THE O’NEILL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. J'N El LL. NEBRASKA Raisins are the dried fruit of ihe grape vine and are produced chiefly in Spain, although vines ure oull'vated in many other countries—Italy. California, Australia, Greece. They are usually partially dried on the vines, the stalk being twisted or broken to prevent moisture from reaching them, and tlie drying is completed in a warm room. They are packed for exportation cither In bunches, like the muscatel raisins from Malaga, or loose, as in the case of the Valencia raisins. Sultanas are a small, seedless variety of grape, ex ported from Smyrna, and currants a still smaller variety, exported from the islands of the Grecian archipelago. "If people would eat plenty of rh'e they would noi need drugs to make them sleep," said Ihe drug clerk, paus ing for a moment in putting up a sleep ing potion for a woman. "There is much said just now about rice as u strengthening #ood. but few Ameri cans Know that it has soporific powers, if properly cooked It has. Rice should be washed many times, until the water no longer appears milky, it should then tie soaked a few hours, salted and boiled rapidly about thirty minutes. When cooked in this way it can be eaten each day with relish, ami the per son who eats it sleeps, and dreams not at all.” Ti has been stated recently that It was in 1687. at the siege of Candia, In Crete, that siege guns were first used. This statement is contradicted, how ever. by u writer who says that just before the siege of Constantinople a Hungarian or Wallachlan cannon founder named ITurban cast, in 1452, at Adrianople, a cannon “which remained for many years the wonder of Europe and marks an epoch In the continually Increasing power of guns.” Urban's cannon was dragged by sixty oxen to Constantinople in 1842 and Ihrew a eione ball of 1,200 pounds weight. It whs fired seven times a day and once each night. In summer lime the air used for ven tilating the house of commons in Lon don passes through blocks of Ice. In winter it Is heated. In fog the outer air passes through layers of cotton wool six Inches thick. During forty-eight hours of fog. the cotton wool on one oc casion was as black as llie back of a chimney. Thanks to these precautions, the house has been absolutely free from mist and the atmosphere Is in normal condition while a dense fog prevails outside. The normal temperature of the house of commons Is kept at the level of 63, except In sultry weather, j when It Is rulsedeto 65 degrees. Graham Harvey, the composer i of The Glory Kong," now being sung at the Torrev-Alexander, is a young man in the early thirties, and was edu cated at Dulwich college and Cam bridge. Of athletic build and happy disposition, he la a great believer in ; outdoor exercise. Perhaps the: only ! cheap musical composition, which i gained so much notoriety as "The Glory Kong" was "Crossing the Bar." the set- j ting to music of Tennyson's famous ! words. This Is sold in hundreds of thousands, although it is Graham Har vey's boast that he wrote It in a few minutes. At Brookdate, Santa Crux county, j Cal., a line specimen 01’ the sequoia, or 1 ' redwood tree, was blown over in a re- t cent storm. This tree is estimated to j be over 330 years old. Ten feet from the top of the tree, and a distance of j over 165 feet from the ground, was found a hole somewhat less than two feet deep. It had once been the nest of a woodpecker. In this hole had grown a sturdy, three-stalked huckle berry bush, two feet tall. Its roots ex tending six feet Into the heart of the tree, had absorbed the sap of the red wood. The huckleberry had flourished and borne fruit. l here are severnl species of fish. : reptiles anti insects which never sleep 1 in the whole of their existence. Among tlBh it is positively known that pike, i salmon and goldlish never sleep at all. j also that there are several others in I the flsh family that never sleep more | than a few minutes a month. There are dozens of species of flies which i never Indulge in slumber, and front three to five Hpecles of serpents which I also never sleep. The Chicago Kennel club has sent ! out notice for Its epmlug bench show I that no dogs, other than those entered In the show, will be allowed to visit the building during the show, thus spoiling fond hopes of many people who have always liked to "just take Kido to the show and let him see the others doggies." Guards will see to it that no practical joker smuggles