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KILLING GOES OH ESTIMATE OF THE TERRIBLE SLAUGTER AT MOSCOW. FIVE THOUSAHD PEOPLE SLAIN While the Wounded are Said to Num ber 14,000—Fighting Still in Prog ress When Last Reports Were Sent Forward. LONDON—The correspondent on the Daily Telegraph at St. Petersburg, in a dispatch dated at 6:45 p. m., Decem ber 25, says: At an early hour this morning the casualtlies at Moscow were estimated at 5.000 killed and 14, D00 wounded, with the fighting still proceeding. The inhabitants of Moscow have been forbidden to leave their dwell ngs after 1 o’clock in the evening. It is impossible to move about the city in consequence of the number of Btray bullets. Many innocent persons have been accidentally killed. A scarc ity of provisions is threatened. The same correspondent, telegraph ing at 10:38 p. m., says: ‘‘Your Mos cow correspondent's telegrams have not been accepted because all private messages were refused this afternoon. It is learned, however, that cannon firing is now proceeding in various parts of the city where, very near the railroad stations, the barricades erect es erected by the revolutionists are being desperately defended. From fragmentary accounts received from Moscow I gather that the civil war has brought no decisive action, but only a thickening of the blood cloud and an increase of the prevail ing bitterness. The driving force behind both the troops and the rebels is no longer that of enthusiasm or of any human im pulse. It is the force of superhuman hate and hence the deeds reported are not the acts of patriots, soldiers or otherwise, but the enormities of mad men. It is impossible to understand how any emotion, even of the extremes of despair or hate, can impart such fool hardy courage as some of the rebels display. For every barricade destroyed Sun day two or three appeared in other places. Orders were given by the rev lutionists to shoot only when there was good hope of bringing a man down, but otherwise to tire out the troops until they lost patience. In the meantime, in their houses, the bulk of the population cowers in the innermost seclusion of kitchens and cellars, trembling at every boom of the cannon or the explosion of a bomb. ST. PETERSBURG — Direct tele graphic communication with Moscow was severed but the government suc ceeded in restoring communication by a roundabout route this morning. All reports agree that the fighting yes terday, which continued until midnight, assumed the nature of a butchery by the machine guns of the artillery, grape and canister being employed mercilessly against the ill-armed insur gents. DISTRESS FROM FAMINE IN PART OF JAPAN TOKIO—An eye witness of the ex tent of the famine in the northeast province who has just returned re ports the condition of the people to be really deplorable. The advent of winter has found thou sands on the verge of starvation and speedy relief alone will save them. Measures of relief will be vigorously taken up here and assistance from sympathizers abroad will be welcomed. JUBILEE OF POPE PIUS IN 1908. He Wants It to Be of a Strictly Re ligious Character. ROME—Preparations are going one to celebrate in 1908 the jubilee of the Pope’s ordination as a priest. Being asked if he desired the festivities to be similar to those witnessed on the oc casion of the priesthood jubilee of the late Pope, when an international ex position was held in the Vatican, the Pope answered: “Certainly not. I wish the celebra tion to maintain a strictly religious character.” Committees will be organized all over the world with the purpose of presenting the pope with a large offer ing during the jubilee mass. Situation In San Domingo. WASHINGTON — Advices received by cable at the State and Navy de partments from Santo Domingo indi cate that a serious condition of affairs exists there. The captain of the port of Puerto Plata has been shot and killed during an insurrectionary move ment and the governor of that province has defied the general government and barricaded the town. The Dominion government has issued a decree re moving the government. The State department has determined that this is an internal difficulty and will not intervene at this stage. Hunting Down Mohammedans. CONSTANTINOPLE—The massa cre of Mussulmans by Armenians was still in progress at Tiflis, Caucasia, and throughout Caucasia, December 18, according to a dispatch from Tiflis under that date. The Mohammedans were being hunted down like deer, no distinction being made between Per sians, Tartars or Ottomans. About two thousand Mussulman families of Tiflis had cought refuge in neighbor