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ol the P a st Week,
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to Provo Interesting.
The Trans-Mississippi congress is in
Msion in Beattie.
Tursey baa called lor 52,000 men for
service in Macedonia.
Pope Pina has given $20,000 to be
distributed among the poor of Borne.
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The two Kansas Cities are again
suffering from the effects of high water.
The 37th national encampment of
the G. A . B. is in session at 8an Fran*
cisco.
By the collapse of tbe upper deck of
a Finish steamer 40 people were
drcwned.
Tbe Russian fleet has sailed for Turk­
ey to enforce tbe demand that slaying
of consul be avenged.
China has agreed with tbe United
States to open two ports, thus main­
taining tbe open door policy.
Roosevelt wants Root to help him
defeat bis New York enemies and will
endorse him for president in 1908.
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A wealthy Davenport, la ., woman
was kidnaped* and held for $50,000
ransom, but gave her captors tbe slip
and escaped.
Vesuvius continues active and is
sending smoke and flame to a height of
4.000 feet. Lava is flowing toward Ot-
tajamo and Pompeii.
A failing meteor destroyed a bridge
at Mendon, Mich.
Cardinal Gibbons has left Rome on
his way to tbe United States.
Fire in the Cincinnati stock yards
destroyed $60,000 worth of property.
English sportsmen are confident
Shamrock I I I wilt lift the cup this
year.
Washington, Aug. 19.— A new set of
Obineeo regulations, prepared by Com­
missioner General of Immigration Sar­
gent and approved by Secretary Cortel-
you, of the department o f commerce
and labor, jurisdiction of the matter of
the exclusion of Chinese having been
tranaferied from the treasury to the lat­
ter department, were made public to­
day and are now ready for distribution.
These roles designate what Chinese per­
sons are permitted to land at ports of
the United States under tbe provisions
of tbe laws and treaties, together with
tbe po ts at which Chinese, other than
Chinese diplomatic and oonaalar offi­
cers, may land and name the officers
whe have been vested with tbe power
and authority heretofore conferred on
collectors of customs, giving their sta­
tions and jurisdiction.
Conditions are named to which every
Chinese person seeking admission into
the United States under the provisions
of the act of 1902, for the purpose of
taking part in any fair or exhloitton
authorised by congress, shall confoim
as a condition precedent to stich admis­
sion regulations governing the arrest
and deportation of Chinese unlawfully
within the United 8tatee are included.
A ll told there are 61 rules embraced In
the new regulations. Accompanying
tbe regulations are laws and treaties re­
lating to the exclusion of Chinese.
Provision is made for a Bertill ion
record of all Cbineso laborers arriving
and departing at ports of entry, copies
of such registry to be transmitted to
the commissioner general of immigra­
tion.
Conditions are prescribed to which
all Chinese persons claiming the right
of transit through the United States to
foreign territory must conform as a con­
dition preceding such privilege. Nu­
merous changes have been necessary in
the revision of these rules to make
them conform to the transfer o f jurisdic­
tion over tne subject from the treasury
department to the department of com­
merce and labor. Forms of blanks are
prescribed and rules made to govern the
officers charged with the enforcement
of the exdusion law.
LAW S AT FAULT.
Seoertary Hitchcock has ordered an
investigation of land frauds in Indian Congress May Be Asked to Repeal Pres*
territory.
eat Land Laws.
Joseph Pulitser has given $2,000,000
Washington, Aug. 19.-—The 68th
for tbe establishment of a school of congress, wnen it regularly assembles
journalism at Columbia university,
in December, will be called upon to re­
New York.
move from the statute books three laws
The Bulgarian premier believes the
under which tbe government is being
Macedonian rebellion w ill be confined
systematically robbed each year of hun­
to Monaatir.
dreds of thousands, if not millions, of
The salmon pack for this year w ill dollars’ worth of public lands. The
be about 300,000 cases. This is nearly robbers are not in all cases violatipg
23.000 cases short of last year.
the letter of the law, and as long as
these
three laws remain in force they
Tbe general staff of the army
be reached, but they are violat­
Secretary Root a dinner in honor qf his
ing the spirit of the law, and escape
success in securing the new army law.
only on technicalities. The fight be­
Wheeling, W. Va., union and non­ gun in the last days d f the 57th con­
union men clashed and over 1,000 shots gress, to bring about the repeal o f the
were fired.
