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PRESIDENT SENDS A SPECIAL
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A COMPLETE SYSTEM IS HEEDED
Increased Wealth of Country Offers In
ducements to Attack Cost of Com
pletinj Defenses is Estimated at
$50,879,399: '
WASHINGTON President Roose
veil' sent a message to congress ac
companying plans for coast defease
prepared by a joint board of army and
navy officers, in which he emphasized
the-necessity for further defenses and
reviews the history of the defensive
works in this country. The president
calls especial attention to the recom
mendation of the board that the en
trance to Chesepeake bay be added to
the list of places in the United States
to be defended. He says the. insular
possessions cannot be longer neglected
if the United States desires to hold
them.
Defenses are recommended for Ma
nila bay Pearl harbor. Guantanamo,
Guam. San Juan and Honolulu., be
cause of their strategic locations. De
fenses are also recommended for en
trances to the Panama canal.
The president's message concludes:
The necessity for a complete and
adequate system of coast defense is
greater today that twenty years ago.
for the increased wealth of 'the coun
try offers more tempting inducements
to attack and a hostile fleet can reach
our coast in a much shorter period of
time. The fact that we now have a
navy does not in any wise diminsh the
importance of coast defenses; on the
contrary, that emphasizes their value
and necessity for their construction. It
is an accepted naval maxim that a
navy can be used to strategic advan
tage only when acting on the effensive
and it can be free to so operate, only
when our coast defense is reasonably
secure and eo recognized by the coun
try. It was due to the securely defended
condition of the Japanese ports that
the Japanese fleet was free to seek out
and watch its proper objective the
Russian fleet without fear of jnter
ruption or recall to guard its home
against raids by the Vladivostok
squadron. This, one of the most val
uable lessons of the late war in the
east, is worthy of serious consideration
by our country with its extensive coast
line, its many important harbors and
its many wealthy manufacturing coast
cities.
"The security and protection of our
interests require the completion of the
defenses of our coast and the accom
panying plan merits and should receive
the generous support of the congress."
It his letter transmitting the report
of the board to the president. Secre
tary Taft says the board estimates the
cost of completing the defenses at
$50,879,399 or $22.S9G,Cn6 less than the
sum proposed by the Eridicott board.
The secretary says the growth of the
country, the improvements of the ordi
nance and the increase of the navy in
the last twenty years have brought
about a rearrangement of. and addi
tions to. the list of ports made by the
Endicott board.
CIVIL WAR ARMY OFFICER
; DIES IN THE SOUTH
) ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla. Lieutenant
General John M. Scofield. U. S. A., re
tired former head of the army died
here. He was attacked with cerebral
hemmorrhage. his wife and young
daughter were with him.
WASHINGTON Gen. John M.
Schofield. who died at St. Augustine.
Fla.. was secretary of war during 1868
69, and his career was marked by a
continuous service in the army from
the time he entered West Point in
1849 until he retired September 29,
1895. with the rank of lieutenant gen
eral, the highest military honor that
is permitted by law of congress.
HAD BOMB IN HAIR.
Woman at Moscow Seeks Life of Dou
bassoff. MOSCOW A boldly planned at
tempt on the life of Vice Admiral Dou
bassoff. governor general of Moscow
and member of the council of the em
pire, was frustrated. The would-be
assassin was a woman. Representing
that she.came from personal friends of
ithe governor general she gained ad
mittance to the chancellory, but her
agitation attracted the attention of an
aide, who noticed particularly the lux
uriance of the woman's hair, which
was coiffed high upon her head. When
.she was interrogated she attempted to
flee, but was seized and searched and
a small bomb was discovered con
.cealed in her tresses.
. Wants Absolute Free Trade.
WASHINGTON Representative
Blrdsall of Iowa, introduced a bill
providing for absolute free trade be
tween the United States and the Phil
ippines after July 1. 190G.
Ex-Governor Hogg is Dead.
' HOUSTON. Tex. Former Gover
Jnor James Stephen Hogg died at
!the residence of Franc C. Jones, his
ilaw partner. Governor Hogg had been
'In failing health for a year or more.
,'but his condition was not considered
.dangerous by his physicians and he
was planning a trip to Battle Creek.