any cats Into the armory. ' What is said to have proved an ef fective smoke consumer has been tried in London. The Invention comprises a screen of tubular Are bricks, made of special material built up In the fur nace in such a position that all the products of the lire pass through the screen. The latter quickly becomes In ca descent and "flashes" the gases as they pass through, thus preventing the formation of carbon. A New Jersey man lias Invented a to bacco pipe, the stem and bowl of which are made of asbestos. Strips of asbes tos. of which the pipe is built, are coated with a paste composed of con densed milk and plaster of parts. In order to burn out the paste the pipe is baked. The inventor savs that any color from light brown to ebony can be obtained bv varying the heat. The British mint has been busllv en gaged in coining farthings. Unttl’very recently the farthing lias been almost an unknown coin in many, perhaps the majority, of the British possessions. They are only coined to encourage thrift in the colonies. By introducing the smallest coin of the realm a sav ing can be effected on purchases of small quantities of goods. The undergraduates of the t'nlvep sity of California have started a fund for the establishment of a club house and dormitory for the students of the third government college at Kyoto iri Japan. In tills way it is hoped to raise the standard of morals in Japanese stu dent life, and, at the same time, show the character of California's interest In the people of that empire. Ftiomento Rossi, a St. Louis auti quarian, has made a careful study of the origin of the American Indians and has gathered the results of important researcher Into a book with an array of facts which seem to substantiate" his theory that aborigines sprang from Etruseans and Phoenicians. Thirty-five years ago W. H. Newman was a brakeman on a southern rail road at $2 a day; today he is presi dent of the great Vanderbilt system, with a salary of $120,000 a year a palatial residence in New York and a private car so sumptuously appointed a king might erw it. HUSBAND SKIPPED WIFE AND HER LOVER Auburn Man, a Respected Far. mer, Thus Ends His Do mestic Troubles. STRANGLED WITH NECKTIE Kearney Man Adopts a New Method ef Going Over the Suicidal Route in a Plum Orchard Near Omaha. Auburn, Neb., April 12.—A peculiar slory of domestic infelicity comes from Shubert. Hiram Stotts Is a highly re spected farmer living in the vicinity of Unit place. He moved there from this county. lie married a girl who is well known here and whose parents are residents of Colorado and are well connected. Stotts had a hired man named Wilson and recently he had reason to suspect his wife of having intimate relations with the man. He watched them and found that they were making prepara- j linns to elope. He confronted the pair with the evidence of their plans and instead of reproaching the wife for her Infidelity and going after the hired man with a shotgun for wrecking his home and happiness, he gave them money to go to some distant point where he will never again come in contact with them. Tlie woman and her paramour were driven to the depot at Falls City by her son. ' Where they have gone is only known to themselves. The sympathy of all the people in ihe Shubert neighborhood is with the wronged husband. He is a man of line character and the tragedy that lias been enacted in his life is worse than if death Itself had entered. STRANGLES WITH NECKTIE. Kearney Man Suicides. Without an Ap parent Cause, at Omaha, (linuha. Neb.. April 12.—With a Ger man Catholic: prayer book in bis hand and the stem of a spray of plum blos soms tucked between the leaves beside a baby’s picture, Alvis Thiel was found dead. He had knotted a percale neck tie about his throat and had slipped one end of the strong elolli in a noose about a sapling plum tree that hud begun to bloom. As lie lay back upon tlie ground tlie little tree bent like a how, and when his lifeless body was discovered by boys, they thought lie was merely asleep. When the body was cut down by the coroner the Ups of the man were l purple from strangulation. In Thiel’s pocket was an empty purse and a re- j celpt of a labor agency. 11 is thought lie failed to get the employment that I in' was seeking and had ended his life ; in a tit of despondency. The body was discovered by 1 wo boys win*, were'playlng and digging up wild violets in the vicinity of the plum t ree. In a satchel which lay between Thiel’s feel was an honorable discharge paper from the Austrian army. 11 showed that he had left the army October 8. 