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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Review of the Import
ant Happening» o f the Peat W eek,
Presented In Condensed Perm, Moat
IJkely to Prove Intereating.
Bryan says the Kansas City platform
is sound in every plank
The czar will not yield to Japan’ s
demand regarding Manchuria.
Hall Caine, the noted novelist, is
suffering from a general breakdown.
Russia fears America more than
Britain in the present Far Eastern
trouble;
The United Mineworkers of America
are holding their annual convention in
Indianapolis.
A hot fight is on in' Ohio between
Hanna and Foraker as to the indorse
ment of Roosevelt.
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A new religious sect has sprung up
in Best n. One of its teachings is that
the millennium is to come in 1916.
George Francis Train,' author and
traveler, is dead. Heart disease follow
ing an attack of- acute nephritis was
the cause. He was almost 75 years
old.
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The Chicago city council is framing
a new th> ater ordinance, which is
much more stringent than the present
one and they will see that it- is en
forced.
Britain has abandoned hopes of peace.
The American guard at Seoul, Corea,
has been increased.
The Illinois medical society
fight the anti-toxin combine.
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St. Petersburg, Jau. $0.— Minister of
the Interior Plehve has completed the
draft of the peasant code, or scheme,
for the peasant reforms ordered ih the
czar’s recent manifesto, and it will
probably be sent to thé local commit
tees throughout the empire within a
few days.
Members of the nobility in each
province and district will be allowed to
elect representatives on these commit
tees, but the Zemstvos (elective provin
cial assemblies, composed of landed
proprietors and representatives of the
artisan and peasants) will be appointed
by the governors.
The committees will be allowed free
dom to discuss the project and propose
any changes therein, except on three
points, which the emperor has reserved
from discussion. Namely: That the
peasant class must remain entirely sep
arate, legally, from the other classes ;
that the commune is to remain un
touched by legislation, and that the
peasant lands are to remain inalien-
able.
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These points stamp the forthcoming
legislation as conservative in the main,
but the present chaos is so great and so
much room is left for the arbitrary
conduct of the police and the local rep
resentatives of the ministry of the in
terior, as well as. of the peasant courts
and administrative machinery and
their commune town meetings that the
liberals declare any codification would
be in the line of progress.
The ministerial project proposes to
regain the system of corporal punish
ment, but the emperor did not include
this among the matters not subject to
change.
The emperor regards the
preservation of the peasant class, the
retention of the economic commune and
the inalienability of peasant lands as
necessary for the protection of the peas
ants from exploitation.
MANCHURIA THE ISSUE.
A month Of debate is ahead on the
Panama affair in the senate. —
Japanese Demands Cannot Be Qranted
by Russia.
The Japanese minister at London
says war must come now or later.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 20.— The Asso
Pure food experts find America is be ciated Press correspondent on high
ing grossly deceived by French wine authority, is able to .give the following
as the present status of negotiations be
makers.
tween Russia and Japan:
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Bryan will issue a daily paper in St.
Russia recognizes Japan’ s predomi
Lodlt during the national Democratic nance in Corea and Japan recognizes
convention.
Russia’s special position in Manchuria.
James L. Blair, a prominent St. There are two main questions still
Louis attorney indicted for forgery, at issue, the Russian demand for a
neutral zone upon the Corean side of
has died from worry.
the Yalu river, which Japan met with
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
a proposal for a similar neutral strip
America should wake up in the matter on the Manchurian side. Japan also
of breeding fine animals.
asks for certain guarantees covering
The hpuee expects to pass an appro .Manchuria, which Russia has thus far
priation bill a week until all supply declined to grant. Jt is pointed out,
measures are out of the way.
however, that the assurance given a few
The jury in the case of R. H. Ken days ago by Russia regarding open
nedy, the Hillsboro, Oregon, minister ports in Manchuria and respect for
on trial for bnrglary, has returned a treaty rights is a concession on this
point.
verdict of not guilty.
