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NO HOME TAX LAW
OREGON SHORT LINE
THE
ARGUS,
Would Be Direct and There
fore Unconstitutional.
Decision Handed Down in the
Receivership Contest.
SO SAYS THE SUPREME COURT
Justice Jackson Voted (or the Law, but
' ' Justice Shlras (hanged Ills
Opinion, Voting Against It.
Washington, Muy 22. The income
tax luw, which has received ho large a
Hliaru of public attention since the be
ginning of the first regular session of
the Fifty-third congress, in a thing of
tliu punt. Aftur being twice hoard iu
the United States supreme court, it
was finally decided today to be invalid
and unconstitutional.
There wero four dissenting opinions
delivered in thoso cttHos today one
each by J nut ices Harlan, Drown, Jack
son and White showing that the court
has Htood five to four against the law.
Inasmuch uh one of theHO dissenting
opinions was handed down by Justice
JackHon, and an ho was absent at tho
first hearing, when the court wan di
vided evenly on the question of sustain
ing tho law on all puints, except those
us to tho ta on incomes from rents
and bonds, it follows that ouo of tho
members of the court who at first pro
nounced for the law, except on those
points, changed his attitude after tho
second argument. There is very little
question that Justice Shira is the jus
tice who changed his views on these
points, lie made no announcement,
either today or when the first opinion
was delivered, as to his opinion.
While tho opinion of tho chief jus
tice was largely a review of the gen
eral aspects of tho questions iuvolvod,
he delivered the opiuou of the court
today upon the argument that the pro
visions of tho luw regarding the tax on
routs und bonds were so essoutially a
factor of it as to render all other parts
of it dependent upon them, and iu ac
cordance with tho well-known rule
bearing on this quostion, tho law as a
whole must bo declared invalid.
The opinions of Justices Harlan and
White wore couched in lunguugo so
vigorous, and wore so emphatio in their
arraignment of the majority as to cause
very general ooiument. Both justices
indicated their belief that tho ruling
opinion was revolutionary, and inti
mated that serious consequences might
ensue. Justico Harlan suggested tho
necessity for mending the constitution
in view of tho opinion.
Tlie courtroom was packed during
tho entire throe hours, when tho opin
ions wero being delivorod.
The justices wore at the capitol
early, and the consultation began
promptly at 10 o'clock, continuing
until a few minutes before 12. All
mombers of the oourt were presout, in
cluding Justice Jackson, whose pres
ence caused a great deal of speculation
and was tho basis for considerable gos
sip as to the possibility of some sort of
a surprise for the public. Tho oourt
was divided:
Against the law Chief Justice Ful
ler, justices Gray, Field, Brewer and
bhirus.
For the law Justices Harlan,
Whito, Brown and Jackson.
Immediately upon the convening of
the supreme oourt, Chiof Justice Fuller
read the opinion. Tho conclusions of
tho oourt wero:
"First We adhere to the opinion
already announced that taxes on real
estate, being indisputably direct taxes,
tax on rents, or on the income of real
estato, are equally direct taxes.
"Soooud We are equally of tho opin
ion that taxes on personal property, or
on tho income of personal property, are
likewise direct taxes.
"Third The tax imposed by sec
tions 27 to 37, inclusive, of the act of
1894, so far as it falls on tho inoumo of
real estato and on personal property,
being a direct tax within the moaning
of the constitution, and therefore un
constitutional and void, because not
, proportioned acoording to representa
tion, all those sootious constituting the
entire sohome of taxation are neces
sarily iuvalid.
"Decrees below will be reversed and
tho oases remaudod with instructions to
grant tho relief prayed."
Sections 27 to 87 of the tariff act of
181)4, referred to iu the conclusions of
the court iu its opinion, are sections of
the aet relating to the income tax, so
that the entire income tax law is de
clared void specifically.
DOCTOR AND LAWYER.
Two Southern Gentlemen May llesort to
the Code of Honor.,
New York, May 22. The Herald
this morning says: The Georgia ool
ony in this oity is discussing, the pro
bability of a duel between Dr. Willis
F. Westmoreland, and Lawyer Daniel
W. Ronutree, both of Atlanta, who are
now in Now York. The men have been
ou bad tonus for some time. They met
in Abbey's theater Friday night and
blows are said to have been exchanged.
