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chapter IX (Cootlotted I
I ran fees I
d- ar," she Mid
"What consideration i
dur a gentleman who
rendered spec. !
I--M by the s-vuMtion of a newspaper'
Wbat depth ia there to bls feeling fur
your »elfare when he rt»«h«a sway blind
ly and remains throughout the day. while
you are here at the foot of a bursting vol
cano. as he pointed out. You will find
that 1 am right. Mrs
Mr Constable 1»
n<>t even a worthy accomplice to the isl
anted Hteiub.: •»». lie is without speech
or valor. What remains when a nmn is
neither brain nor brute?" Iler voice had
n->t been nuked. and Mrs Stansbury Mi
the library before Mrs formed -an •n
ewer.
The torturing hours crawled by. Ti>.
gray afternoon turned Io dusk, and I be
dusk to night. The tiortb waa rwldened
by Price’s firelit cone, which the thick
vapor dimmed and blurrad. The rumbling»
were constant.
lavra waa suffering tn
tight out her battle alone. Rhe asked no
more than this
A thousand time« «be
paced a-rows her room; scores of visits she
made to Constable's window, straining
her e><-« northward, along
the
mad
through the day and darkne««, to the end
of all things the mountain!
Uncle
Joey came to plead with her, but she
begge<l hltu to go away. Iler brain was a
livid tra-k of flying, futile agonies
In
the evening the intermittent rumbling«
gave way to a growling, .«instant and in
ivuMant. It was as if a steady stream of
heavy vehicle« was pounding over a wood
en bridge
There wa« a pnnz in each
phase of the monster, since the man had
gone up into that red roar. It was near
ly midnight when the girl in the upper
•oom heard a step upon the veranda
"I'ncle Joey.” she called at the plant
rr’s door, "make haste . there is som.
lowly below !"
The moments of waiting as«ai|ed the
very roots of her reason, ^'be voiiv that
she heard at last was Breen'a.
"I l-eg that you'll forgive me. Mr Wall,
for arousing you at this hour, but it is
necessary for me to have a few words
with Mis» Stansbury.”
"Str." tbe planter replied, ' anything
which concerns yourself is of no moment
to Mi»a Stan-bury
If your message ia
from Mr Constable, you may tell him
•o come himself or send a native "
"I dislike to appear Insistent. Mr
Wall,” Breen replied, without irritation,
"but I cannot count my errand accoin-
piished until I have heard from Mias
Stansbury. If she should refuse to see
•ns------ "
"I am coming down, Mr. Breen." Lara
called over the baluster, “Vacie Joey,
there
show Mr. Breen to a wat. 1
*n a moment.”
She turned to reenter her room for »
guru., nt
Iler mother's ligure barred the
Open doorway.
CHAPTER X.
Constable had. been physically unhurt
!c hie thirty years, and the exertions of
the past four days bad worn little more
than the polish from hia vitality.
In­
stead of relating in the crisis of the news­
paper revelation, his body righted under
the whip of pride, and he strode down
Into the city as one who haa siip|>ed a
burden, lie had been beaten in a battle
with a woman.
Blucher bad roma to
Mrs. Stansbury's aid at the last moment.
In tbe shape of new»|>apeni from the
north. From Lars, however, anil not the
mother, had come the moat crippling blow
of all. It was Mrs who bad handed him
the news|«iper. She did not wait, nor
ask. Around thia item. Constable built
v gloom structure of baronial proportions.
Ills attitude toward Breen was very
s tuple. lie would not betray bis guest
for all the uews|opera and police in
Christendom.
Having waived Breen's
offer to detail the |M»rt'.culars of bls past,
during the first night of acquaintance,
< on»! able certainly ceuM not rvproai-b
•be other for misrepresenting himself,
It was ten thirty in the morning when
hr sent a message out to Captain Negley,
countermanding «ailing orders, and enclos­
ing a cheerful note to Crusoe, containing
a draft for the stipulated amount. At the
bank he also left a second sum for Fath­
er I *«mteti. and procured ron»»lersMe cur
rent ;>aprr for hia own uses. Ilia mind
moved io a light, irresponsible fashion.
