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- !r-"-H-'T''Tffi,r'''gYiwjv'j'"Pwyv!i- wy - r -w jjr i -V ftf ,i I AFTERSTANDARDOIL PARLIAMENT MEETS. Witness to Give Details of Brlb cry of Railroad Men. MAY TRY MANAGER FOR PERJURY Testified Before Interstate Ooniniorco Commission That Money Wu Not Bciug Used to Bribo Railroads. Chicago, May 10. The government fans n rod In plcklo for tho Stamford Olt Company, when tho Investigation into rebate And other method is tak en up hero tomorrow by tho interstnto commerce commission. It was learned tonight that a wltnesu had ben secured who la In n position to tell, giving all necessary data, dates, amounts, etc., of how tho Stnndard Oil Company ongaged in wholcsalo bribery of railroad cm ployca in order to crush out tho Indo pondonts. This mnn Trns employed by Mnnngcr Mayer, of Kansas City, who has chargo of tho tremendous dUtribut ing stations in Kansas and Missouri. It is said ho was entrusted vrith tho work of buying up information from railroad employes, who told of orders ro ceived by independents, of their plans for shipments in advance and various other details, so that tho Standard Com. pany was in n position nt any moment to tako such steps as wero necessary to crush or hopelessly cripplo its small ad versary. Tho namo of this highly important witness is closely guarded, but it is said his testimony will orento a tremendous sensation and bring before tho federal grand jury n largo number of western railroad men who hnvo been in tho secret employ of tho Standard. Mr. Mayer, it is nlso intimated, Is open to prosecution for perjury, as ho swore bofero tho interstate commcreo commission, when it sat at Kansatt City, that ho had never given any of his ngents money to bo used in brlblm? rail. ronu or otuor men. The testimony will show, it is said, that the railroad spies wcro on the secret Standard Oil pay roll at from $10 to $30 n month, depend ing upon how much information they could give. Elect or Russian Pooplo Assemble In Open Session. St. Petersburg, May 11. Without n inglo hitch and with only n minor in cident to mar tho mcinorahlo day, tho Russian parliament was Inaugurated yesterday. The ernperor'a message In reality was less a throne speech than a greeting, and required onlv three min utes for its delivery. Emperor Nicho las read slowly. Tho admlrabto and oven cordial tune of tho sovereign In ro uowing his pledges, and asking tho co operation of parliament for tho regc n oration of tho country was only nega tively satisfactory. Courtiers and spectators other than members of the national parliament led tho cheering, but tho members were ominously silent. What rankled most wa the failure of tho emperor to men tion itmnraty. and later, when the members assembled In the Taurlde pal ace, away from the spoil of tho throne room, many of them wero with ilifli- culty restrained from precipitating matters by offering resolutions on tho subject. Tho Constitutional Democra tic leaders, however, who dominated everything, wero anxious not to weaken tho reply which the lower house will prepare to the speech from tho throne, in which issue with tho crown will be joined, and succeeded in staving off premature action. Dy the irony of fate, Ivan Fetrunko vltch, whose first mention of the word constitution IS years ago was dismissed by Emperor Nicholas II as "a foolish dream," today stood In the front rank of the members of the repreeentativo chamber, while Emperor Nicholas put his official seal upon the Russian parliament. M l. r OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST ASSESSMENT TO BE COLLECTED. Klamath Water-Users' Association Will Assert Its Corporate Power. Klamath Fall. Directors of thn Klamath Wntcr-Usora' Association nt n receut mooting lnstruotod their at torney to proceed to enforco tho collec tion of tho assessment from tho delin quent members, after giving reasonable notice