Dr. Westmorland, aooording to report
took the initiative and his enemy
Vowed vengoauoe when they were sep
arated. It is generally feared- a duel
may result. The meeting of the two
men was the first one outside of Georgia
siuoo thoy wore both put under bonds
to keep the peaoe two years ago, They
quarreled then over money matters, and
preliminaries were arranged for a duel.
The authorities got wind of the im
pending affair and put a stop to it by
requiring a peace bond of $5,000 from
Westmoreland and one of $3,000 from
Bountree.
The men are well known in the
South. Westmoreland has just retired
from the presidency of the Georgia
Medioal Sooiety, and Rountree has rep
resented a South Georgia oounty in the
state legislature. Rountree is a guest
at the Imperial hotel.
The Income-Tax Decision.
New York, May 17. A Washington
special to the Herald says:
The supreme oourt has determined to
absolutely annihilate the income tax
law. This statement is made on what
appears to be absolutely reliable author
ity. It is, of course, impossible to say
officially what will be the decision of
the oourt in advance of ita announce
ment, but the report comes from suoh
a source as to leave very little room for
doubt as to its accuracy.
VOL. 2.
A TRAGEDY IN IDAHO.
One
1'erson Demi mill Two Other.
Seriously Wounded.
Lewiston, Idaho, May 22. A trag
edy with few parallels in the annals of
crime in this state has been enacted
here. John Biers, known as Buena,
on account of bis valor at tho battle of
Buena Vista, is dead, with two bullet
wounds iu his back; M. F. Ward, one
of his assailants, is probably fatally
wounded from Winchester bullets in
his stomach, aud Mrs. Goddard, who
killed Siers, is iu custody awaiting the
action of tho coroner's jury. Tho trou
ble is the outcome of a feud of long
standing.
Ten years ago the firm of Schissler &
Hiers was one of the wealthiest iu
North Idaho. Six years ago Schissler
died. The firm's property was disposed
of and a farm at Wuha, fifteen miles
from here, was sold to M. F. Ward,
Mrs. Goddard's son-in-law, for $10,-
000. Tho money was to have been paid
to Siers. Ward has never paid up.
Recently Fred Piper, a sou of Judge
W. G. Piper, of Moscow, was ap
pointed receiver.
Mrs. Goddard's brother, named
Mott, a close friend of Siers, has been
living on the Waha place. Ho recently
became ill. Trouble arose between
him and his sister; ho was put out of
tho house and forced to take quarters
iu a barn. Siers wished to cull on his
friend. Ho also made an appointment
to meet Receiver Piper at the Waha
place.
Yesterday with throe friends ho
drove to tho farm. Anticipating trou
ble, ho took a Winchester rifto and a
revolver. Ho leaned his rifle on the
fence, aud then started for the door.
Ward, who was iu ambush, opened fire
ou him with a revolver. As he was
trying to locate his assailant, Mrs.
Goddard oame up behind aud firod two
shots with a revolver into Sier's back.
As the dying man sank to the ground,
Ward rushed up and clubbed him over
tho head with a revolver.
Tho fusilado happened so quickly
that Sier's friends in the roud had no
time to iutorforo, but when Ward was
beating the dying man, one of them,
Shorthill, grabbed Sier's rifle from tho
fence aud began to shoot at Sier's as
sailants. He sent Ward to earth with
two bullets in his stomach, and shat
tered the pistol haud of Mrs. Goddard
at the wrist. Mrs, Goddard's 13-year-old
son rushed from the house with a
Winchester and revolver and chased
Shorthill three miles, to Lake house, a
Bummer resort where the latter es
caped. The two wounded assailants of Siers
and the body of their victim wero
brought to town. Mott, Mrs. God
dard's brother, donounces the whole
affair as a cold-blooded murder. Siers
was unmarried and wealthy, having
large cattle interests in Montana. Mrs.
Goddard is a widow.
THAT FLORIDA LYNCHING.
The Three Negroes Were Flayed Alive
and Then llurned.
Madison, Fla., May 22. There is no
longer any doubt that Sam Echols,
Sim Crowley and John Brooks, the ne
groes who outraged and murdered Miss
Armstrong, in Lafayette oounty, wero
flayod and bumod. A man who has
just reached here from Lafayette coun
ty says the beliof is general that tho
nogroes were tortured to doath. One
man who ventured into the swamp into
which the negores were carried asserts
that he found the place where the ne
groes wero put to death. He says that
it was evident that tho negroes were
tied to trees and the skin stripped from
them with knives. Then wood was
heaped about the bleeding forms, tho
match applied and the wretches wero
soon dead. This man says that he
found some strips of skin about the
place, which bears out the assertion
that they were flayed. Everything is
quiet in Lafayette county, and there
is no fear of trouble between the races.
