AT NATION'S CAPITAL
Srand Juries Will Inquire Into
the Panama Canal
Scandal.
NO RIVER AND HARBOR BILL
Many Senators Oppose Higher Pay
for President, Vice-President
and Speaker.
Washington, Jan. 18. Six Wash
ington correspondents of out-of-town
papers and a local news bureau have
been subpenaed to appear before the
federal grand jury and testify, pre
sumably in connection with state
ments appearing in their publications
bearing on the Panama canal pur
chase. In his special message to congress
of December 15, regarding charges
of corruption, the President an
nounced that the attorney-general
had under his consideration the form
in which proceedings for libel against
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New
York World, should be brought.
Nowhere In the government annals i
has such an action been taken as I
the government suing for criminal I
libel. The President in his message j
was most emphatic in saying that I
It should not be left to a private citi-
len to enter suit, and was particular j
to state that he did not believe "wei
should concern ourselves with the !
particular Individuals who wrote the j
lying and libelous editorials, articles
from correspondents or articles In
the news columns. The real offender
Is Joseph Pulitzer, editor and pro
prietor of the New York World."
An amendment in the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill Increasing the salary of the Pres
ident to $100,000, of the Vice-President
and speaker of the house of rep
resentatives to $20,000 with 85000
additional allowance for carriages
and coachmen for the Vice-president
and speaker, and increases for the
judiciary aggregating $328,500, pre
cipitated a lively discussion In the
senate.
Borah, of Idaho, made a point of
order against these increases on the
ground that they Involved general
legislation which, according to the
rules of the senate, cannot be placed
on an appropriation bill in face of a
single objection.
A treaty providing for extradition
has been signed with Honduras by
Secretary Root. The state depart
ment baa declined to say whether or
not the treaty is retroactive, but If
it is the last haven of refuge for
fugitive prisoners in the Western
.Hemisphere has disappeared.
Among the criminals liable to be
brought back under the new treaty is
Jons Ripllnger, ex-controller of Se
attle, who absconded with some f 60,
O00 of that city's funds. He Is now
living in security in Honduras.
The house committee on appro
priations have included in the ur
gency deficiency appropriation bill, a
bill of $30,000 for the maintenance
of automobiles for the White House.
It was explained that Mr. Taft has
Intimated that he would use automo
biles during bis incumbency of the
White House, and in order that he
might have the machines at the be
ginning of his administration, the
Item was included in this bill.
The senate committee on agricul
ture has authorized ft favorable re
port of the McCumber bill providing
(or the Inspection and grading of
grains. Under this bill national In
spection and grading of grains Is pro
vlded for and the department of ag
riculture Is authorized o tlx definite
grades. In addition to the present
laboratories, others are to be estab
lished at Seattle, Taeoma and San
Francisco and other points.
The bouse committee on rivers
and harbors voted against a general
appropriation bill for river and har
bor improvements. The committee
will report a bill providing for car
rying on important work already be
gun, for surveys of urgent projects
proposed and for any emergencies
which may arise. ,
Attorney-General Bonaparte will
be Invited to appear before the spe
cial committee of the senate, which
is considering the Culberson resolu
tion calling for the opinion of the
judiciary committee as to the au
thority of the President lu permit
ting absorption of the Tennessee
Coal & Iron Company by the United
States Steel Corporation.
With the signing of an arbitration
treaty between the United States and
AuBtro-Hungary, at the state depart
ment, conventions of that character
with more than 20 nations of the
world have been agreed to. The
treaty now goes to the senate for rat
ification. . , -
The hoiiRp rnmmlttAA nn naval af
fairs has fixed the amount needed for !
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uiv uuuuieuauce 01 luw naval service
during the fiscal year 1910 at 8185,
862,888, as compared with $122,
662,486, the present appropriation.
j TURNS DOWN WOOLMEN
Refuses Imitation to Convention at
roratello, Idaho.
Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 18. Chief
Forester Pinchot turned down two
Invitations to attend the convention
of National WoolgrowerV Associa
tion, which adjourned In this city
Saturday night. Mr. Plnchot's re
fusals were based on what he termed
the selfish and narrow policy of the
U1FFOUD PINCHOT.
association toward- the government
forestry work. , Pinchot's invitations
and his replies were made public
here.
On a final' showdown on the Chi
cago wool storage proposition It .was
found that the signatures to the Chi
cago 'contract were 4,500,000 pounds
short of the required 25,000.000
pounds necessary to insure the Chi
cago market.
HAVE DIAMOND JUBILEE
Methodists Celebrate Birth of Church
Missions at Washington, D. C.
