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1 LET CONGRESS ACT President Wants It to Investigate Insurance Matters. CONSULTS WITH MR. MORTON W ill P rop ose a F ed eral Inq uiry T o Go Beyond the W o rk o f the L e g islative C o m m itte e . New York, Nov. 7.— That there w ill be a Federal investigation of life insur ance methods and that President Roose velt is taking an active interest in the matter and w ill, in all likelihood, at an early date ask tor the appointment of a congressional committee to take up the work, was learned today from an authority the value of which can not be questioned. The inquiry w ill be conducted inde pendently of the Btates legislative com mittee, and in spite of any results which may follow the committee’s re port. It is declared that the revela tions and toe many startling disclosures brought out by the state committee have been the incentive which has led the president and his advisers to take up the question. The president during the last two or three weeks has frequently been in con ference with men prominent in the ins- uranc world. It is known that Paul Morton, head of the Equitable L ife As surance society, was in Washington yesterday. It was whispertd in Wall street today that Mr. Morton’ s visit to Washington was in the line of giving the president some inside information concerning the proposed investigation, and that he might even have been sum moned there. Mr. Morton would not say whether this was a fact, neither would he consent to be interviewed. •t DREDGE CO AST HARBORS. G eneral M ac K e n zie Recom m ends the Building o f a B oat. Washington, Nov. 7.— In his annual report General MacKenzie, chief of en gineers, made one exception to the rule prohibiting recommendations for new- work. He recommended an appropria tion of $50.000 to build a dredge for UBe on t h e bars at the entrance to T illa mook, Yaquina and Coos bays, and at the entrance to the Siuslaw and Co- quille rivers. General MacKenzie had this to say about the dredge, for which the last congress refused to make an appropriation: “ Navigation in these harbors is often greatly delayed by the forming of shoals, the material deposited in most instances being of such nature that it cannot be handled with a dipper dredge. It is estimated that a combination suc tion and dipper dredge could be ad vantageously used, and so constructed that it could be taken from harbor to harbor as necessities demand. “ The cost of such a plant with two dump scows would be approximately $50,000, and it is thought that the necessity for its use w ill fully justify the expenditure. i m 4 R IO T S A T O D E S S A . 'C z a r's i a - a U kase M ad e Excuse fo r E x term in atio n o f J e w s. Odessa, Nov. 7.— The anti-Semitic riots are in full swing in this city and surrounding districts. The agitators of the movement have distribuetd a cir cular assuring the villagers that the authorities have received the czar’s ukase and state that it commands the extermination of all Jews. As a result of this action, the wholesale pillage •continues. The local authorities refuse to interfere, either standing idly by, refusing to check riots, or participating in the same. News continues to reach the city of terrible massacres, which have occurred at various points along the railway, es pecially here and at Kieff. The casual ties in those murderous disturbances are heavy.___________________ C o n fe r on P a c k e rs ’ C ase. * á > Chicago. Nov. 7.— Attorney General Moody has sent for United States Dis trict Attorney C. B. Morrison and Assistant Attorney General Oliver E. Pagin to go to Washington in regard to the beef trust prosecution. The plea o f the packers declaring that Commis sioner Garfield, of the bureau of Cor porations, had promised the packers immunity from prosecution has taken such an aspect that the attorney gene ral is said to wish a joint interview with the commissioner and Messrs. Morrison and Pagin. P R O C L A M A T IO N BY P R E S ID E N T C alls on People to C e le b ra te T h a n k s giving in T im e H o n o re d W ay, Washington, Nov. 3.