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NEBRASKA STATE NEWS CHANCELLOR A. R. BENTON TALKS TO STUDENTS LINCOLN—A. R. Benton, first chan cellor of the state university, ad dressed the students In convocation. “The Origin of the University” was the subject. He said: “The great institution of which you •re students was not made great by mere accident. Neither was it the re sult of the efforts of a number of strong and determined men. The work was done with the spirit that promised success. When I see and think what has been done in these years I bow in respect to the men who accomplished such an end. They had faith in the work and were certain of the end they would attain.” He urged the students to aid the founders in realizing the highest Ideals and always struggle for wh&t was best and attain the highest stand ard of good citizenship. NEED OF MORE FREIGHT CARS. Movement of Grain From Nebraska the Heaviest Ever Known. OMAHA—The demand for freight cars throughout the country has reached an acute stage. Every road entering Omaha and doing business in the west is short of cars. Shippers of grain and other products are com plaining of their inability to make their shipments promptly. The yards in Omaha and Council Bluffs are in a badly congested condition and hun dreds of cars of grain that should have been shipped out are tied up there. Advices received here say that at some Illinois points shippers have had to wait from one to two weeks for cars, it being utterly impossible for the railroad companies to supply them. The railroads have anywhere from 500 to 1,500 more cars than they had last year, and more motive power, the lo comotives being large in number and in size, yet the general traffic east and west is so enormous that it is impos sible for the railroads to supply cars enough to handle it. ORGANIZING COUNTY CLUBS. Where Steps in This Direction Have Already Been Taken. LINCOLN — Among the counties that have already notified Deputy State Superintendent Bishop that they intend to organize county cltbs of boys and girls are Clay, Jefferson, Merrick. Hamilton. Valley, Webster and Nemaha. The dates of organiza tion of these clnbs are 6oon to be an nounced. The clubs are to be perma nent and for the purpose of instruct ing the boys in agricultural pursuits, animal husbandry and manual train ing and the girls in the domestic sci ence. The state department of public instruction has decided to admit as associate members, those agricultural clubs independent of the public schools which are desirous of joining the state organization. CUMING COUNTY LAUD WORTH $100 AN ACRE WEST POINT—The record price, up to this date, for Cuming county farm land was reached in the sale last week of the Anton Psoia farm, just west of this city for the sum 3f $100 per acre. Schinstock broth ers the noted stockmen of West Point were the purchasers. The tract con sists of 200 acres of bottom land. The Improvements are of the ordinary yharacter. but the land is exception lily fertile, having been heavily fer tilized by Mr. Psota dirrinig the last ten years. So rich has this ground be »me that the usual yield of corn has been eighty-five bushels to the acre for some years. f Biennial Election Laws. The law extending the term of county supervisors was declared un constitutional by the court. Judge Barnes dissenting, and a tgrit of man damus was issued compelling the county clerks of Qage and Buffalo counties to place the names of candi dates for Such offices on the official ballot The court on the previous day had held the .register of deeds act un constitutional in a case arising in Gage county. As a result registers of deeds and county supervisors will be elected this fall in accordance with the provisions of the old law. Farmers Use Electric Lights. LINCOLN — Three farmers near Greenwood have just installed electric .ightlng plants on their farms. They use gasoline engines during the day lor pumping water and such purposes, and at night they switch the power upon a small dynamo. A Boom at Callaway. CALLAWAY—Building, goes stead ily on in the town, and nearly half a nundred new structures can be count ed as the record for the season. Nebraska Witness in Oregon Case. GRAND ISLAND—‘Doc" Ballou, for nany years a members of the Soldier's Rome, left for Portland, Ore., as a witness in some public land fraud in restigations. It is presumed that his tppearance there will be in connec •Jon with the efforts made some nonths ago to induce a number of the aembers of the Soldiers' Home who lad not yet exercised all their home itead entry rights to do so, supposi lon at the time being that these en xies