ing villages. The Cossacks and other troops continued to plunder the houses of the Mussulmans at Batoum. Calls on the President WASHINGTON—James W. Wads worth, Jr., the announced choice of Governor Higgins for the speakership of the New York assembly, was in conference with President Roosevelt at the white house. The conference was by appointment, and Mr. Wads worth remained about half an hour with the president. There was full discussion of the events which preced ed and have followed the selection of Mr. Wodsworth by the governor as his choice for the party’s leader in the lower house of the state legislature. SENATE POSTPONES ACTION. Will Not Confirm Military Men Until After Holidays. WASHINGTON — Nominations of Brigadier General George B. Davis, to be judge advocate general, and Briga dier General William Crozier to be chief of ordance of the army, both to succeed themselves, were considered in executive session of the senate but action was postponed until after the holidays. Senator Warren, chairman of the committee on military affairs, presented a letter from Secretary of War Taft explaining what had been termed a legal tecnnicality against these officers s”creeding themselves in the detail rained in the nominations. At a recent meeting of the commit tee on military affairs it was stated by several members that the law seemed to prohibit officers from ac cepting a second four year detail of this character until they had again served in the line for three years. In each case, Secretary Taft says it is the clear intention of the army re organization act of 1901 that only of ficers below the rank of colonel shall be Ineligible to re-appointment for continuous staff service and that in the case of heads of the bureaus, there is no prohibition whatever as to reap pointment. The nominations of mem bers of the Isthmian canal commission were again referred to the committe on interbceanic canals. DAVID E. THOMPSON AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO WASHINGTON—Official announce ment was made that David E. Thomp son, ambassador to Brazil, has been chosen as ambassador to Mexico. Herbert H. D. Pierce, third assist ant secretary of state, has been select ed by the president as the first Ameri can minister to Norway. Charles Denby chief clerk of the department, has been determined upon as successor to Mr. Pierce in the state department. This announcement was made officially at the department today. INVESTIGATION WILL GO ON Government to Continue Delving Into Land Frauds in the West. OMAHA—The summary dismissal of Judge Baxter from the office of United State district attorney by order of the president was the theme of general comment about the federal building Christmas day. Judge Baxter was not at his office during the morning. It was learned, however, that he had re ceived the telegraphic order from the president directing his removal, but Judge Baxter declined to discuss the matter further than has already ap peared in print. A member of the secret service force, who is now investigating the land fraud matters in Nebraska, said: “The removal of Marshal Mathews nd Judge Baxter will not have any effect upon the investigations now being carried on by this department. We shall proceede with the work of gath ering evidence to present to the grand jury in May, and the deeper we delve into the matter the dirtier it becomes. I do not know just where It will end, but there will be a ratling of dry bones when the grand jury meets in May. MORALES REPORTED WOUNDED. Report Heard by the Commander of the Nashville. WASHINGTON—The navy depart ment has received a cablegram from Commander Chambers of the Nash ville, dated at Puerto Plata last night stating that he had been informed from a government source that Presi dent Morales had been shot and se riously wounded. PRESIDENT MUST HAVE A RAILROAD RATE BILL WASHINGTON — Congress will at its present session, enact railroad rate legislation carrying out the ideas of President Roosevelt or find itself in extraordinary session immediately fol lowing the close of this session. This is the text of the ultimatum handed out at the white house. In this the president is radically determined; he means business. The house is easily conceded to be with the president in this fight. The senate, however, is in question. Every senator found to be opposing the presi dent's railroad rate program will be set down as an enemy of the adminis tration, and will be, during the balance of his term, without influence at the white house. Jeopardizes Safety. WASHINGTON — In submitting his annual report as supervising inspector general