:Mich. Governor Hogg reached Hous
ton Saturday night and feeling indis
posed took to his bed. He died at 11
'o'clock Sunday. Funeral arrange--ments
have not yet been determined
upon.
L An Emphatic Denial.
WASHINGTON Criticism of Ger
many's course at Algeciras and
charges that the German emperor is
seeking there an excuse for trouble
with France, rather than an agreement
about Morocco, which have been cur
rent in Washington for some time, re
ceived an emphatic reply this after
noon from Baron Speck "von Stern
burs;, the German ambassador, who
contended that Germany was contend
ing for an important principle at Al
gecira'and did not want t resort to
arms.
SENDS MONEY TO JAPANESE.
j American Red Cross Society Helps
j famine aurrcrcrs.
WASHINGTON. The American na
tional Red Cross through the state de
j partment cabled to the Japanese Red
j Cross $5,000, making a total of $25,000
rontrihiitpd 1-v th Atneriran twnnlc
! , . r r.w
and transmitted to japan tnrougn tnai
organization for the relief of the suf
ferers in the famine stricken pro
vinces. ,
The latest official report from Japan
shows ,that thousands are destitute'
and that the famine is the result oi
an almost total failure of the rice
crops, due to an unusually cold and
rainy summer, .and the absence from
the rice fields of the able-bodied tillers
of the soil who were serving then
country in the battlefields of Man
churia. IRRIGATION COMMITTEE
MAKES FAVORABLE RHPORT
WASHINGTON The house com
mittee on irrigation of arid land de
cided to make a favorable report on
the French bill In an amended form
As agreed upon the bill provides that
the secretary of the interior may es
tablish town sites of 160 acres in con
nection with irrigation projects and
supply water for the sites. It also au
thorizes the secretary of the interioi
to deliver water to towns already es
tablished which have the same source
of water supply that the government
irrigation project uses. Where power
plants are constructed in 'connection
with the projects the secretary of the
interior is empowered to lease a sur
plus power and to lease the right to de
velop power for ten years.
FAVORS THE CONTRACT PLAN.
Prof. Burr Believes it is Best Way to
Build Canal.
WASHINGTON The examination
of Pror. William H. Burr of New York,
formerly a member of the isthmian
canal commission and a member of
the board of consulting engineers ap
pointed by President Roosevelt to re
port .on the most feasible type for a
canal across the isthmus of Panama,
occupied a whole day before the sen
ate committee on inter-oceanic canals.
The examination closed with testi
mony favoring the contract plan for
constructing the waterway.
FRANCE IS FOR
A STRONC NAVY
PARIS M. Lockroy, former minister
of marine, took advantage of the dis
cussion of the naval budget in the
chamber of deputies to make a power
ful appeal for the strengthening of the
navy, which aroused the enthusiasm of
the whole house. Comparing the
French and German navies M. Lockroy
pointed out that if the present program
of France is not augmented Germany
will soon outstrip France. Should
war between France and Germany
break out, the speaker said, it would
begin with a naval battle and therefore
a doubly powerful French fleet was
necessary to defend herself both in the
North sea and in the Mediterranean.
EASTERN RATE WAR BEGINS.
Cuts Fare From Chicago to New York
and Boston to $16.
CHICAGO The eastern passenger
rate war. which 'has been threatened
for some time owing to the differential
trouble, was precipitated by the Grand
Trunk railroad, whose official wired to
Washington a notice of reduced sched
ules, to take effect-next Saturday. The
new rates will affect the eastern points
wherever differential fares now apply
over any railroad. These rates, which
have been filed with the Interstate
Commerce commission, make the first
class fare from Chicago to New York
$16 and second-class $15.
FIGHT AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.
Government Takes Steps to Prevent Its
Spread Among Employers.
WASHINGTON A crusade against
the spread of tuberculosis among the
employes of the government service
in Washington was Thursday directed
by President Roosevelt, who issued an
order to the heads of all deportments
giving them explicit instructions as to
their duties in combatting the disease.
GREAT DANACE DONE
BY PRAIRIE FIRES
AUSTIN, Tex. According to" reports
received, prairie fires that have been
sweeping the extreme western sec
tion of the Panhandle for the past
three days have entailed a loss up to
the present time of upwards of one
million dollars. The fire did the most
damage in Lamb and Hockley coun
ties, burning over many acres of land
and destroying hundreds of cattle. In
asmuch as it will be six weeks before
the spring grass will come forth it has
been found necessary for all cattlemen
in that section to move their cattle
into New Mexico for range purposes.
