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The Omaha Daily Bee The omaha dee roe to the home ! read bf the women aelli rood for advertisers. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Shower. warmer. For Iowa Local shower. For weather report srfl par" VOL. XXXLX NO. 46. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST , 190!). SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. HIGH PRICES IN WALL STREET Average Level of Value of Leaden Near Record Mark of Three Yean Ago. Plans to Avoid Costly Delays in Law Cases KING GUSTAV INTERVENES BEVERLY HOT AS WASHINGTON Swedish Monarch Makes an Unsuc cessful Attempt to End Big 8trike. LEADERS CALLED TO PALACE President Taft Spends His First Sun day in Summer Capital. Quietly. Judge of Supreme Court of New York Make Number of Important Suggestions. V DEALERS 1 BECOME CAUTIOUS BIG WEEK'S WORK IN PROSPECT ocnei mat favorable C - are Already Largely Dis 1 WHEAT OUTLOOK IS Improvement Stimulate Mot. of Iron and Steel.' V.V C" EFFECT OF NEW TARIFF LAY Orirral Expectation That Largs Order Which Hare Been Held Ip Pending; Its Puug Will Be Relieved. NEW YORK, Aug. . Last week In th stock market saw prices carried to the highest average level touched sines early In 130. when the highest price In the history ot the New York Stock exchange were touched. There I a considerable list of .prominent active rtock which made absolute records. Including representative of such various groups a Union Pacific, l'nitcd States Steel and Reading. The com parison of the average price of the twenty most active railroad stock and the twelve most active Industrials shows a high point Ii.k' week of 132.S5 for railroads and 98.30 for Industrials, compared with 138.84 for railroads and 103 for industrials in January of im Realisation of the close approximation thu made to the market level during the speculative anticipation! of the country' most prosperous period Indicated a cau tious spirit in the speculation last week and prompted to some careful analysis of the extent to which the business recovery had actually gone a a warrant for such prices of securities. There were cited In support of the validity of the price level a number of striking fact. First promi nerce is hld by the brilliant outlook for the country's agricultural production. The eonvletion holds that thl will exceed In value that for any preceding year, wheat have been lessened by succeeding development and the excellent promise for the spring wheat keep up the hope of a total crop of good volume. Expectations of the corn crop steadily grow, and the government crop report, to be given out at the opening of thl week, Is confidently looked for to confirm the good prospects of the cereal crops. Last week's cotton crop report left no room for question of the serious impairment of the probable yield of the orop, and the disadvantage of high prloes for cotton products which will result is recognised. High prices for wheat also WW. "count, tnr agricultural pros perity. . . i Wheat Helps Mrel. The stock market recognises no broader and surer foundation on which to rear stock prices than the prosperity of the farming communities. The free movement of wheat to market corroborates the hope ful sentiment regarding the grain crops, and tnsurea abatement of the surplusage of Idle freight car, which ha been most persistent in the grain-carrying box cars. This influence spreads Into the steel in dustry by the large orders for new equip ment which are coming from the railroads to that branch of the Industry. Sentiment regarding the great baslo Iron and teel Industry 1 most sanguine and constitutes an Important factor in the speculative posi tion In the stock market A record output of Iron by the United States Steel corpora tion for July 1 a fact relied on to buttress this sentiment. The great confidence prev alent In the teel trade neutralise the less cheerful condition in the copper trade, where sustained production keeps ahead of actual consumption, a shown by the continuous growth of warehouse stock of refined copper in Europe, In general mercantile lines a quickening of activity 1 already manifest In the heavy bank clearings throughout the coun try and in the Increasing volume of mer cantile paper, offered to bankers for dis count. It I believed that the actual pas sage of the tariff bill will release large orders from merchants, which have been held back In the desire to know definite results before making business ventures. Effect of Tariff Bill. The passage of the tariff bill marks a period which was set a year ago as the ftrebablo end of the uncertainty vand re straint upon business which might hold a restoration of prosperity in check until ended. A the final terms of the new law shaped themselves and the evident dis position of the country to proceed with it affairs became manifest, the stock mar ket, a well a other business activities set about with the law enacted. Knowing that this process had been going on, the actual enactment of the tariff law brought some natural hesitation in the market to measure the outside response by the buy ing of stocks, which Is relied on to com plete the profits of the speculative ad vance in stocks. The money market position and outlook gain Increased interest on account of the speculative position, which la largely de pendent on It. The beginning of the with drawal of funds for use In the interior, which Is seasonable at this time of har vests, 1 making Itself felt on bank re serves and on time money rate. Demand for time loan carrying over the end of the year ha become active and bankers expect to m rates rise from this time until then. Th possible liquidation of requirements for large capital flotations is considered. It is expected that the demand from' foreign Investor will aid In solving that problem. Th export of agricultural products also la relied on to make exchange and bring relief to the money market In case of threatened atrin tency, which Is not expected to develop. Ella Ulaa-los Oft fer Ireland. ICHICAqO. 