GERM ANY HAS G R AFT.
Astounding State o f
Corruption
D is
BROUGHT TO TERMS MORE FLOODS AHEAD
covered in Navy Y a rd s.
L E T V IC E P R E S ID E N C Y
K A IS E R G R E E T S A M B A S S A D O R .
ALONE.
T aft Will Hava Nothing to Say About
It Until Nom inated.
A m erican Cordially Received
man C ourt.
Washington, June 18— Tliis state'
ment was issued from an authoritative
source yesterday:
Berlin, June 17.— The emperor t o
day received in audience the new
American ambassador to Germany,
David Jayne Hill, who succeeded
Charlemagne Tow er. The audience
was fixed several days before D r. Hill
anticipated it, but the emperor's
greeting was none the less hearty.
The em peror’s master o f cere
monies, Baron von de Knesbeck,
called at {he hotel yesterday where
Dr. Hill was stopping, and informed
him that an audience with the em
peror had been granted for today in
the old palace, his majesty com ing
in from Potsdam for the purpose.
Three court carriages called for Dr.
Hill today, and, accompanied by his
staff, he proceeded to the palace. On
his arrival there he received a mes
sage from the emperor that the pre
sentation would take place in the many people are under arrest besides
garden which recently wqs planted in the leaders, Heinrich and Frankenthal.
one o f the palace courts.
The latter is a multi-millionaire, and
it is some consolation to think that he
will be able to make good the losses,
T E S T C R U IS E R S .
though this will not heal the wounded
German pride.
Maryland and W e st Virginia M ake a
The kaiser was informed of the af
G oo d Show ing.
fair just as he was about to prepare
W ashington, June
17.— Rear Ad his speech for the opening of the Mari
miral Dayton today reported that the time exposition here, aud was so upset
armored cruiser Maryland on a four- by the news that he found it almost
hour full speed, forced draught trial impossible to entertain the King and
off the California coast, averaged Queen of Sweden, who were his guests
133.1 revolutions o f her engines per at the time. He has given orders that
minute, and the armored cruiser West the whole affair is to be sifted to the
Virginia, under similar conditions, av bottom, and that all the guilty ones
eraged 131.8 revolutions. The aver are to be punished, no matter how
age speed obtained with a slight ad high their standing.
Rumors to the effect that certain
verse current was 22.25 and 22.1 knots
high officials in the navy department
respectively.
have
received their share of the stolen
The revolutions may exceed those
of the records o f the contractors’ funds have so far been found to be
trials, and opinions of the naval o f unfounded, and are not generally be
ficials speak well for the work on the lieved.
“ An exchange of telegrams over
night between Washington and Chi
cago indicates that there will be no de
velopments, so far as the administra
tion is concerned, in the matter of so
liciting a candidate for vice-president
here until after the platform shall have
been disposed of and a nominee for the
presidency shall have been named.*'
It is understood that the above state
ment was issued with the distinct pur
pose of avoiding complication o f the
vice presidency with the presidential
nomination.
Reflection over 'night has only
strengthened the determination of the
war secretary to insist upon the in
clusion in the Republican party plat
form of the anti-injunction plank on
the lines o f thut telegraphed last pight.
Therefore, a long telegram went for
ward from the war department yester
day to Frank Hitchcock, Mr. T a ft's
Chicago manager, instructing him to
insist upon the anti-injunction plank.
M A L E V IT C H ’ S V IE W S
APPROVED.
New Ressian A m b a ssa d o r to T ok io
Developing Peaceful Relations.
Washington, June 13.— The admin
istration officials unofficially have
been made acquainted with the essen
tial features o f an important intervi#w
recently had by the representatives qj
a M oscow newspaper with Mr. Ma-
levsky Malevitch, recently appointed
Russian ambassador to T okio, which
touches upon Russia’s policy in the
far east. The views expressed by the
ambassador, it is said, meet with the
hearty approval of the Russian fo r
eign office. The tenor o f Malevsky
Mafevitch’s observations are pleasing
also to the administration, and to the
diplomatic corps here, as it indicates
a desire and intention on the part of
the Russian government to develop
the peaceful relations established with
Japan. The Russian ambassador took
the view that with the conclusion of
the treaty of com m erce the fisheries
convention
entered
into between
Russia and Japan during the past
year, the peaceful aims o f the policy
of Russia with regard to Japan have
definitely been established.
C r o p s W orth Eight Million.
G e r
Berlin, June 15.— How m^ny millions
has
the
German
government
been
swindled out of by the recently dis
covered embezzlements in the imperial
shipyards at K ie lf No one dares even
guess. How many of the vessel« built
and equipped in the yards are to be
found to belong to the same class as
the battleships built in Russia with
wooden pegs instead o f steel rivetsf
No one knows yet, and no one prob
ably ever will.
