PROCLAIMS
President Restores 85,000
Acres of Unitah Lands
to Public Entry.
WASHINGTON—The president has
modified his proclamation of August 5
withdrawing from entry certain lands
in the Uintah Indian reservation and
has restored about 85,000 acres. Fol
lowing is the interior department’s
official statement of the action taken:
The act of March 3, 1905, provides:
“That before the opening of the Uin
tah Indian reservation the president
may set apart and reserve any reser
voir site or other lands necessary to
conserve and protect the water sup
ply for the Indians or for general agri
cultural development.”
Accordingly the United States Geo
logical survey, after investigation,
made report to the secretary of the
interior recommending that certain
described lands covering over 200,000
acres, including a large quantity of
agricultural lands, be reserved under
Baid provision of law. Upon this rec
ommendation the acting secretary of
the interior requested the president to
issue his proclamation making such
reservation, and accordingly the pres
ident issued his proclamation of Au
gust 5 1905.
Subsequently complaints having
reached the department that the said
agricultural lands properly should not
be included in said reservation, Mr.
Ryan, the acting secretary, took the
subject up for further consideration
and directed the United States Geo
logical survey to make a supplemental
report stating speciflically whether
the reservation of these agricultural
lands is necessary for “the conserva
tion and protection of a water sup
ply”
This supplemental report has been
made add shows that the reservation
of these lands is not necessary for
that purpose, but that they were in
cluded in the survey’s original report
on the assumption that the act au
thorized their reservation for "agri
cultural development," which was
specifically stated in it. The acting
secretary decided that their reserva
tion was made only “if necessary to
conserve and protect the water sup
ply,” and requested the president to
■release them from reservation, which
was done today by supplemental proc
lamation that now these agricultural
lands are subject to disposition in the
manner provided by the law'.
WHAT THE BOYCOTT WILL DO
Expected to Force Down the Price of
Breadstuffs.
CHICAGO—“Dual Tariff" in all
probability is the war cry that will
ring through the United States for
some years to come instead of the fa
miliar call for reciprocity.
The new slogan means the passage
of a “maximum and minimum" tariff
law permitting the establishment of
reciprocal trade relations with friend
ly foreign countries by the vote of ,
congress.
Alvin H. Sanders, chairman of the
national reciprocity conference, which
opened its two-days’ session at the
Illinois theater, is credited with orig
inating the war cry. Mr. Sanders
broached his suggestion to a few
friends after the word “reciprocity”
had received some rough handling on
the floor of the convention, and it met
approval among the delegates.
NEW TARIFF CRY
Maximum and Minimum the Slogan at
Chicago.
- MINNEAPOLIS — President J. J.
Hill of Great Northern road, who re
turned Sunday night from New York,
gave out a short interview upon the
crop situation and the trade prospects
for the coming year:
“If the Chinese boycott prevents
the export of our flour to China this
will force about 20,000,000 bushels of
wheat into other markets, mainly in
Europe, the effect of wrhich will be the
reduction of prices there, and in that
way it will effect the prices of bread
stuffs in all the wheat growing sec
tions of the United States.”
GETTING HIS HANDS FREE.
Secretary Root Severing Hie Connec
tion with Corporations.
NEW YORK—Secretary of State
Elihu Root, who recently entered
President Roosevelt's cabinet, has sev
ered, says the Times today, all con
nections with a number of financial
institutions of which he has been a
director. Mr. Root recently resigned.
It became known yesterday, from the
boards of the Morton Trust company,
the National Bank of Commerce, the
Continental Fire Insurance company,
the Title Guaranty & Trust company,
and several other corporations.
Cadets on Practice March.
WEST POINT, N. Y.—The cadet
rifle team started on Friday for Sea
Girt, N. J., where it will participate
in the national rifle competition on
August 2. The entire corps of cadets
will cross the Hudson river on Satur
day to Garrison, whence they will en
ter upon a five days’ practice march,
which will be devoted to practical mili
tary exercises. It is intended to make
the trip one purely of instruction.
Everything will conform as closely as
possible to the actual conditions ob
taining in the time of war.
Asks Receiver for Bank.
DENVER—Attorney Edwin H. Park,
for William Corbett and others, filed a
suit in the distrct court on Friday
asking for the appointment of a re
ceiver for the Denver Savings bank.
