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KEEP OUT COOLIES .resident Roosevelt Gives Pledge to Labor Lenders. EXPLAINS HIS (IIIMSh ORDERS 'f tills President Oomprrs How Ho Stands mid Wli.it the Diplo limit Must Obnervn. Oyster Hay, .Inly LI. I linn irut ion In the Cniti'il Slates anil i t h rclntinu in I In- luliur problem formed 1 1 h u t j- t of II i- i ti f r 1 1 1 IhlN nflci ikmpii between Dim I r m i . 1 i i t- ami two of the import ant leaders of oigiiui.cil luliur Samuel itn r m , nf WitM 1 1 1 n hi , nml .lames Duncan, of luiliey, Mmmn., respectively the rH i c 1 1 1 1 1 mnl mm of the vice- ri?i Ifii t h of tlm American i'cdcnition of I .ii I r . Tim conference won devoted pnrticu laily to ii consideration of tln order re cently Issued ly the president regard ing 1 1 in 1 1 f i t c 1 1 1 i 1 1 of the Chinese exclusion law. An i in r-HH ii hi has been gained liy mitiiy members of liilmi orgiuii.iilions lliitt the order, In mi ex tent, lit lellMt, let (low II lint illillligra- timi burs, ho fur iim Chinese arc con cerned. The president assured It i m cull ers, however, that tin such eonstiuc tioll properly enilli! lie placed on the order, and t hat he was just iim vigor ously opposed to the admission to thin country of Chinese coolies iin they could he. Mr. Gompcrs urged upon the prcsi cli' the desirability of mi intelligent, practical hihI hiiiniine consideration of the general question of iinliilKrittioii hy the people and hy congress. The peo ple of thin country ami of the whole civilixcd world itre entitled, lie main tained, to such a consideration. GOVERNMENT CLOSES CASE. Defense In Land Fraud Trials Will Not Take Much Time. Portland, July 13. After Special Agent Horace T. Jones had lieen pUced on the Bland and identified a map con taining the location of the claims al JVed to have been obtained hy Wil liamiton and Gcnnor, a map that was introduced no that it can lie used for argument, the government rested its -ase against Representative William xon, Dr. Van Gesner and Marion R. Bigg". This morning the three defend ants will have their inning. It ht undersbxsl that the defense will not p'are many witnesses on the stand. Judge Bennett stated Tuesday that there would not he over half a dozen, and while the counsel for the defense lias not said that the defendants will take the stand in their own behalf, it is expected that they will. Judge Bennett inlormed Judge Pe Haven just Ik fore adjournment yesterday afternoon that he had some motions to make, mid that lie would present them this morning. Perhaps one of these mo tions will tie for dismissal of the charges. Evidently, District Attorney Heney is anticipating such a move on the part of the defense, and lie will un doubtedly have a list of authorities on hand in case such a move is made hy counsel for the defense. ADD TO ARMY BUILDINGS. War Department Allots Money for New Buildings in Northwest. Washington, July 13. Announce ment was made at the War department today of allotments of funds for liar racks and quarters at army posts dur ing the present fiscal year. Continu ing the policy of gradual reconst ruc tion nt Vancouver hnrracks, provision lias heenmude for the erection of one lonble-set of captains' quarters, two double-seta of lieutenants' quarters and two douhle hnrracks. At Fort Wright, near Spokane, Wash., the jiost will he enlarged to Hccnmmodate eight companies of in fantry and work this year will include the addition of one set of field ofliceis' quarters, one douhle-set of captains' -quarters, one eight-set of hachelors' oflicerH' quarters mnl two douhle bar racks. Whole East Sweltering. Washington, July 13. Hot weather prevails over the greater portion of the United States, according to reports received at the Weather Bureau to night. Apparently, there Is no imme diate relief in sight, except through the local thunder storms in several scat tered sections. Throughout, the West report 8 indicate increasing hot weather. The humidity is high all over the At lantic coast from Now lOngland to Flor ida, and the prospect is that it will continue so two or three days, with northeast to south w inds. Fight Us with Cartoons. Victoria, 11. C, July 13. Mail uk vices from Hongkong tell of a novel plan of campaign adopted hy Chinese in South China to further the boycott movement against Unitd States mer chandise. Wealthy Chinese of Tekhoi, in Sunning district, have imported thousands of Japanese fans, on one Hide of which they print rough sketches of Americans roughly treating Chinese, and on the ot her side sketches of buffa loes being beaten and ill used. Six Dead In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, July 13. Six deaths and more than a score of prostrations due to the high temperature of the last five days, were reported in this city today by the police. GAINS MORE EVIDENCE. Government Gots Facts in Williamson-Gosner-Qigfls Trial. Port hind, July What, promised for a few minutes to have been a sensa tion in (he Williamson-Genlicr-BlggS trial yesterday afternoon before Judge lie Haven, dwindled into nn emphatic statement that Dr. (iesner had a verbal agreement with nt leant one witness. From the opening hour of the morning session until just it few minutes be fore adjourning, the