DECISION REVERSED
Supreme Court Orders New Trial
lor Williamson.
JUDGE ADVISED JURY WRONGLY
Law Does Not Require Oath Denyirg
Agreement to bell When M ak
ing Final Proof.
Washington, Jan. 7.— Because the
judge before whom ex-Kepresentative
Williamson was tried erred in his in
structlons to the jury, the judgment of
the lower oourt was yesterday reversed
by the United States Supreme oourt
and the case remanded for retrial
That the Indictment was correct, that
the admission of evidence was in ac
cordance with law and that the rulings
of the court were right and proper is
»Dinned, but because the trial judge
erred in admitting certain testimony
with regard to final proof and because
he erroneously instructed the jury with
regard to this tame evidence, the whole
case must again go to trial or the in
dictment must be quashed.
The Supreme court construes the
timber and stone act specifically to re
quire entrymen, at the time of making
application for land, to submit an affi-
davit of good faith, showing that they
have no agreement, actual or implied,
to sell the land upon acquiring title,
but there iB no requirement that such
an affidavit shall Ire made when final
proof is submitted. The indictment of
Williamson made specific reference to
the affidavit required by law, and did
not mention the similar affidavit which
is exacted by the land office regulations
at the time of final proof. Yet evidence
was admitted to show that various en-
trymen had committed perjury in mak
ing such affidavits with their final
proof, and the judge, in his instructions
to the jury, specifically informed it that
it could return a verdict of guilty if sat
isfied that the evidence showed such
perjury had been committed at the
time of making final proof.
The ad
mission of that evidence and the in
structions relating thereto proved the
undoing of the caseagainst Williamson.
R A IL R O A D S T A K E M E D IC IN E .
Rate Law Accepted With Good Grace
by Nearly All.
Washington, Jan. 7.— More signifi
cant and important, perhaps, than any
other statement in the twenty-first an
nual report of the Interstate Commerce
commission, which was transmitted
today to congress, is that relating to
the attitude of railway officials toward
the new railroad law. In a discussion
o f the operation of the act, the commis
sion says:
“ By railway managers, almost with
out exception, the amended law has
been accepted ¡ d good faith, and they
exhibit, for the most part, a sincere
and earneet disposition to conform
their methods to its requirements.’ ’
The commission adds that it was not
expected that reforms could be brought
about without difficulty or delay, but it
is unquestionably the fact that great
progress lias been made, and that fur
ther improvement is clearly assured.
T o a gratifying extent there has been
adjustment of rates and of “ abuses’ ’
by the carriers themselves. Methods
and usages of one sort and another
which operated to individual advantage
have been voluntarily stopped and it is
not too much to say that there is now a
freedom from forbidden discriminations
which is actual and general to a degree
never before approached. As this pro
cess goes on, as special privileges dis
appear and favoritism ceases to be even
suspected, the indirect but not less cer
tain benefits of the law w ill become
more and more apparent.
Since the new rate became effective
on October 24, 1906, the commisssion
has granted relief in the form of cor
rective orders in many cases. Upon
November 4, 1907, the commission had
rendered decisions in 105 contested
cases. In 45 of these orders were made
against the defendant carriers; in 45
the complaints wore dismissed.
Give Back Indian Land.
Washington, Jan. 7.— Robert L.
Owen, United States senator from the
new state of Oklahoma, has been under
investigation by the Interior depart
ment. As a result, Secretary Garfield
proposes to institute a suit in the Fed
eral courts to cancel certain deeds held
by the senator in violation, it is al
leged, of the law. Mr. Garfield is alive
to the situation.
Senator Owen has
been greatly concerned over the inves
tigation made by the Interior depart
ment and will fight to keep the land.
He is wealthy and can afford the fight.
Favors Local Option Law.
Columbus, 0-, Jan. 7.— The message
of Governor Harris was read to the leg
islature yesterday afternoon. The gov
ernor nrges the enactment of a bill pro
viding for general primary elections
with the Australian ballot system;
placing of telephone companies under
supervision of the state railroad com
mission, with power to regulate rate»,
and commends to the favorable consid
eration of the assembly the adoption of
county local option.
From Japan to Portland.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 7.— According
to advices by the steamship Empress of
China today, a leading paper of Tokio
says the Osaka Shoshen Kayasha is
preparing to open a steamship line be
tween Portland, Or., and Japan and
China.
F E E L IN G IS B I T T E R .
R U E F G O E S T O J A IL .