— The president today issued his proclamation naming Thursday, November 30, as a day for Thanksgiving. The proclamation fol lows : By the president of the United States of America, a proclamation: When, nearly three centuries ago, j the first settlers came to the country which has now become this great re public, they faced not only hardship and privation, bnt terrible risks to their lives. In those grim years the custom grew of setting apart one day in each year for a special service of thanksgiving to the Almighty for pre serving the people through the chang ing seasons. The custom has now be come national and hallowed by imme morial usage. We live in easier and more plentiful times than our forefathers, the men who with rugged strength faced the rugged days, and yet the dangers to national life are quite as great now as at any previous time in our history. It is eminently fitting that once a year our people should set apart a day for praise and thanksgiving to the giver of good, and, at the same time that they express their thankfulness for the abundant mercies received, should manfully acknowledge their shortcom ings and pledge themselves solemnly and in good faith to Btrive to overcome them. During the past year we have been blessed with bountiful crops. Our business prosperity has been great. No other people has ever stood on as high a level of wellbeing as ours now stands. We are not threatened by foes from without. The foes whom we should pray to be delivered from are our pas sions, appetites and follies; and against these there is always need that we should warn. Therefore I now set apart Thursday, the 30th day of this November as a day of Thanksgiving for the past and of prayer for the future and on that day I ask that throughout the people gather in their homes and places of worship and, in rendering thanks unto the most high for the manifold blessings of the past year, consecrate themselves to a life of cleanliness, hon^r and wisdom, so that this nation may do its allotted work on earth in a manner worthy of those who founded it and of those who preserved it. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Btates to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this second day of November, in the year oi our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the president, E L IH U ROOT, secretary of state. M IN ID O K A S A L E S P O S T P O N E D . Lots In Tow nsites W ill Be Placed on M a rk e t N e x t S p rin g . Washington, Nov. 3.— In refutation of stories recently sent from Washing ton, the Reclamation service today makes the following announcement: “ The secretary of the Interior, act ing upon suggestions of the governor and prominent citizens of Idaho, an nounces the postponement of sales of lots in the new townsites of Heyburn and Rupert, on the Minidoka project. The dates of sale, Novemper 14 and 21, respectively, have been extensively ad vertised, and indications were that a large attendance would be present. Owing to the lateness of the season, the possibility of bad weather and the lack of accommodations for visitors, it was deemed wise to postpone the sale until early next A pril. A t that time pleasant weather can be counted upon, water w ill have been turned into the new government canals, and more than 1,000 new settlers w ill have already es tablished themselves on the land and w ill be clearing off sagebrush and put ting in crops. “ The Minidoka tract today offers one of the best object lessons in the West of the wisdom of the reclamation law, and present conditions predicate that one of the most prospérons and popu lous agricultural communities in the world w ill soon rise up from out of the desert at this point in the Snake river valley.” C u leb ra C u t i t Flooded. SLAIN IN HUNDREDS JE T TY NEEDS CASH. -v r- Engineers W ant $ 1 , 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 tJ C o m plete W o rk S ta rte d . Washington, Nov. 2.— Every dollar appropriated for improving the mouth of the Columbia river has been expend ed, including the $400,000 carried in the last river and harbor bill. The work which is in i rogrees today is be- | ing done on credit, Congress having authorized the expenditure of $300,000 in excess of the amount actually appro Caucasus Scene o f G uerilla W a rfa re priated, it being assumed that this amount w ill be made available at the — Finland in O pen Revolt— coming session. But the contracts now W o rs t E v e r K n ow n . in force expire December 31, 1905, and on that date practically all of this $300,000 w ill have been consumed by London, Nov. 4 . — The Odessa corre contracts, so that, when congress act spondents of the London Daily Mail ually appropriates this money, it w ill go to pay for work completed, and not and Daily Telegraph this morning for work yet to be done. A L a b o r - S a v in « Hugr wired their papers that Kishineff is in Major Langfitt, on duty at the office It Is not au easy task for the man flames and absolutely destroyed. They of the chief of engineers, says that ap who must do all o