thnt sucii notion would bo tnkou if payments wero not mndo nt once. About 120 oMhe 020 members are de linquent, averaging about $7 for each stockholder thu derelict, nud tho asso ciation will now assort its corporate powers. Hooks or tho association closed slnco Jauuary 1 havo boon reoponed for sub scriptions, but landowners will here after bo obliged to pay an enrollment feo or iiennlty of SO cents nn ncro in order to become stockholders. SHEEPMEN PROTEST. Land Office Collections. Salem. Secretary Drowu, of tho state land board, litis turned over to tho atato treasury cash received in his oflUe for tho month of April ns follows: Com mon scheol fund principal, payments on certificates and cash sales, $23,407.01; common school fund principal, payments on sales of lands acquired by deed or 'allotted. foreclosure, si'Oi ; common scnool iumljth.it In allotment of rnngo Oregon Men Not Batlaflod With Allot- mout of wenaha llosorvo. Pendleton. Shccmnen of Umatilla county hnvo mndo vigorous protest against tho notion of forest reserve oftl oliils nt Wnlla Walla in standing by tho allotment recently umdo of tho range in Wonahn reserve, A remonstrance from Umatilla county has been tiled with I). II. Shelter, forest reserve superin tendent nt Walla Wnlla. Fact nud figures nro given In iup port of tho contention of Oregon stock num. Tbeio in substance nro ns fol lows: Of tho totnl laud In tho reserve, 700,000 ncres, more thnu half lies In Oregon. Only 30,307 Oregon sheep wcro nduuttcd to the reserve, whorcn 123,000 Washington sheep wero allowed. To ami insult to Injury, 08,101) of tho Washing ton sheep wero allotted to range in this state. No Oregon sheep wero allotted rnngo in Washington. In tenting the number to be allowed In tho I'cscrvc the Oregon men wcro cut down 00 iter cent, .l.il. .1.- t--UI -- . . ll I nuiu- uiu t nnuniKiun nicu wvro niiowou prnctlcnlly nil they nuked. It is held by tho Oregon stockmen that forest reserve rule wero violated by tho manner in which the reserve wa Tho rules ipcclllcnlly provide in reserve. LOOT BELIEF UA1U1. GIVES MANY BRIBES 80LD SECRETS TO AMERICA. Two Germans Sentenced for Treason to Empire. Leipsie, Germany, May 10. Beforo tho imperial supremo court hero today Otto Senftcnlebcn, nn ex-clcrk in one of tbo government departments in Ber lin, and Konrad, a mechanic, were found guilty of treason in selling to represen tatives of tho American legation at Brussels' a submarino mine with an choring apparatus and drawings belong ing to them. The prisoners wcro also charged with selling similar drawings to Russia, and with having constructed a mino in Brus sels, which wns bought from them through a French intermediary. Senftenlebon was sentenced to four nnd Konrad to three years at penal servitude and fivo years' loss of civil rights and to polieo supervision. Auekc, a commercial traveler, was aequittod. GREAT DAMAGE Columbia TO STEAMERS. Repairs, Needs 1100.000 of Pucbl $15,000. San Francisco, May 10. Considerable damago was done by the eartbquako to vessels' on the ways or in course of con struction at tho Union Iron Works. Besides tbo freighters Mexican and Columbia, being built for tbo Hawaiian American Steamship Company, which were damaged about 115,000 each, tho Columbia, which has been long on the Portland run, and the City of Puebla, a Senttlo boat, were damaged. ine uamage to the Columbia will be $100,000. The boat is now submerged, having sunk with the dock on which it rosted. Tho City of Puebla wa less soriously damaged; $15,000 will cover her losses. Inner Workings of Standard Oil Made Public by Former Employe. Chicago, May 11. Corruption of railroad employes and agents of inde pendent oil companies, dishonest meth ods of procuring land ltaiee, tho giving of short measure, the selling of three different kinds of oil out of tho rnmo tank and misreprceentatlons as to the quality of oil sold, wero charged again-t tho