8EN A TO R A L L I8 0 N D IE 8.
Death Comes as Shock, as Few Were
Aware o f Illness.
S TA TE GUARANTY ILLEGAL.
National Banks Cannot Aceapt Term *
o f Oklahoma Law.
Washington, Aug. 4.—In a formal
opinion rendered by Attorney General
Bonaparte s|t the request o f Secretary
o f the Treasury Cortelyou, It is held to
be illegal fpr any national bank to
enter into a contract or other arrage-
ment with state officials for the pur
pose o f creating a guaranty fund out
o f the bank’s deposits or capital stock
to be used in paying the depositors o f
any bank included within the terms of
a state statute, any deficiency there
may be in the amount to be received
by them from assets o f such bank in
the event o f its failure.
Mr. Cortelyou requested the attorney
general's opinion “ as to the legal right
o f national banks in the state o f Okla
homa to contribute toward the guar
anty fund or to avail themselves of
the other privileges o f the state bank
ing a c t ”
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CURT FLIES ON IS T H M U S .
Total o f Earth Removed Increases
Month by Month.
• Washington, Aug. 8. — Month by
month the^total excavation on the Isth
mian canal is increasing. A cablegram
received yesterday from Colonel Goe-
thals, chief engineer on the Isthmus,
shows that the excavation for July was
considerably greater than for June, al
though the latter was almost a record
in the canal work. The total excava
tion for July was 3,168,640 cubic
yards, against 3,056,976 cubic yards
for June, and, 1,087,498 cubic yards
fo r July a year ago.
In the corre
sponding months this show an increase
o f 2,091,932 cubic yards.
The average daily output for July,
1908, was 121,494 cubic yards, against
41,442 çubic yards in July, 1907.
In
July o f this year, 1,847,173 cubic
yards o f material were removed by
steam shovels.
Roosevelt Praises Dead.
Oyster Bay, N. Y ., Aug. 7.— Presi
dent Roosevelt today sent a telegram
to the late Senator Allison’s secretary,
as follow s:
“ Am inexpressibly shocked and con
cerned at the news. The whole coun
try loses a man grown gray in the
most honorable type o f public service,
a man, who, becuse o f his experience
and trained ability, was one o f the
most effective aids in making good
government that we have in our coun
try. (Signed)
“ THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Perkins on Naval Committee.
Washington, Aug. 7.— As a result of
the death o f Senator Allison, o f Iowa,
Senator Perkins, o f California, will be
advanced to the chairmanship o f the
committee on naval affairs. Next to
Senator Hale, the California senator is
the ranking member o f that committee
and as Hale is the ranking member of
the committee on appropriations he
w ill be called upon to take Allison’s
place as chairman, leaving the chair o f
the naval affairs committee to be filled
by Perkins.
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Packers Kick on Overcharge.
Washington, Aug. 7.—The Carstens
Packing company, o f Tacoma, has filed
a complaint with the Interstate Com
merce commission against the Oregon
Short Line, the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation company and the Northern
Pacific, in which it asks reparation of
$252 on 11 cars o f stock shipped to
Tacoma from Nampa, Idaho, and On
tario, Or.
It is alleged it was over
charged and that the cars were routed
by a more expensive route than neces
sary.
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Young Commandant at Mare Island:
Washington, Aug. 8.—Captain Lu-
cien Young is to be the new command
ant at Mare Island navy yard, San
Francisco, according to advices given
cu t by the Navy department. He will
succeed Captain J. B. Milton, who has
been transferred to command o f the re
cruiting ship Independence, now at
Mare Island. Commodore J. M. Rob
inson* who has been in command o f the
Independence, is relieved and has re
turned to his home.
Release 4 3 Captives.
Washington, Aug. 6.— Estrada Ca
brera, president o f Guatemala, has re
leased 43 political prisoners, according
to a dispatch received at the State de
partment from ALmerican Minister
Heimke today.
O f this number 32
were Guatemalans, six Hondurans and
vfie Nicraguans. It is believed that
these men are among those who were
alleged to have been implicated in the
several attempts on the life o f Cabrera
during the last two years.
Give Consuls Refuge.
Washington, Aug. 4.— Word o f the
arrival o f the gunboat Marietatta at
Ceiba, Honduras, Captain Maxwell
commanding, has been received at the
Navy department.
Captain Maxwell
will give refuge aboard his vessel to
the foreigd consuls at Ceiba, whose
exequaturs have been cancelled by
President Davila, o f Honduras, if con
ditions make i» e-pedient for them to
retire, from tht city.
Says Kermlt Did Not Talk.