Tho better class of negroes denounoo
the outrage and murder of Miss Arm
strong as bitterly as the whites. Twelve
negroes have now boon lynched in six
months, and it would seem that the
horrible fate of the last three should
prevent further attacks upon white
women. The whites have formed a
band and are determined to protect their
wives and daughters.
Anything Better Than Work.
Oakland, Cal., May 22. "General"
C. E. Kelly, who led a detachment of
Coxoy's army to the national oapital
last year, has left for Washington, ac
companied by his wife and two child
ren, in a prairie schooner, on what he
considers an important mission. He
believes that a monster petition will
be as likely to obtain recognition from
congress as a orowd of hungry men
camped on the steps of the caiptol, and
the purpose of his trip is to obtain
signatures to his prayer for national
help in times of general depression.
Kelly will deliver lectures at all the
plaoes through which he will pass and
after explaining the purposes of his
mission will submit the memorial to
congress.
Americans to Build In Mexico.
Chihuahua, Mex., May 22. The Mo
Cormick Mower & Reaper Company,
of Chicago, and Enrique Creel, a prom
inent banker of this city, have obtained
a concession from the government to
build a railroad from Chihuahua to
jfche Ooampo mining distriot. The gov
ernment gives) the line a cash subsidy
of 8,000 per mile. Two preliminary
surveys have been made and it must be
oompleted within two years. The aver
age yiold in bullion of the Ooampo dis
trict is ifijuu.uuu in goia unci silver per
month. At present the shipments ol
this output are made by mule train to
this oity. A mule train from these
mines arrived here a few days ago with
bullion valued at f 751,000.
IIILLSBORO,
IN OLD MAN'S CRIME
A Brutal Murder Committed
Near Grant's Pass.
WAS OCCASIONED BY A QUARREL
Held HI. Wife in Three Feet of Water
I'ntll She Drowned In the Pres
ence of Their Children.
Grant's Pass, Or., May 21. One of
tho most cruel murders of the year was
committed near this city about 2 P. M.
today. Charles Fiester, a man of 68
years of age, drowned his wife, aged
about 55 years, in a hole of water near
the railroad track. The crime was
committed in the presence of their
three young children, the eldest of
whom was 10 years. After the murder
was committed Fiester sent the child
ren to Merlin, four miles further on,
to tell the older boys what had hap
pened. The difficulty grew out of fam
ily troubles of long standing. Fiester
came to this city later in the evening
and gave himself up to the sheriff and
is now in the county juil.
The pair had been separated for a
long time, and when Fiester came to
town he prevailed upon his wife to go
to Merlin, where he was logging and
keep house for them. The woman con
sented to go for a week, and they
started to Merlin, nine miles distant,
with the three small children. After
going about five miles on the way a
quarrel came up about her receiving
letters from some man, and after a hot
quarrel Mrs. Fiester started back for
Grant's Pass, but was soon caught by
Fiester and dragged to a hole of water,
about three feet deep, near the track,
and held her nndor the water until
dead. After the woman was dead the
man claims to have tried to drown
himself, but failed, and Betting down
on the track, sent the children to Mer
lin to tell the folks what he had done.
He remained until the crowd came np
from Merlin, and then came to Grant's
Pass and gave himself up to Sheriff
Hiatt.
Coroner Kremer at ouoe went to the
scene, and the corpse was taken to
Merlin. The inquest will be held here
tomorrow.
Fiester talked freely about the mat
ter to everyone, and says he is ready to
die. He has resided in Merlin for a
number of years, and always seemed to
be a good citizen. A great many rela
tives reside in the neighborhood of
Grant's Pass and Kerby. About a year
ago his daughter, Jet Black, was mixed
up in a killing scrape in this city, in
which Joss Rice, of Lebanon, was killed
by the woman's husband, Sam Black.
The latter is now in the penitentiary.
People who are well acquainted with
Fiester do not think that it was insan
ity at all, but simply that he was an
gered, wanted to kill his wife and did
THE NEW LAND LAW.
The Time for Purchasing Tldelands Ha
Now Expired.
