SCHMITZ WINS OUT
Supreme Court Finds Fatal De­
tects In Indictment.
HUFF’S PLEA ALSO NULLIFIED
S evan J u d g e s U n a n im o u s in
H o ld in g
T h a t F a c ts S ta te d D o ft o t
C o n s titu te C rim e .
San Francisco, March 10.— The Su­
preme court yesterday handed down a
decision denying the application of the
prosecution in the San Francisco brib-
ery g ra lt cases for a rehearing alter a
decision by the District court of Ap­
licáis in the case of ex-Mayor Eugene
E. Schmitz, convicted of extortion in
the French restaurant cases. Without
a dissenting vote among the seven
justices, the court sustained the appel­
late court in its decision that the in­
dictment upon which Schmitz was con­
victed was defective in that it did not
aver (that Schmitz was mayor; that
Ruef, hia co-defendant, was a political
boss practically in control if the city;
that as such they were in a position to
exercise power and undue influence
over the policecommissioners, and that
it did not show that Schmitz resoited
to uplawful means in threatening to
have liqnor licenses withheld.
“ The decision demonstrates,” said
ex-Mayor Schimtz. “ that the higheet
court in the state believes what I have
always claimed, that I was removed
from office and railroaded to prison.”
“ The contention of the respondent
that the appeal
was
prematurely
taken,” says the Supreme court, "has
no merit. The court Is unanimous in
the opinion that the District court of
Appeals was correct in its conclusion
that the indictment was insufficient in
that it did not show that the injury to
the property threatened by the defend­
ant was an ‘ unlawful injury.’ ”
This decision practically nullifies
Rnef's plea ol guilty to the same charge,
invalidates the remaining four extor­
tion indictments against the ex-mayor
and Ruef, and will enable Schmitz to
gain his liberty on bail after eight
months’ confinement in the county jail.
G R E A T F E A T O F W IR E L E S S .
M e ss a g e F ro m F le e t in P a c .fic Is Re­
ceived a t P ensa cola.
Washington, March 10.— About the
last place that the Navy department
expected to hear from the Atlantic bat­
tleship flotilla for at least six months
was on the Atlantic coast, yet this is
what iiappened. The Navy department
today received a telegraphic message
from its wireless station at Pensacola,
which had been in direct communica­
tion with the hattleehip fleet, a most
remarkable performance, considering
that the wireless Impulses were obliged
to traverse the Gulf of Mexico, then
cross overland the state of Texas, part
of Mexico, and again cross several hun­
dred miles of ocean.
An additional dispatch received at
Pensacola from Admiral Thomas, dated
on board the Minnesota at 8 o’clock
last night, is as follows:
“ The position of the fleet at this
moment is latitude 14.37 north, longi­
tude 102.01 west.”
F L E E T T A _ K S T O M A R E IS L A N D .
W ire le s s C o m m u n ic a tio n a t
o f 2 6 0 0 M ile s .
D is ta n c e
San Francisco, March 10.— The bat
tleship fleet came into direct communi­
cation with Mare Island yesterday, the
meesage being the first this coast lias
received Irom the warships. Commun­
ication was had by wireless for a dis­
tance of 2,600 miles, the meesage being
from the battleship Maine of Evans’
fleet. Yesterday morning the operator
at the wireless station at Mare Island,
in responding to the call of his instru­
ment, was surprised to discover be was
in direct communication with the
Maine. Though 2,600 miles away, the
message was clear.
Communication
was soon cut off on account of other
stations interrupting.
R E V I8 IO N A S S U R E D
E x tra
C A U G H T IN T R A P
S ession to B e C a lle d to
O v e r T a r iff.
Go
Washington, March 9.— Plana for the
revision of the tariff have been agreed
upon by the Republican leaders, in
eluding Roosevelt, Bpeakei Cannon,
Heiirtor Beveridge and Representatives
Payne, Dalzell and Sherman, the three
latter being members of the house ways
and means committee, who will frame
the new law.
An extra session of congress will be
called immediately after the expiration
of the present congress next spring and
a bill will be drafted reducing s >me of
the high schedules rn steel and iron
and equalizing others.
