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NEWS OFTHE WEEK
Iq a Condensed Form lor Oar
Busy Headers.
A Return of th LM Important but
Not Lest Interesting Events
of the Patt WmIc.
Russia it preparing for another
ral itrike.
Japan's pride ii barb by the
Japanese sentiment in America.
Richard Croker, former leader of
Tammany hall, Nef York, will toon
visit hit old home.
Should Hughe be elected governor
ol New York, La may us the office as
a stepping ttone to the presidency.
The president of the Cnicag elevator
trost has admitted grain men only
technically obey the spirit of the law.
The earnings of the Denver A Rio
Grands rtilroad for the year ending
Jane 30 showed an Increase of more
than 2, 000,000 over the previous year.
In the trial of the Standard Oil for
conspiracy at Findlay, Ohio, one of the
company's lawyert declared the corpor
ation to be the only good trost in existence.
Cuban rebels have petitioned for the
retention of Commander Colwell in
Havana, as he is liked by all and a
good officer. Colwell is comxander of
the U. B. cruiser Denver.
A Federal grand jury at Jackson,
Tenn., has indicted the Standard Oil
company on 1,624 counts. The max
Imum fine would be $30,480,000 and
the minimum $1,524,000.
Wholesale dealers in diamonds have
announced an advance inn prices of 20
per cent.
Congress is very likely to approve a
plan to advance the salaries of postal
employes.
Chicago commission men have lodged
a protest with Secretary Wilson, claim
ing the new meat inspection law creates
a monopoly.
The threatened lockout in the build
ing trades at Oakland it on. Nearly
all the mills are closed and building it
almost at a standstill.
Oregon Men Want United Northwsst
at Jamestown Exposition.
PnrtUn.i rut irt A movement for
OREGON I . . . at the
a joint nunuwni """'" -
Jamestown Ter-Centennlal exposition
was launched at a recent meeting of the
Oregon Jamestown Exposition commit
tee at the Portland Commercial club.
President Jefferson Mysit ana recre
tary John II. Stevensono, of the com
mission, were directed to writ an offi
cial letter to th governors of Washing
ton, Idaho and Montana, notifying
them ol th attitud of th Oregon
commission, and asking them to take
action in their official capacities to
bring about participation P1BD
gen- on the part of fieir rvpetiv states.
Th plan is conceived by th Oregon
. . . ... . A
antl- commission ts lor Joint acuon uu
part of the four Noitnwestern simee id
the erection of on magnificent exhibits
and headunarters structure, in which
each state shall have a department of
its own, th expense to be born equal
ly by th several states. It was point
ed oat at the commission session tost
such co-operative action wonld have
th effect of impressing the East with
the onity of Northwest interests and of
exerting both a political and commer
cial insignificance. It also teemed ap
parent that with th combined capital
of the four states a building of such
imnoin sixa and iieautv could be
erected that it could not fail to attract
wide attention, while a building by
any one of the states, singly, could not
hav this effect, and, besides, joint ac
tion could reduce the expense oi put
ting np individual buildings.
President Myers was authorised to go
to th seen of th exposition and ne
gotiate for a lite for an Oregon build
ing, in the event it it desired to erect
one, and also keep in mind the possi
bility of joint state building. He
will defer bis departure for th East
until pe has had time to hear from the
governors of th Northwest ttatet on
th plan taggested. In the event th
other states do not show a disposition
to adopt th plan proposed, tbit will
not b allowed to Interfere in any de
gree with Oregon' p'an to make an ex
hibit, should th legislator warrant it.
Upon his return from the East Pres
ident Myers will make a report to the
commission, and Governor Chamber
lain on th result nf Lis investigation!,
and this report, letting forth in detail
the cost of making an exhibit and the
facilities for erecting a building and
installing an exhibit, wben delivered,
will be need as the basis for appearing
before the legislature to ask such an
appropriation as shall be necessary to
ONE HORECHANCE
Anneiailon Sure to Follow Next
Failure ot Cuba.
NEXT PoPE N0TA SAINT.
Need of
th Vatican It
SELF GOVERNMENT IMPOSSIBLE
Sugar and Tobacco Man Will Object
to Fr Competition, But It
Mutt Com.
make a creditable showing.
Senator Burton, of Kansas, has been
denied a rehearing by the Supreme
court and will have to go to jail for six
monthi and pay a fine of $2,600.
Independent grain dealer! of Chicago
hav told the Interstate Commerce
commission how they have been mined
by rebate being given the favored.
Sam Jones, the well known evange
list, dropped dead of heart failure on
bis way from Olahoma City to hia home
in Georgia. Death came on hi fifty
ninth birthday.