trial droned along, with witness after witness adding link after link tn the chain of .evidence that I he government is foiging around the I hree defendants. During his cross-examination, Henry Hudson, no relation, by the way, to the famous explorer, had furnished the comedy scene that was tossed into the day's proceedings, and iU was lieu F. Jones, a retired cattle and horseman, that furnished the mild sensation. Jofres had told on the witness stand how he and his wifucanio to take up timber claims. He stated that he had done this at the request of Dr. Van (iesner, that Dr. (iesuer had furnished t he money and that he had proved up on his claim, and that his wife had re linquished hers. His testimony was in line with the ten other w it iicshcm that had been examined. He was a bit more sure about certain events that 'iad occurred before and after he had taken up his cUim. He was turned over to Judge Helmet for cross-examination, and because the defense thought that Jones, having been a cattleman, had been mixed up in the tight against the sheepmen and asked him if he had ever shot any sheep, that the incident arose. POLICE PREFECT SHOT. Assassin Fires Five Poisoned Bullets t Count Shuvaloff. Moscow, July 12. Major (ieneral Count Shuvfloff, prefect of jiolice here, and formerly attached to the ministry of the interior, was assassin ated this morning while receiving peti tions. One of the petitioners drew a revolver and fired five times at the prefect, who fell dead. The assassin was arrested. He was uresseu as a peasant, and nan not ueen identified. He was recently arrested as a political suspect, but escaped from the police station before his examina tion. The assassin waited in the anteroom of the prefecture until the other peti tioners had been received, and then, entering the audience room, he ad vanced toward Count Shuvaloff at his desk, firing live shots at close range. The burets panned through the body of the prefect. Count Shuvaloff owes his death to his custom of freely granting audiences and receiving petitions from all classes. One bullet wounded the count in the pericardium, another pierced his ab domen, a third struck him in the arm, and the fourth in the shoulder, while the fifth bullet of the assassin struck the leg of a woman who was standing near. Accoiding to the physicians, the bullets were poisoned. The victim speedily lost consciousness and never spoke afterward. A great crowd gathered in front of the house of Count Shuvaloff, and made a determined show of its indig nation and sorrow at the assassination of the prefect, who was very iKipular. Grand Duchess Elizabeth, widow of Grand Duke Sergius (assassii.ated in Moscow February 17) attended the first requiem for Count Shuvaloff tonight. Strategic Point is Taknn. Tokio, July 12. The Navy depart ment has received the following report from Admiral Kataoka: "Two cruisers and four torpedo boats left Korsakovsk on July 10 with soldiers aboard for the purpose of landing and occupying Cape Notoro. After some bombardment the place was taken. The lighthouse and buildings were left undestro.red." Cape Notoro is the most southerly point of Sakhalin, on La Perouse stmits, direct ly facing Cape Soya, on tlie Japanese coast. It commands the straits be tween the two coasts. Government Ready to Act. Chicago, July 12. Hans for the prosecution of railroad far the grant ing of rebates to large industrial indi vidual corporations in violations of in junctions issued by the Federal courts here and in Kansas City, have been completed and the first steps in the at tack of the government will be made in Kansas City before the end of this week. Assistant Attorney General Purdy, who has charge of the prosecu tion, left here tonight for Kansas City. King Christian Objects. Copenhagen, July 2. It is under stood that Prince dut ies, of Denmark, will be willing to accept the crown of Norway if King Christian and the Dan ish government content. Some of the members of the ro'al family are in favor of his acceptance of the crown, but King Christian i believed to be opposed to it. No decision, however, will bo given out lefore his majesty re truns from Gniniden, Austria, next week . Four Deths by Heat. New York, Jul !? Although the temperature was relieved slightly this afternoon by posing showers, four deaths and 41 prostrations from the heat were reputed today in Greater New York. TVee of the deaths were in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn. Tht highoat temperature of the day was 80. BRISTOW REPORTS Commissioner to Examine Trade Conditions Affecting Canal. END PACIFIC MAIL CONTRACTS Advises Government to Open Panama Route, Cancel Monopolist Con tracts and Open Neyv Lines. Washington, July II. The report of Joseph L. liristow, who was appointed a special commissioner to investigate trade conditions and other matters af fecting the Panama railroad mnl steam ship companies, was made public to day. The report discusses from several points of view the question of what policy should be pursued by the gov ernment in the management of the rail road, and makes a number of import ant recommendations. Among these are the continuance of the railroad as a commercial line, with improved facili ties for handling commerce, including