The discovery that two high officials
of the imperial shipyards, and possibly
a number of others, have systematical
ly been robbing the government for
years has come as a terrible shock
to the German people, who are proud
of the p’roverbial honesty o f their gov
ernment officials, and who have always
contended that while fraud might be
found in America and Russia, all Ger
man government officers would always
be found to come up to the Roosevelt
standard, and be able to show a record
as clean as a hound's tooth.
It is impossible to find out at this
time how many officials are implicated
or suspected; the government even re
fuses to let it become known how
machinery o f the vessels, which have
been now in com m ission for three
years.
_________
L IB ER IA A S K S FO R
HELP.
Black Republic S ays France and Brit
ain Encroach on T erritory.
W ashington, June 12.— B ooker T.
W ashington called on the President
W ednesday and arranged for a con
ference between the President and
Secretary Taft and J. J. Dosen, vice-
president of Liberia; G. W . Gibson,
ex-president o f the republic; James
Dunbar, a lawyer o f Liberia, and Mr
Washington.
Mr. W ashington declined to discuss
the subject o f his interview, but it was
learned that the representatives o f L i
beria assert that England and France
have encroached upon their domain
and they wish the moral, if not the
active, support o f the United States
to maintain the integrity o f their ter
ritory.
________
W ashington. June 13.— Representa
tive Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, w ho
has been named by the president to
serve on a com mission for the con
servation o f the natural resources o f
the country, called on the president
Thursday. Mr. Dalzell will serve on
the sub-comm ission on mineral re
sources.
_________
W ashington, June 19.— Reports re
ceived here today as to the conditions
on the isthmus o f Panama state that
the situation there is grow ing graver
every hour, and President Roosevelt
today directed the navy department
to order the battleships New Hamp
shire and Idaho at once to Colon.
G eorgia W ins Coaling R e co rd .
The cruisers Tacoma and Prairie are
Washington, June 18__ A report re
already en route. There will be ap ceived at the navv department states
proximately 1 500 marines on the that the battleship Georgia has made
isthmus when the elections are held. the w orld's coaling record, taking on
board 1.779 tons o f coal in five hours
Panama Given W arn ing.
and twelve minutes. In the best hour
458
tons were taken on board. The ship
Washington. June 13.— Tn language
that cannot be mistaken, the presi is on the Pacific Coast.
dent and Secretary Taft have notified
the Panama government that elections
Dayton to Remain.
in that republic must be conducted
W ashington, June 12.— Although
fairly. T he circumstances attending Admiral Dayton will not retire as
this warning were ‘given out for pub com m anding officer o f the^ Pacific
lication as if in preparation for active fleet until O ctober, he will give place
intervention on the part o f the United to Admiral Swinburne, w ho has been
States by the use o f whatever force selected to succeed him on August 1.
shall be necessary.
Admiral Swinburne will retire in two
years.
_________
M e tca lf G o e s H o m e .
Lum ber C a s e s D ecided.
W ashington.
June
17.— Secreary
W ashington. June 18.— The deeirion
M etcalf called on the President today
prior to leaving for his home in Cali o f the interstate commerce commission
fornia. He will leave W ashington in the Pacific Coast lumber rate cases
late this evening, and will not stop
at Chicago for the convention.
He
«aid that he was ifot and w ould not
be a candidate for the senatorship or
for any other office.
B A B IE S .
M r s . Bertrand Russell C ond ucts Pub
lic S ch oo l fo r M oth e rs.
London, June 15.— Hundreds of poor
mothers in London are deeply grateful
to the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell,
who was formerly M rs. A . Pearsall
Smith, o f Philadelphia, whose school
for mothers in this city has proved
great
success.
Mrs.
Russell vcom-
menced her ambitious scheme in a
very
small
way— first
there
were
nightly classes for mothers who were
allowed to bring their children and
who were instructed by Dr. Dora Bun
ting how to properly feed and clothe
their little ones. These classes imme
diately became very popular, but Mrs.
Russell, who was often present in per
son, soon discovered that the mothers
themselves were as poorly fed as their
babies and to remedy this she changed
the night classes to day classes and
provided a substantial dinner at a
price of 3 cents to those who could
afford to pay, while those who could
not were fed free of charge.
MUST PAT WELL FOR PRIVILEGES TOPEKA PEOPLE MUCH ALARMED
Board o f S u p e rv iso rs
Exacts R educ
P ro sp ect N ow Is T hat W ater Will G o
tion on G a s and Telephones and
Higher Than B efore— Heavy
Rent fyr T rolley Franchises.
Rain in K aw Valley.
