ELEVEN VICTIMS j
OF LAKE HORROR
Survivors Rescued Only After
Three Days of Untold Hard-1
ship and Suffering.
FOUR WOMEN ARE SAVED
Over Half the Twenty-Two Person*
Aboard Volunteered to Die to Save
the Remainder—Captain
Bravely Leads Them.
Duluth, Minn., Sept. 6.—Eighteen or
twenty Uvea were lost and property val
ued at $500,000 sacrificed In the furious
storm that swept over Lake Superior
Sunday and Sunday night.
The gale was the most destructive
to lake shipping that has been experi
enced in many years.
Besides the wreck of the steel steam
er Sevona, which broke in two on Rand
island reef, seven of the crew losing
their lives, it is now believed that two
more ships were lost with their entire
crews. One of these Is thought to be
the schooner Pretoria, of Bay City,
Mich., the largest sailing ship on fresh
water, and carrying a crew of eight
men. The other is believed to be the
schooner ©live Jeannette, which carried
a crew of seven men. The Pretoria
broke loose from the steamer that was
vowing her during the storm, and today
Captain Wnndig, of the steamer Mary
Boyle, reported that the spars of a
sunken three masted schoner could be
seen a short distance east of the outer
Island of the apostle group, about 100
miles from Duluth. The Olive Jeanette,
ii 1.) believed, went to the bottom about1
t'-n miles from Portage entry. A mass
«.i wreckage was sighted by the steam
er Juniata near that point, and al
v hough the identity of the ship has not
been completely established there seems
to be little doubt that It was the Olive
Jeannette. The schooner was In tow
of the steamer L. B. Doty when the
latii r vessel was lost with her entire
crew on Lake Michigan a few years
ago.
The storm at limes reached the pro
portions of a hurricane, and the
staunchest steel vessels were forced to
run for shelter In a more or leas bat
tered condition. The new steel steamer
Stackhouse arrived at the Soo on her
ilrst trip with her hatch covers so bad
ly sprung that water poured contln- 1
Hourly into .the hold. One of the crew
was washed overboard. The whaleback
steamer Samuel Mather also lost one of
her crew overboard.
The terrific battering the steel
steamers received In the storm gives
rise to the gravest fears for the safety
of many wooden ships which have not
j»t been reported, and the record of:
death and destruction may reach much
greater proportions than the present:
estimates. The monetary loss of the;
ssevona Is placed at $170,000, while that
of the Pretoria Is estimated at $150,
000.
Duluth, Minn., Sept. 4.—A telegram
deceived here reports a tug found Cap
tain McDonald of the Sevona on his
vessel with the remainder of t.he crew
alive and they were rescued.
Bayfield, Wis., Sept. 6.—Eleven of
the crew of the steamer Sevona were
drowned by the wreck of a steel steam
<-r on Sand Island reef on Lake Su
pvinr late Friday night. Eleven others
were rescued, including the remainder
of 1 lie crew and four women.
The story of the disaster is a thrill
ing talc of shipwreck on the Great
lakes such as has never been told.
Seven of the dead offered their lives
. s a sacrifice for the rest of the twen
ty-two on board the 111 fated ship, al
: hough four of the latter were drowned.
The rest reached the shore after a
i iglit of buffeting by waves in an open
lioat and a trip of more than twenty
four hours in cutting a road through
tlm wilderness of northern Wisconsin.
Story of the Disaster.
Friday evening the steamer was
blown on reefs during a fierce north
west gate. When the vessel finally
struck, a great hole was torn in her
bow, and in half an hour the vessel
broke In two.
When tlie shock came the captain
found there was no chance for all to
: -ach the shore and called for volun
teers to stay on the ship.
More than half the crew volunteered
it, stay aboard while the rest tried to
: avli shore and call for help for those
who were to remain on the wreck. Fin
ally the captain, two mates and four
other sailors, who were under no obli
gation to stand by the sinking ship,
were selected to risk their lives for the
safety of the rest. Engineer Phillippi
was one, of the volunteers, but Captain
McDonald ordered him to take com
mand of the ship’s boat which was to
take the four women ashore.
Afloat in Small Boats.
With Phillippi went six others of the
crew. A small boat large enough to
, .irry the four took another party. The
boat with the women tried to make
band island, but was swept past.
When the boats left the Sevona, the
seven men left aboard were huddled in
the wheel house waiting for the rescue
that was to come too late.