would immediately be trans ferred. Lamb Sentence Commuted. Michael Lamb of Greeley county, who was sent to the penitentiary for aine years on a charge of cattle steal ng, received executive clemency and will get his release from the peniten tiary within a year. Governor Mickey knocked off three years from the orig Inal sentence. Judge Holcomb’s Brother Killed. BROKEN BOW—A telegram re seived here states that Joseph Hoi vomb, brother of Judge Holcomb, was dlled by the cars at Seattle. NEBRASKA BRIEFS The V. R. Land and 'Cattle company has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Its capital stock is $30,000. Secretary of State Galusha returned from a trip to the Industrial school at Geneva and reports that institution in splendid condition. The Nebraska Telephone company is preparing to rebuild its lines at Cen tral City and a gang of workmen is expected soon to begin work. The Burlington is completing a large addition to its division headquarters at McCook and installing a new 50-foot 100-ton pair of track scales. The stars and stripes must come off bottled beer. The supreme court holds that brewing coiupanies and manufac turers cannot use the flag as a trade mark. School house bonds for school dis trict No. 43 of Greeley county have been registered to the amount of $7,200 bv Bond Clerk Lawrence of the state auditor’s office. Four of the churches of Seward have united in planning for a union evange listic campaign under the direction ot Rev. Milford Lyon of Wheaton, 111. The meetings will commence on No vember 12. An unidentified man was found dead in Ilardeaux creek near Chadron. No friends or relatives could be found. He was buried in the potter’s field. The coroner's verdict found that he had committed suicide. By virtue of a new distributing freight rate, Norfolk is beginning to assume a position as a wholesaling center Jor northern Nebraska. Haley & Lang of Sioux City are among the first to enter the field. The Falls City Sycamore Springs, Sabetha & Southwestern Railway com pany has just been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. The new company is planning to develop Syca more Springs, Has., as a health resort. While driving near the depot at Geneva Mrs. Harvey and Mrs. Mercer were thrown out, the horse becoming frightened at the cars. The buggy up set and both women were considerably Hurt. Mrs. Mercer's face being badly cut. Excavating preparatory to building the foundation for the new Burlington station at Beatrice .was begun last week. It is the general opinion that after the foundation for the new depot is completed work will be closed down until spring. The price of grain at Beatrice has changed but little during the past few weeks. Wheat is selling at 70 cents, corn at 42 and 43 cents, and oats at 23 and 24 cents per bushel. Some wheat is being marketed there, but lit tle oats or corn. J. R. Cain, the cashier of the State bank at Stella, received a telegram from Xew Orleans announcing the death of his brother, Tom, at that point. He had been sick only a fewr days with stomach trouble and death was caused by the rupture of a blood vessel. After a visit of the state board of charities and corrections and a com mittee of ministers to the Tabitha home in Lincoln, it was decided to make efforts to place the management of the home in other hands and to bet ter the financial condition of the insti tution. While hunting on the Platte river Harold Rowland, son of U. D. Row land of Silver City, was using a pump j gun. A shell exploded in the chamber, blowing out the extractor, which tore through the boys right cheek, splin tering the bone and injuring the sight of the right eye. Every cent of the permanent school fund is invested. The first of the month this fund contained $178,000 of university money and since that time Treasurer Mortensen has bought $50, 000 of Massachusetts state bonds and the remainder has been invested in state warrants. Over $800 worth of machinery has arrived in Papillion for the manufac ture of cemetit brick and tiling. Messrs. Tower and Berkandt are going ahead erecting the building on the Missouri Pacific right-of-way. Large quantities of cement and sand are now on hand for.the factory. The Pickrell Farmers’ Elevator com pany has closed a deal for the purchase of the Nebraska Elevator company’s elevator at that point. The elevator trust had been trying to head off the farmers in their plans for handling their own grain, but when they saw that an independent concern would kill their business in that locality, they sold their plant. | A little son of George Tracy, a farmer living near Charleston, while lying on the floor