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Iho Diblo In IiIb court. Explaining
hie action ho wild Inst night: 'I havo
romovod tho Blblo from use in my
court. It wus a desecration to usolt
Ihoro. Lying worda from tho mouths
of witnesses mado its use a mockery,
a travesty. I now swear or nfllrm a
witness with uplifted hand, but it
really has no signlflcanco to my mind.
1 would prefer to lot ovory person tell
his or hot- story without either oath
or nfllrinulion, and then do tho best
I can toward ascertaining the truth.
Edward Rosowator, editor of tho
Omaha Bco, and Captain D. M. Brooks;
superintendent of foreign mails, havo
boon chosen to roprcsent the United
States in tho world's postal congress
that will convent In Romo during tho
early part o April.
President A. B. Sticknoy of the Chi
cago Great Western railroad, in a
speoch delivered at a Chicago ban
(lUot, indorsed railway rnlo legislation.
, Gonoral Josoph Wheeler, famous as
a southern cavalry leader In tho Civil
war and a brigadier-general of tho
United States army slnco tho war with
Spain, died at Now York. Ho-, was
slxty-nlno years of ago. Death ro
eultod from pneumonia.
, Iio ilopburji railway rate bill has
o'oen roported to tho house.
A bill has been Introduced in tho
Ohio legislature by Henry M. Hunt of
Cincinnati which gives authority to
physicians to put to death by an
anaesthetic persons suffering from a
painful and incurable disease or in
jury. Postmaster General Cortelyou has
recommended to congress tho con
solidation of the third and fourth
claases of mail matter with tho pres
ent third-class rate of 1 cent for two
ounces. This would result In the es
tablishment of a limited parcels post.
Senator Lodge in a speech in the
senate defended tho foreign policy of
President Roosevelt with respect to
Santo Domingo and tho Moroccan conference.
Indiana friends of George Ade, the
author of several comic operas an
nounce that they will make him a
candidate for congress.
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AGRICULTURAL
The will of the late Marshall Field
disposed of an estate estimated at
one hundred million dollars. Mr.
Field gave $8,000,000 to the Field mu
seum in Chicago and an additional
$3,000,000 for the museum in case his
two grand-children die without issue.
Tho widow received one million dol
lars aside from the ante-nuptial gift.
A daughter is given $0,000,000; the
same sum is given to the children of
his dead son. Other bequests range
from $3,000 up. It is estimated that
tho state of Illinois will receive as
an inheritance tax from the Marshall
Field estate at least one million dollars.
safely bringing out one of the children,
"Jug" King, a well-known .character,
was killed by a falling timber as the
walls fell outward yesterday. Tho
cottage in which the Hendersons lived
caught flro and the flames were in
full headway before the family
aroused and fled from the burning
building. Neighbors who had gath
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dren, which both parents thought had
been carried out, was still in the house,
King plunged through the flames,
wrapped the child in a blanket and
was" almost out of danger when the
sides of the house fell outward and
ho was killed. The child was unhurt."
The house committee has reported
a pension bill for the- fiscal year ap
propriating $140,000,000.
The Ohio state senate by a unani
mous vote has passed the Rathburn
2. cent railroad faro bill.
, Chairman Shouts of the Panama
canal commission appeared before a
senate committee and admitted that
ho draws $12,000 annually from tfie
Clover Leaf railroad, while drawing
$30,000 a year from the federal government.
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An Associated Press dispatch under
dato of Cincinnati, Ohio, January 16,
follows: "After plunging through the
flames into Charles Henderson's burn
ing house at Montgomery, W. Va., and
An Associated Press dispatch under
date of Washington, January 26, fol
lows: "By authority of President Roose
velt correspondence was made pub
lic at tho White House this even
ing relating to methods alleged to
have been employed by attorneys for
the beef packers, who are under in
dictment at Chicago, to influence pub
lic opinion in behalf of the packers.
The documents consist of a communi
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Moody by United States -District At
torney Morrison of Chicago, setting
out certain alleged facts regarding the
payment of a sum of money to a Chi
cago newspaper reporter by one of
the attorneys for the beef packers;
a letter from the attorney general to
the president transmitting Mr. Mor
rison's report, expressing the opinion
that no way existed under the law by
which the alleged offense could be
punished, and a letter of the presi
dent to the attorney general directing
the publication of the correspondence
in order that the public might be in
formed of one situation, at least,
which the government xhas to meet in
prosecuting the case against the
packers. "An editorial in the Inter
Ocean announces that Mr. Hasler, the
accused reporter, has been discharged
from the Inter-Ocean's employ.
The funeral services of the late
General Joseph Wheeler were held in
Brooklyn, Sunday, January 29. Inter
ment was at Washington, Monday.
The Richardson hotel at Lowell,
Mass., was partially destroyed by
fire. A number of lives were lost
while many were injured.
Editorials by Commoner Readers
S. H. Newman, El Paso, Texas I
New Mexico and -Arizona and their
peoples aro as radically different as
the United StateB and Mexico. Each
is fully entitled to statehood and
each would make a splendid state;
nut to unite them in one state would
be a great wrong. Neither of them
wants statehood in this shape; but
It is just barely possible that New
Mexico might vote for it rather than
remain longer a territory. But if
she could vote on the alternative
proposition of joint or single state
hood tho latter would carry over
whelminglyprobably by a vote of
flvo or ten to one. And as for Ari
zona. It iS Slmnlv llWHnrr 1, . ..!. -
existence to unite her to New Mex
ico. She would prefer to continue a
territory indefinitely and would so
vote by a nine-tenths majority. New
Mexico has much tho larger vote
and if the question of no statehood
or joint statehood is to be settled by
he combined, vote of the two terri
tories, it is just possible that it may
carry. If so, the canvass of the re
turns will show that not five per
cent of the Arizona votes will be for
it. . To New Mexico the jointure
does not appear quite so outraieoua
because she will be sure to domfnate
Uo new state. But to Arizona it
mean political death. The tost want,
SB"?ke Arfeona-'Pepubl can by tack
lag it on to New' Mexico nmi i,
sumo tlmo Moat ttauM
Senators to Wn.slilnp'J-nn Tf ic i,
worst piece of gerrymander I have
ever nuuwn. i nave lived In New
Mexico or on its borders for nearly
forty years and know whereof I
speak. I have been for that length
of time more intimately connected
with that territory than any other
spot and know the people from the
Colorado line to tci rn an. Tf .
their wish to be so united," and if they
"ci'1 , it is necause hope
deferred has made them heartsick for
statehood. Since we have denied
liberty to tho TCiHninna nrwi nDt.t,i
in crushing it out of two republics in
South Africa, it is hard to predict
what a government by the republican
party may or may not do. But be
fore the Spanish war such an outrage
would have aroused the American
people from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific. Are the people of Arizona now
to be denied the right of self-govern-
SGntf? J would hardly blame them
for stuff ne: hnllnr w- tn.,.,A; u
purchasing of voten SE co'
reaSthi?? ln toSSta Tor
reason. Even armed opposition and
W ?TZ Jml1 J? be veryblama
means I enclose Memorial from
The Herald is the loading rennhw'
can paper in this section To ?i i"
people of the two territories h.S
is no politics in the iSS wS
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