of the steamboat inspection service, George Uhler expresses con siderable anxiety regarding the present practice of carrying crude petroleum in passenger steamers in quantities which jeopardizes the safety of the ship and passengers. Much of this oil, he says, is so highly inflammable that it will flash at the ordinary summer temperature of the atmosphere. Offered U. S. Attorneyship. OMAHA—Attorney Howard H. Bal drige of the law firm of Baldrige & De Bord has been asked if he would ac cept the United States district attor neyship for Nebraska, now held by Ir ving F. Baxter, who has so far ignored the request made by the state depart ment that he resign. Cabinet Resigns in a Body. VIENNA—Premier Fejervary had an audience with Emperor Francis Jo seph and tendered the resignation of the entire Hungarian cabinet. Guilty of Land Frauds. ST. PALTL, Minn.—The jury in the United States court which has been trying W. T. Horsnell and Royal B. Storms of SL Paul' for frauds in con nection with South Dakota lands brought in a verdict of guilty against both men. SAN FRANCISCO—Former United States Senator Bard was seriously in | jured in a runaway near Oxnard. He was thrown from Ills buggy into a ditch, sustaining a dislocation and a fracture of his left hip. RAILROAJMitBATE A CONFERENCE HELD AND MAT TERS DISCUSSED. STATEMENT OF WHAT WAS DONE Interstate Commerce Commission Takes up Rebates—Purposes of the Various Organizations Under Dis cussion. WASHINGTON—Representatives of the leading trans-Mississippi railroads were In conference with the interstate commerce commission concerning re bates and the efforts of the commis sion to do away with discrimination by the railroads in favor of large ship pers. J. C. Stubbs, vice-president and traffic director of the Harriman lines, was the spokesman for the railroad men and held a brief conference with his associates before they appeared before the commission. Chairman Knapp and Commissioners Cockrell and Clements were the only members present, the other commis sioners being out of the city. TJie following statement of the meet ing was made by the interstate com merce commission: “The conference with western rail way officials was not sought by the commission, as certain papers have in correctly stated, but its purpose was legitimate and commendable and war rants the expectation of beneficial re sults. “At a recent meeting in Chicago the representatives of practically all the lines west of that city, from the Cana dian border to the gulf, adopted the following resolution: “That a joint committee representative of lines in the western trunk line committee, the trans-Missouri freight bureau, the southwestern tariff committee and the transcontinental freight rate com mission be instructed to wait upon the interstate commerce commission. “The desire and purpose of the re spective members of said committees or bureaus to co-operate with the commission on the enforcement of the law to the extent of pointing out ways and means and giving the com mission any specific information that may come to its knowledge which will lead to effective inquiry in un covering unlawful practices.” “The object of the committee whose names have been published was to present this resolution and to assure the commission of the determined and united disposition of the lines repre sented to conform to the law in good faith and in every respect and to aid the commission in its enforcement. Pledges to this effect were given by all present, with the further promise to report every illegal transaction which may come to their knowledge or of which they may have well grounded suspicion. PRESIDENT JOHN GORDON IS DOWN AND OUT WASHINGTON — The trustees of Howard university accepted the resig nation of President John Gordon to take effect at the end pf the present school year in May, 1906, and granted him a leave of absence from January 1, 1906, until the school year expires. Dean Frederick D. Fairfield of the col legiate department of the university was named as acting president of the university and will assume his new du ties at once. Dr. Gordon offered his resignation after a demonstration made against him by. the students several weeks ago. At that time he was hissed and jeered as he entered the chapel. EMPEROR OF JAPAN TALKING. Commends the Soldiers on Their Work During the War. TOKIO—The emperor, in closing the diet made, a speech from the throne, expressing his appreciation of the de votion of all the public servants, whom he said had enabled the war with Russia to be brought to a close. The emperor said that friendly re lations with Russian had been