playing with another1 child of about the same age, met with an accident that soon resulted in death. His playmate knocked off a cupboard standing near the child a bottle of carbolic acid, the contents oi which entered his ear and burned his face. Attorneys for County Judge Vinson haler of Douglas county have filed briefs in the supreme court attacking the constitutionality of the inheritance tax law. It is claimed that the legis lature has no constitutional authority to levy a graduated tax on inherit ances. County institutes in Stanton county are to be held in November hereafter, instead of in the summer, as has form erly been the custom. Officials of the state department of public institution have agreed to attend the session, which will begin this year on Novem ber 13. In federal court at Omaha John Zel ler, 17 years of age, has sued the Mis souri Pacific ralroad to recover dam ages in $10,000 for personal injury. The petition asserts that through neg ligence on the part of the road he was struck by a train and badly injured. The Woodmen of the World have decided to hold the First district con vention at Plattsmouth the latter part of November. Delegates from six camps and the officers of the grand lodge will be present. The program will consist of instrumental and vocal music, addresses and elocutionary r* citals. r HELD TO BE GOOD SUPREME COURT RULES ON THE CIGARETTE LAW. A FORMER DECISION REVERSED It is Unlawful to Give Away Cigarettes or Cigarette Papers in Nebraska— Intent cf the Act Sufficiently Ex pressed in its Title. LINCOLN—It is unlawful to give away cigarettes or cigarette papers in Nebraska. The supreme court so de clared in sustaining the sections of the law which make such actions ille gal. The judgment of the Douglas county district court'is reversed and John Alperson is remand* d in the cus tody of an officer. Alperson was arrested and sought to secure his liberty by writ of habeas corpus. He contended that part of the act which made the giving away ol cigarettes and cigarette palters unlaw ful whs unconstitutional because It was a subject not sufficiently expressed in the title of the act. The title pro hibits the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and cigarette papers. The court says: "‘If the barter and gift of cigarettes and cigarette papers is not prohibited by the act, it is manifest that the pur pose and intent of the legislature is thwarted, and we think that purpose and intent is plainly to be derived from the title of the act itself.” The court holds that the intent of the act is sufficiently expressed in the title. “The legislature undoubtedly sup posed that the use of cigarettes was injurious to the public in genera! through its effect upon the health and morals of the public. The intention was to remove those articles from the avenues of commerce, to banish them from the state as guilty and illegiti mate things hat ought not to be of fered to or easy of access by vicious or thoughtless people who are or may be injured thereby.” HEARING CF COMPLAINTS ACAINST THE RAILROADS WASHINGTON — The Interstate Commerce commission began a series of hearings in the matter of its com plaint against ten railroads and three private car companies, alleging ‘un just and unreasonable” charges for the refrigeration of fruits and’ vege tables in transit. It is understood that the action of the commission in in itiating and prosecuting the com plaints has the double purpose of es tablishing its jurisdiction over private oar lines and of correcting the evils complained of. The contest will be on the point of jurisdiction. Each of the companies against which complaint has been tiled has made an answer denying the commission has authority of its business. ARMOURS HAVE MONOPLY. Shippers Not Allowed to Use Their Own Refrigerator Cars. WASHINGTON—The private car line inquiry was continued before the Interstate Commerce commission Fri day. Chairman Knapp announced that the taking of testimony in relation to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific, the two trans continental lines involved, will be post poned until November 1 at 10 o'clock. The existence of exclusive contracts between railroads and private car lines, of which the latter assume the business of refrigerating perishable freight, was brought out strongly to day in the hearings now in progress before the Interstate Commerce com mission. It was developed by the tes timony of H. M. Emerson, traffic man ager of the Atlantic Coast Line, that the shippers would be compelled, un der the contract with the Armour car lines. to use cars of this company ex clusively or the railroad