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SPEED C O N T E S T ON.
NEWS FROM H E NATIONAL CAPTFAL
A D V A N C E IN RATES'.
M AKES NEW RECORD.
,OM Equipment Will CauM
Railroad« Government Printing Office Did Much
to Saak Raliaf From Shipper«.
Campaign W ork.
Waahington, Dec. 5.— Shortage o f
rolling stock caused by the failure o f
the railroads to keep up their «quip-
ment during the recent financial
stringency will result in sweeping ad­
vances in rates, according to the state­
ment o f members o f the interstate
commerce commission,
i “ I have no doubt,” said one of the
commissioners in explaining the situa­
tion, “ that an attempt will be made
all along the line to push up rates in
every possible way. Th e railroads
have xultivated the impression that
they are ngt receiving sufficient
money to maintain their efficiency and
to give good service and pay their
stockholders anything,
i "A s soon as business revives the
railroads all over the country are go-
ing to find themselves short of equip
ment. For two years they have bought
no rolling stock to speak o f and they
have not kept their old equipment in
repair.
"The railroad managers will soon
begin announcing that they must get
more money ro lay tracks and buy
cars and that to advance rates is the
only means of getting the needed
cash. Whether they will be permitted
to enforce their highest rates is some­
thing the commission cannot pass on
now.
"Already the advances have begun.
Th e commission has before it one
case which involves an advance in
rates in all the southeast. There is
another case which involves advances
in the southwest."
Waahington, Dec. 8.— The govern­
ment printing office was an important
factor in the recent presidential cam­
paign.
This institution turned out
fa r the Republican and Democratic
parties 7,418,700 copies o f speeches
delivered in congress, surpassing all
previous records by 8,000,000 copies.
The total w eight o f campaign
speeches printed since the beginning o f
the Sixtieth congress exceeds 400,000
pounds, or about 14 carloads. The
printed sheets would completely cover
46 square acree o f ground, and i f each
page could be laid end to end a bicycle
track 947 miles long could bo ob­
tained.
The number o f words contained in
this year’s run o f speeches hak been
roughly estimated at 280 billion. W ith
the newspaper calculation o f four read-
era to each copy, this would require
the assimilation o f nearly a trillion
words.
The printing o f speeches in the gov­
ernment printing office fo r members o f
the senate and house o f representatives
has been reduced to an exact science
through years o f experience.
The
printing is paid fo r by the member o f
cong ress drawing the reqnisitoin, but
the mailing is done by frank, at public
expense.
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Sits Prices T o o High.
Washington, Dec. 4.— Assistant Sec­
retary o f the Treasury W in thro p has
intimated that the prices asked fo r the
four sites in San Francisco suggested
as locations for the new subtreasury,
were too steep; higher than business
conditions in that city warranted and
mors money than the Federal govern­
ment proponed to pay. The choice o f
one o f these four sites may be swayed
by the alacrity with which the owners
o f the property take the hint and re­
duce. their Hgures.
The new subtreas­
ury w ill be s four-story structure o f
classic design, constructed o f stone
and concrete.
Washington, Dec. 1.— A higher di­
vorce rate in the United States than
any o f the foreign countries Where sta­
tistics are available is announced by
the census bureau, which, in a bulletin
just issued, says that at least one mar­
riage in 12 in this country ultimately
terminates in divorce.
Divorce is now tw o and one-half
times as common, compared with the
married population as it was 40 years
ago. Utah and Connecticut are the
only two states showing a decreased
divorce rate for the past 20 years.
M ARR IAG E P R O V E S F A ILU R E .
Federal Statistics Show .On# Divorce
fo r Every 12 Weddings.
Fesl Nsed o f Uncle Sam.
Washington*Dec. 4.— “ T o keep her
relations with the United States o f the
most friendly character is the keynote
o f Japans’ policy.” This is the state­
ment o f John C. Laughlin, secretary o f
the United States commission to the
Tokio exposition, who has just returned
from his trip to Japan and who today
commented on the treaty which in the
last few days has drawn the tw o na­
tions closer than ever before.
“ The
people o f Japan,” he said, “ realise
that they need the aid o f the United
States to insure them against aggres­
sion.”
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U nde 8am to Keep Aloof.
Washington, Dec. 2.— The United
States government has no present in­
tention o f intervening hi -Haytian
affairs. This statement is made on
the best o f authority. The situation
on the island is an internal one and as
fa r Sa known here it is to deal entirely
w ith .the people. The Haytian situa­
tion is not complicated by the position
o f the work o f "am igradoa,” which
obtains so frequently in Central Amer­
ican: revolutions.
President
Non)
A lex is has been in power a number o f
years and for tbs timo being at least
Condemnation Suits fo r Ground.
there is no ground fo r American inter­
Washington, Dec. 1.— The Federal
vention.