Olympia, May 21. Many citizens of
this state are evidently laboring under
a misapprehension of the new law,
judging from the number of applica
tions to purchase tide lands being re
ceived by the commissioners of public
lands, even now that the sixty days al
lowed by law for such applica
tions have expired. These applications
are all based on the statement that they
are the first legal applicants, after the
preference right to the land and im
provement owners have expired. As a
matter of fact, the law ' recognizes no
suoh second application. Sections 58
and 59, page 552, session laws of 1895,
defines the rights of abutting owners,
and seotion 60 says:
"In case the person mentioned in sec
tions 58 and 59 of this act do not,
within the time limited, exeroise the
right to purchase herein given, then
said lands shall be open to the public
for sale, as herein provided. The board
of state land commissioners may sell
surveyed and platted tidelands remain
ing unsold at publio auction, upon the
following terms and conditions."
The remainder of the seotion defines
how such sales shall be conducted by
the commissioner.
A Sensation Promised.
London, May 21. If the oase of Miss
"Birdie" Sutherland, the chorus girl
in the Gaiety theater, against the Hon.
Dudley Churchill Majoribanks, eldest
son of Baron Tweedmouth, for breaoh
of promise ever comes into oourt it will
be the most senasational trial since
Miss Fortosque, the acrtess, won 10,000
pounds from Lord Garmoyle on a simi
lar charge. Miss Sutherland is very
handsome, being nearly six feet tall,
and only 18 years old. Her real name
is Annie Louise Watkins. She first
met the Hon. Dudley Majoribanks at
the Prinoe of Wales' club. It was a
oase of love at first sight. He proposed
and was aooepted. When his parents
learned of the affair they were very
much disturbed. Mr. Majoribanks
went to Canada with his mother on a
visit to the Earl of Aberdeen, gover
nor-general of Canada. The young
man did not return with his mother to
England, but remained in Canada, and
the match was broken off. Miss Suth
erland then placed the oase in the
hands of a well-known theatrical
lawyer, who retained in her behalf Sir
Edward Clarke, who defended Osoar
Wilde in his reoent trial. C. F. Gill,
who appeared against Wilde on behalf
of the treasury, and various other legal
talent have also been retained.
Smuggler Foss Sentenced.
San Francisco, May 17 Henry L.
Foss, the smuggler and Chinese certifi
cate forger, was today sentenced to four
years in San Quentin, and fined $1,250
In the United States distriot oourt.
OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 23. 1895.
SOUTH DAKOTA'S SENSATION.
Governor Altgeld Has Taken a Hand In
the Benedict A flair.
Huron, S. D., May 21. Governor
Altgeld, of Illinois, has taken a hand
in the jjenemct an air that aroused so
much interest in South Dakota. Gov
ernor Sheldon received from Altgeld a
telegram saying he had heard that Ben
edict, for whose extradition he had
granted a requisition on the charge of
larceny, had been acquitted on that
ground, and was about to be tried on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
state, and calling the attention of the
governor to the fact that ho, Altgeld,
believed this would be a violation of
the laws governing extradition. Gov
ernor Sheldon has replied at length, set
ting forth all the facts of Benedict's
connection with the defaulting treasurer
Taylor; his presence with the latter in
the bank in Chicago when the money
was drawn, etc.; the conveyance by
Taylor to Benedict of a large amount of
property for the consideration of $1,
and the Various other points brought
out in the course of the investigation;
also the fact that officials of the state
believed Benedict to have been in con
spiracy with Taylor, and adds;
"In the absence of a decision which
justifies clearly the action of the state
in this case, can it be possible that the
state can be stopped from arresting and
trying a person of this kind? Must all
the rights of an individual be so jeal
ously guarded, and is the state forbid
den to protect itself simply because it
is a state?"
ENGLISH YACHTING SEASON.
These Kaces Will Decide Which
Boat
' Will Come to America.
London, May 21. The yachting sea
son in British waters was opened in the
Thames yesterday with matches under
the auspices of the Thames Yacht Club,
and was continued with races today
under the auspices of the Royal Thames
Yacht Club. The races, there is reason
to believe, will be the most interesting
for many years past The contests be
tween the Ailsa, Britannia and the new
Valkyrie III, naturally, form the lead
ing attraction, in view of the challenge
for the American cup, but immense in
terest is likewise being taken in the
twenty-raters owing to the appearance
of HerreBhoff 's new cracks, Niagra and
Isolde, which are expected to make
matters warm in this class. The im
portance of the match in the Leviathan
class more especially, would be but
small, but for the faot that the meet
ings of the Ailsa and the Valkyrie III
will decide which shall be the boat to
oontest in the American cup Defender.
