Great Is Oregon. ,
Editor Hofer, of the Salem Journal
gave the following to an Iowa paper,
where he is now visiting:
"On the Northwest Pacific Coast the
man counts for tin times as much,
there are $10 to $1 in circulation com
pared to even Iowa, reckoned as the
most prosperous state in the union,'
said Colonel Hofer yesterday. "Not a
man of any ability has ever come to the
coast from Iowa but has immediately
bjen put on the road to fortune, elected
to an office, presented with a gold med
al or become the father of twins. I
have so far. escaped only the latter
transcendental blessing. The spirit of
our people is something infectious when
it comes to wishing their fellow man
s access. Why, any man can succeed in
Oregon. Twq young Irish dry goods
clerks recently landed in our city,
They got a little cubby-hole ti display
a few cases of 'Cheap John' stuff.
That was five years ago. Today they
have a retail trade that employs fifteen
clerks. Men who bust up in other
states come to us and' do well. Next
to the largest mercantile business in
our city was founded a few years ago
by a man and his son, who virtually
started with nothing and had a lot of
debts besides, which they have since
paid off. A merchant tailor arrived
two weeks ago. Three other merchant
t lilors made themselves a committee to
help him find a business location and a Hansbrough should know that the gov
committee of business men canvassed ernment is responsible only for the
for orders and he was no sooner ready ' growth of wheat, the price being fixed
to open business than he had a month's by Ogden Armour and John W. Gates.
work on hand at his own prices, lhat
la lilts vvvaiciu opiwi. ivi juu.
boomers? Not a bit of ft. We are a
solid farming community, with twenty
five miles of the most beautiful coun
try around us that ever lay outdoors,
extending in every direction and not
one-tenth developed.
"The reason why Oregon has not set-
tled UI) faster in the Oast IS that the
railroads in Oregon were formerly
nearly all leased lines, with nonresident
managers. Within a few years they
have been acquired by the Harriman
syndicate which has built the Lucien putting the oil trust in the Geo. W.
cut off across Salt Lake at a cost of Beavers class.
$5,000,000 and will now expend $3,000,- . We wish they would stop proceed
0M in developing its property in Ore- jnp,a n the China Sea long enough to
gon. The Willamette valley will be explain how a man with such a pro
gridironed with trolley lines in the next nounceable name as "Enquist" hap
ten years and will become one vast pened to get command of a Russian
f ruitjgarden. The equal of its land in fleet. It should at least have been En-
productivity cannot be found in the
1 l tl 1.. nnn M i-U
wjriu. ib la neany w nuiea uuiui
anfl south and from ten to sixty miles
wide, lvimr sheltered between two
. - - ...
chains of mountains running north and
BJUth. Lands are still cheap and wa-
tar and timber is plenty.
"The summer climate is said to be
t'.ie most perfect in the world. In win
ter it rains about as much in inches as
it does in Iowa, but comes down with
the gentleness of the dews of mercy t
described by Portia In "The Merchant
ot Venice. uo people grow oiai x
am a younger man today than when I
wenttoIOregoninlSOO, and my wife
has grown constantly handsomer. The
complexion of our women are sought
alter as mooeis lor lace powaer uuver-
tisemonts. Ours is a land flowing with
milk and honey and gold pieces, but
that is not saying that the tenderfoot
from the east will not be picked up,
taken in and ddne for if he gives any-
one the chance. We cannot Insure
against the weaknesses of human na-
turo but are prepared to prove by any
. u " !m.i-..u u
fail. The Lewis nnd Clark fair will be
held at Portland amid tho grandest
Bcenerv on the continent. For less
than a cent a mile you can come and
see it all."
The Nan futt'eison Chsj.
Many cities will pass ordinances to con
June 4, 1904 Cresar Young, a book- form to this law, and when this is done
maker, while riding in a hansom cab in a good many children will have to mend
New York, with Nan Patterson, a cho- their ways or their parents will have
rus girl, was mysteriously shot to death to bear the penalty.
with a pistol at the corner of West
Broadway and Franklin street at 8:30
a. m. Nan Patterson was arrested,
charged with murder, and committed
to the Tombs without bnil.