f the work around also add that three suburbs of Odessa proximately $1,250,000 is necessary to the farm most of the year to handle complete the jetty, which w ill extend it some things alone, so that if he is at have been devastated by mobs. It w ill be a week before all the hor seaward about one m ile beyond the all Ingenious he welcomes the devices rible tales of Jewish massacres through point where it now ends. He is satis which will enable him to do his work out Russia comes to light and then, fied, as is the chief of engineers, that more easily Here is a plan for one when the full number of dead is the best results w ill be obtained by ap- man to handle grains or any other known, its appalling total w ill be so j propriating this full amount at the thing which may be placed In a bag heavy it w ill practically be beyond be ¡coming session, so that the jetty can which is stored in the upper part of be rushed to completion next season, if lief. the barn and must go to the main possible. Like General MacKenzie, he floor. Take a bag of strong material, believes a suspension of work w ill mean Odessa, Nov. 4.— A dispatch from a seed bag is the best, and have It re Kishineff says: A horrible massacre considerable damage, especially to the sewed so that it will be a trifle smaller tramway, a loss which would be large has occurred here. Hundreds have at the top than in any other part; a ly avoided if work could be resumed been killed. A ll the hospitals, phar next spring. macies and hotels are full of wounded The reasons why the money appro and mutilated persons. priated and authorized at the last ses A telegram from Nicolaieff says the sion was expended so rapidly was to whole town is in the hands of bandits demonstrate that the completed jetty who are devastating houses and shops w ill increase the depth on the bar, to and beating people to death without give Portland the benefit of a deep the slightest hindrance. The authori channel at the earliest possible day, ties hear similar news from other and to open the way for an appropria southern cities. tion this winter sufficient to enable the engineers to complete the jetty. London, Nov. 4 . — A dispatch to Reuter’ s Telegram company from Ha- N O T A LL PEACE. paranda, Sweden, says that the m ili tary officers at Kotka, Viborg, Freder- ickshamn, Lovisa and Borgn have Russia Continues Scenes o f Riots, pledged themselves to assist the c iv ili T e r r o r and Bloodshed. ans in defense of the fatherland. A London, Nov. ? — Special dispatches company of Russian artillery, which had advanced toward Helsingfors, was in this morning’ s local newspapers rep forced to retreat without an engage resent the condition of affairs in Russia ment. as being extremely grave, especially light Iron or strong wire hoop Is then St. Petersburg, the sewn around the top, so that the bag St. Petersburg, Nov. 4.— Reports in the provinces. from the Caucasus state that guerilla dispatches say, remains comparatively is kept open and yet the contents are warfare has taken place through parts quiet. Late last night the streets of not easily spilled out. Tw o rings are of the country. Trains are held up, that capital were patrolled by strong placed In the bottom of the bag sev stations sacked and the bandits, when forces of gendarmes and Cossacks, and eral Inches apart and a ring is slipped attacked, flee to their mountain strong no further disorders have been re over the wire or iron hoop before it is sewed to the bag. Place a strip of holds, whence it is impossible for ported. troops to dislodge them. Wealthy citi According to the St. Petersburg cor lumber properly braced over the top zens are offering enormous rewards for respondent of the Daily M ail, the revo of the door nnd to It fasten three pul the capture of the bandits. lutionaries demand the establishment leys, the center one fastened so that of a republic, and as the result of this it will come down some four Inches Kishineff, Nov. 4. — Kishineff’ s demand the strong arm of General lower than the others. Now fasten one streets run red with blood. Jews are Trepoff has again been invoked. Thus, rope to the ring in the hoop, run It beipg slaughtered by scores: homes says the correspondent, brute force and through the first and the third pulleys pillaged, women despoiled. Never be popular sentiment are again facing and you have the raising and lowering fore has such a violent anti-Semitic each other. Even the appointment of rope. Then fasten a second rope in outbreak been known, even here, where Grand Duke Michael as m ilitary dic the ring