1882. it also showed that lie was born in 1850. His naturalization papers, taken out at Kearney, April 2. .1830, were also In Ihe grip. ARE AFTER MILITIAMEN. Detectives Seeking Missing Fedori Property at Norfolk. Norfolk, Neb., April 12.—Indictments i by a federal grand jury on the charge >f appropriating government property is a serious situation with which a large number of men in Norfolk are just now threatened and, according to Adjutant General Culver, a situation which they cannot escape. The trouble lias arisen from the deplorable condi tion in which the property of Company U Second regiment, N. N. G., was found by General Daggett, representing the federal government on an inspec tion tour. So widely scattered are tlie guns, tents and other belongings of the company that Adjutant General Cul ver, in his state capacity, was at once called to account and an order imme diately followed from Ids office order ing the company mustered out. Detectives have been sent to Norfolk to search out the missing property and every person in whose possession a. sin gle article is found must, according to i the general, be indicted, as no one lias a right to hold any federal property of ' this class, it is feared that more seri-’ ous trouble may follow for officers di rectly accountable for the property. | The West Point company has also been ordered mustered out. Arbor Day Proclamation. Lincoln, Neb., April 12.—Governo : Mickey has Issued ihe following Arbor day proclamation, setting aside Satur- I day. April 22. for the planting of trees: ! "Nebraska has profited much by the institution and observance of Arbor i day. The prolific planting of trees by the pioneers and by those who came after them has not only changed the aspect of the plains as inherited from nature, but has wrought an important change in climate conditions as well. Many parts of the state now present the appearance of. a well-wooded coun try. while other portions are responding to the Inspiration of example and are making rapid strides in the same good cause. Through a wise enactment of the legislature a day has been perma nently set apart for the purpose'oT con serving the Interests of forestry and perpetuating the precept and example of the early tree planters. "In harmony with the statute referred to. I, Joint H. Mickey, governor of the state of Nebraska, do hereby designate Saturday, April 22, 1905. as‘Arbor day and do earnestly enjoin its proper ob servance upon all citizens of the com monwealth. Let the d \y be given over to the setting of trees, plants and shrubs, to the end that private and public grounds may have intelligent ornamentation and that present as well as future generations may receive tlie 1 cnefit of our toil. John H. Mickey, "Governor.” OUTRAGER SENTENCED. Pierce, Neb., April 12.—District court adjourned after being in session a little over a week. Last week Judge Boyd heard a number of equity eases, and this week was given to cases to be tried ! by jury. Paul Klawitter, living near j Osmond, was convicted of assault on .the pehson of Anna Blackwall. a 14 year-old girl living near Osmond. Judge Boyd stated that hereafter the I defendant's request for the appoint ment of counsel in criminal cases would be disregarded and that he would ap point them, and that in no case could an attorney collect more than SS5 fea lot dtfendn-:g the criminal. I FELL DEAD ON GRAVE. I _ Had Flowers to Decorate Graves ot Husband and Daughter. Ainsworth. Neb., April 1 Feebly currying un srntful of flowers from tier little horniM" the cemetery at the edge of town tot the purpose of decorating the graves of her husband and her .laughter, Mrs. 1.. Woodward of this place, 6n years of age. Just as she had leaned over to place the bouquet near her husband's slab, was seized with a pain in her breast, sank down and died. Almost at the very spot where she succumbed, the remains of Mrs. Wood ward were today lowered into the earth and the flowers which she had carried in her last moment on earth foi brightening the last resting place of hei former mate were placed gently •n her own casket. QUEER SITUATION. Have No Factory, but Nebraska Farm ers Arc Raising More Sugar Beets. Norfolk. Neb., April 12.