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flat* lirtirioi Sodety . Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI : - . NUMBER 14 . REPORT TELLS OF i NEEDSOFFARHIER SITUATION AS SEEN BY COMMISSION ON COUN _ TRY LIFE. DEFICIENCIES POINTED OUT Agriculture at Present Not Commer cially as Profitable as It Is En titled to Be—Highly Organized Rural Society Recommended as De sirable Step—Possible for Congress to Remove Many of the Handicaps Washington.—The report of the commission on country life, made to the president, was read in both houses of congress. Substantially the re port was as follows: To the President: The commission on country life herewith presents its report. The commission finds that agriculture in the I'nited States, taken together, is prosperous commercially, when measured by the conditions that have obtained in previous years, al though there are some regions in which this is only partially true. The country people are producing vast quantities of supplies for food, shelter, clothing, and for use in the arts. The country homes are improving in com fort. attractiveness and healthfulness. Not only in the material wealth that they produce, but in the supply of in dependent and strong citizenship, the ag ricultural people constitute the very foundation of our national efficiency. As agriculture is the immediate basis of country life, so it follows that the general affairs of the open country, speaking broadly, are in a condition of improvement. Most Prominent Deficiencies. Tet it is true, notwithstanding all this progress as measured by his torical standards, that agriculture is not commercially as profitable as it is entitled to be for the labor and energy that the farmer expends and the risks that he assumes, and that the social conditions in the open country are far short of their possibilities. We must measure our agricultural efficiency by The possibilities rather than by com parison with previous conditions. The farmer is almost necessarily handi capped in the development of his busi ness, because his capital is small and the volume of his transactions limited; and he usually stands practically alone against organized interests. In the general readjustment of modern life due to the great changes in manu factures and commerce. inequalities and discriminations have arisen, and - naturally the separate man sufTers most. The unattached man has prob \ lems that government should under stand. The reasons for the lack of a highly organized rural society are very many, as the full report explains. The lead ing specific causes are: A lack of knowledge on the part of farmers of the exact agricultural con ditions and possibilities of their re gions: Lack of good training for country life in the schools; Lack of good highway facilities; The widespread continuing deple tion of soils, with the injurious effect on rural life; A general need of new and active leadership. Other causes contributing to the' general result are: Lack of any ad-> g quate system of agricultural credit. M whereby the farmer may readily s<— ure loans on fair terms: the short age of labor, a condition that is often complicated by intemperance among workmen: lack of institutions and in centives that tie the laboring man to the soil: the burdens and the narrow life of farm women; lack of adequate supervision of public health. Nature of the Remedies. Some of theremedies lie with tne na tional government, some of them with the states and communities in their co-porate capacities, some with volun tary organizations, and some with in dividuals acting alone. From the great number of suggestions that have been made, covering every pliase of country life, the commission now enumerates those that seem to be most funda mental or most needed at the present time. congress can remove some or th^ handicaps of the farmer, and it can also set some kinds of work in motion such as; The encouragement of a system of thorough-going surveys of all agricul tural regions in order to take stock and to develop a scientifically and economically sound country life: The establishing of a nationalized system of extension work in rural communities through all the land grant colleges with the people at their homes and on their farms: A thorough-going investigation by experts of the middleman system of handling farm products, coupled with a general Inquiry into the farmer's disadvantages in respect to taxation, transportation rates, co-operation or ganizations and credit, and the gen eral business system; An inquiry into the control and use of the streams of the I'nited States with the object of protecting the peo ple in their ownership and of saving to agricultural uses such benefits as should be reserved for these purposes; The establishing of a highway en gineeringservice. or equivalent organi zation. to be at the call of the states in working out effective and econom ical highway systems; , The establishing of a system or parcels