Fraud, connivance, disregard of the
Colorado laws regarding savings banks
and illegal preference for certain de
positors on the part of the bank's of
cers are the allegations in the com
plaint. It is charged that Leonard B.
Imboden and associate obtained from
the bank, on questionable securities,
Joans appregating $656,000.
DEADLOCK IS ON
Enjoys Discuss Articles Without Re*
suit
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—The crisis
in the peace conference has been
reached and pessimism is again the
note. But the darkest hour is just be
fore the dawn and there is still hope.
Predictions of a final rupture tomor
row certainly will not be justified un
less Baron Komura figuratively picks
up his hat and announces that it is
useless to proceed farther. M. Witte
at least will not be precipitate. At to
morrow’s session after article ii (the
limitation of Russia’s sea power in
the far east) and article xii (fishing
right on the littoroal) are disposed of
he will favor an adjournment until
Monday to hear the last word from SL
Petersburg.
Pessimism is based on the fact that
no progress was made during the day.
The exchange of views at the morn
ing session on article ix (remunera
tion for the “cost of the war’’) show
ed at once that the plenipotentiaries
were as far apart as the poles, and it
was passed over. Article x (the sur
render of the interned Russian war
ships) was also passed, not in the
opinion of one of the present plenipo
tentiaries when the Associated Press
correspondent saw him last night, be
cause within the shadow of the two
main points in dispute hanging over
the conference both sides were cau
tious and preferred to postpone it to
the end.
Article ii (limitation of sea power)
is also adjustable after modification
and article xii will present no difficul
ties. So that last night the situation
was practically where it was when M.
Witte last Saturday presented the
Russian reply with its non possuims
on articles v and ix (Sakhalin and in
demnity).
The only chance is now compromise
—Russia to yield Sakhalin and Japan
indemnity. Neither will yield both and
perhaps Japan at the final showing of
hands will yield neither. M. Witte, un
der the imperial instructions given
him before he left St. Petersburg, can
agree neither to pay war tribute nor
cede a foot of Russian territory. St.
Petersburg therefore in the last resort
remains to be heard from. Doubtless
this is the reason why he prefers a
postponement tomorrow over Sunday.
Baron Komura probably will welcome
an adjournment of two days in order
that he also may lay the situation be
fore his government before its final
decision,
ALONG THE LINE OF BATTLE.
Japanese Report Three Minor Rus
sian Attacks Repulsed.
TOKIO—An official report says:
“Early in August 14. in the direction
of Chantu, a Russian force consisting
of a battalion of infantry, two sec
tions of cavalry, eight field guns and
six machine guns, attacked our posi
tion at Erhshiplipa eight miles north
of Changtu, but was immediately re
pulsed. Our casualties amounted to
one and the Russians lost thirty-five.
“Simultaneously, three companies
of infantry and two squadrons of cav
alry attacked us eight miles north
west of Changtu. This attack was re
pulsed and at 2:30 o'clock the Rus
sians retreated northward.
“The Russians also made a small
attack on Wei Huan Paelen, which
was repulsed.'*
TRIES TO KILL A PRESIDENT.
Attempt Hade on Life of Argentine
Executive.
WASHINGTON—Minister Beaupre
at Buenos Ayres cables the State de
partment that a laborer named
Blanas Vicello attempted to assassi
nate President Manuel Quintana as
the president’s carriage was passing
Reitro park. The assailant rushed
from behind a monument with a re
volver in his hand, but the presi
dent’s aide-de-camp threw himself
from the carriage upon the assailant,
overpowered him and prevented him
from shooting.
BRADSTREET REVIEW OF TRADE
Outlook for Fall Business in All Lines
is Promising.
NEW YORK—Bradstreet’s Saturday
will say:
Fall trade, while not yet under full
headway, is steadily gathering force.
Buyers are more numerous. Good
weather for harvesting and threshing,
except in portions of the northwest,
continue to bring favorable results in
both spring and winter sown grains.
Combined cereals will probably excel
all past years in quantity and quality.
Relatively high prices for agricultural
products, manufactured materials and
staple articles do not deter buying op
erations. Collections, on the whole,
have improved slightly and even in
the south, except in a small area of
the fever-infected zone, trade and col
lections are alike better than antici
pated earlier, while the west and east
also return more favorable advices.
