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    SENSATION n LEGISLATURE
Chicago 7o.n.n Attempts to Kill
Member l.i Springfield, El.
Tho woidiiii w'io created n ronsatlon
ill scene in i hi' mho i :tiiUil In Spring
field. 111., T. '.i.-. .Veatciilng to kill
Representative Iac D'Nolll Browne (
In Snlle County, was arrested and ad
mitted the blTalr had been planned by
Browne's enemies In the House. Sha
gave her nnme as Florence Miller and
claims to live In Chicago. Browne, who
Is minority tender In the House, from
the first declared that the woman's
threat to kill hltn was a political plot
The woman, who at first gave her
name as Elen Chystye, was arrested la
a rooming house nt 4th and Jefferson
streets in company with Michael Glblln
of Chicago, stenographer for tlio minor
ity side. The pair will be hold by tha
local authorities pending Investigation.
' 'r "uwi'tuh suys that the plot was
laid Inst October In the College Inn,
Chicago. She refuses to give the narpSa
of the men wild promised to rolffibursa
Jwr Tor her work, but says they ara
prynlnont Democratic politicians. m
. She also admits she Is th tvoman
Who visited Browne In his tflllee In Ot
tawa Inst fall, and tfjeK pollson In
order to avoid arrest To the pollca
she said: "I came to cVprlngflold for
the purpose of ruining Browne political
ly. I was to do anything that would
bring notoriety to the (Democratic
lender."
To those about the State House when
the attnrk was attempted the young
woman appeared to be very much In
earnest. "I want to see Lee O'Nell
Browne," said she. "I want to kill
him. Let me In."
The angry words caused the door
keepers to act promptly, and as sha
mounted the platform on the floor of
the Houses be was taken In charge by
Michael Olblln, stenographer of the mi
nority, and forced out of the hall. Sha
was hustled Into an elevator and taken
to the ground floor. Her cries rent tho
air and It was with difficulty that sha
was taken out the east door. Her cries
for aid attracted a large crowd and
Glblln hurried her two blocks from tha
State House, where she was put In a
carriage and driven away.
NEVADA RAPS THE PRESIDENT.
California Is Urged to Act Against
tha Japs In Spite of Him..
An anti-Japanese resolution was In
troduced In the Assembly of the Ne
vada Legislature the other day which,
It is believed, will be pnssed. The reso
lution was adopted in committee of
the whole. After stating that the Jap
anese are acquiring lands and property
In this and other States, the resolution
says: " '
"The President has teen lit U take ad
vantage of his high office to the extent of
attempting to coerce and intimidate legis
lation in California upon this subject,
and, whereas, we view with alarm this at
tempted encroachment of the government
on State rights, therefore be It
"Resolved, That we, the people of the
State of Nevada, represented In Senate
and Assembly, do hereby recommend to
the State of California to pay no atten
tion whatever to the admonishing of the
President In this particular, bnt 90 ahead
and enact such stringent mensares as will
absolutely stop forthwith the encroach
ment of the Japanese and the further ac
quiring of foothold in this nation, and
"Whereas, We believe there is no dan
ger of war with the Japanese, as is ad
vanced by those who oppose our views,
but we believe that if we mast have war
wittt tbe Japanese Empire, sooner or
later, now is a better time in lay down
terms to that empire and teach those arro
gant people that American rights cannot
be encroached upon and they cannot nor
never will be allowed or given an oppor
tunity to acquire a foothold In this coun
try or to assimilate with our race, and we
further censure Theodore Roosevelt, the
President of the United States, for his
so-called interference in attempting to de
prive the citizens of the great common
wealth ot California by threats and coer
cion from exercising their lawful rights of
protecting themselves from the Japanese
hordes, and be it further
"Resolved, That a copy of these resolu
tions be forwarded to our representatives
in Congress urging them at use their in
fluence in enacting an exclusion act
against the Japanese and Chinese which
will perpetually exclude them from coming
fnto this country."
GOVERNOR INDICTED FOR FRAUD
Haskell of Oklahoma Charged wlUi
Conspiracy to Get Indian Lots,
Governor Cliurlea X. Huskell of Olc
I lahouia was Indicted by the Federal
grand Jury, which reported Wednesday
afternoon, for conspiracy lu connection
with the scheduling ot Muskogee town-
site lots. The maximum )enalty It
$10,000 flue and two years in the peni
tentiary.