An explosion in a coal mine near
Durham, England, killed 25 and en
tombed 200 miners. Rescue parties
re working to reach thei mprisoned
men, woo may not survive.
A new Elijah has appeared in Maine
China will ask all powers to make
Japan give up Manchuria.
Moody says he has evidence to con
vict the Standard Oil company.
An explosion on a government steam
er on the Ohio river killed three men.
Military supplies for use by the
American army in Cuba are admitted
free of duty.
FARMERS MUST DRAIN.
Magoon has assumed the government
of Cuba and Taft and Bacon have re
turned home.
All mail for United States troops in
Cuba is sent to Havana and from there
sent to its destination.
A Lne Angeles sthreet car ran away
on a steep grade because the brakes
would not work. Two men were killed
and a score seriously injured.
The railway mail clerks running out
of Houston, Tex., on the Southern Pa
cific, have gone on a strike as a result
of trouble with th railroad company.
Detectives from London are investi
gating the alleged Importation of Eng
lish girls to work in South Carolina
cotton mills .contrary to the contract
labor laws.
Mount Pelee ii again in active erup
tion. 1
Wrangle! of unions cause a threat of
a general building lockout in Chicago.
A Toronto university student was th
first to be killed by football this season.
Wife says that, while he has no ill
feeling against the ciar, he will never
again serve him.
An Atlanta grand Jury has Indicted
u wrme men lor complicity in the ie-
rem outrages against negroes
In his farewell address Taft told the
vunans ttiat th United States will not
reave tin lair elections are assured.
Secretary Taft his informed a delegi
tlon of Isle of Pines citiaens that it
nseieas to think of
Cuba.
Department of Agriculture Issues Bul
letin of Instruction.
Washington, Oct. 16. For the guid
ance of the great number of people from
humid regions who settle on the im
mense areas of Western lands opened to
settlement, th Department of Agricul
ture has issued a report on "Practical
Information for Beginners in Imita
tion." There are leveral million acres open
for settlement In the United State,
and irrigation workt built by prlvat
enterprise and works being constructed
by tbe national government will pro
vide a water mpply for more than 1,.
uuiyiuo acres of arid lands. Th re
port discussei arid soils and water sup
pliei generally and describee how to
locate and build farm ditcher, prepare
land to receive water, irrigate staple
crop and how much water to apply.
"Experience throughout the arid re
gion," the report says, "is demon
strating that the greatest danger to irri
gated lands Is lack of drainage. Water
applied to crops raises the ground wa
ter, which brings with it the salts dis
solved from the anil; capillarity brings
this water to the surface, where it
evaporates, and the salts accumulate
until all vegetation is destroyed. The
only insurance agdnst this) is proper
drainage, but anything like economy in
the use of water and thorough cultiva
tion, which will check the rise of
ground water or lessen evaporation,
will decrease the danger."
Washington, Oct. 18. Republican
senators and congressmen who have
been in Washington lecen'ly and offi
cial closely identified with th admin
istration agree with th president that
Cuba shall bar another opportunity to
try self government, but the opinion is
almost nniversal that annexation it
only a matter of tim. Little is being
said publicly about th probability of
annexing Cuba to th United States,
bnt the subject is receiving a great deal
of attention in Washington and public
men are seriously discussing tb best
method of bringing th island under
tb protecting arm of tb United State.
President Roosevelt it absolutely tin
cere in bit declaration against the
present annexation of Cuba and be has
hopes that th Cuban people, on thier
second attempt, will be able to form
and maintain a satisfactory govern
ment. He does not want th island
mad part of th United State if, by
any possibility, th Cubans can con
duct their own affairs and protect the
lives and property of all their citizen!.
Ha doe not believe that the United
States at this time would be justified
in taking over the island, merely be
cause vast amount of American capital
hav been invested. But if tb words
of other administration officials can be
held to be authoritative, it is to be in-
feired that the president will interpose
no further objection to annexation in
cat tb second Cuban government ii a
failure.
While annexation it generally ex
pected, no one lookt forward to it with
enthusiasm. Rather, tbe Cuban prob
lem is regarded in the light of on of
the unpleasant outgrowths of th Span
ish war, as perpleing in tome icepecti
as tbe Philippine question. Southern
men would like to lee Cuba made
American territory, but they want the
tariff wall kept Dp agalmt Cuban sugar
and tobacco, and torn bar erected
against the immigration of native Cu
bans into th Unite States. Th South
has mora than iti share of dusky citi-
teni.