A well-known devotee of the sport re
cently said the American cup is beyond
the reach of either the Ailsa or the Val
kyrie III. Herreshoff's boat, he de
clares, will outsail either Watson's or
Fife's creation.
Earth Still Quaking.
Florence, May 21. The earthquake
which occurred here at 9 o'clock last
evening, has proved more serious than
it seemed at first. Thousands of peo
ple passed Saturday night in the
streets, and a second shock at 1 1 o'clock
increased a thousand-fold the first
alarm. Similar events occurred at
Baris, near here. The oasualties there
inoluded four deaths and many injuries.
Numbers of houses were badly cracked.
Other villages in the vicinity suffered
still worse damage. At Grassina forty
houses were wrecked. At La Paggi
several buildings fell and three persons
were entombed. The church at San
Martino was destroyed while full of
worshipers. Several persons were
crushed to death in the ruins. The
villages of Gallezzo and Gambino were
badly damaged. The prince of Naples
and a corps of engineers have gone to
these villages to aid in the work of
rescue.
Port Angeles to San Francisco.
San Francisco, May 21. E. A. Lass
ley, the matress-maker, who traveled
all the way from Port Angeles, Wash.,
to San Francisco in a house-wagon,
looking for work, which he failed to
find, is camped on the sand lot at Sev
enth and Mission streets, awaiting the
recovery of his wife, who gave birth to
a son in the house on wheels Saturday
morning. The entire family has occu
pied the rolling home since August
last, and have experienced rather hard
times. There are three children be
sides the newcomer, and the only means
of support they have had was derived
from the sale of a pamphlet describing
the trip from the north.
Will Remove the Temptation.
St. Louis, May 21. President Will
iam Thompson, of the Bank of Com
merce, has issued a peremptory order
forbidding any and every employe of
the bank from attending horse races
under penalty of dismissal. The tend
ency and opportunity at the races to
lose money and eventually to beoome
defaulters is so great that the president
thinks it dangerous for young men to
attend. He has decided that his clerks
shall not submit themselves to such
temptation.
The French Defeat the Hovas.
Paris, May 21. A dispatch from
Majanga, Madagascar, says the first
battalion of the Colonial regiment had
a sharp fight with a large body of
Hovas near Marovoay. The Hovas fled
at the point of the bayonet, leaving
sixty dead and wounded. There were
thirteen of the Frenoh wounded. The
French then occupied the Hova oamp.
Killed the Baby Instead.
San Francisco, May 21. Nicholas
Genotti, a cobbler, while crazed with
drink, struck at his wife with a piece
of iron pipe. The woman avoided the
blow, but it fell with crushing force on
the head of her young son, who was in
her arms. The skull was fractured,
and he will probably die. Genotti was
arretted.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re
ports ot Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Happenings of Interest In the Towns and
Cities or Oregon, Washlnton
and Idaho.
The last Spokane grand jury severely
condemned the present fee svystem.
The "Sunday cases" cost Walla
Wallacounty, Wash., $1,059, and the
expenses of the Hoyt trial were $850.
The South Palouse is dwindling, and
the pioneers say such an action of the
stream is proof positive that the Palouse
country needs rain.
The taxpayers of the La Grande, Or.,
school district are talking over the pro
postiion of buying the Blue Mountain
university property for $2,500.
The Fort Klamath Indians have is
sued a general invitation to the Pitt
river Indians to celebrate July Fourth
on the Klamath, Or. reservation.
It appears that the building of the
Blaine, Lynden & Nooksack railroad
can be secured if the localities inter
ested put up a subsidy of $15,000.
Twenty thousand fruit trees have
been planted in the vicinity of Lake
Chelan this spring and a great deal
of ground is being prepared for next
season's planting.
William Fetros, the Yakima, Wash.,
sheepman, has driven 11,000 sheep to
the Columbia opposite Umatilla, and is
now shearing. The wool will be sold
in Pendleton, Or.
The Satsop, Wash., skimming sta
tion in operation only since the 1st of
the month, is receiving upwards .of
2,000 pounds of milk, and the quant
ity is increasing daily.
John Stewart has men engaged in
Lane county buying up 500 cows which
he is to deliver at Squaw creek, in
Crook county, Or., He will start the
drive across the mountains about June
1st.