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DOINGS OF THE SIXTIETH CONGRESS
Leaves Sumptuous Quarters for a
Felon's Cell.
San Francisco. Jan. 6.— Quarters
vere arranged at the county jail today
or Abe Ruef, the deposed boss of San
Francisco, who, sinoe his arrest eight
nontliB ago, has occupied a suite of
„crus In a private house under a spec-
al guard.
Sheriff O’ Neil, the Schmitz politician,
roes out of office on January 8, and his
place w ill be taken by Ijirry Dolan,
chosen at the last election.
Judge
Dunne, who refused to place Ruef in
the county jail while O’ Neil was sheriff
or fear that O’ N eil would allow the
prisoner to escape, has ordered that
Ruef be transferred from his parlor
prison a« soon as Dolan assumes office.
Ruef w ill join the assemblage of dis
tinguished citizens who have moved
from their homes on the heights to the
branch jail. Ruef will occupy a cell
uear that in which ex-Mayor Schmitz
reposes. He will have as neighbors
Louis Glass, the millionaire manager
of the Pacific States Telephone com
pany, who was convicted of bribery; J.
Dalzell Brown, Walter J. Bartnett
and James Treadwell, the banker whose
arrest followed the exposures of the rot
tenness of the California Safe Deposit
<4 Trust company, and George D. Col
lins, the tricky attorney who was
brought back from Canada to face
charges of b'gamy and perury.
Ruef has been allotted to order his
meals as desired and has been living on
the beet in the land. He is far more
tban a mill.onaire, and he has been al
lowed a great deal of liberty as a result
of the form of his imprisonment.
All
this will now be changed.
Just what
effect this will have on Ruef’s refusal
to testify without immunity remains to
be seen. I t is thought that a good taste
of real prison life may cause Ruef to
later his views.
F IN E F O R E X P R E S S
C O M P A N IE S
Neglected to File Data Asked for by
Railroad Commission.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 6.— Alleging that
the United States, the Adams and the
American Exprefb companies had failed
to file the amoants of the salaries of
the officers and the assets and liabilities
of the concerns with the Nebraska State
Railway commission, County Attorney
Tyrrell today filed a penal suit in the
County court, asking that the fine pro
vided by the statute be imposed.
That the three express companies
neglected to file the data demanded by
the commission and January 1 was set
as the final date for the appearance of
the complete reports.
The railway
commission notified Attorney General
Thompson of the delinquency and he
directed County Attorney Tyrrell to be
gin proceedings.
The railroad commission law passed
by the last session of the legislature
prescribes a penalty of from $500 to
$5,000 for refusing to furnish the in
formation demanded by the commis
sion. The laws direct that service be
made upon the local agents of the cor
porations charged with violating the
laws.
P E T T IB O N E FR EE.
Ju ry
Acquits Him of Complicity In
Steunenberg M urder.
Boise, Jan. 6.— The end of the prose
cution of the men charged with the
murder of ex-governor Frank Steunen
berg with the exception of the cases cf
Harry Orchard and Jack Simpkins,
came Saturday with the acquittal of
George Pettibone.
Charles H. Moyer,
president of the Western Federation of
Mineis, was formally released at 4
o’clock, and w ill return with Pettibone
in a few days to Denver.
The case of Orchard, the self-con
fessed assassin of Steunenberg, is in
the hands of Prosecuting Attorney Van
Duyn, of Canyon county. No state
ment as to the future procedure in that
case has been made, but it will be
called during the next term of court
at Caldwell, when it will probably be
finally disposed of.
Simpkins, a member of the executive
board of the Western Federation of
Miners, who is charged with compli
city in the crime, is a fugitive from
justice and the charge against him w ill
stand.
Ask Carnegie to Help,
New York, Jan. 6.— An attempt to
interest Andrew Carnegie in modern
tenements in New York is one of the
results of the rent strike which has
been on for several days. It has been
proposed that the aity purchase a block
or two in the thickly congested East
Side and there build modern tenements
which would be rented at a low price.
There seems to be no prospect of the
city being able to do this, at present at
least, so leaders in the strike move
ment w ill try to get Mr. Carnegie to
erect these buildings.
No N ew t o f Mount Royal.
St. John, N. B., Jan. 6.— Although
it is four weeks since the Canadian
Pacific steamer Mount Royal sailed
from Antwerp for this port with 304
mmigrants and a crew of more than
100, and nothing has been heard of her
in that time, the officials of the line
have not abandoned hope that she is
still afloat. They are extremely anx
ious, nevertheless, and fear that the
vessel is drifting about the Atlantic in
practically a helpless condition.
