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. On April 8 tho fodoral grand Jury of
Portland, Ore, roturncd fifteen indict
'monts o well known men of Oregon
and Washington, charging them with
conspiracy to defraud tho government
out of certain lands and charging four
of thorn with perjury in connection
with final proofs.
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Tho announcement that Senator
Burton will shortly resign his seat in
tho sonato has been denied by former
State Treasurer Grimes of Kansas. Ho
says that Mr. Burton will not resign
until the caso against him has been
decidod.
Senator Piatt, who was stricken
with pneumonia a week ago, is said
to bo iu a very serious condition.
General Corbin, in obedionco to in
structions from Washington, has or
dered a gonoral court martial to con
vene at Manila for tho trial of Major
Frank Carrington, who is charged with
conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gontloman. It will bo remembered
that Major Carrington was recently
convictod of the misappropriation of
funds of the Philippine government
and sentenced to forty yoars in prison.
Ho has appealed from that sentence.
Tho indictment against Maxim Gor
ky, in which ho is referred to as the
"artisan of Nizhni Novgorod, Alexis
Maximoff Meschkoff," charges him
with writing a document accusing the
czar and MirBky with responsibility
for tho recent massacre and that he
called on all citizens of Russia to enter
into tho struggle with the aristocracy.
Tho indictment states that Gorky ad
mitted writing the document referred
to with a view of sending it for publi
cation among tho newspapers of St.
Petersburg. His trial will be held be
hind closed doors.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the four chil
dren, who have been cruising around
the Florida coast for a week, have re
turned to Washington.
James Rudolph Garfield, commis
sioner of corporations, and tho author
of the beef trust report, arrived in
Kansas April 9, and gave out tho fol
lowing statement in regard to his pro
posed investigation of the Standard Oil
trust: "I have no news to give out
about tho proposed investigation. I
have just reached the scone and must
first get my bearings. I want to learn
something of tho situation in Kansas
before I complete my plans. I will
have n conference with Governor Hoch
tomorrow on the matter. There is no
telling how long It will take to make
tho investigation. I have three men
from my bureau with me and wo will
all get busy at once and stay that way
until the case is closed up."
During a firo In tho Sipo theatre
which was caused by the ignition of
moving picture films, Qeorgo Arm
strong, 17 years old, was fatally in
jured, and several persbns severely
burned. Tho picture operator throw
the audience Into a panic by shouting,
"Lookout, everybody, the theatre is
afire." In an instant GOO people be-
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dof GonttMttetstkmm
came a ruBhlng mass of humanity and
that moro were not hurt fs due to the
excellent system of firo escapes and
oxits in tho theatre. In the excite
ment, young Armstrong jumped
through a window forty feet from the
ground.
It is announced that only American
money is lacking to realize the cen
tury old drama of diplomats for a cap
itol at Tho Hague where tho nations
of tho world might meet on common
ground for tho discussion of interna
tional arbitration. It is said that when
this money from America is provided
tho institution will be assured.
Artemas Pitcairn, aged 56, vice presi
dent and controller of tho Pittsburg
plate Glass company and one of the
best known business men in tho coun
try died at his home in Pittsburg, Pa.,
April 9.
Tho funeral of Sergeant George
Wachter, who assisted in raising the
first Amorican flag at Manila after the
landing of a detachment' from the
Olympia, was hold at New York, April
9. Mr. Wachter was killed by Moros
on May 8, 1904, but his body did not
arrive until a few days ago. The
body was escorted to the National Mil
itary cometery with the honors of war.
Miss Howard Wheadon of Hunts
ville, Ala., tho well known southern
poet and artist, is dead.
David Braham, tho well-known song
composer, whose productions have
been sung all over tho country, is dead
at New York. Ho was 67 years of age.
Frederick A. Stock has been ap
pointed director of the Chicago or
chestra to succeed the late Theodore
Thomas, the founder of tho organiza
tion who died several months ago.
President Stock was tho assistant of
Mr. Thomas for five months before his
death.
The king of Greece has appointed
the emperor of Germany an admiral
of the Greek navy in return for Em
peror William's courtesy in making
him an admiral of the German navy.
Mr. Meyer, the new American am
bassador to Russia, presented his cre
dentials to Emperor Nicholas April 12.
Fifteen store buildings were de
stroyed by fire at Lowell, Mich., April
11. The fire was caused hv nn ovnio.
sion in the gasoline store house of
iu u. uoyian's Hardware store.
Father Martin, general of the Society
of Jesus, whose arm was amputated a
few days ago is said to be in a serious
condition, complications having result
ed from the operation.
Mrs. Carrie Nation has signified her
intention to go to Oklahoma and help
in the work of inserting a prohibition
clause in tho constitution when Okla
homa secures statehood.