It the Demo­
crats are successful in the national elec­
tion next fall, President Roosevelt will
call comress immediately after the re­
sult is kno vn, to that the tariff can be
revised by the Republicans.
Senati r Beveridge, who presented a
measure providing fur a tariff commis­
sion, had a conlerenoe with the presi­
dent today. I-ater he conferred with
Speaker Cannon and Representative
Payne, DalzelI and Sherman. Itdevel-
oped that the commission plan is not
acceptable, and it was agreed that a
reso'ution shall he adopted by the pres­
ent congress directing the secretaries of
state, treasury, agriculture, commerce
and labor and director of the censns to
gather such data as w ill be useful to
congress in revising the tariff.
Representative Sherman, with the
approval of Speaker Cannon, ia circu­
lating a petition among members of the
house which requests the ways and
means committee to eit during the sum­
mer recess for the purpose of gathering
data to aid the members in framing a
new tariff law.
Many signatures have
already been procured and the commit­
tee will sit.
D E M A N D S ARE M A D E .
J a p a n 's M in is te r P re s a n te
to C h in a .
U ltim a tu m
D eath
W edn esoay, M a i ch It.
Washington, March 11.— President
Roosevelt today, in a special message
to the senate, calls attention to the
fact that the senate committee has
found that the charges of participation
iu the Brownsville riot, which caused
him to dismiss companies B, C and D
of the Twenty-fifth infantry, were sub­
stantiated, and asks the senate to para
a special law extending for one year the
time within which those who establish
their innocene may be reinstated. Such
a bill will be introduced.
Senator lleyburn today secured the
passage through the senate of his bill
providing for the survey of all publio
land, reserved and unreserved, in Ida­
ho, Oregon, Montana and California.
Under the present system, the govern­
ment only surveys land upon request cf
actual settlen. Mr. Heyburn says this
system tends to retard development,
and also retards surveys, as eettlers
don’ t like to go on unsurveyed land.
Washington, March 11.— Determined
and persistent assaults on the poetoffice
appropriation bill in the house today
resulted in amplification of that meas­
ure in many important parts, despite
the protests of Chairman Overstreet and
the committee.
The letter carriers finally won their
long fight for $1,200 salariee, when an
amendment by Goebel, of Uhio, grant­
ing the same was adopted.
The house
also allowed a » additional $25,000 for
clerkB in third-class offices where the
salaries of the postmaster range from
$1,200, and $15,000 additional lor con­
tracts stations.
Altogether the appropriations carried
by the bill were increased to the extent
of $1,355,000.
T u e sd a y, M a rc h 10.
Pekin, March 9.— Japan’ s ultimatum
in the case of the Japanese steamship
Tatsu Mara was presented to the head
of the Chinese Foreign board today, and
the board has the matter under consid­
érât ion.
The Tatsu Maru was seized off Macao
on February 7 by Chinese custom’s
cruisers on the charge that her cargo of
arms and ammunition was intended for
Chinese revolutionists, although con­
signed to a merchant of that place. The
steamer is now being held at Wham­
poa. on the Canton river.
The irreducible minimum of the
Japanese claims is the restoration of
the steamer, as well as of her cargo,
and L e payment of a full indemnity.
Ac*ion Is demanded within a “ reasona­
ble lim e.” In caee of default or post­
ponement, Japan, according to the
terms of her ultimatum, w ill “ take
immediate action.”
Japan expects a reply by tomorrow.
She will not tolerate China’ s offer to
Investigate the case. She insists upon
an apoh gy for the hauling down of the
Japanese flag on tire Tatsu Mara and
she w ill not accept mediation, affirm­
ing that China ia in error and that the
facts are incontrovertible.
Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minis­
ter to China, in delivering the ultima­
tum, made reference to Japan’s sj in­
put hy- for China in the matter ol con-
traltand traffic in arms and explained
that China could not expect mediation
so long as she did not admit the parti­
cipation of the Portuguese.
FO UND.
C itiz e n s ' C o m m itte A u th o riz e s
tio n a l E x p e n d itu re s .