It 'was as if he were <4w««ed at quick
intervale, one after another, by mad kings
•»bo dared anything, end whom no one
dared refuse. Hia brain kept the great
sorrow in the background, and occupied
itself with striking artifice«. While aware
that in losing Mias Rtanebury and the
privilege of protecting her, the meaning
and direction of hia life was gone, gflll
Constable did not yet sense the fulln.-««
of the visitation. Ilia waa not a wound
to heal by first intention; and ia bad
hurts pain assumes command Isiaurely
«nd in order.
Ila plunged into a crowd In the market
place, and began to talk to the natives
whimsically, but to tbe purpose of start­
ing them toward Fort de Trance, adding
that Father Damien would care for them
generously there. ”1 do not My that thio
ia tbe last day of JPiint Pierre," be ez
claimed in French, "but I declare to you
that if ever a planet look-I as If she were
about to spring a leak. Mother Earth haa
• he symptoms kcal lied In relee!"
Constable's eyes had Hied upon a car­
riage ps«»ing along the edge of ' th.
crowd
Now be moved toward it quo k
-
'y and veiled the bridle IVsptte the pro-
eatatistvs of tbe driver, he led the vehicle
■ nto the gixwl view of all. His face waa
• d with the heat and ««bine with laugh­
er and pers.nrstion
Alarm end merrl-
.»-nt mlng'ed in the native throng All
eyes fillowMl the towering figure of the
tmerlcan. now bowed before tbe »winging
I--or of the carriage* and M M mdet
"Thia dear friend«," Constable resum­
ed. as one would produce a rabbit front
a silk hat
'this, you all perceivw, is
vour ilttle editor of lx« Colonie«
Is he
not bright end clean and pretty? lie is
■■■nd of American kttl
Bl* bow
the little editor laughs'”
The Frenchman waa really afraid. Ilia
smile waa yellowish gray and of sickly
colour. Hia article relative to the Amer
»■an appealed to him now. entirely atrip-
ped of ^he humor with whl-h It was
'raught yesterday, as he comi»vsed it in
tbe Inner of inner offices. This demon
of crackling French and resile»« hand»
would stop at nothing
M Mon.let
tured himself being inched up for dead
preaently. As the blow did not fall in
»tanianeously, he amended the picture
with the sorry thought that he was to
lie played with before being di«i-atihrd
"Thia is the little man who tells you
that Saint Pierre ia in no danger who
solti at thi*se who have already gone.”
Constable Informed his hearers, now hold,
mg up the Frenchman's arm. as a rvfsre-
uprai».*» the whip of a winning fighter.
"He says there is no m-ir« peril from
Price than from an old man shaking ash*»
out of bis pipe. Yeatrnlay I pro|HMi«-d to
wager my ship against M Mondet’s rolled
top ilesk that he waa wrong, hut there
was a difficulty in the way. I*o you not
see. dear frien-ls. that if I won th« wager.
I should not lie able to distinguish I h >.
twe-n M Mondet’s rolled top <b‘«k ail I
M. Mondet’s cigarette cai In the ruins of
Haint Pierre? You would not think that
such a small white person could contain
so much poiaon.”
There hail been a steady growling fron»
the mountain.
"Ah!" Constable suddenly eti-lalmed,
"I'elee s|>enk« again ! • • • I gh. get in
there!”
Constable's irritation against the ent
-<ril>e of editorial opinion breeders must
have found an Instant vent at last, M
Momlet was chucked like a large soft
bundle into the sent of his carriage and
the -door slammed forcibly, corking the
vials of hia wrath.
In any of the red
blood«-,! aunea. a stranger who performed
suih antic« al the expense of a |*ortly
and reap«-ctHj eitiacn would have encoun­
tered a quietus quick and blasting, but
the people of Martinique are not swift to
anger nor forward at repriMla.