Noif. 15, 1904 Her first trial began
before Justice Vernon M. Davis in the
Supreme Court Assistant District At
torney IRand for tho peoplo, Abraham
Livy and Daniol O'Reilly for tho de
fense. After the trial had progressej
for con daya one of tho jurors was ta-
kan ill and, on Nov. 2o, tho jury was-
diimUsed and tho trial postponed until toddy." Sir Thomas Barlow recalled . Philippines, during tho period of mili- occurred, has in its population a much
another jury could bo impannollod. tho days when lifo-insuranco offices re- tary occupation, from April 11, 1899, to greater proportion of male3 than al- ,
Dec. 5, 1904 Nan Patterson's second fused any man who was a total nb- March 8, 1901, were illegal and must be most any other city in the states, it be-
trial was begun bofore Justice Davis st linor. Liebig, the great chemist, refunded to the importers. That means ing a Western mining town. Can it be
in tho same court. It continued to sid that wine was "medicine for the that tho United States will have to pay that this is an effort of nature to cor
Dec. 23, when the jury, aftor long dt- si:k and milk for the aged." How back to the importers a sum estimated rect the ratio? If so, has this circum-
liberation, disagreed. They were said
to stand 6 to 6.
April 10, 1905 Nan Patterson was w'oich Sir William Broadbcnt presided,
called for trial for the third time in tho Its object was to promote the teaching
same court At tho request of tho of hygiene and tcmperanco in element-District-Attorney
it was postponed, as ary schools.
J. Morgan Smith and his wife, N.in On the general question of alcohol-
Patterson's sisUr, who had boon sought
for as witnesses by tho State, had been
found in Cincinnati and wore
brought to Now York.
April 11 J. Morgan Smith
Wlte Were Cliurxuu wim wiwjjuih,j .u
extort money from the (load man,
Younir. and committed in bail.
April 18 Nan Patterson a third tn u
v'ill begin bsforo Recorder Giff.
will begin
World.'
Frenzied Thoughts.
Chijago now proposes to find out
whether the street railways belong to
the city or the city belongs to the
street railways.
Mr. Rockefeller has been defended
by his attorney. "Whose bread I eat,
his song I'll sing."
Senator Burton's native modesty will
prevent him from taking the initiative
in such a radical proceeding as resign
ing from the Senate. .
Ida Tarbell advises Kansas "to quit
sizzling and get down to business" in
the tight against Standard Oil. Kan
sas may be sizzling but "Standard Oil"
will be doing the same thing before she
get3 through with it.
Perry Belmont wants the widest pu
blicity about campaign contributions
Mr. Rockefeller will have to give under
the name of a "friend" in that case.
Latin-American republics that are a
little out of sorts are invited to step up
and take a "dose of the Monroe Doc
trine," the greatest spring tonic on the
market.
The Japanese are said to be small be
cause they use no chairs. They have
not been letting the Russians use any
either, for some time past.
Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota
. is trviner to blame Secretary Shaw for
the Drice o wheat m n. D. Senator
he talk about it being impossible to
keeD saloons closed on Sunday must be
i snored hereafter. It has been done at !
if,. rii ifonoaa
Representative Hull of Iowa, is wor
ried over the Japanese plans for the
capture of the Philippines, but he will
hardly advise Congress to abolish the
military post at Des Moines and
uafl
Hip mnnAv fp maan thn navv'a
p0Wer.
About 600 indictments have been re-
turned against the Standard Oil com-!
pany at Frankfort, Kentucky, thus
quistivitch or the like,
- .
The Beef trust has rushed the price
of meat up again. It probably needs
tv, ,nv,p t -pi,,. ihnu tvimiro ond
..... ...........
books confiscated by the grand jury. '
It must be a aueer method of reason.
me tnat leads certain cnurcn workers
...........
to insist that a bad man like Mr.
Rockefeller shall not be allowed to do
good.