post and postal savings banks; And providing some means or agency for the guidance of public opinion toward the development of a real rural society that shall rest di rectly on the land. Other remedies recommended for consideration by congress are: The enlargement of the I'nited States bureau of education, to enable it to stimulate and co-ordinate the ed ucational work of the nation; Careful attention to the farmers’ interests in legislation on the tariff,* on regulation of railroads, control or regulation of corporations and of spec ulation. legislation in respect of riv ers. forests, and the utilization of swamp lands: Increasing the powers of the fed Deral government in respect to the supervision and control of the public Providing such regulations as will enable the states that do not permit the sale of liquors to protect them selves from traffic from adjoining In setting all these forces in motion, the co-operation of the states will be necessary; and in many cases definite state laws may greatly aid the work. Remedies of a more general nature are; A broad campaign of publicity, , that must be undertaken until all the people are Informed on the whole sub ject of rural life, arid until there is an awakened appreciation of the neces sity of giving this phase of our na tional development as much attention as has been given to other phases or interests; a quickened sense of re sponsibility. in all the country people, to the community and the state in the conserving of soil fertility, and in the necessity for diversifying farming in order to conserve this fertility and to develop a better rur.i^ society, and also In the better safe-guarding of the strength and happiness of ttie farm women: a more widespread conviction of the necessity of organization, not on y for economic but for social pur 1 poses, this organization to be more or ! less co-operative, so that all the people ; may share equally in the benefits and have voice in the essential affairs of ‘ the community; a realisation on tie | part of the farmer that lie has a dill— ' tinct natural responsibility toward ti e | laborer in providing him with good living facilities, and :n helping him in | every way to be a man among men; and a realization on the part of all ti.e people of the obligation to protect and develop the natural scenery ar.d ! attractiveness of the open country Underlying Problem of Country Life. The commission has pointed out a number of remedies that are extreme ly important; but running through all of these rvmedi* s are several great forces or principles, which must be utilized in the endeavor to solve the problems of country life. All the peo ple should recognize what these fun damental forces and agencies art. Knowledge.—To improve any situ ation. the underlying facts must be un derstood. The farmer must have ex act knowledge of his business and jf the peculiar conditions under which he works. The United States depart ment of agriculture and the experi ment stations and colleges are rapidly acquiring and distributing this knowl edge; but the farmer may not be abie to apply it to the best advantage be cause of lack :>f knowledge of his own soils, climate, animal and plant dis eases. markets, and other local facts. The farmer is • nt.tied to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of his conditions and environment. A thorough-going system of surveys in detail of the exact conditions under lying farming in every locality is now an indispensable need to complete and apply the wo”k of th- great agricul tural institutions. As an occupation, agriculture is a means of developing our internal resources; we cannot de velop these resources until we knew exactly what they are. Education.—There must be not only a fuller scheme of public education, but a new kind of education adapted to the real needs of the farming peo ple. The country schools are to be so redirected that they shall educate theii pupils in terms of the daily life. Op portunities for training toward the agricultural colleges are to be multi plied and made broadly effective. Every person on the land, old or young, in school or out of school, edu cated or illiterate, must have a chance to receive the information necessary for a successful business, and for a ; Healthful, comfortable, resourceful life, j both in home and neighborhood. This , means redoubled efforts for better country schools, and a vastly increased interest in iht welfare of country boys and girls on the part of those who pay the school taxes. Education by means of agriculture is to be a part of our regular public school work. .Special agricultural schools are to be organized. There is to be a well-de veloped plan of extension teaching conducted by the agricultural colleges, by means of the printed page, face-to face talks, and demonstration or ob ject lesson, designed to r-ach every farmer and his family, at or near their homes, with knowledge and stimulus in every department of country life. Organization.