"Com«’" Constable yelled, in a voice
which jerked up hia hearers. “Who has
use tor my offer? Who goes to Fort de
France?"
A few came forward, perhapa a doaen
in all, out of the fifty or silty who had
listened. Half in anger, half in adinlra
tlon, w hi»'h he did not seek to understand,
lie ran bis eye a last time over the dusty,
haggard, stilled crowd which he bad failed
to move.
From their eyes, sullen, atartinl and
pitiful, he glanced beyond lu Ibe place
where old Vulcan lay, muttering hia ag
allies. The sight completed tbe circuit of
rending voltage, made him think of Ixra
With furious seal be grappled tbe work
at baud, forced his way out of Ibe crowd.
cruMed tbe lloielane awl burned toward
the Hotel dee I'alma. Hia physical en
ergy waa inqierioUB, but th« numbncM of
his acalp waa a pregnant warning against
the perils of beat. The city was silent
enough to act like a vast sounding board
Voters reached him from far behind, from
the harbor front to tbe left, from shut
»hop« and I mhism everywhere.
At tbe
hotel, after mu-h difficulty, he pro-nred
guides and a small outfit for the journey
to the summit of the mountain. It waa
after mid «lay when the party rode into
Morns Rouge. The ash hung ralley was
behind, ami Constable drank <leeply of
the clean east wind from Ibe Atlantic.
There was a rush of Wtterneaa, too. be­
cause Ixra was not sharing the pricelea»
volumes of sun-lit vitality, All the Im-
p t • of hie mad enterprise was nee,led
now to turn the point of tierraveinent,
and force it into the background again,
Tbe party pushed through Ajoii|>a Bouil-
lion to the gorge of the Falaiae. the north­
ward bank of which marked the cb<«eu
trail to tbe summit.
And now they tnov«*d upward In the
tnhlet of the old glory of Martinique. The
brisk Trades blowing evenly In the heights
wi|ied the eastern slope of tbe mountain
clear of etone-duat and whipped the blast
of «•«•ph-ir down into the valley toward
the shore. Green lakes of cane fille«! the
valleys behind, and groves of cocoa polm»,
ao distant and soy/rd-rly that they looked
like a city garden set with hen and
chickena.
Northward, through th« rift«, glistened
the e«a. ateal-Mne and cool. Before them
arose the huge, green clad oism of the
mountain. Ita corona dim with smoke awl
laebed by storm. l>own In tbe southwest
lay (ba ghastly pall, the hitiden. torture,!
city, trance«! under the cobra head of the
monster and already laved in Ita poison
Tbe trail toss me very steep at two
thousand feet, and thia fact, t-»gether with
tbe bsck-tbreah of the summit disturb­
ance, forced Constable to ahandon the
animals, it transpired that four of the
erven native« felt It tbeir duty, at thia
COI ST\
pelnt. to stay 1>eh' I » .th 'he i. nSw
lift!« latsr, when tin* <r.-»!-u« tn » tbs
prons upturned fa « of tbs groat beast
• i l-!»nly arose to a nwr that twmted tbs
flesh and outrag«d the sens«w of tuan,
the America« louk’d t*a. k and found that
■ >nly one native waa faltering ta-um-i, in­
stead of three.
Fascination fur tbe dying Thing took
■*u
.
stable was ■•»»uscioua of no tear for his
lite, but of a fixed terror i««t be should
prove physically unable tu go on to tbe
end.
lie found bituaelf tearing up a
handkerchief ami stuffing the sbrnU in
bis ears, to demlen the horrid vibrations.
With tbe linen remaining, he filled bis
tuiutb. shutting hia Jaws together upon it,
as the wheels of a wagon are blocked un
an Incline.