A New Law.
provided
A nnenot to exceed ipiuuuis p rov uea.
as punishment for parents, guardians
SZ "dZTAl
for he do inquency of children A
.-""-"" V"" "
bo a child under sixteen years ot
age wno violates state laws or city or-
dinances, or wno is incorngioio, a per- ,
sistent truant irom scnooi, wno asso-
ciates witn criminals or vicious or lm-,
moral persons, or wno are growing up
in idleness, or who frequents gaming
houses, houses of ill fame or places
where intoxicating linuors are sold.
The fine imposed may be suspondod so
long ns the parent keeps his child un
dor control
The law provides for the above pen
alties passad at the last session of the
legislature, and will go into efiect on
May 18th.
From the London Chronicle.
Fifty years ago the opinion was firm
ly established that alcohol not only
'made glad the heart of man" but was
essential to the health of his body.
The President of tho British Medical
Association, speaking at a meeting
yosterday, mentioned that ho had boen
brought up in the school of Dr. Todd,
who prescribed alcohol so freoly that
the studonts christened him "whiskoy
completely we have changed all this is
s'lown by the meeting of yesterday at
of food or poison the average attitude
.
of tho mod
heal profession, Saul !ir
nvu .ii..vu m. ..... .... ....... v. v.MtM-,
tial, they say, to teach the people that
, nljohol is a luxury rather than a i c -
cesnty, and mat in tno general nos; i-
UU it should bo prescribed us little i s
I M.-tsible.
to bo Thomas Barlow, waslthut of the "open that the court will rovcrso Use f on the ""' "n.ni.
miod." But on one point the doctors 1 presentation of any new evidence in present from other placei were
and his represented at yesterday's meeting possession of the Department of Jus- Sim Bennett, Walter Cheney and
ln k..,n Mn, n 1,11 hn l m n, d t l. lUunn. 1 Tf ....... 1. Iknl ....h Ml A WHP. U K,rt nn, Maeara KnR
A Despotic System.
A Correspondent says:
Governor Cummins expectation that
the-next Congress will pay no heed to
President Roosevelt's recommendation '
that the tariff be revised agrees entire-
ly with a statement made recently by j
Senator Hansbrough. "The House is
dominated by an oligarchy of stand j
patters," said the Senator, and he
ad led, "Tariff readjustment is dead." ,
The situation is indeed a peculiar, one.
There is doubtless a majority in the
Senate, including the democratic mem-
bership, to pass a tariff bill providing
for material readjustment, or revision,
but as the Senator says, the House is
dominated by the stand patters. Under
the development of the pernicious
Reed rules the Hose has lost its char-
acter as a deliberative body and must
invariably act under the whip and spur
of party discipline. The committee on
Rules, which consists of Speaker Can-
non and Representatives Payne, Gros-
veiior, Dalzell, Williams and Under-
wood, controls the actions of the House
as absolutely as Cresar ruled Rome.
Cannon, Grosvenor and Dalzell are all
ardent stand patters and the democratic
members'of the committee, being m
the minority, are merely ciphers. No Equitable Insurance Co's quarrel and
member can speak on the floor of the the bigjgame hunt of the President.
House without permission of the The Patterson trial has been con
Speaker or the committee on Rules, spicuous because of the character of
A member who desires to make a the parties and the mysterious nature
speech must first consult the Speaker, of the death of the man in the case, A piece of radium the size of a
and explain what he wishes to speak killed either by himself or some one piaced over Albany on a dark night
on and onlyjafter such explanation will else in the very heart of the city, would make the city lighter than dur
the Speaker consent to recognize -him. where business was most lively, natur- ing the brightest sunshine.
A3 the Constitution gives the house the
exclusive power to inmate revenue
m'"s an 89 a" tariff bu Is are revenue
msasures, me senate is powerless in
the face of opposition by the House.
The grave mistake made by Governor
Cummins and by Senator Hansbrough
18 thelr behef that tariff revlsl0n can
icvel uo tttuuiiipiianBu iuwi.w.i
I House. The people must elect a demo-
cratic majority to the lower chamber
of Congress and until they do there is
little Hkhhood of any tariff revision,
unless it be revision upward to suit the
protected interests.