restored and that the attitude of the treaty powers toward Japan was becoming increasingly amiable. He referred with satisfaction to the Anglo-Japanese al liance and to the necessity which re quired Japan to give her guidance to Korea. The house of representatives, after adopting a loyal address to the em peror, adjourned until January 20. WILL GO AFTER CATTLEMEN. S. R. Rush Appointed as a Special Pros ecutor. OMAHA—S. R. Rush, an attorney of this city, received notice of his appoint ment by Attorney General Moody as special prosecutor In the land fencing cases, with instructions to proceed with the prosecutions at once and push them vigorously. He will hegin sending out subpoenas at once. Court' convenes January 8. No Prosecution for Walsh. CHICAGO—Secretary of the Treas ury Shaw arrived in the city from Washington and in an interview prac tically declared that there would be no criminal proceedings growing out of the closing of the Chicago National bank and the Home Savings bank of this. He uaid: “John K. Walsh did not take one dollar dishonestly. He did no more than many others bankers in the United States are doing all the time.” ’Wattles Outlines Defense. BOSTON — Attorney Streeter out lined the defense that will be put in by Guy W. Wattles of Omaha In the $30, 000 suit over legacies left by Edwin Wallace, a wealthy New Hampshire manufacturer. Wattles is administra tor under the will and claims that the plaintiffs well know that he was agent for the Omaha property of Wallace ind there was no attempt to give any fic titious value to the property and that later an independent examination was made. NEW ELECTORAL LAW GAZETTED Explanation Made of Extension of the Suffrage. ST. PETERSBURG—The new elec toral law was gazetted and was accom panied by a statement explaining that in view of .the fact tljat even some of the western counties do not possess universal suffrage tne cabinet could not assume the responsibility of decreeing it. The ultimate decision must be made by the assembly itself. The elec tion list will be published forthwith, the date of the elections will then be announced and as soon as the govern ment receives notification that half the members are elected the national as sembly will be convoked. The exten sion of the suffrage proclaimed applies especialy to the cities, where it is made almost universal. Besides the work men in the factories and mills who are especially provided for, the suffrage will Include every owner ef real estate, paying faxes, persons conducting en terprises, like shopkeepers paking li censes; persons paying a lodging tax or occupying separate lodgings and persons in the government service, In cluding railroad men. All limit of rent paid by lodging holders as a Vot ing qualification is removed. The in direct system of two degrees of voters in both the cities and country ia re tained. A KANSAS TRAGEDY OCCURS AT WATHENJ WATHENA, Kas. — Because John Shalz, a prominent merchant of this place told Edward Morris, a farmer when the latter inquired the price of a pair of shoes and then complained that it was exorbitant, that “those shoes are much too good for you to wear,” Schalz was stabbed to the heart with a pocket knife. The murder occurred on the threshold of the store in front of a half hundred horrified Christmas shoppers Saturday night. Schalz leaves a wife and eight small children. Morris who is in jail, has a famliy of six. BOYCOTT IN CHINA GROWS. American Merchant Says There is No Improvement in the Situation. SAN FRANCISCO — According to latest reports received here from the Orientthe boycott in China has become so serious that a number of American houses closed their doors until the conditions change. There arrived here yesterday from the Orient, on the steamer Coptic, R. Van Sant, who rep resented a local firm at Shanghai. Mr. Van-Sant, in speaking of the boycott, said: The situation in China is very se rious and there is absolutely nothing in the stories that the feeling against American goods has lessened. It has now extended to seventeen provinces, and in Canton and Hankow the situa tion is just as bad as in Shanghai. The Americas are not doing 20 per cent of the business they formerly did, and at Hong Kong the Chinese were purchasing Australian flour at a much higher price than that quoted by the Americans. The Chinese state that they will not trade with the Americans until there is a modification of the exclusion laws, but this, I told them, was hardly probable. In the event of the United States failing to pass a law less strin gent than the present one the Chinese will adopt more drastic measures. The boycott has developed into an anti foreign feeling and the British and German business concerns in the Orient are suffering the loss of con siderable trade. GOVERNMENT TAKES JUDGMENT. Railroads Violated the Safety Appli ance Law. PORTLAND, Ore.