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Whsn Wind Falls.
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. , 9 .— Specials
to the Pioneer Press state that al
ready, more than 83,000 000 worth o f
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mining timber and other property
has
been destroyed by the forest fires
Government Issues Warning to Civil Secretary Straus Approves Action on
in
Upper
Minnesota.
Service Employes.
Mormon Immigrants.
Washington, Sept. 12.— A solemn
warning had been issued by the civil
service commission to the arffiy o f gov
ernment employes in this city and
elsewhere, against sidestepping their
work for Uncle Sam in order to in
dulge in the game o f politics.
I t seems that in past campaigns it
has been the practice o f many govern
ment officials and clerks to resign so
that they may run for office in their
home communities, or otherwise be
come actively engaged in political
work, to be reinstated after election
day, i f the old job still appeals to
them. This year there w ill be no re
instatement, says the commission. The
order is as follow s:
“ The commission desires to inform
each o f the department and independ
ent executive officers o f its attitude
toward employes in the classified ser
vice who resign to become candidates
fo r office or to engage in active polit
ical work and who afterward seek re
instatement.
“ Inasmuch as the issuance o f a cer
tificate is discretionary with the com
mission, no certificate w ill be issued in
any case where the party seeking re
instatement resigned with a view o f
running for office or indulging in polit
ical activity which would be prohibited
i f he had remained in the service, and
afterward, having failed in his candi
dacy, or having indulged in contem
plated political activity, seeks rein
statement.“
N AV A L C R IT IC S REBUFFED.
Roosevelt Promptly Approves Plans
fo r New Battleships.
Washington,
Sept.
8.— President
Roosevelt has approved the plans of
the proposed new battleships Florida
and Utah, which were authorized at
the last session o f congress. In the
course o f his examination he sought
the advice o f Commander Sims and
Lieutenant - Commander Albert
L.
K ey, who entertained what are re
garded as radical opinions respecting
naval construction and who frankly
criticised some of the features o f the
new ships^_The prompt approval by
the president o fthe plans is taken to
indicate that he was not deeply im
pressed with the arguments of the
critics.
It is expected that advertisements
for bids for construction of the Utah
w ill be published in a few days. That
'vessel is to be constructed at a pri
vate shipyard, while the Florida is to
be built at the Brooklyn navy-yard.
Few er Japs Come.
Washington, Sept. 11.— According to
official figures made public by Secre
tary o f Commerce and Labor Straus
today, the tide o f immigration from
Japan has been checked until now it is
but one third o f what it was a year
ago. Japanese immigration for the
fiscal year 1907 was 80,000, including
the Japanese who went to Honolulu.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1908, immigration from Japan was 18,-
m ‘ o f wfcicTi9,BTO¿¿me W O * r S uh
land o f the United States. The bureau
o f immigration has estimated that 5,-
718 Japanese left the United States for
Japan and other countries, leaving the
net increase for the year but 8,800.
O f that increase but 15 per cent are
laborers.
Parker Is Not In Race.
Washington, Sept. 11.— Before leav
ing for N ew York today, Judge Alton
B. Parker took cognizance o f a report
that he would be w illin g to make the
race for governor o f the state o f New
York at the approaching election, and
said in so many words that he was not
so inclined. Judge Parker Baid:
“I
am not w illin g to run for governor o f
N ew York. I do not feel that the sit
uation and the question sustained me
in saying more than it is my desire to
never again hold public office.
My
frienda, I felt, would understand that
I said precisely what I meant, and my
answer was intended to inform them
and no one else.“
Roosevelt O rders Appeal.
Oyster Bay, N. Y ., Sept. 12.— While
Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte
was in conference with President
Roosevelt, the report o f the decision
rendered in Philadelphia today by the
United States Circuit court, that the
commodities clause o f the Hepburn
railroad act is unconstitutional was
conveyed to the president’s home by
the Associated Press. The president
and Mr. Bonaparte, after a discussion,
came to a conclusion that the depart
ment o f Justice should take an appeal.
Mr. Bonaparte would say
nothing
about what the president had said in
regard to the decision.
Takahlra’ s Visit Explained.
• Washington, Sept. 10,— The recent
visits o f the Japanese ambassador,
Baron Takahira. to President Roose
velt at Oyster Bay and to Secretary
Root at Clinton, it is officially stated,
has no bearing on the question of
Chinese-American alliance, nor were
they for the purpose o f discussing the
presence o f the Atlantic fleet in
Asiatic waters. Acting Secretary of
State Adec said last night that the
Japanese ambassador's visits were en
tirely informal.________
'•Wsnt Ads" Get Recruite.