Currency shipments to the country are
increasing, but have had no particular
effect on money rates as yet.
Dunne Stops the Digging.
CHICAGO—Practically all construc
tion work on the underground tunnels
of the Illinois Tunnel company was
stopped Friday by the order of Mayor
Dunne and no work will be permitted
to go on until the company devises
some metehod of constructing its con
nections, by-passes and drifts to pre
vent the danger of sinking of build
ings and the settling of streets. It
was deemed necessary to take some
immediate steps to protect the office
buildings and streets from the results
of the undermining.
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Russia Postpones Meeting.
WASHINGTON—-The state depart
ment has been informed that the Rus
sian government has postponed for
one year the meeting of the fifth in
ternational congress of obstetrics and
gynecology.
Russian Securities Stronger.
ST. PETERSBURG—Russian values
stiffened on the bourse Wriday. Fours,
whieh advanced % Thursday, showed
a similar increase Friday and closed
firm at 85%.
END IS NEAR
Peace Conference Will De
cide Matters One Way or
the other This Week
PORTSMOUTH, N. H. — The
chances of peace have undoubtedly
been Improved by President Roose
velt’s action in stepping into the
breach in a last heroic endeavor to in
duce the warring countries to com
promise their irreconcilable differen
ces, but the result is still in suspense.
The ultimate decision of the issue
has de facto, if not de jure, passed
from the plenipotentiaries to their
principals in St. Petersburg and in a
lesser extent to Tokio. Collateral evi
dence that pressure, both by President
Roosevelt and neutral powers, includ
ing Great Britain, whose minister, Sir
Claude McDonald, according to ad
vices received here, had a long con
ference this morning with Mr. Kat
sura, the Japanese prime minister, is
still being exerted at Tokio to induce
Japan to moderate its demands. There
is also reason to believe that Presi
dent Roosevelt was able at his inter
view with Baron de Rosen to prac
tically communicate to the latter’s
Benior, M. Witte, Japan’s irreducible
minimum—what it would yield, but
the point beyond which it would not
go.
M hether an actual basis of compro
mise was proposed by the president
cannot be stated definitely. The only
thing that can be affirmed positively
is that if Russia refuses to act upon
the suggestion or proposition of Pres
ident Roosevelt the peace conference
will end in failure.
Little encouragement is given in the
Russian camp. Baron de Rosen reach
ed here after an all-night ride from
Oyster Bay and immediately went into
conference with M. Witte. They re
mained closeted together for almost
three hours, during which time the
whole situation w-as reviewed. Baron
de Rosen communicated to his chief
the president’s message and it was
transmitted to the emperor, together
with M. Witte's recommendation. No
clue to the nature of this recommen
dation has transpired.
The Japanese, it is firmly believed,
cling to the substance if not the form
of the demand for remuneration for
“the cost of the war.”
Perhaps they are willing to decrease
the sum asked, but substantial com
pensation under whatever guise it is
obtained they decline to relinquish.
And they are also firm upon the ces
sion of Sakhalia.
The Japanese as usual are reticent
and it is impossible to obtain from
them the least indication of their view
of the change in the situation pro
duced by the president's action.
GRAND ARMY APPOINTMENTS.
Commander King Announces Arrange
ments for Encampment.
BOSTON—Commander-in-Chief Joe
R. King of the Grand Army of the
Republic issued Friday from the na
tional headquarters an announcement
of three women to be honorary aides
on his staff at the national encamp
ment to be held in Denver. The ap
pointees are Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood
of Ohio and Mrs. Sarah E. Fuller and
Mrs. Elizabeth Turner of Massachu
setts, all of whom are past national
presidents of the Women’s Relief
Corps. This is the first time that
women have served upon the staff of
the commander-in-chief. S. W. Back
us and C. W. Mason, both past senior
vice commanders-in-chief, of San Fran
cisco, and George Stone, past depart
ment commander, of San Francisco,
are appointed a committee in further
ance of the resolutions adopted at the
last national encampment relative to
changing the State Soldiers’ Home at
Youngsville, Cal., to a national sol
diers’ home.
Iowa Tennis Champion.
ROCK VALLEY, la.—By defeating
Baker of Sioux City Walter T. Hayes
of Toledo won the title of tennis
champion of Iowa.
APPLETON WAS A FINANCIER.
