EVENTS OF THE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Parts cl the World.
PREPARED FOR THE BUSY READER
Les Important but Not Lest Inter
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.
Improvements are soon
to be made
in Grant's tomb.
All arrangements for Taft's inaugu
ration are completed.
Rioting a?ainst royalty enr'ed the
carinvival week at Lisbon.
Harriman is to address the Texas
legislature on railroad laws.
The Balkan trouble is about to prove
too much for the powers to untangle.
Heney's fees for prosecuting the
Oregon land frauds amounted to $65,-
000.
Great Britain has provided for an
increase of about 100.000 men in the
army.
Senator Fulton will in all probability
be appointed as the new Federal judge
for Oregon.
The butterine and storage house of
the Swift Packing company at Chicago
was destroyed by fire.
The plan of keeping half of the navy
on the Pacific has been left to the dis
cretion of the president.
The pope is not enjoying the bert of
health and public audiences have been
discontinued for the present,
All members of Roosevelt's cabinet
who will not continue in office have
completed plans for private life,
Three holdup men accused of the
theft of 46 cents have been sent to the
penitentiary for life by a Chicago judge
and jury.
Senator Root has denounced anti-Jap
agitators and canal muckrakers,
Taft has declared for a prompt tariff
revision and the creation of a commis
sion later.
A man horsewhipped Billy Sunday at
Springfield, 111., for using vile language
before women.
A million dollar corporation has been
formed to manage the discoveries of
the wizard Luther Burbank.
Von Buelow has warned Russia that
if Bhe helps Servia against Austria
Germany will fight for Austria,
Seismographs in various parts of the
world have recorded another severe
earthquake. It is thought o have been
in South America.
The battleship fleet has begun to dis
perse to the various Atlantic navy
yards and the work of overhauling the
vessels will begin at once.
Important reductions in freight rates
throughout the country are to be made
by the railroads. In most canes the
advances made in January . are to be
annulled.
The United States revenue cutter
Mohawk struck the rocks off Hell Gate
at the entrance to New York harbor,
A bad leak was sprung but the vessel
may be saved.
Harriman has just celebrated his
61st birthdazy.
Riotous suffragettes have been sent
to jail in London.
A direct primary law Is to be rushed
through the Colorado legiulature,
Oklahoma is accused of reviving a
secession document in a new form.
"Lucky" Baldwin is seriously ill
and his physicians say he cannot sur
vive.
The railroad right of way up the
Deschutes river is being held up by the
reclamation service,
A Salt Lake man committed suicide
by filling a basin with chloroform and
immersing his head.
Following the cut in freight rates by
the Harriman line of steamships, rail
lines may reduce their charges.
Professor Lowell, of the Lowell,
Arts., observatory, says the earth will
collide with an unknown dark planet.
but cannot give the date.
A suspect has been arrested at Ta-
coma in connection with the Portland
East Side bank robbery. The bank was
held up several months ago and $17,000
secured.
The International Opium conference,
at its session in Shanghai, expressed
the fear that with the restricted traffic
in opium morphine would become a
popular drug.
It has developed that the late Gover
nor Sparks lost all his property in be-
. ing elected governor and trying to be
elected United States senator. He
was once rated as one of the wealth
iest men in the state.
Bryan is preparing for old age by
buying a lexas fruit ranch.
The Calhoun jury at San Francisco
has not yet been completed.
Encroachment of Russia on China
In Manchuria are Increasing.
The Pacific Mail Steamship company
has made a heavy cut in all east bound
freight rates.
Five counties of Indiana have voted
dry. One hundred and forty-three sa
loons are put out of business.
STATEHOOD BLOCKE:
Senate Committee Terminates Labor
on Hearing of Corruption.
Washington, March 1. Arizona and
New Mexico's hope for statehood at
the present session of congress went
glimmering today in a sensational
manner when the members of the sen
ate committee that had the bill nnder
discussion rose one by one and left
their places without arranging for any
future meeting, after the most sensa
tional charges of political corruption
in New Mexico had been made.