A d d i­
San Francisco, March 9.— The bac­
teriological reports of the Federal
health officers state that infected rats
were found in nearly every district of
the city last week, only the Sunset and
Richmond districts being immune. The
greateet percentage of infection is re­
ported from the North Beach district
and in the Western addition. In all
buildings where infected rate were
found, walls and floors were opined,
and the places thoronghiy fumigated.
The citirens’ health committee has au­
thorized the Federal health officers to
employ additional men, no lim it being
placed on the number. New gangs will
be organized and an effort made to ex­
terminate all the rats in the city within
the next 30 days.
B onu s f o r E ach C h ild .
Cleveland, O., March 6.— Twenty-
four hours after the disaster whioh
caused the death of approximately one-
v ews on the subject.
third of the school children of Collln-
Mr. Meyer stated that, while the | wood, the death roll numbers 164. Of
Knox bill wsa drawn in hie depart­ these 1J7 had been identified at the
ment, he waa not wedded to that meas­ | I-ake Shore morgue, while 27 bodies
ure an t was very ready to approve remain there in a condition of mutila­
amendments or proviskn to be taken tion probably forever beyond recogni­
from botn the Burkett and Carter bills. tion.
The committee and posmaster general
The work of digging in the ruina of
were agieed upon the plan lor placing the lak e View achool house in further
the funds to be secured by the postal search for remnants of children atilt
savings hanks in the various national missing began with the break of day.
banks of the country at a rate of inter­ Dawn found mothers and fathers wait­
est large enough to pay depositors 2 per ing about the ruined building, after
cent and to defray all attendant ex­ having spent the night in an effort to
penses.
find their children’s remaina|in the ex­
temporized morgue. Little was brought
Washington, March 7.— A part of forth during the day that would satisfy
the session today of the honee waa de­ their longings, and it was believed last
voted to the consideration of private night that all the bodies that can be
claim bills. The remainder of the day removed from the ruins have been tak­
was given over to enlogiee of the late en out.
Representative Slemp, of Virginia.
The coroner’ s inquest was begun yes­
terday, when a number of witnesses
F rid a y , M a rc h 6 .
were examined without, however, de­
Washington, March 6.— The army veloping any testimony that was be­
pay bill was passed by the senate to­ yond mere opinion.
An investigation
day. The bill provides for army offi­ conducted by tbe Collinwood Bchool
cers a graded increase of pay ranging hoard, which lasted tar into the night,
from 5 per oent for lieutenant generals brought forth these facts:
to 20 per cent for junior officers. It
That one of the inner doors at the
also provides that “ the average | »y of West entrance of the school wai closed
enlisted men of the army, as now estab­ and fastened, while children were pil­
lished, be increased 40 per cent ’ ’ This ing up against it in the passage; that
amendment, suggested by Culberson, tbe partitions in the vestibule narrow­
of Texas, takes away the discretion of ed the exit by at least three feet; that
the president in fixing the pay of sol­ the flames came first from a closet be­
diers
low tbe stairway at the East entrance;
Scott read a letter from a banker the closet contained lime and sawdust;
who stated that army officers pay 3 per three little girls had been found hiding
cent interest per month to have their in play in the closet earlier in the
salaries discounted because tbelr in­ morning; there was bat one fire escape
comes are go small.
and its use was never taught as a part
An amendment waa offered by Ba­ of the fire drill.
con, and adopted, giving six months'
pay to families of officers and enlisted
S ID E O F R A IL R O A D 8 .
men npon their death.
Washington, March 10.— The senate
today ratified and made public six of
the 13 treaties negotiated at the inter-
nation) conference at The Hague. The
conventions adopted are those to which
no opposition had been made.
The final reports of the committee on
military affairs, in relation to the
Brownaville affair, w ill be made to the
senate tomorrow. Senator Warner w ill
present the report of the majority of
the committee sustaining the action of
the president in discharging without
honor a battalion of the Twenty-fifth
infantry on the ground that the negro
soldiers had done the shooting.
Washington, March 6.— The house
today |>aaaed the bill providing for the
payment to the Roman Catholic arch­
bishop nf Manila $403,000 (er damage
done to church property during the
Spanish war and the subeequent P h il­
ippine insurrection. The bill was de­
bated for several hours.