Tbe titanic disorder pla--at««l his own.
lie re>vll«d In It. umona,-iuus of pasaiug
time,
lle did not realise that be was
alone, but knew well from tho contour
of tbe slope, learned Intimately in past
vlaita. that be was nearing the I .sc ■!«•
Palmists, which tnark««i tbe summit leveL
Y *-t ehangea, violent change«, were every­
where evidenced. Tbe shoulder ot the
mountain was sm««r«d with a crust uf
ash and aeatiuul with fresh wars
The
cruet was made by the dry whirling winds
playing up»*n the paste formed of stone­
dust and roniienaed steau» Tbe ,-Itching
whir, like the clap of wing«, beard at
interval«, nccountetl for the scars, Botaba
of roch were being hurled from the great
tulles.
That he sir in the range of a raking
volcauo tire did not Inq-ress this ant
clinging to the brani uf a giant, t'p, ■
knees and band«, he erawl««l up over the i
! i-r -.'-i mg - tun. to th« l*la*k jsoimled lip (
of the monster. Out of the old lak«» «-»,i'.«d I
the furious tower of steam ami rock dust
which mushroomed in high sir. Ilk« the ,
primal nebula» from whuh the worlds i
were mad«
Pocket» of gas exploded in i
the heights, rending the |M*riphery as the >
*eil of the tempi« was rent, t»ply this -
to ere, hut sounds not meant for th» ears 1
of man. MWin-ts which »e«m«,l to mw his '
«hull In twain tbe thundering enginrs 1
of the planet.
Th« r-»kj rim of the lake was hot to ■
Ills hamia and knm. but he could not go '
back
A thought In bis brain held him
there with thrilling
I mh -I» th.-
sain-»
thought which Hayden Breen evolvvd as ,
he stood at the edge of th« llr.MiklyU
pier, ess |,U| || „„ only a play­
thing of mind the vagary of altitude and
Imnirnsity. “DM ever a man clog a lire
l*t.| ever suicidal genius e..o-
ceive of corrupting su*-h majesty of force
• » • l o
irreierent query righted the tialam-cs.
There he lay. sprawled st tbe edge ot
the universal mystery, at the aeeret en-
tram-e to the chanilmr of arth's dyna­
mo« The edge of the pit shook with the
frightful work going on below, yet he was
not slain. The torrent burst |<a»t and
upward, --lean as a miming bullet, The
bomba of roclf canted out from •beer
weight and fell behind him. That which
he compreehnded although his eyes war
only the gray thundering cataclysm was
never before imagined In the mind of
tuan.
,
The gray blackened. The roar dwin ‘
d!---l. and bi» »•us--s reele-l. With a rush
of «aliva the linen dropt*«<l from his o;*«n
mouth. t'oustable was sure that there
was .« gsping «-left In his skull, for be
rould frol the air blowing In ami out, cold
and ■•ol-ler. He tried to lift haa hands
to cover tile sensitive wound, but they
-..-I In ««in for bis I-- i-l
With the
icy draughts of sir. he s«eni««l to hear,
faintly, hia name falling upon th« la«r,-d
ganglion.
"Peter! Peter < 'unstable !"
lie atrainml his fa.-e toward the notino.
’Ihe lower part ®t bis Imdy would not
move. He was uncoupled, like a Iw-ast
»li, mm » spine ia broken.
"Peter!
<»h. Peter (’unstable!” ba
Iieard again.
I To I m * continued.)
I Mulish
lloMSe
>Mme«.
Iloti»«- owners are someUuu-a rather
tinfortiinat«* In tl»clr scl<-»-tloii <»f unin«*w
for their u I xm !«-«, uml hi suburbi« tsiuso
naming Is «nx-aalounlly rut her luilicroua.
Tims ’Tin* Maple«" hns uever n ma­
ple twatr. “The Rosary" only exists In
imagination. “Sunnyside” is Ihe most
diq>re«»!|ig »Illa resi-b-nix*. and’ h-uisa
named aft«T ilio English Ink«* no nmr«
suggest the lake district than Fleet
atrr«-t suggests the Boia ile Boulogne.