—Th^-re must be a vast enlargement of voluntary organized ef fort among farmers themselves. It i9 indispensable that farmers shall work together for their common interests and for the national welfare If th*y do not do this, no governmental activi ty, no legis at ion. not even better schools, will greatly avail The farm ers are nevertheless relatively unor | ganized. We have only begun to de velop business co-operation in Ame-i- ; •a. Farmers do not influence legisla- j tion as they should. They need a mere ! fully organized social and recreative life. Spiritual Forces.—The forces and j institutions that make for morality j and spiritual ideals among rural peo- i pie must be energized. We rrn.'s the heart of the problem if we neglect to foster personal character and neigh borhood righteousnes . The best way to preserve ideals for private conduct and public life is to build up the •ssti tutions of religion. The church has great power cf leadership. The whole people should, understand that it is vitally important to stand behinfl the rural church and to help it to become a great power in developing concrete country life ideals. It is especially important that the country church rec ognize that it has a social responsibili ty to th- entire community as well as a religious responsibility to its own group of peotle. Recommendations or trie commission. The commission recommends all the correctives that have been mentioned under the head of "The nature of the remedies." It does not wish to dis criminate between important meas ures of relief for existing conditions. It has purposely avoided indorsing any particular bill now before con gress, no matter what its value or ob ject. There are. however. In the opinion of the commission, two or three great movements of the utmost consequence that should be set under way at the earliest possible time, because they are fundamental to the whole problem of ultimate permanent reconstruction; these call for special explanation. Taking Stock of Country Life.— There should be organized. as ex plained in the main report, under gov ernmental leadership, a comprehensive plan for an exhaustive studs' or survey of all the condtioris that surround the business of farming ^nd tne people who live in the country, in order to take stock of our resources and to supply the farmer with local knowl edge Federal and state governments, agricultural colleges and other educa tional agencies, organizations of vari ous types and individual students of the problem, should be brought into co-operation for this great work of in vestigating with minute care all agri cultural and country life conditions. Nationalized Extension Work.—Each state college of agriculture should be empowvr> d- to' organize as soon as practicable a complete department of college extension, so managed as to reach every person on the land in its state, with both information and in spiration. Tiie work should include such forms cf extension teaching as lectures, bulletins. reading courses, correspondence courses. demonstra tion. anil other means of reaching the people at home and on their farms. It should be designe- to forward not only the business of agriculture, but sanitation, education, home making, and all interests of country lit*. BEFORE THE TROJAN HORSE IS ADMITTED, The Puzzled Citizen Will Have to Be Shown a Little More Fully. OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR INDICTED CHARLES N. HASKELL AND SIX OTHERS ACCUSED OF FRAUD Defendants Charged with Conspiracy Against Government in Musko gee Town Lot Cases. Muskogee, Okia.—As a result of the investigation by the grand jury of the alleged frauds in connection with the scheduling of town lots in this city seven indictments were returned Wednesday night. The charge against the defendants is conspiracy to de fraud the government. Those indicted are: Gov. Charles X. Haskell, F. B. Sev ers. A. Z. English, C. W. Turner, W T Hutchings, Jesse W. Hili and Walter E. Eaton. Attorney Thomas H. Owen of Mus kogee representing Gov. Haskell, made arrangements for the governor Friday morning to enter his appear ance and give bond in the sum of $5.0o0 fur appearance for trial. The writs issued are returnable forthwith. Gov. Haskell is at Guthrie, the state rapital. There is but one indictment against him charging him with con spiring with Walter R. Eaton and Clarence W. Turner to defraud the government. There are two indict ments against Turner and one each tgainst the others. Turner was first to give bond in the sum of $10,000. Hutchings and Eaton gave bond in the sum of $5,000 each. \11 probably will be arraigned before Judge Campbell Friday morning. Eng lish is in Los Angeles. Cal. In a statement issued at Guthrie, lev. Haskell said: ‘‘I have just heard of the indictment for conspiracy coupled with seven or eight of the oldest and highest-charac tered citizens of Muskogee, men who developed and built up that country by their unselfish effort. From now on, the proceedings will be open to both tides. "I am satisfied the interior depart ment has been misled by false state ments. I am confident there has not been a dishonest act done by any of the indicted parties and that good citizens in general, regardless of poli tics, feel the same way.” LEWIS RE-ELECTED 3Y MINERS. Ohio Man Chosen for President by Majority of 16,CC0. Indianapolis. Tnd.