The house today unanimously adopt­
ed a resolution to investigate the
charges brought by Representative
Lilley, ot Connecticut, of corrupt influ­
ences upon members of the bouse naval
affairs committee in connection with
snthorizationa for submarine torpedo
boats.
Washington, March 10.— Consider­
ation of the postoffice appropriation bill
was resumed by the house of represent­
atives today.
Although amendments
were in order, tne bill, when it was
laid aside for the day, with 11 pages
disposed of, had undergone no material
change.
A noteworthy speech by Hamilton,
of Michigan, upholding the right of
the Federal government to control cor­
porations and sustaining the president
in his atittude toward them, was the
feature of the days' proceedings.
Other addreeses were made by Small,
of North Carolina, and Finley, of South
Carolina, each of whom attacked the
propoeition to increase the pay for
ocean mail service on the gronnd that
it was but a subterfuge for a ship sub­
sidy.
T h u rs d a y , M a rc h 6 .
M o n d a y, M a rc h 9 .
IN F E C T E D R A T S A R E
Washington, March 9.— The senate
discussed at length Senator Frye’ s joint
resolution providing lor the carrying of
materials lor the Panama («rial in
American bottoms only. Frye advocat­
ed the adoption of ihe resolution, say­
ing that at least 5,000,060 harrels of
cement wonld be required in the work,
and that so long aa foreign vessels were
permitted toconpete, it wonld be im­
possible for the domestic ships to par­
ticipate in the transportation because
of the difference both in construction
and operation. He said that in both
these respects British built ships had
an advantage of st least one-third.
An amendment by Foster, of V ir­
ginia, providing that the restriction
should not apply to the Gnlf ports or
any part of the United States from
which vessels of the United States
conld not be secured for the trade was
accepted by Frye.
Fulton, of OregoD, and Bacon, of
Georgia, songht to have the amend­
ment extended to the North Pacific
and Booth Atlantic coasts respectively,
bat were unsuccessful.
Resolutions of sorrow upon the an­
nouncement of the death of Represent­
ative Adolph Meyer, of Louisiana, were
adopted, and at 4:20 p. m. the senate
adjourned as t further mark of respect
to his memory.
Thursday, March 5.— A marked trib­
ute of respect was accorded the memory
of the late Senator Redfield Proctor, of
Vermont, by the Ignited States senate
today. The reading of the journal was
only begun when Senator Dillingham,
of Vermont, arose and, asking that it
be dispensed with, referred in braes
that indicated deep emotion to the
great,bereavement that had come upon
the senate, the state of Vermont and
the country by the passing of a man
who for so many years had been in the
public^ye.
Mr. Dillingham moved the adoption
of the onstomary resolution, and the
vice president announced a committee
consisting ol Senators Dillingham, Data-
iel, Galliuger,
Perking, Taliaferro,
Overman and Hemenway to attend the
funeral.
In the house the proceedings were
brief.
While waiting for the official
announcement of Senator Proctor’s
death, a couple of bills of minor im ­
portance were passed.
Mr. Haskins, of Vermont, presented
reeolut'ons of regret, which were adopt­
ed. After Speaker Cannon had an­
nounced the names of the committee to
represent the house at the funeral, the
honse, as a further mark of respect,
adjourned. The body w ill be accom­
panied by members of the lamily of
the late senator and by the congree-
sional committees to Proctorville, Ver-
m o..t.
O n ly S even J a p s C a m e In
Washington, March 10.— The Pacific
coast members of congress have been
informed that only seven Japanese, and
these not laborers, have entered the
United Statee this year, which is re­
garded as showing the effectiveness of
the new emigration regulation which
Japan has formulated and undertaken
to enforce.
There is an apprehension that some
Japanese laborers have entered th
country through Mexico, but it is learn­
ed that Mexico la negotiating with
Japan for practically the same regula­
tions that have been applied tc the
United Statee.