— Now that the plant of the American Meet Sugar ■ompany, which ran for thirteen un lucky years in Norfolk, has been dis mantled and shipped bodily to Colo rado. removing from this point the wheels into which they formerly were able to pour their beets, the farmers irolliul Norfolk and throughout norlh ?rn Nebraska have determined to raise beets on a larger scale than ever, and contracts have already been signed in Ihls immediate vicinity for almost three times the acreage that was produced a year ago. The beets which shall be grown in northern Nebraska during the coming summer will all be shipped to the l.eavltt factory at Ames, the capacity of which bus been doubled In order to handle the crop that comes from the territory that naturally be longed to the Norfolk plant. One of the visible potent reasons for this remarkable Increase in beet rais ing now that a marketing point has been made eighty miles distant is, perhaps, the fact that the Ames fac tory will this year pay 25 cents per ton more for the roots than were paid by ttie Norfolk factory in 1904. The Ames people will pay $5 per ton flat for beets delivered to them at Norfolk, and they will themselves pay the freight from here In Ames. In order to handle the crop they have made arrangements to establish in Norfolk a way station. The Norfolk factory last year paid $4.50 flat per ton, with 25 cents extra for hauling to the factory. The Ames people will pay 20 cents tier Ion extra for siloed beets, which is the same rate paid al Norfolk last year for that class . . f’ Why Should Acreage Increase? This, however, does not fully explain just why the acreage should be in creased threefold over the contracts that the Norfolk factory was able to secure for 1905, when the American peo ple offered for the coming season $5 fiat, just as'the Ames people are do ing. It is a fact, nevertheless, that the American Beet Sugar company were able to secure less than 400 acres of beets from this vicinity last year, while the Ames people has already se cured t.000 from Norfolk alone, with many hundreds of acres more in other portions of this territory. And by in creasing their price per ton over last year’s contracts the Norfolk people were unable to secure enough new con tracts for this summer to guarantee a three months’ campaign. Factory to Colorado. As a result of the lack of beets fo; the Norfolk factory its machinery has gone to Colorado; and now that it has gone, on the same offer the Ames, Neb., factory has had to double its capacity so that it can chop up beets from 13, 000 acres instead of 6,000 it had twelve months ago. The ease with which con tracts have been given to the Ames factory Is shown by the fact that at Wayne, Neb., in one day 150 acres were secured. Nothing definite has been done with the 240 acres of land, the boilers and the magnificent buildings abandoned by the sugar plant here and given back to the citizens who donated $150,000 for a bonus to secure the institution here in 1891. It is being offered as a prize to some industry. As a result of the peculiar situation, the puzzle that Is confronting Norfolk is, why weren't the beets raised for the home plant? It is evident from the tripling of acreage that under certain conditions some farmers in this section at least are willing to devote a portion of their time to beet culture. What it is that has wrought the change in so short a time is quite an unknown quantity. The question that has nat urally arisen is, would it not pay to start a new sugar factory here, or, if managed along different lines during its lifetime in Nebraska, could tlie Nor folk plant have been made a success? CEMENT BOX FOR DEAD. Auburn Genius Invents a Novel Coffin Wrich Will Not Decay. Auburn, Neb., April 12.—Alfred V. Williams, of this city, is an inventor. After a winter spent in patient experi menting, he inis succeeded in inventing a mould for the purpose of casting air. water and ghoul tight coffin boxes out of cement. He has made application of the com missioner of patents at Washington, D. to grant him a patent on Ills in vention. In the manufacture of the moulds it is the intention of the in ventor to make a coffin vault of ce ment, sand, clay, or any other material, in which the remains .of any person who may have passed away will lie placed, and that it lakes the place of tile rough pine box that is now used. With this vault the corpses are pre served from decay, the ravages of the weather and from the depredations of grave robbers. The cement vault Is cast in sections, the tops being arched so as to give the necessary strength, and the tops and lower parts are 'built separately and tongued