,
court in Hawaii w ill soon begin con­
demnation suite fo r possession o f land
Navy’ s Vital Nsed.
fo r a new m ilitary post at W aikikL
Washington, Dec. 1.— Tho possibil­ The post w ill be made the headquarters
ity o f the great Atlantic battleship o f the coast artillery branch o f the
fleet, strong and powsrful afloat, lying army. Prices fo r the property have
weak and helpless because o f lack o f been agreed upon and no trouble is ex­
coal, is shown in the report o f Admiral pected. I t is believed the government
Cowles, chief o f the bureau o f equip­ w ill place dredges on the submerged
ment, to tho N avy department. A c­ lands and use the material taken from
cording to the report the crusie o f the the bay fo r new boad building.
fleet shows the need o f more colliers.
Had there been foreign complications
Lat Fleet G o On Around.
or-a combination o f foreign shipown­
Washington, Dee. 1.— Senator Flint,
ers the fleet might have remained help­
o f California, announced today after a
less in some foreign port.
conference with the president, that he
would tik e no pert in a movement to
China’ s Envoys at Washington.
keep the btatleship fleet in the Pacific
Washington, Dec. 8.— Tang Shao Y i, waters. The senator said; “ The pres­
special envey o f the Chinese govern­ ident’s sim was to send the fleet
ment, and Prince Tsai Fu, together around the world.
I t is now on its
with attaches and secretaries belonging way home. N o reason has arisen why
to the official suite, 19 Chinese stu­ the journey should not be completed.”
dents, attendants and servants, have Senator Flint said tha president favor­
arrived here on their mission to thank ed more ships fo r tha Pacific.
President Roosevelt fo r the remittance
Public Printer Resigns.
o f $1,000,000 o f the Boxer indemnity
fund, The vistiors occupy a house pre­
Washington, Dec. 2.— Public Printer
pared particularly fo r their reception. John S. Leach has sent his resignation
to President Roosevelt, asking to be
returned to service in the Philippines.
W orks fo r Coast.
Washington, Dec. 8.— The construc­ Samuel B. Donnelly, o f Brooklyn, N.
tion o f six torpedo boats by Pacific Y ., former president o f the Interna­
coast builders has been suggested to tional Typographical union, was ap­
the president by Vietor Hi Metcalf, pointed to succeed Mr. Leach. The
former secretary o f the navy, who la change took effect December 1. I t is
preparing to leave Washington.
Mr. said Mr. Leach’s retirement was due
M etcalf suggested that six o f the eight to the president’s opposition to some
moequito craft should be built or deliv­ o f his policies.
ered on the. Pacific coast. Delivery on
Fleet to Put on Paint.
the Pacific coast would handicap East­
ern builders so much that they Would
Washington, Dec. 2.— The N avy de­
be compelled to relinquish the contract. partment has ordered that war color be
applied to thoae naval vessels on the
Oamages Awarded Paper Mill Men. west coast o f the United States. A c­
Washington. Dee. 8. — Interstate cordingly a slate-color w ill be applied
Commerce Commissioner Lane gave a to the West Virginia, Colorado, Penn­
decision today awarding reparation to sylvania, Maryland, Tennessee, Wash­
American lumber manufacturers and ington, California, South Dakota, S t
others on account o f the imposition o f Louis, Oregon, Buffalo, Milwaukee and
unjust freigh t charges by the Southern Rainbow. The ships’ forces w ill do
Pacific from the paper mills in Oregon the painting.
to Queen Junction, Pa., because o f the
Assistant Secratary Saterles.
carriers’ insbiltty to supply cars o f the
sise ordered by the shippers.
Washington, Dec. 2.— Herbert L.
Ssterlee, o f N ew York, has been ten­
dered the post o f assistant secretary o f
Hitchcock fo r Postmaster.
the navy, which was made vacant by
Washington, Dec. 2.— W hile both
President-elect T a ft and Frank H. Truman H. Newberry becoming secre­
tary o f the navy. Saterlee is .reputed
Hitchcock today reiterated their state­
wealthy. He is a relative o f J. P.
ment that no announcement had been
Morgan.
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authorised, it is generally believed
that Hitchcock w ill be the new post­
Denies Petroleum Report.
master general.
Washington, Dee. 4.— “ A lleged Oil
Prospects In Nevada” is the title o f tho
K eefe Commissioner o f Immigration. preliminary report issued today by the
Washington, Dec. 4. — Daniel J. United States geological survey, which
Keefe, o f Detroit, praaident o f the effectually disposes o f claims made
Longshoremen’s union, has accepted in certain quarters that the sections
the position o f commissioner general o f investigated abounded in petroleum
im m igration
Hill and Harriman A re Contending fo r
Through Mall Contract. >
Salt Lake, Utah, Dec. 9.— The Her­
ald this morning says that behind an
order just rsesived fo r a change in the
schedule o f the Oregon Short L in e’s
Salt Lake-Portland expresa is mapped
out an elaborate campaign between
two great transcontinental ral ways.