San Francisco, June 16.—The annual
struggle between the city and the cor
porations has just com e to an end,
with an unexpected victory for the
municipality. The members of the
board of supervisors, who represent
the city in the negotiations with the
corporations, are for the most part
business * men and lawyers. It was
thought that their sympathies would
run naturally to the vested interests
and that the local service companies,
which suffered heavily in the earth
quake and fire, would take advantage
of the situation and make up from the
public what they lost in the fire. That
is exactly what the corporations tried
to do. Th ey said so openly, and ar
gued their right to do so, but a ma
jority o f the board stood firm for the
taxpayers, and the city witnessed a
most encouraging example of com
petent government.
Pressure from every possible ave
nue was brought to bear on the super
visors to force them to yield to the de
mands o f all the service companies for
higher rates. The gas company want
ed an increased rate, the water com
pany threatened famine unless it
should receive a 15 per cent advance
in rates, the telephone company re
sisted to the utmost, and the street
railroad com pany ran cars without
permits, seized franchises and at
tempted to bottle up the traffic priv
ileges on Market street, when the su
pervisors stepped in and com pletely
blocked the game.
The gas com pany asked for an in
crease from 85-cent to $1 gas. The
board conducted an inquiry. The gas
com pany promised to turns its books
over to the supervisors for inspec
tion. This, it afterward appeared,
was a bluff, for when the supervisors
asked for the records, the company
refused to produce them until prac
tically com pelled to do so. It was
then discovered that improper charges
had been made in figuring the cost of
operation. The mask was pulled aside
by the “ business” board and the gas
com pany got an 85-cent rate.
An investigation into telephone
rates resulted in a general reduction
o f from 15 to 25 per cent. The water
rate was placed at the same figure as
last year, with a slight increase in
the allowance for hydrants. The trol
ley franchises which the United Rail
roads attempted to appropriate were
withheld.
Kansas
City,
June
13.— Unusually
heavy rains fell yesterday in Kansas,
Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa and the
weather bureau predicts that the K aw
and the Missouri rivers will ag&ia reach
the high stage on Wednesday night. A t
5 p. in. the Missouri here had fallen
.25 o f a foot, but had risen .1 of a foot
at St. Joseph and continues to rise
there. The K aw fell about six inches
yesterday and was stationary last
night.
A t Topeka the K aw is rising
rapidly.
The weather bureau predicts that the
new flood at Topeka w ill exceed that
of Tuesday. A ll of the tributaries of
the K aw are very high, and more rain
is threatened.
The crest o f the new
flood here will be reached Sunday
night.
A heavy downpour yesterday
morning caused some additional trou
ble from flooded basements in the W est
bottoms, where the sewers were unable
to carry off the excess.
N o further
damage was experienced in the stock-
yards, Argentine and Armourdaie, K a n
sas, and in Harlem, M o., and none is
expected.
The stockyards are still idle and the
packing-hoqses were unable to continue
working even if they had stock. The
railroads, on the other hand, were in
better shape, but schedules were still
disarranged.
O IL T R U S T F O U N D G U IL T Y .
R ochester Jury Brings in V erd ict in
Rebate C a s e .
Rochester, N . Y ., June 13.— Guilty as
charged in the indictment, was the ver
dict brought in by the Federal Court
jury in the Standard Oil company ease
here at 6 :3 0 o'clock this evening. The
jury had been out since the noon re
cess.
Daniel J. K eefe, of Buffalo, who con
ducted the defense, moved for a new
trial and it was arranged to hmve
Judge Hazel hear arguments on the mo
tion July 7.
The oil company was placed on trial
June 1 for an alleged violation o f the
interstate commerce law in accepting a
concession from the filed tariff on ship
ments of oil from Ole^n, N . Y ., to R ut
land 'gnd Bellows Falla, V t. There were
Appoints Board to Inspect S h ip s.
40 counts in the indictment, each repre
senting action on a car of oil.
The
W ashington, June 12.— Secretary of
The mortality of children in Eng
P R O S E C U T E E N G L IS H M A N
maximum fine on each count is $20,000,
the Navy Metcalf has announced the land is appalling when compared with
or a total for the whole o f the ship
designation o f the follow ing hoard of that of America, but thanks to the
naval officers to inspect the ships, splendid example set by the two Amer Editor o f Paper in Seoul Is C h arged ments o f $800,000.
Shawmut and Trem ont, which are to icans, Nathan Strauss and Mrs. Rus
W ith Sedition.
Washington, June 16.— Crops of 1908
will be worth nearly $8,000,000,000,
according to figures prepared by the
department of agriculture. It is ex
pected there will be sufficient funds to
move the crops from the farms to tide
water.
in discussing the outlook today,
Chief Statistician Clark of the agri
cultural department, said:
“ indications at the present time are
for great crops. For eight years the
American farmer has enjoyed unprec
edented prosperity and now the ninth
promising harvest is practically as
sured. Never in the history o f the
United States have there been nine
such years of big yields and high be purchased by the Isthmian canal
com mission to be used for transporta
prices."
tion of supplies from the United
States to Panama. Captain Charles
H yde-Benson C a se N e a rs End.
