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CONGRESS.
The territories committee members
have announced an agreement on gov
srment Alaskan railway.
The Senate Budget committee has
begun consideration of plans to re
form methods of framing appropria
tion bills.
Senator Martin introduced concur
rent resolution to suspend until ac
tion by congress, customs' district con
solidation order.
The House in an executive session,
decided to postpone renewal of limit
ed arbitration treaties with Great
Britain, Italy and Spain.
The immigration committee has vot
ed to report favorably the nomination
of Anthony Caminetti as commissioner
general of immigration.
The Senate Commerce committee
has voted to favorably report a bill
to delay customs service reorganiza
tion until January 1, 1914.
The judiciary committee has acted
favorably on O’Gorman bill allowing
chief justice to assign federal judges
to circuits other than their own.
Representative Murdock has intro
f.iced a bill for a naturalization com
mission to investigate, recommend
»nd redraft bills in interest of ad
mitted aliens.
Senator O'Gorman lias introduced
a bill to create a national commission
on prison labor to study prison labor
question and recommend uniform
legislation.
Senator Hitchcoock has introduced
an amendment to the tariff bill to
levy additional excise on pro
duction of larger tobacco factories,
to prevent monopoly.
Senator Kenyon has introduced a
resolution instructing the interstate
commerce commission to investigate
the acquisition of the Chicago &
Eastern railroad by St. Louis & San
Francisco railroad, and the subse
quent receivership.
The foreign relations committee
has approved renewal of arbitration
treaty with Great Britain. Italy and i
Spain, extradition treaty with Para- ;
guay; bills for elevation of legatiou |
to Spain to an embassy; independ- j
ent legations in Uruguay and Para- ;
guay.
Domestic.
Secretary Daniels plans to increase
the plants in the Norfolk aud New
York navy yards.
The Illinois state senate is consid- ;
eriug a bill appropriating $300,000 for '
the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Miss Frances A. Shaw, for thirty
years a resident of Minneapolis and 1
widely known as an author, is dead.
Negotiations by the Mexican govern- !
meet of a foreign loan of approxi
mately $100,000,000 have been complet
ed.
Edward M. Campbell' of Birming- I
ham, Ala., has beQn sworn in as chief
Justice of the United States court of
claims.
Thaddeus Austin Thomson of Aus
tin, Tex., has been nominated by
President Wilson to be minister to
Colombia.
i John P. Donahoe, a former national
commander of the Cnion Veteran le
gion, died at Willmington. Del. He
was TO years old.
Joseph It. Wilson, brother of the
president, has accepted a position
with a leading bonding company with
headquarters in Balitmore.
John E. Wilkie, former chief of the
United States secret service in Wash
ington. has been elected vice presi
dent of the Chicago Railways com
pany.
I Jt>e Sun, Korern employed by the
government is running down opium
smugglers, was stabbed and fatally
wounded in the Santa Barbara, Cal.,
Chinatown.
Prof. N. E. Hanson of the South
Dakota experimental station has
been commissioned by the Depart
ment of Agriculture to go to Siberia
to gather seeds andt plants of the
kind which will thrive in a dry land.
Meats and flour will not go on the
free list in the democratic tariff law
if the recommendation of the senate
finance subcommittee in charge of
the agricultural schedule, is accepted.
Attorney General McReynolds has
received from the Union Pacific cop
ies of its plans for the dissolution of
the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific
merger. He will begin an analysis
to determine the government's attl
lUUOl
Secretary- Lane has appointed John
F. Murray of California agent In the
Indian service to study the methods
cf instruction at Indian schools.
Workmen engaged in cleaning up
the foundation walls of the old state
house at Jefferson City, Mo., unearth
ed a deck of playing cards that were
In a perfect state of preservation.
Mayor Gaynor of New York calls
the majority -cport of the Curran al
dermanic committee, recommending
the removal of Police Commission
Waldo a "tissue of falsehoods" and
characterizes the committeemen as
"poor little fellows.”
New Orleans keeps warm under a
municipal debt of $43,000,000. Los An
geles owes $82,283,000 and San Fran
cisco $19,000,000.
Fire caused by lighting destroyed
the barns of the Tri-City Railway
Company at Rock Island, 111., to
gether with forty cars, causing a loss
of $400,000.