Must Not Reduce Rates.
Sioux Falls, Jan. 6.— Judge Garland,
of the Federal court, today Issued a
temporary injunction restraining the
South Dakota Railway
commission
from reducing passenger rates from $
to 2)4 cents per mile.
Wednesday, January 8
Wa.-hington, Jan. 8.— In the pres
ence of the entire house, Williams, of
Mississippi, and De Armond, of Mis
souri, whose physical encounter on the
floor just before the Christmas adjourn
ment attracted general attention, today
engaged in an exchange of amenities
which was generally accepted as a pub
lic announcement of their respective
intentions not to permit their personal
differences to interfere with the cour
teous discharge of their publio duties.
The incident occurred in connection
with an effort by Dalzell, of the com
mittee on rules, to get the house to
agree to a rule giving right-of-way to
the bill authoriing the codification and
amendment of the penal laws of the
United States and lim iting general de
bate to four hours. Several Democratic
members expressed the opinion that
the rule was a scheme to sidetrack
other legislation.
Dalzell, however,
refuted this.
The rule was passed by an over
whelming majority, despite efforts of
DeArmond and seven adherents to se
cure the yeas and nayB, and the house
at once proceeded to the consideration
and reading of the bill. A t the con
clusion of the reading, which consumed
two hours, the bill was laid aside and
the house again took up the resolution
distributing the president’ s message Ip
the several committees, in order to
permit Gaines, of Tennessee, to address
the house in favor of an appropriation
for the Hermitage, the home of Gene
ral Andffew Jackson, near Nashville,
Term.
station for the work of taking the next
census, the 4,000 or more additional
employes needed be appointed only
after competitive examinations under
the rubs of the C ivil Service commis
sion, and strongly denounced the “ pat
ronage system” of making the appoint
ments, saying that the Civil Service
commlsssiaon was fully capable of se
curing a most efficient force.
The senate was in session only four
minutes trday, adjourning upon the
adoption of resolutions in respect to the
death of the late Senator Mallory, of
Florida.
TR U S T OW NS SEN A TE.
Vancouver le Aroused by Latest At
tack of Japanese.
Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 3.— W hile at
no stage did the fight between the
three city firemen and the Japanese
reach anything like the dimensions of
the September riots, the Incident has
revived the bitterest feeling. After all
the explanations and apologies that
have^been made, both civic and govern
mental, citizens of Vancouver did not
believe it possible that an attack such
as occurred could he made.
A ll three victims are still alive,
though at least two are disfiguied for
life. Young Frost, a fine-looking ath
lete, had his nose sliced off by one of
the sword-like knives of the Japanese.
The other men, though fearfully in
jured. are recovering. McDonald was
removed to his home, while Anderson
is still in the hospital with Frost.
The most serions feature in the pop
ular view is that the Japanese section
is practically an armed camp against
the whites of Vancouver. Two thou
sand men live together there, ready to
murder any one who makes the slight
est disturbance. The present instance
is regarded as particularly flagrant, be
cause the young men were in uniform,
with firemen’s caps, and for all they
knew the Japs might have been as
saulting policemen.
The truth is simply being forced
home to the entire city that the Jap
anese here are barbarians enough to
murder on the slightest provocation.
Vancouver has been a little ashamed of
herself Bince the night of the Septem
ber riots, but the frightful attack is
just now beiDg regarded in some quart
ers as showing complete justification.
No Hope o f Ta riff Reduction by the
Present Congress.
Washington, Jan. 4.— After consid
ering the matter from all sides, the ad
ministration has about reached the con
clusion not to press for Philippine tar
iff legislation at the present session of
congress.
The cards have been too
well stacked against the administra
tion in the senate. The sugar inter
ests are too thoroughly entrenched
there on the one hand, and the Demo
crats, for political reasons, have shown
their intention of refusing to assist the
Republicans who are friendly to the
reduced schedules project, despite their
general revision and free trade protest
ations. The administration as a whole
is pretty well convinced that a losing
fight this winter would not help mat
ters a year or so later, and the better
M A Y S U E H A R R IM A N .
policy, it is believed, is to reserve am
munition until it will count for actual Bonaparte Soon to Issue Statement
Tuesday, January 7.
on Railroad M erger.