W ashington, June 12.— The defense T. Perkins. Commander Stacy Potts,
in the Hyde-Benson land fraud cases Naval Constructor John D. Beuret,
announced yesterday that it had Lieutenant - Commander Oscar W .
completed its case except the testi Koestyier and Lieutenant Earl T. Jes-
mony of handwriting experts. It is op. The ships are in Pacific waters.
expected that the case will go to the
Sen ator Borah W in s.
jury one week from today. Several
character witnesses from San Fran
W ashington. June 17. — Senator
cisco testified for Dimond. Schnei Borah has not only got the scalps of
der took the stand and testified that
with Attorney Zabriskie, who is now District Attorney Ruick and Marshal
dead, he had an interview with Agent Rounds, of his state, men who were
responsible for his recent indictment,
Holsinger o f the general land office
Inn he has had the pleasure o f pick
at Tucson. Ariz., and at that time
ing successors to both men. the presi
Schneider said he stated the part he
dent
today appointing C. H. Lingen-
had played in securing O regon land
titles for Hyde. Schneider gave the f^lter, o f Lewiston, United States
details o f several interviews with H ol district attorney, and Shadrock L.
singer and told o f meeting Dimond H odgin. sheriff o f Ada county. United
States marshal on sole recom m enda
when he was sent east by Hyde.
tion o f Senator Borah. Senator Hey-
burn was not consulted about either
Preparing N ew Currency.
o f these appointments.
Washington, June 16__ The depart
ment of engraving and printing start
Repaint L etter B o x e s.
ed to turn out the new notes author
W ord has reached Portland from
ized by the currency act of the last
congress. The notes are similar to the the postoffice department at W ash
old United States bank notes with one ington, that all street letter boxes in
exception. Where the inscription
se all cities of the United States are to
cured by bonds of the United States," be painted a bright scarlet. The prin
appears on the old notes, the follow cipal reason assigned for the use of
the bright and attractive color is that
ing iegend appears on the new:
“ Secured bv bonds of the United these mail deposit boxes may be dis
cerned more readily. These boxes
States1 and other securities.**
are now painted in an aluminum color
and are not easily located in the
Bad B e e f fo r Navy.
streets by many persons desiring to
San Francisco, June 19.— it became deposit letters.
known today that the governm ent in
Opium C o m m issio n e rs.
spectors at this port have foiled an
Washington, June 18. — President
attempt to work off a large quantity
Roosevelt has appointed three commis
o f inferior beef on Uncle Sam for use
sioners to represent the United States
on the big supply ships Culgoa and on the international commission to in
Glacier. The concerns said to be im vestigate the opium question in the Far
plicated in the plot have been docked East. They are: Thomas Burke, attor
in their shipments 40,ooo pounds. The ney, of Seattle; Dr. Hamilton Wright,
meat is being supplied by the W est of Maine, and Dr. Charles Tenney, Chi
ern Meat company (S w ift), Miller & nese secretary of the American lega
Lux. the Armour Packing com pany tion at Pekin-
and other firms here, and costs the
government 7 cents a pound.
Dalzell Calls on President.
Battleships to Panam a.
S A V E B R IT IS H
Corporations Lose in Struggle to Heavy Rains Swell Missouri and
Role San Francisco.
Raw Rivers.
will probably be announced the latter
part o f this week. The decisions have
been written and are only aw aiting final
review and approval before being made
pnblie.
A -
sell, whose experiments have aroused
widespread interest and caused many
men and women of wealth to come
forward with offers of help, the death
rate among children less than 18
months of age will undoubtedly go
down.
T a k e s Terrible R evenge.
Venice, June 15.— A double tragedy
recently took place in a traveling cir
cus giving performances at the town
of Mestre, a short distance from here.
Among the performers were two acro
bats. a man Rafaelli and his wife,
Emma. A rich man about town had
fallen in love with the latter and had
begun a liaison with her. Accidental
ly Rafaelli discovered his w ife ’s un
faithfulness and planned a terrible re
venge.
While his wife was performing her
dangerous acts in the flying * trapeze
tinder the roof of the circus tent, Ra
faelli suddenly cut the rope which held
the trapeze, and the young woman
fell down i*»*'* the sand of the arena,
dying. Her lover rushed to her side,
and while he was holding her head on
his lap kneeling at her side, Rafaelli
cleft his head from behind with an ax
and then calmly surrendered to the
police.