Representative Merill McCormick,
national progressive leader, has serv.
ed notice on Governor Dunne of Illi
nois that he would attempt to hold up
all the administration measures until
tbs women’s suffrage bill is put to a
vote in the house.
There are 2,490 certificated aviators
n the world.
Over $33,500,000 are on deposit in
United States postal savings banks.
Chicago is to put up 10,000 new
street signs at crossings in Septem
ber.
Plans for reorganizing the repub
lican congressional committee early in
July are being considered by the com
mittee's officers.
Announcement was made recently
that the fifth National Conservation
congress would be held at Washington
November 18-20.
Secretary Lane has announced that
hereafter all contractors engaged upon
reclamation work would be prosecut
ed for violations of the eight-hour law.
United States immigration officials
at Key West, Fla., are investigating
a rumor that Cipriano Castro arrived
from Havana in the guise of a Cu
ban merchant.
There are • 'nety vacancies in the
incoming class of cadets at the mili
tary academy at West Point, oc
casioned by the failure of candidate
previously examined.
Edward V. Doyle, commissioner cf
the state banking department oi
Michigan, was elected president of
the National Association of Super
visors of State Banks.
Robert J. Rubin, convicted recently
as head of the "arson trust” has been
sentenced by Justice Goff at New
York City, to serve six to ten years
in.Sing Sing prison.
Practically the entire time of Presi
dent Wilson and the cabinet at the re
gular semi-weekly meeting was given
over to a discussion of the recent dis
solution of the so-called tobacco trust.
Apprehensive that government re
ciamati. i work might be withdrawn
from Montana, a delegation of citizens
of that state called upon Secretary
Lane to urge him to continue the pro
jects.
Thirty-eight silk workers who
gathered in front of a mill during
strike disturbances on April 25 at
Patterson. N. .J., were convicted of
unlawful assemblage by a county
court Jury.
Fred Nevels, chief clerk of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company for five
years at Oklahoma City, Okl., was ar
rested in Los Angeles. Cal., on a
charge of having embezzled $7,500
from that corporation.
Among 108 refugees who arrived in
Galveston, Tex., on board the steam
ship Harry Morse from Tampico,
Mexico, was W. 1. Yoight, who was
seriously injured while defending his
wife and sister against marauders.
A resolution urging congress to in
crease the number of safety appliance
inspectors for the Interstate Com
merce commission was presented at
a session of the convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineermen.
Taking the role of detective in an
effort to discover a woman pickpocket
who has been operating successfully
for weeks in St. Yibiana’s cathedral
at Los Angeles, Cal., Rev. Frther
Edward Brady arrested Miss Annie
Murphy as she was about to pur
loin the pocketbook of a worshiper.
After three years’ work, government
inspectors, working under \V. H. Col
lier. revenue agent, arrested at St.
Louis three Chinese, three negroes
and two Chinese women, declared to
be members of one of the most pow
erful opium rings that ever operated
in this territory. Opium valued at
$1,000 was confiscated.
Foreign.
Italy raises one-sixth of the entire
European corn crop.
Alfred Austin, British poet laureate
since 1896, is dead at the age of seven
ty-seven.
Japan's national debt is $1,271,145,
000 with annual interest of $70,877,
000.
The cutting of queues by the
Chinese has greatly stimulated the
hat and cap business in Japan.
In China an inferior upon horse
back, meeting a superior, dismounts
and waits until the other has passed.
Serious washouts, due to high water,
are reported along the Canadian Pa
cific railroad in the Rocky mountains.
The increase in imports into Japan
from the Lnited States for 1912 was
unprecedented, being upward of $2<>
000,000.
Convicted of cannibalism and human
sacrifices, forty members of the Leo
pard society have been hanged in Sier
ra Leone.
A new Asiatic Cable will be laid
from Aden to Hong Kong via Columbo
and Signapore. It will be 6,000 miles
long and will cost $5,000,000.
Turin is the Kalian center for the
manufacture of motorcycles, with
seven factories, having together an
output of some 1,500 machines.
One hundred and ten bodies, the
dead of both sides killed in the fight
ing about Matamoras, were placed on
a pyre at Matamoras, Mexico, and
burned.
since me iormation or the Ger
man empire in 1871 did bo few Ger
man citizens emigrate to foreign parts
as In 1912. The number was 18,545,
compared with 22,GOO in 1911, 25,531
in 1910 and 220.902 in 1881.