The trip ashore of the lifeboat was
one of terror. All night the men fought,
with the elements in an effort to reach:
the shore, which was only five miles'
away, but the wind was carrying the
■ raft parallel with the Beach and it was
daylight Saturday before the boat was
washed ashore at Little Sand bay.
Here they found a homesteader who
le i them to a farm two miles in the;
interior. The men were so exhausted'
they could hardly walk to the farm:
house.
Hew Way Through Woods.
Then, while the rest of the party was:
cared for, the engineer and Farmer1
Vibbadeau set out with a team for Bay
1,c-M, twenty miles across the peninsula,
through an almost untrodden country.
Mo.it of the way it was necessary to
;;t, rally cut a road through the woods.
I pen reaching Bayfield at 4 o’clock
Smut-day afternoon the fishing tug
:! row started out for the scene of the
with a party of fifteen men,
hv i-led by Engineer Phillippi. The trip
look two hours In the teeth of a nortli
■■■ ■-ter.
When the tug readied the wreck of
k Sevona, only a few spars and the
r; o r hundred feet of the craft was
! ft. There was no trace of the cap
in and his party or of the four in the
| rail boat and they are undoubtedly
MURDER WAS MYSTERIOUS.
S;l>>na, Kan., Sept. 4.—J. F. Caldwell,
; 'nlthy stockman, was murdered In
■ -> during the night at Ills home near
’ nor. Mrs. Caldwell, who gave the
a;tn curly today, said she woke up
•o find her husband gasping his last
or- i:tb, having been stabbed by a man
uno ncd first ransacked the house. j
TEXT OF PEACE TREATY ’
The treaty declares:
Qcneral Peace—There shall he per
petual peace and friendship between
his majesty the emperor of Japan and
Ills majesty the emperor of Russia,
and between their respective subjects
who shall enjoy equally in the re-j
spectlve countries of the high con
tracting parties full and entire pro
tection on their persons and prop-'
erty.
Korea—Japan pledges herself to main
tain Intact the integrity and inde
pendence of Korea. Russia recog
nizes that Japan has preponderant
interests In that kingdom. Russian
subjects and commerce shall have in'
Korea the right of the most favored:
nation treatment. The two powers
mutually agree not to erect fortifi
cations along the Russo-Koreau fron
tier.
Port Arthur—Russia transfers to Japan,
with the assent of China, the lease
of Port Arthur and the Liaotung
peninsula and Islands covered by the
lease. Japan agrees to respect pri
vate property rights. Should any land
or buildings be required for public
purposes she agrees to pay fair com
pensation to the owners.
Evacuating Manchuria—Japan and
Russia agree to evacute simultan
eously the province of Manchuria,
which shall be retroceded to the ex
clusive governmental and adminis
trative authority of China. Both
powers agree, upon the signature of
the treaty, not to send any new
troops to the theater of war. The
evacuation shall be carried out at the
same time and in the same num
bers, by arrangement between the
two commanders of the respective
armies.
Rights in Manchuria—Russia surrend
ers all exclusive rights in Manchuria
and agrees with Japan not to make
any effort to acquire in the future
exclusive privileges of any kind. If
China grants any concessions or
privileges in Manchuria to one power,
they will be enjoyed by other powers
without objection on the part of
, either Russia or Japan.
Railroad Concessions—Russia cedes to
Japan all rights and interest In the
Chinese Eastern railroad, connecting
Port Arthur and Kuangendztse, and
will not oppose construction of the
Kirin branch.
Railroad Regulations—Japan recog
nizes Russia’s rights in the Trans
Manchurian line, and will take no
action which will affect them. This
line, as well as the Port Arthur
Kuangendztse line, shall be used only
for commercial purposes. The two
powers are permitted to maintain
railroad guards In equal numbers,
and should disorders occur, after
consultation, may send reinforce
ments. The two powers mutually
agree to do nothing to prevent free
dom of traffic over the lines.
Sakhalin—Russia cedes to Japan that
portion of the island of Sakhalin ly
ing south of the fiftieth parallel, and
accprds to Japan the right of com
mercial and Industrial exploitation of
the Island. The two powers mutual
ly agree not to fortify the island, and
that the straits of La Perouse shall
remain open to navigation without
restriction or hindrance.
Fishing Rights—Russia cedes to Ja
pan’s subjects equal fishing rights
with her own along the Siberian lit
toral.
Exchange of Prisoners—There shall be
immediate exchange of prisoners.