Washington, Jan. 18. In the Met
ropolitan Methodist Episcopal church
In this city Methodist Episcopalians
celebrated with prayer and music
and addresses the diamond jubilee
of the beginning of the missionary
movement of the church. Seventy
five years ago the church Bent out its
first missionary in the person of Mel
ville B. Cox, who landed on the west
coast of Africa In Liberia, and began
the work that has now spread to all
parts of the civilized and uncivilized
world.
president Roosevelt and Vice-President
Fairbanks spoke at the cele
bration tonight. Other speakers were
Earl Cranston, Methodist Episcopal
bishop of Washington, and Joseph
C. Hartzell, missionary bishop to Af
rica since 1898.
One purpose of the celebration is
the starting of a fund to equip in
better manner the stations of the
Methodist Episcopal church In Afri
ca. There are six of these in differ
ent parts of the continent, and the
sum of $300,000 is needed to aid
in the spreading of their work. Mem
bers of the hurch were asked to
night to contribute that sum in com
memoration of the diamond Jubilee,
in addition to their regular offering,
CUBA TO GOVERN HERSELF
Gomez to lie Inaugurated January 28
and Americans Will Withdraw.
Havana, Jan. 18. On January 29
at noon the Cuban people will come
Id to their own for the second time
at the hands of the American gov
ernment. It was on May 20, 1902,
that the American flag, h pis ted after
the war with Spain, was hauled down
in favor of the blue-striped, single
starred ensign of Cuba.
The inauguration of Jose Miguel
Gomez, the new president, on Jan
uary 28, will take plaee at the palace
at noon. Several American warships
will fire a national salute, but neither
United States sailors nor soldiers re
maining on the islands will partici
pate in the inaugural parade, as their
presence might detract from the
pride of the people in the return of
native sovereignty.
THE MARKETS
Portland.
Wheat Track prices: Club, 92cj
red Russian, 90c; bluestem, 81.05;
Valley, 95c.
Barley Feed, 826.60; rolled,
$282.
Oata No. 1 white 833; gray,
832.
Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley,
fancy, 15; do. ordinary, 812; East,
ern Oregon, mixed, 816; do. fancy,
$18; alfalfa 812.50; clover, 812.
Butter Extra, 36 37c; fancy,
33 34c; choice, 30c; store, 18c.
Eggs Extra, 47 60c.
Hops 1908, choice, 7Jc; prime, 9
7c; medium, 56c; 1907. 22c.
Wool Valley, 1415c; ft.;
Eastern Oregon, 816c, as to
shrinkage.
Mohair Choice, 18 19c.
Seattle.
Wheat Bluestem, $1.04.
Oats $3233.
Barley $27.60 28.
Hay Eastern Washington timo
thy, $18 per ton;' Puget Sound hay,
$1314 per ton; wheat hay, $18
per ton; alfalfa, $13 014 per ton.:
Butter Washington creamery,
3 7c per lb.; ranch, 23c per lb.
Eggs Selected local, 46c
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WHOLE FAIViiLY SLAIN
W. L Seeley, Wife and Daugh
ter, of Seattle, Killed No
Weapon Found.
WOMEN'S HEADS BATTERED
Ladies Are In Nightrobos, Man Part
ly Clothed Murder Occurs
Thursday Night.
Seattle, Jan. 18. W. L. Seeley, an
attorney and ex-national bank exam
iner for Illinois; his wife, a member
of the National Society of Daughters
of the American Revolution, and his
daughter, Miss Rene Seeley, a stu
dent at the University of Washing
ton, were found dead in a bathroom
of their home In the fashionable Cap
itol Hill district at 1 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. They had been dead
since the previous Thursday. .
The women, each of whom was
clad in nightrobes, had been mur
dered by being struck In the head,
evidently with a hammer. There was
no mark of violence on Seeley He
la believed to have been partially
chloroformed and then drowned In
the bathtub. All three were kneel
ing at the bathtub with their heads
submerged in the water.
The bodies were found Sunday by
Guy M. Smelzer, affianced husband
of Miss Seeley, and E. R. Zibbell, a
friend of the family. The Dolice de
tectives searched the house for the 1
weapon with which the murders had
been committed, but were unable to
flpd any bloodstained implement.. No
jewelry or other article of value was
taken from the house.
Late developments ' are taken as
strengthening the theory that the
Plan killed the two women and then
committed suicide. He had recent
ly received $8000 as his share of bis
father's estate, but within the past
few days he had borrowed money to
pay bis last month's bouse rent. In.
dicating that be was in financial
straits.
