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NEWS OFTHE WEEK
la a Condensed Form (or Oar
Easy Readers,
A Return of the Let Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Japan has suppressed the outbreak
in Corea.
Castro will resume the presidency of
Venetuela July 5.
The army will soon abandon San
Fiancisco relief work.
The czar is preparing for an open re
volt in Southern Russia.
A Texas negro has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for 9i"J years.
Half of San Francisco's present water
supply is waste! by leaks in the mains.
The Blackfoot Indian reservation in
Montana will be opened to settlement.
Germany is planning to spend $50,
000,000 in widening and improving the
Kiel canal.
A pretended president of the Philip
pine republic has surrendered to the
authorities.
The house committee on agriculture
has agreed to Roosevelt's demands on
the meat inspection bill.
Mrs. E. H. Conger, wife of the ex
minieter to China, has sold for $7,000
a rug which she bought in Pekin for
$90.
The governor of California and mayor
of San Fnn :ieco have joined in an ap
peal to the insurance companies for a
square deal to San Francisco.
A movement has started to depoee
the insane king of Bavaria.
Peasants are rioting and killing land
owners in Southern Russia.
Many Oregon and Washington post
masters have received an increase in
Schmitx, of San Francisco,
has decided that saloons may open
July 5.
Light earthquake bhocks are felt fre
quently at San Francisco, but no dam
age is done.
Rioting has been resumed at Bialy
etok, Russia, and parliament has sent a
committee to investigate.
Leaders in congress agree to loan
$10,000,000 to San Francisco banks for
use in rebuilding the city.
The Japanese Red Cross nas given a
total of $110,000 to the relief of earth
quake sufferers of California.
Insurance companies contemplate a
raise of 25 per cent in rates in Wash
ington as well as Oregon and Idaho.
The naval bill provides $65,000 with
which to establish wireless telegraph
stations along the coasts of Oregon,
Washington and California.
There is a general feeling throughout
Ruesia that a revolution cannot help
but come Boon.
Thirty-two insurance companies have
refused to cut payment of San Francisco
losses 25 per cent and will pay in full.
Roosevelt condemns the meat inspec
tion bill And threatns to call an extra
session if action is not taken on the
canal.
A meeting of Illinois farmers at Chi
cago decided to form an organization to
fight the commission men who are now
robbing them.
The government has secured evidence
at Cleveland, Ohio, of rebating to
Standard Oil and will prosecute the oil
ompany and the railroad.
A committee from tb National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers, after an in
vestigation ot Chicago packing house
conditions, nays it can find nothing
wrong.
State Insurance Commissioner Davis,
of Nevada, has notified insurance com
panies to pay 100 cents on the dollar of
their San Francisco losses or quit busi
ness in Nevada.
Germany says America is not the
only country where bad meat origin
ates. The kaiser's inspectors refueo
admittance to shipments from several
other countries.
The president and senate continue at
loggerheads on important measurs.
A storm is brewing in the Russian
parliament about duplicity regarding
executions.
All shipping on San Francisco bay
continues tied up on account of a strike
of the freight handlers.
The house has voted to allow no
money to soldiers' homes for mainten
ance which have canteens.
Chicago courts are trying to decide
who is the head of Zion City at the
present time. Dowie is the star wit
ness. The Longworths are receiving Bplen
did entertainment in London. Mrs.
Longworth dined wiht the king a few
days ago.
A New York Federal grand jury has
asked that several officers of the tobacco
trust be adjudged in contempt and sent
to Jail for failure to produce certain
books wanted by the jury in an inves
tigation of the business methods of the
trust.
A new moderate party has been or
ganized in Russia.
NEW STAR IN UNION.
President Signs Statehood Dill and
Makes It a Law.
Washington. June 18. Another ita
was added to the Union Saturday when
Pi-Miiilpnt Kooaevelt sinned the bill ad
mitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory
as one state. The me ami re also pro
vides that Aniona and New Mexico
mav he admitted to statehood as the
state of Arizona, provided, the people of
the territories vote in favor of adu.is
slon on the terms submitted by con
ere .