Each power will appoint two com
missioners. who will consult as to the
cost of maintenance. The bills, when
prepared, shall be examined and the
difference shall be paid by the power
having the larger.
Commercial Relations—The commer
cial treaty in force before the war
shall enter Into opei-atlon upon the
ratification of the treaty. Russia’en
gages to enter into negotiations with
Japan for a commercial treaty upon
the basis of the most favored nation
treatment.
Japan in Siberia—His majesty, the em
peror of Japan, may appoint consuls
to ’ reside at such of the ports, cities
and towns of Siberia as the interests
of the empire of Japan may require.
These officers shall be treated with
due respect by the Russian authori
ties, and shall enjoy all the attri
butes, authority, jurisdiction, privi
leges and immunities which are or
may hereafter be extended to similar
officers of the nation most favored
In these respects.
Ratification Plan—The treaty shall be
ratified by his majesty, the emperor
of Japan, and his majesty, the em
peror and autocrat of all the Rus
slas, as soon as possible, and at least
within fifty days after the date of
the signature.
♦ NOVELVIES OF THE NEWS. ♦■
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Chicago.—Harry L. Hoffman shot and.
Killed himself yesterday beside his
mother’s grave in Rose Hill cemetery.
He left letters apologizing for causing
them so much trouble. Hoffman’s home
was in Saginaw.
Millville, Pa.—Mrs. Kate Owens, a
highlv respected elderly lady of this
icity, is suffering from a strange af
Iflictlon. She had several teeth extract
ed a few weeks ago, and the dentist
■administered a drug to alleviate the
pain. Since that time she has lost the
power of speech.
Boston, Mass.—John Alexander
Dowle’s representative in Boston. Wil
liam H. Finer, overseer, will leave here
'on Wednesday to take charge of the
■Central tabernacle, in Chicago. Mrs.
Piper, the overseer’s wife, testified at
•the farewell sermon that her left leg
had been lengthened three and a half
inches by prayer.
Chester, Pa.—James, the 9-year-old
son of Charles Reeder, falling from the
top of a clay mixing machine, he was
caught on a hook by the cheek and.
isuspended in the air. Seeing the blood
pouring from his face, boy companions
ran home in affritrht and told their par
ents. Mrs. Doyle and a neighbor lifted
ihe boy from the hook and carried
him home. He will be terribly marked
for life.
New York.—Mrs. John D. Rockefeller
lis ill at her country home near Cleve
land and her physician, it was learned
at the Rockefeller estate at Focantlco
hills, has told her to give up all excite
ment for two years and to take a long
rest. Mrs. Rockefeller has been under
a strain owing to the criticism about1
her husband's "tainted money.” and it
is said the publicity has caused her
great annoyance.
Richmond, Va.—Medical men are per
■ plexed by the case of Herbest Green
street, 10 years old, who has, since his
third year, been engaged in swallow
ing button* marbles and smooth
stones. The boy is of unusual size for
his years and possesses great strength
as well as a hot temper. When he was
about 3 years old he swallowed two
dozen large china buttons in a very
short time and apparently suffered no
Inconvenience whatever from the per
formance. For a penny he will swallow
a small marble or stone. His mother
has tried to break up the habit, but
I has not met with any success.
CONVICTS EAT RATS !
RATHER THAN STARVE
(Gross Prison Cruelty Charged
by Released Convict Who
Alleges Much Brutality
INMATES ARE TORTURED
Claims Those Adjudged Insane Are
Flogged with Leather Straps.and
That Many Other Iniquities
Ars Practiced.
Kalamazoo. Midi., Sept. 6.—Alleging
among other things that the brutal
Hogging of prisoners In Marquette pri
son has led to several attempts at sui
cide. some of them successful; that pri
soners have been confined and fed on i
bread and water longer than the law
allows, until in some cases they have
caught rats and eaten them, Daniel
Eugene Hampton, who has just com
pleted a sentence for burglary. Is on his
way to see Governor Warner to make a
statement and to present an affidavit.
Hampton charges that Emil Walz,
sent from Detroit for murder, took his
own life to escape flogging, having been
subjected previously to unbearable
severity. He charges that E. A. Pev
erett, known as "Whitey Black,” and
sent from Kalamazoo for participation
In the Richland bank robbery, to escape
a flogging, attempted in the presence of
prison guards to take his life by sever
ing ills hand with a knife, and that hc
actually Inflicted such a wound that
surgeons had to amputate the hand.
