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DROPS OUT One of the Appointed Peace Plenipotentiaries Sends in his Resignation. c ST. PETERSBURG—M. Muravieff has resigned his position as chief peace plenipotentiary. It may be regarded as practically certain that he will be replaced by M. Witte, president of the committee of ministers, who all along has been con sidered the Russian statesman pre eminently qualified to undertake the ^difficult task of negotiating peace with Japan. Though the emperor on two pre vious occasions has flatly declined to accept M. Witte, he has now indicated his readiness to make the appoint ment. The commission, however, will not be actually signed until Foreign (Minister LamsdorfT, who throughout the war has been M. Witte’s warm -(supporter, has had an audience of the emperor. To that extent only the mat ter may be regarded as unsettled, ^nothing being certain in Russia, as a prominent diplomat remarked recent fly, until the emperor’s signature has (been affixed. M. Witte’s selection un tdoubtedly win be hailed as a prac tical assurance of peace. While it ■would be a mistake to denominate him as a ‘peace at any price” man, M. Witte earnestly believes that the struggle should be ended and should be succeeded by an understanding be tween Russia and Japan which would insure peace in the far east for half a century. Indeed, he is personally be lieved to be in favor of a Russo-Jap anese alliance. The conduct of negotiations by M. Wittee, it is felt by the peace parties here, would inspire instant confidence in Japan. The only handicap under which M. Wittee labors is his lack of familiar ity with the English language, as the only foreign languages he speaks are German and French. WORRALL CLAIMS COLLUSION. Says Railroads and Grain Dealers’ As sociation Work Together. OMAHA—Before Notary Charles G. Bearsall, Thomas D. Worrall, presi dent of the Worrall Grain company, told of the efforts of the Nebraska (Grain Dealers association to squeeze his company out of the grain business in Nebraska. Mr. Worrall’s testimony is taken at the request of the oppos ing counsel in his suit for $128,000 damages. The witness insisted on all the questions put to him being written out in plain sight on a typewritter be fore he would answer them. An interesting portion of the testi mony concerned the possession by the secretary of the Nebraska grain dealers’ association of full informa tion about a car of grain loaded by a farmer and consigned to the Worrall company before the car was anywhere near Omaha. The secretary came to W’orrall and tried to induce him not io handle the particular car of grain. The plaintiff's counsel will try to •how that the Information was trans mitted by a railroad company, thus showing collusion with the so-called grain trust. Ay HAVE GOOD BACKING. Russian Empress Said to Be With War Party. ST. PETERSBURG—The Associated Press has high warrant for the state ment that M. Witt, president of the committee of ministers, was strongly urged on the emperor for head of the feeace commission. Even Foreign Min ister Lamsdorf is said to have joined |n recommending his election. The emperor, however, flatly declined to appoint him, and after M. Nelidoff, ambassador at Paris, pleaded illness, his majesty personally chose M. Mur aviefT, the ambassador at Rome. Two of the five councillors to the plenipo tentaries, though, M. Pokotiloff. minis ter to China, and M. Shipoff, director of the imperial treasury and former president of the zemstvos, are dis tinctly Witte men. A SUGAR DROPS 20 PER CENT. Heavy Crop in Europe, Due in August, Causes Decline. San Francisco. Cal.—A reduction of 20 per cent in all grades of sugar has been announced. The cut is attrib uted to the weakness of the raw sugar market, the price of that article hav ing recently dropped 1% cents per pound. The decline in raw sugar has been in a measure caused by the excellent prospects in Europe for a large in crease in the beet sugar output and the crop, which forms a little more than one-half of the world’s output, will come into the market In August. Shonts and Stevens Busy. WASHINGTON—Chairman Shonts of the Panama Canal commission, and Mr. Stevens, the newly appointed chief engineer, are in Washington. Both ex pect to leave for Oyster Bay Friday. They will leave for Panama July 18, and Mr. Stevens’ family will follow him in the fall. Mr. Stevens is now considering the question of filling the vacancies in the engineering corps and will familiarize himself with the avail able matter here before he inspects the forces at Panama. No plans will be made till he reaches the isthmus. Will Import Many Laborers. WASHINGTON.