The signing of the measure wasjmade
the occasion ot an interesting cere
mony. Senator Heveridge and Repre
aentat.'ve Hamilton, chairmen of the
senate and house committees on terri
tories, who have worked lonn and hard
for the measure, were present, as alio
were Delegate McGnire, ot ukianoma
and a number ot residents ct Okla
homa: Delegate Andrews, of New Mex
ea: Secretary Loeb and others. Just
before the president sinned the bill
Amhaniiadnr Srrk von Sternberg, of
Gem any, was ushered into the office
and he, too, witnessed the ceremony.
The president a ed two pens in feign
in i7 the mpasure. writing the first
name, "Theodore," with a solid gold
pen presented by the people of Ari
ioni. his family name. "Roosevelt,"
with an eagle's quill taken from an
eagle in Oklahoma.
After signing the bill, the president
congratulated Mr. Beveridge and Mr.
Hamilton ou the completion of their
long and arduous labors in connection
with the measure. He also expressed
the hope that the people of Ariiona and
New Mexico would avail themselves of
the opportunity to come into the Lnion
as a state. From every view point, he
said, be regarded this as the wise thing
for them to do, as the opportunity
might not come again in a ecore of
years. The president said that tie nail
a personal interest in the admission of
Arisona and New Mexico, as many ot
the members of his regiment, the
Rough Riders, resided there
PRELUDE TO GENERAL ATTACK.
Massacte at Bialystok Will Be Imitat
ed in Other Cities.
Berlin, June 18. "We have every
reason to believe that the massacre ol
Jews at Bialystok is a rehearsal for a
wholesale repetition of the atrocities of
last October,'" said Dr. Paul Nathan,
president of the Central Jewish Relief
league of Germany. "Our information
indicates that the Bialystok massacre is
the same sort of officially inspired
counter revolutionary outbreak as was
that at Odessa. We have learned posi
tively that the government's allegation
that the trouble began in consequence
of the bombs being thrown at a Chris
tian religions procession by Jews is a
ridiculous falsehood. Bialystok is still
in the hands of the drunken Coesacks,
who are determined that no Jews shall
be allowed to escape or go on robbed.
"The military have deserted the rail
way station and every passing train is
held up and the passengers plundered.
Panic reigns in the neighboring vil
lages, which fear tbey will be the next
object of attack. Numerous German
firms and individuals are among the
sufferers at Bialystok and cause the
suggestion that German intervention be
invoked."
DISAGREE ON PIPE LINES.
Rate Bill Conferees Thrash Over Old
Straw Without Result.
Washington, June 18. In the ab
sence of Representative Sherman, of
Caw York, who was out of the city, the
conferees on the railroad rate bill were
in Dpssinn less than an hour today, and
reached no decision on any subject.
The pipe line amendment was ais
rnanod. Senators Elkins and Tillman
opposing any change in the provision
making them common carriers ana con
tending that most of the companies
that hiivn nrotested the amendment are
subordinate companies of the Standard
Oil company.
Onnnnontu of the amendment pro
posed that the amendment which pro
hibits a common carrier lrom carrying
commodities it produces be changed to
read: "railroad carrying commodities
it produces," in order that this amend
ment shall not conflict with pipe lines,
which are constructed for the so'e pur
pose of carrying their productions. If
this were done, they agreed to support
the pipe ilne amendment.
Kansas Will Investigate.
Topeka, June 18. Secretary 8. J.
Crnmbine, of the Kansas State Board
of Health, has commenced an investi
gation of the Kansas packing houses;
with a view to ascertaining whether or
not preservatives of a harmful nature
are used in preparing the products.
Sanitary conditions in the hig plants at
Kansas City will also be looked into.
Dr. Crumbine Btates that the investiga
tion is not the result of the government
eport on the Chicago plants, but was
planned by him before the Neill-Rc-y-nolds
investigation was commenced.
