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Ö A N K tH M O -8 C O N V IU ltO . J Guilty o f Appropriating Slats Money to Private Use. Salem, Ore., April 24.— Guilty of converting to bis own uae $288,000 of state school ijn d s, waa the verdict aKamst J. Thorburn Uoaa ^ *>y a Marion county Jury yesterday afternoon. was out an * ** hour -------- The ‘ Jury ---------- and ten minutes. From what can be learned It ap pears that the Jury took four ballots the first showing nine for conviction and three for acquittal. Sentence will be Imposed by Judge Burnett on Monday morning. The penalty provided by law !■ Impris onment In the penitentiary for from one to fifteen years and by fine of double the amount of the defalca tion. The case will, of course, be ap pealed to the supreme court, when the case will be tried practically anew, for the defense objected to nearly all the evidence, saved excep tions, and questioned the ruling of the trial court on all points o f law that go to the foundation of the case. Attorney McCamant declined to discuss the verdict, but was very plainly deeply disappointed. PR l SIDLNT WINS DAYITORNADO IN S 0 U I H L ! r r : 3 ” “ ^ Senate’s Jetton on Naval Bill is Dead In Ihren States Number Practically a Victory. At Least 225. W * inttd> V. April 28 was spent by the senate in considering Wachlncton Anrll *'• John the amendment to the naval apuropria- Sharp William s today gave tho re- tion bill, but a vote wan not reached at publican m ajority In the house an the close of the discussion, which was opportunity either to permit or to participated in by a dozen senators, refuse to permit a vote on the Ste- lU l* secured an agreement for a vote yens bill to place wood pulp on the before adjournment on Monday, free list. In the course of a clever- A canvass of the senate made during ly humorous and satirical speech he H10 day indicated that the four ship pro- unrolled and held to view the fol- 8ram wil1 *>B defeated and that the de- Declares This Pieces United States Negroes SefFered Most. Their Light lowlng petition to Speaker Cannon, 1)1,10 ll11» changed several votes. Much in Front Rank In Rsgerdt to Cebms Going to Piocos Liko bearing the signatures of 164 of the ,,f the discussion today was devoted to 166 Democratic senators: I tho improbability of war being forced Naval Progrès», Card House*. 'W e, the undesigned, represents-1 Hl,on the United States. Beveridge and tives in congress, request, each for WGre sharply criticised by Aid himself, and each for each of the rich. Perkins and McCumber for theii Washington, April 28.— Two bat Atlanta, Ga., April 25.— Reports others, that you recognize one o f us,1 statements of yesterday, and several tleahlps a year Is what President up to 2 a. m. Indicate that 225 per t-r • you prefer, some other repro- heated colloquies occurred. Beveridge a ntaiive, to move to discharge the will reply on Monday. Roosevelt says he has accomplished sons were killed and at least 1000 committee on ways an;! means from through his fight for hiz naval pro were Injured In storms o f great vio WaNhington, April 25.— The actual in further consideration and to suspend gram. Had he been victorious In lence which passed over sections of the rules and pass the Stevens hill, vestigation of tho wood pulp and print- having four ships authorized at this Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama or any other bill having the effect papor question, involving in prospect an to put wood pulp and print paper on xamination into the affairs of the paper session, the United States could have yesterday. Several towns were al trust to determine whether or not it is the free list.” dictated termB of disarmament to the most totally swept away and the Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, of- »* b.v the American Newspaper nations of the world. property damage will run Into large fered an amendment to :ho sundry1-Publishers’ Association a combination This statement, made tonight, fo l figures. civil bill appropriating $60,000 for in restraint of trade and maintaining a Nearly 20 towns were struck by the establishment of a national art monopoly of the print paper supply in lowing the passage by the senate to the "tw isters,” of which there seem gallery In the Smithsonian Institute. : *1,e L,nitcd Slat«'», w u begun today by day of the naval bill, calling for two to have been at least five. The amendment was rejected on a t,ie “|,|<'c't committee appointed by new battleships, Is understood to re Most of those killed were negroes, T R Y T O K IL L GRAFTER. point of order. Speaker Cannon, whose chairman is Rep- veal the president's source of whose cabins were swept away like ------ resontative James R. Mann, of Illinois, so much paper. strength in the naval fight which has Washington, April 29.