It ii probable that tbe men in con
gress who are fighting a reduction of
the duty on Philippine engar and to
bacco would join the South in demand
ing the retention of the tariff on sugar
and tobacco from Cnba in case of an
nexation. If Philippine sngar ii a
menace to the beet sugar Industry of
tne west, it will re argued that the
sugar from Cuba, closer and much more
abundant, would be a still greater
menace.
Palitir;.. at
Rome, Oct. 1$ ! spit of tb fact
that th pop, .ojoying perfect
health, th matt,, of po"'l '",ul'
of th next ti.n. u.a. whenever It doe
occur, it beiug Jiscosfed among tbe
cardinals, and j, with no detir to
anticipate th election or to b diir
spettful to th p0ntifl. Tb feeling
among Hi cardinal bi changed great
ly inc August, 1903, nJ tod,T Utn
exists a tendency quits opposit to that
wbicb triumphed thres year ago. In
view of th Vatican's xprincM with
Franc, th cry tbii tim will b not
for a merely (hKiooa pope, bat a po
litical pope: nm inr a saint, but for
statesman.
Even th ttmnreit opponent of
three yean ago 0f Cardinal Kampolla
now favor hit lctioo. Kampolla
failed in 1903 chiefly becaut h was
vetoed by Cardinsl Puiyna, in th
tame of Austria speaking for th en
tire Triple AIHmcsj.
Although Pope Pios bai inppressed
me rigui ol veto tbroagtea ry ceriain
power, th reason hlcb Induced tbe
Triple Alliance to oppose Cardibal
Kampolla still ex,t, and the church
today it lees able to tffoid displeasing
th Central Empire. Consequently
there are rumors olso experiment with
a foreign pope, iD rpit of th disfavor
of th Italians. For tbt last four cen
turies all the pope bave been Italians
BAY CITY IS ARMED)
HUNDREDS ARE BURNED.
Vigilance Committee May Be Or
eaolzed tor Protection.
MAYOR DOES NOT LIKE PLAN
Carnival of Robbery and Murder Hat
Stirred Honest Citxn to a
High Pitch.
FOOTPADS HARD AT WORK.
Polic Round Up AH th Sutpicioua
Characters They Se.
San Francisco, Oct. 1H. -Despite the
energetic measures taken by tbe polic
in rounding np all ex-convicts and sus
picious characters yesterday and today,
the activity of ths footpadt and high
waymen continued Several report of
robberiet and attempted bold-opa were
made to the polic.
irt Wilson, a laborer, was .held up
and robbed of $6 by two men, while
walking on Rush itrset, near Kearney,
about 10 o'clock tonight. As th foot
padt stopped him Wilson fired a ihot
at them in the darkness. In their
bast in learchins bim. tbe robben
overlooked the pistol wblch he had.
Attracted by the shot, nightwatcb
man cam ruLnini np and also began
shooting at the fleeing men.
Edward Lang, a itreet-car conductor,
reported to the police today that h
wat held np by two masked men at tb
north end of the Ferry building shortly
Deiore 12 o'clock last night. While
on of them held a pistol against
Lang' head the other footpad went
through nil pocket, and, according to
Lang, robbed bim ol 150.
An attempted hold-up wat reported
from Golden Gat park. Th approach
of tome pedestrians frightened away
the highwaymen.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 13. Th
general alarm caused by th numerous
report! of hold-up and robbery has
seriously affected th attendance at all
placet of amusement. Hotel managers
and othen entrutted with th handling
of larg tutus of money Lav mad lab
or at deteniiv preparaticnt and there
I a general arming on tb part of citi
sent.
Diecuising th propriety of th or
ganisation ol a committee of tafety in
toll ttat today to deal with petty
criminal! who now infest th city, Act
ing mayor uaiiagner said:
"There shall be no lynching in this
city, and I sincerely hope that at the
meeting to be held in Union square
touay in leaden will hav enongb
sens to do nothing that will injur th
cny.
iney will call it a committee of
safety," th mayor continued, "but
other cities will call it a vlgilaoc com
mlttee, and that will do irrevocable
harm to San Francisco. It wonld be a
cconiession that th people of thia city
are not capaDie of protecting them
selves, and when I say tb people I
mean tbe authorities with whom the
people hav vested th power of gov
ernment The plan it un-American.
"Th lurpation of tb powers of tap
pressing crime by unauthorised persons
ii a crime in itself. I shall regard it
as sued and will not permit it.
"Should those men desire to co-ODer
at with tb autboritiet in ridding the
cuy oi mugs anj criminals, I shall be
giaa to hav their assistance, but they
uju.i noi act independent of tbe munic
ipality. I will not allow millionaire
to take those atepa any sooner than I
would allow laboring men. There
most be no violence committed by citi
em. Lynch law doet more harm
than good."