Dr. Eusebio Morales, the newly ac
credited minister from Panama has
arrived in Washington.
Count Alvaro de Romanones, who on
May 30 resigned as premier, together
with all his ministry, 1 as consented to
resume office.
General Antonio Rabaga has re
signed as military governor of Chi
huahua state. He will go to Mexico
City.
In England every day there is an
output of more than 54,000,000 pins.
Birmingham, the greatest center of
the industry in that country aione pro
duces 37,000,000 pins a day.
The former French premier Aris
tide Briand. had a narrow escape from
death when his automobile was struck
by another and dashed against a tree.
M. Briand’s shoulder was dislocated
and he was cut severely about the
face and hand by broken glass.
The Scottish home rule bill passed
its second reading in the House of
Commons and was then referred to
the committee.
It has just become known that the
little island of Ada Kaieh, situaiod in
t.he River Danube, near the Iren Gate
of Onova, has been formally annexed
by Hungary,
WANT PROTECTION
AMERICAN COLONY IN MEXICO
APPEALS TO WILSON.
IMMEDIATE ACTION ASKED FOD
Three Hundred American*, Represent
ing Sixty-Eighth Families, Wire
Demand.
Tampico, Mex. — Three hundred
Americans located in southern Ta
mampal, representing sixty-eight fami
lies, have demanded in a long message
to President Wilson, sent through
Consul Miller here, to know "once for
all,’ whether they can expect protec
tion from their home government
since they “do not desire to take
measures for our own safety which
would embarrass our government
without giving them due notice be
fore hand.
The message of the Americans was
transmitted by wireless through Con
sul Miller to W. W. Canada, the
American consul at Vera Cruz, to be
forwarded to Washington. It says in
part: "Having been left without any
protection whatever on the part of
both sides of the pending controversy,
therefore we can look for protection
from our own country. We must
know, once for all, if we can expect
the same.
"Having been subjected to slights
and a great variety of indignities and
gross abuse in the last few days, the
situation calls for most serious pre
parations for our personal safety and
the defense of our families and our
interests. Therefore we have as
sembled to consider the best way.
We consider protection necessary
now, since after death it will be of
no use.”
The message declares in addition
that the petitioners have borne finan
cial losses silently, but that many of
them cannot obey the advice to “get
away if in danger,” as their departure
would mean the abandonment of the
accumulation of a lifetime.”
“We consider the lives of ourselves j
and our families in danger,” the mess- '
age continues. "It is not longer
doubtful that the slightest spark will j
bring on the dread conflagration at
any moment.”
Oxford Man Counterfeiter.
McCook, Neb.—William F. Linne
bery of Oxford was brought before
United States Commissioner C. D.
Ritchie of this city charged with
counterfeiting. Pleading guilty and
failing to procure the $3,000 bond re
quired by Commissioner Ritchie.
Linnebery was placed in the Red
Willow county jail. It was Linne
bery s pastime to make $10 notes by
a photograhhic process and this art
will likely get him a penitentiary
sentence when he appears before
Judge Munger.
The counterfeits were bills of the
United States National bank of
Omaha, the Marine National bnk of
Buffalo, N. Y.. and the First National
bank of Albert Lea, Minn. Linne
bery confessed and said he had been
at it at intervals for the last twelve
years. He has passed very little of
the bogus paper himself, but has sent
it to other parties on the Pacific
coast and elsewhere, who have put
the same into circulation. He says
he had decided to quit the business
and had destroyed the plates from
which the counterfeits were made.
He has a wife and five children
living at Oxford, who are largely de
pendent on him for support.
Juror Is Approached.
Boston.—The jury in the dynamite
“planting” conspiracy case, which
grew out of the Lawrence textile
strike are still deliberating on, the
question of the guilt of the three al
leged conspirators, William M. Wood,
president of the American Woolen
company; Frederick E. Atteaux, a
dye manufacturer, and Dennis J. Col
lins, a Cambridge dog fancier.
Just before court opened, one of
the jurors, Morris Shuman, told
Judge Crosby that he had Keen ap
proached last night with an offer of
?20<) and a life position if he would
agree to vote as directed. It is said
the man who approached him would
not say for whom he was acting.