Sixteen Killed in a Panic
FLORENCE. Italy At the village oi
Fticrechio, twenty-three miles west of
Florence, a house where a dance was
in progress took fire. In the panic
which ensued the floor gave way and
sixteen persons perished, while many
others were injured.
Justice Brcwn Will Retire.
WASHINGTON Associate Justice
Henry Billings Brown of the United
States supreme court intends to retire
from the bench and has so notified
President Roosevelt.
Big Cigar for the Speaker.
WASHINGTON Representative
Longworth, O., returned to his duties
in ,the house Monday. He brought
with him to the capital, and presented
to Spea'ker Cannon in his room a huge
cigar, at least eighteen inches long, a
product of Havana. Cuba.
Buffalo Pasture Bill Passes.
WASHINGTON The senate passed
a bill authorizing the secretary of the
interior to lease land in Stanley coun
ty. South Dakota, for a buffalo pasture.
A MINE DISASTER
ELEVEN HUNDRED MEN LOSE
THEIR LIVES.
GREATEST OF SUCH DISASTERS
Catastrophe Occurs in Coal Mining Re
gions of Northern France People
Stand Appalled at the Terrible Trag
edy. PARIS A mining catastrophe of In
calculable horror nad magnitude has
stricken the great coal center of
northern France. An explosion of fire
damp at 7 o'clock Saturday morning
carried death and destruction through
out the network of coal mines centered
at Courrieres, and fire followed the ex
plosion, making rescue work difficult
and almost impossible.
The intense excitement and confu
sion in the vicinity prevented early
estimates of the exact loss of life, but
a dispatch received here at 4:35 p. m.
gave 1,404 miners entombed and prob
ably lost. At 8:45 o'clock this even
ing a brief dispatch from Lille an
nounced the total of 1,193 dead.
All France has been profoundly
shocked by the magnitude of the dis
aster, which is said to be the greatest
in the history of continental mining.
President Fallieres sent his secretary
accompanied by Minister of Public
Wroks Gautier and Minister of the In
ferior Dubief, on a special train to the
scene of the disaster.. The ministerial
crisis was temporarily forgotten, sen
ators and deputies joining in the uni
versal public manifestations of sorrow.
The scene of the catastrophe is the
mountainous mining region near Lens,
in the department of Pas de Calais.
Here are huddled small hamlets of
the mine workers who operate the
most productive coal mines in France.
The subterranean chambers form a
series of tunnels.
Six of the outlets are near Lens and
others at Courrieres, Verdum and
many other points. The output of
these mines is particularly combustible
and is largely used in the manufacture
of gas and smelting. About 2,000 min
ers work the group of mines, and, with
their families, make a population of
from 6,000 to 8,000 souls.
LATER The worst fears as to the
enormity of the mine disaster in the
Courrieres district of the Pas de Calais
Saturday morning have been realized.
The death list numbers 1,100 and the
whole of the region stands appalled
at the terrible tragedy, which has
brought sorrow to 6.000 fathers, moth
ers, wives and children. The last
mine disaster in France occurred in
1885, when 293 persons were killed and
eighty injured, but that and all others
sink into significance before Cour
rieres. Four hundred soldiers have ar
rived at the mine to assist in holding
in checks the crowds of distracted
mourners. For a time hope had been
held out to the people that tappings
on pipes by the imprisoned men had
been heard, but gradually this hope
vanished and the people demanded ad
mission to see the bodies and even
threatened to break through the cor
don of troops, who had the greatest dif
ficulty in keeping the crowds from
the pit. A man named Sylvester suc
ceeded in entering the mine, but he
never returned. It is believed he
groped about inside until overcome by
gas and perished. .
NOT BRIGADIER GENERAL
AT THE PRESENT TIME
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt has changed his mind, and decided
not to appoint at this time as a brig
edier general, Capt. John J. Pershing
of the Fifteenth cavalry, no, it is
understood, had been slated for the
promotion, but whose appointment
would have been unpopular because of
the hundreds of his senior officers,
ovetr whose heads he would have
jumped. Captain Pershing, while pop
ular with his brother officers, is still
a very young man, and his promotion
to be a general officer oor the heads
of hundreds of his seniors would have
been a severe blow to the army and
most unpopular in military circles.