That" the two countries are not so far
Ex-Governor Asa S. Bushnell, of apart may be fairly inferred from the
Ohio, is dead.
following statement made by Mr. Kur-
The Panama canal treaty is sure to ino, the Japanese minister to the Asso
ciated Press correspondent:
be accepted by the senate committee.
“ War now would only be disastrous
Japan’s reply to Russia’ s latest note to both countries. Owing to the geo
has been given. It is a denial of every graphical situation, an armed conflict
material proposition^!^!:
would result in a great drain on the
France threatens retaliation unless men and treasury of both Japan and
Be
the United States removes the export «Russia, without being decisive.
sides, I believe it would not be worth
duty on Manila hemp.
Judge De Haven has ruled that a while to go to war on the questions
Chinese born in this country may be still in dispute.’ ’
'readmitted on return from abroad.
NOT A JUNKBTINd TRIP.
A bill has been introduced in
congress granting pensions to all union Senatorial Subcommittee Had Light Ex
veterans 62 years of age, who served 90
penses la Honolulu Inspection.
•days.
Washington, Jan. 20.— Accounts ren
The Corean press is urging the peo dered to the senate by Senator Mitchell
ple to slaughter all foreigners. The show that the subcommittee which vis
American minister says he will protect ited Hawaii in the summer of 1902 ex
his people.
pended only $3,039 in gathering and
Havre, Mont., was almost entirely formulating data and information for
destroyed by the fire a few days ago. the benefit of the senate.
This would scarcely justify the as
After it was thought to be under control
sertion
that the trip of the subcommit
it again broke forth. Only one business
house of any consequence is left. The tee on territories was a “ junket,” for,
loss is placed at $350.000 with $145,- considering the distance traveled and
the amount of information collected, it
000 insurance.
is, without a doubt, one of the cheap
There is a great flood of Alaskan bills est investigation« ever conducted by a
in oongress.
subcommittee from congress.
But of the total amount $540 was
The Ohio legislature has re-elected
paid
ont as steamship fare for the mem
Senator Hanna.
bers of the party from Pan Francisco to
A gang of Italian robbers has been Honolulu and return, and $1,026 was
caught at Irrigon, Oregon, with much disposed of in settling the hotel account
loot.
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Red Cross Charters Two Vessels of tbe
Nippon Line.
Victoria. B. C., Jan. 19.— Advices
Colorado Is Alraady Ont $500,000 on
Cripplo Crook Troubla.
were brought by the steamer Tosa Maru
Denver, Colo., Jan. 15.— Adjutant
General Sherman Bell said today that
evacuation of the military camps at
Telluride and Cripple Creek had begun,
and that only provost guards would be
posted at these places for cases of emer
gency. General Bell announced that
a troop of cavalry had been organized
at Telluride. It is composed of about
75 young men who own horses. In ad
dition to these he will leave a guard of
about 60 men at that place. Two com
panies, comprising about 185 men, will
be left in the Cripple Creek district for
the present. ' Up to date the expense of
maintaining military forces in the field
in consequence of the strikes which be
an last summer has been nearly $500,-
000.
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China to Moke Fine Display.
St. Louis, Jan: 15.— China’s exhibit
at the world’s fair will be a display of
Oriental splendor and will be made by
the Chinese government pi oper, which
is the first time in the history of the
Celestial empire that such a thing has
been done. Funds for the exhibition
will be appropriated from the imperial
coffers at Pekin, being secured largely
through the influence of the dowager
empress, who is greatly interested in
the exposition. A shipment of build
ing material and totem poles has ar
rived from Alaska.