Washington, Sept. 9.— “ W ant” ad
vertisements have been found helpful
by the navy department in its recruit
ing work, and hereafter most o f the
money available for that purpose will
be spent in that class of advertising in
preference to the display forms.
Washington, Sept. 9. — Secretary
Straus yesterday approved the action
of the local immigration officials at
Boston in the so-called Mormon cases,
wherein a number of immigrants wero
held up on the allegation of entering
the eountry in violation o f law. Mr.
Straus said that the two cases of ex
clusion were on the grounds, ks to one,
of admission of belief in polygamy, and
as to the other, o f physical and other
reasons. A number of other cases have
been held up for further investigation.
Lively interest has been taken in
these cases, on account of the question
of Mormoniam, but Mr. Straus said that
the decision in all of them was wholly
regardless of the question of Mormon
religion; that the question of polygamy
was one specifically provided for by
law, and that his action in the matter
followed the plain provisions of the
statutes.
Senator Smoot had a conference with
the aecretary on the subject, and Sen
ator Sutherland and Governor Cutler,
of Utah, have telegraphed to the de
partment, expressing their views and
dssire for the treatment of the immi
grants without regard to the religion
involved.
Duluth, Minn., Sept. 9.— Fighting
desperately against the forest fires
thst threatened niomentarily to add
six more range towns to the black
ened ruins o f Chisholm and Snowball,
practically the entire population o f
the Mesaba region composed the self-
constituted fire brigade that struggled
fiercely all day yesterday and late
into the night to save their homes
and property. A fter raging fiercely
all the afternoon the flames died
down with the wind last evening and
gave the army o f fighters chance to
rest after their strenuous work.
Hibbing, Nashwauk, Buhl, C oler
aine and Mountain Iron, which were
considered doomed during the greater
part o f the afternoon, are safe again,
unless the wind revives. There is
little promise o f rain, and a strong
wind from any direction w ill fan the
flames into a renewed menace.
The Duluth fire department re
ceived a telegram from the depart
ment at Hibbing asking for assist
ance, and Chief Black, with a num
ber o f men and an engine, left Du
luth shortly after 4 o’clock fo r the
scene o f the fire. The Mesaba road
T E S T NEW W O O D S.
has trains in waiting at H ibbing to
take the people away from the scene
Government May Introduce New Zea of danger.
land Forest Trees.
Washington, Sept. 10.— Far-off New
Zealand is the latest country to which
forest experts have turned in seeking
substitutes for the valuable American
woods used by the furniture, cooper
age, implement and similar wood
using industries.
^
Manufacturers in Jhis country have
been facing a constantly decreasing
supply o f available hardwood timber
for a number of years, and the time is
already at hand when efforts must be
made to look to the preservation of
the American species most in demand,
and to scour foreign lands for trees
which may prove valuable as substi
tutes.
Seven different N ew Zealand hard
wood trees have just been put through
a series o f tests by the United States
forest service in co-operation with the
university o f California in the timber
testing laboratory at Berkeley. The
trees showed up remarkably well in
comparison with white oak, which is
one o f the strongest woods in the
United States, developing under test
when in an air dry condition a crush
ing strength of 8500 pounds per square
inch, and a bending strength o f 13,100
pounds per square inch.
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Mad
Ruth On to Invaat in Turkey
Under New Regime.
Grand Marais, Minn., on the north
shore, is in the clutches o f the fire
demon. The people are in worse
straits than the range people, in that
they have no place to flee to. F o r
est fires are raging within a mile of
the town.
Constantinople, Sept. 9.— Believing
Turkish investments to be safe, for
the first time in the country’s history,
and assured o f a chance to make them
without paying blackmail in a dozen
directions, foreign capitalists’ agents
are literally stampeding into Con
stantinople. Considering the stage
of its civilization and its proximity
to the Occident, the sultan’s realm
is regarded in Europe as the least
developed land on earth. T h e oppor
tunity for reaping enormous returns
is deemed so bright that the influx
into the capital is reaching the pro
portions of a miners’ rush to a new
mineral field, or a settlers’ race for
farms in a freshly opened American
government reservation.
Germany alone among the nations
was moderately represented before
the revolution. Teutonic interests are
still striving hard to hold their own
against the representatives of rival
countries, but the loss o f prestige
they suffered with the old regim es
fall is handicapping them heavily.
They have^ arr equal chance wiflr
other prospective investors, and large
numbers from Berlin are joining the
contingent already >n the field.
Swinburne May Look fo r Aeon.
