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Vol.19. No. 960.
WILSON WARNS PACKERS
Says if Packers Defy the Law They
Will Find Their Way Into
the Penitentiary
Washington, D. C The Federal
government sat up today and took no
tice of the talk about the formation
of a holding company to take over
the property and business of the beef
trust The notice consists of letters
to the attorneys in the districts in
which the acts of forming the corpor
ation may be taken calling their at
tention to the newspaper reports.
"It is vengeance as much as any
thing else that the officers of the fed
eral government desire. The unmer
ciful roasting that resulted from Gar
field's report giving the ; trust a clean
bill of health, and the subsequent giv
ing of the judicial immunity bath as a
result of that report, has made the
attorneys of the department of justice
tender on the subject of the beef trust.
They have a healthy desire to retrieve
themselves and wipe out the blot
caused by the freeing of the packers,
because Garfield had asked them for
information.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was
asked for a statement of his views
concerning the attempted formation of
a trust.
"The only information I have on the
subject of this alleged merger propo
sition," said Mr. Wilson, "has been
gleaned from the newspapers. But I
will say this.
"We have a bureau of corporations,
whose agents are especially charged
with looking into matters of this kind.
"We have a department of justice,
whose machinery was designed to be
used in just such a case as this.
"Whe have our attorney generals to
talk to grand juries.
"We have grand juries to listen and
to indict.
"We have petit juries.
"We have penitentiaries."
GOVERNOR MAGOON'S TASK
Cuban Situation Not as Calm as the
Surface Indicates
The Cuban papers have printed al
most daily eulogies of Secretary Taft
and Secretary Bacon, and their gen
eral attitude has been that interven
tion was the thing to be hoped for and
worked for, rather than opposed. But
these are surface indications, for the
Cubans are an emotional and shallow
people. Their smiles can be quickly
turned to frowns, and the machete
changed from an agricultural imple
ment to a weapon of war. The dis
banding of the army has been accom
plished but this is no assurance that
Governor Magoon has smooth sailing
ahead of him.
With the island firmly in the grip of
A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO
POLITICS, AGRICULTURE AND HOME
Lincoln, Nebraska,
the army, Governor Magoon, carrying
out the policy of Secretary Taft, will
undertake a thorough investigation of
the charges against the provisional
governors and alcaldes placed in office
by the Palma government, and all of
those against whom charges are sus
tained will be supplanted by such
reputable men in either party as Gov
ernor Magoon can find. The liberals
have repeatedly disclaimed any de
sire for office, but neither Secretary
Taft nor Governor Magoon is deceivel
by these professions, and although
some suggestion has been made that
the new election can be held in June,
when the grinding season for suear
ends in the greater part of the island,
it is very possible that between now
and then disorders will take place
which will call for the use of forco
by the army and bv the rural guard.
Unfortunate precedents have been
created by the Taft mission because
its instruction to protect life and prop
erty at almost any cost necessitated
placing a premium upon rebellion bv
treating with men in arms against the
government, and upon horse stealing
by permitting the rebels to retain thQ
horses which .they had seized. But;it
should be remembered that the Tift
mission did not create the situation
which confronted them unon their ar
rival; that their instructions "were to
deal with the materials at hand. Pro
tection of life and property and th
prevention of further hostilities were
the objects which Secretary Taft kept
constantly in mind. If the people of
Cuba take advantage of the unfortu
nate precedents created, and the Uni
ted States is compelled at some future
time to intervene, the form of infer
vention will doubtless be verv differ
ent, from that inaugurated by the Tff
mission. Another rebellion will calJ
for the use of an inn hand, unpro
tected by the soft glove of tact and
diplomacy. Such a mission wouH
be military in chnracer and its prob
lems would be simnle in comparison
with the difficult and complicated sit
uation which Secretary Taft has hand
led with such skill and tact and pa
tience. Havana Letter, New York
Evening. Post.
RUINS RICHER THAN A MINE
Twisted Steel In Fallen Buildings a
Source of Income
San Francisco It has been calculat
ed that the steel in the ruins of this
city will form a valuable source of
income to the owners and that the
ruins are richer than any known
mine.
Officials of the Southern Pacific re
port a large movement of scrap steel
and say that instead of going east,
as was the case when the movement
first started, by far the larger part
of the steel is going to local smelters,
that at Selby getting a good slice of
the supply.
The steel is being taken from own
ers who are cleaning up their prop
erties and then shipped to the smelt
ers. The steel is in fair condition
and has to undergo practically no pur
November 1, 1906
ification process, but is being melted
up and recast for new beams.
