R U E F IS S E N T E N C E D ..
NEWS U H 1 1 NATIONAL CAPITAL
H ENEY AFTER C A L H O U N .
N E W B O S S E S LIK E O L D .
8 * 1 » H » Will 8t*y In Fight er. Higher-
U p « If H « Die« fo r It.
Professor. Ford, o f Princeton, D raw s
Parallels in History.
Washington, Dee. 29— '" I am going
back to Ban Franeiaeo to flniah Patrick
Calhoun, and I am going to stay with
the( graft proaeeution, even U they kill
me. What ’• the differeae« whether one
diea at 49 or A 9 t"
Frauds J. Heney made this itate-
ment today when naked what hia plana
were. Although weak from the wound
inflicted
by
Morria
Haaa’ bullet,
Heney profeaaee to have .loot none of
hia enthuaiaam.
He will not admit
that the poeaible danger» of hia' poei-
tion rob him of either eeait or determi
nation.
Washington, Dec. 31.— With James
llryce, British ambassador, presiding,
the American Political Science Society
met here this week in its first annual
gathering. The general topic for con
sideration was “ The Increase of Fed
eral Force and Power in the United
States." One of the principal papers
was by Stephen Leacock, Magill Uni
versity, Canada, on “ The Limitations
of the Federal Government."
In the course of the discussion Pro
fessor Henry Jones Ford, of Prince
ton University, declared that neither
the power nor the rffponsibility essen
tial to democratic rule was embodied
in the American state. “ The resem
blances,” he said, “ that historians are
now noting between ancient and mod
ern bosses, grafters and spoilsmen rest
upon substantial identities, affording a
fine demonstration o f the universal
principle that like causes produce like
effects, irrespective of the intentions
with which the causes are put in
operation/'
He asserted that efforts of reform
ers were directed against conditions
from which the power was gained
rather than against conditions under
which power was exercised.
“ My wife ia very nervoua about
pie,” he aaid with a amile. “ She feara
•»ome other fellow will do a better job
next time.1'
Heney will eall at the White Houae
thia afternoon in reaponae to a apeeial
invitation aent to him by Preaident
Kooeevelt. It ia rumored that he will
give the preaident hia viewa on the
utility of the eeeret aerviee in catch
ing criminal«.
C O L O R A D O BO R D ER T A N G L E .
Congressm an Cook Says Government
W as Misinformed.
Washington, Jan. 2.— Representa
tive Cook, o f Colorado, has been re
quested by President Roosevelt to sub
mit to him by next Tuesday morning,
in time for the cabinet meeting on that
day, a brief o f hia eontentoins and ar
guments concerning the veto o f the bill
fixing the boundary line o f 'Colorado,
N e w Mexico and Oklahoma as the 87th
parallel of latitude.
Mr. Cook saw
the president some time ago and aaid
that the facta had been misrepresented
to Attorney General Bonaparte, upon
whose
recommendation
President
Roosevelt vetoed the boundary line.
Mr. Cook alleges that the Colorado
Fuel <E Iron company is opposed to the
border being located sa fixed in the bill.
Arrest Murderous Reds.
Washington, Jan. 2.— Three young
N avajo Indians are in custody at the
Ship Rock agency in Northwest N ew
Mexico for complicity in the killing,
on Christmas eve, near Ameth, Utah,
o f four members o f their tribe and the
serious wounding o f an Indian woman,
according to a dispatch received at the
Indian affairs bureau today from Su
perintendent W . T. Shelton. Mr. Shel
ton went to the scene o f the trouble
last Saturday. One o f the Indians, it
is aaid, has confessed to the killing.
O f the killed two are women. N o
cause is assigned for the tragedy.
May Condemn 8ite.
Washington, Dec. 30.—Dissatisfied
with the high figures placed upon real
estate offered to the government by
agents for a site for a subtreasury
building, the government, through As
sistant Secretary o f the Treasury
Beekman Winthrop, has threatened to
secure property in San Francisco by
condemnation. Secretary Winthrop
has notified Baldwin & Howell., real
estate agents for property bounded by
Sansome. Clay, Merchant and Battery
streets, partly owned by the Kohl es
tate, that it must be placed at a lower
price than $335,000 demanded for the
site. Winthrop declares that if a
lower price is not set, the government
will secure other property in the block
and will begin condemnation proceed
ings, as the treasury department wants
the property in that section.
Harriman Money in Salton Sea.
Washington, Dec. 31.—The attor
neys of F. H. Harriman are alarmed
at the possibility of failure on the
part of the congressional committee
on claims to allow even a portion of
the remuneration asked by the rail
road king for work done by kis road
in curbing the Colorado river, where
it broke its banks and threatened Im
perial valley. The claim has been re
duced to $1,083,673.97, but there is no
indication of desire on the part of the
legislators to take up the matter.