British Colonies Guilty, Too.
London, June 18. The report of Dr.
Thomas, the medical officer of the bor
ough of Stepney, to the local govern
ment board, shows that his department
during the last five years has destroyed
over a ton of rotten tinned foods daily
at the Stepney wharves. These, he
adds, were not American goods, as
practically no canned goods from Amer
ican concerns are imported through the
Stipney wharves, but were colonial
meat, fish and fruit.
Pass Three Big Bills.
Washington, June 18 A conclusion
was reached late this sf'ernoon by
LmiB Wdera wherebv the meat impac
tion bill, the pure fwi bill and t'i iin-
siigration bill are an to ve pas.eu mis
week in the order named. i
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
TURNS DOWN WOOL GROWERS.
Pinchot Says They Must Pay for All
Range in Reserves.
Washington Gilford Pinchot, chief
of the Forestry service, has overruled
the protest of the Umatilla County
Woolgrowers' association in the matter
of charging a grating fee (r the Blue
mountain torist reserve range this sea
son. The woolgrowers also protested
that they were not assigned Individual
ranges. The department explained
that it was not customary to assign
particular tracts to individual stockmen
when reserves were first created, and It
is not yet determined w hat plan will be
followed in the Blue mountains.
The assH'iation also called attention
to recent d-cisions by the California
and Washington courts to the effect
that the secretary of agriculture is
without authority to impose a tax for
the use of forest reserve range, and
without authority arbitrarily to regu
late its use. The forest official inter
pret these decisions to hold that the
secretary ot agriculture had not beeu
empowered to enforce any penal code,
but did have the right to keep the re
serves clear of stock or lease them on
such reasonable conditions as he should
prescribe. No appeal has been prose
cuted to a final hearing in either case,
but the officials believe their right in
the sphere indicated is beyond all pos
sible question, and say that court deci
sions will have no influence upon the
rules adopted for control of reserves.
Bands Want To Go To Salem.
Salem Almost every organized band
in the state has applied to the Salem
Fourth ot July committee for an en
gagement. When the committee began
making arrangements to celebrate the
Fourth it was announced that a large
number of bands, probably "0, would
be employed if possible for the occa
sion. The responses came thick and
fast. Several davs ago the committee
had engaged all the bands that could
be paid from the fund available. If
there were a few thousand more dollars
in the treasury the committee would be
willing to work overtime engaging
bands. As it is the committee is satis
fied .hat there will be more brass band
music in Salem on the Fourth of July
than was ever heard at one place in
Oregon before.
State Fair To Be the Greatest.
Salem Now that the election is over
President Downing of the state fair
board, who is also chairman of the
Democratic county committee, expects
to devote his entire time and attention
to perfecting arrangements for the state
fair, which opens in September. Mr.
Downing Bays that the fair this year
will be the greatest ever held on the
state fair grounds. The attractions will
be better and more numerous and the
exhibits in every department will ex
cel all other showings. He says the
people in every county are taking an
interest this year, which is due, he
thinks, to the interest awakened by
the Lewis and Clark fair.
Fleeces in Prime Condition.
Bake City Shearing of sheep in
Baker county has begun by electric
machinery at the plant of Lee Bros.,
near here, who will first shear their
own sheep and then those of Ayre and
other large owners in the county.
Shearing was delayed by the long con
tinued wet weather, but it is said that
on account of the moisture the quality
of the Baker wool will this year far
exceed that of preious years, as it is
clean from dust and of fine texture.
It is expected the tonnage will be large
and that most of it will go into storage.
Many Seeking Timber Land.
Raker Citv Manv neonle are com-
inz into the Eastern Oregon timber belt
in search of timber. Locators from
Chicago, Milwaukee, Western Wash
ington and Idaho were included in two
narties which have passed through Ba
ker City on their way into the John
Day country. One of these parties,
with H. J. Bundv. started for the 8u-
sanviile district; the other party, 15
people in all, 14 women an 1 one boy.
which was under trie direction ol u.