would not transport their freight. At the same time, he said, the schedule of the road would permit the use of other private cars, and that the apparent inconsist ency is a matter that the legal depart ment of the road would have to solve If brought into controversy. Officials of the Central of Georgia, the South ern and the Sea Board Air Line testi fied that the Armour car lines have exclusive contracts with their roads to handle all refrigerator business. Bri.igs Relics of Paul Jones. PARIS—C. A. Herreschoff Bartlett of New York, is a passenger on the French line steamer La Lorraine which sailed from Havre yesterday. He Is conveying to the United States a number of relics of Admiral Jolin Paul Jones. Brvan Presented to Mikado. TOKIO—The American min's ter, Lloyd C. Griseom. presented W. J. Bryan and Captain Clover of the Bat tleship Wisconsin to the enineror on Friday. After the audience Mr. Bryan left Por NiRko. He will return to Tokio Saturday and address the Voting Men’s Chr’stian association. Bryan Speaks to Japanese. TOKIO—William J. Bryan address ed an audience of aiuntt 10.000 per sons. with Count Okuma. the former foreign minister and leader of the pro gressive party, in the chair. His sim ple style and clear pronunciation made his speech, which lasted forty min utes. intelligible even to the younger students and called forth apprecia tive remarks. Mr. Bryan lunched with Count Okuma. The municipality of Tokio has invited Mr. Bryan to at tend a public reception, but his time here will not permit. _ i Gray Answers the Charges. CHICAGO—William H. Gray, found er of the Western Life Indemnity com pany. filed an answer in the superior court to the charges made against him in a bill askingf for the appoint ment of a receiver for the company. In his answer Gray goes fully into his relatiops with the insurance company j and denies all allegations made ! against him. The allegation in the case that there are 200 persons with •Plaims against the company on ac count of withheld assessments is de nied bv Gray. ON PANAMA CANAL. Chairman Shcnts Scaks of His Rs cent Visit. WASHINGTON — Chairman Photit* of flip isthmian canal commission made the following statement of his observations on the isthmus of Pana ma during his recent visit: "The most encouraging feature of af fairs on the isthmus observed by “very person who had been there previously during the last six and eight months was the improvehient in the feeling among the men. Chief Engineer Ste vens' methods and personality are malting a strong impression and cre ating confidence ir. his measures. "1 found that substantial progress had been made in the repairing and construction of houses, over 200 of the old French houses having been repaired during the last two months. A large dock at Cristobal, which has twenty-seven feet of water, will be ready for ships in a very few weeks. Rapid progress is being made on dock 1* also at Cristobal. The new dock at l.a Boca is also being rapidly push ed to completion. These docks will he equipped with modern machinery, which will largely facilitate the load ing and unloading of ships. When these docks ate all completed am! in operation we shall be able to handle all the commission material and a large part of the Panama freight from these docks, leaving the old docks largely for the use of ships of other lines. We are also putting in shops and terminal yards at Cristobal, and have planned yards for La Boca and the end of the line. The bridges of tue Panama railroad have been strengthened so as to carry the heav ier locomotives now arriving on the isthmus. "General health conditions are illus trated by the fact that, notwithstand ing we have increased the laboring force to nearly 4,000 men during the last four months, the number of pa tients in Ancon hospital was lower than for many previous months. “In addition to the fumigation of the houses at Panama and Colon, the isolation of the patients and the cut ting of grass and vegetation around the camps, heretofore employed as means of prevention, the department is now thoroughly cleaning the cities of Panama and Colon. draining swamps near towns and camps, filling in the lowest places and thus eradi cating breeding places for mosquitoes. "As a result of our new methods in handling the labor on the isthmus, I will say that during a certain period, when we were increasing the force bv the importation of 3.200 men. the pay rolls showed an increase of 4,000 men, the difference resulting from our methods of requiring men to leave their quarters and go to work. Loaf ing either in quarters or on works is absolutely prohibited.” AHCLO-CUBAN TREATY