— The sen- and the other members of which are Ex-Supervisor Gallagher Blown Up been waged so strenuously. Natchez, Miss., reports that o f 64 ate and house conferee i on the army Hannon of Ohio, Stafford of Kentucky, by Bomb Furthermore, two ships this year persons killed In that section only bill reached an agreement tonight. Hannon of Ohio, tSafford of Wisconsin, The senate conferees recoded- from Simms of Tennessee and Ryan of New Oakland, Cal., April 24.— What Is with the promise of two ships each two were whites. Latest reports from Amite, a small year to follow, which the president the amendment raising »he pay of York believed by the police to have been .has accepted as a bona fide stipula town in Southeastern Louisiana, say officers on a percentage basis. In- an attempt to assassinate James L. tio n on the part o f the senate, means the town was almost entirely de stead, a schedule was adopted In Friday, April 24. simply a program which will place stroyed and the estimates place the creasing the pay of Major-Generals, Washington, April 2 4.— Argu Gallagher, one of the main witnesses .the United States in the front rank number killed-at between 25 and 60, Brigadier-Generals, Colonels, Lieu ments in favor o f the president’s pro- for the prosecution in the ban Fran |of naval progression, but which falls while at least 7 d were injured. tenant Colonels, Majors and First gram for four battleships consumed cisco graft cases, was made shortly l to place it in the position of dictat At McLain, Miss., eight are re Lieutenants $500 per annum; Cap- most of the session o f the senate to- after 7 o’clock tonight at the home ing a cessation of naval aggression. ported to have been killed; at VI- talns, $600 per year; Second Lieu- day. Plies, of Washington, opened That the president, on the whole. dalla, La., one white woman and six tenants, $300 and cadets $100. Ithe debate, declaring that the Asia- of W illiam H. Schenck, Gallagher’s Is pleased with the, result of his e f negroes are dead; at Quilman Land On this schedule, the salary o f tic situation affecting the Pacific brother-in-law, blast Twentieth Btreet forts with congress on this subject, ing, eleven negroes were killed. Major-Generals will be $S000 per coast was a menace to that section, and Nineteenth avenue, East Oak was made manifest tonight; that he The latest report at hand cornea annum; Brigadier-Generals $6000; as war clouds might quickly rise land, when a huge bomb placed on firm ly believes in the ability o f the from Purvis Landing, Miss., where Colonels $4000; Lieutenant-Colonels there over some clash between Am- the porch exploded and tore away United States to dictate the naval 25 whites and 50 negroes were vic $3500; Majors $3000; Captains $2,- erlcans and the Japanese. He wanted the whole front of the house. Galla policy o f the world In the future, tims of the storm, and reports o f one 400; first Lieutenants, $2000; sec- a fleet kept in the Pacific. gher was up stairs with his w ife at though overwhelm ingly outstripping to five deaths came from many ond Lieutenantß, $1700 and cadets This, he declared, was a measure the time, and Mr. Schenck was in a us In naval construction. towns scattered over the storm-swept $600 of peace, and not of war. He came, rear room with his wife and four area. Details at present are meager. he said, from the section of the coun children and Dr. Guy Brown. New Orleans and Mobile were cut Tuesday, April 28 try that must be the storm center of A ll escaped but one boy, who was PR E S ID E N T T A L K 8 S T R A IG H T . off from wire communication with any conflict in the Pacific ocean. The Washington, April 28— Ostensibly hit In the neck by a flying missile. the outside world for several hours considering the sundry civil appro-, people o f the Pacific were in favor That none was killed was little today and telegraph companies re He sent to the short of a miracle. Gallagher’s hat Warns Congress Against Abuses of port wires down In all directions. prlation bill, the house devoted m ost]0* four battleships Judicial System. o f its time today to speeches cover- vice president’s desk a statement of was pierced by a splinter, and taken Tonight the storm Is sweeping ing a wide range of subjects a n d a vote of 162 editors attending a away aa a souvenir. The house was Washington, April 28.