Seeley Is an uncle of M. F. Gose,
of Pomeroy, recently appointed by
the governor to the Washington su
preme bench. He has a brother,
Charles, at Pomeroy, and another,
Frank, at Hood River, Oregon.
SEATTLE MAN GETS BRIDE
Charters Special Train to Get Over
Boundary.
Portland, Or., Jan. 18. Denied a
license to marry in Oregon because
of the non-residence laws of this
sta.te, H. R. Rood, vice-president of
the Pacific Creosotlng Company, - of
Seattle, chartered a special tran Sat
urday afternoon aa4 went to Van
couver, Wash , where he and Mrs.
Edward G, Stoiber, of Denver and
Paris, widow of the late E, 0. StoJ
ber, were married,
The bride Is said to be the wealth'
lest woman in the American colony
in Paris, where she has spent the
greater part of the time since her
husband's death.
Thaw's Appeal Granted,
Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 18. Harry K.
Thaw will be given a trial in New
York City to determine- whether he
la sane or Insane, i An order to that
effect has been issued by Justice A.
S, Tompkins, to whom an appeal ask
ing for a hew trial was made by Mrs.
William' Thaw, Harry's mother
M0YER LOSES SUIT
Sued Colorado Executive for Dam
ages as Result of Imprisonment.
Washington, Jan. 18. The su
preme court of the United States to
day decided against Former Presi
dent Moyer of the Western Federa
tion of Miners, in the damage suit
brought by hjm against former Gov
ernor Peabody, of Colorado, on ac
count of Moyer's imprisonment on
the governor's orders, because of his
alleged connection with riots at Tel
lurlde, Colo., In 1904.
Notorious Woman Jailed.
Kalispell, Mont,, Jan. 18. Marion
Young, badly wanted In Seattle for
holding up and robbing a man, has
been arrested here by Sheriff O'Con
nell. She Is also wanted In Portland
and other coast cities for robbery,
where she operated for a number of
years.
Iroquois Quints Setl.d.
Chicago, Jan. 18. It was made
public today that after five years of
litigation settlements had been made
In the cases of 30 of the deaths
caused by the Iroquois Theater fire.
It is stated that $760 a case Is to be
Paid.
Black Horses for Inauguration.
Lexington, Ky., Jan. 18 Jacob B.
Perkins, a Cleveland millionaire, has
completed the purchase of 24
matched black horses to be used by
the famous "Black Horse Troop" in
the Taft inaugural parade March 4.
Tang Shao Yi to Negotiate Loan.
Victoria, B. C, Jan. 18. Tang
Shao Chinese special ambassador
now in America, has been asked by
Viceroy Hsu, of Manchuria, to ne
gotiate a loan in America to provide
for the colonization of Manchuria.
TO SEND BUILDING MATERIAL
Roosevelt's Man to Aid Sufferers by
Recent Earthquake in Italy.
Washington, Jrn. 18. An Innova
tion In International relief measures
ao far as Euro; is concerned will be
undertaken by the government In ex
pending tho $500,000 appropr atd
by congress for the Italian earth
quake suffer or 3. Realizing that a
great need among the sufferers will
be shelter. President Roosevelt has
decided to send to. Italy material for
me construction of 2500 or S000
sub6tautial but modest frame houses.
Verbal Instructions were given by
the President to Secretary Newberry
to enlist the machinery of the navy
department. Mr. Newberry haB al
ready been able to make partial ar
rangements for carrying out the or
ders of the President.
The bodies of the American Con
sul. Arthur S. Cheney and Mrs.
Cheney have been found In the ruins
of the American consulate at Mes
sina by the sailors of the American
battleship Illinois. Arrangements
are being made for the shipment of
the bodies to the United States.
An estimate of the dead in Mes
sina as a result of the catastrophe of
December 28, made by Stuart K.
Lupton, the American vice-consul, on
behalf of the American embassy at
Rome, places the number at 90,000.
SENATORSJLECTED .
Elihu Root Chosen to Succeed Piatt
by New York Legislators.
Albany, N. Y.. Jan. As reauirnrf
by the federal law, the two houses of
the legislature of the state of New
York met here today In Beparate ses
sion to vote for a successor to Thom
as C. Piatt, United States senator
from this state. The votes today
were merely confirmatory of the
choice of the caucuses of the repub
licans of the two houses, Elihu Root,
secretary of state.
Penrose Re-Elected. 1
Harrlsburg, Pa., Jan. 19. Boies
Penrose will again represent the
state of Pennsylvania in the United
States senate, according to the votes
of the two houses of the state legls- .
lature, cast here today. He Is a
resident of Philadelphia. This will
be his third term In the senate.