Six other men, prominent In the af
fairs of Oklahoma, were Indicted nt
the same time. They were C. W. Tur
ner, A. Z. English. F. D. Severs, W. It
Eaton, W. T. Hutching, and J. W.
Hill, all of Muskogee. English Is now
at Los Angeles, Cat. Bond In each
case was fixed at $3,000.
The Indictments were returned under
Section 5,440 of tbe Federal Statutes,
which reads as follows: "If two or
more persons conspire either to com
mit any offense against the United
States or to defraud the United States
In any manner and for any purpose
ana one or more or sucn parties do
any act to affect the object of the con
spiracy, all the purtlea to such conspir
acy shall be liable to a penalty of not
more than $10,000 fine or to Imprison
ment not to exceed two years, or to
both fine and Imprisonment, at tbe dis
cretion of the court."
The men will be brought to trial Im
mediately, their rase being beard be
fore Judge Campbell at this term of
court.
Waal Mllea Graft Slopped.
lieprraeoiaime iox ima.) propones
that the mileage, at the rate ot 20 cents
mile, now allowed to United Statea
Senators, Representatives and delegate
In Congress, Shall be withdrawn. It
means of a bill Introduced by him Mr.
Cox desires to have the mileage sectloa
of tbe statutes repealed.
Flame Doatror Drpartmaat SI or.
Firs destroyed llerr Bros.' department
tore, U. J. Bailey's meat rnvrket and
tbe postoflk-e, and damaged several small
er buitdimcs Id Whibek,' N. D. The total
loss waa $00,000.
Goeieuo sue
TO PROTECT JAPANESE
Bill Barring the Orientals from
Schools Will Be Attacked if It
Becomes Law.
ASTONISHMENT IN THE CAPITAL
Radical Action by California Ear
prise to President Congress
- t men Uphold Legislature.
Astonishment Is written over the face
of oflidnl Washington because of the ,
action taken by the California STili-
bly in passing the Japanese school-segregation
net. It was h!i chief topic of
conversation nt tfflo of the cabinet
meetings and 1s generally discussed
wherever officialdom meets. It canbe
stated on high authority thnt the ad
ministration is ready to meet the emer
gency which has so unexpectedly arisen,
and that the procedure of the admin
istration will be as follows:
Itcx-onalilernllon Is Sought.
To obtain, If possible, a reconsidera
tion of tho vote by which the Assembly
Issued tho segregation act.
To obtain Its defeat In the California
Senate In the event the bill passes the
Atsembly.
To persuade Governor GIHett of Cal
ifornia to veto the bill In the event It
pusses both houses.
However, should the segregation net
become the law of California, the attor
ney general will be Instructed at once
to bring suit In the Federal courts to
annul the act on tbe ground that It Is
a violation" of the treaty rights of
Japan and therefore unconstitutional.
It also can lie said thnt if the pres
ent program Is adhered to and the at
titude of Japan is understood, Ambas
sador Tnkablra of Japan will not make
any official representations nt the State
department regarding the action taken
by the California Legislature until, at
least, the proposed bill becomes a law.
Japan maintains tho greatest faith In
the ability of the Federal government
to curb undue, Stnte activity against Its
citizens In California and elsewhere,
and will add no fuel to the flames.
Actio Shock to Wblnon.
The action of the California Assem
bly foil like a blow between the eyes
'on the President, the Japanese ambas
sador, and all others officially Inter
ested. It was presumed by all that
when tho Suu Francisco segregation
question was nettled satisfactorily two
years ngo the school segregation ques
tion was settled for all time. When
the California Senate a few days ago
refused to pass tbe alien land law,
which was considered the least objec
tionable of all anti-Japanese laws pend
ing In the Legislature, official Washing
ton began to congratulate Itself that
the threatened trouble had been bridged.
For this reason the latest action was
astounding.
California members in Congress, al
most to a man, uphold the action of
their Legislature. They declare It Is
truly representative of the sentiment
In the State, nnd that the sooner Japan
Is made acquainted with this sentiment
the better for all concerned.
