Nebraska Newspapers

    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.
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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.
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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-.