Sheep shearing is now in full blast
about Wallula, Wash. Shearers com
plain of the low price paid or shearing,
6 cents and board themselves, when
7 cents with board was the former
price.
The city council of Spokane has
passed an ordinance to bond the city for
$278,700, to complete the new water
works. The vote was 13 to 2. It is
not known whether Mayor Belt will
approve or veto the ordinance.
An order was made by Judge Buck
at Spokane Wednesday, for Receiver
Drumheller, of the Falls City Manu
facturing Company, to pay the general
creditors of the corporation 25 per cent
of all claims approved and allowed.
Upon the petition of 637 citizens of
Benton county, Or. , the county court,
in session there last week, ordered that
the sheriff be allowed only one deputy
at $50 per month, and the recorder a
deputy at $10 per month just one-half
the former allowance.
' Benton county, Or., had to pay the
state $119.24 interest on the state taxes
due from this year's roll. After Treas
urer Clark thought he had the taxes all
paid, he received a note from the state
treasurer demanding an additional
$119.24. He remitted the amount Sat
urday morning, and now for the first
time in three years Benton county owes
the state nothing.
The extensive operations that have
been carried on at the Black Jack mine,
near Hornbrook, Or. , on the Klamath
river, have been closed down for the
present, at least, and all but four of the
thirty to thirty-five men who had been
employed were discharged. This mine,
which is a gravel deposit similar to the
Jillson mine adjoining, was originally
owned by Messrs. Cooley Ryan and
Burckhalter.
The Fletcher mill, near Weston,
Umatilla county, Or., is now being run
at full capacity, and later one depart
ment, the manufacture of fruit boxes,
will be running day and night. The
mill will run all summer. At present
fourteen men are employed, but the
force soon will comprise forty good
lively hustlers, who will turn out 20,
000 feet per day. Now 17,000 feet are
being sawed. The season's output is
expected to aggregate between 2,000,
000 and 8,000,000 feet. Mr. Fletcher
requires about twenty yoke of cattle
when everything is going full blast.
It is estimated that the aoreage of
potatoes planted in Whitman county,
Wash. , this year, says the Harrington
Leader, will reach 6,000 aores. Count
ing on 200 bushels per care, which in
most sections is considered a small
orop, there will be raised tins year no
less than 1,200,000 bushels, or 26,000
tons of potaotes. ' Of these not more
than 9,000 tons will be required for
home consumption, and perhaps less
than 2,000 tons more for the markets
in the immediate vicinity.
No season ever opened more auspic
iously in the Palouse country, Wash.,
says the North Idaho Star, than this.
To begin with, the little snow that
fell in the winter disappeared early.
Farmers got early at work in theii
fields. The soil was in suberb condi
tion. Plowing was early oompleted,
and the ground whioh had been summer
fallowed worked up as mellow as a gar
den. The weather remained dry until
the sowing was done, and then came
the welcome rains, and the great for
ward leap of grass, and grain and fruit.
The prospeot is for a forward year, and
the outlook is for an abundant crop ol
everything the Palouse soil produces.
The grain fields indicate a large yield
and tne orchards promise proliflo re
turns.
NO. 9.
THE OFFICERS DEFIED.
Lively Scene at a Seattle School Caused
by a Principal's Disobedience.
Seattle, May 20. The dispute be
tween the boards of health and educa
tion in regard to the closing of the
Rainier and South schools as a precau
tion against scarlet fever reached a
orisiB this morning. Acting under or
ders from the health board, Health Of
ficer Palmer and Officer Corning order
ed the closing of the two schools.
Prinoipal Gerard, of the former school,
refused compliance, and told the pupils
to enter. A wild scene followed, the
400 or 500 children entering at doors or
windows, some of them throwing stones
at the officers and getting out the hose
to give them a bath.
The officers vainly strove to inter
cept them, and it was not until noon
that order was restored by the arrest of
Mr. Gerard and the removal of the
children from the building.
Less exciting scenes occurred at the
South school, President Taylor being
arrested for resisting the order. The
school board afterwards ordered the two
schools closed, under protest, until the
courts settle the dispute.
THAT SPRECKELS FAMILY ROW.
The Head or the House Has Confessed
Judgment and Gone Abroad.
San Francisco, May 20. Clans
Spreckels, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, left today for Europe. They
will be gone three months, the greater
part of which time will be passed in
Germany,
Clans Spreckels, through his sons,
John D. and A. B. Spreckels, has con
fessed judgment in the suit for slander
brought against him by his son, C. A.