ROOSEVELT VETOES CENSUS BILL
Senda Message Urging- Appointment
by Competitive Examination.
Tho President sent a special message
to the IIouso Friday vetoing the census
bill. Tho message said In part:
"I herewith return without approval
II. R. 10,951, entitled 'An Act to Tro
Tlde for the Thirteenth and Subsequent
Decennial Censuses.' I do Ibis with ex
treme reluctnnee, because I fully real
lze the importance of supplying tbe dl
rector of the census at as early date as
possible with the force necessary to the
carrying on of his work. But It Is of
high consequence to the country that
the statistical work of the census shall
be conducted with entire accuracy. This
is as important from the standpoint of
tuslnesa and industry as from the sci
entific standpoint. It is therefore, In
my Judgment essential that the result
should not be ojh'i to the suspicion of
bias on political and personal grounds;
that It should not be open to tbe rea
sonable suspicion of being a wnsto of
the people's money and a fraud.
"Section 7 of the act provides In ef
fect that npiolntmeuts to tho census
shall bo under the sjhiIIs system, for
this Is the real meaning of tlio provis
ion thnt they shall be subject only to
non-coinietltlve examination. The pro
viso is added that they shall bo selected
without regard to political party affil
iation. But there Is only one way to
guarantee thnt they shall be selected
without regard to politics and on mer
it, and that la by choosing them after
competitive examination from the lists
of ellglblea provided by the Civil Ser
vice Commission."
There Is unquestionably a large and
Influential sentiment In favor of pass
ing the bill over the President's veto.
If tbe veto were overridden the bill
would, of course, remain as It Is and
apoplutmctita outside of civil servlco
rules would stand, which would be a
very grateful condition to many mem
bers or congress, who in-neve lu as
many itcrsonal appointments aa pot'
alble.
MAN AND OIHL SLAY IN COURT.
Trn null Slater Shout Merehaat
ho Areaaed aad Three Others.
Janiea Smith, one of four men shot la
tlie- DUtriet courtroom at Gatcaville, Tex,
by Miss Vema Ware und her brother,
is dead. .la men Ross, another victim of
the Wares' bulleta. prohubly will die. Tha
men were shot with atecl-clud bullets.
John llaiiea, who tvaa shot at the same
time, died 00 the tpot. lluue, who was
a merchant, was charged with betraying
Mim Ware. The f-vlln at Gatesvllle la
rpurii v aa running ui.u.
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CONGRESS I
The Senate Friday concluded, consl l
ration of the district of Columbia ap
propriation bill, currying nn aggregate
of about eleven and a half millions of
dollars. A conference report on the
urgent deficiency bill was agreed to. It
appropriates $12,000 for the "purchase,
care and maintenance of nutomoblles
for the President," nnd f 1.10,000 to en-
ttliln flit Unn.itii.it t I 1 i I
....". ;,r,ctiona Line Up on
continue lo combat the foot nnd mouth
disease In horses and cattle. A resolu
tion was adopted directing posts anil
various phases of army administration.
Trlvate (Inlinnnts by the score had
their Innings In ibe House, tlio vy'noift
session being V,7, 0Wr to their con
sideration. .Mr. Mann provoked the
House to laughter by questioning U10
value of two Kentucky thoroughbred
horses, and charged that tho committee
had accepted the valuation of the nnl
mnls as fixed by "an Idiot." Mr. Hep
burn of Iowa protested against reser
vations of objections to bills, claiming
that objections should be made outright
or not nt nil. Mr. Macon (Ark.), who
was doing much of the reserving, de
clared that his sole object was to elicit
explanations which would enable liliu
to "object Intelligently." The Speaker
became Involved in the controversy and
was called upon to make it ruling nnd
then .Mr. Gaines (Tcim.) threw the
House Into an uproar by charging th;it
the rules prohibited "n square deal" to
claimants. He grew so vehement tint
the Speaker ordered n deputy sergeant
nt arms to require him to take his seat.
The President's .message vetoing the
census bill was read Just before the
House ndjoumed, and no action was
taken on It.
Tho splendid qualities of mind mm
character of the late Senator William
B. Allison of Iowa, thirty-five years n
United States Senator, and eight years
a Uicmltcr of the House of Representa
tives, were the subject of many eulo
gies In the Semite Saturday. The de
livery of the ci, Ingles consumed tho en
tire day. After devoting almost Its en
tire session to the consideration of the
subject the House of Representatives
passed a bill making several amend
ments to the national bankruptcy law.