This action occurred at the conclu
sion of the reading of reports prepared
by Beveridge and Nelson, in which it
was stated that a gang had charge of
New Mexico s interior affairs, and that
corruption, jury bribing and many oth
er offenses were the rule and not the
exception.
Among the statements made was a
telegram from J. J. Hagerman, former
governor of New Mexico, reflecting
upon the character of the people who
are in control of politics in that terri
tory, and declaring that these men ex
pect to continue their control after the
territory becomes a state. He refers
to them as "freebooters," and says
that 60 per cent of the voters are Mex-
leans, and one-half of that number are
illiterate and ignorant, and easily could
be governed by the "gang" to which
he referred. He suggested that it
would be well to wait until after the
next census before admitting New
Mexico to Btatehood.
JAPAN FUSS ENDS.
Good Humor Returns to Brown Men
of Island Empire.
Tokio, March 1. During the recent
discussion in Japan of the attitude of
certain persons in California in regard
to the Japanese residents it appears
that one of the difficulties faced by the
Japanese newspapers was that their
correspondents at the various points
lacked an appreciation of conditions in
America, as well as capacity to analyze
the feelings of the people or the stand
ing of those who espoused particular
action.
As a result only the most sensational
publications appearing in the newspa
pers in America as a rule reached the
newspapers in Japan, the result being
that from the outset there was almost
an entire misunderstanding as to the
real situation.
later 11 th niuiiinn tYta lonrlinrr I
people of California developed through
the more reliable press dispatches, a
. y AT ?
better feeling begin to prevail, and
now this controversy has almost en
tirely ceased. In fact many of the
newspapers say that much good has
come out of the evil, inasmuch as the
discussion brought out even a greater
degree of friendship on the part of
America toward Japan than was at
first believed to exist.
RUMOR SURPRISES CASTRO.
Late Venezuelan Ruler Says He Never
Planned Gomez' Death.
Dresden, March 1. Cipriano Castro,
late president of Venezuela, today au
thorized the publication of a declara
tion of his innocence of the charge that
he had conspired to bring about the
assassination of Juan Vicente Gomez,
the present president of the republic,
"It is incredible," says he, "that
after having shown my interest in him
in so many ways I should try to cause
him ' to be murdered. If Gomez had
given me occasion to suspect him, I
would have given orders regarding him
before my departure from Venezuela,
and I would not have been so stupid as
to send such an order by cable.
1 he shameless individual who in
stigated this conspiracy against me
will have to proceed to the utmost ex
tremes in order to justify himself, for
he is aware that as soon as the matter
is understood the Venezuelan people
will not tolerate such perndity."
Wireless From Train to Train,
Cleveland, Ohio, March 1. Remark'
able wireless telegraph experiments
were made today when a number of
messages were successfully sent from
a special train running between Buff a
lo and this city at the rate of 70 miles
an hour. A Lake Shore train espe
cially equipped for the purpose left
Buffalo this morning and arrived here
this afternoon, when the success of the
tests was reported. Una message was
sent to President Roosevelt, The ex
periments cost $6 minute.
Berlin Not Enthusiastic.
Chicago, March 1. Marked indiffer
ence characterizes the German recep
tion of President Roosevelt's proposal
of an international conference for the
conservation of natural resources, ac
cording to a cablegram from Berlin.
The dispatch adds that the proposal.
however, doubtless win be accepted,
A financial authority suggests that
Roosevelt is "trying indirectly to get
back at the trusts, which are exploiting
America s natural wealth."
Two Cruisers Sail South.
Panama, March 1. The cruisers
California and Pennsylvania, of the
United States Pacific squadron, now
here, will leave tomorrow for Am'
palia, on the west coast of Honduras.
The cruise follows instructions believ
ed to have been received from Wash
ington because of the troubled condl
tion of affairs in Central America,
Jury is Unable to Agree.
FitUburg., March 1. The jury in
the graft case in which Councilman J.
C. Wesson, Willam Braitd and John F.
Klein are charged with conspiracy and
the taking of bribes, reported tonight
that it had been unable to agree, and
waa locked up till tomorrow.