Thè Augi«»Saxon word "hyrst,” atg-
lilfyltig n forest or wimm !, lias l-e-i-me
"burst" In house naming, ami “wood”
am! "holt” have tlie sum«* nw-anlng. All
h«iuse names ending with throe termi-
nntloiia are pretty and not unsafe to
rinxNe.
It Is cartona to note that In Hnstlngx
and Nt. lx*mar*Is quite a number of
houses have typically Naxoti names,
|M-rha|Mi to commemorate the great Rai­
on triigvily of which the name ll-iatings
Is rr-mlnlM-eiit.
Poles of ibe
Earth.
The circle of the earth's dally rm»
lion upon Ite atta Ming the greateat at
the equator, the consequent «irai n«.-
tlon there of the centrifugal force dur­
ing the period when the earth was a
yielding ni -a pmlurvd a bulging out
of Rie surface In the equatorial region,
with a consequent flattening nt the
pole«. Thun we have an oblate sphe­
roid. with the length of the axle of Hit
pplr» about twenty ala and a half miles
lews than the equatorial diameter.
lack
Kl«kl
tgwalltlee.
Mrs. Ills Mrs. June strike« me ■ a
being entirely too masculine for
woman.
Mrs. Dig—Tee. Indeed
Why. every
time site has an ache or pain she mak<-i
as much fuss about It as a man would
Kmltb's Weekly
FRÍE OF CHOLERA.
Merchants’ Axxoiiabon of Manila it»
sues Statement,
Newsy lie ns Gathered from All
Parts of the World.
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PREPARED I0R THE BUSI READER
Manila, Nov. 10. The Merchants’
association of this city has issued the
following statement;
"Manila ia reported by the health
authorities to Im practically
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free ol t
’, Nou ti.l . r . 1 _
i:, _ a I ■
cholera. I Sit.-
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lation of nearly 250,000, on« ease daily
■ haa occurred. These cases were fount!
' in outlying districts, unusually visit«*«!
The late visitation proved
Less Important but Not Less Inter by white*.
to be of a very light character since its
esting Happenings from Points
beginning, and in the month of July
Outside tho State.
were only 22 cases among th«* white
population. Of these but 10 proved
It -..» v. 't will give a dinner to lai or fatal. There was not a «ingle case
among the 12,000 city school children.
leAilera.
Since th«* American occupation tn 1H9R
Kiln,’ F-lward has just celebrated bls
the number of whites tn the islands at-
d'th birthday.
tu- »• ! l-> ch- -I*-ra is .’ I .'. <>f I!-<■»• • .1
< 'ortclv ou,
remain in cases were fatal.
The majority of
the cabinet
the Irene deaths occum-d in 1902, when there
ury.
were 110,000 troo|M in th«* islands mu!
It is sai«l Xcervtary R-»»t w ill be s ! no precautions existed for protection
candidate for senator from New York . against th«* epidemic."
■ n Plat I'a place
Soldiers from Fort McKinley and
The supreme eonrt has dcrl< lad that sailors from the Asiatic squtulron ar<-
states may forl'1,1 tbe coeducation of now entering the city freely an«l tie
w kites ami blacks.
citizens arc anxious that Rear Admiral
J. J. Hill says that within six years Sperry will |M*rmit them to carry out
the l'nite-1 Stat«» will <-*nsume all the th«- plans for th«- recepition of th«* At­
lantic battleship fleet.
wheat rai»«'d in this country.
If these plans are not carried out
Mr» l*bl|>|*«. of Denver, ex wife of
*h> I’ll: -! org mill uair«'. has rceeive-l It is feared that a fats«' and harmful
x demand f r « ii.imo or I •• dynamited. impression will be given to the World
of th«- sanitary condition of Manila,
Twenty io - rs east their l-allots for which unquestionably is better than
i d* >1 man in I’ir«ka e*-iin<y. Nevada,
that of any other city in the Orient ami
st the recent «-l.eti.-n
The man was
probably
unexcellixi by any larg«* city
caii'l date f r a '-•»inly office an«l di«*»!
of the world.