Mr. Clayton (Ala.) made n desperate
but unsuccessful attempt to repeal the
law. The bill Is designed to correct cer
tain Inequalities In the administration
of the bankruptcy Inw, and amends tlie
act regulating the duties and eoinpeii
sntion of receivers lu order to prevent
excessive fees. It also provides that
any moneyed business or commercial
coriomtlon, except a municipal railroad
or banking corporation, can file n peti
tion for bankruptcy, thereby eliminat
ing the discrepancies which heretofore
existed where some court decisions
bnrred many corporations in one cir
cuit which would lie admitted Into bank
ruptcy In another. It confers ancillary
Jurisdiction so thnt all the assets of
the estate can be marshaled substan
tially in one court, thereby obviating
the tiling of suits in different Courts
where the property might happen to lie.
After a brief legislative session .Mon
day the Senate closed Its doors nnd de
voted the day to a further considera
tion of the nomination of William 1.
Crum to le collector of customs for the
port of Charleston. S. C. In the House
of Representatives practically the entire
session was given over to the consider
ntlon of bills pertaining to the District
of Columbia. A message from the Presi
dent was rend recommending a law re
quiring ocean-going vessels to lie
equipped with wireless telegraph nji
paratiis. . !
The Senate Tuesday became Involved
In a discussion of the type of canal
that should bo constructed nt I'anamn.
Senator Klttredge, chairman of tin
committee on liiteroccnulo canals, pre
cipitated the debate by bringing in an
adverse report on the Hopkins bill hu
thorizlng the issuance of bonds to the
extent of $.100,000,000 for the construe
tlon of the canal. Heading a statement
of expenditures up to date, he declared
the completion of the lock cunal would
eost 400.0iio.OOO. a-id Insisted that
grout nustnue Had been made in not
adhering to the plan for the building
of 11 son level waterway, which he said
would be cheaper than the lock canal.
Senators Forakcr and Teller Joined In
the belief that n sea level canal should
be constructed, and Mr. Kitlmlge said
u was not too late to abandon the lock
project. For marly six hours the
House discussed the bill materially
changing the methods of administering
the Panama canal zone ami construct
lug the canal. Amendments almost
without number were alined at the
measure, but with one or two excep
tions they failed of adoption. Consld
oration of the bill was completed, but
because of a threatened roll call by
the opponents of the measure nnd the
hour being Inte. .Mr. Mann, having It
In charge, did not ask for a rote.
NOTES OP CURRENT EVENTS.
Fire in a five-story brick building 01
Pearl street. New York, occupied largely
by tobacco dealers, canned a loes of $1(10,.
000. The heaviest loser is the American
Tolmcoo Sauiplo and Supply Company.
The large glass case contaluing tlx
model of tbe old frigate Constitution and
the engrossed petition signed by mort
than 30,(HK) cltiiens asking the preserva
tion of the old warship, has been removed
from the Secretary of the Navy'a reoe-.
tion room to the unueuin at tbe Wash
ington uavy yard.
A woman of New Orleans has Inform
ed the Mayor of that city that she knowi
the whereabouts of the death masks ol
Napoleon, which diu.pirared rayaterious
ly from the city hall about 33 years ago.
Commander Jefferson Brown, englneei
corps. I . S. N retired, who served durini
the Civil War under Admiral Farragut,
died of pleuro pneumonia at his home Iq
Brooklyn, N. Y at tbe age of 07 years.
i roemiiiigs were Ix-giu, t Pittsburi
the f.-.tcrul authorities to muni tin
by
n n 1 run n u. .11 pupora of Councilman Kd-
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yard Sbevlen on dm ground thnt he per.
11 red u'uicclf in taking vu His firt p
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POLITICS RULES III
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Tennessee In Bitter Fight Over
Slaying of Senator Edward
VV. Carmack.
BRINGS STATE PROHIBITION.
Guilt of the
Accused Men and Battle Will
Be to tha Finish.
"Our State Is passing through the
shadows. Her people are divided, we
have fallen Into the habit of olstrust.
suspicion and accusation." These words,
uttered feelingly by Governor M. R.
