurance commissioners, hasn’t got it”
Fruit in Oregon Caught
Ix>s Angeles—Petitions have been
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New York—The
price
ice, r _
al- trade bodies and insurance companies.
"Well, I didn't print it because I
Pendleton, Or.—A hard freeze Mon
prepared asking Governor Johnson to ready raised from 17 to 30 cents a labor unions and manufacturers of ap- thought it one of Pounder'* fakes.**
day night is believed to have wrought
appoint Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz hundred pounds to hotels and cafes, proved devices.
All states are ex-
“What makes you think so?"
havoc in the big fruit and vegetable
a* one of the six additional Superior may be increased again shortly, al- pected to send delegate*
"It stands to reason. If it had been section around Milton and Freewater,
Court judges recently authorized by though the retail price to famili«s will
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true Pounder would have been follow in the East end of this county. J)w-
the legislature for Los Angele* coun- remain at 40 cents, the same as last
Rustic’« Libretto Beat.
ing him yet'*
ing to previous warm weather and the
ty. Prominent members of women’s year. Wesley M. Oler, president of
New York—Out of 250 contestants
lateness of the season, some of the
political organizations are behind the the Knickerbocker Ice company, so as- for $1000 offered by the De Koven
largest orchardists had removed their
Can’t Keep a Good Man Down.
movement. Mrs. Foltz is a Republi- serted Friday. The
mild winter and Opera company for the beat libretto of
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The way for a young man to rise is smudge material, which had been kept
can and a lawyer who has practiced , resultant shortage of 1,000,000 tons a light opera, the prize has been won
to Improve hlmaelf in- every way he in readiness for just such occasions all
for years at the Ix>s Angeles county were responsible, he said.
by Hilliard Booth, who raises chickens
can,
never suspecting that anybody spring. Peaches and cherries are be
bar. She supported President Taft.
in North Carolina.
The winning lib
wishes to hinder him. Allow me to as lieved to be almost a total loss.
Sulzer Continue« Fight.
retto is called “Jean Lafitte,” and
Salt Cellars $9000 Each.
Albany, N. Y.—“The battle for di-! deal* with the romantic adventures of sure you that suspicion and jealousy
Ship is Near Destruction.
* ‘ begun.
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“llf pirgte who went to never did help any man in any situa
Ixmdon—Sold: A pair of salt cellars rect primaries has _ just
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notorious
Boston — Several thousand pounds
tion. There may sometimes be ungen
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son’s aid at the battle of
acl«c
for $18,375. The record was set Sat- fight will go on until the cause of the General'J
erous attempts to keep a young man of powder were close to a lively fire
unlay at an auction sale of the med- people triumphs.” This was Governor New Orleans.
down; and they will succeed, too. If on board the navy supply ship Celtic
leval art.collection of the late J. Mai- [ Sulzer’* comment on the defeat of hi*
he allows hla mind to be diverted from at the Charlestown navy yard Wednes
colm when two Limoges enameled salt state-wide direct primary bill by the Japan Order« Three Dreadnought«,
It* true channel to brood over the at day. The flames spread to the maga
cellars went at that price. They were senate.
He said he would determine
Tokio—Contracts have been placed tempted Injury. Cast about, and see zine door and it took the entire crew,
decorted in translucent colored enamel. when to call an extraordinary session for the construction in Japanese yards
If this falling has not injured every with help from the yard, to save the
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1111 ito It.—Abraham Lincoln.
Browning brought $32,750.
ment of which la 30,00 tons.
among oil barrels in the forward bold. ,
falifoniia Anti-Alien Land Bill
Passes legislature.
100,000 MARCH
ON MONTENEGRO
Austrian Troops Rush Forward
By I^and and Sea.
Italy Expected to Support Austria
—Greek and Servian Force«
Face Bulgarian«.
London—One hundred thousand Aus
trian troop* now are moving in th« di
rection of the Montenegrin frontier,
according to an Antivari dispatch to
the Mai). A large number of Aus
trian troops also are proceeding to
Antivari by sea.