—Thomas L. Lewis of Bridgeport. O.. Wednesday was re elected president of the United Mine Workers of the United States and Canada by a majority of more than 16,000 votes over his opponent. John H. Walker, district president of Illi nois. The report of the tellers of the bal lots cast in the election of last Decem ber that as none of the candidates for vice-president or secretary-treasurer had received a majority of the votes cast, it would be necessary for the delegates assembled in the convention to decide the contest. Ballots then were distributed. Attack Forest Service. Washington.—The forest service got its usual annual drubbing Thursday, the criticisms against it coming prin cipally from Mr. Smith (Cal.), Mr. Cook (Col.I and Mr. Mondell (Wyo.), all of whom charged extravagance in administration and the extortion of money from miners, farmers and even the owners of bee hives. Mr. Cook attributed to Mr. Pinchot, the chief forester, the ulterior motive of schem ing for Secretary Wilson's seat in the cabinet. Dayton Has Another Murder. Dayton, O.—Late Friday after noon the body of a young wom an was dragged out of a cistern in the rear of a vacant house. Her brother, whom she was visiting, has identified her as Lizzie Fulhart, 18 ^ years old, of Vandalia. O. New Orleans Has Big Fire. New Orleans.—Sparks from a donkey engine set fire to the wharf at the $3,000,000 Chalmette plant of the American sugar refinery Friday. The loss is $200,000. STOPS THE JAP LEGISLATION. Speaker's Appeal and Governor’s Mes sage Postpone California's Action. Sacramento. Cal.—Speaker Phillip A. Stanton took the floor Friday and secured, by a strong personal appeal, unanimous consent 01 the assembly to postpone further action on the Japa nese school segregation bill until next Wednesday. He declared he had information, which he could not reveal, that proved the assembly was treading upon dan gerous ground in passing the anti Japanese bill. At tire conclusion of the speaker's ; address. Grove L. Johnson, author of ! the measure, asked that the matter of reconsideration of Thursday's vote be ! put over until Wednesday, and his mo i tioi carried without dissent. Gov. Gillett sent a speciad mes ■ sage to the house raising the point of 1 the bill's constitutionality, and this i was the subject of a long debate, dnr i ing which it was suggested by iead i ers on both sides thatAhe measure be ■ referred to the committee on judi ciary and submitted to the attorney ! general for an opinion as to its le l gality. j Senator A. C. Min.etti introduced the ' Japanese school bill in the senate. DEFENDS USE OF SLEUTHS. President Says Secret Service Is Nec essary to Punish Criminals. Washington.—Declaring that “if the government is to act with full ef ficiency against criminals, it must have some force of secret service agents who can act against criminals any I where," President Roosevelt in a | statement made public from the 1 White House emphatically reiterated | liis opposition to restricting the field i of usefulness of the secret service. “The position of the administration ' is," said the president, “that it is ! against sound public policy to dis | criminate in favor of criminals by dis | criminating against the use of the secret service to detect and punish them." The statement was called forth by "misleading statements appearing in some of the afternoon papers" to the effect that the work of the secret serv ice has not been hampered and that' the investigation of cases outside the detection of counterfeiters and the protection of the president has uot been circumscribed by restrictive leg islation at the last session of con gress. Wants Premium for Mothers. Des Moines, la.—One dollar to the mother of every baby born in Iowa. Representative Fulliam Friday intro duced such a bill as a substitute to the tax on babies measure. It provides that the mother of a new born baby shall be paid one dollar by the county treasurer upon receipt of a certificate signed by the mother and the attend ing physician. Relief Fund Is Now $3,641,000. Washington.—Funds raised by the relief organizations for the earth quake victims in Italy have reached a total of $3,641,000, this sum represent ing the contributions which poured in from all quarters through the three leading organizations—the American National Red Cross, the Italian gov ernment committee and the Italian Red Cross. Carrie Nation Is Fined. London.