—In order to test the capacity for work of Italians, Chi nese and Japanese and also the con tract method of securihg and handling laborers, the Panama Canal commis sion has decided to import 2,000 men of each nationality for a 500-day con tract, subject to renewal. It is the object of the commission to reduce the amount of this sort of labor as much as possible by the introduction of mod ern machinery, but it will be necesr sary to secure several thousand addi tional workmen. DEPEW EXPLAINS - What He Says ef Loan Made By - Equitable. New York.—Senator Chauncey M. Depew has made a statement to the Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune regarding the loan of $250, 000 made by the Equitable society to the Depew Land Improvement com pany on property alleged to have been worth only $150,000, in which he says that he never had advocated or recom mended any such transactions, be cause he was a director of the Equit able. Senator Depew further says: “That loan never could have been made unless the official appraisers of the Equitable had reported after ex amination that $250,000 was only 60 per cent of the property’s value, such being the rule of the society, and that on such a report the officers of the company had unanimously approved it “The Depew Land Improvement company was organized and in opera tion some five years before it was in duced to become a stockholder. It then had about 3,000 inhabitants, and many thriving industries, including the New York Central shops, and con nection with several trunk lines. The company appointed a general manager who built houses, a hotel, opened streets, extended the water and sewer systems and incurred great liabilities in improvements. A few of the larger stockholders formed a plan to pay off all liabilities and provide Working capacity, but the stockhold ers were so numerous, a large num ber living abroad that co-operation could not be secured, and went into the hand of a receiver five years after the Equitable loan. Appraisals of the property has been made by the offi cers and independent persons, the low est valuation being $200,000 over and above all liabilities. If the Equitable and other creditors join and take the property out of the hand of the re ceiver, and put on a going basis, there is no possibility of loss. On the con trary in the judgment of those best acquainted with the property there is a certainty of profit. “A few days before I sailed from New York I placed my resignation as counsel in the hands of Chairman Morton, and I am very glad that he accepted it. I had passed my 71st birthday, and I had made up my mind before I reached 72 to secure some thing of that rest and freedom from incessant work that has been denied me year after year.” GOODS MUST GO BACK. Europe Flooding This Country With Impure Goods. NEW YORK—Secretary 'Wilson of the department of agriculture has sent out an order and circular letter in re gard to a large amount of adulterated foodstuffs imported since the pure food law went into effect and which have been held up because the chemistry department found that all kinds of ad ulteration had been practiced. Secre tary Wilson in this order modifies a former one in which he declared that the goods must be sent back to Europe. The secretary's order which arrived in New York custom house provides that goods already imported shall no* be sent back but may be sold in this coun try. He orders, however, that cans of peas colored with sulphate of copper shall be distinctly labelled so as to show this fact, various strawberry jams shall bear the label reading “ar tificially colored,” and some canned mushrooms must be sold as “stems and scraps.” THE COMING PEACE MEETING. Portsmouth, N. H., Definitely Decided Upon as the Place. WASHINGTON.—Assistant Secre tary Pierce announced that the plepi potentiaries of Russia and Japan had agreed upon Portsmouth, N. H., as the meeting place for the sessions of the peace conference to be held outside of Washington. The sessions will be hid in the government navy yard at Portsmouth in the new building just completed there. Third Assistant Secretary of State Pierce has been specially commis sioned by the president to make all arrangements for the meeting of the plenipotentiaries at Portsmouth and is preparing to leave for that place to confer with the commandant of the navy yard. The meeting will be held ii> the general store house. HAS A FEW MILLIONS LEFT. But Tom Lawson Says He IsjSoing to Give It Baek. MINNEAPOLIS—Thomas