Sydney, N. 8. W ., March 9.— The
increase of population in the common­
San Franc>eco, March 10.— Dr. Em­ wealth ia notoriously slow, and the
ma Merritt, executrix of the eetate of legislators of Western Australia, where
Adolph Sntro, was given permitsion the inhabitants number only two to the
today by Judge Coffey to apply the square mile, have determined to take a
(47,000 insurance money received after leaf ont of the book of the French.
the destruction of the Cliff house to­ W ith a view to encouraging bigger fam­
ward the erection of a new building. ilies, an amendment has been inserted
The petition was oppoeed by Attorneys in the income tax bill by the state leg­
B uy L o w e r C a lifo r n ia .
The honse was in session but a few
J. F. Bowie and Joseph Mayer, who islative assembly givirg an exemption
Washington, March 10.— Represent­
minntes, adjonrning at 12:12 o’clock
represented lonr of the heirs. Bowie of $50 for every child np to the number
upon announcement of Mr, Meyer’s ative Smith has addressed the secretary
said the heirs he represented had no of five in the family of a taxpayer.
of atate In a letter asking an opinion
death.
objection to rebuilding the Cliff honse, Five children is evidently the lim it.
regarding tbe advisability of the pur­
hnt thought the heirs should have the
S a tu rd a y M a rc h 7 .
chase by the United States of part or
direction of expending the money.
P riz e s f o r A a ro p la n e a .
Washington, March 7.— Bills to es­ all of Lower California, in Mexico, so
Paris, March 9.— M. Micbelin has tablish savings banks, introduced by that control of the Colorado rivar along
C h in e s e H o ld M e e tin g .
branded a world's challenge cap of the Senators Carter, Knox and Bnrkett, to­ the portions where it baa broken ita
Canton, China, March 10.— A mon­ value of $20,000, to be competed for day were considered by a subcommittee bounds, conld be undertaken by the
ster meeting was held here tonight to annually by aeroplsnee. After the first of the senate committee on poetoffices United States government. Smith urges
resist the demand of the Japanese gov­ races aeronauts w ill be compelled each and poet roads ernsisting of Senators besides the matter of the Colorado
ernment for the release of the Tatsu year to fly double the distance made by Carter, Barrows. Bankhead and Clay. river, that the United States already
Mam. The meeting was attended by a the winner of the trophy the preceding
Postmaster General Meyer was before condncta extensive operations at Mag­
great number of prominent personages year. The winning aeronant, in addi­ the subcommittee and outlined his dalena bay in Lower California.
who vigorously asserted China's sov- tion to the cap, will receive $3,000.
erigu rights. A resolution was adopt­ The trophy will be held by the aero
F a ils to F in d S a ilo r.
G o o d and E v il in R o o a s v a lt.
ed to the effect that, fatting the confis­ club of the country of which the winner
Washington, March 12.— An aero­
Washington, Mar. 11.— Senator Bail­
cation of the ship and her cargo, a boy­ ia a native.
gram received here today from Lieu­ ey, of Texas, in criticising the Aldrich
cott wonld be inaugurated against Jap­
tenant Gherardi, sent in charge of the financial bill on the floor of the senate
anese manufacturers.
Furnace Got Overheated'
tender Yankton to seek Fred Jeff», who today,took occasion to “ slam"and praise
Columbus, O., March 9.— That the waa reported stranded npon an nn- President Roosevelt. " I have never be­
Mutiny in Caracas Fails.
fire in the Collinwood schoolhonse named island of the Galapagos gronp, fore seen such a mixture nf good and
Caracas, March 4, via Port of Spain, which cost the lives of more than 170 in the Sooth Pacific, seems to indicate evil in a public man,” declared the
March 10.— An uprising occurred here children was due to an over heated fur­ that the search was fruitless
The senator, referring to the president.
last night in a barracks, tha soldiers nace ia the substance of a partial report aerogarm states the Yankton w ill reach "Before the public gets through prais­
killing the<r commander. General Mesa. made to State Fire Marshal Creamer Acapulco tomorrow, but makea no men­ ing President Roo»»velt for some wise
The mntiDy was quelled only after s tonight by the three deputies who hava tion of Jeffs. Therefore it is presumed act he invariaibly make* a foolish move
number of soldiers bad been shot.
which turns praise Into cenaura.”
• bean inveetipting the causes of the fire. he coaid not be found.
R e b u ild th e C l i f f H o u s e .