"Land Conscience' And Its Work-lug'-
Describing the Land Graft on the
We3t Coast, in the May number of
Everybody's, Mr. Bailey Millard says:
"I will sav rieht here and mv lan-
',,, ; nia;nthor
fraud you will find nowhere else on
eirtn. Ana it is an Dasea upon tnat
insinuatino- Half-sarvinir and wonder-
n io ,i,:i, t n r..j
f: t j -n! ;
mnn nnnnp-h. A man who would not
dream of taking money from his em
ployer's till, a man whJ as a jittor,
would spurn a bribe, a man recognized
as a person of probity, is as likely to
be possessed of a smooth, easy-going,
self-deceptive Land Conscience as the
. f th , . ht
"h g63 - mght3
the sense of honor of a
tatives, a Commissioner of the General
n!ou:i.
Land Office, A United States District
" - - - j
" " . " . . '
- - -
r---- -
he of ..T. ZJt
, Ui Land Conscience may be lulled as
M a Circean song. The enmeshing in
' the legal net, by indictment after in
dictment, of Senator John H. Mitchell,
Representatives Binger Hermann and
John N. Williamson, and United States
Attorney John H. Hall, on charges of
.conspiracy against the Government to
gain possession of hundreds of thous
ands of acres of valuable land in Ore
gon, though it may be more conspicu
ous and more arrestive of the public
sense than other affairs of the kind, is
merely incidental to the great cam
paign of Graft in West Coast land af
fairs." If the Supreme Court discovers many
more as seriou3 legal blunders perpe-
trated by the Philippine government as
that brought to light by the suit of
Henry W. Peabody of Boston and Ma-
nil i, the treasury deficit will begin to
assume alarming proportion. The
Court has just decided in this case that
nil the duties collected on goods
, brought from the United Stnte3 to the
. at $7,000,000. This money formed the
revenue of tho Philippines during that ,
period and was expended for adminis-1
trative expenses as fast as received
aid the'jUnitcd States will now have to
m ike good the loss. Tho Government
will atmlv to the court for a rphpnrlnir
t,yy" ...in " .::7.T.
, ,, , ,,0 ,
of payment, but little hope is expressed
pass legislation which will compel
' little brown man" to pay tho bill,
'the
nnd
it it docs tho "little brown man ' wi
bo afforded a now lesson in "the hies
ill
les-
, sines of civilization.'
Saturday Niuht Thoughts.
The entire world this week has been
watching the course of two fleets of
battleships, cruisers and torpedo boats,
as nearly as possible, sometimes won-
dering where they were, but intense in
the desire to locate them and learn
what they were doing, wondering
whether they would come together in a
combat which may decide the fate of
the two nations, bent on destroying
each other, with blood boiling to the
core. This watching is tiresome busi-
ne3s to an impatient people, but big
bodies move slowly and great events
are not consummated in a day. For a
year and three months it has been im-
possible to mention the events of the
passing weeks ' without ' referring to
something about the war between Rus-
sia and Japan because of the promi-
nence of the contending armies and the
greatness of the contest. Now, it
looks as if it would last for a long time,
and as if something would be doing a
year or two hence in the field, of war
between the two nations. '
In the United States several thine3
have been made conspicuous, the Nan
Patterson trial, in New York, the '
ally suggesting many versions.
une Jiquitable quarrel is important
because of the bigness of the concern
as a nnanciai institution ana or tne ai-
vulsions in connection with it. It should
be the means of opening the eyes of
the people to the insurance methods of
the country.
Ane.rresiuent a nunt is iuu ut ln-
terest because of the official position of
the distinguished Nimrod and the at-
tention paid to it by the papers, vieing
with each other to get the first reports
of a kill or whatever of
sensational
character might occurr. A grizzly,
one of the biggest of all America's
wild game on the northern continent
was run down and killed and other
game was secured, and the reporters
have slung yellow ink fiercely in en
larging uponfcnd narrating the exciting
events connected with the different
wild game deaths.