W. Law son, the hero of "Frenzied finance,” was the guest of the Minneapolis Com mercial Club and spoke to 300 mem bers of the club after luncheon. “I’m not afraid of personal violence. I came out here unguarded. I have several millions myself and I wronged the American people by getting it. But I did not know it at the time. When the time comes I will give that money back to them.” Morton Cuts' All Salaries. NEW YORK—Sweeping reductions in the salaries of various officials and employes n the Equitable society were announced Thursday by Chair man Morton The decreases will amount to 20 per cent on all salaries $15,000 per annum; 15 pef cent from all annual salaries between $9,000 and $15,000, both inclusive, and 10 per cent d ;crease from all salaries above $2,000 and below $9,000 per year. These changes become operative on August 1 next and effect a saving of from $150,000 to $200,000 a year. Fatal Fight Over School. ANADARKA, Okla,—P. C. Renfrew and Thurston Plowman were killed at Cogar, in Lone Rock township, in a quarrel that is said to have arisen over school matters, according to word re ceived by the sheriff who has sent officers to the scene. -* Hill’s Railway Bill Passes. OTTAWA, Ont.—The Victoria, Van couver & Eastern railway bill passed the senate Thursday and now awaits the royal assent. This is J. J. Hill’s road. BLACKMAR head of Grand? Arnfly Sud denly Passes Away at Boise, Idaho BOISE, Idaho—General W. W. Blackmar, commander-in-chief of the Grand A*my of the Republic, died Sunday of nephritis. His wife was with him during his Illness. The body will be embalmed and taken to the home of the family at Boston. The general arrived here on July 10 on a tour, during which he Intended to visit grand army posts throughout the northwest. He was ill when he arrived and gradually failed. The seriousness of his condition was kept from the public at the request of his wife. General Blackmar was born July 25, 1841, at Bristol, Pa. He enlisted in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry and subsequently joined the First West Virginia. He served with distinc tion throughout the war and at Five Forks was promoted on the field by General Custer to the rank of captain. Throughout three administrations, those of Governors Long, Talbot and Rioe, he was judge advocate general of Massachusetts. At the last nation al encampment of the Grand Army he was elected commander-in-chief. BOSTON.—Except to two or three officials of the Grand Army the news of the death of Chief Blackmar was received with great surprise in this city. The home of General Blagkmar was in this city and since his ele vation to the position of commander in-chief, the headquarters of the or ganization have been here. General Blackmar is succeeded by John R. King of Washington, senior vice com mander. Two weeks ago the commander-in chief broke down and was ordered to his bed in his summer home at Hing ham by his physicians. At the time his indisposition, however, was re garded as slight. On July 7 General Black mar’s condition had apparently improved and it was decided to per mit him to continue his visits to west ern departments, which he had begun early in the year. Assistant Adjutant General E. B. Stillings, commander of Kinsley post No. 113 of this city of which General Blackmar was a member, will leave Boston tomorrow for the west. He will assist Mrs. Blackmar in arranging the funeral, which will probably be held in this city. HINGHAM, Mass.—The news of the death of General Blackmar was ep tirely unexpected by the residents of Hingham, where General Blackmar lived during the summer months. JAPS Will Want Its Formal Cession as Part of Peace Articles. ST. PETERSBURG—Prices rose on thhe Bourse upon the improvement in Russian securities abroad, due to M. Witte’s appointment as chief peace plenipotentiary; According to information received here Japan intends to claim the island of Sakhalin by right of conquest and its formal cession will be one of her unalterable demands. The government has issued another $5,000,000 in paper roubles, the w'hole outstanding paper obligations being $495,000,000 against $647,000,000 in gold. COUNTING ON A RATE WAR. Western Passenger Association Ex pecting It. DULUTH, Minn.