Appleyard’s. Clerk Has $50 and Owes
$292,677.
BOSTON — Liabilities of $292,677
and assets of $50 were scheduled in a
petition in bankruptcy filed here by
George B. Appleton, of Cambridge.
Appleton was a clerk in the office of
Arthur E. Appleyard, the street rail
way promoter, who is now contesting
extradition to the state of New York,
where he is wanted on a charge of
grand larceny from a Buffalo bank.
Appleton, it appears, also figured as
treasurer of various Appleyard roads
in Ohio, and he held stocks in those
railways, including the Ohio Traction
company and the Dayton, Lebanon &
Cincinnati Railway company.
Fraud is Charged.
STEUBENVILLE, O.—Eight suits
of a sensational character were filed
In court here by Edward Nicholson
and others of this city against the
Vera Cruz Development company of
Canton, O., and Its officers, directors
and special agents, allegeing that
fraudulent representations had been
made to induce them to purchase in
terests in the company and that acts
>f the defendants were part of a gen
eral scheme to induce the plaintiffs to
purchase shares in the La Esmeralda
rubber plantation.
Safeguarding Crews.
WASHINGTON—The Navy depart
ment has approved recommendations
which were made by the naval board
on construction with a view to safe
guarding the crews of the submarine
torpedo boats. The board recommend
ed that submarine boats maneuver in
water not more than eight fathoms
deep and that they be provided with
lifting shackles and be accompanied
by a vessel provided with lifting ap
paratus, so that the submarine may
be promptly brought to the surface
should any accident occur.
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KANEKO SEES ROOSEVELT.
Visit Is in Relation to Proceedings
at Portsmouth.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y.—President
Roosevelt's only visitor Saturday was
Baron Kaneko, who studiously con
ceals his precise mission, but is
known to be a confidential representa
tive in this country of the Japanese
government. This was tfce fourth
visit to the president in a few weeks,
and the second within a week. Rea
sons developed for the statement that
Baron Kaneko’s call had relation to
the proceedings of the peace confer
ence at Portsmouth, although it ap
pears likewise reasonably certain that
he did not come as the representative
of the Japanese envoys. He is known
to be in direct communication with
the Tokio government. Whether he
was the bearer of messages from
Jaran to the president is not known,
but he came on his own initiative,
the president not being aware of his
coming until his arrival.
Baron Kaneko arrived on an after
noon train from New York and ac
companied Secretary Barnes to Saga
more Hill at 4:30 p. m. President
Roosevelt and the members of his
family, who were absent from home
during the greater part of the day,
had not returned when the baron ar
rived and did not arrive for some time
afterward. The president and Baron
Kaneko had an extended conference,
but nothing was disclosed concerning
it, neither of the participants caring
to make any statement about it.
Baron Kaneko left for New York at
8 o’clock.
LOWWER IMPLEMENT TARIFF.
Russia to Make Important Conces
sions to America.
ST. PETERSBURG—The Associat
ed Press is informed that M. Witte
soon will make an official announce
ment in America of a reduction by
Russia in the duties on American ma
chinery, tools, etc., which have been
operative since 1901. Ambassador
Meyer secured this concession after
extended negotiations with the minis
tries of finance and foreign affairs.
Through Ambassador Meyer the
United States proposed to Russia a
commercial arrangement between the
two countries under section 3 of the
tariff act of 1897. This was agreed
to, and in anticipation of such an ar
rangement Russia decided upon the
reduction.
LORD CURZON QUITS
Viceroy of India Cables His Resigna
tion to the King.
LONDON—The resignation of Lord
Curzon of Kedleston, as the viceroy of
India, and the appointment of the Earl
of Minto as his successor, was an
nounced at the India office. According
to the correspondence, which is issued
in the form of a white book, it appears
that Lord Curzon's resignation was
cabled to that office on August 12. The
correspondence shows decidedly bitter
feeling between Lord Curzon, the
India office and Lord Kitchener, com
mander in chief of the forces in India,
over the new plan of army administra
te in India. Lord Curzon’s dissatis
faction came to a head with the re
fusal of the cabinet to appoint Major
General Sir Edmund Barrow, on Lord
Curzon’s recommendation, military
supply member of the council.
PLATFORM GIVES WAY
Men, Women and Children Precipi
tated Into the Basement.