Vestal With Two Thousand Chinas
On Board Catch Fir.
Hongkong, Oct. 15. Th British
steamer Hankow, from Canton, was
burned at 3:10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, whil lying alongside her wharf.
Ilnndsrdt of Chines parteugert were
burned to death and a valuable cargo
wat destroyed. AH th European pat
longer and crew were saved.
Tb steamer Hankow, with J, 000
Chines pasienrs, man, women and
children, and seven Eoiopeans, and
cargo including 3,700 bales of mattlag,
(00 bale ot raw tilk and 400 balea of
wast tilk, arrived from Canton at 3
o'clock and wat tbortly afterward
moored at th wharf.
Her chief officer reported to Captain
Branch that th thip wtt a fir. Tb
captain than directed th chief engineer
to turn on th water through tb fir
bos. Tbit waa isupossibl for tb rea
son that within nv minute after th
alarm wat given th Hankow wai
able fur and aft.
Captain Branch then awakened the
European paieenger. who rushed down
th gangway, th ladle in their night-
clothes. Th crew was compelled to
leave th ship, wbicb by thit tim wtt
a veritable furnace.
Responding to signals, th British
cruiser Flora and th naval dockyard
distpacbed contingents of engine! and
assistants. Th floating brigades ol
firemen made heroic, tfforts to extin
guish th flames, which leaped to a
helibt of over 60 feet.
Tbe Chinese steerage passengeis were
thrown into a frightful panic. Horri
fying shrieks and cries to save their
live were heard, but escap wa im
possible, owing to tb infiammabla na-
.i it.
iure oi me cargo. Hundreds were
burned to death and many othen
jumped lato th harbor and were
drowned.
BELL IN
COMMAND
funston Will Return to United
States With Secretary Taff.
COMMAND WAS ONLY TEMPORARY
On Faction of Cuban Declared Func
tion Deserted Them In War
Against Spaniards,
ARIZONA UNITED.
OLD GIRARO SLAVE PEN.
BIG GUNS NEEDED.
STORM SPOILS BANANAS.
separation from
The Chilean congress, city and prop
eriy owners ol alparaiso, a ill com-
oine xo rebuild the city destroyed by
ww i biiijuaslB,
w
jonn isarrett, now minister to Co-
iomti!a, is slated for a better position,
miner amnasaador to Hiasil or vice gov
ernor of the Philippines.
Tl.. .1 .....
no i-iariiivn( oi justice is gaining
irmu rviueuce mat nundreda of men
"to mine ami niacK, are held in vir
tnal slavery in Southern Flordia y the
luiiioermen.
Cuban Liberals hail Taft and Racon
as avionr.
A son of Vice President Fairbanks
has eloped with a Pittenurg girl.
A lone highwayman held up a stage
in the Tonopah, Nevada, district, aad
eenred nearly 15,000.
Th Newfoundland cabinet is still
worrying over the fishing privileges
lost to th United State.
Battling; With a River.
Imperial Junction, Cal., Oct. 18.
seldom has a more desperate battle
wun nature been waged than that for
the turning of the Colorado river.
Rockwood gate went out last Thursday,
and a great disappointment was occa
sioned, but the outlook is much bright
er. Yesterday the trestle below the
Raie was prepared, 100 car of rock
uemg oumped as an experiment. This
morning the rock was found In the
same position, indicating that the
on was nrm enongh to support it.
Another trestle is being built.
Cleaning Streets of Debris.
San Francisco, Oct. 16. The task of
tboronghly e'eaning the streets and
sidewalks of the city was comsnenced
today nnder the direction of tbe Board
of Pnblic Works. Five hundred m.n
were placed at work on Mariet street
near tbe ferry. Rubbish was thrown
from tbe streets onto vacant property
and the result was protests from own!
ers. Many building sites had been en
tirely freed of debris, and nronr.
owners particularly objected to having
basements that had been cleaned filled
with bricks and iron again.
Big Travel to California.
Fan Francisco. Oct. lfl 1 h.
month has seen a steady flow of popu
lation into California from the
sta es The flares of the railroads
and the California Promotion commit
tee Mat that 14,000 settl-rs have come
here in that time. Manv of th... ,..-.
irone to the country, but a fair propr.
tion have remained in San Franci.
It is believed that this is aimnl. ti.
vanmiardof an army of immig,nts
Woo am pmntna 1 .-...a i - 1
' in lauiornia.
Silver Advances to 70.13.
Washington. Oct. lfl Th a..
of the mint yesterday purchased 160.