— President through Georgia, but beyond torren concluded the session by giving an meeting in New York, which, he said completely wrecked. The report was Roosevelt this afternoon sent to tial rains, accomplished by high attentive hearing to the president’s showed 126 in favor of the four bat- heard all over Oakland and many congress a special message setting winds and brilliant electrical displays special message. Although nearly tleshlps and the president’s policy for windows In the neighborhood were forth In the strongest of terms the no serious damage or loss o f life every member had read the message 1naY_a* expansion. broken. A post belonging to the necessity ‘ o f immediate legislation has been reported In the state. in the newspapers, a large num ber' W hile he bad never been one of porch was hurled 100 feet away. Reports also say that the storm strengthening the anti-trust law. He remained In their seats, carefully those who feared war, It should not Valuable clews to the perpetrators reiterates his well-known views as to struck Albertville, La., late this aft follow ing the words of the reading be denied, h said, that there was on o f the crime were gained today the grave danger to free Institutions ernoon, delng much destruction to clerk. When the portion of the the Pacific coast a peculiar condi- through the finding of a silk hand from the corrupting Influence of life and property. An unconfirmed message referring to the multi-mil- tion, and the time was coming when kerchief In which it Is supposed the great wealth suddenly concentrated report from this Bectlon gives the lionaire “ whose son Is a fool and his /be people o f this country would Infernal machine waa wrapped. In the hands of the few, and urges death list as from 30 to 35, with daughter a foreign princess’’ was to face that condition. The Pa- In a search of the debris this morn the Immediate passage o f measures scores of persons Injured. A train reached there was a storm of ap- cm ? c<?a,8t* hf 4 a<Jded. had by its op- ing detectives located some wire and similar to those he advocated in his waB sent from Birmingham tonight plause, equally loud on both sides o f , ^ u n i t i e s attracted many Asiatics fuse and caps, which would indicate, former message oq the same sub carrying physicians and a squad of the house who had been reared in a different according to Chief Wilson, that a state militiamen to the district. ject. Richmond and Lamourle, La., Mr. Lake, of New Jersey, mude1^ fro™ the peop,e o f Unit/*d bomb of some sort had been used. Such legislation, he says, will be some caustic remarks concerning the S1tR t^ 9: There was a possibility of a In the ’ interest of both the decent were struck by the storm and nearly president, evoking applause on the * % £ people and th° Se corporations and the law-abiding a fifth of their population Injured'. Hensy Had Warnad Him. Winchester, Miss., a small town, democratic side San Francisco, April 2 4.— “ The labor unions. In this connection, he is reported wiped out, though only Other speeches were made by Rep I Washington, April 24.— The busi prosecution will certainly make a sounds a warning to the labor lead resentatives Hitchcock, of Nebraska, ness of the house proceeded today at most thorough Investigation of the ers who have objected to the Inclu two persons are known to have been Vreeland o f New York and Haniilin ■ a rapid gait, despite the fact that the dastardly attempt to kill one of the sion o f labor organizations In the killed. Mobile reports nine dead at Hat o f Missouri. 'democrats forced six rollcalls. Over most Important witnesses for the anti-trust law amendment, and says At 5:05 p. m. the house took a 1000 pension bills were put through, state In the bribery graft cases,” said plainly that the exception of the tiesburg, Miss., but thfs has not been confirmed. recess uiitil 11:30 o’clock tomorrow the largest batch of the session. Assistant District Attorney Francis J. unions from the operation of the law The tornado that first appeared In morning. A bill was passed providing for the Heney this morning to the Associated would render the measure Invalid. Concordia Parish, La., appears to A strong efTort has been made to have been the most serious, both In protection of life on navigable waters Press representative. Mr. Heney refused to state whether have labor organizations completely respect to number of victims and ex sion and District of Columbia appro- regattas and marine parades, priation bills were passed by the T her* al,s0 waB discussed at length or not he had any evidence pointing exempted from the operations of the tent of territory covered. Although law, whether or not their operations It covered a rural district and struck the Burleson resolution demanding to the perpetrators. senate today. In addition the spe- ---- . . A1_ _ . , -s “ I am satisfied that It was not the are in restraint of trade. Such ex no large town, the known results of clal message of the president urging ^he report of the Commissioner of a legislative program was head and P_n th^vC.an. ? i ? , J iUC.t^ : work of a fanatic or crank,” de emption would make the hill uncon Its work were 64 dead and at least another chapter of Senator W ar tions In cotton. The vote on that clared the Assistant District Attor stitutional. It is not possible wholly 100 Injured, with the prospect that measure will be taken tomorrow. ney. “ Neither did the attempt upon to exempt labor organizations from the list will be