—The Western Pas senger association ended its conven tion here and adjourned to meet in Chicago the second Tuesday in Sep tember. Much of the time at the ses sion was taken up by a discussion of the differential rates, but no conclu sive action in regard to them was taken, owing to the fact that three roads of the association—the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash and the Chicago & Alton—were not represented at the meeting. The general opinion is that there is to be a rate war between the Chicago-New York roads. WILL BE AN IDEAL PLACE: Portsmouth Possesses All the Ad vantages of a Bummer Resort. PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—Rear Ad miral Meade, who is in command of the navy yard, said that having had no intimation that the peace confer ence would be held at the navy yard, he could not at this time tell what arrangements would be made for their accommodation. The new general store building Just completed is the largest and most im posing of any in the yard, being four Stories in height and of ample dimen sions. It is of brick and brown stone and at present is not occupied. New Head of Admiralty. LONDON—A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg today an nounces that Vi£e Admiral Birileff has been appointed head of the Russian admiralty in succession to Admiral Avellan, who resigned. Opposes the Boycott. WASHINGTON—Mr. Roekhill, the American minister at Pekin, has ca bled the State department that the Chinese government is vigorously op posing the threatened boycotting of American goods. Forbids Illegal Assemblies. WARSAW— General Maximovich, the governor General, has issued an order forbidding illegal assemblies, processions and gatherings in the streets throughout Poland. The gov ernment now feels strong enough to enforce the fullest order. Streets Full of Troops. TIFLIS, Caucasia—The streets are occupied by troops, but the city has been quiet since the proclamation of martial law. The Official Gazette has resumed Dublication. PREFECT IS KILLED. Genefttf Count Shouvaloff Assassinated While Receiving Petitions. MOSCOW—Major General Count Shouvaloff, prefect of police here, and formerly attached to the ministry of the interior, was assassinated while receiving petitions. One of the petl* tioners drew a revolver and fired five times at the prefect, who fell dead. The assassin was arrested. The assassin who was dressed as a peasant, has no4- yet been identified. He was recently arreted as a political suspect, but escaped from the police station before his examination. The assassin waited in the anteroom of the prefecture and, entering the au dience room, he advanced toward Count Shuvaloff, firing five shots at close range. The bullets passed through the body o! the prefect. WHEAT CROP PHENOMENAL. Harvest in Red Willow Will Exceed the Record. INDIANOLA, Neb.—A grain harvest greater than the big crops of 1891 and 1892 is now being gathered in this country. Binders are running day and night and Sunday. Hundreds of acres are lying in bundles unshocked for want of hands. Good shockers are getting fifty cents per acre. Two hundred to three hundred hands could get good wages in this county alone. It is estimated a great many fields of barley will yield 60 to 75 bushels per acre; wheat and rye 30 to 50 bushels per acre. Three hundred and four hundred-acre fields are a common sight. Corn and other crops are Im mense. PEACE COMMISSION ITINERARY. Will Go to Duluth From Seattle and Thence to Buffalo. ST. PAUL, Minn.—President J. J. Hill of the Northern Pacific railroad is personally arranging the itinerary of the Japanese peace plenipotentiaries in their journey from Seattle to Wash ington. The party, which is headed by Baron Komura, will arrive at Seat tle on the steamer Minnesota July 20. They will travel eastward over the Great Northern to Duluth, where they will embark on the steamer Northwest for Buffalo via the Great Lakes. At BufTalo the party will be taken by the Pennsylvania railroad to Washington, arriving there early in August. SEARCHING FOR A DAUGHTER. Nebraska School Superintendent at Chicago. CHICAGO—A. G. Smith, superin tendent of the Central City, Neb., schools, and Mrs. Smith have come to Chicago and taken apartments at the Saratoga hotel to search for their miss ing daughter. Heartbroken, the par ents declare that they will not return to Nebraska until some trace of their daughter is found. "Florence was such a good girl,” said Mr. Smith. "I cannot understand why she left the young woman’s school —the Deaconess seminary for girls, at Aurora—to come to Chicago. We were educating her there. The last we heard of her was that she started out to earn her own living as a nurse.” Advance in Window Glass. CHICAGO—At a meeting of the western window glass jobbers here the retail price of window glass was advanced -10 per cent. The raise takes effect at once. PEARY NOW READY TO SAIL. Ship