000 ounces of silver at 70 13 cents n.
one ounce, delivered at tbe mint in
I'enver. For the mnvanl.n. wi.i
rfere it ha been decided to open bids
ur me taie of Silver
Hurrlcan Sweeps Throuch Central
America, Waating $1,000,000.
New Orleans, Oct. 16. Damages of
fully $1,000,000, including the partial
demolition of one town, was done bv
il a. i . w
me unrricane on trie coast of Central
America which wai reported by a brief
wireless message received here laBt
night. Wireless and cable advices to.
day to the United States Fruit company
say that probably no loss of life oc
curred. The hurricane appeared to be central
near Blueflelds, on the east coast of
Nicaragua. It ewept In from the sea,
its first fury striking Little and Great
Corn islands, which were iwept bare
of vegetation and their topography
even altered by tbe wave. On the
mainland the sjorm'i damage was con
fined mostly to a path about 80 miles
wide, in which banana and rubber
crops were destroyed and plantations
blown down. Great damage is report
ed from Rama, a town on the coast
aooui u miles from Blueflelds.
Mrs. Jefferson Davit Dying.
New York, Oct. 16. Mre. Jffrson
Davis, widow of the president of the
Confederate states, is dying of pneu
monia at the Hotel Majestic here. It
is believed she cannot survive more
than a few hours. Mrs. Davis has
been ill for several da h., u 1 . 1
been believed sh would recover op to
last night, when a sudden change for
the worse was noticed. Mrs. Davi
went to the Majestic a short time ago
on her return from the Adirondack
. .... r,,rui most oi the
for her health.
General Wood Alio Want Cavalry
Sent to Philippine.
Wahington, Oct. 16. An argument
against tbe reduction in tb number of
troops in th Philippine 1 made by
major General Leonard Wood, com
manding that dvnion, in hi annual
report. Tb total arrUioo, on June
30 last, numbered, 043 men.
"W are far fron home,", say Gen
eral Wood, "andih case of foreign dis
turbance!, evei with all our troopi
concentrated at Xanila, tb fore avail
able would be fctrecly sufficient to de
lend it from a itrious attack. More
over, a strong garrison should be main
tained here until conditionns pertain
ing to the civil pvernihent are well es
tablished and Uu animosities and dis
appointments incident to the building
up of a local government under new
and perhaps itrained condition! have
passed away."
General Wood suggests adding some
artillery to tlx present garrison and
sending to thsPhilippinei one iquad
ron of each of ths t avarly regiment! in
the United States.
Public order has greatly improved in
Miindanao. The rice output there is
said to exceed my previous year and
the people hare gone to work. As
there is an large Mohammedan ilement
there, and unexpected disturbances
niay occur as ths result of action of re
ligious fanatic returning from Mecca,
the repoi t say the garrison should be
concentrated.
Ditcovery Mad by Subway Workman
at Depth of IOO Feat.
rnnadelprjla, Oct. 13. Subway
workmen digging beneath Water street
tor tne new tunnel atation, uncovered
at tbe depth.of 100 feet what is clear
ly an old alav prison. The Den i
composed of narrow rll in iku u
witb three-foot corridors between hesvy
wans, ine cent run tlx to the tier.
fcsch is large enough to held six men
packed in closely. Heavy iron bars
covered th window and in each cell
were manacle supports. Directly above
tbem 1 th boos of Stephen Girard,
an eccentric millionaire, who gave Gi
raid CO' lege to Philadelphia, and whose
state is now valued at 1100,000,000.
In tearing down the old Girard home
that the traction company bought, the
prison wa discovered. The old house
ia within half a square of tbe Delaware,
and secret access by water would be
easy. Girard believed in slavery,
owned slaves and many Louisiana sugar
plantation!.
Determined to Preserve Her Identity
and Will Refute Joint Statehood.
Phoenix, Ari Oct. 15. Th terrl-
tory of Ariiona, rich in American citi
xenship, a well a natural resources, is
making a determined fight to retain its
identity. The people at a whole are
bitterly opposed to th plan of Joint
statehood with New Mexico. Tbey ad
vance various reasons for their opposi
tion, some of them potent and others of
little apparent weight. Whatever tbe
reason, they are overwhelmingly airainit
joint statehood, and will kill the prop
osition at the polls next month. Tbe
leader of tb "Jointists" in Norther
Arixona acknowledges that he doe not
count upon more than 15 per cent of
th vote in favor of jointure.
Tb chief objection to union with
XT
iew juexico appear 10 D Dased npon
the disparity in lite and quality of
population. Tbe Mexiean element in
New Mexico numbers at least 60 per
cent of the total population. In Ari
xona the Mexican vol is about 15 per
cent of the total. Much of the Mexi
can population in Arisona is floating.
consisting of laborers on railroads and
rrigation enterprises, etc.. whil the
living m rew Mexico are. as
a rule, native of th territory.