M a rc h In C e llin w o o d S c h o o
L s d to L o c k e d D o o r .
C o n ta n d L o w L u m b a r R ata W ill
v e n t N e w C o n s tru c tio n .
P re ­
Washington, March 6.— Argument of
the Pacific Coast lumber case was re­
sumed before the Interstate Commerce
commission yesterday.
J. D. Kerr,
representing the H ill road«, frankly
stated that the Northern Pacifio and
Great Northern have reached their ca­
pacity for handling traffic. He said as
the development of the Northwest con­
tinued, traffic would grow.
Therefore
existing roads must increase their ca­
pacity or new roads must be built, but
he declared no new roads wo-Id he
built to haul lumber unless they had a
guarantee of a rate that would be re­
munerative. I f tbe old non-compen­
satory lumber rate ie continued in
effect, money cannot be procured and
railroad building w ill stop, he said.
Mr. Kerr denied that the inmber
men would be injured by an increase.
They would still make a big profit, he
declared. The Booth-Kelly oompany
in Oregon, which is not operated under
favorable conditions, could, on tbe
basis of an advanced rate, Btill earn 31
per cent annually on its investment.
Some companies conld make larger
profits, others not so much. Relative
to the arguments that Inmber cannot
move into competitive territory under
an advanced rate, Mr. Kerr showed that
the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber com­
pany, of Tacoma, paid 55 rents into
this district for years and made good
profits. This is higher than the pro­
posed new rate.
W AN T FO REST PRESERVED.
W h o le sa le L u m b e r D e a le rs A p p ro v e
P o lic y o f G o v e rn m e n t.
RUEFACCUSESHENEY
Makes Serious Charge ol Subor­
nation ol Perftiry.
ALLEGES UNDUE INFLUENCE USED
D e c la re s H ia T e s tim o n y W aa O b ta ln a d
T h ro u g h M is re p re s e n ta tio n —
W a n ts to C h a n g e Plea.
San Francisco, March 7.— Thia morn­
ing at 10 o'clock Abraham Ruef will,
through his attorneys, Henry Ach,
Frank J. Murphy and M. C. Chapman,
present to Judge Dunne a motion to al­
low him to withdraw hia plea ot guilty
entered- on May 16, and substitute a
plea of not guilty in the case brought
on indictment No. 305, one of the
French restaurant extortion caaes. To
support hie motion Ruef will file affi­
davits of a sensational nature, the sub­
stance of which waa given out tonight«
In filing tbe motion Ruef states that
the plea of guilty was improperly and
inadvisedly tendered and that the de­
fendant ÌB not guilty of the offense
charged, and that he waa induced to
enter the plea of guilty by virtue of an
agreement and understanding with the
district attorney, William H. Langdon,
the assistant district attorney, Franots
J. Heney, the special agent of the dis­
trict attorney, W illiam J. Barns, and
the financial backer of the district at­
torney in thia prosecution, Rudolph
Spreckels, and because of the agree­
ment and understanding of the judge
presiding in this department of the Su­
perior court, Judge Frank H. Dunne,
that the plea of guilty should subse­
quently be withdrawn and the plea of
not guilty substituted, and the cause
dismissed against the defendant.
T L . motion also w ill state that the
district attorney has heretofore consent­
ed to the withdrawal of the plea of
guilty and that thia plea was obtained
from the defendant by fraud, coerolon,
duress and false pretenses. The mo­
tion w ill be presented to the court on
March 12.
L E A V E S C H O O L W IT H O U T P A N IC
Singing “ Am erica" 2,000 New Jfork
Children Reach Safety.
New York, March 7.— A special call
was sent into fire headquarters (rom
the publio achool on Uue Hundred and
Ninth street, between Amsterdam ave­
nue and Broadway.
The children were marched from the
school without panic or disorder. They
were assembled in the yard and sent
home.
Parents who rushed to tha
building were pievented by the police
from closing in the exits and sent away.
The fire was on the top floor of the
building, which ie five stories high.
The 2,000 pupils in thebnilding were
engaged in their morning singing exer­
cise when the fire gong rang and they
continued to Bing “ America” as they
marched out of the building.
There
was no sign of panic at any time.