' Now base'bdll is raging all over the
country. It isjthe greatest and best of
, - .,", , ,, .
a11 contests,;head and shoulders above
all the other games of the world, take
n, irura uses s w ucuu ucm, u
it. I 1. 1 t- nnJ
it continues to be more popular JJthan
ever it was before, as attested by the
immense crowds at the big games and
the number of small clubs organized by
the boys.the future league players of
the country. The game has improved,
but has some features that need look
ing fter..vtA"very important thing is
absolutelf airness in umpiring, essential
to the popularity'of the game. Anoth
er thing will undoubtedly be rules
which will result in more batting to sat-
iaefythe crowd or the sensational part
way with the rule making a foul a strike,
and alsothe prohibition of the new spit
ball, a new discovery ' of last year, a
peculiar proposition. As the pitcher
puts the ball in position in his right
hand ready for throwing he wets one
side of it with two fingers of the other,
hand, and the scientific result is a ball
that may gojalmost anywhere in1 a very
crooked course, so uncertain that even
the catcher doesn't know where it is
going to strike, and much less the bat
ter, who is generally unable to do any
thing with it. Other changes may follow.-'
The small boy cannot learn any
better game, not with a view of mak
ing it a business, for he had better
keep out of it as a professional, but be
cause altogether it is a clean contest,
healthy and full of interest.
Of forty-five births recorded during
last year in Carson City, Nev., only
one wai a male, writes Barrington
King, of Albany, to the London Lancet.
The causes underlying the differences
in sex (if, in tact, these are any causes
other than chance) are not only matters
of great interest but of importance as
well. Carson City, where this extra-
ordinary proportion of female births1
stance been observed elsewhere?
The Cleek-Fox Party.
The CWIf.Fnv rlnnpincr nnrtv in tie
w. n. w. hull 1Mt nitrht was eniovid
... i
m.Pr? " B."' ry.T' C.Oml Goans, Alda Huddlcson.
juuiiK people iromaiuaiiy u. u u
valley towns. Music was turmsned oy
Dl-SlUVa MIIIIIIIGIlb
g inose
Messrs. 1
Mr.
Fish- !
burn unit Louis Steelhammer and Miss
Kthel Culvert, of Sal"m. Mesrs. Frank
T-mpleton,Carl Washburjn, Elmer Paine
i.nd Kuipu KobiiiHou nd Miss Hcltn
Kobinwn, of Euenc; Mesu-s. G. and
C. Cathey and Mr. Woodfoid, of Coi
vnllis, and tlie Fox brothers,of Summit.
MISFITS.
No more new owners so far this year
than last.
Young Mr.
hide tanned.
Hyde needs to have his
Joe Jefferson is better,
long and prosper.
May he live
The Willamette continues to keep up
its weather record.
The names of Togo and Rojestvensky
are hanging in the balance.
Chicago wheat has gone down with a
crash burying Mr. Gates in the mess.
John Pierpont Morgan, king of .fi.
nance, yesterday called on Victor
Emanuel, King of Italy.
After tackling big game for several
days the President ought to be in a con
dition to go for the trust octopus.
It has been discovered that the Pres.
ident is nearly always after something,
J but before he finishes the j"ob he is
"lM!r o""wuns e,aB.
A trolly line is now talked of between
Salem and Independence. But then
Salem for yeats has been talking about
lines oi rails anq doing nothing.
A unicago university man has dis-
covered that the 4th of July should
18. He should now eo
"" "vs- ' """go
oj .. i,iif ,:n, ni i t.
other cranks l'hat a tradinS stamP is mere,v a form
of advertising and that the promoters
of the scheme are merely advertising.
As ugly as these Ah Swills are they Portland, Or. April, 20. Charles
are a good deal of a necessity in a city Oberg has been awarded $10,000 dam
the size of Albanv. doiner work that acres acainst the Northern Pacific on .
otherwise would have to be paid for at
a niS expense.
rirt rairtiirr nnno;i,iQ rt
rebuilding of the woolen mill at this
city, where it belongs. Albany people
nave already put up $3o,uuu ana are en-
titled to a preference.