SENATORS BY DIRECT VOTE.
Ohio Senate Passes Resolution De
manding Change.
COLUMBUS, O. The senate adopt
ed a joint resolution requesting con
gress to call a convention of the -various
states for the purpose of submit
ting an amendment to the federal con
stitution providing for the election of
United States senators by direct vote
of the people.
RICH MAN JOINS THE ARMY.
Actor Gavin Harris Wants to Get
Away from Temptation.
COLUMBUS, O. Gavin Harris, an
actor at the Empire theater, son of
the late Congressman Harris, and
worth $50,000, joined the Third com
pany of the coast artilleryat the bar
racks. He said he joined the army to
get away from gay companions and
lead a quieter life.
Citizenship to Be Prized.
WASHINGTON The house on Fri
day passed four hundred and eight
private pension bills and devoted three
hours to the consideration of a bill
providing a uniform system of natur
alization, the chief features of which
require an alien to write his own or
the English language and to speak and
read the latter and then declare nis
intention to reside permanently in the
United States before he can become
an American citizen. The bill is to
the continuing order when appropria
tion bills are not under consideration.
Census of the Isle of Pines.
HAVANA Dryden Fulton, who was
appointed to take the census of the
Isle of Pines, and who was arrested
by the Cuban authorities because he
did not have their permission to do
so, arrived here. He says the census
was practically completed before the
Cubans stopped the work. He says
there are less than 2,000 inhabitants
on the island and estimates the num
ber of Cubans at 1.000 and actual
Americans at about 700. He says that
the number of male Cubans of voting
age is 200.
NOT UP TO ESTIMATES.
House Committee on Appropriations to
Economize.
WASHINGTON The house commit
tee on appropriations agreed to report
a legislative, executive and judicial
bill carrying appropriations aggregat
ing $29,134,181, as against $29,822,580
in 1905. The amount agreed on i3 a
reduction of $1,135,573 from the esti
mates submitted to the committee by
the various departments.
Salaries are carried in the bill for
sixty-five less persons than were pro
vided for in the last bill, and the
number of salaries contemplated in
the estimates was reducea j36 by the
committee.
Many limitations on the appropria
tions are stipulated. The most radical
of these is designed to relieve the de
partment pay rolls of high salaried
aged clerks. It provides that no clerk
over sixty-five years of age is to re
ceive more than $1,400 a year; no
clerk over sixty-eight years more than
$1,200, and no clerk over seventy more
than $840.
After June 13, 1913, no person in the
classified service more than seventy
years of age is to be retained in any
department. J
THE LUMBER DEALER'S
SEEING PROSPEROUS DAYS
WASHINGTON The fourteenth an
nual meeting of the National Whole
sale Lumber Dealers' association be
gan here. The sessions were occupied
entirely with reports of officers and
committees.
President Lewis Dill, in his address,
insisted that in the heyday of their
prosperity was the time to fix the
status of the "poacher," who dared to
sell wherever he pleased and to whom
he pleased, and to fight to a finish the
car-stake equipment difficulty which
exists between the association and the
railroad companies. The president
said the prosperity of the dealers had
been such as to "startle the partici
pants and alarm the world."
SALOON LICENSE IS RAISED.
Chicago City Council Advances It
From $50 to $1,000.
CHICAGO As a step toward stamp
ing out crime in Chicago, the city
council passed an ordinance increas
ing the price of saloon licenses from
$500 to $1,000. Unless Mayor Dunne
vetoes the ordinance it will go into
effect May L
With the licenses costing $500. Chi
cago has 7.070 saloons. The saloon
element put up a bitter fight against
the high license plan, but the ordi
nance carried by a vote of forty to
twenty-eight.