Epoch in Canal Building.
Washington. Dec. 30—With the
early arrival in Washington from
Paris of Leroy Parks, the isthmian
canal commissioner, will be signalized
an epoch in the building o f the canal.
The time has arrived, it is said, when
the maxmum force has been em
ployed. Henceforth the work in the
canal zone will be confined'to excava
tion and dam and lock construction.
Winthrop Accepts Job.
Washington, Jan. 1. — Beckman
Winthrop. o f Massachusetts, assistant
secretary of the treasury, has been
offered and accepted the office of first
assistant secretary of state under the
incoming administration,, succeeding
Robert Bacon, of New York who in
lanuary next is expected to tem-
norarity succeed Elihu Root upon the
latter’s retirement. The tender was
Diplomats Are Uneasy.
made with the consent o f President
Washington, Dec. 31.—The stir in
elect Taft by Senator Knox, whose diplomatic circles caused by-the resig
selection as secretary o f state was an nation of Ambassador Griscom has
nounced several days ago.
led to much speculation as to the fu
ture of all of America’s representa
Stamp Slot Machines.
tives abroad. Although no statement
Washington, Dec. 30.— If one can has come from Mr. Taft, it is not im
drop a penny in a vending machine probable that a number o f the diplo
and obtain a piece of chewing gum or matic officers abroad will be asked to
a handful of peanuts, why not be able retain their positions.
to drop in a coin and secure a postage
stamp? This is what the postoffice
Used 4,000.000 Trees.
department wants to make a popular
Washington, Dec. 29.—The native
feature of its service, and it today an forests this year supplied 4,000,000
nounced that it is now prepared to Christmas trees, the forestry service es
issue limited quantities of postage timating that one out of every four fam
stamps in rolls of 300 or 1006 for use ilies observed the tree custom at Yule-
in stamp-vending and stamp-affixing tide. Qifford Pinehot, United Statea
machines.
forester, upholds the Chriatmas tree cus
tom and believes that it should be main
Revenue Cutter on Trial.
tained.
Washington, Jan. 1.—The new rev
Pinehot Starts on Mission.
enue cutter Yamacrow, recently com-
■nleted by the New York Shipbuilding
Washington. Dec. 31.— Bearing invi
company of Camden, N. J.. is to have tations- from President Roosevelt to
her official acceptance trial tomorrow President Diaz of Mexico and Premier
v>n the Delaware river
The Yama Laurier and Lord Grey of Canada to
crow is of the Seminole type and is appoint delegates to the National Con
intended for service on the South At servation Congress to be held here
lantic coast, with headquarters at Sa February 18, Gifford Pinehot left
vannah.
Monday for Canada and Mexico.
Dead Letter Sale.
t4
Washington. Dee. 29— Over $2,000
more was realised by the postoffiee de
partment by the Christmaa sale of dead
letter packages thia year than last.
"This year’s proceeds were $11,300.
Under the law the money must be held
for three years, during which time the
-sender of any dead letter package sold
may claim the amount at which it was
knocked down.
Engineers Go With Taft.
Washington, Jan.
2. — Preaident
Roosevelt has invited a number of en
gineers to accompany President-elect
T a f t on his trip to Panama this winter.
James Dix Schuyler, o f Loe Angeles,
and Arthur P. Davies, chief engineer
o f the reclamation service, Washing
ton, are among those honored by Roose
velt.
President Requests Trip.
Washington. Dee. 30.— Representa
tives Cushman and Humphreys, of
Washington, left today with the house
committee on interstate commerce for
« trip to Panama. They will sail from
Charleston, S. C., and the trip will
consume about 13 days. The commit
tee goes at the special request of
President Roosevelt
Squaring Away for Venezuela.
Washington. Jan. 1.—The arrival of
Special Commissioner W. I. Buchanan
to treat on behalf of the United States
with the officials of Venezuela, and
the arrival of Admiral Arnold at La
Guavra, is announced in messages to
the navy and state departments here.
Berrios Recovers From Injury.
Maximum
Term of 1 4 ,Years Given
Deposed Bose.
^ San Francisco, Dec. 31.— Fourteen
years in the penitentiary, th« maxi
mum, is the sentence meted out to
Abraham Ruef. who for four years di
rected the political destinies of San
Francisco as adviser of the adminis
tration o f Eugene E. Schmitz, mayor
of the city.
Judgment was pronounced at the
close of a day devoted to legal battle,
wherein the defense sought to intro
duce many reasdns for a new trial.
When .Judge William P. Lawlpr had
denied this and other motions involv
ing delay, the defendant arose at the
court’s command and stood unmoved
through the recital o f . judgment.'
There was no demonstration on the
part o f the spectators during the pro
ceedings in the court room, nor later,
when Ruef, having entered the prison
van in, the custody o f a deputy sheriff,
started in the dusk on his long ride to
the county jail.