at the bottom o f the bag. the slaughters of Jews only recently horri tator, with General Trepoff as his right one fnrthest away, run It through the hand, is discussed in official circles, second ring and then up through the fied the world. according to the correspondent who middle pulley and you have the con adds that late last night the revolution trivance by which the bag may be C A S T R O ’S L A S T O F F E N S E . ary leaders advised the populace to re easily dumped. A. glance at the illus frain from precipitating a conflict. tration will show how useful this np- A dispatch to a news agency from pliaiice Is and bow readily it will work Stops C ab le M essage F ro m Foreig n Odessa describes that city as having ex in practice. M in is te rs in V en ezuela. perienced a dreadful day, the defence Paris, Nov. 4.— Advices received by less populace being at the mercy of a D e r r ic k f o r S to c k in g H a y . the foreign office here say that the howling and armed rabble of 50,000 Where there Is much hay to stack Venezuelan government suspended the men, calling themselves loyalists and labor and time may be saved by using despatch of cable messages to the led by disguised policemen and their a derrick. There are numerous plans United States, France and Great Brit wretched dupes. The dispatch says: for building a derrick, but none Is sim ain for some time. Tne American and “ The Jews made a stout resistance, pler or cheaper than this design, which British ministers at Caracas have pro and their successful bravery entailed is the Invention of a farmer, who says: tested, but the French charge d’ affairs lamentable sacricfies. It is impossible I have tried to make a drawing of has not protested, owing to the inter to ascertian the casualties, but rumor a derrick that 1 put up to stock hay ruption of diplomatic relations between puts the number of killed and wounded with this year. It works so slick that France and Venezuela, though the offi as high as 2,000, many by bombs, I am sure It will please anybody. The cials here understand that the Am eri which the mobs used wholesale.” pole is 10 inches at the butt, 5 at top can minister voiced the protest of nnd 47 feet long. I mnde a mortise France. The suspension occurred yes Poland in Revolt. at the butt through which to put a terday or the day before and lasted a Warsaw, Nov. 2.— Poland is aroused chain to fasten it to the tree. Twenty- day. The ground for the suspension was that the Venezuelan government again, and another attempt is being had not received a reply to a cable made to regain independence. Rioting is now in progress in every section of message sent to an agent abroad. President Castro attributed the non Russian Poland, and the people are receipt of a reply to foreign influences, shooting down without mercy soldiers hence the suspension, which it is un of the czar attempting to interfere with derstood covered official dispatches. their freedom of movement and speech. The authorities here say the incident Dozens of processions of Socialists and is an additional provocation, but that anti-Russians have been passing through this does not change their intention not the streets during the past 24 hours, to adopt coercive measures until no and all efforts on the part of the au chance remains of securing a pacific ad thorities to check them have so far been without avail. justment. KistilReff’s Streets Run Red With Blood of Jews. MURDEROUS MOB BURNS TOWN Panama, Nov. 3. — Heavy rains last . M on um ent to S h erid an U nveiled. S e fo rm fo r W a r D e p a rtm e n t. week filled the Culebra cut with water Somerset, O., Nov. 4 . — A monument to the extent of stopping the work of Washington Nov. 8 — President the steam shovels at the Cucaracha end to General Phil Sheridan was unveiled i Roosevelt has approved the recommen of the cut. To make up for the time here today by Miss Mary Sheridan, a j dations for certain reforms in the rou lost during the rainy season, Chief En daughter of the great cavalry leader, in tine business of tbe War department gineer 8tevens w ill follow the example | the presence of thousands of people. which were prepared under the direc I of the Frenchmen, who, in the dry sea- j The widow of the famous general, his tion of Acting Secretary Oliver. These son, employed a double force of men. | two daughters, his brother, Brigadier change* have been brought about by A ll freight trains of the Panama rail- \ General M. V . Sheridan, and others the action of the president in creating road except one each way w ill hereafter of the Sheridan family attended the cer the Keep commission. His lettercriti- run at night, so as to give the Canal emony. The monument is a bronze cised the methods of work in connection commission’ s train more time on the equestrian statue of heroic size on a with papers of both Army and Navy main line during the day. granite base and is the work of Carl departments and General Oliver took Whole Caucasus in Revolt. Helier, of New York, and adorns the j the matter up at once. London, Nov. 7.