Washington, Jan. 7.— Senator Aid- results.
rich today introduced his currency bill,
Washington, Jan. 3.— “ Within a
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days. He had the b ill read to the sen
justice w ill issue a statement regarding
General
Funston
Advises
Consolida
ate and announced that the committee
the ownership by th« Union Pacific of
would be glad to consider with it all
tion for Sake o f Economy.
stock of the Southern Pacific,’ ’ said A t
bills that senators might desire to in
“ It had
Washington, Jan. 34.—The War de torney General Bonaparte.
troduce. He assured Culberson that partment has been in correspondence been contemplated to issue the state
his resolution would receive attention. by telegraph with General Funston in ment earlier, but the absence in Eur
Clark, of Georgia, announced that he San Francisco, relative to the disposi ope of special counsel employed by the
proposed to have a vote in the senate tion of the troops at Goldfield in con government lias caused the delay.”
to test the sentiment of that body on formity with the president’s intentions
W hile the attorney general w ill not
his resolution favoring a Federal law to to maintain the force there, pending admit at this time that the statement
uphold states in their effoits to make the meeting of the legislature of Ne will be the announcement of proceed
effective prohibition within their bor vada.
ings against the Union Pacific for vio
ders. He wanted the senate to pass
General Funston intended a reduc lation of the law prohibiting restraint
his resolution instructing the commit tion in the number of troops at the of trade, there is excellent authority
tee on judiciary to bring in a b ill to ac mining camp, but the War department for the statement that it w ill be.
The
complish this purpose, but upon ob has decided to retain there all of the department of justice, according to one
jection by Nelson the resolution was present force, numbering 283 men. In of its high officials, has reached the
allowed to go over until the next meet the interest, however, of simplicity, conclusion arrived at by the Interstate
ing.
and to avoid the maintenance of a con Commerce commission that the control
A t 1:40 the senate adjourned until siderable number of officers who were which the Union Pacific has obtained
next Thursday to permit more work by not needed, it has instructed General over the Southern Pacific by the pur
committees.
Funston to consolidate the companies chase of stock is in violation of the law
The president today sent in the nom into two.
and amounts in substance to the merg
ination of Christian Schuebel to be dis
ing of two competing railways.
trict attorney for Oregon. His sole en
Not only will the government pro
Uncle 8am Going Behind.
dorser was Senator Bourne, the other
Washington, Jan. 3. — The forth ceed for a dissolution of the merger and
three members of the Oregon delegation
a restoration of the competition which
supporting George G. Bingham, of coming reports of the government’ s re prevailed before the Union Pacifio
Salem.
There may be a fight over ceipts and expenditures for the month bonght Southern Pacific stock, but the
ending Dec. 31 w ill show a decrease in
Schuebel’ s confirmation.
the receipts as compared with Decem courts will be asked, it is stated by an
official of the department, to break up
Washington, Jan. 7.— The resolution ber last year of $8,529,152 and an in
the combine under which the two rail
referring the president’s message to the crease in expenditures of $9,381,414, roads are alleged to operate their steam
several committees furnished the occa making the net loss for the year $17,-
ships.
sion in the house of representatives to 910,566. The decrease in receipts from
ddy for a number of addresses, mostly customs is $6,895,959; from internal
N I G H T R ID ER S F IR E A T O W N .
Miscellaneous
by members on the Democratic side. revenue, $2,768,645.
These covered a variety of subjects, but receipts increase $1,135,452. Increases
those that attracted special attention of expenditures are: C ivil and miscel Burns Tobacco Warehouses In Rus
sellville and Wounds Men.
were by Sheppard, of Texas, and W il- laneous. $3,000,000; war, $1,500,000;
navy, $4,000,000; pensions, $2,400,-
let of New York.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 3.— A long
000;
public
works,
increase
from
$4,-
The former not only made a plea for
distance telephone message to the
the restoration of the legend “ In God 843,711 to $8,899,000.
American from Russellville, K y., says
We Trust” on American coins, but dis
that night riders visited that town at
Frisco Postmaster Will Lose.
cussed the cruise of the American bat
12:45 o’clock this morning.
The to
tleship fleet and referred to a possible
Washington, Jan. 9— The nomina bacco warehouse of H. G. W o rk * Com
conflict with Japan.
tion of Arthur Fisk to be postmaster at pany and the American 8nuff company
W illet placed all the blame for the San Francisco will not go to the senate were dynamited and burned.
The
recent financial panic on President today, unless the president changes his planing mil) of Roberts A Brown and
Roosevelt, whom he denounced in se mind. Postmaster General Meyer said three other smaller houses were more
vere verms. He charged the president he was sure the president not intend to or less damaged.
with not being a sensible man and with reappoint Fisk today.