__________________
S laughter o f Innocents.
Paris, June 15.— Owing to the ex
treme rigor of last winter and the
willful destruction of song birds,
France is threatened with the extinc
tion of her larks, finches and thrushes.
Professor Corcelle, of Chambery, has
addressed an appeal to the public,
warning them that if farmers, game
keepers and poachers continue their
conduct they will soon have extermi
nated all the small birds in the coun
try.
As proof of the necessity for
legislative measures he declares that
thousands of larks are killed and sold
at 6 cents a dozen.
Seoul, June 16.— Y. Mimura, the
Japanese resident governor of Seoul,
appeared as the prosecutor o f E. T.
Bethel, a British subject, who was to
day arraigned in a British court ap
pointed under order o f the privy
council.
Bethel
is charged
with
spreading sedition by the medium of
a newspaper published in the Corean
vernacular, and of which he is the
proprietor. The court includes Judge
F. St. Bourne and Prosecuting Attor-
n y W ilkinson, both o f whom were
specially sent from Shanghai by the
British government at the suggestion
of Am bassador M cDonald at Tokio.
The prosecution said that it would
prove that the publications in Bethel’s
vernacular newspaper was largely re
sponsible for all the disturbances in
Corea. M. Mimura asserted that the
Corean governm ent exists only sub
ject to the direction o f Japan. He
further said he believed there were
20,000 troops now in Corea, and that
half o f the country was disturbed.
Consequently the publications were
creating a false impression regarding
the real intention of the Japanese g o v
ernment, increasing the difficulties of
the governm ent and causing much
bloodshed.
C. M. Cross, a lawyer of Kobe, who
is defending Bethel, asked for a jury
trial, which Judge St. Bourne refused.
Pigeon M akes Long Flight.
CANADA C L O SE S DOOR.
All Japan ese Immigration is Shut O ff
for O n e Y e a r.
Vancouver, B. C., June 13.— The Ca
nadian government has notified the
government of Japan that the limit of
immigrants allowed for one year has
been reached and that no more Japan
ese laborers can be sent te Canada be
fore January 1 of next year. This is
in accordance with the understanding
reached between the Lanrier adminis
tration and Tokio last January, which
provided that not more than 400 each
year should be sent. Six hundred and
eight had come up to the end of May,
and more are arriving by every boat.
It looks like a barefaced evasion of
the arrangement on the part of Japan.
Japanese Consul Yada said tonight
that even the 400 had not yet arrived,
when the number o f tourists and stu
dents was taken into consideration. A s
a matter of fact, Canadian officials as
sert, not more than 5 per cent o f the
new arrivals are exempt from the ar
rangement.
M o re T rack W ash ed O ut.
K A T O B IA U S X OF THE SOUL.
< b l c a g o P h y s i c i a n s C o n d u c t In v sstft«
■ • tlo n s A lo n g I t r a s g # L in e s,
Chicago physicians, with true. W indy
City progress aud interval
in
that
which la unusual, are now busily en
gaged in conducting investigations con
cerning the m aterialism o f the soul.
Internea at tba County Hospital are
watching day after day for soul ghosts,
and in order to put the soul finding
quest on ■ more system atic and scien
tific basis county officials are to be pe
titioned for permission to photograph
death beds. It la proposed to take ■
series of negatives as lives o f patients
at the County Hospital come to an end
In hope that upon one delicately sensi
tized plate trace of a departing soul
may be recorded.
Dr. Rose M. Reading, a prominent
Chicago physician, aaya that on two
occasions she has witnessed the depart
ure of the soul from the body. In dis
cussing tbese occurrences, Dr. Reading
say s:
“The
first
remarkable experience
came to me In East Chicago about 18
years ago. I bad been called to attend
a little child. T he baby w as 7 or 8
months old. Little could be done for
It, and I knew It would die. I held it
on my lap.
“ Suddenly as I gazed at the baby a
shape formed over Its little body and
then rose about a foot from I t It was
o f about the consistency of tobacco
smoke.
It stood still for a m om en t
and then drifted up toward the corner
of the room. Fascinated, I watched It,
at the moment falling to appreciate
what the phenomena meant.
Then I
looked at the child In my lap. It was
dead. , I knew at once I had witnessed
the departure of the soul from the
body.
“ The second Instance came about lb
ears later. I and niy husband were
t the death bed o f an old man In Chi
cago. A bright light was burning In
the corner of the room. The end drew
near, and my husband and I watched
closely.
Aa death came the soul de
parted In a vapory haze, rose toward
the celling, and
finally faded from
sight.
There is no questioning the
tangibility or the m ateriality o f the
shape that drifted aw ay from the body
of the dying man.