considerably swelled ner’s speech on the Brownsville a f Gallagher's life surprise me. I the workings of this law, and they by morning. fair was heard. Several measures of warned him more than three months who Insist upon wholly exempting More than 50 o f the dead are ne minor importance and the resolution Thursday, April 23 ago that If he was not careful 'they them are merely providing that their groes, whose log caolns proved par o f the house to give government aid would get him,’ and at the time urged status shall be kept wholly un ticularly fatal to the occupants, be ,o th , r „ , passed. The resolution to extend ( th, sesg|on the -no„ , p of rep_ him to move from Oakland, telling changed, and that they sjiall con ing easily torn to pieces, while the him his home might be blown up. the time when the commodity clause resentatlvpg, la,e this afternoon by a Aside from this 1 have nothing to tinue to be exposed to the action weight of timber crushed the In which they now dread. mates to death. o f the railroad rate aw shall be- of 247 to 8> pa8Bed thp Kulton say at present.” Obviously an organization not What appear to have been two come operative was called before the land-grant resolution without amend- formed for profit should not be re different tornadoes struck In Western senate by Mr. Elkins, but went over mPnt* P r ,or to the votP on flnal Tornado in Nebraska. quired to furnish statistics In any Alabama, one claiming six victims at under objection from Mr. Culberson. . gs Fordney's amendment was Paris, Neb., April 24.— About 6 way as complete as those furnished Bergan & Thomas' sawmfll. The senate at 6:27 p. m. adjourned. votpd down 43 f0 227 xh(> rPsoi „ . More o’clock this afternoon a tornado de by organizations for profit. I tion will go to the president by the stroyed the eastern portion of De over, so far as labor Is engaged in New Orleans, April 25. 2 a. m.— Monday, April 27. 'end of the week and will promptly port. a town 20 miles southeast of protection only, its claims to be ex At this hour belated reports have Washington, April 27.— By an be signed by him. Paris, killing W. R. Isbell, a drug empted from the anti-trust law are swollen the total number of deaths overwhelm ing vote. President Roose- Immediately thereafter steps will gist, and wounding several others. This would substantially by the tornadoeq In Mississippi Lou velt’s four-battleship program failed be taken to initiate suit against tho The Isbell fam ily was at supper when sound. cover the right of laborers to com isiana and Alabama to 225. Missis In the Benate, just as it did In the Oregon & California Railroad Corn- the storm came. bine, to strike peaceably and to en sippi suffered most, but poor com- house. The amendment for four bat- panv to secure forfeiture of the un- munifaBons kept the fu ll extent of Practically all the residences on tleshlps was Introduced by Senator sold portion o f Its grant. For the the east side of town were destroyed, ter into trade agreements with' em the disaster from becoming known. Piles and the fight for Its adoption time being. It is understood, no pro- at least 25 or 30 being scattered over ployers. But when labor undertakes The death list was suddenly swollen in an unlawful manner to prevent was led by Senator Beveridge. Twen- ceedings will be undertaken against the country In fragments. the distribution and sale of the pro by nenrly 100 additional victims In ty-three votes were cast for the In- lumber companies and other pur- Oak Grove ,a town east of Clarks ducts o f labor It has left the fold of Purvis and McLaurln, Miss., towns creased program, the number large- chasprs from the railroad, ville, on the Texas & Pacific rail protection and its action may be not heard from up to midnight. ly being made up of recently-elected | ■ The first reports Indicated that road, Is reported almost destroyed, senators. F ifty senators voted to sup-! Washington, April 23.— As the many houses Being demolished, but plainly In restraint of Interstate four-fifths o f the victims were ne port the house and tho recommend»- senate was about tc conclude consid- without fatalities as far as learned. trade. groes, but the later reports showed tion of the senate naval committee oration o f the naval appropriation The path of the storm was several an Increasing number of whites. Cut Ratos to Orient for building only two battleships. bill today, Senator Piles,, of Wash- hundred yards wide. San Francisco, April 28.— With a The debate on the battleship Ington. proposed an amendment in Fllipiro Outlaws Hanged. amendment lasted three days to the erp.islng from two to four thq num- view o f driving tramp steamers from Revive Coaching in England. excluslon o f all other matters. It her i f new battleships to be author- Manila, April 25.— Clprlano Om- this port a radical reduction of was begun by ' Senator Beveridge Ized. London, April 24.