Former General Manager Dead.
Chicago.—Frank E. Ward, former
general manager of the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railroad, died here
aged 46. He retired last August be
cause cf failing health. Mr. Ward,
who was a native of Montreal, is sur
vived by a wife and four children.
American Fugitives.
Washington, D. C.—The schooner
Harry Morse, towed by the ‘ug Pan
American, is en route from Tampico
for Galveston with 108 fugitive
Americans.
Stripped by the Hoppers.
Sacramento, Cal.—Many young or
chards of Butte county have been
nearly done up in burlap to protect
trees from grasshoppers according to
reports received by the horticulture
commissioner. The plague is spread
ing.
Votes $4,000,00 For Exposition.
Rome.—The Italian fchamber of de
puties has approved an appropriation
of $400,000 for Italy's participation in
San Francisco in 1915. /. splendid
exhibit is planned.
To Teach Chinese To Fly.
San Francisco, Cal.—Tom Gunn,
the Chinese aviator, who sailed for
Shanghi, announced that he was to
establish a military aviation school
for the new republic. He took with
him a biplane, a flying boat and a
military tractor.
Literary Prize.
Paris.—The literary grand prize of
$2,000 was awarded by the French
academy to Bomain Rolland, play
right, novelist and i historical writer.
This is a coveted honor.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Lightning struck the elevator at
Scotia, destroying the structure and
its contents.
The annual meetng of the district
convention of the Royal Neighbors
will be held at Lyons.
The Farmers’ Creamery company of
Hemingford is taxed to its capacity
already this season.
The Northern Nebraska Journal
Leader of Ponca has just completed
installation of a new cylinder press.
There are but seven persons now
living in Burwell who lived within the
corporation limits during the j-ear of
J884.
Harold Starrett, son of S. E. Star
rett of Palmer, was drowned while
bathing in Burkman lake near that
place.
The Rev. Charles R. Scoville, who
recently conducted the big revival in
Lincoln, is now at work in Nemaha
county.
The Baker White Pine Lumber com
pany of Baker, Ore., owned by Fre
mont men, sustained a loss of $40,000
?by fire. "■*
■ The Ulysses Dispatch has just fin
ished installing a cylinder press. The
Dispatch is the second oldest paper in
Butler county.
Patrick Phemmerling has the con
tract for the new city auditorium that
is to be built by the Ladies’ improve
ment club at Valentine.
D. C. Jenkins is the new editor of
,the Beatrice Express. He was former
ly foreman for Milour & Scott, a job
printing firm of Beatrice.
The Belgrade Herald has begun the
construction of a new cement block
building, 20x40 feet. It will be com
pleted some time in July.
While trying to subdue a fractious
pony Postmaster Jules Haumont of
Broken Bow was seriously injured
about the head and body.
The postoffice department has
authorized the use of mail cars on
Burlington trains No. 9 and 10 be
tween McCook and Denver.
The condition of Harry Hall, who
was struck over the head by Frank
Gardiner, manager of the York base
bail team, remains about the same.
The city authorities of York are af
ter bicycle riders who persist in us
ing the sidewalks of the city instead
of the streets. A number have been
fined.
Six head of young work horses be
longing to Ed Abler and valued at
$1,100 were killed by one bolt of light
ning in his pasture three miles south
west of Creston.
The Carpenter Xews is the name of
a newspaper started last week at
Carpenter by Sidney Clower, who re
cently finished his apprenticeship on
the Prairie Herald.
The largest eighth grade com
mencement ever held in this county
and perhaps in the state took place at
Broken Bow when 325 graduates re
ceived diplomas.
The Dempster company has a force
of men working at Zimmerman
Springs, northwest of Beatrice, with
a view of securing an adequate sup
ply of pure water for the city.
Reports from Albion say the most
beautiful alfalfa harvest in years is
upon the farmers and the question of
help to handle the crop Is staring
them in the face.
Jackson, Roebuck & Hauver of Va
lentine have let the contract for a
$10,000 garage to Dunn & Callaway.
The building is to be of cement blocks
with a pressed brick front, 60 by 150
feet.
Willis H. Hanner, formerly of Fill
more, Mo., has begun the publication
of a newspaper at Dawson, to be
known as the Dawson Reporter. Daw
son has been without a paper for
several years.