LAND RESERVATION FOR
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
WASHINGTON Representative
Mondell introduced a bill authorizing
the secretary of the interior, on re
quest of the secretary of agriculture,
to reserve public lands for agricultural
experiment stations. The proposition
is that, upon request of the secretary
of agriculture, there may be reserved
from entry or disposition under the
public land laws such tracts of un
reserved and unappropriated public
lands, not exceeding two sections in
any body or tract, and not more than
three bodies or tracts in any one state
or territory, as the secretary of agri
culture shall deem necessary, for the
purpose of carrying on or conducting
any agricultural work or experiments
authorized by congress.
REMOVES THEM FROM OFFICE.
President Dismisses Land Officials of
Oklahoma.
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt has removed from office John D.
Oliphant, register; J. A. Trotter, re
ceiver, and I. J. Chapman, clerk, of
the land office at Mangum, Okl., for
irregularities in the conduct of the
business of the office. He appointed
George B. Roberts to be register of
the Manugum land office in succession
to Oliphant. The appointment is only
temporary, as the Mangum office is to
be discontinued in April.
Peace Continues in Uruguay.
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay Peace
continues to reign throughout the re
public. A number of additional arrests
have been made, but the revolutionary
movement has completely collapsed.
BETTER FEELING BETWEEN
AMERICANS AND CHINESE
HONG KONG The friction existing
for some time between the viceroy of
Clinton and the American representa
tives there has given place to more
pleasant relations which state of af-
ralrs has been signalized by an ex
change of courtesies. The viceroy
gave a banquet in honor or Hear Ad
miral Train March 7, while the vice
roy and a number of high otticlals at
tended a reception at the American
consulate March 7.
Death of John D. King.
WASHINGTON John D. King,
chairman of the rural carriers' exam
ining board of the civil service com
mission, and who had been connected
with the railway postal service for
about forty-five years, died here.
Improvements at Army Posts.
WASHINGTON Senator Burkett
Introduced in the senate an amend
ment to the army appropriation bill,
asking $200,000 with which to begin
the building of Fort Niobrara as a reg
imental post.
Patents to Indian Lands.
WASHINGTON Senator Clapp.
chairman of the committee on Indian
affairs, introduced a bill appropriating
$157,000 to enable the secretary of the
interior to issue patents in fee simple
to allottees of the Sac and Fox of Mis
souri and Indian tribes now residing
in Nebraska and Kansas.
WASHINGTON Delegate Kalanian
cle of Hawaii, introduced a bill to pay
former Queen Lilioukalani of Hawaii,
$200,000 in satisfaction of her claims J
against the United States. j
GET A NEW STATE
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERR1-
TORY ADMITTED.
THE NEW STATE IS OKLAHOMA
Senate Drops Provision for Joint Ad
mission of Arizona and New Mexico
Provision is Made for the Creation
of Only One Commonwealth.
WASHINGTON Friday at 5:35 p.
m. the senate passed a bill for the
admission of a new state to be called
Oklahoma and to be composed of the
territory of Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory. It was the house joint state
hood bill, with all the provisions relat-
j ing to Arizona and New Mexico
stricken out. The motion to strike
out was made by Mr. Burrows and it
was carried by the close vote of 37
to 35, after having been lost by the
still closer vote of 36 to 35.
Immediately after the disposal of
the statehood bill the house railroad
rate bill was made the unfinished bus
iness, but as the senate adjourned
over Saturday and Sunday, the actual
formal consideration of the measure
will not begin until Monday. The
vote on statehood came as the climax
of a day devoted exclusively to that
bill. Most of the time was given to
the discussion, but the voting on the
bill and amendments consumed an
hour and a half. The speech making
excited comparatively little interest,
but there was pronounced excitement
throughout the voting period and it
culminated when the success of the
motion to eliminate Arizona and New
Mexico was announced after the sec
ond vote on that proposition.
The test vote, upon which the op
ponents of joint statehood showed
their greatest strength, was on the
Foraker amendment, which provided
that Arizona and New Mexico should
have an opportunity on the question
of joint statehood. This was carried
by 42 to 29. Previous to this action
provision for increased appropriations
in the bill was striken out in order
to afford an opportunity for a motion
to concur in the senate amendments
when the bill is sent to the hcuse.
Just before the voting began Mr.,
Cullom, who has been absent from the
senate on account of illness the great
er part of the session, entered the
chamber. He was warmly welcomed
by his colleagues.