A movement on foot to establish
smelters in this state is being hailed
with joy. It is said that such action
will greatly lower the cost of struct
ural steel and will enable more to be
made out of the scrap steel and the
ore found in this territory.
AIRSHIPS FOR ALL SOON
Santos Dumont Declares Prob'em of
Man's Flight in Air is Solved
Paris Santos Dumont was radiant
over the triumph of his flying ma
chine and he shook hands vigorously
with the correspondent.
"Man has flown at last," he ex
claimed. "But," queried the correspondent,
hasn't man, in the person of Santos
Dumont, already flown around the
Eiffel Tower?"
"Ah, yes," the aeronaut answered,
"but that was only the first step or
to be accurate, ;the first ' beating ; of
wings. This is nearly the ei!u."
"How so?"
"Because the machine is heavier
than is the air. This is the real thin
Once let it be proved that something
heavier than the air can rise and main-
fain itself and we have the solution
of the problem within our grasp.
"It is a mere question now of me
chanical perfection and acquired skill
of the operator. For the society or
the business man to have an aeronef
will be as natural as it now is to have
air automobile. Obviously, as there is
weather in which no one cares to go
out in an automobile, so will It be
with even a heavier-than-air flyer. Bul
as for the balloon, that is lighter and
there are only a few days in the year
when anyone not a fool would ascend.
With solid motors the exception will
be the other way.
"Every aeronaut I have seen since
the ascent agrees wi'h me that in ten
years man will use the air as naturally
as he now does the roads."
CHINESE ARMY MANEUVERS
Foreign Attaches Watching Sham War
of Orientals
Changtefu, China. The autumn ma
neuvers of the Chinese imperial -army
bagan near here this week. About
30,000 troops, with 150 guns, from Ho
nan, Hupeh, Chili and Shangtung prov
inces are engaged, under the command
of Yuan Shi Kai. .
A southern army, composed of the
Hupeh and Honan forces, is supposed
to have landed in the Yangtse V'llev.
and one wing is trying to reach Pe
king, while a northern army (Chili
and Shangtung troops) is compelled
to defend the capital at short notice.
The troops are equipped with the
most modern accoutrements, rifles and
sjuns. and their appearance is highly
creditable to the foreign officers who
have trained them.'
Thirty foreign military attaches are
closely following the operations.
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JAPAN MAKES DEMANDS
Japanese Children to Enjoy Same
Rights in Public Schools as
Americans
Washington There was a long and
important conference today between
Secretary Root and Viscount Aoki, the
Japanese ambassador, regarding the
action of San Francisco in building
separate schools for JaDanescc hil
dren. The ambassador requested the
secretary of state to see carried out
the treaty of 1894, which requires that
Japanese children be permitted to at
tend the public schools in this coun
try. Secretary Root promised to take
the matter up with the governor of
California.
No formal protest was made by the
Japanese ambassador, although he
stated that the killing of. the Japanese,
poachers in Alaska and the talk about
restricting Japanese immigration to
the United States had not contributed
to the anti-American sentiment in
Japan so much as had the school ques
tion. "There is much misunderstanding in
Japan concerning the situation," said
Viscount Aoki. "Of course, the Jap
anese government realizes that the
action taken against the Japanese
children is merely local, but all the
Japanese people do not understand
it is not a national policy. After all
the years of friendship between the
two nations it seems too bad that the
poor, innocent, little Japanese school
ch'idren should be subjected to such
indignities, and they are resented very
bitterly by the Japanese."
The ambassador stated that Mr.
Hanihara, the secretary of the embas
sy, who was sent to Alaska to investi
gate the killing of Japanese poachers
bv American officers, had returned to
Washington and made a verbal re
port. He admitted that the Japanesa
had not right to take seals, but he
sid the question to be determined was
whether the Americans were justified
in killing the poachers. Secretary
Root has requested the Japanese gov
ernment to cause the arrest and pun
ishment of the Japanese poachers who
escaped to Japan.
There is no disposition on the part
of the administration to minimize the
seriousness of the situation. It is real
ized that if the Pacific coast move
ment against the Japanese continues
the United States will lose the friend
ship of Japan and with it probably a
large sbpre of Oriental commerce. A
high official of the government point
ed out todav that the loss of Japa
nese and Chinese commerce would be
more sverplv felt on the Pacific coast
than elsewhere.
Every effort will be made to con
vince Janan that the United States
government has no part in the Pa
cific coast movement. It is not ex
pected in administration .circles tht
the labor unions of California will