— Alfred G. Van freight rates on flour and grain for ongom, alias Tldncuc, and Alfroniano with an eloquent appeal for the sup- A spirited debate occurred on the derbilt, whose efTort to revive Inter over-sea ports, such as Chinese and Fernandez, noted bandits and fanat port of the president and the sugges- amendment for the restriction of the Japanese, Is to be put In efTect Im ical leaders, were privately hanged Omongo tton that a larger navy might be purchase of materials for the con- est in coaching In England has been mediately on all principal lines run in Bilibld prison today. so sympathetically received, left Lon needed for war. jstructlon o f the battleships and sub- It is Plry started the Pulajane movement — 'm arine boats to those of domestic don this morning on a series o f trial ning out of San Francisco. In Samar. Fernandez participated In trips over the Brighton road. He was agreed among the ship owners that the attack on Leyte and nlded In the Washington; April 27.— A favor- maI)ufacture. the rate on flour will bo reduced accompanied by a small party of able report was today ordered on Amendments to remove that re- killing of four policemen and the Senator Ankeny s bill Increasing pen- Rtriction from the hill were defeat- friends. A big crowd assembled out from $3 to $2 for shipment from this burning o f the municipal buildings. slons of Indian war veterans and Pd Hale estimating that since the In- side the hotel, where the start was port to Hongkong and Japan, and Faustino Ablen and Esperodon Rota, their widows from $8 to $12 per vestlgation o f the steel trust some made, and gave the American a that the rate on flour from this port hla principal lieutenant,- were to have month. The committee declined to years ago the price of steel armor hearty send-ofT. while th1* police stop to Singapore will be reduced from been hanged on the same gallows. report a bill which would place these pad been reduced from $550 and ped traffic In Flc.adllly in order to al »4.75 to $3.50. Governor General Smith granted low the coarh to gain a free uassage veterans on the same footing as ser- $600 per ton to $416 per ton. them a reprieve for one month. Mr. Vanderbilt w ill make his first vice pensioners o f tho civil w a r,1 New Consumotion Cure regular trip on May 4. whose maximum pension Is $20 a *»«-k » a c tio n »1 p r « ‘ e »M n Washington, April 28.— A prelim month. Survivor o f Morgan’ s Raiders. Washington. Anril 24.— Senator inary report on the treatment of tub Senator Bourne made a favorable Curtis today Introduced a bill to re- M ore A udee«» Au«nerdrd. New York, April 25.— With the erculosis by the administration of report on Senator Ankeny's bill an- nil)rP c orp oration organized under Stanford University, Cal.. April 24. j sword he carried when a member of mercury has been made to the Sur thorizing the establishment of a fish fpdpraj or state charters to register culture station on the Tucannon with the department of commerce j — Professor Clark, of th" student af-j geon-General by Surgeon W right, of Morgan’s raiders during the Civil no- ( war clasped to his heart Colonel W il river, Washington. and labor and secure a permit there- ! fnlrs committee, today posted the navy, who has been conducting from before attempting to transact | tice announcing the suspension of, Investigations at th** Naval Hospital liam S. Warwick wa« found dead in three students. One of the three is ) Saturday, April 26. business In a state or territory other at Fort Lyon. Colo. In commenting his bed on the top floor of a house Colonel Washington, April 25.— Another day than that In which It Is organized. E. N. Smith, of Honolulu, ex-edltor ; on this report. Medical Inspector C. In the Bronx yesterday. of the "Seqflola." who will not he Warwick came of a famous old allowed to register In the unlvirslty j T. Hibbett said the subject Is en southern fam ily and was born In Would Register Chinks Sympathy for Fulton. on account of a recent editorial in gaging much attention by officers on Virginia 85 years ago. He had a Washington, April 30.— Disap Washington, April 29.— That the which he bitterly criticised the stu duty at tho hospital and .the treat large income and entertained scuth- Another stu- ment is being appli°d personally by rners lavishly. pointed at the result of the Oregon Chinese exclusion law Is not properly ,dent affairs committee Tw o years ago he forced. that Chinese sre making d f" * » as suspended for being under surgeons. lost his entire fortune. Since then primaries. Senator Fulton was much he had lived In humble lodgings. gratified today with the reception he their way Into the United States fhp Influence r f Honor on the m rm »i 8»rm ops Again»» P-»pinv received from his fellow senators, I every day when they have no right ; April ■ '• 7'*le **1*rc* ^or failure to re S>n Francisco, April 2S Sermons regardless of party. When he en- to do so and that a change in t h e j mniI* camPu8*_____ voicing a protest against the r-ce- ; Clack Buys C o*l Lands, tered the senate chamber thU morn- j existing law will be necessary to RrvBnrt* Gain Wtneng h trick e v i l will b e preached In more Trinidad. Colo., April 25.