Finally Finished and Funds to Carry Him Through. NEW YORK—With $35,000 sub scribed toward his expedition to reach the north pole, Robert E. Perry an nounces that he will sail this week for the north. Commander Peary's new Arctic ship, the Roosevelt, has been waiting several days for supplies which could not be bought on account of the lack of funds. The polar expedition which has been in preparation since October 15, 1904, has cost $150,000, including today’s s' bscription. The entire amount has been donated by American business men to the Pearv Arctic club, whose members are anxious that none but Americans have any hand in this polar expedition. MUST DIE BY HIS OWN HAND. Fate of German Officer Who Drew Black Ball. MARINETTE, Wia.—That he drew the black ball In a duel by lots with a German army officer and that he will be found dead as a result, is the sub stance of a letter Just received by a friend of Victor Van Taske of this city who disappeared July 4. Von Taske, who is a young man, was a bookkeeper. According to the letter his death would result from a dispute of several years ago when he was a German army officer. A duel was pro posed and it was agreed that they draw lots as to who should make away with himself. Von Taske drew the black ball which meant his death by his own hand. # Want Saturday Half Holiday. WASHINGTON.—Four hundred me chanics of the government navy yard met here and appointed a committee of two to confer with the president at Oyster Bay looking to securing from him an order allowing the navy yard employes Saturday half holidays during the summer, as in the case of employes in the executive depart ments. A telegram was sent the president asking when he will see them. President Gompers and Vice President Duncan will accompany the delegates. General Thomas Dies. DALTON, Ga.—General B. M. Thomas died at his home in this city Sunday? Peritonitis was the immedi ate cause of his death. He was a graduate of West Point and a distin guished brigadier general in the con federate army. Pay of Plenipotentiaries. ST. PETERSBURG—The salaries of the Russian peace plenipotentiaries have been fixed at $200 per day each, besides an allowance of $7,500 for traveling and other expenses. GET LAND Uncle Sam Has a Big Slice That He Will Open to Settlement. WASHINGTON—Uncle Sam will soon open to public settlement nearly 1,000,000 acres of the unallotted lands on the Uintah Indian reservation lo cated in Utah. The president’s pro clamation opening the land will be is sued about the end of the present month. The same plan of entry will be followed as in the opening of the Rose bud agency, by registration and draw ing. An act passed by the last session of congress provides that these un allotted lands, excepting such tracts as may have been set aside as nation al forest reserves and such mineral lands as were disposed of by the act of congress of May 27, 1902, shall be entered under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws; each entry is not to exceed 160 acres in area. The law provides further that all lands opened to settlement and en try under this act remaining undis posed of at the expiration of five years shall be sold for cash under terms prescribed by the secretary of the in terior, not more than 640 acres to any person. The vast tract to be opened to set tlement in this reservation is mainly mountainous country and is gener ally believed to be comparatively poor. Its value is said to have no compari son to the land opened and settled upon in the Rosebud Indian country. There are some sections of the coun try, however, that are covered with rich granite deposits. The date of the opening and the places to be designated ^ere the drawing w . take place probably will not be announced before the president issues his proclamation which is ex pected to be made public some time between August 1 and September 1. ! In older to obtain registration each applicant will be required to show himself duly qualified to make home stead entry on the lands under exst ng laws and gve the registering offi cer such appropriate matters of de scription and identity as will protect the applicant and the government against any attempted imposition. Registration cannot be effected through the use of the mails or the employment of an agent, excepting that of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors entitled to the benefits of section 3204 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by an act of congress, approved March 1, 1901. The drawings will be held under the supervision and immediate observance