CREATES DISSATISFACTION WASHINGTON — Information from Cuba that there is a growing dissat isfaction there with the terms of the proirosed Angio-Cttban treaty has de veloped here the fact that the Wash ington government thoroughly appre ciates the reasons of the Cuban peo ple for objecting to the treaty. The official view here is that the treaty is distinctly disadvantageous to Cuba in that it precludes that country from renewing with the United States her reciprocity treaty, which, under the present arrangement, is effective only for five years. INDICTMENTS STILL STAND. Chicago Packers Get Only Partial Re lief in Court. CHICAGO—Federal Judge .1. Otis Humphrey gave a divided dec'sion on the demurrer of the meat packers, charged with illegal conspiracy. He overruled the nortion of the demurrer in which the pai kers attacked the odd numbered counts, charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. The demurrer to the even-numbered counts, charg ing monopoly, was sustained. Following the decision counsel for the packers asked leave to extend the demurrer from the third count of the indictment to the first count to which he previously announced he would en ter a plea of not guilty. The court al lowed this and then overruled the de murrer to the first count. TORNADO IN ILLINOIS. Eight Persons Killed and a Large Number Injujred. St. Louis. Mo.—A tornado struck the village of Sorento. UL, thirty-two miles northeast of St. Louis, Tuesday night, kiting eight persons, injuring tnirty-five others, of whom three will probably die and doing a great amount of damage to property. Forty houses were blown to pieces or carried far from their foundations. A complete swath was cut through the town. Everything in the track of the tor nado was ret?uced to debris or blows away. Congressmen En Route Home. KANSAS CITY—The party of con gressmen which left Chicago two weeks ago for a trip into New Mex ico and Arizona to gather information concerning statehood for the two ter ritories passed through Kansas City on the way home. The journey has been over a distance of 5.000 miles and a minute inspection of the territories has been made. The trip extended as far south as Cananea. Mexico, where mining properties were seen, but the greater part of the time was spent in the two territories. Banker Bradley Indicted. MUSKOGEE. I. T.—C. M. Bradley of this city, a banker and real estate dealer, was indicted by the federal grand jury yesterday charged with for gery and conspiracj', growing out of a land deal. Belgians Copy Swiss Plan. BRUSSELS—The Belgian govern ment is maturing a plan for the reor ganization of the army which it will soon present to parliament. This es tablishes personal military servlet similar to the Swiss. TARIFF RATES UP COMPLETION OF FIGURES ON GERMANY’S NEW LAW. BIG INCREASE IN SOME PRODUCTS Agriculture Comes in For Large Share—Meat and Meat Products Also Come in for Raise Under the New Arrangement. WASHINGTON—A statement of the German customs tariff, comparing the rates of import duty levied in Ger many under the old and new customs tariff, respectively, was given out by the Department of Commerce and Ijl Dor. A table has been compiled ex pressing the difference between the old and new raises in advalorem terms, based on the German estimates of the import value of the articles in 1903, the last year for which figures are available. The estimates as to what percentage advalorem the new general and con ventional rates will constitute can only b* approximately correct at best. If prices of commodities should not change greatly as compared with those prevailing in 1903. the estimates of what the new advalorem ral _s will amount to will be fairly accurate, jtherwise they will not. On baceh the rate at present charged is twenty marks per 100 kiles, and that to be charged against the new tariff thirty six marks, an increase of 80 per cent. Among the products constituting the most important items in the export trade of the United States with Ger many the highest advalorem rate af reets minerals oils, being 71 per cent, advalorem on illuminating and 72 per cent, on lubricating oil. That on il luminating has been increased 6C per cent, in the new tariff and left un changed in the conventional tariff. The duty on tobacco is 57 per cent, advalorem and has not been changed in either of the new tariffs. A series of notable increases affects agricultural products. Thus rye. the duty on which until now constituted the highest advalorem rate viz: 35 per cent, is advanced to about 70 per cent, id valorem under the new general.tariff and 43 per cent, under the convention al. The specific duty on