and grooved so that with the application of a little fresh cement they will solidify. The sections are easy to handle and the vault can be made at the grave. After seasoning the vault becomes as solid as rock and the grave robber who seeks to penetrate it must blast his way to the remains of the coffin therein. All those who have examined the inven tion admit that It fills a long felt want. The vaults can be so cheaply and easily made that they will be within the reach of everyone. Mr. Williams is one of the best car penters and architects in this section of the county. He left this city Tues day night for Payette, Idaho, where be has accepted a tine position. He was accompanied by his daughter. Miss Pearl. WANTED INSURANCE POLICY. Joe Robinson Gets Shower of Blows for Simple Question. Omaha. Neb.. April 12.—"Don't mind the $20. but what are you going to do with that insurance policy?" asked Joe Robinson, of Harlan. Ia.. after lie had been held up and beaten. He had arrived in Omaha, and was taking a look about the city when lie was robbed. His pockets were rifled, $20 iii cash taken, also an insurance policy for $1,000. Two negro suspects were arrested, and were identified by Robinson as ihe mfcn uho held him up. STANDARD AGAIN REPLIES TO LAWSON Says It Never Had Anything to Do With Him, and He’s Bad. DIDN’T ROB THE PUBLIC Copper Stocks Just Went Down Be cause of the Decline in the Mar ket Value of Copper, and That Was Explanation. New York. April 12.—"We (lo not know Lawson." This is the answer Henry H. Rogers and his associates make for Amalgamated Copper, and it is their denial of the crimes that is charged to it and the Standard Oil clique by Thomas W. La wson. Follow ing is Rogers' denial of the acquaint ance and close business relation which Lawson says existed between them at i he lime ihe Amalgamated Copper was conceived. It is published in this week's Public Opionion as part of “The Stock Market End of Amalgamated.” and Lawson declares it is Rogers' and Rockefeller's own reply to his charges. Absolutely Fictitious. .‘V—jm* nmsriiiRimuN v\iiu ivi I . ivug era and others recorded at length by Lawson are absolutely fictitious. "B—Lawson was never intimately as sociated, socially or in a business way, with Mr. Rogers or the other gentle men whose names he has made so free. Only once in his whole life did he cross the threshold of Mr. Rogers' home and that was upon the occasion which he mentions when he called there in 1895 to offer to betray his associate, Ad dicks. Nor, though he assidiously pressed himself upon him. did lie suc ceed in seeing Mr. Rogers more than a few times in the ten years, 1895 to 1905, for which he claims ( lose confi dential intimacy. “C—He does not possess and never possessed a letter or scrap of writing from'any of these gentlemen, with the exception of Mr. Rogers, and from him only a very few brief notes of a com monplace character. Has No Agreements. "D—Mr. Lawson was never engaged by the Amalgamated company or by Air. Rogers to 'boom' Amalgamated stock or to perform any service on be half of tlie company. He does not pos sess, and, accordingly, cannot produce any agrement showing such employ ment by anyone authorized to make it. Mr. Rogers never saw Mr. Lawson be tween the years 1895 and 1898 and in the last named year he saved him from bankruptcy in response to ids pleading. “When the Amalgamated company was organized it was in the name of Tames Burrage, and Burrage it was, if anybody, who employed Mr. Lawson. If the latter ever advances sufficiently far in his story as to reach these prom ised 'proofs’ which would be receivable In a court of justice and produces a contract of any kind, supposing he pos sesses such a paper, it will be found that Burrage. his partner in Tri-Moun tain and sundry other schemes, is the contracting party of the second part. Was a Lawson Scheme. "It is. of course, true that Mr. Law son at his own expense, or at the ex pense of Mr. Burrage and himself, jointly advertised himself and Amalga mated through the length and breadth af New England and elsewhere and iterated and reiterated the statement that 'Standard Oil’ was back of it and him; and also that the stock would go to—the Lord alone knows what, and in short, lavished the resources of his ex urbent fancy in striving to sell Amal gamated by the self same methods that he has more recently used in the case af Trinity Copper, and Is now using In the case of copper range to the openly expressed disgust