—The Northern Pacific Railway company and the Ore gon Railroad & Navigation company allowed the government to take judg ment against them in the federal court for violation of the safety appliance act. Judgment was taken avainst the Northern Pacific for $300 and against the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company for $400. The Oregon Rail road & Navigation company filled a demurrer, but withdrew it. Similar actions are pending against the Terminal company and Southern Pacific. ODELL THINKS HIS MAN MAY YET BE SPEAKER NEW YORK—Former Governor B. B. Odell, Jr., left for Newbnrg after having spent the day in conference with E. A. Merritt, Ja., candidate for speaker of the assembly and with lo cal politicians. Mr. Odellwould only say about Mr. Merrit’s candidacy that conditions looked favorable tonight. He said he did not know whether or not he would go to Albany before the assembly caucus next Tuesday even ing. Mr. Merritt was setill in town. When asked if there was any truth in the reports of a compromise, he said: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Islands Offered For Sale. SAN FRANCISCO—An advertise ment appearing in a local paper offers for sale Fanning and Washington Islands In the South Pacific, under in structions of the- registrar of the British high commissioners court for the West Pacific. Fanning island is well known. Mayor McClellan Sworn In. NEW YORK—Mayor George M’Clel lan - has been sworn in as mayor of New York city for the next four years. To Ward off Hessian Fly. WASHINGTON—According to the annual report of L. C. Howard, , in charge of the bureau of entomology of the department of agriculture, experi ments on n. large scale, extending over practically the whole erf the wheat growing area, have been begun look ing toward the elucidation of certain as yet unsolved problems in connection with the Hessian fly and the joint worms of wheat and also to determine the best time in sow wheat in the autumn to ward off the autumn attack of the fly. SALARY TOO LOW E ASSISTANT POSTMAS i GENERAL SAYS. '«S ARE UNDERPAID \ — tion by the Department WASHINGTON—In his annual re port made public Wednesday, First Assistant Postmaster General Hitch cock says that the low salaries paid clerks in first and second-class post •offices is decreasing the standard of efficiency. It is impossible, he says, to induce efficient men to enter this branch of the service when the salary to begin with is but $600 per year, with no certainty of promotion for per haps several years. Mr. Hitchcock strongly recommends a discontinuance of the practice of in stalling postoffices in public buildings devoted in part to other branches of the government service. The best type of quarters for postofflce purposes, he says, is a single large room in a one story building. Much embarrassment has been occa sioned the postal authorities to pro vide emergency mail facilities in min ing towns, and Mr. Hitchcock recom mends an emergency appropriation of $75,000 to meet such requirements. There has been an increase of more than $18,000,000 in the amount of do mestic and of more than $5,000,000 in the amount of foreign money orders issued during the year over the one preceding. While the number of undelivered letters which found their way to the dead letter office during the year was smaller than during the previous year, the number of undelivered letters with valuable enclosures greatly increased. General prosperity of the country is given as one reason; another is the suppression by the department of con cerns using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Mail for such concerns con taining money, money orders and com mercial paper was received at the dead letter office in nnusual quantities. Nearly 11,000,000 pieces of mail were received at the dead letter office dur ing the year, including 1,668 that failed of delivery in the Panama canal zone. “Over 1,500,000 cases of alleged inde cent and scurrilous matter received at tention. In the summer the influx of offensive pictorial postcards became so great as to call for a special order by the department looking to the abate ment of the nuisance. As a resula of this order many thousands of objec tionable cards have been withdrawn from the mails by the postmasters and forwarded to the department for de struction. v _________________ RAILROAD PROMOTERS HAVE A CLASH PORTLAND, Ore.