wheat is ad vanced 114 per cent.; on wheat flour, 157 per cent.: dried wheat, 52 per cent.; fresh oranges, 200 per cent. The conventional tariffs are somewhat lower. Thus while oranges coming from favored nations will be subject to a duty of 24 per cent, ad valorem, those imported from other countries will have to pay about 89 per cent, advalorem. The rates on provisions a)so have been advanced 80 per cent.; pork 17fi per cent.; beef. 200 per cent, though the conventional tariffs being some what lower. MONUMENT AT CETTYSBURC FOR THE RECUIAR ARMY WASHINGTON — Lieutenant Gen eral Chaffee and Major General Bates of the general staff returned to this city from Gettysburg. Pa., where they Joined other survivors of the battle of Gettysburg in inspecting the mod els of monuments designed to mark the positions of the different organi zations of the regular army which took part in that decisive engagement. Congress appropriated $25.<ToO for the purpose, to be expended under the di rection of the national Gettysburg park commission. As a result of a general discussion a sentiment was developed in favor of the erection of a large single monu ment in memory of the regular army in preference' to a large number of small ones'to mark the positions of each individual organization. Abyssinia Sends an Envoy. NEW YORK — El-Hag-Abbul-Ally Sadik-Pasha, prince of the Mohamme dan church, general of the Abyssian ian army, minister of commerce and envoy of Emperor Menelik to Presi dent Roosevelt, arrived, arrived her to day ob the steamer Cedric. He comes ostensibly in regard to the new treaty of commerce between this country and Abjassinia. but actually his mission is to study the possibilities of closer relations with Europ’e and America. He has come to America after a stay at Berlin. Paris and I-ondon. JOINT STATEHOOD IS NOT WANTED ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.—After tea days in Arizona, visiting her principal cities and acquainting themselves with the wishes of her people on state hood, the congressional party in their special train passed through here to day. returning home. While in Ari eona the party found fewer than fifty people favoring joint statehood with New Mexico, including twenty who presented a petition for ' jointure at Tucson. Sues Fifteen Texas Railroads. AUSTIN, Tex.—Anting for himself and in the name of the state. District Attorney Warren W. Moore of the Fifty-third district court on Friday filed suit a gainst fifteen railroads of Texas for sums ranging from $3,000 to $25,000. These suits are brought in the nature of a penalty for failure to pay 1 per cent, tax on the gross earn ings, as provided for in the Love tax bill, which the roads are now fight ing and which is on an appeal to the higher courts, the state having won out in the tr>al court. Honors for An Iowa Man. WASHINGTON — The supreme council of Scottish Rite Masons for the southern jurisdiction elected and crowned George Fairburn of Fonda, la., an active member of that body, to succeed Gov. Buren Robinson Sher man, who died last year. The election was on the motion of Grand Command er Richardson. Mr. Fairburn, who has been serving as a deputy for Iowa, was immediately inducted into office. The supreme council then adjourned until Saturday, which is expected to mark the final session. WAR RECORDS OF THE NAVY. Volrnes Describing Blockade and River Operations About Ready. WASHINGTON—Charles W. Stew art. superintendent of the naval li brary and natal war records, in his an ; nual reports says volumes twenty and ■ twenty-one of the records of the union ' and confederate navies, in the civil | war. dealing with the operations of the west bulf blockading squadron, under Admiral Farragut. from March T5, ! 1863, to near the end of 1864, are near j ing completion. The report also says: “The operations of the confederate j navy are completely presented here j for the first time in history. The rec 1 ords w'hieh include the construction. equipment and performance of iron 1 clads, emisers, torpedo and torpedo 1 boats, stand as a monument to the i energy, skill and daring of confeder ate officers and sailors. I “The naval warfare carried on in in land waters, bays, inlets and rivers is comparatively new in naval history and in its relations to shore operations by landing parties or in co-operation with army forces: valuable data are presented concerning the strategy and tactics of inland blockade and the military control of water courses. “T£e publication has now reached I probably the most interesting portion ■ of the war from a naval point of view, says the librarian. It is recommend ed that the records