The fru it o f victory w ill be the cream
o f the through passenger business and
the choicest mail contracta between
Chicago and Portland.
By speeding trains on tho Union Pa­
cific from Granger, W yo., on (he Short
Line, through Huntington, Or., on- the
Oregon Railway A Navigatim i road, to
Portland, the Herald continues, it is
hoped to reduce the tim e o f tho through
trip by five hours st least.
This contest against time is inspired
by the completimi o f the Spokane,
Portland A Seattle from the Northern
Pacific connection at Pasco, Wash., to
Portland, along the north bank o f the
Columbia river.
,
The Spokane, Portland A Seattle is
a H ill enterprise. I t reduces by many
bunderds o f miles the trackage be­
tween Chicago and the Oregon metrop­
olis.
W ith the Northern Pacific to
Billings, and the Burlington from B il­
lings to Chicago, it forms almost an
airline from the ocean to the lakes.
W ith it eliminated, the Harriman sys­
tem could easily maintain ita suprem­
acy, but with the Spokane, Portland A
Seattle as a factor, the middle route
w ill need every ounce o f steam its lo­
comotives can make.
Beginning next week the Portland
express w ill leave Salt Lake at 10:46
p. m., instead o f 11:46, to connect at
Pocatello with the Grangcr-Huntingtoo
flyer, whose running time is to be re­
duced 46 minutes between those points.
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C h ief Committed Suicide.
San Francisco, Dec. 2.— Although
numerous boats patrolled and searched
the bay since daylight yesterday morn­
ing from the Golden Gate to Hunter’ s
point and the officers o f the ferryboats
and other craft w ere asked to keep a
shark lookout fo r it, the body o f Chief
o f Police W . J. B iggy, who mvsteri-
ously disappeared from the police
launch Patrol and is believed to have
fallen overboard shortly before 12
o'clock Monday night, while returning
to this city from Belvedere on the
north shore, has not y et been recover­
ed. Up to a late hour last night the
police launch Patrol and other boats,
with searchlights, were still on the
bay, but it is feared that the body o f
the late chief o f pol e e has been car­
ried out to sea by the tide.
Among officials o f the department
there are two theories to account fo r
the disappearance. A number o f his
subordinates incline to the b elief that
worry and g r ie f over the newspaper
critieisims o f his official and private
demeanor impelled him to end his life,
while others affirm with equal confi­
dence that he fe ll from, the slippery
deck during an attack o f vertigo or a
fainting spell.
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H IG H TO W E R O N M O U N T A IN .
Sun to
Bo Studied With a Monster
Spectroscope.
Los Angelos, Doc. 2.— Dr. George
E. Hale, director o f the Carnegie solar
observatory on Mount Wilton,
an­
nounced today that a great steel tower
160 fe et high, w ith a w ell 75 fe e t deep
under it, with which to use the spec­
troscope, w ill be constructed on the
peak next summer. The five-foot re­
flecting telescope w ill be ready for use
next Monday and Dr. Hale predicts
that with the powerful reflector now
installed— the greatest in the world—
s number o f important discoveries may
be expected, particularly in the photo­
graphing o f the sun’s surface and the
various curious nebulae.
A wireless telegraph station is pro­
jected on the crown o f the mountain,
tests being now in progress to de­
termine the best points for locating the
operating planL I t is expected by ex­
perts that messages may be flashed to
Japan or beyond, so perfect are the
conditions found. A coil capable o f
givin g out the extreme length o f spark
is to be installed.
Runs Away on Mountain.
Butte, Dec. 2.— A freigh t train o f
an engine and 14 cars was wrecked on
the west side o f the Bloesburg hill on
the Northern Pacific branch between
Garrison and Helena west o f here this
morning.
The train got beyond con­
trol while descending the mountain,
due to the accomulation o f ice and
snow on the rails. An operator grasp­
ed the situation as the train thundered
past and wired ahead to Weed, where
a derailing awith was thrown. The
fact that the engine remained upright
saved the lives o f the engine crew.
Frustrate Rebel Plot.
San Salvador, Salvador, Dec. 2.— A
plot to overthrow the government o f
President Figuero was discovered and
frustrated today.
Martial law has
been proclaimed.
The revolutionary
movement, which was started in the
department o f Sonsonnate, was crushed
immediately.
Many persona well
known in polities! circles opposed to
the government were implicated and
aha believed to have been arrested and
imprisoned.
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Pope’ s Doctors Anxious.
Rome, Dec. 2.— The pope’s physi­
cians, whils they declared tonight that
the cold from which he was suffering
was following a normal course, ex­
pressed anxiety on account o f his weak-
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