of a committee of three persons whose integrity is such as to make their control of the drawings a guarantee of its fairnpss. At each land office, commencing on the day to be named by the president in his proclamation, the applications of those drawing Nos. 1 to 125, inclu sive, for that land district must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order during the first day, and the applications of those drawing Nos. 125 to 250, inclusive, must be. presented, and will be consid ered in their numerical order during the second day, and so on at that rate until all of the lands subject to entry under the homestead laws have been entered. WITTE SEES THE EMPEROR. Is Given Instructions and Information About Peace Matters. ST. PETERSBURG—M. Witte had a prolonged audience with the em peror at Peterhof., at which the whole subject of the peace negotiations was gone over in detail. The difficulties of the situation were freely discussed and indications were given that his majesty is more apt personally to gov ern M. Witte’s course than the formal instructions which have been given him. M. Witte will leave St. Petersburg next Wednesday for Paris, sailing as previously announced, from Cherbourg July 26, on the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse. Mme. Witte will accompany her hus band as far as Paris, where she will remain for the present, though she. may possibly join M. Witte later in the United States. Brings Suit for Damages. NEW YORK—Denying that the wreck of its fast passenger train near Harrisburg, Pa., on May 11 last, was caused by dynamite or due to negli gence of employes, the Pennsylvania Railroad company filed answer to a suit recently brought by Clarence F. Opper, who asked $50,000 damages for injuries received in 'that wreck. * Mr. Opper stated that he was compelled to walk a long distance in his bare feet and that his hearing was prac tically destroyed by the explosion. Granite Boys Will Entertain. PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—The state of New Hampshire desires to participate in entertaining the Russian and Japan ese peace envoys who are to hold their conferences in this city next month. Edward N. Pearson, secretary of state, will come from Concord Sat urday evening to confer with Assist ant Secretary of State Pierce regard ing arrangements for the accommo dation of the envoys and to tender the assistance of the state. It is ex pected that Mr. Pierce will come to Portsmouth Saturday or Sunday.. , Witte’s Selection Pleases. ST. PETERSBURG—M. Witte’s ap pointment as chief Russian peace plenipotentiary was announced in the Official Messenger “Owing to the serous illness which overtook M. Muravieff on his arrival in St. Petersburg which made it impos sible for him to familiarize himself at short notice with the considerable ma terial connected with the negotiations, his majesty the emperor has been pleased to appoint President of the Committee of Ministers Witte to post oi chief pleniDotentiarv.” JEROME TURNED DOWN AGAIN. 8econd Attempt to Secure State’s Ro Port on Equitable Results. NEW YORK—For a second time within twenty-four hours District At torney Jerome made an unsuccessful attempt to procure from the New York office of the state superintendent of .nsurance an official copy of the super intendent’s report on his investigation of the affairs of the Equitable Life Assurance society. The report has been made public at Albany last night Mr. Jerome's personal representative, Assistant District Attorney Garvan, went to the office of Deputy Insurance Commissioner Huntertoday bearing a long letter from the district attorney, together with a formal demand for an official copy of the document. Mr. Garvan and Mr. Hunter were closeted for more than half an hour, and when the assistant attorney emerged from the office he was empty-handed. He admitted that he did not get the de sired document, but refused to discuss what took place at the conference: District Attorney Jerome said he would inform the government of the failure of the insurance department here to turn the Equitable testimony over to the district attorney’s office promised. SHORT LINES TO BE BUILT. Some Union Pacific Extensions in Nebraska. CHICAGO—Julius Krutschnitt, di rector of maintenance and operation of the Harriman system, says: “The Union Pacific and Southern Pa cifi roads will build a number of short lines from points where they seem feasible and paying. We are engaged in surveying and looking over a num ber of proposed extensions in the wesl, but have definitely decided on very few as