- >-<■ -I«* bofors elect ion
A wreck was prcvcntml on the North
REDUCES FREIGHT RATES.
f' ■ ‘
Montana by breaking
Several ears
a switch lock with an ax
broke loose and started down hill Nippon Yusen Kaisha Begins Fight
toward au approaching train
By tele
for Trade.
graphing ah«a,| they were «idetraeko'L
|
Victoria, B. C'., Nov. 10. The Nip­
The Chicago city council may pro-
pon
Yuaen Kaiaha has «lecided to begin
pose a law to restrict divorces.
the struggle with th«- Canadian Pacific
Many Japan. ■><■ seal |>oachera have
(men «’«pture-l ami killed by Russians. railroad for the premier position in tlie
carrying trad«- of the North Pacific.
Six Pasadena high school Iwvya were
Since the ruling of the Interstate
injuretl in a football game. One of
Commervc commission, by which ship
them may die.
The First National bank of biew coin|*anies ativanced their rates, tho
Kensington, I’a., has been closed by lines connecting with Unlt«al States
rail roads, and mon- particularly those
the bunk examiner.
under th«- United States ting, were
Frvr» Stanford univrraity student« place-l at a disadvantage.
The Cana
hav, b. cn »u«| 11»!, d for ridiculing the dian Pacific railroad naturally took
faculty in theatricals.
advantage of its position and declined
The American Tobacco company haa to advance its freight rates.
When the conference at Seattle de­
been declare I an illi'gal trust by the
I'nite-I States Circuit court of New cided to inervaae the rates, the proims-
•d increases were cabh d to Japan,
York.
where a meeting of Japanese shipping
The reported discovery of a subter­ interests was called. Advices receive»!
ranean lake on the site uf the Gatun by th«* Royal Mail «tcamship Empress
dam hak been pronounced a fake by of India were to the effect that the
Colonel Gin-thala.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha witlulrrw from
Ilollund has revoked the treaty of thia conference and has made a general
I- '1 .'. h \ ■ m zurla and this will allow reduction of about 17 per cent lower
unr«*stricted import of arms and am- than th«* form*-r freight rates. Th«*
munition into Castro'« country and Japanese steamship company proposes
to bear th«* burden of the incr<-as«-d
opens th«1 door to revolution.
railway charges and will give n lower
There is a resumption of activity in rate across the Pacific. A reduction
many induatriea.
of 25 cents per 11)0 pound« will l*e
Russia has forced Servia to abandon math* un silk and other valuable
freights.
ita warlike attitude.
KÍLLEÜ BY ASSASSIN
Edward Carmack Slain in Nash
ville by Political Enemy.
S'vooting Was Done br Robin Cooper,
Whose Gather Was Criticised
in Car-nacK's Newspaper.
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1 " Kx Nena
l«*ry F-lward < nrui , k, « -liter of the
I < nn * can, w -s
Ati-I killed at 4
j’cl**ck ye»t«i.|ay afternoon -n Novanti»
iveaiie North, in fr-nt of the I'olk
tl.it, 1« II.-I n t .. -per, a
li •>( t’ul,»
e| Duncan li « • -|-**r. Mr Carmack
was going north on Seventh nt onue in
front of the flats, an-l Colonel Cooper
tu.I In» son, ll»l*.n, were approaching
Hevcntb avenue on I'nton street. Noon
after they r ime into sight of one nil
•tber th*- »h -oting waa begun, Robin
<o-| —i, it is said, firing two ahola
and Nenat- r Cnniixek one.
< ninne) Coi>| -r. it ia said, drew hia
pistol, l-ut dl«l not fire.