W. Shaw, started for Burns.
May Buy Road to Blue River Mines.
Knwpnn .The Eugene Commercial
elnh has met and adrpt d resolutions
asking the county court to investigate
the matter of purchasing a nignway in
to th P.lne river mines. At present
the private road from Blue River City
to the mines, a distance oi six mnes, is
ehmeil on account of some trouble be
tween the owners, the Lucky Boy Min
ing company, and other mine owners in
tl
tie district, and there is no means oi
access to the mines from the outside.
Fruit Injured in Valley.
Salem The continued damp weath
er which has prevailed for the past
three weeks in the Willamette valley
has been very injurious to the fruit
. A i i 1 j :
crop, btrawuerries in oumo
have been almost ruined. iiierries,
too, have been injured for want of dry
weather and sunshine. Growing grain
has had all the rain necessary for this
season.
La Grande Offers Free Site.
T a n rande The La Grande Com
mercial club is attempting to raise $8,.
000 for the purchase of a site to be
offered to the Palmea Lumber company
as an inducement for the location of its
new mill here. About $6,000 has been
subscribed. A site of 73 acres on the
river northwest of town has been Becured
by option.
I SAYS CONTRACTORS WILL LOSE
Did Not Know Nature of Rock Along
Route of Celilo Canal.
Portland The government canal at
Celilo will cost $10,000,000, Instead ol
$4,000,000, according to I. II. TaftV,
who has been oterating tlah wheel
near there for -0 years.
"The contractors, Smith A Jones,
who are digging the first half mile at
the Celilo end, will lose $100,000 on
the job," he said. " They took it at
too low a figure, evidently not knowing
the nature ot the rock they have to
blast out. Their hid was i, $2114,000.
They have about 100 men at work pre
paring-a foundation for the rock work
on the upper end ot the canal.
Mr. Taffe savs there is nothing in the
tlshwheel business this season because
"those fellows on the lower river won't
let a single salmon get past them.1' He
gets a good price, 7 cents a pound, for
all he traps, his market being in the
Fast. His cold storage works are,
however, devoid of salmon this season,
anil he does not anticipate any great
improvement in the rnn.
Calapooia Company is Sued.
Albany Claiming the Calaooia
Lumber company, of Crawfordaville,
has cut and logged more than 750,000
feet of timber off land belonging to
him, Abner C. Withee has tiled suit
tor $4,500 damages in the State Circuit
court for Linn county, through At tor
ney W. Lair Thompson. The timber
alleged to have leen cut by the defend
ant company is valued at $1 ,500, and
the Oregon statutes provide that where
timber is cut unlawfully the owner
may recover three times its value
Withee is an Eastern capitalist who has
large timber holdings in Linn county,
and is represented in the West by
Thompson A Hardy, of Eugene.
Water Soon to Flow.
Baker City Water will flow through
the 12-mile ditch of the Baker Irriga
tion company w ithin the next few days.
This statement was made by J. A
Smith, head of the company. The
water will be sent down in a small vol
ume, at first being used for sluicing in
the banks of the big reservoir which is
to'be built this summer. ;The reservoir
is to cover 240 acres and have a oh pa
city of 6,000-acre feet. The ditch will
be nsed fo carrying water for storage
in the reservoir (or the first time next
spring.
All Umatilla Is Rejoicing.
Athena Reports from all over Uma
tilla county are to the effect that the
outlook for an enormous wheat crop
this season is bright. Before the heavy
rains there was considerable anxiety
over the outlook, as in those localities
where the soil is light the prospects for
a good crop were slim, and especially
so where the wheat was spring sown
In many places it was heilevedthe crop
would be a failure outright, but every
thing is now entirely different.
Road Machinery Arrives.
Salem Two carloads of machinery
for the government experimental road
construction have arrived in this city.
There is one more car on the road
When it arrives the work will be start
ed in earnest. The engineer in charge
of the work, Mr. Loder, expects to be
employed in the construction of this
sample road at least two months.