Hampton says the floggings were ad
ministered by a man weighing 200
pounds, the prisoners being extended
over a barrel and at times beaten until
the blood ran down their legs.
He has a list of thirty witnesses, who.
he says, will swear to the facts, and
declares that men who formerly were
connected with the prison management
are ready to swear to the mismanage
ment and brutalities which he alleges
have been In vogue under the adminis
tration of Warden .Tames Russell.
Tells of Rat Eating.
Hampton in his affidavit says:
"I was put In the punishment cells
on the 18th day of April, 1905. After
the officers went out 1 asked Peverett
how long he had been In there eating
bread and water, and he said about
fifteen or eighteen days. I was In there
nearly a week with him, and on April
21 he killed a rat In his cell with the lid
of his bucket and skinned It with a
pocket knlfe’which he had smuggled in
with him. On the morning of April
21 Charles Devonshire, hallmaster, un
locked his door and handed In his bread
and cup of water. Peverett stood up
In front of his cell door with the
dressed rat. After receiving the bread
Peverett proceeded to eat the-meal of
bread and rat, taking a bite of each
alternately until he finished the rat and
bread. He did the same thing on the
morning of April 22, and the 23d and
the 24th.
“Peverett told me that a consumptive
prisoner by the name of Spidell, who
went out of the punishment cell Just
before they put me in, had also eaten
■eight rats. On April 21 I heard the
hallmaster tell Peverett that he never
heard of a white man eating rats but
he heard of Chinamen doing so. The
hallmaster went out into the hall and
he brought Peverett a rat trap. Pever
ett took same, put it in his cell, and
caught rats which he ate during the
succeeding three days.
Insane Persons Flogged.
"The following prisoners, who were
formally adjudged Insane and had been
transferred to the criminal Insane
asylum at Ionia and were afterwards
returned to the Marquette prison, have
been flogged:
“Frank Temple was flogged on April
12, 1905; A. E. Peverett, flogged March
1, 1904; George McCoy, flogged June 9,
1903; D. E. Hampton, flogged May IS,
15 and 16. _
SPECIAL GRANT TO WED
Ail English Canonical Requirements
Set Aside for Marshall Field’s
Wedding on Tuesday.
London, Seut. 6.—Seldom, if ever,
have greater precautions been taken
to keep secret a coming marriage than
those connected with the wedding to
morrow of Marshall Field and Mrs.
Arthur Caton of Chicago.
It was the earnest wish of the con
tracting parties to keep the affair a
secret, until after the ceremony had
been performed next Tuesday at St.
Margaret's church. The unexpected
publication of their plans has caused
them great annoyance. In addition
they are surprised and mystified, be
cause they cannot discover how their
well laid plans of secrecy went wrong.
The special license granted for the
wedding is in itself a most unusual
document and Influence of the highest
character had to be brought to bear to
secure its issuance.
It is not merely a permission to wed;
it is a special dispensation from the
head of the English church—the arch
bishop of Canterbury—by which all the
cononlcal requirements otherwise rigid
ly insisted upon are waived. It wipes
out the Ironclad provision that one of
the contracting parties must have re
sided fifteen days In the parish in which
the ceremony is to be performed before
it can be performed. It also abrogates
the three times publishing of banns. It
authorizes any priest or deacon to per
form the ceremony anywhere between
the hours of 8 a. m. and 3. p. m.
In recent years only one similar li
cense has been granted by the arch
bishop of Canterbury. In that case,
too, the bride was a Chicago woman.
This dispensation was granted for the
marriage of General Wesley Merritt
and Miss Laura Williams.
Special and urgent reasons must be
advanced before such a license is is
sued. In the case of General Merritt
the reason advanced was the serious
Illness of Miss Williams, who lay cri
tically ill.at the Savoy hotel.
Just what reasons the Ambassador
Whitelaw Hied laid before his grace in
the case of Mr. Field and Mrs. Caton
are not known, but that they were
potent and sufficient Is evidenced by
the granting of the dispensation.
The archbishop's fee is $200, which
was paid by Ambassador Reid.
A BAD CLOUDBURST.
Two Villages in Central New York Re
ported to Have Been Almost
Wiped Out.
Utica, N. V., Sept. 6.—The villages of
New Berlin and Edmegton were nearly
destroyed by a cloudburst last evening.