Congressman
Many shots were fired, and !t is re
having turned on the gas and not the Kahn said that he had positive inform ported that two men, one of them a
ight, and with going up and down the ation that charges against Fisk for vio commercial traveler, were wounded.
ountry condemning and striking with lation of the postal regulations had
Kussellviile is a town of about 4,000
the big stick the heads of great indus been filed last May and that these inhabitants and it is the county seat of
trial interests.
charges had not been investigated by Logan county, which borders on the
The resolution was under considera the postoffice inspectcrs for some un Tennessee line. It is in the heart of
tion when the house adjourned until known reason
the dark tobacco district and but one
tomoerrow.
county, Todd county, separates It from
Decrease in Arm y.
Christian and Trigg counties, the scene
Congress Reconvenes.
Washington, Jan. 8.— Secretary Taft of the recent depredations in and
Washington, Jan. 6.— With its or is a strong advocate of increased pay around Hopkinsville.
Further details
ganization completed, the house of rep for the army, and his annual report, were not obtainable at 3 o’clock this
resentatives reconvened at noon today. just sent to congress, completely dis morning.
Almost the full quorum of representa pels any doubt that may exist as to the
tives was present. The galleries were disposition. The report shows rapid
Smelters Are Closed Down.
unusually well file d .
After a half decrease in the strength of the regular
Helena, Mont., Jan. 3.— The Am eri
hour’s session the house adjourned army in recent years (the loss last year can Smelting A Refining company, it is
until tomorrow out of respect for the being 4,428 men) and the pressing authoratively announced here tonight,
memory of the late Senator Mallory, need of officers to replace those now on will shortly close down several of its
of Florida.
detailed on recruiting duty as military smelting plants because ot the depres
In a message to the house today, instructors in educational institutions.
sion in the lead market. A t the East
President Roosevelt urged that in prep-
Helena plant today the company reduc
ed Its force 106 men and tomorrow a 10
New Chief Chosen.
Argue Over Giving Rebates.
Washington Jan. 4.— Captain John per cent reduction in wages will be
Washington, January 9.— The Su E lliott Pillsbury, was today selected for posted for the 250 men who are retain
preme court today heard arguments in chief of the bureau of navigation, Navy ed. Manager Frank M. Smith, of the
the government criminal prosecution of department, after a conference held local plant, received notice several days
the Great Northern Railway company by the president with him and Secre ago from officials of the company that
on the charge of violating the Elkins tary Metcalf. The selection is at best the smelter would be closed.
law by granting rebates on which the only temporary, unless the president
Rebel Against Zelaya.
company was fined $5,000.
The com should decide again to commission a
pany was represented by W illiam R. retired officer as chief of the bureau«
Panama, Jan. 3.— Advices from Bo
Bigg, of St. Paul, and the government Captain Pillsbury must retire on ac ras del Torres say that passengers arriv
by Attorney General Bonaparte.
The count of age December 15 next.
ing there from Bluefields, Nicaragua,
defense proceeds on the theory that the
report that the Mosquito Indians have
first section of the Elkins law, impos
risen against the government of Presi
C o u rt Hits Roosevelt.
ing fines for rebates, was repealed by
Washington, Jan. 8. — President dent Zelaya, who is accused by them of
the Hepburn act.
Roosevelt’s big stick received a dent being responsible for the death of their
today when the United States Supreme chief. Conditions were considered so
8hip Coal to Islands.
court declared unconstitutional the em serious by I he commander of the British
Washington, Jan. 9.— Sixty thousand ploy A ’ liabilitity act passed by con man-of-war cruising in Nicaraguan
tone of coal have been sent to Honolulu gress in 1906 at the request of the pres waters that blnejackets were landed to
protect the interests of foreigners.
by the equipment bureau of the Navy ident.
department, and by April there are to
New Ships Built In IB07.
Grow th of New Y ork Values.
be 100,000 tons at Manila. The ship
ments have been made in anticipation
Washington, .$an. 4.— During the
New York, Jan. 3.— Controller Metz,
of the possibility of Rear Admiral calendar year 1907 the bureau of navi in a review yesterday on the growth of
Evans’ battleship fleet returning to gation reports 1,056 vessels of 502.508 the city in the ten years since consoli
the Atlantic side by way of the Asiatic gross tons built and specifically num dation said that the assessed valuations
station. I f it is not needed fot that bered in the United Sta'ea, compared of real estate owned by the people had
purpose the coal w ill be used from time with 1,045 vessels of 393,291 tons in advanced from $2,532,416,819 in 1898
to time by American men-of-war.