Standardl Oil company at today's hearing before tho Interstate Commorce commission. Incidentally, it was charged that the Flsco road gives a rate of 2 cents a hundred pounds to the Standard Oil company when it charges competitors of that corporation 10 times aa much for tho same haul. The inqniry was held under an order of congress and this session held here today was along the same lines as that held some time ago in Kansas Citr. The principal witnese today wero K. M. Wilhoit, of Springfield, Mo., form erly for ten years agent nt tho Standard Oil company at Topeka. bnt now an In dependent operator; II. C. Deran, of rremont. O.; E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road, and M. Maxon, a former agent of the Standard Oil in Illinois. Interest, payments on certificates. Istockmrn of the state In which tho re $3,033.S7; common school fund interest, norvo is located shall bo given prefer rents and payments on sales of land enee. quired by deed or foreclosure. 184.55; Accompanying tho general remon Tleultural collego fund principal, pay ,,, 'w.. m,iir . ment on certificates and cash sales. .i,,,.,,,,,,,.,, nt i),t. ,., ..mi... .. $1,379.25; agricultural collego fund lncaimi to land In tho reserve allotted l" ..'.'..... v wihummt, -.ij to Washington men. tu.ni, ?v,.vrr..n. Fire Risk Increase at Eugene. Eugene. Several months ngo a repre sentative of tho board of tiro underwrit ers of tho Pacific visited Eugeno and announced that nearly nil the business nouses or tho city wero improperly JOHN DAY PROarERS. People Flocking to That Section from All Farts of Northwest. linker City Many people from over tho Northwest arn iWWIm- lhrniu.li link. wired, and were not up to tho standard er City on their way into tho John Dav set by tho code. Effort was made by country to take up timber claims. A owners of buildings to havo defective few days ago a party of Idaho inniple wiring made right, whllo others dlsro- ( went to Humpter en route to tho timber garded tho notice. Now eomoa tho In-, Ml, and another party went from this formation to firo insurance ngents of place. this city that insuraneo rates havo been j For the past threo months timber ndvaneed on account of defective wir- seekers havo come from Western Ore ing. Tho average increaso is 00 cents gon, Washington and Idaho, and much per $100. The nnnouncoment has ereat-1 valuable timber land has been lmuitn.1. ed n stir among property holdors, nnd Last weok two parties, one of eight steps will bo taken to secure better and one of fivo people, went out. Theo Toughs Break Opou ou Docks and Take Much of Contents, Ouklnud, Oil., Mny D.A now nud heretofore unsuspected loophole for wholesale graftlug of supplies Intended for relief work wii this morning lis closed by Colonel Minis, of tho Quarter muster's Department, who ha been su perintending thu distribution of food stuff. Somewhere between people who loud car of stuff nt outside olnt mid disputch them to Han lVnneiseo ami thu nutnorltle who should receive them, wholenuln looting tin been done. Olouel Man states that hn has re ceived bill of hiding for car uf stuff which ho ha found on openlug to be entirely empty, '.'hi Information ha Imh'ii laid before IkjIIi tho civil nud mil itary nuthoritlo, nud au effort will bs uindo to loeato tho looter nud confis cate their HI gotteu good. Thorn i no thought In tho mind of the uuthorltte now thnt the thefts have Ihm'u by rrxq-nusildn parties, but simply I iv rMiliin uf tho many gang of tough which havo their headquarter ou the Mater rront. it I lielloved that them people havo broken Into the oar on tho dock whllo lit transit across tho bay. A thorough search of their camp will be made, and It I expected n great amount of stolen property will bo un covered. (lenernl (lreely feol that thn food situation I rapidly lieooming better. The kitchen system will bo given a trial, nnd Major Feblger Is superin tending