The extent of the damage cannot be de
tailed as communication was cut off early
today. It Is reported that one woman was
drowned. Several other small towns have
suffered severely, but the news cannot be
■ aecured from them.
DOCTOR IS ARRESTED, j
New Orleans Physician Failed to Re- j
port Yellow Fever Case and Spends
Fourteen Hours in Jail.
New Orleans, La , Sept. 6. -Official
report to 6 p. in. Monday:
New cases today. 5*
Total cases to date.2.0S2'
Deaths today . &
Total deaths to date. 292
New foci . 16
Cases under treatment. .221
Cases discharged .1.469
Two causes contributed to an In
crease in the number of new eases
yesterday. One was the fact that there
was never a complete cleanup of cases
Sunday, leaving some to find their way,
into the Monday list.
The other was the arrest and in
carceration of Dr. Phillip Berge, a
physician of standing, on a charge of
having failed to report two Chartres)
street cases. Dr. Berge was arrested at
midnight on Saturday, spending four-'
teen hours in a cell. Rather than un
dergo a similar experience physicians,
were particularly prompt lit reporting
eases, seventeen of them appearing in
person early in the day ut Dr. White’s
office. Not all of the cases reported
are likely to develop actually Into yel
low fever, but the doctors have evi
dently decided to err on th.e side of
excessive caution, if they err at all.
Dr. Berge, in the meantime, insists that
his failure to get his Information to
Dr, White’s office was unintentional.
He communicated it to the emergency,
hospital. When arraigned today Dr.
Berge was released on a nominal bond.
The great majority of physicians have
been zealously co-operating with Div
White. Hereafter Dr. White expects
to have absolutely no complaint to:
make of derelictions among members
of the profession.
Moving Day Postponed.
The fact that the situation ts un
changed, except perhaps for the better,;
ts shown in the small number of deaths.
Dr. White and the advisory commit
tee of the New Orleans society today:
sent a letter to the mayor in connection]
with the near approach of "moving;
day,” October 1. The doctor says: ;
"Persons removing from infected lo-;
calities may later develop the fever in]
uninfected neighborhoods, thereby de-]
veloping new foci. Others now resid-j
ing in uninfected houses may contract!
the disease by moving into houses]
where mild cases of fever may have oc
curred and recovered without medicalt
attention, and consequently escaping!
fumigation. Non-lmmunes coming into*
such houses will almost inevitably con-j
tract yellow fever, thereby adding toi
our present troubles.”
The doctors urge that the mayor take;
such steps as may delay the general]
movement for thirty days. The mayor,
promises to act in the matter.
The hopefulness of the situation
among the public at large was mani
fested in the large crowds that viewed:
the labor parade today.
COURTMARTIAL TAGGART
Captain Must Face Charges of Filing
Alleged False Aocusations Against
Colonel Miner.
Wooster, O., Sept.. 6.—Whether or not;
he wins his suit for divorce now belli*
tried. Captain E. F. Taggart must face:
a court martial lit a fight for his]
shoulder straps.
“The court martial,” says an army]
man Involved, “Is awaiting the end of
the trial, not because the divorce de
cision, as has'been supposed, would de
termine whether the charges would be
pressed, but because the amended pe-]
tltion in the divorce case forms the;
basis of the court martial charges. It]
is a privileged communication, andi
Taggart could not be brought to court]
martial for it until the case had been;
decided.”
Information that Lieutenant Fortes-',
cue, nephew of President Roosevelt,
also will file charges for court mar
tial against Taggart comes from an au
thoritative source. Fortescue is named]
as a corespondent. He is now In Eu-:
rope.
“That Fortescue will file charges Is
practically certain,” is the statement]
of Captain James Taylor, attorney for]
Mrs. Taggart.
Mrs. Taggart is to be a witness:
against Taggart in the court martial]
charges filed by General Miner. Her,
written statement for Miner and
against Taggart already has been filed;
with the war department at Washing
ton.
Recently the Information was given;
out that the court martial charges
against Taggart, as well as those Tig
gart filed against Miner, had been out-]
lawed by the expiration of two years]
since the trouble at Fort Leavenworth.,
The charges against Miner were out-'
lawed. but the charges Miner filed]
against Taggart were based, not on Ills]
conduct at Fort Leavenworth, but on]
his accusations against Miner in the;
amended petition in the divorce case.
On Miner’s allegation Taggart now;
stands accused of conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman in making,
false charges against Miner. The al-j
leged offense is scarcely six months old.'