Fairbury is enjoying a building
boom this year. The Rock Island is
at work on the new improvements in
the Fairbury yards and has two work
trains operating.
Word was received by Mrs. Bud
Witwer of Humboldt that her brother,
Orville Wittwer, aged eleven years,
was killed in a runaway accident near
his home in Oklahoma.
The Beatrice board of education has
elected Prof. T. C. Tillotson of Abi
lene, Kas., supervisor of nlusic in
the schools of the city to succeed
Prof. L. F. Stoddard, resigned.
P. H. Dodge of the bureau of public
roads at Washington, D. C., inspected
the road work being done by Cage
county and said that the dirt roads be
ing built there are better than any be
has seen.
a license to operate a salocn at
Lanhaip was granted to Charles
Eckert Tuesday evening by the board
of supervisors. Lanham is located in
the extreme southern part of Gage
county on the Nebraska-Kansas line.
William Dilling of Hemingford was
thrown out of his automobile and pain
fully injured while running without
lights. The car was badly wrecked
and took fire from the oil lamps, but
he extinguished the blaze in time.
The Imperial Land and Caltle com
pany of Wakesha, Wis., has purchased
the Charles E. Wiltsey farm of about
3,000 acres, four and one-half miles
east of Hemingford,. for $27.50 per
acre. The deal approximates $100,000.
L. F. Langhorst of Elmwood who un
derwent an operation for appendicitis
at a Lincoln hospital recently, has re
turned to his home.
Mies Evelyn McBurney of Heming
ford and Miss Cora Henderson of Cur
ly have been elected primary and in
termediate teachers at Hemingford.
At the opening of the bids for the
construction of the water system for
Peru, it was found that G. A. Dunlap
of the Inter-Mountain Bridge and
Construction company of Tecumseh
was the lowest bidder, and the con
tract was awarded to him for $18,
784.84.
Arrangements have been completed
for the establishment of a permanent
Bummer camp by the Lincoln Y. M. C.
A. Several days ago Charles Strader
collected a fund of $1,000 from ten
.men for the establishment of such a
camp.
Ernest M. Pollard of Nehawka and
Secretary C. G. Marshall of the State
Horticultural Society have considered
plans for harvesting the unprecendent
ed apple crop expected this fall. One
thousand men will be needed. The
Nebraska orcbardists are eager for as
sistance and every effort will be made
to attract workers to Nebraska.
BANKS SHAVE PAPER
GET ONE PER CENT FOR HAND
LING STATE WARRANTS.
MAKE FIVE PER CENT. REVENUE
Agreement Among All Institutions Ap
parent, and No One Is-Able to
Ereak It
Lincoln.—Registered state warrants
are making trouble for some of the
banks of Lincoln and may result in
giving people who have them a chance
to get them cashed at their face
value at those institutions.
State warrants when registered draw
4 per cent interest. The banks of
Lincoln have been charging 1 per cent
for cashing the warrants, making a
5 per cent revenue from their pur
chase.
The other day a prominent official
of the state house went to the bank
where he has been doing business
since coming to Lincoln, with his war
rant registered in the regular way
an3 put it in for deposit. He was in
formed that the warrant would not
be accepted without a shave of 1 per
cent. He tried to r ke the banker
| believe that as he was a regular cus
I temer, that he ought to be allowed the
| face of the warrant on a deposit, but
I the banker demurred, with the result
j that tfie gentleman told the bank to
I go to, and withdrew his deposit.
It is understood that the Lincoln
! banks have an agreement that no
I state warrants will be received unless
I the owner agrees to a 1 per cent
1 shave, thus giving them a 5 per cent
revenue on the warrant. Depositors
are obj^ting to paying 1 per cent
shave and some of them declare that
they will send their warrants to their
heme town banks for deposit rather
than submit to the shave.
Church or Cell for Prisoner.
Lincoln.—May a prisoner in The Ne
braska state penitentiary claim a con
stitutional right to freedom of religi
ous belief. This is the question now
before the authorities of that institu
tion.
G. A. St. Clair, a convict sent up
from I^ancaster county refuses to at
tend religious exercises either of the
Protestant or Catholic faith held at
the institution.