—Carrie Nation became ac quainted with the London police courts Thursday afternoon, when she was lined $7.50 for thrusting her umbrella through a window of a car in the un derground railway upon which a ciga rette advertisement was pasted. Candy Maker Has Leprosy. Los Angeles.—Samuel Bernick, a Russian candy vender who for a year or more has been stationed near the school, dispensing candy to the chil dren and passers-by on the street, ha^ been found to be a leper. Attempt to Sell Girl Charged. Pittsburg, Pa—Raffalo de Biasi, a grocer of this city, was arrested Fri day on compiaint of Antonia Gentile, aged 17, who alleges that de Biasi, who is married, tried to sell a girl tc him for $200. Congresc. The senate agreed to the confer ence on the urgent deficiency bill. It carries 1150,000 to continue the fight on foot and mouth disease. The president vetoed the bill pro viding for the next census because it ignored the competitive system. President Roosevelt has added an other “insult” to the long list of griev ances congress treasures against him. The war department wants con gress to pass a retirement bill for civil employes of the Philippine government and charge the expense up to the Filipinos. General Edwards of the bureau of insular affairs ap peared before the house commit ee cl insular affairs in advocacy of such it measure. Senator Teller made an extended speech on Senator Bacon's bill ques tioning the authority of the president to withhold official papers from con gress. Congressman Mondell of W yoimng in a speech in the house made a se vere attack on the forestry service. The house locked horns with the senate on the question of automobiles for the White house and refused to accept an amendment to the urgent deficiency bill striking out the ap propriation of $12,000 for that pur pose. Congressman Pollard of Nebraska made an argument for federal inspec tion of grain. The senate has agreed to vote on the Aldrich substitute for the Foraker bill February 22. The house reduced the appropria tion for balloon experiments to $250, 000. A bill passed the senate to permit drainage of Omaha Indian lands. Congressman Pollard appeared be fore the interstate and foreign com merce committee of the house in be half of his bill providing for the stand ardizing of grain for export only. The senate passed the horse bill making hundredth birthday of Abra ham Lincoln a legal holiday. Senator Gamble's bill providing for the creation of a new land district at Belle Fourehe, S. L. has passed both houses. The house incorporated an amend ment in the army bill appropriating $750,000 for experiments in aerial navi gation. Organization of the committee cf the next house presents a b g problem to leaders because of defeat for re election of chairmen of a number of important committees and promotion of others. Bills were passed by the house ex tending the time in which the city cf Burlington may construct a bridge across the Mississippi at that point and creating a new land district in South Dakota to be known as the Belle Feu re he district. General. The California legislature post poned for a few days reconsideration of the bill segregating Japanese school children. About twenty persons were killed by a stc m which extended from the east Tennessee line to the Texas Panhandle. Floods in Germany have become alarming and the Rhine and tributary streams are still rising. Rear Admiral Sperry approved ii>e findings in the Qualtrough court martial. Czechs and Germans had a collision in the Austrian parliament. Land frauds in Oklahoma have seriously impaired land titles in cities in the state. Expectation that the government will carry out the survey plans of the Salt creek valley in Nebraska with out any charge to the people con cerned has been dissipated. The gov ernment will bear the major part of the cost but about five hundred dol lars must be contributed by the peo ple in the valley or the v*ork will not be done. The Danish rigsdag approved treat ies of arbitration with the United States. Norway and Sw-eden. The California house passed the separate school bill, aimed at Japan ese. the worst of all, the president says. : The two Nevada senators are not in sympathy with anti-Japanese legisla tion in that state. There is no indication that the Illi nois senatorial deadlock will soon be broken. Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma will not. resign because he has been indicted. Senator Cummins is an advocate of specific, rather than ad valorem duties on imports. An increase in battle efficiency has been shown by the Atlantic fleet. Venezuela refused to sign the pro tocol drawn up by Buchanan. The governor of Tennessee vetoed the bill prohibiting the manufacture of liquor in that state, but it prob ably will be passed over the veto. Captain Qualtrough is reported to have been found guilty in the court martial trial at Gibralter. The governor of Kentucky issued a proclamation asking the state to do honor to Lincoln on his birthday. The South Dakota legislature passed a 2-cent passenger fare law. The state court has issued a writ o? mandamus to compel its observance, and the federal court enjoins, officials from enforcing it. Governor Haskell of Oklahoma and six other men were indicted by the federal grand jury at Muskogee on the charge of conspiring to obtain fraudulent titles to town lota. Grain receipts at Omaha market increase over 2,000,000 bushels during January, 1909, as compared to same month last year. Charges of drunkenness are prefer red against Captain Qualtrough of the fleet now circumnavigating the globe and he will be tried by cour-.