Only two men were timber and stone act, the desert land
wounded.
act, and tbe commutation clause ot tbe
Tbe powers ant not lik ely to interfere homestead act, is to be renewed with
w ith Russia in her move against Turk­ vigor, and the friends, as w ell as the
ey as they feel that the sultan needs enemies o f reform, are even now pre­
punishment.
•.( paring to enter the fray, each side de­
termined to win.
Lord Salisbury, ex-premier of Eng­
Secretary Hitchcock, after more
land, is critically ill.
than four years in the cabinet, during
Tbe British parliament has ad­ which time he has familiarised himself
with tbe operations of tbe several land
journed until November 2.
laws, has become convinced that the
Eastern capitalists are anxious to se­ statutes thou Id be changed. He can­
cure yellow pine lands of Southeastern not see why tbe government should re­
Oregon.
linquish for $4 an acre timber lands
that
are worth $ 00 an acre; be can­
The first meeting of tbe Alaskan
not
see
why dummy entries should be
boundary commi salan w ill be held Sep­
permitted,
c ven though they be made
tember 3.
just inside the limitations of the law;
Jeffries has retained his title of bo does not see wny one man should be
champion of the world by again defeat­ permitted to make an entry in the in­
terest of another; nor does be recognise
ing Ccrbett.
the justioe of allowing cattle barons
Captain R . H. Lawson, a dis­ and large stock interests to gain con­
tinguished naval officer in the C ivil trol, if riot ownership, of vast tracts of
war, is dead.
public grasing lands, contrary to the
public
policy.
Secretary Hitchcock
Admiral Glass has returned to Brem­
erton naval station with his squadron has come to realise that while the gov-
after a cruise in tbe North Pacific ernent is annually losing vast areas of
valuable lands nnder the operations of
ocean.
the laws just specified, the governent
Tbe battleship Massachusetts struck is, to a great extent, powerless to arrest
an unchartered rock and will have to manv forms of speculative entries so long
go to dry dock. Her injuries are not aesthete laws remain on the statute
serious.
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The Turkish gendarme who killed a
Italy Expects War.
Russian consul has been executed.
Rome,
Aug.
19.— The memorandum
Turkey w ill pay the consul’ s widow
of tbe Bulgarian government to the
$80,000.
powers regarding the situation in Ma­
Charles M. Schwab is at the head of cedonia baa produced a great effect
a great tailoring trust just formed here. Tbe general impression is that
which w ill establish houses throughout tbe Bulgarian government is no longer
the United estates.
able to bold back popular feeling,
which, unless it is repressed in time,
Lake Erie fishermen are preparing to w ill lead to a war with Turkey. The
fight the Canadian revenue cutters in fate of Bulgaria in that event, it is
the future when an attempt is made to thought, would probably be the same
capture the fishing vessels.
as that of Greece in tbe last war with
Turkey.
Tbe Italian government is ex­
Rain is causing tbe Kansas river to
changing views with Vienna and London
rise again.
Russia has decided an a policy of
peace in tbe far East.
Street Cars CollMe.
Carthage, Mo., Aug. 19.— A head-on
collision
took place this afternoon on
The Servian cabinet has resigned,
tbe Carthage-Joplin electric railway
and K ing Peter threatens to abdicate.
three miles from this place. Motcrman
The chances are very slim that Co­ Joseph Baker was killed, Motormao
lombia w ill ratify the Panama canal Ed H eige fatally hurt and 25 other
persons seriously injured.
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COLOMBIAN SENATE TURNS DOWN
CANAL BY UNANIMOUS VOTE.
People’ s Mopes of Better Times are Sbet­
tered for T im Being-President Can
Now T a n to Nicaragua Route, Bnt
WIN Probably Make Another Effort
te Acquire Panama Right of Way.
Washington, Ang. 19.— Official in­
formation was received today that the
Colombian senate had unanimously re­
jected the Hay-Herran canal treaty.