PITTSBURG, Pa —More than 500
men, women and children were preci
pitated fifteen feet into a cellar by the
collapse of a platform Sunday during
the exercises incident to the laying of
the cornerstone of the Beth David
Russin Hebrew orthodox synagogue on
Miller street, near Washington.
Nearly all of them were cut and
bruised, but it is believed none is fa
tally hurt.
Three rabbis were among those who
went down, and, although injured, they
concluded the ceremony after the
panic had subsided.
Got Papers by Fraud.
WASHINGTON—Reports received
by Chief Wilkie of the United States
secret service, state that about twenty
arrests have been made on the Pacific
coast of alien officers of American
ships charged with having obtained
their licenses as ship officers on nat
uralization papers obtained through
fraud. These papers it ip stated in
the . reports,, were obtained by the aid
of a group of foreigners who falsely
testified regarding residence for citi
zenship.
Dies at 101 Years.
FREDERICTON, N. B—Hon. David
Wark, the oldest legislator in the
world, died at his home in this city
Sunday. Mr. Wark was a member of
the Canadian senate at Ottawa, a life
office. One hundred and one years
and six months was his age.
New Loan Authorized.
ST. PETERSBURG—An Imperial
ukase, was issued formally authoriz
ing the issuance of the new internal
loan of $100,000,000 at 5 per cent.
De Martens Gives Up Hope.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—Mr. De
Martens has abandoned, evidently, all
expectations of seeing a treaty of
peace concluded at this time. He tel
egraphed his wife saying he hoped to
be able to sail for home next week.
Discussion Not Permitted.
HONG KONG—The application of
the Chinese Commercial union in this
city to meet and discuss the anti
American boycott has been refused by
Sir Matthew Nathan, governor of the
colony.
Up to Its Capacity.
WASHINGTON—Chairman Shonts
of the Isthmian Canal commission has
returned to Washington from a trip
to the isthmus. He finds that the
Panama railroad was operated to only
60 per cent of its capacity, and in
tends that this shall be corrected at
once.
Turks Favor Armenians.
CONSTANTINOPLE—An imperial
ukase was issued restoring to the Ar
menians their school and church prop
erty in the Caucasus.
MANIFESTO
Czar of Russia Takes a Step
That Meets With his
People’s Approval
ST. PETERSBURG—Russia’s na
tional representative assembly, the
fruit of decades of stress and striv
ing for reform which endows the Rus
sian people with the right of being
consulted through their chosen repre
sentatives in the suggestion, prepara
tion and repeal of legislation, today
takes its place among the fundamen
tal institutions of the empire.
In a solemn manifesto Emperor
Nicholas announces to his subjects
the fruition of his plans summoning
the representatives of the people, as
outlined by him in a rescript issued
on March 3 last, and fixes the date for
the first convocation as mid-January
and in a ukas addressed to the sen
ate formally orders that body to reg
ister as the imperial will a law pro
ject formulting the nature, powers
and procedure of the new governmen
tal organization.
The manifesto, ukase and project
are published in special editions of
the Official Messenger In St. Peters
burg and Moscow. They will be given
out for publication at noon to all
newspapers throughout the empire,
many of which are preparing to issue
extra editions to signalize a momen
tous historical event, overshadowing
in importance the liberation of the
serfs in 1861. The date of the occa
sion has been happily chosen with
due regard to the poetical symbolism
so dear to the Russian heart, for on
this day is celebrated the religious
feast of the transfiguration of Christ,
with the bringing to the church of the
first fruits of the new harvest.
The national assembly will be a
consultative organization, in connec
tion with the council of the empire,
and not a legislative body. The pow
ers of the emperor remain theoretic
ally absolute. As the emperor is the
supreme law-giver and autocrat, the
decisions of the council have only a
recommendatory and not a binding
force, though the rejection of any leg
islative measures by a two-thirds ma
jority of both houses is sufficient to
prevent that measure from becoming
law. The representatives of the peo
ple will have not only the right to be
heard on any legislation proposed by
the government, but also can voice
their desires on new laws and will
have the right to exert a certain su
pervision over budgetary expendi
tures.
FEDERAL CONTROL IS LEGAL
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Ralph W. Beckenridge Favors It For
Insurance Companies.