As amended by the senate, the bill
provides for the creation of the state
of Oklahoma out of Oklahoma and In
dian territories upon the adoption of
a constitution. The state is allowed
the usual quota of executive, judicial
and legislative officers, two United
State senators and five members of
the national house of representatives.
A constitutional convention with 110
members, fifty-five or whom are to be
chosen by each of the territories com
prising the state, is provided for, and
all male citizens or male Indians 21
years of age are made eligible to mem
bership in it. There is an especial
provision protecting the Indians in
their right and continuing the prerog
ative of the national government to
control their affairs. The sale of in
toxicating liquors in what is now
known as Indian territory is prohibit
ed for twenty-one years and longer,
unless the constitution is changed.
Sections 16 and 36 of each township
of land in Oklahoma are set aside for
the benefit of the common school sys
tem, as is also 5 per cent of the pro
ceeds of the sale of public lands.
There is an appropriation of $5,000,
000 from the national treasury for the
benefit of the schools. Provision is
made for the support of higher educa
tion and charitable institutions. Two
districts for United States courts, one
in Oklahoma and the other in Indian
Territory are provided for. Guthrie is
made the temporary seat of govern
ment, but the house provisions con
tinuing it in that capacity until 1915
was elminated.
VICTIMS OF THE WAR
' TO BE TAKEN CARE OF
NEW YORK Boris Klebanoff, re
recently named as the representative In
America of the Russian blue Cross, has
arrived here and will make his head
quarters in this city. Owing to recent
events in Russian, which left many
thousand victims of war and riot, the
Russian Blue Cross, which is a philan
thropic organization under the patron
age of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth
Mavrikivna, has extended the scope of
its work and is sending representa
tives. Railroads Made Defendants.
WASHINGTON The Atchison. To
peka & Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific,
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and
other western railroads were made de
fendants in a complaint filed with the
interstate commerce commission by
the Howard Mills company of Wichita,
Kas., alleging unjust discrimination
in transport rates in flour in favor of
dealers, manufacturers, dealers and
shippers of flour on the Pacific coast.
Shonts to Hold Both Places.
CHICAGO Theodore P. Shonts,
chairman of the Isthmian Canal com
mission, who arrived in Chicago on
Friday, stated positively that he has
no. intention of resigning his position
as the president of the Clover Leaf
nor his chairmanship of the commis
sion. He said: "I shall not ' resign
either position. 1 have large hoj.lings
in the Clover Leaf and will continue
to act as the nominal president. Noth
ing, however, will be allowed to in
terfere with my work on the canal
commission."
District Attorney Removed.
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt removed from office Horace Speed,
United States district attorney for
Oklahoma, as a result or charges pre
ferred against him. These were to the
effect that he had entered into a con
tract with a certain county commis
sioner to render services and that he
had paid improperly to that commis
sioner certain sums of money in con
centlon with that employment The
charges were investigated by the De
partment of Justice, his removal following.
BIG BATTLE IN JOLO.
General Wood Reports Sanguinary
Struggle in Southern Archipelago.
MANILA An important action be
tween American forces and hostile
Moros has taken place near Jolo. Fif
teen enlisted men were killed, a com
missioned officer was wounded, four
enlisted men were wounded and a jia
val contingent operating with the mfli
ltary sustained thirty-two casualties.
The Moros losf 600 men killed.
Major General Leonard Wood, com
mander of the division of the Philip
pines, reports as follows, from ,Jolo,
capitol of the Sulu islands:
"A severe action between troops, a
naval detachment and constabulary
and hostile Moros has taken place at
Mount Dajo. near Jolo. The engage
ment opened during the afternoon of
March 6 and ended in the morning of
March 8. The action involved the cap
ture of Mount Dajo, a lava cone. 2.100
feet high, with a crater at its summit
and extremely steep. The last 400 feet
were at an angle of 50 degrees and
there were fifty perpendicular ridges
covered with a growth of timber and
strongly fortified and defended by an
invisible force of Moros.
"The anpy casualties were fifteen
enlisted men killed, four commissioned
officers and thirty-two enlisted men
wounded. The naval casualties num
bered thirty-two. Ensign H. D. Cooke.
Jr., commanding the Pampanga, was
severely wounded and Coxswain Gil
more was severely wounded in the
elbow.