Court martial charges, based on:
Taggart’s conduct at Fort LeaveiM
worth, including the allegation that he;
assaulted his wife and put her from the]
house naked, were threatened, but this]
court martial, according to testimony,]
was prevented by Mrs. Taggart. In]
the pending court martial it is an-r
nounced Miss Anna Berry, daughter ol}
former Congressman Berry of New-]
port, Ky., is to be a witness. Tag
gart’s testimony against Miner was
that he overheard Mrs. Taggart tell
Miss Berry about the alleged leg pinch
ing incident at the Miner dinner.
PANIC FATAL TO FOUR.
Gasoline Flashes Up on Launch Con
taining Forty Passengers and
Most of Them Jump.
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 6.—Four people
were drowned during a picnic lust
night on the gasoline launch Ben Hur
at St. Clair fiats. The dead:
AUGUST MOGG, Cleveland.
H. J. WEISANGER, Detroit.
MISS BECKER, Detroit.
MISS NEWMAN, Detroit.
The Ben Hur was taking a party
of forty people home to hotels near
•San Soucl from a dance when tile gas
oline began leaking from the engine
and exploded. Most of the forty pas- ;
sengers jumped overboard.
Screams of the frightened people at- I
traded other launches and those who j
tould be found were rescued.
REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.
Man Struck by Locomotive Is Carried
Twenty-Seven Miles on Pilot.
Sedalla, Mo., Sept. S.—Warden Brine, 2t>
years old, was found unconscious and bad
ly Injured beside the Missouri Pacific
tracks neur Tipton having been carried'
twenty-seven miles in an unconscious con
dition on an engine's pilot. When revived;
he said he had been struck by an east
bound train in the outskirts of Sedalla
and hurled on the pilot, and know noth
ing more until found and revived near
Tipton, twenty-seven miles distant. It U
believed ho will dla.
JAPS REALLY GOT
ALL THEY WANTEO
Analysis of the Terms of the
Peace Treaty Shows That
They Got the Long End.
FEDERAL LAWS REVISED
Special Commission After Eight Years
of Labor Is Preparing to Deliver
to the Next Congress New
Federal Code.
Washington, Sept. 5.—Noiv that the
first shock Incident to the realization of
Japan's defeat in the diplomatic game
that ended her victorious war has
passed away, the impression is gaining
ground that after all Japan had gained
much more than at first appeared. Com
paring the peace terms and the condi
tions surrounding the Toklo govern
ment with those which obtained when
the war opened, and it Is plain enough
that Japan has secured, and firmly se
cured. all for which she went to war,
and much more.
Japan went to war for national secur
ity and honor, and has gained both. She
was prepared to sacrifice every national
resource, and she has added to her na
tional resources. She has made Korea
her own; and she has made Manchuria
a Japanese sphere of influence in about
the same relation to the empire that
Korea formerly occupied.
It Is true that the terms of peace do
not admit this. On the other hand they
will provide that Manchuria shall be
returned to China. Hut Japan will
retain Dalny. Port Arthur and the
I,lao Tung peninsula; it will retain the
southern parts of the railroad, which la
the commercial backbone of Man
churia: she will save to China the re
mainder of the line to Harbin, and the
Joint operation of these sections is cer
tain to be dominated by Japan.
Thus, with the seacoast and ports In
Japan’s hands, with the railroad lines
In her control, and future railroad de
velopment certain to be given Its direc
tion by her, it is plain enough that
whatever the peace pact may prescribe,
whatever the nations may assume,
whatever protestations may be made
about maintaining the open door,
Japan is lu possession of the commer
cial opportunities of Manchuria.
To Be Commercially Absorbed.
It would he ns reasonabe to say that
because England Is a free trade coun
try—keeps the commercial open door
to the world—England is in danger of
being absorbed commercially by other
nations, ns to assume that because the
nominal open door of trade is main
tained in Manchuria. Japan will lose
control there. In the first place Japan
wants Manchuria. She needs it. She
is closer to it than any other power
that has the wish and the ability to
develop Its possibilities. She has made
a tremendous advance already toward
putting herself into control of the
strategic points In anticipation of her
era of commercial expansion. The
evacuation by her armies will In no
■wise involve losing her grip on these.