yet.” The Union Pacific may use the Burlington stub from Hastings to Kearney, Neb., in connection with the new line from Kansas City which is being built. However, that point is not settled and the Union Pacific may use the tracks of the St. Joseph & Grand Island from Hastings to Grand Island to connect with the main line instead of using the Burlington to Kearney. FRANCE GIVES HER CONSENT. Will Participate in Conference on Morocco Affairs. PARIS—Premier Rouvier and Prince von Radolin, the German ambassador, reached an agreement relative to the communications to be exchanged be tween France and Germany regarding Morocco. France consents to partici pate in a conference, having been as sured in the course of the negotiations that her interests will be safeguarded. The official notes on the subject will be communicated to the chamber of deputies probably on Monday. Information obtained in diplomatic quarters shows that it has practically been settled that the conference will be held at Tangier. STRONGEST MAN THEY HAVE. Czar Formally Appoints M. Witte Peace Plenipotentiary. ST. PETERSBURG—Emperor Nich olas has assigned the appointment of M. Witte, president of the committee of ministers, to be chief plenipoten tiary representing the Russian govern ment in the peace negotiations to be conducted next month iD the United States. The appointment which was signed after midnight, clothes M. Witte with plenary powers. Official notification of the designa tion of M. Witte to head the mission was forwarded to Washington this morning. M. Witte will take passage on the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse which sails from Cherbourg July 26. Rebates to Grain Dealers. WASHINGTON — The inter-state commerce commission proposes to conduct an investigation in St. Louis, beginning uly 22, into the question of alleged allowances made by railroads to companies or persons owning 'grain elevators or by ruch companies or per sons owning elevators to shippers of grain. WELCOMES THE INNOVATION. Premier Balfour Says He Favors President’s Suggestion. LONDON—In the house of commons Mr. Robertson asked Premier Balfour whether there had been any further international conference proposed by President Roosevelt, and whether the government was prepared to agree tc the president’s proposal to include in the subjects for discussion the ques tion of making private property not contraband of war free from capture or destruction. Mr. Balfour replied that the government cordially wel comed the proposal of President Roosevelt, but Great Britain, in com mon with other nations, reserved the right Of considering what should be submitted to the conference. . GEN. ST0ES9EL UNDER ARREST. Held Because of Result of Investiga tion of Port Arthur Fight. ST. PETERSBURG—The Nasha shism prints a roport that Lieutenant General Stoessel has been placed under arrest at Tsarskoe Selo in cons? quence of the revelations made by the commission which has been invest! gating the defense and capitulation oi Port Arthur and that the sword oi honor donated by a number of French admirers of General Stoessel will nol be presented. Washington Lawyer Gets Place. WASHINGTON—President Roose velt has named D. W. Baker of this city for United States attorney foi th » District of Columbia. The appoint ment will ta..e efTect upon the retire ment of District attorney Morgan H Beach on August 31. Car,“' Employe Has Fever. WASHINGTON—Gov. Magoon ci tt'e canal zone cabled that Alfred W Provo, an American employe, wat stricken with vellow fever at Corozal July 4. STOLEN OEMS HARD TO~SELL. Man Who Stole Tiffanv n;-. In athhCred- * WMte ^'e°hant"d* ^ °P>nion of Detective "Char the great* Ti?’ ^ “an Who e,at Tlffany diamonds has a ^hite elephant of prodigious si7* 0n his hands. While the stones represent a ortune in themselves, there is ^ sohitely no way in which the thief , “ hdlSp0?,e 0f them w ithout subject ing himself to immediate capture The only satisfaction left him is to ga'e at the gems in the solitude of his home and weave dreams about great possibihties contained in those three sparkling bits of carbon. All the diamond cutters in the world may be numbered on the fin "TbAb0th handS’” said Heidelberg. They have all received accurate de scriptions of the stones and if they are presented to any of these experts to be cut, the person in whose custody they are will immediately be arrested tha?