— Ex- ing many senators shook his hand cheek this growing condition, ar** and expressed their profound regret facts that were pointed out In em- St. Petersburg. April 24. -The sit than 2000 churches o f California rnIfpd stat „ SPnat0r W illiam A. that he had not been renominated, phatic terms to the house committee uation on the Persian frontier Is con Sunday morning. 1 he plan has I Clark, of Montana, k ft here for Jer- These expressions o f appreciation,! on appropriations by Commissioner- sidered here to be steadily becoming elabortted bv th*- Atttl-Racetraek 10me, I r i i , today o ft or r c t i f i l M League, recently organized in Rerk said Fulton, partly compensated him ¡General o f Immigration Sargent. The from a trip of Inspection to the coal for his defeat, for It was very g ra ti-1 erason for this universal laxness in more serious, despite tl.e check to ley. The movement will call lt“ R;«i property in this vicinity on which ho fying to him to know how kindly his enforcing the exclusion laws Is said the Persian brigands on April 20, track Sunday,’’ which B ark s the in- ^ns . , n option for two venrs. “ I colleagues felt toward him. to be fear of the Chinese boycott. when the Russian forces, drove the ceptlon of a bitter campaign against have closed a deal with Charle the racetrack In California, the ob Francis Adams, of Boston, for 12,000 bandits back with heavy losses. The rising Is gradually spreading, the ject o f the league being to bring acres of coal land, 20 miles west of Wants Hospital Ships. Will Cover 42,600 Miles. about state legislation other mountaineers now flocking to Trinidad," said Mr. Clark today. " I Washington, April 29.— W ith a Washington. April 30.— A total of don’t care to name the consideration of the Shaksetan view to preparedness in case of approximately 42,500 miles w i l l , the assistance . ... _ L nm and but It was around the million mark.” Anti-Gamhiing Campaign. necessity, the surgeon general's o f have heen covered by the Atlantlr BegHyln t r l ^ , against whom the Albany, N. Y., April 28.— Govern fice o f the navy has suggested the battleship fleet when it arrives at operations are being conducted. Take Orchard's Depot tion. or Hughes this afternoon inaugu designation of several vessels avail Hampton Roads on February 22. Machinists Strike. rated what la believed to be a cam Gunnison. Colo., April 25.— Dis able for use for hospital purposes. next, according to the estimates Am ong the ships suggested by Sur made by the naval officials. The dis Marshalltown, la., April 24.— Ma paign o f speech-making In several trict Judge Shackleford today grant geon-General Rlxey Is the Buffalo, tance to be covered for the voyage chinists In the various shops o f the of the large cities of the state In ed authority to O. N. Hilton, attor now up on the Pacific coast. The o f the fleet from San Francisco to Iowa Central railway struck today. support o f the anti-racetrack gam ney for Steve Adams, to take a de surgeon-general is an earnest advo the Philippines, thence to China and together with helpers and appren- bling legislation which w ill probably position from Harry Orchard, to be cate o f the use of the hospital ships, Japan and back to Manila, la 1 6.21 8 . tlces. A reduction of 4 cents an hour be the feature of the extraordinary presented when Adams Is placed on and takes the ground that the navy mile*. The longest lap Is from Hon- In the wage schedule caused the session which la to convene on May trial for the killing o f Arthur Collins lat Telluride, Colo. 11. should always be ready. olulu to Auckland, 3850 miles. Istrlke. I T s ^ i s s ; ’ » s » s s i s s GETS TWO BATTI ESHIPS A”YEAR MANY TOWNS ENTIRELY RUINED Soma o f <ha Blssaat a f Brula f » a Hr Vaand In f a r North. “ There Is good bear bunting on the Alaekan peninsula. I got seven griz zlies oue afternoon, all of them within a quarter of a mile and not over half an hour's time. The smallest of them was a 3-year-old, and I should say they averaged 2.000 pounds. It took thir teen cartridges to bring the seven down.” Grant G. Chase, hunter and prpapee tor, who for eleven years has spent most of his time In the Alaekan wllda, crossed bis kneee In reminiscent fash ion at tTe Sherman House and told a few beat stories on the ere of returning to bis favorite haunts. Then for corroboration there la the testimony of Mrs. Chase, who for sev eral years has shared her husband's life, and who hna kept a diary where in la faithfully recorded the number of bear, caribou, sea otter and other fur- bearers brought down daily, and