—The granting of an injunction by the state circuit court ordering the Portland & Seattle railroad and Simms & Shields, con tractors, to discontinue the work of the railroad construction in the vicinity of a proposed crossing by the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company’s track between here and the Columbia river, marks the first actual legal, clash between the principals them selves in the alleged fight between the Hill and Harriman interests. Both companies for some time have been striving to gain the vantage at the point-of crossing, in order to establish a grade to which the other company would have to conform. THOUSAND DOLLARS A CHILD This Iowa Farmer Has a Method in His Rooseveltan Ideas. ELDORA, la.—George Cramer, a wealthy and industrious German living near Ackley, came to America a poor boy. At the time of his marriage his wealthy father in Germany promised to send him $1,000 each time a child was born in the family. To date twelve children have come to bless the union and, faithful to his promise, the old grandfather has remitted twelve $14)00 checks to his son and heirs in America. ATTORNEYSHIP IS HELD UP.' " Men Who Have the Say All .Leaving Washington for a Vacation. WASHINGTON—The vacancy in the United States district attorneyship of Nebraska, caused by the removal of Baxter will not in all probability be filled for several weeks. President Roosevelt left for his coun try home in Virginia and. will remain there during the balance of this week. Senator Millard leaves Washington for Omaha Thursday and will not re turn to Washington until January 8. ■ Senators Millard and Burkett had an Informal meeting regarding various candidates for district attorney. It is said they number twelve, but no conclusion was reached as to whom they will unite upon to recommend. Mussulmans Massacred. CONSTANTINOPLE—The massacre of Mussulmans by Armenians was still In progress at Tiflis, Caucasia, and throughout Caucasia, Dec. 18, accord ing to a dispatch from Tiflis under that date. The Mohammedans were being hunted down like deer, no dis tinction being made between Persians, Tartars or Ottomans. About 2,000 Mus sulman families at Tiflis had sought' refuge in neighboring villages. The cossacks and other troops continued to plunder the houses of Mussulmans at Batoum. Fatal Boxing Bout at Club. PHILADELPHIA—Patrick Reynolds a young man living in the southern part of the city, died suddenly while boxing with Frank Shanahan, a friend. The men are members of a club and were having a friendly bout, when, Shanahan struck Reynolds behind the ear. The lafter sank to the floor and became unconscious and died before a doctor could be summoned. It is be lieved his death was due to heart dis ease. Shanahan has been detained by the police pending an investigation by the coroner. REVOLT ON WANE. Official* Report They Have Situation In Hand. ST. PETERSBURG—Emperor Nich olas and Count Witte received a report from General Doubassoff, governor general of Moscow, saying that the re volt there had failed; that the military had the situation in hand and that whatever defection may have ex isted among the troops had been over come by attacks on them by bombs and revolvers to which they had been sub jected from the windows and roofs of houses and which had so enraged them that they ' y be restrained. Although reih ■ flare up imme diately elsewh. .ad although there is an indication Vi another upheaval at Odessa, if the attempt at armed rebel lion in Moscow should be crushed, the leaders of the “reds” will receive a blow from which they cannot quickly recover. Count Witte is not so blind to believe that the revolution can be stamped out, but with the present demonstrations of the lengths to which the “reds” are willing to go he has hopes that the moderates of all classes will come to their senses and aid in counselling of order and in accelerat ing the convocation of the douma, the law governing elections which was published today. Among the developments the most important was the capture of the lead ers of the “Fighting legion,” which, it is believed, ends the danger of an attempted armed uprising in St. Pet ersburg. This capture, it is under stood, places in the hands of the gov ernment complete information regard ing the revolutionary plans and places where arms are concealed, as well as disclosing the weak spot in the army. Shortly before 9 o’clock the corres pondent of the Associated Press at Moscow telephoned that there seemed to be no longer doubt that the insur -ection was collapsing. The insurgents Still held the quadrangle in which the workmen’s council was sitting as a revolutionary committee, but only be cause Governor General Doubassoff was not yet ready to give the coupe de grace. LIVED FIFTY YEARS _M SIOUX CITY SIOUX CITY, la.