This means more delay in providing
tbe waterway tbe Pacific coast so earn­
estly deairaa. I t is a blow, aud a
hard one, too, to the Colombians who
have invested in real estate on the sup­
position that the treaty would be rati-
flod. The non-success of the treaty
would seam to vindicate the advocates
of the Nicaragua scheme. The Panama
canal proposition has served its purpose
in postponing for three or four yeara
spy actual work on a canal. The nego­
tiations tnat have been pending so long
between the United States and Colom­
bia most now be transferred to Nlca-
rogue and Costa Rica.
Before Che United States took OP
Panama, and while it had never com­
mitted itself to the Panama route, it
might have been able to have made sat­
isfactory arrangements with Nicaragua
and Costa Rics. Now that the United
States is Bhut out of Colmobia, the de­
mands of Nicaragua and Costa Rica
w ill, no doubt, be largely increased, as
that is the only route left under the
present arrangement.
There iaUalk about tbe province of
ing from Colombia, and
Panama
establish in itself as a separate state,
vent it coaid negotiate a
in which
treaty witl tbe United States for a
canal. Thi may be introduced as an-
other elam t oi delay in canal con-
st motion, which w ill be on a par with
the subterfuges that have been naed for
many yeara to prevent anything being
done.
Under the law the preaident
can at once begin negotiations with
Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but some
time ago be gave an intimation that
the United States, by negoitationa
with tbe Panama canal company and
Colombia, had acquired certain rights
in the canal property. This did no
good, so far as indicating that an at­
tempt might be made to enforce tbe
rights regardless of tbe adoption of tbe
treaty by tbb Colombian government:
still, there was aih, intimation that the
Colombian congress was not all-power*
ful in settling tbe cknaal question.
Tbe administration has for a long
time been most favorable toward the
Panama canal as against Nicaragoa,
and there is a possibility that tbe Pana­
ma canal route w ill not be given un
Without another effort on the part of
the Uni ted States government to ae
care the construction of the canal at
FRAUD IN CITY OFFICE.
New York Has Lost $1,000,000 In Her
Water Department.
New York, Ang. 18.— Evidence of
fraud by which the city has lost sums
aggregating almost 11,000,000, have
been obtained by Water Commissioner
Monroe. Three inspectors in tbe wat­
er department are under suspicion.
One probably will be called upon to
face charges within a few days. The
facts disclosed are said to show gross
careln sness, if nothing worse, on the
part of many trusted employes of tbe
water department.
In some cases
there is the strongest circumstantial
evidence of collusion between consum­
ers of water and employes of the de­
partment, whereby the former appar­
ently have been allowed to nae all the
water they required in their business
and, on the payment of merely nomi­
nal fees, instead of the price fixed by
ordinance.
Gives Private Audience.
Rome, Aug. 19.— The pope at 5
o’ clock today received at a private audi­
ence in his apartment Archbishop
Harty, who yesterday was consecrated
archbishop of Manila, with whom be
spose at length about tbe situation in
the Philippines. Tbe pope said the
efforts of the clergy toward tbe pacifi­
cation of the archipelago and the tri­
umph of Catholicism would always re­
ceive tbe warmest support at Rome.
Archbishop Harty then presented to
the pontiff his secratary. Mgr. Fowler,
and Father Donoho#, of Alabama.
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Jamaica Takes Hops.
Kingston, Jamaica. Aug.
19.— A
slightly more bopefal feeling now pre­
vails among the planters regarding tbe
disastrous situation branght about by
tbe recent hurricane.
The work of
clearing the banana plantations is pro­
gressing space and efforts are being
made on all sides tn rsllave the dis­
tress, bnt thousands of the peasantry
are still homeless.
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NAVY YARD.
Ptigct Sound WUI Ask fer aa Appropria-
tton ol $422,300.
Washington, Aug, 18. —Tbe navy
department Baa received tbe annual
recommendations and estimates of the
officials of th e Paget sound navy yard
asking for an appropriation, at tbe
next session of congress, of $422,800
for the erection of now buildings and
the purchase of new tools and ma­
chinery.