care ful measurement of the biggest skins. “ I suppose I bare killed 500 or U00 hears altogether,” continued Mr. Chase. “O f course, a good deal of my time has been given to some copper properties I am interested In or the number might have been much larger. At one time and another I have bunted bear pretty much all through the Rockies, but there isn't another place to equal the Alaskan peninsula. “ Big? Well, 111 tell you. Those bears up there are the largest In the world. A full grown male weighs from 2,000 to 2.500 pounds The skin of the largest fellow I ever killed measured 13 feet 4 inches long and 13 feet 3 Inches spread from toenail to toenail. I can lift aa much as the average man, but I ’m telling It .straight when I say that with Mrs. Chase to help me I couldn’t turn that fellow over on his back to skin him. "Twenty feet Is the nearest a beat bent on mischief ever got to me. An old female whose cub I had brought down, came for me one day and she was mad. She was sixty or seventy yards distant and In a bunch of alder when I took my Orst shot at her. She got np and came out In the clearing, and then she saw me and came for me In earnest. I worked my gun pretty rapidly and the shots took effect. She waa about six paces away when she dropped. “ M rs Chase and I got a scare once, though. In rather a ludicrous way. I had three camps In a lonely region, where for three years Mrs. Chase never saw a white woman. I bad to put up ‘bavaralas.’ or bouses of drift wood, the only kind available. We were go ing from one camp to another when I brought down a bear. "W e were In no hurry, so we »topped, built a fire and bad some lunch. After lunch— about an hour after the eboot- Ing— we went down Into a gulch where the bear waa lying. Mrs. Chase was carrying an aluminum teapot I got her to help me turn the bear over, and I was about to remove hla hide wheD the big fellow suddenly came to life. “ You. should have seen Mrs Chase go up that hillside. The best of It was, In spite of her haste, she took time to rescue her teapot. I believe I Jumped about twenty feet myself. I f that bear had been In thnpe to do damage there might have been some trouble— but be wasn’t. As a general thing there Isn't much adventure— it’s too easy.”— Chicago Post. 8 Old Favorites | MI m Edith Help« Thlaga Al*«g. “ My sister’ll be down In a minute, and says yoir’re to wait, if yon please; And says I might stay till she came, if I ’d promise her never to tease. Nor speak till you spoke to me first, but that’s nonsense; for how would you know What she told me to say if I didn’t? Don't you really and truly tbinit so? “ And then you’d feel strange here alone* and you wouldn’t know just where to sit; For that chair isn’t strong on ita leg«, and we never use it a bit; We keep it to match with the sofa; but Jack says it would be like you To flop yourself right down upon it, and knock out the very laat screw. “ Suppose you try ! I won’t tell. You're afraid to ! Oh, you’re afraid they would think it mean ! Well, then, there’s the album; that’s pret ty, if you’re sure that your fingers are clean. For sister says sometimes I daub it. but she only says that when ahe’s cross. That’s her picture. You know it? It’s like her, but she ain’t so good- looking, of course. “This is me. It’s the best of ’em all. Now, tell me, you’d never hav« thought That once I was little as that? It’s th« only one that could be bought; For that was the message to pa from th« photograph man where I sat— That he wouldn't print off any more tiV he first got his money for that. “ What? Maybe you’re tired of waitin* Why, often she’s longer than this. There’s all her back hair to do up, and all her front curia to fris. But it’s nice to be sitting here talking like grown people, juat you and me! Do you think you’ll be coming here often? Oh do ! But don’t come like Tom “Tom Lee, her last bean. Why, my good ness ! he used to be here day and night. Til) the folks thought he’d be her husband, and Jack aays that gave kim a fright. You won’t run away, then, as he did? for you’re not a rich man, they say. f a says you’re as poor as a church mouse. Now, are you? and how poor are they? “ Ain’t yon glad that you met me? Well, I am, for I know now your hair Isn’t red; Bat what there la left of it’a monsey, and not what that naughty Jack said. But there, I must go; sister’s coming! Bat I wish I coaid wait, just to see I f she ran np to yon nad kissed yon in the way that she used to kiss Lee.