Havana, Oct. 11. General Frederic
Funston will not continue in commi d
of th American force in Cuba. Gov
ernor Taft announced tonight that h
and General Funston will leave Havana
for th Unitd State on Saturday on
th battleship Louisiana. With them,
will go Assistant Secretary of State ba
con, and th affairs of Cuba will be left
in th hand f Governor Magoon and
General J. F. Bell. Kxplaining th
chang of plans, Mr. Taft said :
'General Funston waa summon,! n
a hurry call from th Pacific coast be
cause he was well acquainted witb
many of the Insurgent chiefs here, and
n wa mought he could aid us, as he
did greatly, in bringing the men in
arms to an agreement. General Funj
ton was put temporarily in command of
th troops in Cub merely as a conven
ience nntil General Rl should arrive.
General Funston, Mr. Bacon and my
self, with Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bacon
and our secretaries, are returning to
our permanent duties."
Taft' especial confidence in the chief
of the general staff' ability to carry
out the program the governor ha ini
tiated resulted in the decision to con
tinue him in the island.
Many Cuban! of tbe faction to mhlph
Mendtt Capote and others who organ
ised the Moderate party belong, were
outekpoken against General Funston,
alleging that he bad deserted tbem in
the war to throw off the yo of Spain.
SMUGGLE CHINESE.
Fishing Schooner On New England
Coast Landa Orientals.
Providence, R. I.. Oct. 11. Eighteen
Chinese were arrested todsy after tb
capture by th United State immigra-
lion authorities of tb schooner yacht
Frolic, for which revenue officers hav
been searching along the New England
coast for tbe past two weeks, were held
tonight by United States Commissioner
Cross in $1,000 bail each for examina
tion next Wednesday. All the men
declared they had been in the United
State before, but that their certificate
had been lost, some in New York and
others in the fire at San Francisco.
This declaration contradicted a state.
ment alleged to have been made ly
John C. Lehnemann. of Boston, one of
the men arrested for complicity in th
smuggling operations, who says th
traffic has been extensive and effective.
FURNITURE MEN PROTEST. BLOW TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Armour'a Case Before Wilton.
Philadelphia, Oct. 13. State Food
and Dairy Commissioner Warren this
week caused warrants to be issued for
the arrest of several o' Armour & Com
pany's agents In this city on tbe charge
of exposing for sale hams and other
meats containing boracic acid. Assist
ant Food and Dairy Commission r D.
Schick and N. B. Critcl field, secretary
of agriculture of this state, today went
to Washington to meet Secretary of Ag
riculture Wilson and Dr. II. W. Wiley,
chief chemist of the department, and
lay the facts in the case before them,
summer
No Word From Peary.
NewY ork Oct. 16.-Th middle of
October having been reached, the time
"rait set for receiving news from the"
V7 A'CtL W"" hope practi
Ini ,l7" ha",W1 "t night of hoar-
ir? Lh T,,he band of "P'or
" nt"ho M from this port 15
monthi ago. It . .
would com. through t,7eVh7, Zn
h7enTr Hin, D.nnd"' 8c"'nd at
the end of their cruise this f.H. fhe
whaler have failed r i!!. he
..I .v.:. i- . "- uiio port.
.u wns in laxen that nnn...i '
conditions prevail in the Arctic.
Trial of New York Central
Nw WYok,r0,'V WThe tri' '
for th. .11 R"ilro,, romp.ny
RefinfnV ,h" AnM'n Pugar
Otl ITnnfTB
Wednesdays and Fridays of each week!
instead of on WednM.L--a ni.
heretofore.
st "MuirnnT nn nnnmm i
the West i tv,. ... . V . .
Infraction of th. r w,. " "'' 'or the
dertaken in thu .i Z. "W..'v" "
ia ina.,,..... . " lr'.' action
it-. - "-" " or in Feder.l
nrt that m.. k. . .
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iwcFffliM terms
to
Criminal
to last with
Postal Deficit Less.
Wasnhlngton, Oct. 16. Postmaster
General Cortelyon has given out an ad
vance statement of tb receipt! and
expenditures of the postal lervice for
the fiscal year ending June SO, 1906.
It shows a reduction of the annual de
ficit from II4.1i7 Km for 1005 to 110..
516,996 for 1906, over $4,000,000, or
27.832 per cent The total receipts for
108 were I7 932.783, an increase
over 1905 of $15,106,198, which il tbe
ureaiesi increase for any year In the
history of the service. The per cen of
increase in receipt for 1906 ii 9.88.