Washington, Sept. 8.— Instructions
have been sent from the navy depart
ment to Admiral Charles Swinburne,
in command of the Pacific fleet at
Honolulu, to keep a lookout for the
British steamer Aeon, which has not
been heard from fo r weeks.
On
board the vessel are the family of
Chaolain Bower R. Patrick, U. S. N.,
and Mrs. William K. Riddle, wife of
L ieutenant Riddle, -artsiyof the-mavy.
The Aeon left San Francisco July 6
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for Samoa, where she is long over
due. Since the Pacific squadron on
its departure from Hawaii will pro Seepage Fsom Buried Fuel Tank
ceed to Samoa, it is thought that the
Causes Arizona Stampede.
distressed ship may possibly be
San
Bernardino. Cal.. Sept. 8.— Seep
sighted.
age from a big crude oil tank, erected
at Yueex. Ariz.. for replenishing the
Nothing Doing fo r Kathleen.
Washington, Sept. 8.— Miss Kath fuel supply of Santa Fe locomotives,
leen M. Roosevelt Cronin, the woman is responsible for the oil frenzy which
who called at the white house last during the past week has taken hun
week and demanded admission on the
ground that she was a long-lost dreds of excited people to that locality
daughter of the president, has been from points hundreds of miles d-stant.
sent to St. Elizabeth's asylum. She Experts sent to the scene by the Santa
protested against being senr ro the in Fe Company traced the oil direct to the
stitution, declaring that “ her father,’’ tank, an analysis of the black fluid
President Roosevelt, would have the skimmed from the water in a well 35
court officials punished. The woman feet distant from the tank satisfying
appeared at the white house and told even the most enthusiastic locators of
a policeman that she wanted Mrs. their mistake.
The desert had been staked out for
Roosevelt to vacate her room at once.
She said she was 37 years old and miles. A ll manner of vehicles had l een
came from San Francisco. She ad pressed into service, carrying people to
mitted having been tried for insanity the field, and in many instances men
had aaerificed their property elsewhere
in California
to he first on the ground.
Another Successful Flight.
Seven Hurt in Explosion.
Washington, Sept. 10.— A t Fort
Los
Angeles, Cal., Sept. 9.— Six fire
Meyer yesterday O rville W right made
the two greatest aeroplane flights men and a 11-year-old girl were badly
ever made in public in this country, burned and shocked as the result of
remaining in the air for more than an explosion o f gas during a small
eleven minutes on his first flight and fire in a plumbing shop on South
for nearly eight minutes on his second Main street late yesterday afternoon.
flight. There was apparently no rea Three o f the men were blown from
son why the flights could not have the room into the street. T w o com
been of longer duration, as the aviator panies responded and two firemen
landed the last time because o f the were sent into the basement to make
approaching
darkness. Throughout sure there w-cre no flames there. One
both flights Mr.' W right apparently o f them carried a lantern, and the
had the machine under perfect con gas, which had been gathering in the
trol, rising at times to 60 feet and basement, exploded. The injured men
making sharp turns.
were quickly removed to the hospital,
Cuts His Vacation Short.
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 9__ Presi
dent Roosevelt’s vacation, according to
present plans, will come to an end Sep
tember 22. when the chief executive
nnd his family will depart from Saga
more Hill to take up their residence in
the White House, Washington, for the
coming winter and spring. With the
close of the present vacation o f the
president Oyster Bay will cease to be
known ns the summer capital of the
United States.
Denver Hotel Burned.
Denver, Colo., Sept. 9.— T w o men,
unidentified, were burned to death
•’ tid a dozen persons were seriously
injured yesterday hv a fire which de
stroyed the H otel Belmont. The ho
tel was crowded, having at least 101
guests. A t any early hour it was dis
covered that the building was in
flames. Caught unawares, many of
the guests were unable to find their
way from the hotel, and many jumped
from the tipper stories, receiving se
rious injuries.
Double Park Guard.
Washington, Sept. 9.— Provirion is
being made at the war department to
increase the garrison at Yellowstone
National park. It is proposed to double
the force. The recent holdup by a lone
highwayman of seven tourist coaches
with 120 passengers calls attention to
the necessity of a more thorough super-
virion o f the park praeinets.
Finishes Huge Canvas.
Proctor, V t , Sept. 9 — Gido H or
vath, a Hungarian artist, has com
pleted here, after years of careful
work, study and research, a mam
moth oil painting o f “ Washington at
the Battle o f Trenton.” It is claimed
to be the largest single picture on any
subject ever produced in this country.
It is 810 feet long and 11 feet high.
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