** —Bret Harte. Th« D o c to r*« Im a g in a tio n . “ I have a good story on one of Wash ington’s best known oculists,’’ said a prominent clubman, addressing some friends in the billiard room of the Met ropolitan club. “ My eyes had tron- bled me for loine months, and flniilly I went to see the doctor about them. “ After a thorough examination he said that the muscles were bmlly strained, and then he g»ive me a pre scription for drops to be used in my eyes three times a day. When I left he gave me an appointment for that day week, os he said he could not ex amine my eyes for glosses until they were in their normal condition. ‘Well, I mislaid that blessed pre scription, and os I was particularly busy that week, I had no time to get another copy. So in some trepidation I kept my second appointment. ‘As the doctor examined my eyes 1 hesitated a moment about telling him I hod not used the drops, when he took the words out of my mouth and the breath out of my body by remarking with pleased emphasis: ‘ ‘Your eyes are very much Im proved. That medicine which I gave yon Is certainly wonderful. It always has such prompt and satisfactory re sults.' “It wag all I could do to keep cl ient,** concluded the speaker, laughing. “ But I wasn’t quite sure how he would take the joke. You see, he may not have a sense of humor.’’— Washington Star. MSMfldd'B Fmner Collar. Richard Mansfield, when u mere boy, wne playing the leading role In a tragedy. In the last scene of which be was strangled. Sometimes, however, the actor who was to simulate stran gling him became too realistic. Sever al times he nearly incapacitated the principal player for Bnlshlng bis great scene. It camo to such a pass that drestlc mensur 's had to be taken. One evening, In the greenroom, Munsfleld ■Idled up to the muscular player who was to strangle him. The latter noted a Htrange addition In Mansfield's cos tume. Instead of the collaret of lace It waa his wont to wear, bound about bis neck was a leather band thickly «tudded with prongs. ’ And what Is that for?” he asked. ‘Ob, that?" replied Mansfield, with the rising Infle J in and a smile in hla voice; “ that Is merely a trifle, a mere trifle, to defer the collection of my life Insurance. Moat inconveniently the healthy condition of my neck and throat Is necessary for the pursuance of my profession and the earning of my dally bread.” F Ir® K a r a , « o a m The other actor saw the point and "W e’re used to odd queetioiiH.” »»Id apologized. Mansfield took off the col lar and never after suffered at hla the skipper of a river steamer aa he companion player's hands in the big stood on the wharf In the center of a crowd of querying passengers, “end scene. when I get this bunch aboard I'll Too Much I »com patibility. breathe easier and tell yon the latest. Compatibility 1» evidently, according All aboard? Very good. This 1» it: to the Washington Star, as dangerous The other day ns we left the pier and ss the Incompatibility of temperament swung Into the stream a woman np- plea on which so many divorce# are pronched with her two children. I granted. The story Is told of a girl saw I was It and waited. ’Where's the who, after listening to a young man's fire escape?' she demanded. ‘ M.v hus proposal, answered: band told me never to travel without “ No, Janies, I cannot marry you.” finding ont where the fire earn|*> wa».* Janies looked frightened, hurt, d l» I knew It would never do to tell her pleased. we bad no fire escape, but I had to "W hy not?" he ssked. study a bit for an answer. Finally I “There is too much compatibility of pointed to the rigging ladder running temperament about us, James.” said the up our solitary and never used mast. There It is,’ I told her, ’and if a fire girl, her Up curling with faint acorn. “ Too much compatibility? But Isn't breaks ont yon Just run np that.’ She that a good thing?" asked the puzzled appeared qnlte satisfied, hot 1 hope she'll never be aboard ship when a fire voung ninn. “ Not always," she answered. "For breaks ont. I f she la and runs np s Instance, Judging from the size of your mast there'll he trouble sure.” Phils- Income, If we were married I should dolphin Record. undoubtedly Insist, from motives of In t e r r u p t io n R e le n te d . inomy, oil dispensing with a servant ‘ So you’re still hunting work?** and doing my own housework, and in “ Yes, sir,’’ answered Plodding Pete. your compatibility, James, you would “ Ik>n’t you know that ont Went the/ Undoubtedly let me do it.” are willing and anxious to give them W » s lf of Knfrgjp, employment?” "You never change your mind about "Sure I do. Dat’s de reason I like anything, do you?" dis territory. You can go on liuurin ‘What's the use?” rejoined the ego work without bein’ disturbed.” — Wash tist. “ I found years ago th.it I was ington Rtar. Just as liable to be wrong the se-ond It Is argued that the compulsory time as I was the first.” —Washington adoption of the Incandescent sy«ff*tn of Star. electric lighting in mine* will greatly T h e D e a t ls t In L o v e . cut down the death roll. “Nature is really a great mechanic Just think of getting thirty-two teett People never have a very high re* In your tiny little mouth.”— Megger» gard for the Industry of a man who dorfer Blaetter. has hla picture taken “ while at work.9