Japan In 1894 was In no such power
ful posture as to dominating Korea as
she now occupies In relation to Man
churia. She had to tight China and
then Russia, lo establish herself In
Korea. She has her hand on Man
churia and her plans made for exploit
ing it. In another decade it will be In
vaded and absorbed exactly ns west
ern Canada is now being invaded and
absorbed by citizens of the I’nlted
States. It may never be Japanese in
name, but It will be In everything else.
New Federal Code Ready.
After eight years of continuous work,
during which Its very existence has
been almost forgotten, the commission
to revise the laws is preparing to de
liver to congress a new code of federal
statutes. It will probably be turned
over to congress, through the depart
ment of justice, at the coming session
anil will be one of the most Interesting
white elephants that body has under
taken to tame in a generation.
Not since 1873 has there been a re
vision ol' the federal statutes: and the
revision now nearing completion repre
sents an immensely greater task than
did the one of 1873. because more gen
eral legislation has been passed since
1878 than in all the period of consti
tutional government before that time.
The revision of 1878 was a work of sev
eral years and considering the Immense
task which confronted it. the haphazard
manner in which congress has sent It
about Its work, the new commission
Is considered to have done a remurk
able work In the time it has taken.
Although called a revision commis
sion, the body is more properly a codi
fication commission. Its business is to
put together the laws of the label In a
compact, unified body. Obsolete expres
sions are being cut out; sections that
have been declared unconstitutional or
have been repealed are oemg dropped;
the laws passed since the last revis
ion are being consolidated into the old
er body, aval the whole thing is being
systematized, arranged and indexed. At
present the index Is about half com
pleted.
Some Careless Procedure.
Senator Hoar, wlm was the father of I
the movement for the new revision now j
nearing completion, used to tell some
good stories on how congress in 1873 ;
adopted new statutes. He declared j
that at a late night session there !
were Just three members of the house I
in their seats when the revised laws I
come up and were adopted. In the sen
ate the attendance was scarcely bet
ter. The entire federal 1 iw was adopt
ed in a purely perfunctory manner. ;
without any real consideration what
ever.
Within a short time it began to be
discovered that the new revision was
full of errors; some serious, some mere
|v casual but how many there were,
and how serious they were, was mere
matter of conjecture. the next con
gress provided for a commission of one
in correct these errors, and to report
the corrected code to tue sec-rotary of
state.
Then congress did a strange thing.
It further provided !n this same act
that when this one-man commission
laid completed Ids re-revision the secre
tary of state should by certificate pro
mulgate it as the law of the land, and
that from the date of that certified pro
mulgation it should be- ill effect.
Thus congress had delegated to one
man the power to revise the body of
laws, and to anotner. representing the
executive department of the govern
m nt. Uie power to put them into force.
The constitution provides that the
powei of legislation cannot be dele
gated.
Yet it is a fact that the revision of
1S73 has been In effect from that day
to this without any other formal enact
ment than Us promulgation by the
secretary of state under power delegat
ed by congress. Recently, in connec
tion with the new revision, some in
cjuiiy has been made as to the consti
•utionality of that procedure. Lawyer*
»
have Investigated It and the opinions
of some eminent Jurists have been se
cured to the effect that the laws were
never legally passed.
No Mistakes This Time.
It is proposed by those In authority
that congress shall take no chances ol
having such an accident happen again.
The new revision will be commended
to the careful ar.d thorough considera
tion of the houses, and if they take it
up In this spirit its adoption will make
one of the largo tasks of a session.
There will probably be elghty-flva
titles In the new revision and about
8,500 sections. The work will be so
bulky thnt it Is proposed to have It
published In two volumes Instead of
the one huge tome that had contained;
the laws of 1873.
The revision commission was named
by President McKinley and consists of
three members. Originally they were
Alex. C. Botkin of Montana, Judge
Thompson of Ohio, and Judge Culbert
son of Tcxhh. Thompson retired to goi
on the bench and was succeeded by
David K. Watson of Ohio; while Cul
bertson was later succeeded by W. D.
Bynum of Indiana. These three now
compose the commission.
SON HITS MILLIONAIRE.
The Latter Has His Own Flesh and
Blood Placed in Jail Over Night
with Bums.
Denver, Colo., Sept. 5.—"It’s nag,
nng, all the time. It became so aggra
vating that I determined not to stand
It any longer."
And thus speaking 18-year-old Lau
rence P. Brown, son of James J. Brown,
a millionaire mining man, stared dole
fully through tile bars of the city Jail.
Laurence was arrested last night on a
charge in Justice Harrington's court of
assault and battery, sworn to by the
boy's father.