"All the defenders of the Moro
stronghold were killed. - Six hundred
bodies were found on the field.
The attack was made under the
most hazardous circumstances. Start
ing early in the afternoon of March 6.
the assailants climbed for a distance
of 2.100 feet up a lava cone, the thick
ly wooded ridges of which furnished
the only foothold. The last 500 feet
of the ascent was at an angle of sixty
degrees, and the last fifty feet almost
perpendicular. At the ion were 600
fanatical Moros armed with rifles and
knfres and supported by native artil
lery. The fortified crater was almost
invisible and seemingly inaccessible.
At the word of command the troops
rushed into the crater and a hand-to-hand
encounter followed.
MONEY APPROPRIATED
FOR THE POSTAL SERVICE
WASHINGTON An appropriation
bill carrying $191,358,848 for the postal
service was finally agreed upon by the
house committee on postoffices and
post roads and will be reported to the
house in about ten days. Two impor
tant law provisions are carried in the
measure, one forbidding the govern
ment departments franking anything
through the mails which an individual
cannot mail at regular postage rates,
and the other prevents committees,
organizations or associations of citi
zens from enjoying the franking privi
leges. Last year's appropriation for the
postofflce department was $181,022,093.
It is estimated that the amount of
mail increases 10 per cent annually,
and the increase in appropriation
agreed upon is considered b7 the com
mittee as being as small as will satis
factorily meet the growth of the mails.
SENATORS BY DIRECT VOTE.
Favorable Report of House Committee
on Norris Bill.
WASHINGTON The house com
mitee on election of president, vice
president and representatives In con
gress has agreed to make a favorable
report on a bill by Representative
Norris or Nebraska providing for ex
tending the term of members of con
gress to four years, and for the elec
tion of members of the senate by pop
ular vote.
THOMPSON REACHES MEXICO.
New Ambassador from United States
Presents Credentials.
MEXICO The American ambassa
dor Mr. Thompson, presented his cre
dentials to President Diaz in the pres
ence of a large and brilliant assembly.
Complimentary speeches were made by
the ambassador and President Diaz re
garding the friendly feeling existing
between the two republics.
MUST GET BUSY
AND COMPLETE CANAL
WASHINGTON The application of
Messrs. Robinson & Maney of St.
Louis, for an extension or time for the
completion or the work on the inter
state canal. North Platte Irrigation
project in Nebraska, under their con
tract of June 12, 1905, and supplement
al contract of December 14, 1905, which
latter contract provides for completion
of the work by May 1. 1906, has been
denied by the secretary of the interior.
The present conditions do not warrant
granting the extension asked for. and
If the force efhployed is properly in
creased it is believed the work can
be completed on time.
Knox Don't Want the Job.
WASHINGTON Associate Justice
Henry Billings Brown of the supreme
court intends to retire from the bench,
and has so notified President Roose
velt. The president offered to apnoint
Senator Philander C. Knox to the va
cancy, but the latter declined.
Spanish Editor in Trouble.
BARCELONA. Spain. The editor of
El Divulivo, a local daily paper, has
been sentenced to eight years' im
prisonment for prirting an insulting
dispatch concerning King Alfonso.
Anti-Pass Bill.
WASHINGTON The Kansdell anti
pass bill was offered in amended form
Wednesday to the entire house com
mittee on Judiciary by sub-committee,
and was made a special order for
Friday.
Accects Resignation.
WASHINGTON The president has
accepted the resignation of Past. As
sistant Paymaster George Deeting.
United States-navy, tried by court
martial and convicted of irregularity
in bis accounts.
WA CUT OUT FOR FINANCIER.1;
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Young Man's Early Proof of Posses
sion ef Requisite Qualities.
Some years ago. when the West was.
wilder than it Is today, a young man.j
since grown rich and now famous as
a financier and capitalist, was a regu-;
lar boarder at a hotel in a frontier
tows. He and a number of his
friends were wont to resort every
evening to the smoking room of the
hotel, which they used as a sort of
club, and their wants were attended to
by a fair waitress who may be called
Miss White.
She was a nice, quiet girl, and at
tended to the wants of her patrons
with regularity and promptitude.
One evening after she had retired
for the night the landlord informed
the company that this was the last
time she would wait upon them, as she
was going to be married next day.