“The reason the soul Is not seen mors
frequently Is because men and women
s t death beds are always moved by
unusual emotions and the brain never
can see clearly through strong emo
tion.
-About the m ateriality o f the soul
we know little, of course. It permeates
the whole body.
How it leaves the
body we do not know. There was a
time when they did not understand
the circulation of the blood. Som e day
we will know all about the circulation
o f the aoul. '
"T h e study of the m aterialism ot
the soul has to go forw ard slow ly and
conservatively, of course, because peo
ple are prone to ‘pooh, pooh’ discus
sions o f It and laugh at contentions.
But you remember there w as a day
when they laughed at Fulton becauso
be said he could steam up the Hudson
River.”
The T . r . r i - l 'p
H iit s e h e .
The German emperor Is generally re
garded as the Inventor of the turned-
up mustache. This Is true only as far
as Introducing It as a fashion. It was
Invented at the court o f Philip IV .
about 1625. T hat monarch was the first
to wear his mustache turned upward.
From the Spanish court the fashion
spread over all Europe. Charles I. o f
England. Philip’s brother-in-law, and
many members of the Austrian Haps-
burgs adopted I t It came to Belgium
and was Introduced Into Germ any by
the Spanish soldiers
during the 30
years’ war.
It was also found In Sweden, as well
s s In France under Louts X I I I . Under
Louis X I V . the beard went out o f fash
ion, and during the time o f Rococo the
elegant world knew only clean shaven
faces, until
the French
revolution
brought the mustache again into use.
But nowhere, except in its Spanish
home, did the mustache rise so ex
travagantly as It does to-day with the
German emperor and his imitators.
In Spain all kinds of artificial means,
such as bandages and coverings, were
employed to compel the mustache to
keep this unnatural upward position,
and In looking at the paintings o f Vel
asquez or Murillo, one can easily under
stand that without such coercive mea
sures a true
full blooded
Spaniard
could never have realized his Ideal
mustaches.
Missoula, Mont., June 13.— It was
reported Thursday night that several
miles of Northern Pacific track had
been washed out near Sand Point, and
there is little hope o f opening up trans
portation between Missoula and Spo
kane for some time. Heavy rains last
night delayed repair work west of here,
and much of the work has been de
S it t in g on n H ls h H a t.
stroyed. An effort will be made to
morrow to run a train from Arlee and
‘ I f I were to offer to wager that I
transfer passengers who have been could sit squarely on my silk bat with
stalled for several days at Dixon. The
distance between the two points is 14 out crushing it, you would take m e up,
I suppose,” said a clubman to a fel
miles.
Tacom a, Wash., June 16.— A fter be
ing on the wing since the 17th day of
last month, one o f the carrier pigeons
sent out from this city on the steamer
Trem ont, on the 15th o f May, to be
liberated at Cape Flattery, returned
to its roost in this city Saturday even
ing. W hen the steamer Trem ont left
this port it carried fourteen pigeons.
The bird that came back Saturday
low member. “ W e ll, you would lose,”
was one o f Mr. Brechtel’s, and it
brought with it a message dated Cape
he continued. “ A good silk bat should
G eorgia Breaks Coaling R ecord .
Beale, which is 200 miles out at sea.
Puget Sound Navy Yard, Wash., support the weight of a man say 140
Reno Banker Held U p .
One o f the pigeons returned home a
June 13.— All coaling records are being pounds w ithout yielding, providing the
Reno, Ncv., June 12.— August Fro* week ago.
broken# by the flagship Georgia today. weight 1* applied gradually and care
lich, o f the W ashoe county bank, was
fully.
T he w ay to do It is to place
So that all navy records should be held
G old From Alaska.
held up early yesterday while on his
the hat on a smooth, strongly support
way to his office. T w o highwaymen
Seattle, Wash., June 16. — The by ships stationed on the Pacific Coast, ed surface, crown downward, and lay
blocked the way in front of his buggy, steamship City o f Seattle, which ar the crew o f the Georgia went afteT the a board across the rim. In the hollow.
forced him to stop and then searched rived in port early this m orning from w orld’s coaling record recently estab On this spat yourself steadily and slow
him at the point o f a revolver. They Southwestern Alaska, brought the lished by the cruiser North Carolina ly, and you w ill find the hat does not
took nil the m oney he had with him, first shipment of gr»ld from Fairbanks when called upon to coal ship this
his stickpin, rings and watch. Then to reach Seattle by the Skagway morning. Starting off at a 300-ton per yield. O f oourse, a hat that 1ms once
they forced him to turn his back and route. In all, she brought about $1,- hour clip at 5 a. m.. when rest was been bent or broken will not do. Nor
walk in the other direction while they 800.000, the greater part o f which was taken for breakfast the bunkers were la the rule Invariable. It applies only
drove away with his horse jind buggy. consigned to Dexter H orton & Co., being filled at the record rate of 420 to good hats. Have I ever tried I»»
The men wore masks and there is no bankers o f this city. Another large tons per hour.