Millionaire Brown asserts that tho
lad has been smoking too many cig
arets, and that when he started to re
monstrate with hint yesterday the boy
became abusive and threw several
rocks at his father.
But young Brown has a different tale
to tell. He says the whole trouble
started last spring, when, for disobey
ing rules In Phillip’s Exeter academy at
Exeter, N. H„ he was dismissed.
“ ‘Dad’ has been sore on me ever
since," said the young man. "When I
came back he told me that as a punish
ment for disgracing him I would have
to work on his ranch, near Fort Logan.
“I made no objections to this—In
fact, I rather enjoyed the outdoor work
—but the continuous nagging that he
kept up drove me wild. Why, two men
quit out there Just because he would
not let them work In peace.
Goes to See “Dad.”
"I came Into town yesterday after
noon and went to ‘Dad’s’ house, 134®
Pennsylvania avenue. He was home,
and we took dinner together. Every
thing went smoothly, when, without a
preliminary word, he started on the old
subject.
" 'You are a disgrace to the family.
You get expelled from school and you
smoke clgurets,’ was the substance of
what he said, or rather yelled. I Bald:
.Dad," you'll have to stop that
nagging. By your continuous "Jawing"
you made two men quit on the ranch.
If you don't stop It, you’ll make me go,
too.'
" ‘That’s a fine way for a son to talk
to his father,’ said ‘Dad.’ and with that
he struck me. I ran out Into the back
yard, with him after me. We clinched
and struggled. In the breakaway 1
struck him. Heaven knows, I didn’t
mean to.
"I told hint I was sorry, and asked
hint to forget It, but he would not list
en to anything. He telephoned for the
police. I was urrested and taken to the
police station.
“Nobody balled me out and I was
compelled to sleep in the company of
eight or nine ‘bums’ In the ‘bullpen.’ ”
FIRED UPON MILITARY.
Ten Persons Killed and Fifty Wounded,
Women and Children Being Among
Injured at Libau.
I.than, Sept. 5.—The departure of
reservists Saturday night was marked
by socialistic rioting In which ten per
sons were killed and fifty wounded.
The agitators fired from a house upon
the military, who replied with a volley.
The cavalry then charged, UBlng their
sabers on the crowd. A detachment ot
troops stormed the house from which
the shots were fired.
One policeman was killed and sev
eral soldiers wounded.
Twenty-one wounded persons were
taken to the hospital. The reservists
did not anticipate that rioting would
occur. They had Just been entertained
by the city and were accompanied by
their wives and children. There were
tnuny innocent victims, women being
included among them.
SCORES INJURED.
Bomb Explodes Among Crowd in Bar
celona—One Woman Was Killed
and Five Mortally Wounded.
Barcelona. Spain. Sept. 6.—A bomb
exploded with terrific force last night
in the Marine parade, which was
thronged with holiday makers. A panic
ensued and the air was rent with the
shrieks and groans of the victims, who
numbered between thirty cud sixty. In
cluding one woman killed and five per
' sons mortally wounded.
The bomb was conical in shape and
i was covered with cement.
The perpetrator of the outrage is
j unknown. One witness states that
! early Sunday morning a child was seen
! to deposit a bomb at the foot of a tree,
! while another version is that the bomb
was placed at the foot of a tree last
evening, and that the man who was
seen to place it was injured by Us pre
mature explosion.
After the explosion Panama hats,
parasols and wearing apparel were
found strewn about, and here ami
there were pools of blood.
The detonation was heard through
out the city, and the force of the explo
sion threw a coachman from the seat
| of his carriage fifty yards, away. The
bomb was filled with nails and scrap
iron.
A workman covered with blood
while running away from the scene
was pursued by a mob. which believed
him to be responsible for the outrage,
and being caught was nearly lynched.
The man was taken to a hospital, i
where he denied that he had exploded
the bomb.
HIGH-TONED JAIL BREAK
Bank Cashier and Canning Plant Em
ploye Charged with Embezzle
ment, Get Away.
Rushville, Ind.. Sept. 5.—Olive O.
Jones, former cashier of the defunct
bank of Arlington, Ind., and O. S. Bow
man In jail charged with embezzle
ment growing out of the failure of a
canning plant at Carthage, together
with an Italian under arrest charged
with burglary, broke Jail early today
by sawing the bhrs from a window.
It Is believed they received outside
help.