-martial. The Illinois legislature is still wrestling with the senatorial matter without being able to make a choice. Homer P. Leavitt, from whom Ruth Bryan Leavitt is seeking a divorce, makes public letters in which Mrs. Leavitt urges him to stay in Paris and paint a great picture. M. Loopkine, former director of po lice in Russia has been arrested oa charge of high treason. Standard Oil company makes a proposition for a compromise in the ’suit in which it was ousted from the state of Missouri. nenry L,air. promoter ot tne wmte slave traffic, was sent to prison for two years and fined $2,500 by the federal court in Chicago. Foreign Minister Komura in an ad dress to the Diet declares Japan’s policy is for peace and he says anti Jap legislation will not lead to com plications. There is three hundred thousand dollars in sight for an Omaha univer sity if that city will raise $200,000. The Federal grand jury at Musko gee is expected to bring in at least 300 bills involving about twenty per sons in lot frauds. The Countess De Lesseps, widow of Count Ferdinand De Lesseps, pro moter of the ship canals of Suez, Cor inth and Panama, died in Paris. Gompers says he will not stop talk ing. notwithstanding court injunc tions. President-elect Taft is pouring oil on the troubled political waters in Panama. Colonel Goethals says the Panama canal will be completed by January 15, 1915. The lower house of congress met on Sunday to hear enlogies of the life and public service of the late Con gressman Powers of Maine. The lower house of the South Da kota legislature killed the senate resolution for the submission of a woman's suffrage amendment. The California court of appeals in deciding a will case holds that a man’s divorced wife is still his wife, al though she has remarried. The Burlington and Missouri Pa cific have come to an agreement about terminal differences in 9t. Joseph. Governor Hughes in an aiidress in New York said he hoped to see the time when leg slators are accountable to their constituents only for their of ficial acts. President Roosevelt has given his consent to the placing of the head of Lincoln on one of the popular coins. Washington. The senate concluded consideration of the District of Columbia appropria tion bill, carrying an aggregate of about eleven and a half millions of dollars. A conference report on the urgent deficiency bill was agreed to. It appropriates $12,000 for the “pur chase. care and maintenance of auto mobiles for the president.” and $150. 000 to enable the secretary of agri culture to continue to com'oai the foot and mouth diseases in horses and cat tle. Recommending that the standard of the different grades of cotton, as fixed by them be adopted as the official classification of the government, the committee of export cotton classifiers designated by the secretary of agri culture to assist him in establishing such a standard, have made their re port to the latter. John Norris, of the American News papers Publishers association sent to the house ways and means committee, a letter wherein he charged that the International Paper company in pre senting its argument for the reten tion of the tariff on paper, had de liberately misrepresented to thp com mittee the amounts paid by the paper company as wages to paper makers. Surgeon Francis C. Nash, who has been on duty at the Naval academy at Annapolis, is to be tried by court martial in Washington February 10 on charges of having administered im proper treatment to Midshipman Harry W. Stephenson of Nebraska. The supreme court of the United States refused to advance on the docket the case of the Noble State bank of Noble, Okla., vs. Governor Haskell and other members of the Oklahoma state banking board, involv ing the validity of the Oklahoma bank guaranty law. The annual report of the United States commissioner of patents shows that there were issued during 190S to citizens of Missouri patents; to the number of 955, or one patent to every 3,253 persons in the state; to citizens of Kansas 434 patents, or one to every 3,388 persons. Personal. Judge J. J. Sullivan took the oath of office at Omaha and accepted ap pointment as justice of supreme court of Nebraska from Governor Shallen berger. First division of American battleship fleet under Admiral Sperry reached Gibraltar Sunday morning. Samuel Gompers addressed a labor meeting at New York in defense of his attitude toward courts. iSSJSi’le* E. Magccn, provisional