Ambasiarfor Resinned.
Mexico Citv M. vt. 16. Joaouln
n I assasnn, Meiiran ambassador to
the United Staets, has formally tender
ed his resignation' to President Diax,
and the announcement of the fact will
be made, public in the next issue of the
Diary Official. 8eDOr Casasius gives
is a reason for his resignation the fact
that for somi tjtrie pst his health has
been seriously impaired. According to
the rumors jn circi,tion, th mo-t
Ijxely canlidat to iacceed Cassssius is
Enrique Cree' governor of th Stat of
Chihuahua.
Cold Peraiats In East.
Washington, Oct. 13. The cold
wava ia persisting in the East. An
other cold wave in tbe Rocky Moun
tain region, in Idaho and Montana,
and moderating In tbe South and con
sidersbly warmer in the central valleys
ia tb weather situation in a nutshell,
a announced tonight by tbe Weather
bureau. It I warming up In th West
generally, reaching over 60 degree in
th vicinity of Chicago and th Missis
sippi valley and over 70 degress wtst
of there.
leiist a vr .'.,0 ,"ms 'or at
Fruar,iy mocn jong
gr
Army n Cuba Given Nam,.
J m r-T U VJ ;
A iTns.al J a
of th nresid-'n . : 7 ?wctlon
. "'"img mat
Ury force, now .VsVmbled "
to be assemble 1
an armv
the mill-
U Cuba ni
amrm . .
Cuban pi!Ttion.OWnMth,Arni'
Economy In British Navy.
London, Oct i The Standard this
morning says the government purposes,
netore the end ni h. vear. to remove
5!0 efficient si. in. i.m artive duty, in
order to economi.. (or an active fleet
B'X battleship, 0f the Majestic clasi
will be remov.,1 ill of these will be
Placed in the hn'm. reserve. The entire
Royal Sovereign elm. iKht fin "
el. will I. pgC(Ki in reserve without
ffews, and four armored cruiser! will
be paid off.
Rsin Damages Cotton.
Houston. T.. vt. 16. A heavy
'in hat fall.n ' . the around In part
cf Texai the ... i hnnn. doing con
siderable dim... tha cotton crop.
Tner will b a heavy In lic'
Why Bell Wa Put In Command.
Washington, Oct. 13. The detail of
General F J Bel to command the
Amerlan military forces in Cuba was
made directly by, the president, and
the reason for that order waa that bv
his administration as military gover
nor of the prnvianre of Rttangas, one
of the most tnrbnlent of the Philippine
subdivisions, just after the crisis bad
been reached In the Aguinaldo rebel
lion, General Bell showed such a com
bination of the soldier and diplomat
that till selection was deemed exnedi
ent to undertake similar duties in Cuba
Say Railroada Discriminate In Freight
Rate to Pacific Coaat.
Waablngton, Oct. 15. A complaint
as been made to the Interstate Com
merce commission by the North Caro
lina Caseworkers' association, whose
membership consists of firms engaged
in the manufacture and sale of furni
ture, against many lines of railroads in
the West, became of alleged unjost and
discriminatory cbargei for the trans
portation of fnrniture, especially irom
High Point, N. C, and Danville, V.
to Pacific coast terminal point!.
The complainant! declare that the
railroads charge them $1.70 per hun
dred poundi for carrying fnrniiure
from the North Carolina territorv to
Pacific coast points, and insist npon a
minimum carload weight ol 20,000
pounds, whereas they c lalm to be able
to put into a car only 12,000 ponnds
of furniture. They insist, therefore,
that the rates are unreasonable and ark
the commission to issue an order re
quiring the railmadi to limit 36-foot
carload lots of furniture to 12,000
poundi.
Chinese May Stay Here.
Cincinnati, Oct. 15. Although a la
borer at the present time, the fact that
he wai merchant wben tbe Chinese
exclusion law wai passed, laved Jung
Yuen, Cleveland Chinese, from de
portation, the United States Circuit
court of appeal having so decided to
day. District Judge Taylor ordered
Jung Yuen deported, ai he was working
in a Cleveland laundry when arrested.
His attorney maintained that as Yueu
was a merchant in New York at the
time the law was passed, be waa there
fore exempt from deportat on.
Had Planned Great Send-Off British
Envoy Worried.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 11. What is
described here tonight as the "ignomini- .
ous fissle" of the much heralded visit
to Moscow and St. Petersburg of a Bi it-,
ish depntation to present a memorial
of sympathy to the dissolved tarlia
ment is another blow to the Ccnstitu-.
tional Democrats, who were arranging
a reception to the depntation as a bril
liant send off in the campaign.