Ex-Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, is
Mother of Captain Hobson.
very low and his death may occur at
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Boulder,
Colo., Jan. 20.— The moth-
any time. •
’ er of Captain Richmond P. Hobson
Germany has informed Britain that 1 died at the home of Shirley Davis to
she is ready to conclude a commerical day after a long illness. Her son was
with her when she died and will leave
treaty with Canada.
with the remains tomorrow for Greens
American ships will maintain a close
boro, Ala., where they will be interred.
watch and prevent any landing of Co
Sarah Croon Pearson was born at Rich
lombian troops on Panama soil.
mond H ill, N. C., February 24, 1843,
Ex-Congressman Driggs, of New and for the past 20 years she had been
York, has been fined $10,000 and given a sufferer from dyspepsia. She came
one day in jail for accpeting a bribe.
to Boulder last summer and has since
For Reciprocity Treaties.
remained here on account of the benefit
Premeir Balfour's statement that
Washington, Jan. 15%— Representa
to her health.
Britain will carry out its trade treaty
tive Lilly, of Connecticut, today intro
obligations is deeply resented by Rus
Turks Massing Troops.
duced a bill authorizing the president
sia.
Salónica, European Turkey, Jan. 20. to enter into negotiations with coun
The senate engaged in a warm discus — An important concentration of Turk tries which export livestock with a
sion over a resolution looking to arbi ish troop« has begun at Kumanova, on view of arranging reciprocity treaties
tration of Colombia’s claims against the road leading to the Bulgarian in favor of the livestock and dragged
meat products of the United States.
frontier.
Panama.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON EXPOSITIONS
COMMENDS UNDERTAKING.
Sends M itchell’s 1908 Fair BUI Ì© the
3ennte.and Asks Favorable Cenald-
eratton—Appropriation of $2,125,000
Is Otvoa Full Sanction—Fow Changea
W ere Mode In the Measure.
Washington, Jan. 8.— “ An svent so-
striking and so romantic in its charact
er, involving so much of heroism and
sacrifice on the part of those engaged
in It, and resulting In benefits so great
and enduring to our country, is, in the
judgment of your committee, w ell
worthy of commemoration by this gov
ernment.”
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With these words, dhd after fully re-'
viewing the purpoees and plans of the
Lewis and Clark centennial exposition,
the senate committee on industrial ex
positions today unanimously com
mended Senator M itchell’ s bill to tho
favorable consideration of the senate.
The committee makes no material
amendments in the bill as it was origi
nally introduced, and makes no cut
whatever in the appropriation, the
amount called for remaining at $2,125,-
000. -
The bill was altered in only one en
sential feature. Section 9, which car
ries a lump appropriation oi $1,500,000,
as direct government aid, is amended
to provide that this money shall be ex
pended under direction of the national
commission and not under direction of
the Lewis and Clark corporation. Tbe
committee found that in every instance
where the government had aided expo
sitions, the government funds were ex
pended by the government commission,
which was under control of the presi
dent.
The exposition corporation i»
not subject to this control. Therefore-
the change.
Section 20 was amended to provide-
that expenses incurred by consular,
military and naval officers in the Ori
ent, in the collection of exhibits for'the-
exposition, should be defrayed from the
$1,500,000 appropriation.
The only other change in the bill,
aside from alteration in phraseology,
occurs in section 4, which provides for
the appointment of a board of arbitra
tion to whom all matters of difference
arising between the national commis
sion and the exposition company shall
be referred. Instead of allowing the
exposition corporation and the state
commission two members each on this*
commission, membership is restricted
to one member each, making the total
four instead of six. The right of the-
commission to designate a fifth member-
in case o f deadlock is alsq provided.
WANTS TO JOIN PANAMA.
Island of San Andres Tires of Colom
bian Oppression.
Colon, Jan. 13.— The schooner Her
ald, which arrived here yesterday even
ing from Bocas del Toro, brought a
commissioner from the island of San
Andres who will endeavor to obtain the-
annexation of San Andres to the repub
lic of Panama, owing to the dissatis
faction of the inhabitants of the island
at the recent oppressive actions on the-
part of Colombian authorities.
The-
commissioner will go to Panama and
confer with the junta. He says" 4001
Colombia a troops are now in garrison
on the islands of San Andres and Provi
dence, and that more soldiers are ex
pected momentarily. The dissatisfac
tion, he adds, is general throughout
the islands. San Andres does much'
business with the United States in co-
coanuts, about 20,000,000 of these nuts
being shipped there annually.