1906.
to $6,240,486,602 in 1907.
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BIG LINER MISSING
Mount Royal With 400 Passen
gers Long Overdue.
OWNERS ABANDON ALL HOPE
Sailed December 7
From
Antwerp
for St. Jo h n . N . B , and Not
Heard From Since.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 4.— A private
dispatch from Toronto says the C. P.
R. has given up hope for the steamer
Mount Royal overdue lrom Antwerp
with 400 passengers.
No W ord Received.
8t. John, N. B., Jan. 4.— No word
lias yet been received here of the Cana
dian Pacific lino Bteamer Mount Royal,
which left Antwerp on December 7 for
St. John, having on board 304 immi
grants, mostly Italians and Jews, be
sides a crew numbering more than 100
men.
The Canadian Pacific officials in this
city, while expressing anxiety regard
ing the vessel, stated today that they
believed the steamer probably had met
with some accident to her machinery
which had caused her to drift far ont
of her course, and that she would be
heard from in dae time at some other
port.
May Have Gone to Rescue.
London, Jan. 4.— The non-arrival of
the Allan line steamship Hungarian,
which sailed from Greenock, Scotland,
December 14, and is now a week over
due at Portland, Me., leads shipping
men to believe that she has fallen in
with the Canadsn Pacific liner Mount
Royal, which is now long overdue st8 t.
John, N. B.
B O Y C O T T T H E E X P O S IT IO N .
Seattle Unions Disgruntled at Action
o f Committee.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 4.— At a meet
ing of the Building Trades council last
night, the assembly voted to call npon
labor organizations everywhere in the
country to lend support to opposition
to the 1909 fair.
Action was taken
after the executive committee of the
exposition had refused to incorporate in
the building contracts a clause specify
ing that only union men be employed.
J. E. Chi I berg, president of the
Aiaaka-Yukon-Pacific exposition, says:
“ After considering the demands of
the union, the executive committee de
cided it could not discriminate. Money
subscribed for the exposition came from
all people. We do not object to union
nor union men.
We refuse to play
favorites.”
By the declaration of the open-shop
policy, notices of which went into ef
fect yesterday, causing the walking out
of 160 employes in the metal works ot
this city, Seattle is facing a general
strike which means that at least 5,000
men w ill become Involved, and at least
$1,000,000 in building w ill be retarded
before a settlement is reached.
IN F L U X O F J A P S .
Fifteen
Hundred Com ing to Vancou
ver From Honolulu.
Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 4.— The un
explained
arrival
of 300 Japan
ese in Vancouver yesterday and the
prospect of an influx of another 1,200
within the next month from Honolulu
are the features of the Oriental situa
tion in Vancouver. Why the 300 Jape
came to Vancouver yesterday is a mys
tery. A ll the morning they poured in
to town from the roast logging camps,
and some even from the American side
of-the boundary line.
The hoarding
house keepers of Japtown had a bay
time honeing them. Last night there
was the usual crop of rumors that they
came in view of possible trouble, and
officers of the Asiatic Exclusion league
arer much perturbed over the event.
Yesterday it was announced that at
least 1,000 Japaneee would come from
Hawaii daring the next three weeks.
Cost of New Year Celebration.
New York, Jan. 4.— Men who are
fond of figures say that New York’s
New Year celebration coat $1,750,000.
At one restaurant that night receipts
were over $20,000, 2,000 quarts of
champagne being drunk.
It Is esti
mated that the diners around town
made away with 42,000 quarts ol cham
pagne and ( 6,000 quarto ol claret, not
to mention the barrels of other drink
ables consumed.
Souvenir hunters
were ont in force and every hotel and
restaurant lost great quantities of glass
and other ware.
Way to Prolong Life.
Chicago, Jan. 4.— Dr. J. C. Siebel,
a physician of this city, annonneed to
day before the American Association
for the Advancement of Science that
he has discovered a method of generat
ing energy within the hnman body. He
asserted that electricity stored in the
bnman body can he released and made
to do the work of prolongation of life
through the additional vitality supplied
to the hnman M dy working as its own
electrical generator.
All L o tt Except Three
City of Mexico, Jan. 4.— Ramon
Portae, second officer of the steamer
ldero, has arrived at Vera Crus and re
ported that the vessel sank in a storm
on the night of December 2, and all on
board were lost except three.