of the American | navy in colonial times, during the rev olutionary war and other operations ! down to the including the Mexican war, be collected and arranged for pub lication.” CZAR NICHOLAS PROCLAIMS PEACE TO ALL THE RUSSIAS ST. PETERSBURG—An imperial | manifesto was issued proclaiming the ratification of peace between Russia i and Japan. It says: “God has caused <~ir fatherland to I suffer sore trials from the blows of fate in a sanguinary war. but the struggles have afforded manifold proofs of the bravery and courage of our glorious troops against a brave and mighty enemy. This war, so pain ful for us all, is nowr over. The east j ern portion of our country will de | velop Itself in peace and good neigh ■ borliness with the Japanese empire, which has become our friend. In communuicating the restoration of peace to our subjects we are sure they will join in our prayers to God, to give a blessing on our great labors in conjunction with men elected by the people for the development and prosperity of Russia. NICHOLAS. STANDS WITH ROOSEVELT. Bishop of London Sounds Warning Against Race Suicide. LONDON-—The failing birth rate was the subject of interesting com ment by the bishop of Ireland. Dr. Ingram, is an address to the clergy of his diocese in St. Paul's cathedral this afternoon. Like President Roose velt. he warned his heai rs of the dangers of this decrease. It was im possible, the bishop said, to describe with what dismay he viewed this di minuation of the birth rate, not only in England, but in the colonies. It ap peared to him to be an artificial di minuation by artificial means. The practice of the deliberate pre vention of conception had spread like a blight among the middle classes and must be viewed by the Church of England as a sin. The prevailing love of comfort was largely respon sible for this and the clergy must learn themselves to teach others to live the simplier and heartier life which their forefathers lived. WE MUST PAY MORE FOR OUR FOOTWEAR CHICAGO—The price of shoes in Chicago will be higher within the next fortnight than has been known in the last forty years in ready and custom-made goods. Already the jobbing price has advanced 50 cents on the pair and the retail trade is ex pected to feel the change in cost im mediately. There is a scarcity of hides and the local dealers as well as the buyers of the east have become alarmed over the shortage. So ma terial has been the effect of the short age that the cost of tanned hides has gone up 30 per cent, since September L Mexican Government Extends Time. Mexico—The government has ex tended the time for the construction of the Mexican Central's branch from Colima to Manzanillo, on the Pacific coast, to October. 1909. There is al ready a narrow gauge railroad between Colmia and Manzanillo, which be longed formerly to the Mexican Na tional Construction company, but which was receatly acquired by the Mexican Central. This road will be made standard gauge. The Central has 3,000 nten at work, on the-exten sion of its line to Colima. Negro Troops to Philippines. WAHING'TON—Secretary Taft has decided to send the Twenty-fourth regiment of infantry (colored troops) to Mindanao. Philippine Islands, a second term of service there. Japan to Increase Navy. LONDON—'The correspondent of the Times at Tokio says it is rumored that the Japanese government proposes to increase the army from thirteen to twenty divisions to better discharge its obligation with regard to the. Anglo ' Japanese alliance. Appropriation Not Granted. WASHINGTON—It was learned Monday from members of the Carne gie institution that the request of Abbott L. Rotch of Boston for an ap propriation of $10,000 was not grant ed. Subscribe for Cuban Bonds. CHICAGO—Chicago banks on Friday subscribed for a new issue of interior bonds of the Cuban government offer ed through the banking firm of Wil liam Solomon & Co. ol New York. WASTE OF MONEY UNCLE SAM’S PRINT SHOP IS A COSTLY AFFAIR. THERE IS ROOM FOR ECONOMY Congressman Landis Believes that the Government Could Save $1,000,000 a Year if the Printing Business Was Conducted as it hould Be. WASHINGTON—Supplementing his statement of Thursday regarding ex travagance and waste in public print ing. Representative Charles B. Landis, chairman of the subcommittee of the congressional printing investigation committee, charged with an inquiry into the alleged extravagances in the public printing, on Friday insisted that the statement he made to con gress before its adjournment that the government could save $1,000,000 ,t year on its printing bill, was not at al1 extravagant. Mr. Landis declared today that "a printing