Panama is desirous of annexing San
Andres and Providence, but. it is be
lieved that steps in that direction at
the present moment would be inop
portune.
The United States marines encamped
at Empire and Bas Obispo are kept
busy cleaning np the grounds around
the camps, which are located on a
healthy hill close to the railroad. The
marines have also cleaned the canal
company’s houses, all of which now
present a clean and smart appearance.
that the Red Cross hospital ships Ka
kuai Maru and Kosai Maru, chartered
from the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line,
are now ready for service in the event
of war. Vladivostok harbor has been
frozen over
In this connection ^he
Hochi of Tokio says a telegram has re
ported that four vessels have been
caught in the ice and will hold nil
winter.
A Seoul correspondent says the wife
of the Russian minister has become
very influential at the Russian court
and that, owing to this influence, the
Russian minister has been -enabled to
make a compact with the Corean em
Battle skips Make Quant.
perorer whereby he may take refuge at
Washington, Jan. 13.— A cablegram
the Russian legation in the event of
war and issne all administrative orders today from Rear Admiral Evans, com
manding the Asiatic fleet, announced
from the Russian legation.
the arrival of the battleships Ken
tucky, Oregon and Wisconsin at Guam
Rnn Down by Farmers.
Paola, Kan., Jan. 19.— Two men giv frbm Honolulu on their way to Subig
bay. It is expected that the cruiser
ing their names as Charles Gorney,
aged 29, of St. Paul, Minn., and squadron, consisting of the New Or
Thomas Rorers, aged 30, of Butte, leans, Albany, Cincinnati and Raleigh,
Mont., who are suspected of attempting will arrive At Guam today or tomorrow.
to rob the bank of Cleveland, Mo., and The cruisers left Honolulu in company
of blowing open the safe of the Mis with the battleships, but, unlike the
souri, Kansas A Texas station with latter, stopped en route at the Midway
Islands.
nitroglycerin, wrecking the safe and
the interior of the station of Louisburg
$100,000 Ftra at Trinidad.
last night, were surrounded and cap
Trinidad,
Colo., Jan. 13.— A fire
tured here today by a posse of 300 farm
which
originated
in the basement of
ers and members of the anti-horsethief
Fowler’s
furniture
store this afternoon
association.
caused $100,000 damage before it could
)e put under control.
The Masonic
Coal-Breaker Burned.
dock and the Bloom bfock were de
Scranton, Pa., Jan: 19—The Oliphant stroyed. For a time tbe entire business
breaker and washery of the Delaware portion of the city was in danger and
A Hudson company, at Oliphant, was Pueblo was Asked for help.
The fire
destroyed by fire today. The loss is was caused by ¡the overturning of a.
$110,000.
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AMERICAN-CIUNESE TREATY RATIFIED , Washington, Jan. 19.— The hearing
AT WASHINGTON.
before the bouse committee on interna
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tional expositions today developed the'
fact that the committee is in favor of
Foreign Trade May Bn&r Now Manchur
recognizing the Lewis and Clark expo
ian Fields—Consular Service Will Bo
sition by government participation,
Established lie Mukden and An Tnng
and an appropriation," which will aid
Immediately — Swooping Victory for
in commemoriating the wonderful expe
the “ Open D oor’ Policy.
dition of the explorers who made the
wonderful overland journey to, the Pa
Washington, Jan. 15.— Ratifications
cific Northwest.
of the American-Chinese commercial
Chairman Tawney of the committee
treaty were exchanged at the state de
said after the hearing:
partment today by Secretary Hay and
“ The Lewis and Clark expedition
Sir Chung Teng Liang Cheng the Chi
was of sufficient importance to warrant
nese minister here. It was promptly
a celebration and the participation of
promulgated by the president. The the government of the United States J*
treaty provides for the opening of the
The program now is to have the Ore
ports of Mukden and An Tung, in Man gon «^position committee, the delega
churia, to the world’s commerce.
tion and a subcommittee of the house
President Roosevelt has selected men committee confer and draft a bill
of experience already in the consular which will meet the approval of the
service for these new posts, and is con bouse committee and secure a report
sequently able to open up the new field upon it at an early day.
to trade with the least possible delay.