DENVER, Colo.—Ralph W. Breck
enridge of Omaha, chairman of the in
surance committee of the American
bar association, delivered an address
on “Federal Supervision of Insurance”
before the national insurance agents’
convention. He made a strong plea for
federal control of insurance. He said
the insurance companies are handled
by state collectors as sheep to be
shorn, their money being wanted to
pay political debts and the people’s in
terests going uncared for. Mr. Breck
enridge quoted the statutes to prove
that federal control of insurance is
constitutional and is perfectly legal.
SEED MEN FORM A NEW UNION
Societies Co-Operate to Secure Legal
Action and Favorable Rulings.
WASHINGTON—At a meeting here
of representatives of the American
Association of Nurserymen, the Ameri
can Seed Trade association and the
Society of American Florists and Orna
mental Horticulturists, an organiza
tion was formed with F. R. Pierson of
Tarrytown, N. Y., chairman, and
Charles N. Page, of Des Moines, la.,
secretary, for the purpose of co-oper
ating in all matters of mutual interest.
Among the subjects agreed upon for
such co-operation were the securing
of legislation favorable to one or more
members of the allied association; the
defeat of legislation unafovarble to
either association; the securing of fa
vorable ruling by collectors of customs
regarding imports of seeds, plants,
bulbs, trees and horticultural mer
chandise and supplies; a discontin
uance of government free seed distri
bution.
Yaqui Indians for Peace.
MEXICO CITY—It is reported that
the Yaqui Indians of Sonoma, tired
of long disastrous warfare carried on
against the government, are now ask
ing peace and that the negotiations
are actually being carried on looking
to that much desired end. The war
carried on against the Yaquis’ has
done incalculable damage to the state
of Sonora and has retarded the de
velopment of its resources to a great
er extent than is generally believed.
Stand By the Eight-Hour Day
TORONTO,’ Ont.—The convention
of the International Typographical
union decided to meet in Colorado
Springs next year. At the afternoon
session of the International Typo
graphical union the eight-hour com
mittee presented its report, which en
dorses the eight-hour campaign now
being waged and recommends a strike
on Jan. 1, 1906. against employers who
do not accept the new hours laid down
by the union. Samuel Gompers com
mended the stand the un:on has taken
on the eight-hour fight.
Fish Trust Files Answer.
COLUMBUS, O.—A. Booth & Co.
of Chicago, a corporation popularly
designated “The Fish Trust,” against
which a suit in ouster was recently
filed by the attorney general on the
grounds that it was in restraint of
trade, filed an amended answer in the
circuit court. The answer admits
that the defendant is incorporated
under the laws of Illinois with a cap
ital stock of $5,500,000 and that it
has purchased twenty-four fish com
panies. The answer denies it is a
trust in restraint of business.
GRAIN RATE WAR IS ENDED.
Figt Over Schedules Brought to a
Finish by Conference.
OMAHA—The grain rate war was
short lived. Traffic managers of all
western and southern lines got to
gether in Chicago Thursday, after
the announcement of the cut by the
Chicago Great Western, and the an
nouncement of the intended further
cut by the Burlington, and decided
upon rates from the Missouri river
points to Chicago, St. Paul and St.
Louis. The new rates form a reduc
tion of 1% cents, of just the same as
the first cut by the Chicago Great
Western. The rates are now 10%
cents on wheat and 9% cents on com
to Chicago and 1 cent less than that
from Omaha to Minneapolis and St.
Paul, and 3 cents less from Omaha to
St. Louis.
Railroads still pay the same ele
vator charges, but they will pay them
but twice instead of three times as
formerly. They will now pay 1%
cents at each end of the haul. The
new rates will be effective August 19,
and stopped what, for a time, looked
like a grain rate war of large propor
tions.
KOREANS MAKE COMPLAINT
Tell the President Japan Has Treated
Them Badly.
ASBURY PARK, N. J —The two
Koreans, Syngman Rhee of Seoul, and
the Rev. P. M. Yoon of Hawaii, who
recently presented President Roose
velt a memorial, made public the de
tails of this memorial. The petition
says that the Koreans made a treaty
with the Japanese for offensive and
defensive purposes and that Korea
was opened to the Japanese armies.