This proposed visit was extremely
embarrassing to the British ambassa
dor, Sir Arthur Nicholson, in view of
the negotiations for an entente between
Russia and Great Britain. Pressure
wai brought to bear in London to stoo
the movement, and it wai decided not
I to receive the depu'ation officially at
the empassy her. This device ii
thought to hare inspired the interview
given out by the Britieh consul at Mos
cow, who (It dare I that th members of
the'deputation were not known, and
that the proposed visit was in bad taste.
Mikado Urged to Rescue.
Tokio, Oct. 11 A demand that the
mikado rescue the Japanese in Califor
nia from persecution to which it il
charged they are subject, is made in
the Yorcxu Cboho, a widely circulated
Tokio paper. Ever since the Califor
nia Republican adopted a platform de
manding Japanese exclusion, the paper
ravs, the mikado's subjects there bave .
suffered all kinds of mistreatment. To
leave 60,000 Japanese to mch a fate,
It ia argned, ii to diicourage immigra
tion and check attempt! at national ex-pansion.
Foreit Reserve! Safe From Fire.
Washington, Oct. 13. Gifford Pin-
chot, chief of the bureau of forestry,
ho f ai Just completed a tonr of the
government forest reserves, called upon
ine president ioiay. Mr. Finchot ex
pressed gratification with the results of
his inspection tonr and and of the ex
cellent condition in which he fonnd tbe
fjrest reserve. There hai been only
one big fire on the reiervei dnring the
summer, he says, and the burned area
did not exceed 2,000 acres.
Japanese Designs on Java.
Rom. Oct. 13. Th newspapers
here today publish a prlvat letter
from Tokio that numerous Japanese
emissaries hav been sent to th Island
of Java, Dutch East Indie, with tb
mission to creat incident Justifying a
Japan naval demonstration. It it
reported that th Dutch authorities
ar much alarmed.
Hard to Reconcile Them.
Cienfuegos, Oct. 15. Consul Gener-
al Steinhart' endeavors to settle local
difficulties and reconcile the homil.
factioni hava not yet boroe much fruit.
The Liberal continue to demand tbe
removal of all the police and would ht.
glad to have the mayor of the city onst-
eo. ine amnestying of all persons
connected with the murder of Congress
man Villuends last year li serving to
: ... k. j i ii .. ..
iuirt iu .'uu leeiings i net iiave pre
vauea. me volunteer!, Instead of
turning in all their gnm, have conceal
ed aom and buried others.
Mutt Shelter No Stranrera.
St. Fetershnrg, Oct. 15. The minis
ter of the Imperial cort has issued an
order forbidding officiali ar.d emn!ov
of tbe conrt to rent roomi or otherwise
shelter any persons without the special
permission of the minister. The order
is due to the arrest of Klermikcff ami
other Terrorists at Peterhof, September
28, and tbe discovery that many of the
participant! In the conspiracy were liv.
ing uninspected in the immediate l.
clnity of the palace.
More Yellow Fever Cat.
Washington. Oct. 15. Th. Hf.in.
HwpiUI servlc ha been advised of
tbe appearance of three new r....
yellow fever at Havana and of one at
uieniuego ana on at Guinea.
Trylner To Hold Together.
Helsingfors, Oct, 11. At tody'
session of the Constitutional Democrat
ic convention ttie committee' reoslu
tionp reclaiming the impossibility of
pa-dive reMslsnce wai adopted. 84 aye
to 44 noes. The minority amendment
lerommending organisation fur passire
reistnce was rejected by 83 ajes to 53
noes. The congress has shown stiikirg
weakness in the party, nhirh is highly
dangeron in view of th approaching
electoral ramtiaiun. anil tb in In rtttA
of the Influen-e toward cohesion remit
ing from vovernmental prosecution
Snow Over Middle West.
Chicago, Oct. 11. Various point
throngbont Ohio report record tweak
ing weather yest.r-lar. At Zinesville
the snow fell for three hnnr, and tbe
remarkable thing a,t t ) tflRt ,ho
mow came before any frost bad rnms
In that vbinity. An in. h of rnow fell
at Findlay. At Louisville there waa a
light fall of snow, and in the mountain
regions of Kentocky. Thii breakt all
records for early snowfalls. At South
Bend, Ind., four Inches of snow fell.
Four From a Thousand.
Chicago, Oct. II Thn. t,
ndtb venireman waa passed today in
be case of Cornelius P. Shea, the labor
leader accused of oonsnirac tn ..i..t
money from large enmlnon i
Only four I
lout of 1,000 candidate iamind.