double tracking and re-eqniping the line with modern lolling stock; the enlargement of its port facilities, the retention of the steamship line between New York and Colon, the cancellation of the contracts with the Pacific Mail Steamship company arid the South American lines, ami the opening of the ports of Colon and Panama to all steam ship lines on equal terms; and in cer tain contingencies the establishment by the railroad of steamship lines between Colon and Gulf ports and Panama and important United States Pacific coast jHirts. It is recommended that in traf fic connections American steamship lines lie favored as far as consistent with the treaty obligations of the United States. Mr. liristow spent several' months in his investigation, visiting the Isthmus of Panama, important ports on the western coast of Central America, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico and the Pacific coast of the United States. His report reviews the entire history of the railroad and discusses allegations that its local freight and passenger charges were excessive and its traffic contracts with steamship lines monopo listic. NEW TRIAL ASKED. Judge De Haven Listens to Mitchell's Attorneys in Land Case. Portland, July 11. Whether or not Senator Mitchell will have a new trial without apjieal to the higher courte of the United States now rests with Judge De Haven. Yesterday morning, and for a part of the afternoon, the court listened to the arguments of ex-Senator Thurston, Judge Bennett and of Mr. Heney, contending for and against the motion entered in behalf ot the defend ant. At the conclusion of Judge Bennett's argument the court announced that he would take the matter under advise ment and would decide upon it at his leisure, as soon as it might be. J. N. Williamson felt the first direct breath of the government's case against him yesterday afternoon, when John 8. Wat kins testified in the Federal court that lie had met the congress man in the woods near Prineville, and that Williamson had taken his day book from him and entered in it the descriptions of the land he desired him and his wife and brother-in-law to tile upon under an implied contract to deliver the claims to the firm as soon as patented. The witness further teg titled to his tacit contract with the firm of Williamson & Gesner, and to his intention to pay for the filing fees and other expenses incident to secur ing the claim out of his own money, in order that he migh thus avoid illegal ity and keep himself clear of the law. It was the first tightening of the web which the prosecution promises to weave around the three defendants. The rest of the session of the after noon, delayed as it was by the argu ment upon the Mitchell motion for a new trial, followed the lines shown by the witnesses of the preceding days. More Teamsters Will Strike. Chicago, July 11. Five hundred ad ditional teamsters will go on strike Wednesday morning if the Chicago Cartage company, organized by the city express companies, attempts today to deliver goods to the boycotted houses with nonunion men. This was decided last night at a meeting of the Team sters' Joint council, after the Depart ment Store Drivers union had threat ened to abandon the strike unless the united drivers employed by the city ex press companies quit work if their em ployers attempt to work nonunion men. Dynamite Wrecks Joints. Iola, Kan., July 11. Three saloons in West street were wrecked with dy namite early today. Much damage wan ilone to other business nronertv in the vicinity, and the loss is conserva tively estimated at $100,000. J. 10. Thorpe, the owner of one of the sa loons, was injured but not seriously. The dynamite was exploded apparent ly by some temperance reformer. No arrests have been made. The mayor has offered a reward. Japanese Spread the News. Sipinghai, Manchuria, July 11. The news of the mutiny in the Black sea reached the Russian army through the Japanese, who fired night shells charg ed with proclamations conveying the Information into the Russian advanced posts, scattering the proclamations. SAKHALIN A POWERFUL LEVER Japan Now Given Opportunity to In crease Her Demands on Russia. St. Petersburg, July 11. With the Japanese flag hoisted for the first time on Russian soil after 18 months of war, the importance of the landing on the island of Sakhalin is generally admit ted both in newspaper comment and in government circles. Complete occupa tion of the island is regarded as a fore gone conclusion. The N'ovoe Vrernya voices the general sentiment in holding tba control of Sakhalin puts a powerful lever in the possession of Japanese diplomacy, which finally has something tangible in its hands to throw upon the scales with the sword in the coming confer ence. There is a divergence of opinion with regard to the effect it will have upon the negotiations at Washington, some of the irrcconci bibles declaring that it makes peace at the present juncture more impossible than before, as Japan w ill lie able to demand the cession of the islands and a heavy indemnity as well, at which terms peace will be too costly, but the more prevalent view is that Japan has now in her hands enough trumps to take the game. The attack on the island certainly