Record of the Legislature
The following bills passed by both house of the
Legislature have become laws. Iu some cases they
were gned by the governor, some he allowed to
become laws without his signature and others
were passed over his veto.
8. B. 1 Creation of artesian well dis
tricts.
8. B. 4 Trial by Jury after default In
damage suits. -
s. ts. i Appeal from Justice Court
within 30 days.
S. is. Lulling districts may levy tax
for repairs.
. Ii. 10 Fixing salaries of Constables
and Justices at Seaside, Clatsop County.
tv
S. 11. 11 In criminal cases Judgment
to be a lien from date.
8. IS. 12 tor renewal of Judgment
every 10 years.
S. ii. 13 voters absent from the state
ma v register.
S. li. 1j Ha nit deposits not drawn for
seven years to escheat to the state.
s. is. 1 Hotels ana lougmghouses to
have fire escapes.
8. II. 18 Hotels and lodglngbouses to
provide nine-loot beusneets.
8. r. 2i providing lor two additional
8. li. 24 for treatment of tuberculo
sis poor.
8; li. 2 Three additional dairv in
spectors appointed by the Governor, with
consent of Dairy Commissioner.
8. Ii. 29 Minors not to engage in
games of chance in public resorts.
Supreme Justices. (Kmergency.)
8. B. SI Fixing the saiary of Union
County Recorder.
8. R Additional salary for judge
of Kighth District (Ovr Governors
veto.)
8. B. 35 Revised military code.
8. R. 43 For aid of Linn County Fair.
8. B. 47 S-5.000 for Eastern Oregon
Experimental Farm.
8. B. 48 Salary School Superintend
ent Klamath County.
8. B. 32 Authorizing school districts
to refund indebtedness.
S. B. 55 Thirty days notice of
estrays taken up.
8. B. 5 Title guarantee companies
to deposit $50,000 security.
8. B. 63 Government may acquire
lands for Government buildings.
8. B. 58 Manner of amending char
ters of charitable institutions.
S. B. 61 Defining a legal fence in
Eastern Oregon.
8. B. 62 bciiedule of fees for factory
inspection.
8. B. 64 Supreme Court may transfer
Circuit Judges.
8. u. bi to abolish secret societies
in public schools.
8. B. 67 $ 160.000 for maintenance of
Agricultural College.
8. ii. i prescribing manner or tak
ing depositions.
8. B. 72 For distribution of session
laws and journals.
8. B. 74 Appropriating $20,000 for
hatcheries south of Columbia.
S. B. 1 5 Salary of Linn County Su-
perinienoent. (uvcr veto.)
H. li. 7i irrigation code.
8. B. 79 Salary of Recorder in Wash
ington County. (Over veto.)
8. B. 85 $5000 appropriation for Ex
periment Station at Hums.
s. ii. i ;osts allowed wnen real
property -has been attached.
8. a. Game code.
S. B. 107 Providing seats for motor-
men.
8: B. 109 For central hatchery on
Columbia.
8. B. 112 Regulating sale of concen
trated stock foods.
S. B. 113 Relating to the acDrooriation of land
lor cosporate purposes.
S. B. 115 Fixing salaries of clerk and
deputies of Supreme Court
8. B. 116 Copies of Supreme Court
decisions to be filed in office of clerk of
court.
S. B. 119 Additional salary for Cir
cuit Judge in Ninth District.
S. it. 120 Salary or School superin
tendent in Marion county.
S. B. 12a New military code.
8. B. 127 For free ferry across Wil-
lamette at Peoria.
S. B. 128 Special tax by districts for
roads.
S. B. 133 Manner of letting contracts
for bridge building.
s. H. 135 persons under is not to
run eW-vators.
8. B. 140 Ten hours a day s work for
females In telephone ana telegraph of
fices.
B. 141 Regulating manner OI in
itiir town nlats.
n. B. 147 Time for bringing nnei
au in one vear.
S. It. 149 Providing leather pouches
for e'ectlon ballot boxes.
S. B. 151 Creating Conservation Com
mission.
S. B. 157 warehouse receipts to show
rate of storage.