gov ernor of Cuba, is in Washington pre paring his final report. ! JAPANESE TROUBLES — - ! PRESIDENT SENDS ANOTHER MESSAGE TO CALIFORNIA. WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT Anti-Japanese Legislation Will Be to the Fore by the Law-Making Bodies. Sacramento, Cal—Anti-Japanese leg islation will be to the fore this wees in both branches of the legislature. Two resolutions drawn by Grove L. Johnson of Sacramento and aimed at the island emperor's subject will be subject of discussion in the assembly Wednesday, one already passed, seg regating the Japanese in the public schools of the state, and the other, which was refused passage, empower ing municipalities to segregate in residential districts all undesirable aliens whose presence might in the opinion of boards of supervisors be inimical to the public health and morals of the various communities af fected. It is the school bill that most deep j ly concerns President Roosevelt, and between this time and Wednesday for which day it has been made a speehii order of business to determine whether or not the vote by which it passed shall be reconsidered, it is expected that the national authorities will throw additional light upon the subject. This is supposed to be of an extremely important nature, showing the true state ot diplomatic nogetia tions now pending between Japan and the United States and revealing to the the legislature the reason for Mr. Roosevelt’s numerous telegrams to the governor urging postponement of further action on anti-Japanese legis lation. Governor Gilleit said yesterday in San Francisco that he understood Speaker Stanton had received a mes sage from President Roosevelt that he was at liberty to make public if he so desired. Mr. Stanton, who went to Los Angeles Friday night, refused to publish his correspondence with the president, but a telegram was re ceived at the governor's office from Washington stating that the Roosevelt message might be given out and As semblyman J. P. Transue. one of Stan ton’s lieutenants from Los Angeles, issued the fallowing ebpy: Wh-t President Wired. “Washington. D. C., Feb.. G.—Hen. Philip A. Stanton, Speaker of the As sembly. Sacramento. Cal.—Please ac cept the expression of profound obli gation on hehalf of the American peo ple as a whole for the high and patri otic services you are rendering I have unlimited confidence in the san'* good sense and right mindedness of the people of California. “I know that they appreciate that the national government is at this mo ment engaged in doing everything it can to achieve the ends that California has in view, while at the same time preserving unbroken the relations of respect and good will with a great and friendly nation, and therefore I am sure that the people of California will support you in taking the position you lave taken, which is so eminently in the interests not only of the American people as a whole, but especially of the state of California. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Mr. Transue said that he wyas not aw.are of any other message received by Speaker Stanton from President Roosevelt. As the telegram above quoted wan dated February G and Stanton made his appeal to the as sembly Friday, February 5. it could not have been the one he referred to at that time as prompting him to take the floor and make a personal apodal for delay on anti-Japanese legislation. The senate will take a fling at the Japanese Monday immediately after the reading of the journal. Denrran Thompson III. New York.—News was received in local theatrical circles Sunday that Denman Thompson. 7« years old, the veteran actor of “The Old Home stead,” is dangerously ill of pneumo nia at his home .u West Swansey, near Keene, N. H. HARRIMAN MERGER HEARING. Taking of Testimony to Be Com menced Tuesday. Cincinnati, O.—The case of the gov. eminent against the Union Pacific Railway company, E. H. Harriman and others, called a year ago in the United States courts, to break up what is claimed to be a. merger of the Harri man lines, will be heard here Tues day, having been transferred to Cin cinnati recently. Thirty-five witnesses will be examined, it is said. Oregon Interested. Portland, Ore—The doings of the California legislature in regard to the Japanese while followed with interest in this city, are discussed but little. Sentiment of nearly all classes is in favor of discouraging the emigration of the Japanese . Pension for Ex Presidents. Washington.—African hunts and magazine writing will not be neces sary as the occupations of ex-presi dents of the United States if a bill in troduced by Representative Volstead of Minnesota be enacted. This meas ure provides a pension of $12,000 an nually for every president, after he leaves the White House. No duties will be required of the retired chief executive, but if he should be again elected to the highest office in the gift ci the people his pension would ceas-j during his term of office.