At! AsKnMntArl n.ano lnl.l. ... .
Paris, April 10, says: "Theobus Oharl-
uU, luu louiuus artist,, describing his
recent visit to the United States, says
a prominent American ordered a por
trait of his wife to cost $5,000, and
when it was completed the American
praised the artistic beauty of thTwork
but said it was not a correct rWrrnV
of his wife. Charitan says Him
pected a plan to secure a reduction in
the price, whereupon he took a paietS
knife, gave tho portrait two cross slits
completely destroying it, and re
marked: "That is tho way I settle
small differences."
Whilo being initiated into tho
Knights of Pythias at Little Rock,,
Ark., Ebenezer Runyan was shot and
instantly killed. An officer of the lodge
was officiating at the initiation and it
is said used a revolver supposed to
have contained blank cartridges, but
which really contained loaded cart
ridges. The bullet entered Runyan's
brain. The lodge broko up in consternation.
Invitations have been received by
every veterans' association to parti
cipate in a two days' greeting to the
American soldiers, of the north and
south, contemplating a meeting of the
veterans who opposed each other in
tho '60's. Tho meeting will be held in'
Washington, D. C, May 11 and 12.
General B. Dornblazer of Fredonia,
Kas., who served four years in the
union army during the civil war and
was brevetted major general, is dead,
aged 77 years.
The New York hippodrome, the
greatest amusement house in the
world opened April 12. There are
5,200 seats in the house and every one
was taken at the initial performance.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated
Topeka, Kan., April 12, says: "Judge
Pollock of tho United States district
court decided today that there was war
between the United States and China
during tho march of the allied troops
on Pekin during the Boxer outbreak in
1900. The case was that of Fred Ham
ilton, a private soldier, serving a sen
tence at the United States penitentiary
at Leavenworth for Wiling Corporal
Charles Cooper while the army was in
China. Hamilton was convicted by
court martial. He appealed to the
court for release on the ground that
there was no war between the two
countries and, that therefore, the court
martial had no power to convict him.
The case will be appealed to the
United States supreme court.
Referring to the letter received from
President Castro of "Venezuela, the
Associated Press says that it fills the
description conveyed by Minister
Bowen in his cablegram as to the
form of expression which he declared
to be "insolent," adding: "While the
officials here decline to make public at
this stage the text of President Cas
tro's reply to Minister Bowen's arbi
tration proposal, it may be stated that
there was nothing personal to the
American minister in President Cas
tro's statement. So that if it should
be eventually held to be undiplomatic
and even rude, then the injury will be
sustained by tho state department rath
er than by the minister, and therefore
it is the former alone that will be con
cerned. This is particularly true of an
inquiry from tho Venezuelan govern
ment as to whether the United States
presumed to question the integrity of
the Venezuelan courts, the inquiry be
ing touched In rather vigorous language."
. Prices of beef all over tho country
are going up, owing, it is claimed by
the packers, to the fact that breed
ers of stock and handlers of range cat
tle have been holding back on supply
until the grass of the range becomes
nourishing.
Four indictments were returned
against three employes of tho pack
ing houses by the grand jury sitting in
the beef trust case at Chicago. Joseph
Weissenbach, attorney for tho
Schwarzchild and Sulzberger company
was also indicted. The indictment al
leges that a subpoena was. issued for
Fish on March 3; that it was given to
Bach for service; that the four men
had arranged for the departure of Fish
from this country to Canada, and as
sisted him in leaving the jurisdiction
of the court.
The interior department has given
out tho following statement with re
gard to the opinion of Comptroller
Racewell on tho subject of railroad re
bates: "Recent articles havq appear
ed in the public pcess with reference
to certain proposed concessions and
agreements on the part of railroad
companies to transport material for
use in the building of dams for the re
clamation service under the act of
June 17, 1902. It is learned at the in
terior department that the secretary
before taking action, submitted tho
matter to the assistant attorney gen
eral for that department, whose duty
it is under the law to advise the sec
retary on legal questions. The ques
tion involved the interstate commerce
act. The second Section of that act
contains certain inhibitions relative to
common carriers granting special
rates, rebates, etc. Section 22 oMhe
act provides, "That nothing in this act
shall apply to the carriage, storage or
handling of property free, or at re
duced rates, for the United States,
"The opinion was based on the lan
guage quoted and, in effect, the secre
tary was authorized to make an agree
ment for concessions In favor of tho
government. This opinion was ap
proved by the secretary, and he say3
it was the more acceptable to him be
cause it would result in the saving of
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
the government. The correctness of
this view, however, having been re
cently questioned by a law officer of
another department, although such law
officer was without jurisdiction in the
matter, the secretary of the Interior,
out of an abundance of caution, has
referred the whole matter to the attor
ney general, before whom it is now
pending for his opinion.
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