S. B. 158 llallroacis need not li e list
of trip passes Issued to regular em
nloven.
S. B. 166 Fixing terms of court In
Eleventh District.
S. B. 167 Regulating mutual fire in
Rtirnnce communes.
S. li. 168 Koiinnuisning state s claim
on two acres in Multnomah County.
S. B. 169 Kailroads may be laid for
construction work on county roads.
S. B. 171 For organization of co-
dueratlve associations.
nect with each other with private
h. ts. i iieauiring ranroans 10 con
switches.
8. B. 173 To punish fraudulent rep
resentation as to membership In secret
societies for purpose of obtaining
monev.
S. B. 183 Relating to larceny by
bailee.
8. 15: 187 Breeding horses to be reg
istered at Oregon Agricultural College.
8. B. 191 Prohibiting putting
and nails In roads.
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8. B. 193 Providing additional Judge
ror urtn judicial District.
8. B. 194 For issuance of bonds by
arainage uisincis.
8. B. 195 For salary of Sheriff of
Coos County.
- 8. B. 197 For relief of Reed Insti
tute.
8. B. 198 Clothing railroad detectives
wltn ponce power.
8. U. 199 Regulating drainage dis
tricts.
8. B. i3 Weekly report on registra
tion of voters to Secretary of State.
8. B. 204 Convicts may be worked at
fair grounds.
8. B. 205 State Fair to have printing
to amount nf $1000.
8. B. 207 Relating to levy and sale
under execution.
8. B. 210 For county referendum on
county measures.
8. 11. 213 To divide First Judicial
District.
8. B. 219 Voters of county may refer
a county, measure.
8. B. 220 Fish law for the Columbia
River.
8. B. 121 Relating to School District
No. 1. Klamath County.
S. B. 222 Amending code regarding
corporations organised lor irrigation
purpunri.
8. B. 124 Authorising city of Cor-
vaius to purchase lands near watershed
a. k. zjo cerimed copy proof of a
rederal liquor licence.
8. B. 126 Preventing goats from run
ning at large in lamhiil county.
S. B. 227 When several persons may
noia real property as tenants in com
mon.
8. B. !S1 Fixing the term of court
in tne lentn judicial District.
S. B. 237 Kxtendlng time for acquir
ing Oiegnn City looKS.
8- B. 239 Additional Judge In Second
District. Ir.mergency clause. I
S. B. 246 Kmpowering municipal cor
porations in other states to acquire title
to lands ana water rights In Oregon
. it. :ai iju.uuu ior state Fair pre
miums.
8. B. 2S2 125,000 for Stat Fair Ira
provements.
S. B. 253 $70.00 for tuberculosis
sanuoria.
S. B. 2S5 Animals at lam in Gilliam county.
8. H. tit Childreti may appear In
dramatic performances on consent of
tne juvenile i-ourt judge.
H. Ii. For punishment of highway
robbery. '
11. B. 11 Appropriating money for an
experiment station at ttermiston.
. H:.U t 3 Regulating pilotage on Co
lumbia River.
H. It. in Prohibiting some classes of
advertising.
H. H. 19 Relating to town plats and
additions.
II. B. 2J Appropriating $75,000 for a
portage road at Celila
H. B. 2S Appropriating additional
t25.AOO for Alaska-Yukon Exposition.
11. B. 24 Increasing salary of Jack
son County Judge. iPad over the
Governor's veto.'
II. B. 25 Authority of real estate
agents must be in writing.
H. is. 2i Manner or transferring ac
tions.
H. B. 28 For Incorporation of ports.
H. B. 31 Authorizing Supreme court
to appoint a code commission and appro
priating $25,000.
H. B. 42 Fixing salary of Polk Coun
ty School Superintendent. (Passed over
Governor's veto.)
II. H. 45 Fixing bond of umatiiia
Treasurer.
H. B. 49 Fixing salary of Clatsop
County School Superintendent. (Passed
over Governor's veto.)
H. B. 51 Counties may levy tax lor
advertising resources.