tho establishment of five head quarter In various pnrt uf thn city, whern cooked food will 1m distributed, rather than tho customary bread and canned stuff. Thn net 1 gradually being drawn tighter to decrease thn number of free inters. All npidirant for ration are now challcn(rd and thn eases of all suspicion character thoroughly inve- ligairti. .Men earning wage aro rn fiisml freo supplies and fren weal tick et. THREE MORE ARREHTED. YEARS TO REBUILD Moru Hopeful Estimates Made to Keep Up Cuurayc. LOSS WILL REACH $400,000,000 wiring. PUT OVER HEAD OF HART. China Appoints New Officials to Man ' age Custom Service. Pekin. Mav 11. An imnerlal edict which may radically .fleet the statu, c f SSS! Or'amle" "tiPo".' Examinations for Forest Service. Koseburg Examinations will be held at Itoscburg, Ore., May 1-i, for tho posi tion of forest ranger. Aspirants for (Kwitlons who have not filed applica tions for examination with the United States commission nt Washington should fllo nt onco with S. C. Bartrum, forest supervisor at Roseburg, from whom ap plication blanks may bo secured. The positions aro under civil service Ex amination will bo along practical lines relating to forest patrol. Men between 21 and 40, of sound bodily condition, are eligible. Civil service examinations for tbo position of foroat supervisor will bo held in Portland. Astoria. Baker City ami r.ugoue, juay J 8. Salmon in Grand Sonde, La Grnndo. Superintendent Allen, of the wanowa salmon batcbory, was In La Grande recently, nnd stated that tho hatchery released a fow days aco 1,000,000 try and nbout tho same amount will bo ready to bo released within a short time. Operations nt the Wallowa hatchery no far aro considered satisfac tory. Salmon hnvo commenced jumping Works for Philippines. Washington, May 10 Soaretary Taft by n porsunnl onuvass of tho sennta in. day endeavored to rovlvo sontiment in favor of Philippine tariff legislation nt i no prosoni session or congress. Jlo mado nrgumonts in favor of a roduction of schedules on sugar, tobacco and rico to 60 per cent of tho Dingloy rates. Tho mensuro loft slcoplng in the sonnto Phil ippine eommltteo provides for a reduc tion on tboso articles to 25 per cent of oxisting schedules. Ho was willing to go furthor nnd to eliminate tho nrono. aition for eventual frco trado with the .Philippines. Sir Robert Hart, director general of the Chinese cuttoma and the customs estab lishment, was published today, as fol lows: "Tieh Liang, president of tho board of revenue, ia hereby appointed super intendent of customs affair. Tang Shso, Junior vice president of the For eign board, is appointed associate min ister of Customs affairs. AU Chinese and foreigners employed in the various customs are placed under their control." Both these offices are new creations In the customs service. Hitherto the customs havo been nominally under the direction of tho Foreign board, but practically Sir Robert Hart has exer cised absolute control. Tho diplomats hero are unwilling to comment on the edict until its inten tions and full force are apparent. If it means a step toward active Chinese management of the customs, the foreign government are expected to resist it. which in tho early history of tho valley enruo up tho rivor in abundnnco, hnvo for tbo past numbor of years nlmost entirely disappeared. It is now hoped that tho bntehsry will bo the means of restocking tbo river. Improvo Orchard Tract. La Grnndo, The Rod Applo Orchard Company, which owns a large tract about threo miles north of town in the foothills, is planning oxtenslvo improve ments. About soventy-flvo acres will no cieareu ami the ground put In con dltinn for tbo planting of apples. Thero I already a largo nron of growing trees, including fifteen ncres of IS-yenrold np plo trees and forty-five acres of 2-year-old trees. There aro five or six springs locoieu on ims iraei, nnu it is tho in tention of