of William A. Paine, the president of that excellent little company. True, it is also, that Amalgamated Copper protested re peatedly against these tactics and the land booming methods lie was using to advance tlie market price of the stock." The Losses Explained. In this Rookefeller-Rogers story of "The Stock Market End of Amalga mated," Lawson’Ss statements are I spoken of as "naked truths, clothed itt exaggeration and misstatements, spe cial appeals to class hatred, to the I envenomed envoy of the laekwit, the I ne’er do w ell and the prodigal." This 1 reply denies that the men who formed ' the Amalgamated paid only $39,000,000 I for the properties, which were after j wards turned over to the company on the valuation basis of $75,000,000. It Is admitted, however, that these men might have made $10,000,000 in the deal. | The loss of millions, which the people who invested in Amalgamated Copper | stock suffered, are declared to be due solely to the decrease in the market value of copper and the unavoidable j causes of market fluctuation. FOR CONTROL OF PARTY New York Bosses Platt and Black Saic. to Have Formed an Offensive and Defensive Alliance. New York. April 12.—The Sun. which for years has been friendly to Senator Thomas C. l’latt and has supported him in his efforts to lead the republican party in the state, says today that an offensive and defensive alliance has been entered into between the senator and former Governor Frank S. Black, j with the object of contesting the con trol of the party cit the next state con vention. Former Governor Black ,was Odell's candidate for senator to succeed De pew this winter, hut Depew won. hands down, and the sincerity of Odell's sup port was questioned by many of Black's friends and others. An alliance with I Black would probably give the anti Odell forces control of the state, though there would be a great tight, as Odell is supposed to have the Harriman sup port and a powerful element in finan cial New York. THEY’RE AFTER DIETZ. Visconsin Lumbermen Propose to Break Up His Control of a River if It Is Possible. Chippewa F'alls. Wis., April 12.—The Mississippi Logging company this aft ernoon sent a large crew of men to Cameron dam on the Thorn Apple riv er drive, where a lot of logs has been held up by John*aDietz for a year. If Dietz offers resistance the crew will not attempt the drive until the federal authorities send ample protection. ' JAPAN’S VIEW OF IT. Justice and the Cause of Future Peace Dsmand Indemnity. T*ondon, April 11.—Baron Suyematsu, formerly Japanese minister of the in terior. has written an article for Use Outlook, "War and indemnity—the Jap I am se Claim,” The article is intended to show that ! Japan will carry on the war until Rus sia consents to indemnity. The baron I says: A canon of the Japanese bushido is. “One should not sheath the sword unless | one is to totally overcome or has secured I equitable satisfaction for one’s cause." I This is our ideal in international inter j course. The sword of Japan is drawn, and the aim for which it was unsheathed j has scarcely been attained. We warn a ; peace which will secure tranquility in the ; far east for at least a generation or two. The world should know that in the pres ent war Japan staked her very existence, 1 whereas with the enemy it was a mere ! wai of caprice. Why, men, in case of de i feat, should not Russia be made responsi I bk in equitable accordance with the na | ture of the affair? 1 believe, therefore. that In case of the adversary asking for ! peace the satisfaction which she would have to make to Japan should include making good the material loss of Japan in other words, indemnity. Japan has not formulated definite terms of peace, because she might be accused of skinning the bear before it is shoe. We have, however, outlined our idea. Japan s Righteous Position. The article argues that the righteous ness of Japan's position in demanding indemnity U a basic condition and con troverts the idea which, he says, he finds prevalent outside of Japan that Japan is willing to make peace at any price. “Some say,” the baron continues, 1 “that for humanity’s sake an armistice ! should he concluded with a view to ne gotiating peace. It is all very well to talk of humanity, but no injustice must be perpetrated in the name of human ity.” Baron Suyematsu says: The public seems to have gauged the relative value of Russia and Japan. They are glad that the large bubble which has befit causing a nightmare