H. B. o Kmpowering Wallowa coun-
to sell certain real property.
H. B. 59 Fixing saiary of Morrow
County School Superintendent. (Passed
uver uiMemu. - I
II. B. so-Providing for a free ferry
at St. John.
B. B. 61 Providing for clerical assistance for
Mssor of Columbia county.
H. It. 62 Prohibiting swine at large
in Columbia County.
H. B. 69 Fixing the salary or the
Yamhill County School Superintendent
'nitKwl over the l.overnor h veto. 1
II. B. 76 Extending eminent domain
M rirninaire districts.
H. H. 1 7 providing ror raising scnooi
funds.
n R 79 Creatinsr an insurance department.
11. B. 81 tteguiating nauung oi joaus
on public highways.
H. B. 85 To provide for laying out
ennntv roads.
II. B. 86 creating tne uoara oi state
Tax Commissioners.
II. B. 87 Dying declaration acinus-
aihio In rivil rases.
II. B. 94 Fixing terms or court oi
the Ninth Judicial District.
H. B. 97 Creating insurance uepari-
ment.
11. B. 98 Requiring doors to swing
outward.
H. B. 100 Revising rates or inneri-
linrv tax.
H. B. iu Appropriating inv.uuu ior
buildings at O. A. C.
H. B. no tor jjeputy Assessors in
Crook County.
H. B. Ill fixing salary of Sherman
County School Suoerintendent. (Passed,
notwithstanding tne Governors veto.)
11. B. 114 Distribution and payment
of legacies.
11. ii. 119 Authorizing a deputy for
the Clatsop County Assessor. (Passed
over liovernor s veto.)
n. it. 121 payment or claims of Cen
tral -Normal School.
H. B. 127 For an interstate bridge
t Ontario.
H. B. 132 Permitting County Courts
to designate the kind of culvert to be
built.
Ii. B. 131 Providing for filing of lis
perm ns.
it. is. is i exemption or earnings or
Judgment debtors.
li. B. 139 Prohibit animals running
at large west or the sandy.
ii. B. 141 Appropriating $7000 for
state veterinarians.
U. B. 14a Providing closed season for
slit iiush in coos ana curry countie
an follows: Crabs, July, August and Sep
tember: clams, June, July and August
crawtlKh, November, December, January
and February.
rt. B. hh uiving circuit courts pow
er of paroling prisoners.
II. B. 150 Appropriating 1 0,000 ror
sea id bounty.
il. H. 152 Relating to Railroad. Com
mission.
H. B. 155 Permitting Railroad Com
mlMsioners to ride on locomotives.
II. B. 158 Providing an additional
judge for Fourth Judicial District.
(emergency.)
H. B. 164 Yamhill Fair association.
il. B. lil Providing lor private
propagation of trout.
m. v. 112 Autnorixing school superin-
nuenis to apportion money.
H. B. 175 Amending the code relating
to finning ior salmon in Dmoaua Klver.
II. B. 1S5 Reuulring officers of state
boards and commissions to attend meet
ings.
11. B. .186 Providing for constitu
tlonal convention, subject to referendum.
ii. B. 19U state tax levy. lEmer
gency.J
H. B. 192 Regulating water power franchises
II. B. 193 Authorizing charitable as
sociations to organize.
H. B. 195 Baking powder must be
plainly labeled.
H. a. 190 Making appropriation to
reimburse George H. Small.
11. a. 19S Appropriating 15000 for
the Desert Land Board and to accent
certain lands by the slate.
H. B. 200 Wanner of taking deposi
tions.
H. B. 201 Empowering executor to
execute deeds.
11. B. 203 Manner of challenging
lurors.
H. B. 208 Relating to bureau of la
bor statistics and Inspector of work-
shoos.
H. ts. 207 Keiating to regents of the
State University. .
II. B. 214 Providing an appropriation
ror tne expenses oi the stale Horticul
tural society.
H. B. 221 Appropriating f 100,000 -for
the Crater Lake road. ' "
II. B. 222 Appropriating- 1000 lot
uresnam fair.
H. B. 223 Relating- to custody of
capitoi grounds.