the company to cnlnrce some of them, forming n lako, which will bo siockou with llih. Discredited In Washington. Washington, May 10, At the war do partment it was stated today that noth ing was known of tho reportod surrep titious purchase nt Brussels of plans for n mibmnrino mino. Attention was also called to tho fact that tbero is nn mill- London Companies' Instructions. London, May 11. At a meeting to day of managers of insurance companies here involved in the San Francirco die aster, it was voted to telegraph the fol lowing Instructions to tho companels' representatives at San Francisco: "We desire a-commlttee to act with Ameri can companies in adjusting losses in strict conformity with each company's separate policy conditions, acting on legal and expert advice, referring home disputed cases which involve import ant principles and doubtful to legal ability." Will Make Jefferson Status. Washington, May 11. Secretary Root announced today that Augustus ISt. Gaudens had been secured as scalp tarv nttacho to tho American Icjratlon nt tor for the proposed Thomas Jefferson Brussels. I monument to bo erected lu Washington, large. Scouring Mills Resume. Pendleton. After bolnir shut down sineo last October tho Pendleton scour ing mills will resumo operations Mny 14. The mills aro now being given a thor ough overhauling and will be placed in first-class condition by that time. W. M. McDonald, of Boston, has arrived to take charge as superintendent. Plant Big Orchard. Ln Grando W. Lyman and L. Old onburg havo finished planting an applo orchard of ninoty-flvo ncres near Im- blor. Thero aro 4,500 trees of threo varieties, including 2,500 Homo Beau ties, 1,000 Oanos nnd 1,000 York Im perials. Tho halanco of tho tract, about sixty acres, was planted in potatoes. Expect Heavy Fruit Crop, La Grande. Grando Hondo Growers report tho fruit prospects flattering for ims season, it is oxpcciou thnt tho crop will bo twieo as larco as any nrevlous year, and thnt tbero will be at least 000 carloads shipped from this valloy. The apple and cherry yields will bo vory woro Idnho people, who wnro ovldentlv satisfied with their locations, as tho last iwrty which passed through hero wan comitoscd of friends of the former company. All aro from Gcnoscc, Idaho. July Fourth at Chautauqua. Oregon City. At a meotlng hero of tho board of directors of the Willamette Valley Chautauqua Association it was decided to hold sultablo exercises at Gladatono Park, July 4 next, in ccle- hrntion or Independence Day. The ground will bo thrown onon to eamrv. ..i.. u . ... .. . i .. era uuiy , oigm uay pororo tbo con vening of tbo Chautauqua. No step have been taken by tho people of Ore gon City towards celebrating this anni versary, and all will probably unite In tbo celebration that is planned by the Chautauqua AsMmbly. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Clnb, 71Q72e; blueatem, 7273c; rtd, 00370c; valley, 70c. Oats No. 1 white feed, 127.60(328; gray, 27 per ton. Barley Feed, 23 6024 per ton; hrenlng, 242I.00; rolled, $24.60 35.60. Hay Valley tlmolhy,12Q13 ; clover, 7.60B8; cheat, 67; grain hay, 7 Q8; alfalfa, 112. Fruits Apples, $203.00 per box; straw berries, $1 2 1.05 per orate; Oregon, 20c per pound. Vegetables Asparagus, 76cQ$I.25 per box; cabbage. $2 85(23.00 nor hundred; canllflower. $2 25 par orate: celery, 15 00 per crate; head Jettuco, 25c per doien; onions. lOfilSc nor Another lUg Among Oshkosh Lumber men for Fraud In Oregon. wsiiKtwii, M., .May v. Three more VIiihi1h lumbermen have Ihhh survitd with warrant ekargln.' them with com lieity in Oregon tlttilwr land fraud, tho warrants Ix-lag isud nn Indict meat formulated by n Federal grand jury sitting In Portland during April. The last wen to m nerved wi-r Jorpk Hark, John ('. Black 'and August An dertwin, nil of Hhnwiw. rfigkt Wiscon sin men am now under arrest a the rerfult of Federal capias issued at Portland. Thn