dissipates one of the hopes of the peace a Ivocates, w ho have been suggesting that its voluntary cession might be an offset with Port Arthur and the Clii I'cse railway against the payment of a large part or all of a monetary indem nity. No further report of the landing operations has been received. CHINA ASKS REPRESENTATION. Japan Will Oppose Appearance at Peace Conference. Washington, July 11. China's re qudest to be represented in the Wash ington conference, on the ground that she is vitally interested in its proceed ings, has been received by the presi dent and informally transmitted to the belligerents. Whether the president has received the formal replies cannot be learned, but it can be stated that, while Russia is inclined to favor the suggestion, Japan will not consent to it. Japan has already made public her assurance that Manchuria is to be re stored to China. That is one of the principles for which she says she has been fighting. Japan regards herself as fully capable of executing this prom ise without the assistance of China, and in view of China's inability before the war to cope with Russia in Manchuria, the Japanese government is unable to see what possible service a Chinese rep resentative would be in the Washing ton conference. Moreover, the Japanese have all along taken the position that when peace negotiations were begun they would be conducted directly with Kus sia. It is altogether unlikely that the Washington government will press the claim of China, and the official view here fails to sympathize with the idea. REVOLT IN ARMY. Officers Sentenced to Death and Cos sacks Routed by Rebels. Vienna, July 11. Dispatches re ceived here from St. Petersburg state that 24 officers of the Russian army have been courtniartialed and sentenced to be shot within the last few days for refusing to obey orders to proceed to Manchuria. They set up in their de fense that other officers who possessed of private fortunes had succeeded in evading tile orders to go to the front by bribing the officers of the general staff, whose duty it was to make the assign ment of officers to proceed to the front. A Lithunian regiment refused to carrj out an order given by a brigade commander, and a detachment of Cos sacks was detailed to place the revolt ers under arrest. When the mounted troops tried it they were fired on by the I.ithuniands and a sanguinary en counter followed, which resulted in 200 Cossacks being killed or wounded. The revolters were finally placed under arrest in barracks. Fast Train Hits a Freight. Greencastle, Ind., July 11. While running at the rate of t0 miles an hour this evening the east-bound New Y'ork fast mail train of the Big Four "side swiped" the west-bound freight No. 09. which was pulling into a siding at Oakall, five miles west of here. Fire man Tippy, aged 40, of Indian apolis, was fatally injured, and Fire man A. M. Carner, of Mattoon, 111., seriously injured. Trainmaster Cos ten, of Terre Haute, who visited the wreck, said tonight he was at present unable to fix the responsibility. Torn in Fragments. Ilarrisburg, Ta., July 11. Eight men were blown to pieces and two others were injuieil by the premature explosion of a big blast of rock powder on the Pennsylvania railroad improve ments near New Cumberland at 7:30 o'clock this morning. The accident oc curred directly across the Susquehanna river from the scene of the Pennsyl vania railroad accident May 11, in w hich 23 persons were killed and many others injured. End Gambl'ng in Mexico. Mexico City, July 11. It is stated that no more gambling licenses will be issued after August 1, when all exist ing licenses expire. Governor Tands, of the Federal district, announcs that he is determined to extirpate gambling in this city. IN THE "DISTIIRESSFUL COUNTRY." i v m.t ' j at, rf 4 v 7w;J-f AN IRISH ISLAND BATTLE. An eviction battle recalling the stormiest days of the Irish Land Agita tion recently took place between 200 picked men of the Royal Irish Con stabulary and the entire population of Dursey Island, a bleak speck In the Atlantic sixteen miles from Castletown Rerehaven, County Cork. The two hundred policemen were sent to evict Daniel Healy, an aged peasant. They only did so after a desperate encounter with the other occupants of the Island some thirty-five families who met them on landing with a fusillade of stones, and then fought a hand-to-hand conflict in which fixed bayonets and the butt-ends of rifles were freely used. NAPOLEON OF CUBA. STIRRING CAREER OF THE LATE GEN. MAXIMO GOMEZ. Patriot VhoM Wonderful Oenlna and Finished Statesmanship Made Cuba Libra Possible Born in Ban to Do mlngo and of Spanish Descent, The recent death In Havana of Gen. Maximo Gomes removed one of the most picturesque figures that has ever apyaared upon the pages of Cuba's thrilling history. In the smaller sphere to which fate confined him, Gomez showed the great qualities that place his name fitly with those of Washing ton and Bolivar. It was not only In the field that he won the title of the Liberator of Cuba, but especially In the troubled times following the inter vention of the United States, when his disinterestedness and statesmanship helped to bring about a settlement Though Santo Domingo holds bis birthplace. Gomez's