Spreckels, and the young man will re
ceive the $300,000 damages he asked
for. The reason for this acton is given
that Spreckels, Sr., received informa
tion that his son would seek to prevent
his departure for Europe. According
ly the loyal sons, John D. and A. B.
Spreckels, in order to save their father
further annoyance, instructed the attor
neys in the case to confess judgment
and end the matter for the present But
Clans Spreckels will not admit that he
confessed judgment in a moral sense,
so he has instructed his attorneys to be
gin suit for an accounting against C.
A. Spreckels, to compel him to account
for all the money he has handdled for
his father. The attorneys have also
been ordered to bring suit against Ru
dolph Spreckels, who sided with his
brother in the quarrel with their father,
to recover $500,000 worth of stock of
the Paluhau Plantation Company,
which Rudolph claims his father gave
him in 1893, and from which he draws
$5,000 a month dividends, which it is
alleged, he is using to supply the
sinews of war against his parent.
The trouble in the Spreckels family
commenced over a year ago, when C.
A. Spreckels sued his father to recover
stock in the Hawaiian Commercial
company, mis suit was compro
mised, and then Rudolph followed with
a suit to prevent the transfer of $700,
000 worth of stock held by Claus
Spreckels as security to the Nevada
bank. Following this oame the suit
against the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany, instituted by U. A. Spreckels,
who alleged that he was being frozen
out Finally C. A. Spreckels sued his
father for slander, on account of the
newspaper interview in which the
father said his son had wasted his
money and would soon be bankrupt
THE CENTRAL WASHINGTON.
Temporary Receivers Appointed for the
Branch Koad at Spokane.
Spokane, May 20. Judge Hanford
in the United States court today ap
pointed Leverett S. Miller, of St. Paul,
and C. P. Chamberlain, of Spokane, re
ceivers of the Central Washington
branch of the Northern Pacific The
appointment is made upon the petition
of a majority of the bondholders, who
have beoome dissatisfied with the
Northern Pacific control Monday last
they filed a bill for foreclosure. The
appointment of receivers is temporary.
The motion to make it permanent is
made returnable September 9. A short
time ago the bondholders sent an agent
out to investigate. He reported that
the road runs through a good oountry
and ought to be made to pay. The
first step taken by the bondholders to
throw off the Northern Pacific influ
ence was the removal of the Farmers'
Loan & Trust Company as trustee, and
the appointment in its place of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company of New
York. The road is now being operated
by the receivers of the Northern Pacific
under a lease from the former trustee.
It is made discretionary with the
trustees whether the present lease shall
be continued or not Three alterna
tives lie before the bondholders: Lease
to the Northern Paoific, lease to the
Great Northern, or operation as an in
dependent line. The road is 109 miles
long, and runs west from Spokane to
Coulee City.
More About Durrant.
San Franoisco, May 18. The police
are Baid to have found several witnesses
who will testify against Theodore Dur
rant at the forthcoming trial in the
superior oourt One of these, Miss
Willis, will say that some time before
Blanche Lamont's murder, Miss Willis
asked Durrant in his oapaoity of church
librarian, for a book from the ohuroh
library. He escorted her thither, left
the room a few minutes and returned
entirely nude. The young woman made
her escape with difficulty. Similar
londuot would explain the absence of
bloodstains on Durrani's olothing after
Minnie Williams was murdered.
Commander of the tlerman Navy.
Berlin, May 16. The National Zie
tung says Emperor William has ac
oepted the resignation of Freiherr
Vondergolts ai commander-in-chief of
the German navy. Admiral von Knorr
ueoeeds him.
VICTORY FOR THE PETITIONERS
If the Conditions Are Met, the Becelver
Will Be Egan, Who Was Ap
pointed by Gilbert.
St Paul, May 17. Judge Sanborn,
of the United States circuit court,
handed down his decision in the re
ceivership contest between the Union
Pacific and Oregon Short Line rail
ways today. It is practically a victory
for the petitioners for the appointment
of a separate receiver for the Short
Line. If the conditions are met, it is
conceded that the receiver will be John
M. Egan, who has already been ap
pointed by Judge Gilbert, at Portland.