Hhawno men were ex peeling thn Indirtinents. and accented servleo throucli telr attorney, if. J. Wallrleb, who furnished ball for thidr apjMarnnen with the Oshkosh men be lore Federal Court Commissioner Me Donald In this city Frldny. In thn Indictment ft I ehnrged thnt the Black and Anderson conspired with Sumner A. Parker, of Ashlnnd, Or., to obtain land by means of proving up on false statement of alleged rmtlter In the Lakcvlow district, ami that these land were obtained for thn Oshknsh Land A. Lnmlter Compuny. of which the usnaosn iieienuani wero mem Per. 8TEVED0RE8 GO ON STRIKE. doxen; radlsher, 20c per dosen; rnnuaru, amc per pound; spinach, 00 per box; parsley, 26c; turnips, $ 1.26 per sark; carrots, 66Q76c per sack; beets, 86c 3 fl per sack. Onions No. 1, 3c per pound. Potatoes Fancy graded huihanks, 0070fi per hundred; ordinary. 60CJ 00c; new California, 4c per pound. Butter Fancy creamery. 7U,(ii20c per pound. K Oregon ranch. 18a 18 Ue ner doxen. ronltry Average old hens. 14(15c per pound; mixed clilckens, lSXQUc; broiler. 20Q22c; young roosters, 12j313o; old roosters, ll12jo; dressed chickens, 1618Ko; turkeys, live, 17f18c; turkeys, dreised, choice, 20ffl23c; geose, live, lOOllo; geese, dressed, lOQllc; ducks, 17Q18c. Hops Oregon, 1006, 1212Kc Wool Eastern Oregon average best, lfl21c; valley, 24Q20c per pound; moimir, cnoice, I'afauc. Veal Dreaiod, 337p per pound. Beef Droasod hulls, 3o pir pound: cows, 4K5)c; country steers, 6Q0c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 8(38Jcper pound; ordinary, BQOoj lambs, with pelt on, OrjlOc. Fork Dressed, 7(98io per pound. Paid rull Wages, They Refuse to Bottlo for Their Meals. Oakland, Cnl., May 0. A situation humorous and norlou at once wa ere nted todny by n gronp of some 60 steve dore who wero at work on tho Folsnm street dock unhiding Government relief supplies. While other wen are donat ing their service nnd sacrificing their Irtwlnesse to aid In tho rellof work, tlinse son of toll have been receiving n bright half dollar for each hour of work they hnvo done. Now, when tho Government effielnl Bk thesn men to p;- JO cents for the three mnal they enl oaeh day on the transport Crook, the lattorer are. In- rented and withdraw their service. In a word, the stevedore havo ueen iwild tho Mine wage m they received Wore tho fire, ho say the Government ofllelol, and they strika when asked to pay for their meola a mero fraction of what it would -ot them at other Place. Tho work of unloading is a a consn quenro at n standstill, but if tha strife. er do not return, men from tho refugee enmj will bo Impressed Into aorvKe. Enthusiastic Talk of New City Ne. Summor ?uro to Cause Heart ache In Fuluro, Hu Francisco, May 12. Threo weeks alter the great disaster nun Is able U view the situation ralmly and to em, pute with fair accuracy thn loss uffr rd by Han Francisco from lire. Htrntiga to relate, the eltlimi of Han Francisco tor the most part do nut appreciate the extent of thn disaster. Bober Judgment ha been for the time txmfused by tha extravagant recital of plan for rebuild Ing. Of course the city will bo rmm slrticted as spct-dlly as Kislb!e, but a best It Is a quvstloii of year. The en thuslaallc claim that next summer nil I see a new Halt Francisco. Till Is the talk which hai bronulit elation for the moment and menus heartache for the future. Five years will not see I'm city rrstorrd, ami ten Is cortalnl; a safer (Inure. The spirit of the HMipln must ho krpl tip ami this perhaps Is adequate eicmo fur the rather visionary tale which fill thn public print. Thu truth Is sulll elent to crush thn wrak ami to brli g dismay to the strong. Thn city I without money, Ortat fortunes have Item aaept away. land ed estates are Mithout reveunn. Tin wheel of tHMimieree move rliwand halting. Thousand have toeii throw n from rmpmrmniil. Htlll, thn spirit I hern. It I this which must win thn triumph. And It will w.n. The lew occasioned by (Ire and earth quakn will rirrcil 10(1, 000. 