Patterson of Tennessee In his second
Inaugural address, had reference to tho
trlnl of Colonel Duncnn M. Cooper,
Robin Cooper and John Sharp, former
sheriff, who are charged with the mur
der of I3d ward W. Carmack. who repre
sented his Stnte six years In the Uni
ted States Senate. Tin? sentiment
echoed bnck from every part of the
State, nnd more than ever It focussed
tho mind nnd the thought of Tennessee
on the stirring drama that bis been
going on at Nashville. The trial Is
more than a- battle for the forfeit or
saving of life. In tho background Is a
great political play, wherein the char
acters clash nnd tense feelings pre at
odds. What the end may be tcbody
knows, but into the words of Governor
Patterson here quoted are read not only
statement of fact, but a prophecy-
each watcher of the play his own
prophet.
By common consent It Is agreed that
State-wide prohibition would not havo
been brought about at this time !f Car
mack, its most conspicuous champion,
had not fallen victim to the bullets of
man who had opposed him and his
cause. It was the slaying of Carmack
that brought this unexpected climax tJ
the bitterest fight the State lad ever
known. On Jan. 12 tho Senate pnssed
by 20 to 13 n bill prohibiting .te sale
of liquor within four miles of any
schoolhouse In the State. The next dav
tho House Indorsed t!e same .ii'1, 02 to
20. Governor Patterson vetoed the bill
and. -with more positlveness than be
fore. neh house voted to place It on
the statute books where It stands to
day, effective July 1 next. Governor
Patterson trnve as his reason tor blue-
penciling the measure that It was hos
tile to the doctrine of self-government.
thnt it set aside the recorded will of
the people, that it would destroy prop
erty, impair State revenues, increase
the burdens of taxation and undermine
the public morals by making tha people
evnslve, deceitful and hypocritical. An
swering this nttltude, tho Leglslatu.e
promptly put n clincher n the et.i'se of
prohibition by passing a bill for', ddtng
the manufacture of intoxicants in the
State after the 1st of next January.
The State Anti-Saloon League held
its convention almost within it one's
throw of the court house. Speakers
there laid stress on the "martyrdom of
Senator Carmack." Attorney Genera".
Jefferson McCarn, representing the
State, has Indicated he dues not wish
and will not have 011 the Jury, If h.
can avoid It, any man addicted to tho
use of Intoxicants unduly.
The trial of the indicted murderers
of Carmack Is going to be one of the
most bitterly contested In the history
of the entire nation. On every hand
there are charges of a packed Jury.
Charges, countercharges and allidavlts
flew thick during the selection of the
Jury, and It was necessary to bring
hundreds of talesmen up for examina
tion licfore the necessary twelve iuu
could bo found.
While a largo number of t.i esnien
have been examined and excused as lu
eligible, much of the time has been con
sumed In passing upon the character
of prospective Jurors, especially as re
latea to their habits of drinking or li
st Incnce. It will lie the endeavor f
the defense, It Is predicted, to s!i,iv
that the shooting of ('ariuack hi docs
In self-defense.
40O,OOO tur.fr I'le id. (.uil(;. .
Fred B. Siaimr. uivused f f.:i-rin
note amounting 111 iki..i : 1, h'ili i.,
name of James A. Murray, the Mo-iterjT,
Capitalist, phad.'d guilty la Oakland, l ul.
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WMru , of trust coo 03 iTmZtff (wtp.yT)
FARMERS TO RAISE PRICE.
Form an Aaaorlatlon lo Slake Chi
rairo rr Well for Milk.
Five hundred milk-producing faruii-rs
of Illinois, Indiana nud Wisconsin, (he
men who supply t'hioajjo with milk, "rais
ed the devil" and the price of m'Ak at a
meeting in the. Sherman House in Chica
go. To sny that they "raised thj devif"
is to quote tlieir own words and lo lypt
fy the meeting which eventually resulted
in the organization of the Milk Proluc
ers' Protective Association. This body
wil! serve notice on the people ot Chiensi
that if they insist on having cxpon-tive,
absolutely pure sanitnry milk, according
to the requirements of the new milk or
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fEN. T, .W. CAli.MACX'
dinaneea, they must give the farmer a
profit for it. There were present -.'!KS -lel-egates
to the con vein ion. en I led Ui n com
mittee of Lake County, Illinois, mils pro-tfm-eri.
and .'MX) other milk farra's. Th-
pnmMct is that Chicngu eoiiHinae-.'s wil!
face nn increaae in tlie retail price of
inTlIc nnd cream in the im;nd':ite furire.