H. Ii. 224 Public records to be free.
H. B. 22" Providing for a branch
asylum in Kastern Oregon.
II. B. 229 To regulate breeding of
horses.
11. B. 234 Restoration of corporations
in aeiauiu
H. B. 235-r-Regulating fishing In
Rogue River.
H. B. 236 Fixlnsr salaries In Wheeler
i i.ouniy.
H. B. 237 Salaries in Wheeler county.
II. B. 2M Fixing salary of Lake
County Assessor.-
H. B. 239 Providing that conditional
sales of personal property shall be re
corded.
H. B. 144 Fixing salary of Curry
county Assessor.
H. B. 245 Feeding of prisoners in Multnomah
county.
H. B. 246 Elimination of duplication
of courses of study In the state's higher
educational Institutions.
H. B. 248 For organization of mining
and diKing interests.
H. B. 249 Land board to purchase
lanus in lorest reserve.
H. K. 251 Governing expenditure of
funds for the University of Oregon.
. H. B. 254 Amending dental law.
H. B. 255 Viewers to lay out roads
on best grades.
H. r. sob increasing annual appor
tionment of county school funds from
tbO to tlOO per district.
11. B. 257 Reimbursing Martha S.
Lane.
H. R. 265 Copies of session laws to
be printed. .
II. B. 268 Relating to election
clncta.
p re-
H. B. 268 Fixing fees of State
Printer.
H. B. 27T Free ferry across Willam
ette at Independence.
' H. B. 282 To prevent unjust discrim
ination by railroads.
H. B. 287 D blaring the legal and so
cial status of Mary C. Wells.
U. B. 288 Authorises school boards
to govern uses of school moneys.
H. B. 2K9 Fixing salary of Lent
County School Superintendent.
H. B. 290 County High scnooi fund.
H. B. 291 Amending code relating to
elections.
H. B. 297 Protect "Tank" fish In
Wallowa I-ake.
H. H. 300 Prohibiting false aavertla-
ingk
H. R. SOS Amending Irrigation laws
II. B. 306 Appropriating 11000 for
Clackamas County Fair.
Ii. B. 310 Railroads to fence right of
way.
II. B. Sll For an act relating to the
local option law.
II. K 812 Appointing IVputy District
Attorney for the Second District.
' II. B. 314 Requiring railroads to ex
terminate Russian thistles on right-of-way.
II. R. SI 5 .Revises schedule of rat
for corporations Increasing capital stock.
H. B. S2 Imposing licenses on ped
dlers. H. R. S31 Authorize State Land
Board to repay money to Albert C Ross.
II. B. S33 Relating to contracts for
shipping.
II. B. 3S5 Deficiency bin. SJ0.000.
H. B. Appropriations for O. A. C by V. S
gtvtimfit.
14. K. 355 Concerning organization of
irrigation districts.
H. B. Sal Charitable societies.
18.
U. B. 351 Securing Hens oa chattels.
CABINET COMPLETED
Taft Selects MacVcagh, ot Chi
cago, for Treasury Portfolio.
HEPBURN TO BE SECOND CHOICE
President Elect Delays Announcement
. i-
-Inaugural Address
Finished
and Pronounced Good.
New York, Feb. 25. President Elect
Taft completed his cabinet today with
the offer of the treasury portfolio and
its acceptance. That the offer was
made to and accepted by Franklin Mac-
Veagh, of Chicago, is as near a posi
tive statement of what is believed to
be the fact as may be made in the face
of an absolute refusal of Mr. Taft to
throw any light on the situation.
Mr. Taft justified his silence on the
ground that he declared some time ago
that he would give out no information
regarding the makeup of his cabinet
until be was ready to announce it in
ittfentirety.
In spite of strong belief that Mr,
MacVeagh had accepted the portfolio,
it was reported that the name of A. B
Hepburn, of New York, ex-controller
of the currency, had figured largely in
the conference on the subject. It is
assumed that, should anything elimi
nate Mr. MacVeagh from the list, Mr.
Hepburn would be selected.