Japan in appreciation of this, was to in
troduce reforms in governmental ad
ministration along the lines of the
modern civilization of Europe and
America. The petition says the Japan
ese government has done nothing to
ward improving the condition of the
Korean people. On the contrary, it is
declared in the memorial, Japan has
turned loose several thousand rough
and disorderly men in Korea who are
treating the inoffensive Koreans in an
outrageous manner.
NEAR THE BREAKING POINT
Auglo-German Relations Are Badly
Strained.
BERLIN—According to several high
officials of the government, Prince von
Buelow, the imperial chancellor, who
left Nordorney, where he was spend
ing his vacation, for Berlin, went to
the castle of Wilhelmshoehe to see
Emperor William. Dr. von Muchlen
berg. under secretary of the foreign
office, who left Berlin for a vacation of
several weeks, was suddenly recalled
to join the chancellor at Wilhelm
shoehe.
The reason for these movements is
so far only the subject of conjecture,
but it is known that the relations be
tween Great Britain and Germany
have recently been on the point of
breaking to an extent beyond the
knowledge of the public.
Precisely what happened has not
been learned, but a serious situation
existed; indeed, it has not yet been
dissipated. The British government ap
pears to hold the conviction that the
German emperor is seeking to form a
European combination against Great
Britain.
TO INVESTIGATE IN OCTOBER.
Western States to Take Peep in on
Insurance Matters.
ST. PAUL, Minn.—State Insurance
Commissioner O’Brien returned from
New York and confirmed the report
that the investigation of the big east
ern insurance companies by insur
ance departments of seyeral western
states, including Minnesota, will not
commence before October. The first
company to be investigated will be
the New York Life, and it will be
followed by the others if the showing
of the New York Life demands it. He
explained:
“The proposed investigation was de
layed to allow the New York legisla
tive committee, which is now at work,
to proceed unhampered with drafting
new legislation for the future conduct
of all life companies.’’
RUSSIA TO REDUCE DUTIES
M. Witte May Make Announcement of
This Soon.
ST. PETERSBURG—The Asso
ciated Press is informed that M. Witte
will soon make an official announce
ment in America of a reduction by
Russia in the duties on American ma
chinery, tools, etc., which have been
operative since 1901.
Ambassador Meyer secured this con
cession after extended negotiations
with the ministries of finance and for
eign affairs. Through Ambassador
Meyer, the United States proposed to
Russia a commercial arrangement be
tween the two countries under section
3 of the tariff act of 1897. This was
agreed to and, in anticipation of such
an arrangement, Russia decided on
the reduction.
Indians Committing Depredation*.
SANTA FE. N. M.—Word was re
ceived at the headquarters of the
New Mexico rangers in this city that
Apache Indians from Arizona are com
mitting depredations in southwestern
Socorro county on the McGollon re
serve. Considerable stock has been
taken from the settlers, who*have or
ganized a posse and are now pursuing
the Indians. The latter are believed
to be under the leadership of Apache
Kid. A courier from the posse re
ports that the pursuers surprised the
Indians.
Linevitch’s Big Army.
LONDON—The Telegraph’s Japan
ese correspondent at Moji says Gener
al Linevitch’s defense works are now
complete. His troops number between
400,000 and 500,000. Train loads of
troops are arriving from Russia and
many are being sent to the Tumen.
Chire*e Boycott Weakening.
SHANGHAI—The boycott against
American goods is evidently weaken
ing and the intended mission of for
mer Minister Conger Is considered to
be entirely superfluous.
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A GIFT FROM THE ENEMY.
Young Russian’s Pathetic Gratitude to
, Japanese Officer.
A Japanese officer, writing of the
scenes after the battle of Mukden,
gives the following incident: “Among
the wounded Russians upon the field
was a boy of barely 16 or 17, a drum
mer boy, shot through both legs. He
held a rosary in his hands, praying.
Poor mite, the pity of it! He was a
Pole, I believe, as he spoke German.
He was so thirsty that my bottle was
not enough for him. so another half
of the bearer’s bottle was given to
him, too, and he had some biscuits.
I had a strong yearning to ask him
about his home, but he was weak,
and his spirit needed keeping up.
‘Your wound is nothing,’ I said. ‘The
Japanese hospital attendant will be
here soon and take you away. And
soon you will be able to go home to
your parents.’
“Covering him up with blankets
and coats taken from the Russian
dead, I was just walking away when
he cried out after me. ‘A moment, of
ficer, a moment. Kind officer, I have
something to give to you—this book.