Oyster Bay, Aug. 7.—The president,
through Acting Secretary Foster, yes
terday denounced as being entirely fic
titious an alleged interview with his
■on, Kermit, regarding the African
hunt o f next year which is being given
publicity. Mr. Foster said the story
was an absolute fabrication and the
president was desirous o f refuting it.
. Dubuque, Iowa, Aug. 5.—Senator
William Boyd Allison died in his L o
cust street home at 1 :33 o ’clock yes
TALK W IT H S C O T T FIR ST.
terday afternoon. With him at disso
Roosevelt Not Ready to Act on West lution were members o f his household
Point Haxers.
and a physician.
In a bulletin an-
Oyster Bay, Aug. 6.—Secretary o f ( nouncing his death Doctors Hancocc
War Wright has sent word to Presi *and Lewis gave heart failure as the
dent Roosevelt that he desires the pres cause. The announcement o f the sen
ident to see Colonel Scott and talk with ator’s death came as a shock to bis
him regarding the findings and recom neighbors, as few were aware o f "bis
mendations made by a board o f inquiry illness. Though for the past two years
and indorsed by Colonel Scott in the Senator Allison had been in declining
case o f the suspended cadets. Colonel health, and though he suffered the loes
Scott undoubtedly will be received at o f much vitality during the present
Oyster Bay by the president on his summer, no news had gone out from
way to West Point from Washington. his home indicating the gravity o f his
The president’s assistant secretary, illness.
Senator Allison suffered from the
Rudolph Foster, this afternoon made
a statement saying the president had worst form o f prostatic enlargement
not received the final decision o f the and a kidney affection made relief
As is
War department. The statement adds: even more difficult to afford.
“ The president, o f course, will come usual in such cases, the senator suffer
to no final decision until he hears ed frequently from periods o f faint
ness and weakness. These spells tynre
from General W right.”
frequently occurred o f late. The last
o f them had its beginning on Friday
Debt is 8 2 0 ,0 7 7 ,4 1 4 More.
Washington, Aug. 6.—The monthly and finally resulted in the patient’ s
statement o f the public debt shows death.
that at the close o f business July 31,
C LO U D B U R S T IN ARIZONA.
1908, the debt, less cash in the treas
ury, amounted to $958,809,823, which
is an increase for the month o f $20,- Bisbee Suffers to Extent of 8 1 0 0 ,0 0 0
677,414.
The cash in the treasury is
From Water.
$1 ,791,038,029, against which there
Bisbee, Ariz., Aug. 6.—-A cloudburst
are demand liabilities outstanding
this afternoon did about $100,000 dam
amounting to $1,437,409,856, which
age in Bisbee.
One side o f Main
leaves a cash balance o f $353,638,173.
street, including the postoffice, in less
The apparent increase in the public
than ten minutes was changed from
debt is accounted for by the loss o f
200 yards o f stores, costly saloons and
cash in the treasury, which, during
business houses to a mass o f wreckage
July amounted to nearly $36,000,000.
by rocks, water and mud that came
This loss was occasioned by the large
tumbling down off the mountain Bide.
also by the redemption o f the notes of
Postmaster M. E. Cassidy and Sheriff
failed and liquidating national banks
Jack White, who were in the post
and the reducing o f circulation, o f na
master’s office, narrowly escaped with
tional banks.
their lives, as did the force o f 18 girls
employed in the postoffice, when the
Law Will be Given Test.
inrush o f wfcter, almost without warn
Washington, Aug. 6.— The constitu ing, Btruck the building.
tionality o f the Federal law prohibit
Huge boulders and tons o f dirt slid
ing the importation o f women from into the first floor o f the postoffice
foreign countries for immoral purposes where the force was at work. Consid
is involved in the cases o f Alphonse erable mail was washed away or dam
and Eva Dufour, which are docketed aged by mud and water. Miss Clara
today in the Supreme Court o f the Larsen, o f Chicago, was rescued from
United States. Six indictments were five feet o f water into which she had
returned against each in the United fallen by Miss Barr, another clerk.
States Circuit court sitting in Chicago,
Thousands o f tons o f rock and dirt
on the charge o f violating the immi were washed down the mountain side
gration laws, and Judge Landis refus into the streets, where it was piled up
ed to release them on the writs o f from five to 20 feet high.
habeas corpus. They took an appeal
to the Supreme court. The maximum
TW E N TY LOGGERS M IS S IN G .
punishment is five years imprisonment
and a fine o f $5,300 in each count.
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Mill Men May Have Perished in Fire
Opium Users in New York.
About Hosmer.
Washington, Aug. 4.— A t least 5,000
Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 6.— Up to
white persons in New York city are this evening 18 bodies had been found
slaves to the opium habit, according to in the ruins caused by the fire at Fer-
the statement made today by Dr. nie.