It is fully understood that to secure
Their names will be sent to the- senate favorable action in the house the bill
as soon as congress makes provision for must conform to the ideas of the com'
their salary, which the state depart mittee and though such a ’bill may not
ment hopes w ill be done speedilv.
be all that is wanted, it is desirable to
It is regarded as very desirable that get a report and action by the house
such rights ,as we have acquired in soon as possible.
Representative
Manchuria as to China shall be fully Tawney will consult the state depart
established and asserted in advance of ment regarding the form of the bill in
any possible war that might affect that reference to foreign exhibits. He has
vast territory to the extent of a change taken hold of the matter m earnest and
of sovereignty.
at the hearing today Representative
The ceremony of exchange took place Williamson thanked him for the inter
at the state department by appointment est he had shown.
at 11'o ’clock.
The Chinese minister
The Oregon men feel that substan
was accompanied by his secretary. tial progress has been made by the
Everything had been arranged, and Mr. meeting today. The Portland commit
Conger had notified the department tee finds it necessary, in view of the
that the Chinese government had placed suggestions and deelopments, to remain
an^exchange copy of the treaty in his in Washington a while longer, in order
bands yesterday. This is held to be to confer with the house subcommittee
equivalent to the delivery of the docu upon the draft of another bill.
ment to the United States government,
as required by the treaty itself. Sec
RUSSIA CANNOT YIBLD.
retary Hay and the Chinese minister
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joined today in the signature of the
protocol reciting the fact that the rati Reply of Japan Contains Several Ob
jectionable Features.
fication had been exchanged.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 19.— It is almost
CAME AS SHOCK TO RUSSIA.
practically certain that Russia w ill not
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accept Japan’s last proposal as an en
Japan Now Championing Canoe In Which
tirety. Russia is ready to agree to
America la Concerned.
certain points, but on others, the for
London, Jan. 15.— All the morning
eign office believes Russia cannot yield.
papers have* editorials which attach
great importance to the ratification of The officials believe that the way is
the commercial treaties between the open for continuing the negotiatiqns,
United States $nd China, and between and there is no indication that Russia
Japan.and China. The consensus of
will seek to delay her answer] which
opinion in' them editorials is that the.
probably
will be ready in a few days.
ratification of the treaties implies an
The
czar
conhtinues to talk peace
act of sovereignty by China equivalent
to a declaration that Russia’ s occupa and the dowager czarina, in conversa
tion of Manchuria’ is only temporary, tion, remarked: “ War is a horrible
and for special purposes.
thing. There will be no war.’
The pro-Japanese Morning Post says :
In the meantime, Viceroy Alexieff
“ That is precisely the point for which and Baron de Rosen, as well as the for
Japan has been contending, and which eign office, are studying the Japanese
Russia declined to discusB with her. document. Army and navy circles con
Japan is now in the advantageous posi tinue pessimistic. The best feature of
tion of championing a cause which is the situation is the fact that the Jap
also that of the United States.”
anese reply has in no sense the char
The St. Petersburg correspondent of acter of on ultimatum. It is couched
the Paris edition of the New York Her in pacific terms, does not fix a time
ald, and thè special cablegrams from limit, and the acceptance by RnBsia of
other correspondents at the Russian certain of the propositions therein
capital, say that the opinion is held marks an advance toward a settlement.
that the ratification of the Japanese and
American treaties came as a shock to
HOSPITAL SHIPS PREPARED.
the Russfan foreign office.
STRIKE COSTS STATB HBAVILY.
IS INDORSED
In Favor of
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