000. No disaster In history approach! this. Thn total lot In Chicago In 1H7I waa 1100,000,000. Han Francisco will rol led In Insurance almut $100,000,000. The city will therefore Im out of pocket some 300,000,0m. This mean an average of more than 0UO for every man, woman and child In Han Francis ro. How ran the city spring at onrn Into being under till enormous burden'' It mutt pledge It future for the neces sities of the preient. 1 CITIZENS IN MISERABLE PLIQHT. LESSONS Or TIIE DISASTER. Merita of Steel and Worthlessnes or Qranlte, Says Metcalf. Washington, May P. Secretary Met calf returned to Washington today from San FrnrieiKeo. In diuslng the situ ation today with n representative of tho Associated Press, Mr. Motoalf said the destruction of Ban Francisco mid inner i niiiornm chip nml towns fur nlshed tho best object losson to archi tect nnd builder in this country nnd in tho World. It wnK nrnvnn uin.ln. jlvoly, ho said, that steel structures had nest wiwisiooti tno shock nnd fire, nnd thnt granite, under lntensn hnnt . prnetlcally worthies. Another point which Impressed him considerably waa tho fact thnt tho sit uation dlaelosed n less proportion of poor persons in Ran FrnnoWo than gen erally nnu ncen supposed. It wns found that thoro wns on deposit on tho dny 2;t'l!!.-5,l,l,ll,lr ,n wvlngs bank over 1 1 05,000.000. or nn avemi-n nf innnn ..a. capita for ovory citizen of tho city. Vesuvius Breaks Out Again. Naples, Mny 0. Vesuvius I again showing consldcrnblo activity. Today a denso column of smnko Is arising from tho crnter and spreading like nn um brella, necompnnlod by loud detona tions nnd clectricnl discharges which nro especially notlcenblo from Reslnn. Tho main crater is discharging sand nnd cinders. General Greelay Says Everyone Keeps Up Couras, Remarkably. Washington, May 12. The War d partment received the following tele gram over nlitht from General Greeley, dated Presidio, Han Franclioo, May II "Whllo conditions Improve slightly, thn miserable situation mny bo Indicat ed by the statement that all the food lor 300,000 people in Ban Francisco Is yet necessarily cooked on the public streets. Tho courage of every one con tinues wonderfully. Neither drunken ness nor disorder anywhere, except from adjacent towns occasionally. Mayor rklimllx Is still advereoto oloed saloons, which have been constantly urgwl by me. "The Red Cross flnanro com mil tee, Br, Bovine and myself rnnrnrrlng, will Issue freo food nftrr Saturday next onlv on alternate day, except In ramp un der strict military control. Red Crora- agents nro to be present on alternate days of iioniisun ui provide for excep tional case ol need that may arise. "The average Irsuo In Han Franrlrco, Oakland, etc, still cxceidi 250,000 a day. A ponllilo method by question ing, exclusion ami otherwise Is being made to reduce dm food issue. Of course, extreme dcatltullon and much suffering occur on thu part of tunny people who resort to charity only In ex treme cases. Altogether I am encour-Ke-I. "ORKKI.KY, "Ma)orGoneral Commanding." J Irish MembersZProtest. London, May 12, On tho rrsump. Won of the debate on the education bill In the House of Commons today, John Redmond, the Irish leader, In behalf ol the Irish Nationalists, protested syulntt the systMii of education which waa bo Ing forced on the Catholic, minority and which violated their conscience. Ireland, he added, had always been de nominational In principle, believing that religion waa tho most necessary part of the education of children. Tho hill was pas.nl on Its second reading by ft voto of 410 to 214, Relief Funds Exceed gG.OOO.OOO. i ban I'rancitCo.lMny la. Tiu iluanto ccmmltteo today reported relief sub wrrlptlons as followsiSf Actually prom- inu, o,uu.u; unconfirmed prom laed, 31O,760;Jotal, $5.318.401. TL! -&mrt::" -y , uvrLtmmt'mvmrj" qn''Hwil4"