— The St. Petersburg center of the square of Somerset. Ito W ill Rule O v e r C o re a . correspondent of the Daily Mail says: R oot Recognizes N o rw a y . Tokio, Nov. 3.— It is reported that ■ “ War, hopeless war, prevails in the C au g h t by Decoy L e tte r. Washington, Nov. 2.— It is learned Caucasus. The Trans-Caucasian rail the Marquis Ito will leave for Corea Boston, Nov. 4 — George Benetlv, of at the State department that this gov road, the sole line, is effectivelv on November 5, as ambassador from crippled and reinforcements have been Japan. It is likely that the candidates Huntington, L. I., pleaded guilty he-* 1 ernment has practically recognized the compelled to march. Seventeen bridges for the posts of Japanese ambassadors fo*e United States Commissioner Fisk new government of Norway, although have been wrecked, and the rails have at the European courts and at Wash today to a charge of using the mails | the formalities have not been carried been tom up in 40 places. Telegraph ington w ill be arcedited before long. It to defraud and of being a memlier of out. This was done by the recognition lines have been destroyed, and Georgia is rumored that Russian commissioners the “ Black Hand” gang which has by Secretary Root of Mr. Hange, as and the Daghestan are isolated. Every w ill establish a head office for the been sending letters to wealthy persons charge d’ affairs for Norway, and the transportation of prisoners at Nagasaki. demanding money under threats of vio- way is now open for diplomatic ex male is in arms.’ ’ Benetly was arrested at the changes between the two countries Most of the released men w ill be sent lenre. postoffice while signing a receipt for a whenever there is any necessity for to Vladivostok, the others to Odessa. P o le * Also W ant Autonom y. registered letter which the officers had them. St. Petersburg, Nov. 7. — On the used as a decoy. M o re F rau d In Philadelphia. beets of the announcement of the suc C anad a's G re a te st L a w y e r. Philadelphia, Nov. 3.— According to cessful Finnish national movement All M ay V o te in A u stria . Toronto, Ont., Nov. 2.— Christopher comes news of a strong revival of the a report made to Mayor Weaver today V’ ienna, Nov. 4. — It is said on good ! Robinson, Canada’s greatest conaiitu- straggle for autonomy in Poland. Dis by W . Bleddyn Powell, the city archi patches from Kalisch, in Poland, and tect, the city of Philadelphia has been authority that Emperor Francis Joseph i tional lawyer, died last night of penn- Thorn, in W .st Prussia, say that flag* defrauded of thousands of dollars in has decided to grant universal suffrage monia. In the Behring sea arbitration with the Polish coat of arms have been , the construction of six pavilions for to Austria and has instructed the pre it was said that it was his presentation hoisted in several churches and city - consumptives on the ground of the mier, Baron Frankenthurn, to d ra fts of the case that brought a Canadian victory. measure on a comprehensive basis. Philadelphia hospital. buildings. ¿Hy worka on thla plan can not keep the bouse free from vermin and disease no matter how freely he may use In sect powder, and how thoroughly the whitewashing is done twice a year. Twenty years of experience In raising poultry has taught the writer than no house ought to go longer than two months without being thoroughly whitewashed In every nook and crev ice. In certain seasons the work la done more frequently. All our houses are built with scratching sheds so it Is easy to do the whitewashing while tbe hens are In the shed and then by shutting them in the bouse whitewash tbe scratching sheds. Insect powder is, of course, a necessity, but less of it will be necessary If the houses are kept clean by lime and disinfectant R e f o r m in M ilk ina:- Addltlonal knowledge and the ne cessity for looking after every detail in order that the dairy may be profit able, has resulted in wonderful im provements In the care o f cows and of the milk afterward. Stringent health laws of the several cities have forced the shiftless man to wake