Mr. Taft s request brought Frank H.
Hitchcock from Washington early to
day, and the two were in lengthy con
ference twice.
James H. Sheffield, president of the
Yale alumni of this city, received Mr.
Taft's promise to come here and ad
dress the association on March 28.
The inaugural address of Mr. Taft
received its final revision today. The
document is a declaration of the poli
cies which the new administration will
endeavor to carry out.
The address contains, approximately,
5,000 words, and will occupy little
short of an hour in ' its delivery. The
address has been submitted not only to
the men who have accepted places in
the Taft cabinet, and in each case re
ceived their hearty approval, but Mr.
Taft also has read the paper to Mr,
Roosevelt and others of his personal
friends and advisers. It is pronounced
a strong state paper.
BARS GAMES OF CHANCE.
Nevada Lower House Passes
Very
Stringent Measure.
Carson, Nev., Feb. 25. The anti-
gambling bill passed the assembly to
day by a vote of 27 to 20. At the con
clusion of the vote, and before it had
been announced, Dodge of Washoe and
Raycroft of Ormsby changed their
votes in order to give notice of recon
sideration. - This made the final vote
29 to 18 When the bill was called the
lobby, hall and chambers were crowded
to their capacity,
The bill as passed carried the amend
ment offered by the majority of the
public morals committee, which ex
tends the time when it shall become
operative from September, 1909, to
January 1 of the coming year.
Section 1 provides that it shall "be
unlawful for any person to conduct.
play, deal, or carry on in any capacity
any game of chance such as faro, rou
lette, rondo, poKer, Klondike or any
percentage game or banking game car
ried on with cards, checks, device or
otherwise ; also slot ' machines where
money is involved."
Violation is punishable by a fine of
not to exceed i,ouu or Dy imprison-
ment not to exceed one year, or both.
Section 2 prevents owners of houses
from renting for the purposes of gamb
ling, and affixes a fine. Any person
who is declared a common gambler and
cannot show any fixed residence, or
any person who engages in gambling
is subject to a tine and imprisonment
Section 4 gives the sheriff the right
forcibly to enter places and arrest per
sons engaged in gambling, and provides
for the destruction of gambling devices
when found.
The bill now goes to the senate.
To Amend Constitution.
Sacramento, Feb. 25. Assemblyman
Grove L. Johnson, of Sacramento,
whose anti-Japanese bills aroused the
antagonism of President Roosevelt, in
troduced in the legislature late this
afternoon a joint resolution asking con
gress for a convention, to amend the
constitution,' so as to prohibit polyg
amy. It requests all other legislatures
now in session to join in the movement.
ine measure was introduced at tne re
quest of Mrs. Hester T. Griffith, of Los
Angeles, president of the Women's
Christian Temperance union.
Treasure of Guerilla Days.
Danville, Ky., Feb. 27. Buried
treasure comprising $22,500 in gold
and silver coin, $3,000 worth of dia
monds, a revolver and several thousand
dollars in Confederate money was found
today by H. S. Hensly and Albert Paw
ley in an old residence of the late Nath
an Boss, near Paint Lick. The treas
ure was hidden during guerilla warfare
time, when "One-armed" Sam Berry
ar.d his gang terrorized the inhabitants
of Central Kentucky.
Mine Planters Reach Callao.
Callao, Peru, Feb. 25. The United
States mine planters Ringgold and
Artnistad, which are proceeding from
New York to San Francisco, have ar
rived at Callao.
REDUCES REBATE FINES.
Judge Anderson Makes Possible Max.
imuTi $720,000.
Chicago, Feb. 26. A reduction from
Judge Landia' fine of $29,240,000 to a
possible maximum fine of $720,000 is
admitted to be the meaning of a ruling
made today by Judge Anderson in the
retrial of the Standard Oil company of
Indiana for rebating. The ruling was
informal, but it almost certainly will
stand.
The Court of Appeals in ruling out
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view that each carload of oil on which
a rebate was accepted constituted a
separate offense. There were 1,462 of -these
carloads, the freight charges for
which were paid in 36 differnent set
tlements. Judge Anderson interpreted the de
cision, which, he said, served aa his
guide, to imply ' that the rebates ac
cepted after each of the 36 settlements
constituted the units of offense.