—George Wears, president of the Iowa State National bank, the pioneer banker of northwest ern Iowa, celebrated the fiftieth anni versary of his arrival in Sioux City. Having reached Sioux City on the day after Christmas, 1855, Mr. Weare’s residence here has been longer than that of any other living man save one—L. D. Letillier, the venerable Frenchman, who as a voyager as the adventurous explorers of that day were called, engaged in fur trading in this section at an earlier date. His bank, with the bank of Weare & Allison, is the oldest under one con tinuous management in the state. Favors a Lock Canal. WASHINGTON—Chairman Shonts, accompanied by Chief Engineer J. F. Stevens of the Isthmian canal com mission, have arrived in Washington. Mr. Stevens has come to Washington to give his views to the commission on the type of canal that should be constructed. Mr. Stevens, it may be definitely stated, is in favor of a lock canal and at a moderately high level. PRESIDENT SIGNS CANAL BILL Eleven Million Dollars Made Available for Work. WASHINGTON — President Roose velt signed the bill passed by congress appropriating $11,000,000 for the Pan ama canal. This is the first law creat ed by the present session of congress. Secretary Shaw stated that although the Panama canal bill which has just passed congress perfected the legisla tion relating to the sale of Panama bonds, and makes it possible to issue them at any time, the treasury depart ment does not contemplate any imme diate issue. At present conditions for an issue are not so favorable as they are likely to be later on. An imme diate sale would withdraw money from channels of trade where it is now needed to the amount of the issue. BUYS ROOSEVELT BIRTHPLACE Organization Effected at New York to Make Purchase. NEW YORK — The organization formed to purchase the house in which Theodore Roosevelt was born, at ' 28 East Twentieth street, in this city, and present it to the nation, completed the details of purchase and secured posses sion at the property for $60,000. It is the intention of those interested in the plan to restore the house as nearly as possible to the shape It was in at the time of the president’s birth. This will include the furnitnre and fittings, as far as they can be secured. Among the colloborators to the pro ject were Andrew Carnegie and Henry C. Frick and General Horace Porter, who is said to have subscribed $10,000 and others. ST. LOUIS—Officers of several of the organizations popularly termed as “lid-lifting clubs,” which were raided recently upon instructions of Gover nor Folk, were arraigned .in police court on charges of violation of the li quor law. Fines were imposed in sums ranging from $50 to $100. Many of the cases were appealed to the court of criminal correction. Police Judge Tracy denounced the organizations, de claring that -m . nearly very instance' they are merely subterfuges for -the evasion of the Sunday closing or ex cise laws. Forty Millions for Canal. ALBANY, N. Y.—Forty million dol lars will be asked of the coming legis lature for work on the thousand ton barge canal during 1906 aeoording to, the second annual report.of State En gineer and Surveyor Henry A Van Al styne. VICTORIA, B.'C —-The steamer Mio wera, which arrived yesterday from Australia, reports that an her arrival at Fanning island the cable staff were without provisions and were living on cocoanuts. PURSUED BY WILD ELEPHANTS Death of a Wounded Bull Saved thi Hunting Party. “I was kneeling, while my men laj flat on their faces,” writes C. G. Schil lings in his “With Flashlight am Rifle,” of an elephant hunting inci dent. “I sent two more bullets int< the male elephant. The whole here then gathered around an old lemal* elephant and broke awdy in a quid shuffle. Since they turned to th< right I enjoyed the grand sight o: twenty-four elephants passing at i distance of about 450 feet. Th< wounded male passed a little nearei to me and I could not refrain fron firing at him once more. The whol< herd stopped, took the young ones into their midst, looked around am sniffed the air. “They discovered us, and, led bj two females, they came to attack us The situation became very critical for in the long run the animals wer< bound to overtake us. I fled as fas as my feet would carry me in th< wake of my men, who were running away from the animal at a right angle They knew, as I did, that the ele phant’s sense of sight is weak anc that our only