Before the adjournment of court no
tice of appeal had been filed on behalf
o f the defendant and the court had
signed a writ of probable cause, which
will act as a stay o f execution.
In a trial that was prolonged
through a period of nearly four
months Ruef was convicted, Decem
ber 10, o f bribing John J. Furey, an
ex-supervisor, to favor the award of
an overhead trolley franchise to the
United Railroads. This was one of
114 indictments returned against Ruef
by the Oliver grand jury, which heard
16 supervisors confess the acceptance
of bribes in several matters involving
public service corporations.
One o f the many incidents that
tended to make the trial o f Ruef re
markable was the shooting of Assist
ant District Attorney F. J. Heney by
Morris Haas, an ex-convict, whose
past record was exposed by the prose
cutor after the would-be slayer had
been accepted as a member of the
jury. Haas subsequently committed
suicide in the county jail.
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W A R C L O U D A G A IN . '
“ Banzai”
and "H o o ra y " Can’t Keep
Peace In Far East.
Tokio, Dec. 31.—Although the re
ception given the United States bat
tleship fleet by the Japanese was pro
nounced one of the most pleasant and
interesting incidents of the world
cruise an<l went far toward easing the
strained relations between the two
countries, and although much good
feeling has followed the recent publi
cation of the agreement between Sec
retarv of State Root and Ambassador
Takahira. the consensus o f opinion
among Americans in the orient is that
unless the temporary good will is im
mediately strengthened little o f politi
cal value will result.
While no diplomatic crisis is ex
pected to develop between the two
countries in the near future, owing to
the condition of the finances of Japan,
vet the fear is being generally ex
pressed among Americans here that
the apparent sincerity of the welcome
to the fleet and the sympathetic tone
of the five articles recently exchanged
between the two powers may deceive
the people of the United States into
believing that no danger to the na
tion’s interests now exists in the far
east, any failure at this time to build
up the position of America on the Pa
cific. the naval strategists declare, will
ultimately result in national disaster.
That a compelled peace is the only
certain peace which will come to the
east, despite the protestations of
friendship by Japan, is the universal
belief o f those men who are experi
enced in oriental politics and who. in
case of trouble, will be entrusted with
the defense of the national interests.
D IS A S T E R IN C O A L M INE.
Four Men Dead and 26 Entombed In
Prcahontas District.
Bluefield. W . Va„ Dec. 31. — Four
men are known to be dead and prob
ably 25 more were entombed as the
result of an explosion which occurred
in the Lick branch colliery, owned by
the Pocahontas Coal company, the
largest coal mining concern in south
western Virginia. It is not known ex
actly how many men were in the mine
at the time.
The men leave the mine after what
is known as the “ running” and many
of the 52 at work were not in the mine
when the explosion occurred. Eigh
teen of the entombed men have been
taken out of the colliery alive.
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The rescuing parties have been un
able to get into the shaft because of
the fire and smoke.
Anti-Semites Rage in Finland.
St. Petersburg. Dec. 31.—Basing
their action on ancient and obsolete
anti-Semitic statutes, the Russian
authorities in Finland have inaugu
rated a wholesale persecution of He
brews and are driving them from their
homes into the fields to starve and
freeze. Reports o f terrible suffering
and appalling loss of life com e.from
all parts of the dependency. The
weather is extremely severe and the
hunted Hebrews, stripped of their
household goods and unable to secure
food, herd together on the snow cov
ered fields and die.
Washington, Dec. 31.— Senor Bar
rios, the Guatemalan minister of for
eign affairs, who recently was serious
China Wants Loan.
ly injured in an automobile accident,
Pekin.
Dec.
31.— For the purpose of
called at the White House Monday
and sailed fdr home on December 30. developing the Canton-Hankow rail
A bandage across the face was the road. the Chinese government has di
rected its foreign agent to attempt to
only trace of his injury.
place a loan with British, French, Ger
man and Japanese banks. The action
Treasury Buys Silver.
follows the failure of the government
Washington, Dee. 29.— The treasury to float a domestic loan of $5.000.000
today purehased 100,000 ounces of sil to pay shareholders o f the national
ver for delivery at New York, 78,000 telegraph system. Fearing a second
ounces for delivery at New Orleans and failure to secure money for the road,
60,000 ounces for delivery at Denver, the government has deemed it pru
at 49.i*8e per fine ounce.
dent to raise money outside China.
Advance O regon Postmasters.
Washington, Dec. 30.— Am ong the
280 fourth-class postoffices which will
be advanced to the presidential class
January l are the following in O regon:
Canyon City, $1000; Central Point,
$1100; Oakland, $1800.
N o New s From Consul.
New Haven, Conn., Dec.
Friends here have received no
from Dr. Arthur Cheney, o f
class of 1889. Amerjcan consul at
sina. It is feared that he may
been killed.
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