Judge Anderson's ruling was a se
vere blow to District Attorney Sims.
He and his assistant, James H. Wil
kerson, had argued that each of the
500 shipments, making possible a max
imum of $10,000,000, constituted an.
offense. This view Judge Anderson
declared he could not understand. He
saw no reason why, if a trainload or a
carlot were regarded as a separate
offense, the matter might not be fur
ther divided, making a hundredweight
or a gallon, a unit, greatly increasing
the number of offenses and magnify
ing the punishment.
Mr. Wilkerson argued that the fine
possible under the court's ruling would
serve merely as a license to a great .
corporation. On this Judge Anderson
said in effect:
That is a consideration which has
no weight with me whatever. I am
not concerned with the effectiveness of
the statutes, but with their interpreta
tion and application. If the view that
I have taken has the effect you stated,
that is a matter for the lawmakers to ;
consider. If the laws are inadequate,
get them to supply a remedy."
TROUBLE IS FEARED.
Unrest Prevails at Trial of Calhcin
in San Francisco.
San Francisco, Feb. 26. There is an
undercurrent of unrest at the Calhoun
trial. Various reports are heard every
day to the effect that trouble is mo
mentarily expected. Heney and his
bodyguards are on the alert all the
time, and no person comes into the
courtroom who is not carefully scruti
nized. The examination of Holzberg, which
was to have been continued this morn
ing, was postponed until this after
noon, so that his ex-partner, Parry
Kallman, who is a witness for the
prosecution, could be produced in court.
The prosecution claimed that Kallman
would testify that Holzberg said when
he heard of the shooting of Heney by
Haas that if he had been Haas he
would have done the same thing. It
has further developed that Holzberg is
a stockholder in the United Railroads.
This alone is taken as being sufficient
ground for his disqualification.
The morning session was slow. Dur
ing tne first hour and a half Judge
Lawlor examined a new venire of 60,
and retained 35 for examination by
counsel. .
SEES WAR AHEAD.
Russia Expects Austria Will Invade
Servia in Fortnight.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 26. -The pes
simism with regard to the Balkan cri
sis is steadily increasing in diplomatic
circles, where it is believed that Aus
tria's action against Servia may be
expected within a fortnight unless a
solution to the present crave problem
is soon arranged.
Foreign office officials state that
Russia is not disposed to consider an
invasion of Servia alone as a casus
belli, but there is fear that the gov
ernment's hand may be forced by pop
ular feeling. The beginning of hostil
ities will throw thousands of Russian
volunteers into the Servian ranks.
Tried to Get Graft Photo
Pittsburg, Feb. 26. At the trial of
Councilmen Klein, Wasson and Brand
and Banker Ramsey on charges of con
spiracy, growing out of the recent
graft charges, Detective T. S. Huff
ling testified that he had seen Detec
tive Wilson pay William Brand, presi
dent of the common council, and Coun
cilman Klein each $500 to influence
their support for legislation. Detec
tive Huffling told how he had also seen
Councilman Wasson take $300 from
Detective Wilson, and how be had at
tempted to take a flashlight picture of
Wasson in the Fort Pitt Hotel.
Who Smuggled Those Chinese?
New Orleans, Feb. 26. A. P. SchelL'
special United States inspector, who
recently ran down the alleged Chinese
smuggling conspiracy on the Gulf coast,
declared his disbelief in the report that
v, rk; i s .
wra vuiiins. won scut in a government
bonded car from Algiers, La., to San
Luis Obispo, Cal. His theory is that
the men were put into the car some
place close to the Texas border A
rigid inquiry into the case has Seen
instituted here.
To Take Census of Japs.
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 26. The sen
ate today passed the bill providing for
a census of Japanese in the state, to
determine whether or not California
should ask for a general Asiatic exclu
sion act. The bill already has pissed
the assembly and will be signed by the
governor at once. It empowers the
state labor commissioner to take the
census.