When the landlord had gone out Jim
mie Hughes, the young man referred
to. got up and said he thought It onlyj
right that they should show their ap
preciation of her services by making
her a little present on this auspicious
occasion.
He took a sheet of paper, and
wrote his name down for $200 and
passed it around. The girl was popu
lar and the idea caught on, and when
it came round again to generous Jim
mie the total amounted to something
over $2,000. They summoned the land
lord, handed over the amount to him
and asked him to give it to Miss
White next morning with their hearty
good wishes for her happiness.
Next day she was married, and the
happy bridegroom was JImmie
Hughes. Exchange.
MEANT TO STAY TO THE END.
Coachman Liked Job Too Well to
"stand For" Dismissal.
In Washington not long ago Andrew
Carnegie was in conversation with a
friend when reference was made to
the servant "problem." Mr. Carnegie
mentioned the fact that in many Scot
tish families the old man servant is
something of an institution. Such a
servant usually enters the employ of
a particular family when he is a boy.
adheres faithfully to his place for a
long time and resigns only when the
infirmities of years crowd upon him.
As illustrating the sturdy indepen
dence of the Scottish servant Mr. Car
negie told the following:
"A certain lady in the north of Scot
land had in her employ a crusty old
segritor, long in the service of her
family, who gave her no end of an
noyance by an imperious disregard of
her instructions. At length, the situa
tion becoming unbearable, the mis
tress determined to see what effect
dismissal would have upon the refrac
tory servant. Accordingly she sum
moned him and said:
" 'Really I can stand this no longer.
You must seek another place. At the
end of the month you leave my serv
ice.'. "At these words an expression of
grim amusement spread over the
countenance of the servant, but the
characteristic 'loyalty' asserted it
self. " Na, na. my lady.' he said. 'I drove
you to the kirk to be baptized, I drove
you to your marriage, and 111 stay to
drive you to your funeral.' " Harper's
Weekly.
Plea for the Simple Life.
"Speaking of the woeful waste of
money, we wish to interrupt the meet
ing long enough to give a few figures
on an important matter that seems to
have been entirely overlooked." says
Homer Hoch. "We refer to the four
buttons on the sleeves of men's coats.
Now, there are probably 600,000 men
in Kansas and they probably have on
an average two coats apiece. That
makes 1,200.000 coats and 4,800,000 or
400,000 dozen sleeve buttons. The
buttons cost about twenty cents a
dozen, and at that rate the men of
Kansas alone are carrying around on
their coat sleeves in the form of but
tons that have no use on earth or in
the sky an investment of about $80.
000. And the estimate is most con
servative. Fellow-countrymen, in the
name of economy, and thrift, and phil
anthropy, and business sense, and all
sorts of other things, is there no way
to stop this reckless extravagance?"
Kansas City Journal.
Silence Well Paid For.
In a certain village church the con
gregation had been greatly disturbed
during the singing of the hymns by
a certain set of women who. would
persistently gossip in a loud tone.
At last the minister devised a plan
to stop this disturbance.
At a given signal by him every one
in the choir was to stop singing
abruptly.
So, during the singing of- a hymn
he gave the signal at this every one
stopped singing.
One of the offenders who was un
able to check herself was heard to say
in a loud tone, "I always fry mine in
lard."
"As we now know," announced the
minister, "that she always fries hers
in lard, we will proceed with the sing
ing." And there was silence after
that.
British M. P. Well Known Here.
R. C. Lehmann, the English jour
nalist and oarsman, who is well
known In the United States, is a
member of the new parliament, rep
resenting the South, or Market Har
borough, division of Leicestershire in
the liberal interest. Mr. Lehmann,
who coached the Harvard varsity
crew some years ago, is a critic and
man of letters in the best sense of
the term.
Avoid Waste.
Thc Philadelphia Press suggests
that if the state capitol at Albany is
going to fall down it should not fall
to select an effective moment for the
demonstration. As the English gal
lery god yelled at the fellow who was
about to fling an obnoxious spectator
over the gallery railing: "Don't waste
him kill a fiddler with him!" Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Making Cavalry invisible.
A special military commission Is
now sitting In Berlin considering the
best means of making cavalry as in
visible as possible in warfare-
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