The matter came up ten days ago,
the American Loan & Trust Company,
of Boston, holders of the second mort
gage of $10,873,000, moving for a sep
arate receivership. The Union Pacific
receivership opposed the motion. The
action proposed here is the sime as had
already been taken in Judge Gilbert's
court, as applied to the property in his
tircuit
Under Judge Sanborn's order the re
ceivers are directed to prepare a state
ment of money in their hands applica
ble to paying interest on the first mort
gage of the Oregon Short Line. The
order further provides for a hearing, at
which will be determined the amount
which will be neeessary to pay into
oourt to satisfy the interest of the first
mortgage, and in case such an amount
is paid, to arrange for turning the
property over to the receiver appointed
under this last bill of the second mort
gage holders. The petitioner agreed to
pay this interest in case a separate re
ceivership be granted, so that the sep
arate receivership seems assured. As
J. M. Egan has been appointed for a
part of the road by Judge Gilbert, and
as bis appointment is desired by peti
tioners, he seems assured of the ap
pointment as the receiver for the entire
Oregon Short Line.
CO-OPERATIVE SCHEME.
the New National Association Has Been
Given Life.
San Francisco, May 17. Articles of
incorporation have been filed by the
Co-operative Commonwealth, a co
operative association with the follow
ing directors: Mary E. Squires, George
W. Sells, E. J. Hicks, Miss A. Swain
and J. K. Phillips. There will be a
mass meeting tonight in the lecture
room of the old St Marcus church, to
present the plans of the commonwealth.
The co - operative commonwealth
was first organized in Seattle, Wash. It
is non-sectarian and draws no color
line. In an interview yesterday with
Miss Addie Swain, the secretary of the
local branch, she explained that the
main feature of the plan for co-operation
is the reserve or development fund.
This was her argument:
"On a basis of 500,000 men, 10 cents
per day for six months or 150 working
days, accumulates the marvelous sum
of $7,500,000, and in a year $15,000,
000. The society is now organized as
a national body, and has at its com
mand 500,000 men and $15,000,000 of
capital. It can immediately set all of
its members at work in its own employ.
The savings of the people, now in the
banks, amount to about $3, 000, 000, 000.
This could be placed in the co-operative
savings banks and a percentage used to
establish new industries instead of be
ing loaned at enormous rates of interest
to serve as dragnets to gather in the
land and its products for the benefit of
a few commercial fishermen.
"This reserve fund could be invested
in purchasing or constructing railroads
to free the commonwealth from trans
portation companies.
"For instance, with this reserve fund
of, say $15,000,000, a railroad oould
be constructed from Portland to San
Francisco with branches to Stockton,
San Jose, Los Angeles, Fresno, and all
other important points on the coast,
and the surplus could be replaced while
the work of construction was going on.
Thousands of acres of mineral land
oould be developed and thousands of
men employed who are now idle."
Mayor Sutro has promised to donate
200 aores of land in Round valley to
the commonwealth. The Spring Valley
Water Company gives water free to the
community.
Japanese Contract Laborers.
San Franoisco, May 16. The Even
ing Bulletin says the United States
contract labor laws are being broken
every few weeks by Japanese, who
pour into the country by every steamer
under oontraot to farmers at Sacramen
to, Stockton, San Joaquin, Napa, Liv
ermore and San Gabriel valleys. The
Bulletin says 10,000 have found em
ployment on farms during the past
year, to the exclusion of white men. A
contract labor ring manages the. im
portation of penniless Japs and lends
them money.
Trouble In the California Militia.
San Francisco, May 20. The even,
ing Post says that there is to be a gen
eral upheaval in the Third infantry reg
iment, National Guard of California,
and that Colonel Thomas F. Barry and
the captains of three companies will re
tire, not being willing to serve under
the newly-appointed brigadier-general,
k. a. warneid.
To Visit Lady Wilde.
New York, May 21. Mrs. Frank
Leslie is to sail for England Saturday
to visit her mother-in-law, LadyWilde,
and to do what she can to comfort that
lady in her trouble in the disgraceful
scandal in which her eldest son, Oscar
Wilde, has cut so prominent a figure
Vancouver's Lexow Inquiry.
Vancouver, B. C, May 17. At last
night's session of the police investiga
tion, City Solicitor Hammersley was
examined at length regarding the pay
ment by his firm of money to Sergeant
Haywood for assisting in pulling down
shaoks, though the city by-laws forbid
officers receiving any outside remuner
ations. Officer Caldwell next took the
stand and testified that he had wen the
sergeant and other officers under the,
inflnenoe of liquor, v , -: "