Successor to Dr. Lane.
Sa'em Governor Chamberlain ap
pointed Dr. W B. Morse, of Salem, a
member of the state board of health, in
place of Dr. Harry Lane, resigned, and
11. U. Myer, of Salem, a member of the
barber commission.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 7273c; bluestem,
7475c; rod. 7071c; valley, 72c.
Oats No.. 1 white feed, $31.50;
gray, $31.50 per ton.
Barley Feed, $24.50 per ton; brew
ing, nominal; rolled, $2520.
Hay Vulley timothy, No. 1. $12
13 per ton; clover, $7.60(58; cheat.
$f(37; gra;n hay, $7(38; alf-tlfa, $13.
Fruits Apples. $2. 50rt?3. 60 per box ;
apricots, $1.752.00 crate; cherries,
75c$l per box; strawlierrios, da
He per pound; gooseberries, 66c per
pound.
Vegetables Beans, 35c; cabbage,
$1 1.25 per 100: green corn, 47Je
doz.; onions, 810c per dozen; peas,
5c; radishes, 10c per dozen ; rhubarb
3c per pound; spinach, 00c per box;
parsley, 25c; squash, $1 per crate;
turnips, $1(41.0 per sack; carrots, r
75c per sack; beets, S5c3$l per sack.
Onions New, I 2c per pound.
Potatoes - Fancy graded Burbanks,
6060c per hundred; ordinary, nomi
nal; new California, 2c per pound.
Butter Fancy creamery, 17(8 20c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 202l3 per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 12(3 13c
per pound; mixed chickens, 12ell2c;
broilers. loCilfic; roosters, 10c: dress
ed chickens, lS(314c; turkeys, live,
lA18c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 20(3
22c; geese, live. 9(?10c; geese, dressed,
old, 10c; young, 12c; ducks, old, llrj?
12c; young, 1213c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, 10Q12c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average beBt,
1823c; valley, coarse, 22)(323c;
fine, 24325c; mohair, choice, 2830c
per pound.
Veal Dressed, 47c pe pound.
Beef Dressed bulls. 3c. pe pound;
cowsr.4r453;c; country b or , 6oc.
Mutton Diessed fancy, 7(S 8c pound;
ordinary, 6Q(Jc; lambs, with pelt on,
8c.
Pork Dressed, 7Q9n
DRIVE 1 HEM FROM STATE.
California Declares War on Dishonest
Insurance Companies.
Sin Francisco, Juno IB. The official
of California are agreed, U Is said, that
(he Insurance companies which refuse
to meet their obligations and pay their
losses in full will not only he driven
from the state, but ruined before the
world. If the widest publication of their
methods can accomplish that I. In
snrance Commissioner 11. Marlon Well
is backed bv Attorniy General ',,,,
The attorney general expressed himself
forceful I v today regarding the proposl
Hon made bv CO companies at a meet
ing In Oakland Tuesday to pay only .5
per cent ol adjusted losses.
Tnder the Jaw of California. ho
said, "the stale insurance commission,
er can rtvoke the license of any Insur
ance company for the stale when there
is cause. Certainly the payment of
only 75 per cent of losses would be
cause. And not only would It be proof
of unsoundness ami un Illness to do
business, but It will be the plainest
evidence of dishonesty. It would be
cause for the commissioner to revoke
the state license of any company stand
ing for such a proposition, and I know
that Mr. Wolf, whose heart Is in the
situation, will Uka such action toward
companies that enter such an agree
inent. "This Is the limit of his power of
punishment under the Calfiornia law,
but he can go much further. The in
surance commissioners of all the states
stand together. Through them, Com
missioner Wolf can advertise to all the
world the dishonesty of the companies
that refuse to meet their obligations.
I am certain that he will use that pow
er against those that give him cause."