. Tom Lawson writes the Democrat
that his frenzied finance fight has now
cost him $70,000 a month, and that it is
eettine wearisome. If Lawson is pav
ing for the publication of his articles,
which have made Everybody's Mag
azine, he has less sense than he is cred
ited with.
The Democrat is informed that some
. . .
of the farmers are having too big ex-
nectations about the number of new-
.nmnvo ttrhfi will ho aftav hnmoo haw
comers who will be alter homes here
and are raising the price of their prop
erty terrifically. A good way to keep
them away, and there are not going to
be anywhere near so many as some
figure on. Why not face the truth.
An article in an exchange is headed
"The Spleen of Scott." It is undoubt
edly great, but in the particular case
referred to it is probably out of place.
It is asserted that Harvey Scott is at
the bottom of all this land fraud pros
ecution, that he is trying to get rid of all
.other republicans in the state so he can
be elected u. a. senator.
All of which
is the worst kind of rot,
and contains
more spleen than Scott ever dreamed
of. Secretary Hitchcock and President
Roosevelt are at the bottom of the land
fraud ni"np(lltTnnQ. nnH'RnH-. haa hnti
no more to do with the matter than the'.
man in the moon.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mrs. E. E. Upmier, of Harrisburg.
has been visiting Albany friends.
Hon. Squire Farrer, of Salem, passed
through the city -this noon for Seal
Rocks.
Prof. Dearing, the accomplished head
of the Jefferson schools, is in , Albany
for a Sunday visit.
F. E. Allen, now travelling for the
Hammond Packing Co. and Page & Co.,
was in the city today.
Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Althouse went
to Corvallis this afternoon to spend
Sunday with Mrs. Geo. Helm.
Dr. Van Winkle, brother of Recorder
I Van Winkle, has decided to open an
office in Brownsville, in this county.
Father Metayer's many friends will
be glad to know of his improvement
afterfon illness of two or three weeks.
Rev. J. L. Whirry, c dporter, of the
Baptist church, for the valley, will
precah to-morrow morning and evening.
Mr, and Mrs. N. B. Washburn, of
Brownsville, were in the city this
afternoon on their way home from
Portland
Mi P.nlm. T.n. nf .T0ff.
i t c t ii u.L
u iiieuiuei ui uno ui wie vitiiej s uksi,
Wnnwn nlnnopr fnmillpa snonf. !,.(
evening in Albany.
J. C. Weiss and R. R. Wallace, of
tne state Daroer s Doara, arnvea in bie uncertainty surrounds the future
Albany last evening on an inspection f John Barrett, Minister to Panama,
trip after hunting up the microbes in The rumor that he had resigned is not
the Southern Oregon shops. Steriliza- credited at the State department; in
Hon in Albany shops is found to be all fact it is though improbable that Bar
right and cleanliness prevails. j rett will resign; though it is not so im-
Mary Rose Warner celebrated her probable that he will be relieved.
A great time was had, and refresh- ?f. wiK ll , n vCty 0n 5
ments served late in the afternnon. v?s ' "'mp' "T,' a,nd
Thosepresent were: Elizabeth Eagles, M Jf "ai?.
Lucille
Mnnithnrne. Carrol Waller.
e. (Jarrol Waller. Donald
. Waer
Warner, Mary Rose Warner. '
f"Rev H. C. Marshall, former pastor of
tne u. f. cnurcn at.oioux vity,- passed
through the city this noon forOnkville,
where he goes to assume the pastorate
of the U. P. church at that place. He
is an able man with a fine record. On
account of ill health he was obliged to
make a change. Mrs. Marshall at the
world's fair at Hhicniro rppplvpd nnn nf
the ten gold medals awarded for the
best pianists in the United States, and
is a teacher of experience.
A HOLOCAUST
Results in Death of Thirteen.
Montreal, Canada, April 21.
(Special) Thirteen sisters and chil
dren are dead, and several are missing,
as the result of a frightful holocaust
which destroyed St. Annes convent at
St. Genevieve near here this morning.