Veeordiiig lo I lie pl.ius l!i pri -' o 'ui'k
Kr iii.irt will n lv :ru- ( cp.j :. ! , f , -..
!ciig and eve'itaally to !) centH.
WHOLE VILLAGE TO BE MOVED.
( win. .Unit Tow a li lfii f llotnv
Two llile (r.iiu I'l-ct-iil Our.
Cow'.ey. a tui.-i'l Al'icrla town 011 the
"aMilisti PaXt'.o ;;.:i!:'o;nI. li- ia c. ..
li.i'.ilv io nev s : !-. :u i.-r m-', ,if
its iuv.-t:t lo.-.it'ua. Tlie mili.i.ul will
begin put. ill.: i'i'o elleet lis p
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HAVE A CHANCE TO SEAT THE
TRUST CAN'T COLLECT DEBT.
Violator of Sherman Act Cannot De
mand Payment of Bills.
The case of the Continental Wall
Paper Company vs. Lewis Volght &
Sons of Cincinnati was decided by the
Supreme Court of the United Stnte9 in
Voight's favor. The suit was brought
by the company on a debt of $37,000,
the payment of which was resisted on
the ground that the paper company Is
a trust In effect the decision holds
thnt an ndniltted truWt, organized con
trary to the Sherman anti-trust law,
cannot use the court to collect debts.
It wns represented that Volght had
bought over $200,000 worth of paper
on which he had paid 50 per cent more
than he would have had to pay If
Ihere had been competition. It wns
also set out that the Continental com
pany had been organized to conduct
the business of the various wall paper
factories of the United States and that
Volght, as a jobber lu Its products, had
been compelled to sign n strlcagree
njent on tho threat that If he did not
nj paper would be sold to him nnd that
It would be made Impossible for him to
esiiitlnue In business. In n demurrer
tie company admitted that It wos 0
tuist and still contended that It could
jOoperly collect debts due It.
The Supreme Court of the United
Suites has denied the application of
the Consolidated Gas Company of New
Yyrk for a reheating. The case In
vlved the validity of the 80-cent gas
law and was recently decided against
the company and In favor of the law.
The company made application for
a rehearing on the ground that the
decree of the court was Inconsistent
with some of the conclusions set out in
t opinion. The effect of the latest
decision Is to leave standing Judge
(eckham's decision.
FIVE HUIIT TJ! CLASS KI0T.
Calparalao Vnlveralty Doya Suffer
Serlonalr at Climax ot Battle.
With one student dying, and four oth
ers seriously injured, officials of Valpa
raiso, Ind., University are trying to hush
up details of a class rush that is declared
to have been one of the most serious in
the history of Middle Western colleges.
Csss L. Wolfer, president of a scientific
department class. Is under the care of
four physicians, bnt it is feared he can
not live. He was trampled on and kicked
by half a hundred students at the climax
of the rush. He was taken unconscious
from the field. The rush was the culmi
nation of a two-day fight between the
scientific and law departments at the
school. Smarting under partial defeat the
first night W "scientifics'' under the
leadership of Wolfer stormed the law
building. In tlie first charge Wolfer trip
ped nnd fell under the flying column of
boys. More than fifty students passed
over him before it was discovered that
the injured boy was the leader of the
rush. Meantime the law students met
the rush and fought a general battle. In
this four boys ore fcaid to have suffered
serious injuries. Tlie police stopped the
tight and cleared the field. Kxtraordi
nnry efforts to suppress the story of the
rush were made by the authorities at the
college. The names of all the victims
except Wolfer were kept secret.
Srr, I hllil Kalrn by Lion.
Her U-year-old boy killed by a monster
mountain lion, and the beast devouring
one of the legs, which it had torn from
its socket, was the sight that Mrs. Chris
ltrown of Iielaware, Cal., beheld when
she entered the family tent, four miles
from the Hotel Pelmar. the other even
inir. The mother screamed and tbe lion
buiked out and disappeared.