so long has been pricked. They have seen that it was no use to suppress Japan’s aspiration by the combined force of western powers. Yet there seems floating in the air some «ort of comparison for our adversary. This I deem an inconsistency, arising out of some psychological ins .ability. Russia Wanted Indemnity. I Baron Suyematsu refers to the an nouncement of St. Petersburg early in the war that an enormous indemnity would be demanded and that terms would be dictated in Tokio. “We are far from assuming such an attitude,” the writer says, "but we be lieve that justice ought to be done us. No mere sentiment shall be allowed to decide the merits of the case.” I In conclusion Baron Suyematsu says: I Some say that Japan might be induced to forego a claim tor indemnity provided England and America gave good assur ance for future peace. We appreciate, of course, the general sentiments of England anti America. We aie anxious to main tain the best friendship with these two countries, more particularly than other countries. We should therefore be very sorry if we were to be told that we should forego on account of that friendship any claim to what we deem justice to demand. This article is followed by one under the heading, "Russia’s Alternative,” by Archibald Ross Colquhon, author of “Greater AnS*rica,” and who has trav eled extensively and written volumin ously regarding the far east. He scouts the possibility of interv<*htion, and says that the only possibility of peace is in direct negotiation an dthe payment of indemnity of at least $500,000,000, either in money or in land, ar.d describes Sa kahlin and Vladivostok as of small money value to Japan. RUSSIANS CLAIM A VICTORY. Twelve Hour Fight on Friday Ended i» Their Favor. St. Petersburg. April 11.—General Liinevitch telegraphs the emperor to day: “The battle at Tsin Tsatun on Friday lasted twelve hours. The enemy's losses were heavy from our artillery and rifle tire. Our casualties in killed were Captain Prince Marsalaky and four Cossacks; wounded, two officers and thirty-four Cossacks., “On Wednesday our outposts, after a fusillade, pushed back the Japanese outposts to Tai Pinlin. Our infantry occupied the village of Koukouseki aft er dislodging the enemy. The Japanese re t rea ted prec ipi t a tel y. ” Here's Another Naval Battle. St. Petersburg, April S.—A sensa tional sequel to the newspaper cam paign inaugurated by Captain Clado, formerly Admiral Rojestvensky’s chief tactician, against Vice Admiral Avel lan, head of the Russian admiralty and : the,general staff of the admiralty, may ' be a duel i* morrow between Clado and j Captain Zilotti, aide of Admiral Avel I an. WILL VISIT MOROCCO. Report Is That King Edward Will Take a Most Significant Diplo matic Step. Marseilles, April 11.—The king and queen of England sailed this afternoon on the royal yacht, accompanied by an armored cruiser and a torpedo boat destroyer. The first port will be Ma liona. island of Mincora. All informa tion of the ultimate destination of the yacht is refused, but it is rumored the king intends visiting Tangier, Morocco. Should the foregoing Paris surmise prove oorrect. that King Edward is to visit Morocco, it will cause a huge in ternational sensation. Some time ago France assumed a general attitude of dominance in Morocco, England resign ing political pretensions there in con sideration of France giving up all claims ill Egypt. Germany was dis pleased. mid a few days ago the kaiser visited Morocco and made a significant speech, which was taken as a protest against the Anglo-French assumption of primacy in the Mediterranean. This invasion of the Mediterranean sphere by Germany caused violent feeling in both England and France, and imme diately King Edward went to France and had a significant private visit with President I.oubet. It was assumed that they discussed the Anglo-French attitude toward the new German pre tentions. Now. if Edward should visit Morocco, it would he tantamount to an nouncing England as the ally of France in Moroccan policy, and would more than ever Isolate Germany. The kaiser this week sent President Roosevelt a detailed explanation of Germany's Mo roccan policy, apparently imping to en list the support of this government: but Mr. Roosevelt, it is said, will de cline to interest himself in the matter. HERE’S RAnYtREASON! Russians Boycott Vodka, and Cut Off Government Revenue, and Save Money to Buy Bombs. St. Petersburg, April 11—Polish work men and revolutionists ha