More than a hundrtd pupils attended
the academy, which was a huge frame
structure. It was bitterly cold which
caused much suffering. '
Portland, April, 21. Senator Brow
hell and George Sorenson filed demur
rers and plea in abatement to' indict
ments charging them with subornation
of perjurying connection with the land
fraud cases in the Federal court to-day.
Los Angeles, April, 20. Women of
Woodcraft elected the following ofheiers
this morning:
Carrie C. Vanorsdal, Grand Guardian.
Hester Oliver, Grand Advisor.
' J. L. Wright, Grand Clerk.
Mary Hurley, Grand Banker.
Dr. Pollock and Anna Hawkins, Man
agers. Laura Brainard was defeated
for this position.
Portland, April, 20. M. G. Hoge
lawyer, of Medford, who was indicted
by the Federal Grand Jury, on the
charge of conspiracy in the land fraud
case entered a plea of not guilty in the
federal district court this morning.
Senator Brownell and George Sorenson
will appear for arrangment to-morrow
morning.
Portland, Oh. April, 20. Federal
Judge Bellinger has decided that the
ordinance attempting to tax stamp pro
moters is unconstitutional in the case of
Ernest Hutchinson. Hutchinson man
aged the distribution of trading stamps
given merchants, by the National Trad
ing Company, of Michigan. He was
brought to court for refusing to pay the
high license fixed on his occupation by
the council. Judge Bellinger holds the
I "romance an invas on oi tne uperty
granted py tne constitution ana noias
account of injuries sustained in the Elks
wrecit near unenaus in xvva ay r euerui
Judge Bellinger. The judgment was-
I oasea on tne examination oi six cam-
petent physicians who stated that his
condition was due the excitment caused
I by the wreck. This is the last of the
uaiuagts vaaes against, tut; ictiuuau uf
casioned by this wreck.
Mad at France
Tokio. April 20. Japan is contem
plating declaring war on France and
! calling on Great Britian for support.
This action follows the sending of a
formal protest to France against the
use by the Russian Baltic fleet of Kan
ranh Bay as a rendezvous and the coup
ling therewith of a statement that if
France refrained from acting Japan
will send a fleet of war vessels to fat
tack the Russians in the shelter of a
neutral port.
Lost to the World.
Glenwood Springs, Col.., April 19.
ith president Roosevelt and Secretary
' Loeb in camp 20 miles from the near-
est telegraph office, no news of the
hunt came out of the hunt came out of
the woods today. When Mr. Loeb re
turns here tomorrow, it is expected he
will bring information of the luck that
has attended the President's hunt for
big game.
T he Patterson Jury.
New York. April 18. The jury which
is to decide the fate of Nan Patterson,
on trial for the third time, charged
! with murderinsr Ca;sar Youne. a book-
1 maker, was completed at 7 :40 o'clock
' o'clock tonight, when Recorder Goflf
idjourned court until next Monday
morning.
The Rltsht Way.
Washington, April 19. When Theo
dore P. Shonts took hold of ;the build
ing of the Panama Canal he stipulated
among other things that he should not
be bound down to let politics interfere
with his work in any particular.
Will Be Fighting
Paris, April 21. If the French au
thorities are to be believed, news of
momentous import may be expe'eted
from the Far East very soon, as, ac
cording to Foreign Minister Delcasse,
the Russian fleet under the command
of Vice-Admiral Rojestvensky sailed
early on Thursday from Kamrahn Bay.
Its destination is unknown, but it is be
lieved here that it will now sail to en
deavor to locate the Japanese fleet and
give battle.
Jap ; on the ularch .;
St. Petersburg, April 21. A tele
gram from the seat of war in Manchu
ria states that the Japanese armie3 are
advancing northward, preceded by cav- '
airy.
Wheat Corner Rusted.
Chicago, April 20. The celebrated
deal in May wheat attributed to John
w. uates received seemingly its death
blow today. Possibly as much as 5,
, OUU.UUU ousneis tor May delivery was
dumped on the market. Asa result
there was a break of 5 cents a bushel
in the price, the quotations for
May
snv, tn ei 10 1 o 1 not n
falling from $1.13 1-2 to $1.08 1-2.
About John Barrett.
Washington, April 20.-Consider-
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