J.itm t.llmrr Sprrtl a Knlt-ldr.
John Gilmer Speed, uirtlior and jour-r.ali-t.
commuted miicide in hig boarding-luin-e
ut Meudham, N. J., by shooting
hiiiixclf throivh the right temple. I
lift no explanation of his act.
Ilurtrj Allva la Cemetery.
due mau killed, two ill must h mo tie
er'vl to (len'h, and two other linlitly in
jured by a cave in of an excavation for a
ii-ilt in lilendale Cemetery, Akron, Ohio.
V ic hail Jennings. .Vi, of Chicago, wan
ti: under four feet of eurth. Hi
d ad b'i ly was uot recovered for more
l.-vi half an hour.
TRT75I3,
FANS THE JAPANESE DANGER.
California Lower Hou3e Passes Meas
ure Providing for Separate Schools.
The lower house of the California.
Legislature by a vote of 40 to 23 passed:
Grove I Johnson's bill compelling Jap
anese to attend separate public schools-
the one measure of all those proposedi
most calculated to arouse the Ire of
the Jnpauese nnd within an hour Gov
ernor Gillett had received a telegram of
protest from President Roosevelt.
"What is this rumor that the Cali
fornia Legislature has passed a bill ex
cluding Japanese children from tbe
publlc schools?" the President tele
graphed. "This Is the most offensive
bill of all. and In my judgment Is clear-J
ly unconstitutional, nuu we snouiu ac
once have to test It In the courts. Can
It be stopped In the Legislature or by
veto?"
Governor Gillett nt once telegraphed
an answer to the President, but he re
fused to make its contents public.
The bill passed, which was one of
three anti-Japanese measures Intro
duced by Assemblyman Grove L. John
son, places the Jupauese In the same
classification with other Asiatics and
Inserts the word "Japanese" In the
preseut State statute providing for the
segregation In separate schools
"Mongolian" children.
By this action the lower house of
the Legislature has taken the ster
which the Bourd of Education of San
Francisco Intended to take two years
ago, but which wns abandoned after
the board and former Mayor Eugene E.
Schmltz were called to Washington and
had had several conferences with Pres.
Ident Roosevelt.
FOURTH GIRL IS SLAIN.
Finger Marks of Large Hand Show t J
How Murders Were Committed. f J
For the second time within a fort- ! J
night and the fourth time in a little
more than two years, the strangled
body of a girl, young nnd attractive
was found in Dayton, Ohio, Friday, An
ger marks nbout the throat made by a
gigantic hand showing the manner of
her death.
For the fourth time since the series
of murders began, the police are com
pletely baffled In their efforts to appre
hend the murderer, and the women of
Dayton, terrified before, no longer ven
ture out unescorted even In the day
time. At lenst two of the murders, all
of which followed atrocious mistreat
ment, were committed In the broad
light of day, and In spite of many ar
rests it Is known that the slayer still
walks the streets of the city. At any
moment his maniacal lust for blood
may come upon him angln, ant! a
Dayton's daughters may be his next
victim.
The latest victim was Lizzie Fulbart,
18 years old. Her body was dragged
from a cistern in the rear of a vacant
house, but marks on her throat and
body showed the manner of her death.
Tbe young woman, who was very pret
ty, came there on Jan. 29 to look for
employment, and was staying with her
aunt, Mrs. Samuel Doeters. The body
was found by Charles O. Weaver, n
contractor. Around the head was a
tmrlap bug, and the indications were
tliat the girl had been lured Into tho
unoccupied house and murdered, after
being kept a prisoner no one knows
how long, nnd that finally her body wns
curried to the cistern and burled In.
Work tor 8,000 Hn Aaaared.
Employment for 8,000 men will be pro
vided within tbe next two weeks by the
Pressed Steel Car Company near Pitts
burg and the Standard Steel Car Com
pany at Butler, Pa. The former will give
employment to 5,000 men, while the
Standard will employ 3,000 men.
Mill t Kee 1,200 Oat ot Work.
The factoiies of the American Ruher i
employed there. Tlie reason assigned is
the luck of demand far rubber boota and
t-uoes owing to toe open winter.
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