In addition it is strongly recom­
mended that oongresi authorize the
early construction of a second dry dock,
“ of such dimensions as w ill accommo­
date the largest warship likely ever to
be stationed on the Pacific ooats.’ '
Upon these recommendations Secre­
tary Moody w ill later base his final es­
timates that are sent to congress, and
while he w ill no donbt make some
alterations, and possibly soma reduc­
tions, it is believed that in the main
he w ill approve tbe recommendations
of the Puget sound officers.
In pointing oat the necessity for a
dry dock larger than that now in use,
Naval Constructor H. D. Wright says
the past develompent of the yards and
the increaaed business that is sura to
follow the completion of extensions
now in progress is such as to render
qne dock inadequate.
W ithin two
years' the amount of repair work to be
done at Bremerton w ill have increased
to such proportions that another dock
w ill be necessary to accommodate tbe
ships. No estimate of the coct of such
a Hock is submitted, although if tbe
department approves tbe suggestion
an estimate w ill probably be made be­
fore congress convenes.
W ATER FALLS IN SHEETS.
Cloudburst Does Orest Damage la Kan-
sas and Nebraska.
Fairbory, Neb., Aug. 18.— Details
have been received here of a cloudburst
along the Nebraaka-Fansas line for
about eight milae. Two clouds appar­
ently met, aud for an hour the water
fell in sheets. Estimates of the down­
pour are all the way from a foot to
three feet.
The water swept down
Dry Branch and Sliver creeks, that are
usually dry at this season of the year,
taking everything before it. More than
1,000 trees were taken out by the
roots, and barns, oorn crios. grain and
bay stacks, several droves of hogs and
many head of cattle were swept away
with the flood.
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Not a bridge remains on Bilvet creek
and bat one on Dry Branch. Tbe resi­
dences were s ll built on high ground,
whioh* accounts for the fact that no
lives were lost, although there were
several narrow escapes.
ONE CHANCE FOR CANAL.
Colombia Is Alarmed Over Probable Sue-
cess of Nicaragua.
Panama, Ang. 18.— Letters received
from Bogota say that up to August 1
the Panama canal commission bad
held only one meeting on account of
the disgust of members with thé action
of Senator Ferez y Soto, who insiited
on recalling the treaty at the first
meeting. . Senator Obaldia, a warm
supporter ef the treaty, has had several
conferences with President Marroquin
and United States Minister Beanprie,
end notwithstanding their efforts the
committee could not be induced to re­
port in fsvor of ratifications.
Amend­
ments have been offeied which seem to
meet the approval of 20 senators ont of
24.
Both the house of representatives
and the senate are deeply impressed
with the persistent rumors which reach
Brgota of the possibility of a move­
ment for the secession of the isthmus
if this treaty is not ratified. The fear
that each an eventuality might follow
failure to ratify the treaty appears' to
•onstitate tba only chance or favoia-
ble action on the treaty.
China Discredits It.
Pekin, Aug. 18.— Tbe report that
Russia and China will ask the Ameri­
can government to arbitrate all ques­
tions arising over the Russian occupan­
cy of Manchuria is discredited here,
ft is pelieved .that both of theee powers
have already arrived at a mutual under­
standing on the subject, although upon
what terms none of tbe foreign lega­
tions have aa yet been able to ascertain.
America is generally considered one of
tbe isst governments which could pos­
sibly b^ asked to arbitrate in this
case.
Trains Collide la Fog.
Philadelphia, Ang. 18.— Two freight
trains on tbe Pennsylvania railroad
crashed together early today between
St. David’ s and Radnor, killing two
brakemen and injuring tba engineer of
the seoond train. A tramp who had
his collar bone broken in the accident
says several of his companions were
riding on the freight, and it is prcbable
that they are buried beneath the wreck­
age.
The accident was due to tba
danse fcg.
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SECRETARY ROOT HAS ACCOMP­
LISHED HIS QREAT DESIRE
Army Now Directly Under Control of
Oooeral Staff and Chief of Staff Can
Be Removed When
Objectionable -
Old Law W as Always a Source of
Much Conflict.