life was given to Cuba and was spent on the Island, ex- OEX. MAXIMO GOMEZ. cept In long Intervals of enforced exile. Free Cuba can honor him as her own with better right thtm Uruguay does Garibaldi or Americans do La ay ette and Steuben. When time has given her a history and the slanders of selfish politicians are forgotten tne L'reatness and Integrity or .Maximo Gomez will make Cuba proud of her beginnings. (iomez. commander-in-chief of tne Cuban army during the war for llb- rtv acainst Spain, who won for him self the name of the "Cuban Napol eon," was K2 years old. He was born In Santo Domingo and was of good Spanish descent. As a young man he ntered the Spanish army, being grant d the commission of a lieutenant, but when his family emigrated to Cuba ho withdrew from the service of Spain and gave himself heart and soul to the mse of Culm Libre. His home for many years was near Santiago. It was In ISCiS that he joined the p.itrlot army, and his ability and in trepidity earned him rapid promotion. 1 Hiring the revolution of that time lie heat the Spaniards at the battles of Jlguana and llolgulu and made the name of Gomez one to be feared. In If.Tl' Gen. Agrainonts, men eonimami- er-ln-chief of the Cuban army, pro moted Gomez to a brigadier general ship, and after that the Spanish sol diers called him "The Terror." H- had only a small, badly equipped force of half-naked siddlers, who fought with poor weapons, but he captured Nuevltas, Santa Cruz and Cascorra and fought the battle of Las Guasl nias against overwhelming odds. In 1ST t he Invaded the province of Santa Clara, driving the Spanish forces before him, defeating Gen. Jovellar In several small engagements, and was made a major general. When the revolution died out in 1S78 and the s 'A fV Sir treaty of Zanjon was signed Gomez was proscribed. He escaped to Ja maica and lived a farmer's life there until the recrudescence of the rebellion in 1805 under Jose Marti. He landed in Cuba April 14, 1895, was balled by the Cubans with wild enthusiasm and was made commander-in-chief. His ability and energy and his genius for accomplishing re sults without fighting pitched battle spread the revolution until the whole Island was involved. His military tactics caused him to be criticised and sneered at by the Spaniards, and even some of his own officers, but he was adored by the rank and file and by the Cuban people, who looked to him to secure the liberation of the island. Time after time he used his Spanish. Time after time he used his tactics with success against large Spanish armies, outflanking the over confident enemy, falling unexpectedly on their rear and turning apparent de feat Into victory. Terhaps his most remarkable achievement was at the battle of Sar atoga, where he'haatlly gathered 500 men to meet the advancing columns of Gen. Castellanos. With his little force of 500 and odd he met, defeated and drove back the 2,000 Spanish troops under Castellanos In spite of the artillery and unlimited ammuni tion his foes had. The fight lasted four days. Gomez lost 65 killed and 133 wounded. Gomez was very proud of the repu tation he had gained of having never lost a battle. His personal bravery had a wonderful effect on the raw re cruits of which the greater part of his forces was made up during the first part of the last revolution. It Is said that no man ever flinched, no matter how thick the bullets flew, while Gomez's eye was on him. Gen. Gomez was a small man, about 5 feet 6 Inches tall, and slenderly built. During the last years of his life he suffered greatly from a wouni he received In the right leg. He had keen, penetrating eyes and a restless, wary look. He had the friendliest possible feeling for the United States. He was sorely disappointed when af ter he had scored important successes against the Spaniards the United States refused to recognize the bellig erency of Cuba. But when this coun try lent a hand Gen. Gomez did all in his power to secure the friendliest re lations. He enjoyed perhaps more than any other Cuban leader the love and con fidence of the Cuban people. His last visit to the United States was In the spring of 1003. when he visited the St Louis exposition. An Anecdote of Gorky. Anecdotes of Maxim Gorky are on the whig. Here is one they tell in Purls. He went to the theater at Mos cow one evening to see a play by a popular writer. Instead of paying at tention to the stage, the entire audi ence rose and greeted Gorky with pro digious acclamation. Then he deliver ed this address: "What on earth are you staring at me for? I am not a dancing girl, nor the Venus of Mllo, nor a drunkard, just picked out of the river! 1 write stories; they have the luck to please you, and I am glad of It. But that Is no reason why you should keep on staring. We have come here to see a ('harming play. Be good enough to attend to that, and leave me alone." More delighted than ever, the audience shouted with Joy. Per haps they thought they would get an other sp'-'ei'h, but Gorky jumped out of lit seat and left the theater In dis gust. Advise an old man that he ought to have a good time In life, and you ara stumped when be answers, "How?" T:e real critic is the woman with a "voice," when she hears another worn an slug. i t I