SEC R E TS OF TO RPED O ES.
B lit s
C o m p a n y Saya E m p lo ye
S to le n B r e s t M o d e ls .
H as
New York, March 7.— The E. W .
BI!"S company, manufacturers of pro­
jectile«, secured the arrest last night of
W illiam Easer, a mechanic, of Brook­
lyn, who, it is charged, has stolen the
brass models of tbe principal parts of
torpedoes now in process of eecret man­
ufacture for the government.
Detectives engaged on the case assart
that other arrests will be made Of men
who w ill he charged with offering for
sale to other governments secrets of
projectile manufacture.
The Federal
authorities woaid be interested in the
prosecution, it was said, though just
how was not made clear.
W illiam Eager was held in $1,000
bail when arraigned in court loday.
No representative of the government
appeared againgat Eager.
Washington, March 8.— The conclud­
ing feature of the 16th annual conven­
tion of the National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers’ association was a banquet at
the New W illard last night.
The principal topic o t disenssion yes­
terday was forest preservation. The
report o t the committee on forestry de­
clared that the Inmber dealers realize
the inevitable shortage in the timber
supply which must be felt in the vety
near futnre and are doing more prob­
ably than any other agency to promote
the cause of forestry. The report de­
clares that with all the agencies at
work they are hopeful that oar forests
w ill still be preserved. Repeal of tha
homestead law as applied to timber
P e titio n C z a r f o r M e rc y .
lands is advocated, bat the general for­
8t. Petersburg, March 7.— M. Tachal-
est reserve policy of the government is kovsky, who is awaiting trial for revo­
approved.
lutionary utterances, was visited today
by physicians, who are to determine
H ene y G iven M o ra 1 Im a .
the state of his health
Mme. Tarhai-
San Francisco, March 6.— The prose­ kovsky will present to Premier Rtoly-
cution in the bribery-graft cases thia pin an Engliah petition in favor of her
morning again a*ked for further time husband, signed by 300 leadiLg clergy­
to answer the affidavits filed by Abra­ men and members of the nobility. Thia
ham Ruef in his motion for the vaca­ ia the petition that Count Benkendorff,
tion of hia arraignment on the United Russian ambassador in London, de­
Railroads trolley indictments, and waa clined to forward to St. Petersburg, ft
granted until Monday morning by Su­ will be followed by a general English
perior Judge Lawlor.
Assistant Dis­ petition.
trict Attorney F. J. Heney gave aa his
T e a c h G ir ls to G am ble.
reasons for not having the connter-
affidavits completed that the prosecu­
San Francisco, March 7. — Police
tion waa going over the entire matter Judge Smith, of Oakland, this morn­
thoronghiy and carefully.
ing sentenced Angnet Halmin, who waa
convicted last Tuesday of selling pools
W o u ld C la s s ify B anka .
on the horse races, to pay a fine of $300
San Francisco, March 6.— Represent­ or terse 150 days in jail. Jndge Smith,
atives of the San Francisco Savings in passing sentence, remarked that
Bank association appeared before the gambling ia entirely too prevalent in
special legislative committee on bank­ Oakland. He said that only a few
ing laws today in order to make re­ days ago he himself stepped into a ci­
commendations for the amendment of gar store and raw there two young girla
the existing laws.
The chief recom­ studying the “ dope sheet.”
mendation waa that laws be passed
sepa.sting the three different kinds of
Ille g a l F e n ce ra F in ed.
hanking known as trust business, com­
Helena, Mont., March 7.— United
mercial business and ravings deposita, State Judge Hunt today imposed rather
go they can he better regulated.
severe pensltiee on four well known
Northern Montana stockmen and ranch­
R e s to re S u rv e y o r G e n e ra l’ s Pay.
ers who pleaded guilty to illpgal fenc­
Washington, March 8 — The senate ing. The fines and imprisonment fol­
•nbcommlttee on appropriations today low: Joseph ami Frank Laird, ten
agreed to restore to the legislative bill days and $250 each; Nelson Bingham,
the provision increasing the salaries ot 48 hours and $200; James, Bingham,
48 boors and $100.
surveyors genera) to $3,000.