°“e d3yS 380 lt was sported that there was a diamond cutting ex Pf* !n Pittsburg who had not been included in the official list. An inves tigation was made at once and the re port proved to be false. There is one cutter in Chicago, but none nearer. The description of the missing gems has been scattered broadcast, and so much publicity given to the matter that even the most daring ‘fence’ would not take the diamonds at a tithe of their value. In my opinion, the theft was not the work of an outsider,” added the detective. "The stones were taken by some one in the store who was famfliar with the methods of the es tablishment. CORN BREAD FAR THE BEST. The Little Used as Food in Country Where It Is Indigenous. “It is a great pity.” said Judge Hutchings of Muskogee. I. T., “that the great mass of American people fail to appreciate the marvelous nutritive value of corn bread, which is the sure enough ‘staff of life’ and which is far and away superior to the bread that is made of wheat or any other kind of grain. I am saying this not from an academic view-point, but from person al knowledge, based on years of obser vation and experience. “Any old hunter will tell you that corn bread fed to his foxhounds will enable them to pursue the game long er and farther than any other food, and it is the universal rule of owners of packs to give their dogs all the corn bread they can eat before start ing on the chase instead of meat or wheat bread. The tremendously long journeys that our North American In dians have been known to make afoot could never have been accomplished on any other kind of rations. “The man who eats corn bread regu larly may not know it, but he is fol lowing a dietary system that is ideal. Corn bread gives strength to the sys tem, promotes good digestion and is an invaluable ally to nature. It is better far than the rice that the little Japs depend on for sustenance, and yet in the land that is the home of corn the people ignore its virtues.”— Washington Post. Bath in Goldfield. “All trouble and inconvenience growing out of the scarcity of water in the new mining camps of Nevada is rapidly disappearing,” remarked Oscar J. Smith, lawyer and capitalist of Reno. “They have quite as much water in Goldfield now as will satisfy the requirements of the camp. I was down at Goldfield recently, and notic ing a sign on a building which pro claimed the fact that baths were to be had there I went in and announced that I would like to get a bath. The fellow in charge handed me a ticket and took my money. “ ‘Well, see here,’ said I, ‘I don’t want a bath ticket. I want a bath.’ “ ‘Oh, you’ll get a bath all right,' and the bathhouse manager. ‘Let me see your ticket, No. 813. There are about 812 people ahead of you. Come arolind in about three or four weeks.’ ” —San Francisco Chronicle. A Proper Distinction. Here is a story that the Rev. Mox om of Springfield tells of John Fiske, which illustrates his frankness: It seems that one day his wife had to report to him that their son had been guilty of calling Mrs. Jones, a neighbor, a fool and Mr. Jones a much worse fool. Prof. Fiske sent for the youngster, and when he appeared in the library said to him sternly: “My son, is it true that you said Mrs. Jones was a fool?” Hanging his head the boy replied: “Yes, father, I did.” “And did you call Mr. Jones a worse fool?” “Yes, father.” After a moment’s reflection the fam ous historian said slowly: “Well, my son, that is Just about the distinction I should make.”—Boston Record. Where the Gang Rules. Col. Sheldon Pot ter,; who represents feformed Philadelphia in the headship of the city’s police department, was talking at a dinner party about gang rule and municipal corruption. “Gang rule,” he said, “encourages bad habits, drunkenness, a hundred evils. This was well shown in a school board meeting in a New Eng land town. Corruption in that town was rampant, and in consequence dis sipation was rampant, too. “Well, at the school board meeting I speak of it was said that the clerk long before the night’s business end ed was signing checks with the whisky and drinking the ink.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.__ How to Water Plants. It is much wiser to give plenty of water once every few days than a lit tle each day. The latter method keeps the surface moist and the roots nat urally rise for the moisture, so that they are near the surface and will be injured by the heat of the following day. Give enough water to go deep, or else just enough to wash the leaves. The amateur should be preference water at night, for then the moisture has a chance to do its good work be fore evaporation starts under the heat of the sun’s rays, as it does almost at once when watering is done in the morning.—Garden Magazine.