contagion stems to have swept over and taken possession of congress and all departments of the government to such an extent that an arbitrary reduction in the printing ap propriations of from 20 to 25 per cent could be made without doing violence to the public welfare." v Mr. Landis stated that the commit tee had been endeavoring first of ail to learn the actual valuation placed by the public upou the documents so k freely distributed and to determine whether the benefits of the country justify the expenditure involved and whether the distribution has been to the best advantage. “The inquiry,” be said, “has extend ed to every section of the country, and an effort made to obtain the estimate of value placed upon these documents by the people for whom they are in tended as well as by the officials by whom they are prepared. There is no doubt that many of them are of great value, but intelligent discrimination and more effective distribution should result from the inqury. There are tons and upon tons of documents for which there will never be any demand piled up in the committee rooms and in the various departments about Washing ton and in the garrets and woodsheds of senators and representatives throughout the country. It all repre sents waste and extravagance and im providence and the situation fairly shrieks for correction.” SOUTHERN RAILROAD MANAGERS TESTIFY WASHINGTON — Several traffic managers of southeastern railroads testified before the interstate com merce commission in the prive car in quiry concerning the manner of hand ling fruit and .perishable products in their territory. Most of them said that they have entered into arrange ments with private car lines by which the latter engaged to take the respon sibility for the handling of the fruit, the railrosids acting as agents only in the matter of transportation. A. Allis, an ice manufacturer of Au gusta. Ga., submitted a contract his company has to supply the Armour car lines with ice, and gave many details concerning the arrangement with the private car lines. It is expected the hearing will be concluded tomorrow. Vanderbilt and Astor Protest. NEWPORT, R. I.—In behalf of John Jacob Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose names were mentioned in tes timony given at a hearing In New York Friday on proceedings instituted! by William B. Franklin and George I,. Scott against Joseph H. Hoadley and others to recover $65,800. Lewis Cass I^edyard issued a statement here to night in which it was denied that either Mr. Vandebilt or Colonel Astor ever owned stock of the International Power company, assisted by a wit ness. LOST THREE IN THE FIRE. Pathetic Incident in Connection with Iroquois Cate. CHICAGO—A pathetic incident marked the beginning before Judge Landis, in the United States circuit court, of the trial of the first damage suit resulting from the Iroquois, thea ter fire of December, 1903! The first prospective juror ceiled, James C. Long, a patriarch from Geneva, 111., was asked if he knew any of those killed by the fire. He slowly replied that he did, and he was asked for their names. The head of the aged man bowed low, and tears filled his eyes. He tried to answer, but could not. Attorneys hastily explained that Mr. Long had lost three daughters in the fire. The court ordered that he be ex cused from further examination. Mr. Long afterward said that his daugh ters. aged fourteen, eleven and nine years, respectively, had attended the theater on the day of the fire ami that their dead, bodies were among those taken out of the building. Michael Goes To Ind a. WASHINGTON—The appointment of Colonel W. H. Michael, chief clerk of the Department of State, to be con sul general at Calcutta was announced at the state department. Colonel Mi chael succeeds Stanley Stoner. !t is said at the state department that the resignation of Mr. Stoner, who was only recently appointed to Calcutta, was entirely voluntary. The illness of a member of his family which occurred subsequent to his appointment causes him to request the department to per mit him to resign. Cni Army Transport Arrives SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—The ted States army transport Sherman arrived on Tuesday from Manila Phil ippine Islands, with a large number of cabin passengers. 247 enlisted men and twenty military prisoners. About twenty soldiers and several passen gers who w-ere ashore at Nagasaki were left behind, as the vessel uaiW sooner than was anticipated. Among the officers on hoard were Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Tucker of the pay de partment and Major W. K. Wright of the Twentieth infantn-.