Yes. I have, but not on my own h a t "
lot was $504.000, consigned to the
clue to their identity.
— Philadelphia Record.
W ashington Trust Company from the
G raft Indictments Stan d.
W ashington Alaska Bank, its branch
Subm arines Put Into C o m m ission .
San Francisco, June 13__ Judge Law
K n e w W h a l W m C o m in g .
at Fairbanks. The gold came up the
VaBejo, C a l. June 12— The subma Yukon on the Prospector.
ler today denied the motions o f the
‘ I am dying,” walled the soldier on
rine boat« Pike and Grampus have
attorneys for Patrick Calhoun and Ti- the stage. “ I haven’t long to live.”
been put in commission, with Lieu
Runaway Auto Kills F our.
rey L. Ford and Abe Ruef to set aside
‘Quick, then.” replied the hero, "h an d
tenant Castle in temporary command.
New Y ork June 16.— Four persons the Indictments returned by the M* me out that soiled and broken picture
The crews for the tw o divers as
sembled at the navy yards yesterday were drowned tonight when an auto Farland grand jury a few weeks ago, of your sweetheart and the faded rone
and will leave on the boats some time mobile carrying a pleasure party of charging them with bribery, and or that you have always worn next to
this week. The submarines will lehve six became unmanageable, shot at a dered that the cases must go to trial. your heart. I ’m In a hnrry to get
for the low er bay to make tests near wild speed down W est Fifty-sixth The attorneys sought to have the in aw ay.”— Detroit Free Press.
San Francisco. The torpedo boat de street and bounded from an open pier dictments invalidated on the grounds
stroyers Farragut and Preble have ar into the North river. T he machine that the jurors were prejudiced when
T he man who Issine an ultimatiti»
rived here from their visit to Port turned over in its plunge from the they returned true bills.
asually transmits It by telegraph or
pier, holding the four victims fast in
land.
their seats. John Bailer, the chauf
throngh tbe mails. The hand-to-band
D iet to S ave C z a r.
feur, was carried into the river with
A d op ts S e cre t Ballot.
Reval, June 13.— It became known nltlmatum haa such a bablt o f m aklng
the machine, but managed to free here yesterday that a woman school trouble.
Paris, June 15.— The Chamber of
himself and swim to safety.
teacher thwarted a plot to kill Cxar
Deputies Saturday adopted an amend
There are many npa and downs In
Nicholas just after the ceremonies in
ment to the voting law which practi
Cuban
Patriots
A
m
u
ii
T
a
ft.
the Gulf of Finland on the occasion of this dizzy old world. Home people are
cally puts into effect the secret Aus
tralian ballot system. There has been
W ashington. June 16. — Secretary the k in g’s visit. The woman had been blown up by liomhs and some others
mnch complaint o f the
ssvtem of Taft laughed today when he was told picked b y the nihilists to throw the are run down by automobiles.
marking ballots in public.
This has o f a further report of preparations of bomb that would have killed the ezar
enabled the b ig land owners and man- revolutionary uprisings in Cuba based and his entire fam ily, but she eommit
Only a few have the courage to pule
nfactnrers and political manipulators on the proposed withdrawal of Amer ted suicide rather than carry out the Ucly disagree with a m ajority.
|
to exercise duress on the voters.
ican troops on or before next Friday. mandates of the secret order.
e r a »»
a
roomless.
o f a H ew M m I m C e o b e y
th a t Provog V e ry B f a M iv a .
One of the cleverest old customers
w s ever knew w s s Judge Booth, who
lived on the Bell ranch along the Red
river in the northeastern part of New
Mexico, aaya the Denver Field
an d
Farm . One morning out on the rang*
tba Judge rolled out o f hla blanket*
w ith a jumping toothache, and
al
though he exhausted all the remedies
In camp, nothing had any effect.
It was forty mllea to tbe nearest,
town, with the chancea against finding
a dentiat there, and it was finally de
cided to appeal to one of tbe T exas
cowboys riding herd five miles away.
H e came over In response to the mes
sage, and after taking a look at tba
tooth, which was a double one on tbe
upper Jew, he s a id : “ Jedge, I can
shoot that tooth out aa slick as gresse
if you don’t mind the scar It will leave
on your cheek."
"S h o o t It out?” shouted the judge
at the top of his voice. “ W hy, man,
you m ust be c ra z y ! "
‘ ‘W a ll, then, mebbe, I kin pick In
’null powder to blow It o u t ” "B lo w it
out?
N e v e r!” “ M ight possibly ham
mer It out with a piece o f Iron,” mused
the cowboy.