Nenntor < nrui.it-k fell to the ground,
lying instantly. Robin Cooper was
-h -t in th« right shoulder, I ut was not
on-lly woumlrd.
It is understood th-it the trouble
wa« ..tie of the r- »nits ef a recent lh*m
ratte gul crnntoria) primary, in which
* urmaek was defeated Carmack, ain<*o
h«» I,,- auu- editor ->< the Tcnn«*as«*ean,
had been caustic in crieising what lie
all*-I th«- Deni-icrxti in * bine, an-l had
printed several editorials about Colonel
l.'oopef.
Wtibin the last fen dava, it is as
-••rted. Colonel < ■ -|>er notified Carmack
that these editori il criticisms must
cease
Another editorial referring to
th«- colonel s|-|--iri-l in the paper ye«
terday morning, an-l this ia supp.-»*»l to
«vi- be. n the itniiu-li ite --auso of the
trouble.
A« Henxtor earmark fell at tho edge
-f tin- «tree* Col io I Duncan It Cooper
put his arm «round ............
It'd •» f,...|>er
—
and
both walked a few feet down Seventh
avenue to Dr. Il <1 ford '• office, where
the slight wound in Robin'a shoul ler
was examined and treated. An ambii
lane-- i-ir* - I th.- I ly of Mr Carmack
to an undertaking I’staldishmrnt.
DIREC I PRIMARY WINS.
Carr-es Four to One Throughout ths
Slate ot California,
N«n I’rx' -i» i. N v. 10. California
hns jo n*-1 flrcgon, Washington and
■lher states th.it have adapted the ill
reel primary, mid the vote cast last
Tin • '»v in that state in favor of the
•1» w system is so emphatic that it can
lint I.- Wunder-.| that even a boas rid
l*ii legialnture wav compelled to heed
•he demand that a direct primary
iniendment 1.« sul milted to a V"te of
the people.
In Nan FYnne'sco a majority of nina
to one was piled up in favor <>f tho
amendment, an-l «cross the lav in <>ak
land. Ah....... la, and B«rkcley the vfir
diet was almost ns strong.
I’ndcr the new law California will In
fllti -c ■■ it
- I
n:i* >1« by direct
vole, and party eonventions wi!| l-n
The fight for speakership of the
virtually almlishe-l. •■«-•,q-t for tho eon
FRANCE STILL FIRM
house has already begun.
•rol of part»- nffa is and adoption of
tdalfurm»
The t-e-tl vote of the stato
The re-election of Governor Deni-en,
Government Confident Germany Will is n,*t yet available, lot complete re­
of Illinois, will be contested.
turn from the sig rountiss casting tho
Meet Her Demands.
A Manitoba farmer start«-d the fire
large»! vote indi-ste-l that the primary
Paris,
Nov.
10.
No
word
has
coms
with coal oil and tho family of seven
amendment carried al -mt four to one in
from Berlin with reference to the Ger­ the state as a whole.
are dead.
Employes of the Lackawanna rail­
way in Brooklyn are accusetl of «tent­
ing 1100,000 during the past three
months.
The Australian suggestion that the
British flent mak«- a tour around the
world has been frowned down by the
admiralty.
State Senator l.ivoey, of Maryland,
say« Tuskegee institute ia a failure.
This is the leading colored institute of
the United States.
All buxines« wa.« suspendt-d in Cuba
and the entire populace participated
in the funeral of Tomas Estrada
Palma, rx-pre«ident of the island.
Schwab has boarded up hia $7,000,-
000 palm e in New "York, saying he
cannot afford to keep it up. In a year
he hope« to have his finances straight-
ene«i out.
Bulgaria ia considerably irritated by
the delay of Turkey.
A crisis seems to be approaching in
the Franco German quarrel alxiut Mo­
rocco.
Wilbur Wright haa been presented
with a gobi no-iial by the French Aero
club.
Th*- Ecuador congress has ended in a
riot in which several tnemlx-rs were in-
jure-l.