There was no change today in the
alignment of Insurance companies on
the proposition to make a general 25
per cent cut, but the companies that
voted for full payment still hope to
win over many ot those that took the
stand for a percentage settlement.
LIFE DISGUSTS DOWIE.
Aged Prophet Lay Down to Die Once,
But Could Not.
Chicago. June 15. John Alexander
Dowie, on the witness stand in Judge
Landia' cout today, tremblingly begged
for death to relieve him of his sorrows
and his defeats. He declared also that
should he die he would come back to
earth again as Elijah the Restorer.
Dowie, in the course of his lesti
mony, gave the following rub's t guide
a man who is about to die: "Io
things in order even when you go to
die. Don't make a splash and mess of
it. Go to your death couch and await
the end in calm.
The occasion for the discussion of
death came when Dowie, lighting for
the ownership of Zion City and re
claiming possession, which is now in
the hands of Wilbur U. Vollva, was
telling of his first serious illness as
part of the testimony on his present
competency to rule the city which he
built. iowie made the amazing asser
tion that after he was first stricken he
lay down to die, but awoke two hours
later, alive.
"I was never so disgusted as when I
awoke two hours later alive," he said,
"and I am still alive and disgusted."
MASSACRE AND PILLAGE.
Bomb Flung at Christian Parade in
Russia Provokes Riot.
Bialystok, Russia, June 15. A Jew
ish anarchist threw a bomb among the
Corpus Christi procession, which was
in progress here today, and killel or
wounded hund'eds of persons. In con
sequence the Christians attacked and
massacred the Jews and demolished
their shops.
The bomb was thrown from the bal
cony ot a house in Alerandrov street
A Russian clergyman named Federoff
was among those killed.
Immediately a'ter the explosion Jews
began to fire from the windows ot the
house. Soldiers surrounded it and .tired
two volleys. Meanwhile the enraged
Christians attacked the Jewish stores
in Alexandrov and S iraz streets, dem d
ishing the fixtures and w indows, throw
ing the goods into the gutters, and
beating and murdering tne Jews. M my
Jews lied to the railroad station, pur
sued by the mob, which killed several
there.
Hold-Up Must Stop.
Washington, June 15. Judge James
Wickersham, of Alaska, will be con.
firmed by the senate before adjornment.
Notice was served on Senators Nelson
and Mi Cumber today by the steering
committee that the senate w ill not per
mit them to continue their hold-up of
this nomination which it is apparent to
practically tne entire senate that Wick
ersham has been unjustly accused arid
that the light against him is not being
made in good faith. It is unusual fur
the senate to take such drastic meas
ures with its own members.
Tours of Mutinous Garrisons.
Oles-a, June 15. Generals Kaul
bars, of Odessa, and Soukhomlinoff, of
Kiev, -eiart tomorrow, accompanied by
large staffs, on tours of inspections rf
garriHons in the southern and south-
we-tein provinces, where the d saffec
' ion of I'liiiimoiiH regiments is increas
ing i'i vravity. The seriousness of the
a.H' tuaiion is enormously en-
ce.l ' military discontent,
i h in ' pendi nt testimony avers Is
u e'y political
r Scott To Be Superintendent.
WhhIiI' gton. June 15 Major Hugh
i'ii. cavalry, now in
" I afc been selected by
y 'i'i' In succeed ItrigadUr
I'lu-r ii , Mills, as superintendent
ln. hi li'arv academy, who is to be
vert charge of an army department,
probably in the Philippines.
DRAWN BV PACKERS
New Meat Inspection Hill Was
Tticlr Siiyijcstlon.
RtrKKSLNTATIVK WAS IN CIIICAUd
Member of Committee Submitted Sub.
Stitoto to Packers Changes Ac
cepted In Full.
Washington, June 10. President
Kooseveit has vet to play hi trump
card against the men In congress w ho
are endeavoring to render Im fTectivn
the lleveridgn meat Inspection auieud
meut to the agricultural bill. It I....
came known today that the house coin
mitten substitute lor the l'.i-verl.le
amendment was actually drrfwn by tli
Chicago packers and was reported by
the committee exactly as rriit stei hy
the men whom the president proposes
to place undet government Inspection.