“ And you might go to
Patagonia and beyond!” exclaimed the
Indignant sufferer.
"Y e s , that’s generally the way with
folks. I ’m only telltn’ you how we do
It out here, but If you don’t want the
tooth out, of course you’ll have
to
stand the pain.”
The cowboy started back to the day
herd, but after a gallop of half a m ile
he returned to beckon the other boys
aside and s a id : “ The Jedge seems to
be a purty squar’ sort o’ man, though
a leetel techy, and I ’m sorry fur h im ."
“ K in he sit on a hoss?” “ Some of the
time.” “ Kin he sh o o t?"
“ Only now
and then.” “Then I think I can cure
that toothache.”
H e spent five minutes unfolding tb e
plot and then went over to tbe su f
ferer and s a id :
“ Jedge, I ’ve
com e
back to say that ye are a booby and
a coward 1” “ W h a t !” yelled the ju d g e
as he sprang up from his seat before
the campfire, " A booby, a coward and
a squaw, Jedge, and likewise a durned
old lia r !”
The Judge Jumped for him. hut tb e
cowboy ran for hie horse. There w a s
another near s t hand w ith two gune
In the holsters o f the saddle, and tb e
Judge sprang aboard and gave chase.
H a lf a m ile out the prairie the tw e
men began to shoot at each other, and
It w as not until the Judge had fired
hla tw elfth bullet th at the kind-hearted
cowboy rode aw ay and left his enem y
to ride Into camp and d e clare : ‘‘ W e ll,
by thunder, if that Infernal tootharba
haan’ t «topped so dead still that I fe e l
iuat like elnglng I"
H 0F R U U 8 PROSPECT.
H z a k l a a t a i H e « m P n a l a l a a P la e a
f a * B la lrta a a a t a l l y l a a l l a a S .
For women, our
national
capital
presents tihe moot hopeless m atrim o
nial prospect In the world.
It oueht
to he a paradise for eligible bachelor*
from the W est, especially mining m en
and cattle men In search o f w ives w ho
could gracefully spend their
newly
m ade w ealth. The departmental wom
an clerk Is a m ost Interesting study,
psychologically and m atrimonially. Phs
Is generally the support o f one parent,
often o f two, w hile a few sl*tors and
brothers thrown In are not considered
too liberal measure. She receives from
11,000 to $1,500 per year and hangs
over the desk— “ All hope abandon y e
w ho enter here.” A departmental po
sition Is generally a grave o f rnnu/no*
and matrimonial hopes. You hnve on ly
to watch the m ale clerks streaming ou t
from the various offices at 4 :3 0 p. in.
to realize this.
More blase men m ay
be seen In 15 minutes pouring forth
from certain government buildings In
W ashington than one could pass tn a
day’s lounging along New Y ork’s Ri
alto, which Is saying some. They o f
the government offices are worse than
blase. T hey are am bitions and sated.
They see nothing In life beyond morn
years at the sam e salary, on which
they could not support a w ife w ithout
self-denial. They prefer loneliness and
license.
On tbe other hand, the department»
are filled w ith pretty girls worth m ar
rying, girls who m anage to dress well
and still support more or less o f n fam
ily because they are pettleonted finan
ciers and economists.
Most of thevn
have moved their fam ilies to W ashing
ton— and rent out rooms. In the sum
mer they go on vacations, and som e
times marry out-of-town men.
Theso
girls are the envy o f the others who
happened to select the wrong place,
m atrimonially, for a vacation. The only
department men w orth m a n n in g in
W ashington are those who work In tb s
offices by day nad study law or medi
cine by night, and they are too busy
to think o f marriage.
A W s* o s
B illb o a r d * .
City Trustee Carragher, o f Parra-
men to, Cal., Is making a fight against
billboards, says the Municipal Jour
nal and Engineer. The m atter o f the
excessive size o f these boards
w as
called to his attention by s citizen who,
after erecting a little cottage on «
forty-foot front, found him self hedged
In on both sides by billboards eighteen
feet
high
and extending along the
street 100 feet each way.
Under the
city ordinance there seemed to he noth
ing ho could do, and therefore T rustee
Carragher thinks the law should he
changed so as to lim it the size o f bill
boards.
A matchmaker It the most popular
person In the world w ith tw o people—
the day after they become
engaged.
B u t the feeling they entertain for her
grows colder after they are married,
and when they have been married as
long as five years, each one secretly
feels that he, or she, would like t*
vet fire to the m atchmaker’s bam .
A fte r a woman passes SO, she doesn't
cere so much about things being pretty
In her house, so long
aa they a r *
’’handy.”
So m any fool things are being ee-
repted lately, that ghosts are bavin*
another inning.