The refractory" prisoner claims to
be of the Jewish belief, but when
Warden Fenton called up one of the
rabbis of that church and asked him
if there was anything in the services
held at the prison which would be
against the attendance of St. Clair, he
was informed that there was not. St.
Clair bases his stand on two things,
first that he does not want to attend
church with a “bunch of hypocrites”
and second that the constitution of
the state and nation declares that no
person shall be compelled to take any
religious belief or attend any religious
. gathering against his will.
Warden Fenton is of the opinion
that a prisoner the penitentiary
cannot fall back on the constitution
to prevent the authorities frbm enforc
ing discipline.
Governor Morehead is of the same
opinion and has issued an order that
St. Clair be required to obey the rules
at the penitentiary requiring attend
ance at public worship. Should he re
fuse to obey the order it will be the
dark cell for St. Clair.
Boost in Appropriations.
Lincoln. — It will take about
$2,300,000 more to run the state of
Nebraska for the present biennium
than it did the last, according to fig
ures and estimates prepared by Dep
uty Auditor Minor. According to the
appropriations made by the legislature
and the amounts that will probably
be brought in by levies to cover ex
penses, it will require $8,322,723.50 to
cover the cost of running the state
for the next two years.
It costs the state for the last bi
ennium $0,184,553. which included the
federal appropriation of $160,000,
which was not included by Mr. Minor
in the figures for the present bienium.
The boost to some extent is due to
heavy appropriations made by the leg
islature, such as the-new reformatory,
which will cost $150,000; the appro
priation for the relief of tornado suf
ferers, costing $100,000; repairing cap
ltol building, $64,000, and several oth
er appropriations of large amounts.
Will Purify Capital.
Lincoln.—Chief Malone has an
nounced that houses of prostitution
must go. Hotels, rooming houses and
all places where the Albert law has
teen violated, are- to be wiped out,
says the chief. He proposes to co
operate with the county attorney and
accomplish what many Lincoln people
said he could not—a thorough clean
up of all places of ill-fame.
Will Soon Fix Values.
Lincoln —The physical valuation
department of the railway commis
sion has nearly completed its work
on railroad valuations. The Mis
souri Pacific. Northwstern and Rock
Island valuations are ready, work on
the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha, is being pushed and on the
Vnion Pacific And Burlington is
practically completed. '
However, figures on the same are
not sufficiently completed to give
publication and none will be given out
until the list is complete.
Must Board In Home.
Lincoln.—Dave Rowden. command
ant at the Milford soldiers' home
has issded an order that all families
dependent upon the home cannot have
their meals served to them outside
the institution, but must come to the
regular dining hall if they want some
thing to eat. On account of the
crowded condition of the home for the
last year or so it has been necessary
to find sleeping accommodations for
some of the inmates ou side the in
stitulion and it has been customary
to let these eat at their homes.
jj PAY HOMAGE TO ADMIRAL DEWEY
-1 Fifteen years ago Admiral, then
Commodore, George Dewey, with a
fleet of four protected cruisers, two
gunboats, a revenue cutter, a collier,
and a supply ship, steamed into
Manila bay and won one of the great
est naval victories that ever crowned
American arms. The other night Ad
miral Dewey and 20 of his men who
served with him as commissioned
officers in the battle which shattered
Spain's power in the east, gathered
at a hotel in Washington for the an
nual dinner of the Society of Manila
Bay. There were also present two
civilian members.
These officers, including Rear Ad
miral Asa Walker, who commanded
the Concord, and is the only survivor
of Dewey's fleet captains, came to re
call incidents of the famous engage
ment and to pay honor to their com
mander, now the ranking officer in
! me uniiea siaitb navy. iue reuutuu
was limited to members of the society,
and the reminiscences which enlivened the gathering were not permitted to
fall upon strange ears.
Admiral Dewey, as president of the society, being its senior member,
■presided.
The two civilian members were Edward W. Harden of New York and
John F. Marshall of Norfolk, Va.
Admiral Dewey, departing from his custom of the past, consented to dis
cuss briefly the battle of Manila bay.