Wright, one o f the three representa
The logging crew o f the Elk Lumber
tives o f America on the international company, consisting o f about 20 men,
commission which is investigating the is still missing. They were at work
opium traffic throughout the world. He on the mountain north o f Hosmer and
said the investigations have led also to nothing has yet been heard from them.
the estimate that there are from 600 Some believe that the entire party has
to 1,000 Chinese residents o f New perished in the flames.
York who are addicted to the drug.
The only possible way o f escape open
The commission intends to extend its to them was to cross the mountain
activities to all the main cities o f the range. I f they succeeded it will be
country, to determine the extent o f the several days yet before they could pos
■lie o f drugs in the United States.
sibly reach Fernie by a circuitous
route. No human being would under
Deepen Mare Island Straits.
take to reach them across the burned
Washington, Aug. 4.—The board o f area at the present time.
civil engineers o f the army and navy
apponited to suggest some methods o f
Fire Devours Michel.
improving the approaches to the Mare
Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 5.— For three
Island navy yard, has decided on the
employment o f hydraulics in the Mare days the people o f Michel have fought
Island straits. By this means it will for their homes with death at the door.
This afternoon they were beaten at
be possible to provide an adequate
the game. The city, the second in
depth o f the channel at Mare Island to
size
in the devastated district of East
accommodate the largest war vessels.
The project is said to be feasible and Kootenay, started to burn in real ear
can be maintained, when once it isj in nest at dusk this evening.
Nothing can save it from lying a
stalled, for $25,000 a year.
heap o f ruius even more complete than
Fernie by tomorrow morning. The
Roosevelt Entertains Guests.
background
o f Fernie in every direc
Oyster Bay, Aug. 6.— Secretary o f
tion, except the openings up and down
the Treasury Cortelyou and Thomas J.
the valley, is a mountain. There is
O’Brien, American ambassador at To
one main street running through the
kio, were guests o f President Roose
velt at Sagamore Hill today, Secretary center o f the town and the railway
runs down the center o f the street
Cortelyou driving over from his home
Two rows o f houses on each side have
at Halesite, near Huntington. Other
guests o f the president today w ere: W. their back yards abutting against the
C. Forbes, vice governor o f the Philip mountain.
pines; R. R. Rogers, general counsel
Portugal Faces Religious War.
o f the Isthmian Canal commission;
Lisbon,
Aug. 5.— A religious war ia
Robert J. Collier, Norman Hapgood
imminent in Portugal. A bill intro
and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sullivan.
duced by Alfonso Costa, leader o f the
republicans in the chamber o f deputies
New Man at St. Anthony.
Washington, Aug. 5.— Announce and the most bitter enemy o f the gov
ment was made at the Postoffice de ernment, providing for the expulsion
partment today that Charles C. Moore of all religious orders from Portugal,
center.
The bill is
had been appointed postmaster at St. is the storm
Anthony, Idaho, in place o f Marcellus thought to be a veiled attack on the
J. Gray, removed. This change was throne, which favors Catholicism. The
decided upon several weeks ago after Jesuits have been encouraged by
an inspection o f the office. The de Queen Uarie Amelie for the past 20
partment says Mr. Gray has been care years and have a strong foothold in
less in the conduct o f the office and this country.
failed to give it the personal attention
Edison Will Do What He Likes.
required.
New York, Aug. 5.—To gratify a
life-long wish, Thomas A. Edison, the
Treasury Department Is Upheld.
Washington, Aug. 5.—The attorney great inventor, has decided to quit
general has upheld the Treasury de temporarily his laboratory and go on
partment in its view of that packages roving commission to the Pacific coast,
by the distilled spirits produced at dis where he will engage in scientific re
tilleries not affected by restraining or search free from all commercialism.
ders must be marked in accordance The change does not mean that he will
with the regulations which took effect cease work at all, but that he will de
Edi
July 1. A circular letter is soon to be vote himself purely to science.
son,
accompanied
by
his
wife,
will
leave
issued to the internal revenue collect
ors instructing them in accordance late in August for the journey.
with this view.
Monument o f Great Quake.
Send Leonard to Tokio Fair.
San Francisco, Aug. 5.—The new
Washington, Aug. 5.— Major Henry Relief Home for the aged and infirm,
F. Leonard, o f the Marine corps, has erected at a coat o f $460,000 from the
been designated as naval attache to the surplus money contributed for the re
Tokio Exposition commission in re lief o f sufferers by the earthquake and
sponse to the request o f Commissioner fire o f April 18, 1906, waa formally de
General Loomis. Major Leonrd’ s con dicated today and turned over to the
nection with the commission will begin city. It la located on the Almshouae
tract south o f the Golden Gate.
about September 1.
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