chance of escape lay it changing, from time to time, th< direction of our flight. “We ' id not dare look around, bu' hurrie on in breathless haste. Th« thum ring, dull noise of the pursuing elephants came nearer and nearer Then suddenly a piercing, trumpet like sound was heard above the dul noise. Turning around I saw th< wounded animal falling into a sitting posture and the rest of the herd ii wild flight away from us.” THOUGHT LITTLE OF PERJURY. Youth Willing to Make False Affidavit Without Compunction. A prominent Brooklyn lawyer tells me that perjury is one of the very commonest forms of crime committed in New York. “It’s got so,” says he, “that com paratively few people seem to have any idea of the sanctity of an oath or any fear of punishment for swearing to a lie. Indeed, many people act as if they did not know that they are doing wrong when they make false affidavits. Not long ago a young busi ness man, son of a very worthy father, retained me in a little case involving something under $1,000. Just before I was to submit the papers in the case to the court, my client happened to speak, in the most Incidental way, of his wife, and I happened to remem ber that in his affidavit he had de scribed himself as a single man. “ ‘Oh, that’s all right,’ said he, as if the perjury were of no importance whatever. ‘I don’t want the old folks to know just yet that I am married.’ “Now, there was a young man of good family, fine education and excel lent prospects, who, for a little matter of less than $1,000, stood ready to per jure himself in the most matter-of course way, and he seemed to think I was a good deal of an old fogy, with strange back-number notions, when I insisted that he must either make a new and truthful affidavit or drop the case altogether.”—Brooklyn Eagle. v ^ , The Retort Courteous. The pleasant-faced young man stood in an aisle of the book depart ment of one of the big stores. In his hand he held a volume which he bad some time previously taken from the counter devoted to the display of the latest Action. It must be confessed that the young man was devoting most of his attention to an-exceeding ly pretty, blonde clerk, who stood by his side. The pair were, in fact, so merry that they did not observe the approach of a haughty woman of middle-age who would probably have tipped the scales at 250 pounds, and who wished to pass them, an opera tion which, though simple for persons of average size, was rendered diffi cult, if not impossible, by her ex treme plumpness. The new-comer paused a moment, but the merry pair, oblivious of her presence, kept on chatting gayly. “Can I pass you?” Ehe demanded at length in tones of thunder, surveying the offending couple with a glance truly Gorgonian. The young man turned, surveyed the speaker, noted her distended nos trils and wrathful eyes, likewise her overplump figure. “Really, I don’t know,” he said, raising his hat politely. “I hope so. I’m sure.” Now, if looks could kill—!—New York Jimes. Comanche Counting. A peculiar feature about the Co manche language Is the method of counting. A Comanche will count up to 10 in the 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 7. 8, 9, 10 method, but there he stops. He does not use eleven but Instead he counts it as “10 and 1 more,” and so on, un til he reaches 19, which he pro nounces 19. He then pronounces 20, but starts in with “20 and 1 more" until he reaches 29, which he counts. 29, then starts in with 30. like he did 20, and counts to 39, and so on all the way up. Counting is the most difficult thing to learn in the Comanche language. In fact, by the time a person has learned to count in that language he has pretty well mastered It. As there is no alphabet in the lan guage, the only way to learn It Is by word of mouth. Any attempt to write it.in the English alphabet would be absolutely fruitless, as the proper pro nunciation could not thereby be trans mitted.—Lawton Democrat. Really a Sad Case. A beggar accosted me to-day— A woman disheveled and sad. , She asked for a penny and wept and said That times were terribly bad. With you and your class they always ara As bad as bad can be; “Come, now," 1 said, “and stop your tears; They how so easily.” She dashed her hand across her eyes And told hetr tale of woe; How things were worse than they used , to be • • A month or so ago. ' - For then she said, her only son, A blind and helpless lad. Went out and begged the daily bread. But now, alasf ’twas sad. “And so you lost your boy?” I asked. •‘And hence your bitter plight?’’ “ ’Twas even worse than that,” she sai& “My boy regained his sight!” —Modern Society.