It wras given to me by my father when
I was leaving home for the front. I
have nothing more valuable to offer
you, sir. It is the most precious thing
I possess.’ And he kissed my band
repeatedly, crying bitterly.
“I accepted the book, and without
a word turned away to find another
sufferer. I w’ould not have broken
down for a colonelcy before those
bearers and my own men. The book
was entitled ‘Himmelsbrod; or Ein
Gebetbuch fur Jugend’ (Bread of Hea
ven; or, A • Prayerbook for the
Young).’’
NOW THE MANHATTAN SMASH.
New Drink That Pleases Both the
Eye and the Palate.
“Now, the Manhattan smash, made
first by Tom Powers, is made in a
champagne glass,” says the Kansas
City Times. “You pour three different
colored liquors into the stem of the
glass; so. You must do it carefully
so they don’t mix. Then you drop a
cherry into the bowl on top of the
stem and shut the liquors in; they
don’t mix with the top drink at all.
They’re there just for the color effect.
But they come down in the end and
give you the tang that makes the Man
hattan smash the ordinary Manhat
tan—with a difference. Then you take
a long glass and smash an orange in
it, fill it with broken ice and over
that the ordinary Manhattan. Last
you must pour that into your cham
pagne glass without disturbing the
cherry or the liquors in the stem.
And when that is done.” said the bar
keeper, handing the glass to his friend,
“you have the manhattan smash. Try
it.”
The guest held the glass with its
murky, orange-tinted bowl up to the
light. At the base of the bowl lay the
red cherry “shining like a good deed
in a naughty world,” and under that
the stem of three colored liquors. He
drained the glass. “It’s Manhattan,”
he said, “and a sensation.” Half a
dozen men along the bar counter had
listened to the exposition with curious
interest. The curious guest turned
with an ineffable light in his face.
_M.
An Awful Time.
“Hello, Emma,” saluted a girl of
sixteen as she boarded a car and took
a seat beside a girl of about her own
age.
“Hello, Clara. Say, Clara, have yon
heard the news?”
“Yes; isn’t it terrible?”
“Awful. Could you have Imagined
any such a thing?”
“Never. I was perfectly horrified.”
; “So was I. It will take me a week
to get over it.
1 “Does she feel bad?”
"Awful.”
“She must. If it was my case !
think I should die.”
“So would I.”
v “Excuse me, young ladies,” said an
oldish man in the seat behind them
who had caught every word, “but it
seems there has been an awful trag
edy in Brooklyn?”
“Y-yes, sir.” replied Clara.
"And would you mind giving me
the particulars?”
“Why. some one left the cage door
open and Jennie Scott’s parrot has got
out and she don’t believe she will
ever see him again!”—Brooklyn Citi
zen.
Carried Pet into Battle.
A Japanese officer tells this story
of the battle of Mukden: "In one of
the engagements I found a pretty lit
tle Pekinese spaniel wandering about
between the two battle lines. It came
to me when I whistled; it evidently
belonged to some Russian officer and
was tame and affectionate. I am
keeping it for myself. I suppose the
owner is not likely to return to claim
it. Once when we charged a Rus
sian shelter trench successfully the
little fellow could not keep up with
us with his short legs and Jong coat,
so with my kanemiisu (sword) in my
right hand I held the little creature,
panting, under my left, arm, and
charged. The grave sergeant-major
laughed. Well he might.”
Boers Are Ruthless Hunters.
At a recent meeting of the German
Colonial Council, Duke Johann Al
brecht advised great circumspection
in admitting Boer settlers in German
East Africa, as, he said, the Boers
ruthlessly exterminated all game that
came within range of their rifles and
as farmers were still of doubtful abil
ity.
John L. Sullivan’s Fame.
John L. Sullivan remarked In an
interview: “I bet that I’ve got more'
fame tucked away for me after I’m
dead than Carnegie or Rockefeller can
buy with all their saved-up root of all
evil.”
Cyclists’ Wedding.
On the occasion of a cyclists’ wed
ding at Epping, near London, the oth
er day the bride and bridegroom rode
to church on single machines and re
turned on a tandem.
British Army Efficiency.
The struggles for efficiency in the
British army proceeds apace. The
war office now proposes to alter th*
pitch of the bands of the Guards.