A Vienna dispatch to the Times says
that in the event of Austria attempt
ing to coerce Montenegro there I* lit
tle doubt that she would be supported
by Italy, which probably would occupy
Santa Quarant* and Avlona, while
Austria would proceed against Lov-
chen Mountain and Scutari.
In order to avoid needlessly offend
ing Russia, the action against Scutari
would be carried out through Albania,
not from Herzegovina.
The Sofia correspondent of the
Times learns that the Greek and Ser
vian forces now massed in Southern
Macedonia aggregate 220,000. They
are confronted by three Bulgarian di
visions, totalling 60,000 men. Almost
al) the remaining Bulgarian force* are
still before Bulair and Tchatalja.
The Bulgarian government, the dis
patch adds, is exhausting every means
to arrive at a friendly arrangement
with Servia and Greece, but the dan
ger of a conflict is still imminent.
PLEA FOR “OREGON” MADE
That Battleship Go Through Canal
First Is Request.
Salem. Or.—School children to the
number of 61,200 in this state have
signed a petition asking President
Woodrow Wilson to direct that the
battleship Oregon be designated to
head the fleet that first passes through
the Panama canal.
The petition of
the Oregon school children i* in part
as follows:
“The incident of history which,
more than all others, impressed Amer
ica with the immediate need of an in
ter-oceanic waterway at Panama was
the famous voyage of the battleship
Oregon. That marvelous race of a
great battleship around the continent
to fight the battle* of an alien people
staggered the world. She is at once
the most famous and most loved vessel
in all the fleet of the Great Republic.
Therefore we, the school children of
the commonwealth of the State of
Oregon, whose name this floating for
tress so proudly bears, respectfully pe
tition that the battleship Oregon be
the first ship to pass through the canal
from ocean to ocean.”
Sword Final, Says Prince.
Berlin — Crown t’rince Frederick
William, in writing the preface to a
book, “Germany in Arms,” just pub
lished, of which he is reputed to be
the author, exhibits himself, the fu
ture German emperor, a* a disbeliever
in the possibility of ever abolishing
war.
He declares that diplomacy 'may de
lay and occasionally avert conflicts,
but “the sword will remain the final
and decisive factor until the world’s
end.”
The author points out that Ger
many’s unfortunate geographical posi
tion, and warns his countrymen that
the German army and navy must be
kept continually at the highest point
of efficiency, and he appeals to all
Germans to be ready to sacrifice their
blood and their possessions.
Manila Victory Noted.
Washington, D. C.—Dewey’s victory
over the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay,
15 years ago, was celebrated here
Thursday night at the annual reunion
and banquet of the Society of Manila
Bay. Twenty-two of the survivor* of
the famous battle, including Rear Ad
miral A. S. Walker, who commanded
the cruiser Concord and the only sur
vivor of the six officers who command
ed vessels of Dewey’s fleet, were gath
ered around the banquet table to do
honor to Admiral George Dewey, pres
ident of the association.
Slave Painting Refused.
New York—A painting entitled “To
the Highest Bidder,” representing a
negro slave woman, with her child,
standing on the auction block, was re
jected by the Brooklyn Institute be
cause it might “tend to keep alive
memories that had better be forgot
ten.” The picture was painted by
Harry Roseland, a well-known Brook
lyn artist, and offered to the institute
by Charles A. Schieren, a former
Brooklyn mayor.
Police Herd “Pie” Beggars.
Washington D. C. — Hungry job
hunters, among them many who have
despaired of gaining the official pie
counter through official
influence,
gathered in such numbers Wednesday
night in the vicinity of the Civil Serv
ice commission headquarters that the
police reserves were called out.
Aviator Wins $10,000 Pune.
Paris—Ernest F. Guillaux, a French
airman, whose aeroplane flight on
Sunday last when he traveled from
Biarritz, France, to Kollum, Holland,
a distance of nearly 1000 miles, won a
prize of $10,000 and the Poznmery, or
single-day distnace, cup.