"It was, indeed, remarkable," the admiral said, "although, of course, noth
ing like Togo’s great modern victory in the Sea of Japan. I shall never forget
today fifteen years ago, when the battle was over and the six captains of the
squadron came aboard the Olympia, one by one. I said to them: ‘Well, how
about it? How about your men? Are you hurt? Did you come through ail
[right?’ And when they answered ‘Not a hurt, not a wound,’ and so on, I just
could not believe it at first. Finally I came to the conclusion, and said: ‘Well,
gentleman, a higher power fought this battle today.’ And so it was a remark
able battle, for the Spaniards fired twice the number of shots that we did,
and we killed and wounded hundreds of the enemy's men, but they did us no
damage except on the cruiser Baltimore, where six men were injured by the
explosion of a shell. And even then all six of those men were right back on
duty almost immediately.”
MRS. WILSON PLANS REFORMS
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson’s slumming
tour in Washington the other day is
destined to result in a reformation of
unwholesome housing conditions
which is sorely needed in some quar
ters of the capital. The president’s
wife intends to devote her influence
and a large part of her time to alle
viating the distress she witnessed on
her trip of inspection.
When the house of representatives
met a few days later bills were intro
duced providing for the transforma
tion of Pig alley. Goat alley, Tincup
alley, and Louse alley into interior
parks and playgrounds. These alleys
now house a greatly congested negro
population lodged in shacks and tum
bledown tenements. Representative
Kahn and other congressmen who
were in the party accompanying Sirs.
Wilson, have promised to push the
proposed legislation vigorously.
The Interest Mrs. Wilson is taking
j in anairs in wmcn the wife of a presi
; dent can be extremely useful and effective is being warmly applauded. She
j gave her view-s of the housing problem at a meeting of the women's welfare*
department of the National Civic federation. This organization of Washing
ton women has met with great success in its efforts to eradicate slums.
It recently assumed control of 214 model alley cottages built by the Sani
tary Improvement company. The women collect the rent for these homes and
In a manner utterly strange to the alleys. When a family is unable to pay
the rent for lack of work the women find employment for its members;
through the associated charities.
One negro woman told Mrs. Wilson that she had lived in her slab hovel
29 years without being able to get any repairs. She makes $16 a month
i washing and pays $7.50 rent. She will get one of the model cottages at the
| same rent.
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SECRETARY OF AUDUBON ASSOCIATION
Sentiment is soft and intangible,
and soppy, and all that; but it does
things that dollars won’t do some
times, as in the fight that the Audu
bon societies have made for the pro
tection of the bird life of this country.
A recently enacted law' gives to the
federal department Of agriculture the
right to prescribe the season during
which migratory game birds and mi
gratory insect eating birds may be
killed. A clause in the tariff bill now
before congress absolutely prohibits
the importation of the feathers of wild
birds. The sale of wild bird feathers
has been forbidden by law in the
twelve states which contain all the big
cities with the single exception of
Chicago. Only eight states have re
fused to adopt the Audubon law pro
tecting nonganie birds. Bird refuges
have been spotted all along the At
lantic coast, and almost all the states
are giving a considerable measure of
protection to tneir game birds.
in securing this the National Association of Audubon societies has been,
forced to fight the pot hunters and the greedy amateur shooters and resortj
owners and feather hunters and manufacturers of firearms and powders,
and, above all else, milliners, milliners, milliners. Millions of dollars were
invested the wild bird feather business. It was once testified that 32.0(H)
people were employ*l in it. The Audubon leaders had to create public senti
ment to accomplish these things T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary and execu
tive officer of the National Audubon association, has been in direct command
of the fight for bird protection.
POINCARE WILL NOT SHOOT BIRDS
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President Poincare is opposed
strongly to the killing of animals and
birds for sport, and one of his first
acts after election was to announce
himself a patron of the French society
the purpose of which is to afford pro
tection to animals. He does not. how
ever, wish to pose as an animal lo'er
merely in name, and he has just made
the official announcement that he will
not hold a gun in hand during his
term of office.
This decision of the president is au
ertlrely personal one. He declares he
has no intention of interfering with
the Bport of others, and that when his
duties require him to be present at h
presidential hunting party he will ful
fill them.
It is believed, however, that this
attitude of M. Poincare will have a
considerable effect on presidential en
tertaining. during the coming years of
his administration. Out of deference
to the opinions of M. Poincare It is
believed tr.ai meet royal visitors win retrain treat hununj while in France,