The houe committee last Saturday
morning reached an agreement to re
port its substitute and immedlatly lit-p-resentalive
Iirtmer left for Chicsgo
with a copy of the committee bitl. Ho
spent half a day Sunday In conference,
with the leading packers of bis hoinn
city, submitting to them the substi
tute draw n by himself and Chairman
Wadsworth ami accepted by the major
ity of the house committee. The pack
ers went over this proposed legislation
very carefully, wrote in many changes
which they desired, and asked Mr. br
liner to do his host to have their ideas
carried out.
Mr. l-orimer hastened bsck to Wash
ington, submitted the pucker' Ideas t
the committee, and the majority of the
committee actually adopted every sug
gestion that was made to Mr. I.olimer,
repotting a substitute for the lleveiidgo
amendment identical w ith that w hich
was endorsed hy representatives of tho
packers In Chicago on Sunday. Thesn
facts are vouched fur by two members
of the house committee, anil they 1imv
reported them to the president.
Such evidence as this is the strongest
kind d a club for the president, and
will do more than anything else to de
feat the committee proposition and
force the house to accept something
very similar to the original lUveridge
amendment; to do otherwise, the house
would have to acknow ledge that it was
legislating at the direction of the Ix-rl
trust and few congressmen care to go
into the campaign this fall with any
such record to their credit.
WANT APPEAL TO COURTS.
Victims of Postal Fraud Orders Want
Cortelyou Curbed.
Washington, June ltl. Fffort li be
ing made to curb the power exercised
ly the I'ofttoflice department in issuing
frau I orders against mall. The house,
committee on judiciary has reported
favorably a measure granting appeal
from department fraud orders to the
courts, w .ere the petitioner shall hit
in n red the right to a full judicial
hearing on the facts and judicial judg
ment as to whether the postal laws and
regulations are he'iig violated.
Department rulings un use of (T.e
mails, especially on the point 'w hether
fraud is being commiitud, have been
the subject of rnsny sharp controversies.
The plenary powers ol tho executive
officials have been as frequently es
tablished. Accumulated disappoint
ment of those denied access to the
mails is offered in explanation of tho
present movement. Hince the removal
of Tyner, there have been no charges ot
wilful abuse of the powers of the de
partment, but the purity of purpose
conceded to olllcials has not removed
the sting entirely for those who have
suff ired.
There is little prospect that the
mesauru will be passed by the house
this session, but assurancn is had that
a sei ious effort will be made to put it
on tho statute hooks before the close of
the Fifty-ninth congress.
Ready to Reduce Navy.
Rome, June 1. In the chamber of
deputies today, Signor Hrtinialti inter
rogated the government relative to the
proposal ot the Jiritiih government at
Hie Hague conference for reduction of
armament. Foreign Minister Tittoni
replied that he was glnd of the oppor
tunity to publicly express Italy's ad-
i em on to the huimtiiitariun proposal of
Great l!rlain, adding that Italy always
was ready to co-operate sincerely with
initiatives aiming at the simultaneous
reduction of armament to avert the
dangers and disasters of war.
No Liquor in Federal Buildings.
Washington, June 1(1. The hoiiFe
committee today authorial d a favorab'e
report on the Terrell bill, prohibiting
the sale of alcoholic liquors in laaild
r gj or on premises loaned or leased by
Ihe United States government. Besides
applying to all government soldiers'
homes, this bill will prohibit the sale
of lipuors in the hotels on the govern
ment reservations at Old Point Com
fort, Vu., and Hot Springs, Ark., ami
in several hotels in Yellowstone Park,
Denied to the Women.
Helena, Mont., June 10. Holding
that upon constitutional grounds wo
men cunnot hold notarial commissions
in this state, Governor Toole today re
voked all outstanding commissions held
by women, seven in all, and denied aa
many applications.