Railroads throughout the country ar«*
making arrangements to greatly Im­
prov« their line«.
The Ruef jury has l*een complete I
after a little more than three months
and the trial has I egun.
Judge Gr**si<cup, of the
Unit«-«)
States Circuit court of Illinois, in­
tends to resign, but it ia Iwlirvrd not
until after Taft is inaugurated, a« he
dors not like Judge I and is and think«
Roosevelt would ap[mint him.
man government's attitude with refer­
ence to the Casa Blanca affair and a
further <1« lay ia considered likely ow
ing to some confusion which prevails
among the German officials and the ne­
cessity of maneuvering before the
reichstag. But French opinion remains
serenely confident that Germany event­
ually will yield upon thy point upon
which France insist'« and express re­
gret for the incident.
There ia no trace of "bluff" in the
French attitude and the spectacle pre­
sented by France last week must have
convinced Germany that in all her
dealings with the German government
since the catastrophe of 1x70, France
never displayed such an exhibition of
national solidarity.
Moreover, Germany doubtless in
aware that Great Britain and Russia
have lu-en consulted uj>on every step
France has taken and fully share thia
government’s view, and in addition are
prepared to give material as well as
moral support to France.
Record for Tunnel Work.
I-o« Angeles, Nov. 10.
William
Mulholland, chief engineer of the lx*s
Angeles acqueduct, reports that all
American records for tunnel boring in
hard rock were broken dur ng October
by the city forces at work on the Elis­
abeth tunnel.
A distance of 466 feet
was made in 31 days, thua surpassing
the record on the Gunnison tunne’,
made in January, I90R. by 17 feel
The Ixm Angeles acqueduct ia th« mu­
nicipal project by which the city will
procure a daily water supply of 260,-
000,000 gallons from the Owens rive’.
OLD CASE SOON ENDS.
Virginia and Wot Virginia About to
Smile Long Standing Troubla.
Richmond. V«., Nov. I1'
After drag
•ring along fur years, the end of tho
fa motta Virginia West Virg-nin debt
question is now In split. Eminent
counsels representing tho two states
••c'nldrd b.-rc yi-ster'sr f-r the first
formal hearing in the «««■* before
Charles E Littlefield, of Maine,
ss been appoint«*! master in tho
cee-lings
Tbe Virginia \V««t Virginia debt
nule afuse »ut of tie creation of
«tote »f W- -t \ rginia out of the orig
uni doma n of Virginia, and th«» proper
• t*i'ortionmcnt of the then bonded in
b l !e<ln- •» nf th,- latter «tat«-
A an t
t» pen-ling l.-f.-r« the I'nit«*! Hjatcs
«uprenie court, an-l upon the ultimate
report nf the master, Mr. Littlefield,
lepeada the adjudication of the matter.
Indict for Land Fraud.
Ran Francisco, Nov 10. The federal
grand jury has returned indictments
for land fraud against II. W. Dwinnell,
recent Republic™ presidential elector;
1 D. (I. (languor, John Gilpin and Rex
F Deter, all pn-min- nt residents of
■Shasta county They are accused of
Wing hired eight rnen to take up
■ laims in a tract of high class timber
land. Tho men are said to have paid
h<- et| ns- - of the eight mon an-l
given each $2< 0 tn relinquish his title
' - th. "i I
ll-inj-t-ir bos already been
arrested and released on 43000 bail.
Long Distance Wireless Record.
Heattie. Wash , Nov in The wire
'«»• ->perst<>ra at Tstoosh Island, estab
Teo Kd'<-d, Many Hurt.
Habed a 23'*o mile re« >rd Rstnrday
Mauntrban, France, Nov. 10. An night, when they ricked up an order
pmaa train was derailed today near from the armored emisor West Vir­
G r isela, Ten persona were killed and ginia, of tho Pacific fleet, for lumber
many injured.
ith which to construct targets.
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