up or else get out o f business. There are still many opportunities for improve ment, particularly along the line o f cleanliness of the cows and of the sta bles and milking along more scientific lines. I f the dairyman was half as clean as tbe milkman there would be little to complain of. The milkman must, of course, keep his milk on ice, but use au abundance of scalding water in the wnshing o f bottles and utensils o f tin, and further purify them in tbe sun. I go further and wash the little crates of wood in which bottles of milk are carried, using hot water and scouring soap and give these, too, a sun bath. See that Ice boxes nre scrubbed with hot water dally, that the mllkhouse floor is also scrubbed, and then thoroughly dried. D oor fo r a H og H o o k . There is uo good reason why the door to tbe hog house should be made o f heavy (wards and kept shut nor why the house should be without any door if one w ill work out this simple plan. Take some strong burlap or an old fertilizer bag and get a few laths. I ’late the laths an inch apart on both lili DOOH ros TH E HOO H O I BE. sides of the bag (crosswise) and fasten them to each other, nailing through the bng. Hem the edges o f the Img so they will not ravel, then fasten over the opening In the door, letting It near ly touch at the bottom. The laths will weight It sufficiently to hold it In place so that it will keep out cold and storm, yet it will be sufficiently light so that the hogs can push It with their heads when they wnnt to get In or out of the house. The Illustration shows the plan plainly and It will work better than any door we know of, obviating the troulile of opening the door every time the bogs are to be let out. I f desired the regulation board door may be put in place, to be closed when desired. S p r a j l n g w i t h Itnrd en na. I have been spraying with the liquid hordeaux, arsenate of soda, and arse nate o f soda and arsenate o f lead com bined for several years with good re H A V 1 IK H U IC K . sults. I give one good spraying Just two feet from that I bored an Inch before the bloom, a second Just as hole, through which to put a pin to soon as most o f the bloom has fallen, keep legs from slipping. I used a third a week or two later, a fourth crotches for legs, and wired them fast about a month Inter and made a fifth to the pole. I twisted four No. 12 application last year still a month wires together for cable with which to later, or the Inst o f July or the first o f 1 stiffen pole by guying to tree as August. For the last two applications shown in cut. I can take a fair-sized the Iwrdeaux was not used at full load at four forkfuls with this rig. strength but the lime was Increased When we get a stack done we rope the rather than diminished and the arse two legs together, hitch a team of nates about the same. With a stronjf horses to them, as Illustrated, and haul mixture all the season, the foliage Id it over to a new place; it works like a sometimes Injured, especially In wet boom on a mast. I f I had not had the weather, and when the leaves drop tree handy I should have set a 50-foot the fruit quits growing and does not pole In the ground 4 or 5 feet, staying take on the most beautiful color nor it with a couple of guy cables. I have the best flavor.—Ohio Cor. Amer should fasten butt o f pole the same as ican Agriculturist. a boom; then I could build stacks three quarters o f the way round the C n re f o r Hurt» W ir e Cats. center pole. We build our stacks 22 I had a young horse cut on wire so feet square and 23 to 28 feet high. badly I decided to shoot him. My w ife By having a pulley at the legs, as objected to that and made salve which shown, tbe hay will not nib against her father (veterinary surgeon) had the stack, but swing clear and drop used for twenty-five years with unfail right In the middle of the stack, there ing success. My horse was cured In by keeping the center o f the stack seven weeks without a blemish. Thla solid, thus making it sure to keep recipe has never been allowed before g<s:d. the public, but with hie consent It Is herewith Inclosed. Unsalted lard on# A writer In a prominent poultry pint, wood soot one-half pine, burnt Journal say* that the bouses abc” ld be alum two tablespoonfuls, turpentine whitewashed and cleaned twice a year. one tablespoonful, carbolic add eight By cleaning It la aaaumed be means drops. From the simplicity of tbe In everything removed and thoroughly gredients it la marvelous to note the renovated. T h e poultry man who results.—A. B. B., In Epltomlat U se th e W h ite w a s h .