Washington, Aug. 15.— Beginning,
today a complete and ffiomentous change
w ill be made in the affairs of the war
department. Tbe commanding general
is no more, and powers that he was
supposed to have, and all of the powers
that have been gathered into the adjut­
ant general’ s office in the last five
veers, have passed to the chief of staff.
Secretary Root baa fcroompiished his
great desire, in eliminating a com­
manding general, who is not in har­
mony with the administration, and
substituting a chief of staff, who w ill
carry oat the orders and instruction*
of the president and tbe secretary of
war, and when he does not, is 'subject
to removal.
As loug as the lietenant general can
do the work of the chief of staff be w ill
probably be retained in that position,
bat in other cases a yonger officer, either
one of the major or brigadier generals,
w ill ha selected, it it seams desirable
to the secretary of war.
The change is very important, as it
practically makes the secretary of war
tbe commander of the forces ynder the
president, and brings tba m ilitary
more directly under the civil control
than it theoretically has been hereto­
fore.
No commanding general, neither
Sherman, Sheridan, Schofield or Miles,
was in harmony with the civil authori­
ties. Each , of these officers felt that
his position aa commanding general o f
the army should have given him au­
thority over the army, while as a mat­
ter of feet, he had none. A company
of infantry or a troop of cavalry
coaid not be moved by order of th e
commanding general, unless it received
tbe sanction of the secretary of war.
No other order that a commanding gen­
eral issued could be execute^ without
the secretary of war approved it.
Sherman left Washington and took
np his residence at 8t. Louis because
ha was not allowed to exercise what he
thought were the privilegea of his com­
manding rank. Sheridan and Secre­
tary Lincoln, for a long time fast
friends, very nearly qnanaled over the
same question of prerogatives of the
secretary and the authority of the com­
manding general. Schofield and Bn-
dicott fell out over the same proposi­
tion and 8cbofield tried to induce
Proctor to give him fall sway over the
army, and again whan Lamont was sec­
retary be made the same attempt, and
both times the secretary continued to
bold all his privileges as the manager
of the military establishment under
the direction of the president. M iles
disagreod with Lamont. with A lger
and with Root on the same grounds,
and disagreed also with tbe presidents
who were their superior officers.
Secretary Root saw the necessity or
eliminating from high theoretical com­
mand an officer who bad access to all
the papers and documents of tbe de­
partment by virtue of bis own rank
and important plsoe in the govern­
ment, and still waa working at cross
purposes with the government.
TURKBY RBTAKES TOWN.
Heavy Fighting W ith the Rebate Is Now
Proceeding on thn Outside.
Constantinople, Ang. 17.— Tbe im-
perlai troops have occupied Kroshego,
23 miles north of Monaatir, which was
reoetnly seised by the insorgente. A
force of 4,000 troops beeeiged tbe place
and boihbarded it with artillery. The
fighting with tbe revolutioinsts is still
proceeding outside the town.
Consalar advioee from Monaatir and
Salon ics indorse the belief that any
overt movement in tifose towns on the
part of the revolutionary committees
w ill lead to a massacre of the Bulgar­
ian Inhabitants by tbe Masaulmsns.
The dispatches received by the porte
give particulars of a number of encoun­
ters with the insurgents. The latter
attacked the village of Gnmenke,
throwing bombe in it, bnt official dis­
patches say thev were repu’ sed.
Lower House Favors tho Treaty.
Washington,
Ang.
17.— William
Nelson Cromwell, consul for tbe Pana­
ma canal company, says that he has
received mail advices from his agents
at Bogota that the lower house of tbe
Colombian congr
was
by an
avowed and open majority” strongly in
favor of rat Hying tbe Hay-Herran
treaty exactly as it stands; that the
opjier house, which at first was almost
overwhelmingly opposed to its ratifica­
tion in its present form, now stood al­
most one-third for ratification without
amendment.
Two Mors Shot by Madman Die.
Wichita, Kan., Aug. 17.— Two of
the people wonnded by the attack of
Gilbert Twigg, a demented millman,
on a crowd of 6,000 here died today.
Several others who ware wonnded are
in a critical condition.
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