Election in Connecticut.
Hartford, Conn., Jan. 19. By a
vote of the two houses of the state
legislature, cast today, Frank Q.
Brandegee wU again be the Junior
senator from the state of Connecti
cut. BARBER IS VERY EXPENSIVE
Man Who Shaves Presidential Beard
Paid $1000 Yearly.
Washington, Jan. 18,, The reeom
mendation of the auditor for the
navy department that congress pro
vide more clerks for his office has
raised some question concerning the
employment of William B, Dulany.
Pulany for several years has been
President Roopevelt'B negro barber.
Last March he was appointed a "spe
cial accountant" in the navy auditor's
office at a salary of $1600 a year, but
continued to serve as the Presiden
tial tonsorlal artist. It Is reported
the appropriation committee of the
house, at the instance of several
members who want to "get even"
with the President, will investigate
the matter and ask why the navy au
ditor's office should pay for his dally
shave.
China Will Not Clutnge Policy,
Pekln, Jan. 18. Prince Chlng,
president of the board of foreign
affairs, has assured the American and
British ministers that the dismissal
of Yuan Shi Kal means no change in
Chinese policy, but bitterness has
arisen between the British and Jap
anese representatives here on account
of Japan's refusal to Join Great Brit
ain In her representations to Prince
Chlng. The British position Is that
Japan acts in bad faith, while the
Japanese legation explains that It
agreed to concur In the opinion of
the majority and that a majority of
the ministers favored the taking of
no action in this direction.
Want Votes in New Vork.
Knw York. .Tan. 18 tmlltaf n .
some extent meir strenuous English
Bisters, the woman suffragists of New
York state began tonight at Yonkera
a vigorous two weeks' campaign,
covering the state as far up as Al
bany. The movement will wind up
In two large meetings in the state
capital Intended to Impress the state
legislators with the strength of the
movement. They will be h&ld Janu
ary 25 and 26.
Wreck Kills 21; Injures 89.
Glen wood Springs, Col., Jan. 18
Twerity-one persons were killed and
30 injured, many of them seriously, '
In a head-on collision between a :
westbound passenger and an east-!
bound freight on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, between Dotsero
and Spruce Creek, 22 miles from
Glen wood Springs, at 9:30 o'clock
Friday night.
Thornton Halns Held Not Guilty.
Flushing, L. I., Jan. 18. After
deliberating for 22 hours and tak
ing 16 ballots, the jury acquitted
Thornton Jenkins Halns of the mur
der of William E. Annie, who was
shot dead by Halns' brother, Cap
tain Peter C. Halns. The first ballot
stood eight to four tor acquittal.
ROOSEVELT'S
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NATION A liMtH
T.TTTOT'fiTT tho n.vnaoretf hunt S.
vj, Africa is entirely a private at-f-lr-
" takes on somewhat of
I nn official character now thnt
It Is known that the Smithsonian Insti
tution Is to benefit from the enterprise.
The Smithsonian Institution is under
tbe direction of the United States gov
ernment. It was founded under a be
quest of an Kuxllsliinnn, .1 nines Smith
son, who died In Italy In ISM. It Is
administered by a board ut the head
of which Is lie president of the Unit
id States, although the practical bend
of the Institution Is the secretary, who
has always been a man distinguished
for scientific acquirements. The first
secretary was Joseph Henry, noted for
his epoch making discoveries. The
present secretary Is Charles D. Wal
cott, former head of the geological sur
vey. To most visitors to Washington
that part of the Smithsonian Institu
tion known as the National museum
proves of groat Interest, and Its mil
lions of specimens are viewed by thou
sands of persons every year. One of
the Important departments of the In
stitution is a bureau of ethnology, and
nnother Is the library. The work of
the institution as u whole embraces a
brond field of scientific und historical
effort.'
Professor Walcott, who Is a native
of New York state, fifty-eight years of
nge and a graduate of Hamilton col
lege, has innde nn International repu
tation by his achievements In geology
nnd paleontology. Twenty years ago
he made a special study of the Cam-
J. A LP IN LOIUNd AND CIIAISLE9 D. WAL-
corr.
blnu rocks and fauna of the United
States nnd prespnted the results of bis
researches to the Intermit tonal geo
graphical concrete In London. Since
then his services In scientific matters
have been In frequent demand, and he
Is the author of numerous works In
his chosen field of research.
Some time at;o on unnamed donor
made a contribution to. the Smithso
nian Institution for the purpose of ob
taining natural history Heclmen8
from Africa. Last summer Professor
Walcott learned that the president
would be nreeuhlB to having several
representatives of the Institution uc
company him on his hunt, so it was
decided to Join forces. Three repre
sentatives of the Smithsonian Were
delegated to uccompauy the president
and his son Keriult, each having some
special qualifications for bis Individual
part In the enterpi'liio.
Although the Smithsonian institution
Is to get the benefit of the additions
to scientific lore accruing from the
Roosevelt hunt, no part of the cost of
the' hunting trip U to come out of the
funds appropriated each year by the
government. The Institution has a
fund of $800,000 entirely separate from
the allotments by congress, and from
this sifurce In part the money for
the hunters Is to come. The president
and his son will pay their own exr
reuses, and the institution will outfit
the expedition and defray the expenses
nf the three scientists and the guide.
No estimate has been made of whai
the total cost will be. It Is stated thut
while the Institution frequently pays
large sums pf money for specimens It
does not expect to piucliase the Roose
velt collection. It expects to get the
zoological, botanical and other speci
mens free of charge save for the cost
of outfitting the expedition and the
traveling expenses of the naturalists
ind guide. The big gume which tha
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out charge.
The youngest member of the Smith
sonian representation on the trip la
Edmund lleller, a graduate of Stan
ford university, class of 1001, a thor
oughly trained naturalist, whose spe
cial work will be the preparation and
preservation of specimens of large ani
mals. Mr. Heller Is about thirty years
of age. Ills former experience, when
associated with D. O. Eliot and Mr.
Ackley of the Field Columbian mu
seum In collecting big game animals
MAJOR XDOAR A. MP.AItNS, U. B. A., B
TlllED. In the same portions of Africa which
Mr. Roosevelt will visit, will be a val
uable asset to the expedition. Mr. Hel
ler has had large experience In ani
mal collecting In Alaska, British Co
lumbia, the United States, Mexico, Cen
tral America aud South America. In
the year 181)8 he mude a collecting trip
of eleven months to Galapagos Is
lands, starting from San Francisco.
He Is an enthusiastic collector as well
as a well equipped naturalist. He hi
nlso the author of scientific papers on
animals, birds, reptiles and fishes. At
present ho Is nsslstunt curator of the
museum of vertebrate zoology of the
University of California.
Another member of the delegation,
J. Alden Lorlng, Is a field naturalist
whose training comprises service in
the biological survey of the depart
ment of agriculture and In the Bronx
zoological park, New York city, as well
ns on numerous collecting trips through
British America, Mexico and the Unit
ed States. He Is about thirty-eight
years old. of ardent temperament and
intensely energetic. In August, Sep
tember nnd October, 1808, he made the
highest record for a traveling collector,
having sent to the United States Na
tional museum tvtn well prepared spec
imens of small mammals In the three
months' Journey from I-ondon, through
Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and
Belgium.
The other representative of the
Smltuflonlnn" Institution who will ac
company the president la Major Edgar
A. M earns, medical corps, U. S. A., re
tired. Major Meurns will be the physi
cian of tho trip. He has had twenty
five yenrs experience as an army doc
tor and Is well known as a naturalist
and collector of natural history speci
mens. He is a dead shot. Major
M earns is about fifty-three years of
age and is the oldest member of the
party. For this reason perhnps be has
the honor of having charge of the
Smithsonian portion of the delegation.
While each and every one of the party.
Including the president's son Kermlt,
official photographer, has special du
ties assigned him, all will naturally
act together in many respects, and It
Is anticipated that the scientific results
of the expedition, In view of the un
usual opportunities offered, will be of
much value.
An Adventurous Explorsr.
Some BtrniiKo ndventures have been
experienced by Erwln Clarkson Gar
rett, University of Pennsylvania man,
who with two native servants recently
penetrated the Jungles of Borneo. II
was the first white man to do this.
' ';. Mr. Garrett wan
X Sk heavily armed, but
' 1 had no occasion to
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f$f 'bough there werw
S " . times, he declared.
7 When ha hml tn !
up nights and be on
the lookout for the
treacherous Dyaks,
who infest the for-j
ests of Borneo.
There were time.
he snld. when Dutch
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troops went through the dense forests
"armed to the teeth." but never be
fore, he added, had a white man made '
Ihe trip alone. During the Filipino in- i
surrection Garrett served In the regu
lar army In the Philippines aud mude ,
a careful study of the bublts and char- !
acter of tho natives.
Horrid Thing.
"Why do you hate Mr. Wendell aof
the sweet young mother was asked.
"The horrid thing refused to kiss
my baby because he was afraid ot
latching something." Houston Post
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