111., Aug. a-Ella Glngles, the Irish Laosmaker. who was recently no- qultted of a charge of laroeoy after a most sensational iriai. ten this city today for her home in uunt, Ireland. She was aoooinpanied by Mrs. Grace Van Dusen Cook. Many club women were at the sta tion to say goodby te Miss Olngies. Wunm Strsck By rrcinht Train. MEXICO. Mo.. Aug. S Belle Dudley, II rears old. daughter of William H. Dudley, sae killed and her father and sister Kile. If years old, seriously Injured early today when the wagon in which they were drlviug burg ter w ' carried M yards en the angtue NEW YORK. Aug. S.-How can "The Law's Delays," notoriously vexatious and costly in the adjudication of commercial cases, be reduced to a minimum of annoy ance and expense to the nation's vast com mercial interests? This question is being dealt with by the Judges of the suprema ourt of the First department of New Yo;k tte. Though their efforts are urimarllv f. cted at securing reforms In laws and "ices that shall achieve or approximate 'd In view so far as New York stale jticerned. their campaign. If such It may e termed, may, in event of success. Influ ence the courts of the entire United State Today the committee of Judges mad nub' lie the results of their consideration of the question, so far as they have advanced it. They do not pretend to have fully solved the problem and they ask advice upon it. J hey start with the promise that the public's chief concern is in "the reduction of litigation to actual differences and the abatement of the law's delay In the com posure of commercial cases." They make on this point suggestions which. In brief, are for simplification of privileges In plead lngs, both as to substance and in time ot making; for reform in court assignments through which Justices making orders in uch cases shall be the ones to hear argu ment upon these orders; for laws reducing the time within which such actions may be begun, and requiring precise and unequivo cal statements of facts as constituting causes of action. An important recommendation is for the practical abolition of the demurrer In civil actions. In place of the demurrer, that so frequently flagrant method of securing delay on the part of the litigant whose cause is weak or unjust, the Judges would compel the litigant to answer and have the case brought to trial, when his objec tions to the complaint should be threshed out and Judicially decided on the spot, and, If not then sustained, the trial of the ac tion to be proceeded with. The report is signed by the members of the committee appointed to make the In vestigation an justices or the supreme court In New York City Charles F. Mac- Lean, chairman; James A. Blanchard, Ver non M. Davis, Charles L. Guy and Irving Lehman, secretary. MURDER NEAR DETROIT Woman's Badly Mutilated Body la Fonnd In Underbrush Near Hsmtrsrk. DETROIT. Aug., 8. -The badly mutilated body of a woman about 35 years of age was found in a clump of underbrush In Hamtrack, this county, today. The condi tion of the body Indicates that the woman was assaulted and killed. The body has not-been Identified. It was foind by Justice , of the Peace Munch of Highland Park. It was lying on it back with the skirt carefully drawn up over the face. The sknll was crushed and the face and body were covered with bruises. The clothing was disarranged. A handkerchief, supposedly belonging to the' victim, was found several feet awsy, as was alJto her purse, which had been torn open and nothing which might serve to Identify the body left in it. The ground for yards about was torn up and bits of flesh Were In the finger nails of the woman, indicating that she made a valliant fight for life before being over powered. The clothing was of cheap ma terial, but was neatly made. The land on which the body was found Is owned by an Italian named Serrlera Marks, who of late has entertained, it Is said, many of his countrymen, who seemed to be itinerant peddlers' or laborers. While no suspicion attaches to Marke, the officers are investigating reports that women of the neighborhood have been annoyed by some of Marke's guests during the last week or two. Mrs. A. J. Button, wife of a resident of the vlelntty. savs she was accosted near when the body was found week ago by a man who from appear nee she thought was an Italian. She says he stopped her and made an insulting remark to her. She became frightened and ran to her home, a short distance away, and locked herself in the houe. When her husband came home that night he tried to track the man. but failed. Mrs. Button gave a good description of the mar to the officers today. , WRECK NEAR PUEBLO. COLO. Two Passenger Cars on Mlssoarl Pa. rifle Derailed and Five Per sons Hart. PUEBLO. Aug. g. The chair car and smoker of Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 1 which leaves at 12:01 p. m. for St. Louis, went Into the ditch at Avondalc, twelve miles west of, here, today. Five per son were injured. The Injured: OUIe O. Moore, Pueblo. Lloyd Brown. Ordway, Colo. F. E. Rathbun, Piedmont, W. Va. Vergle Martin, Los Angeles, CaU Mrs. L. E. Caperton, .-t. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Caperton was able to continue on her Journey. The cause of the wreck was spreading rails. The Pullmans left the track, but did not overturn. Kidnaped Children Are Probably In Chicago ST. LOLiiS, Aug. k. That the kidnaped Vlvauu cntiditsn, ursaa sua 1 unuiuts.,, . iu Cuioagu wiui their vat turn is Hi jj.cot... ueUff ul the Bi. iuis tvu.i. i. in ou.mxa UyvU Ui UUVsltipiUvbu. fOltiUHn unu lil WrUier lulwi'uialltMt, wuicu tiaui tuc piMius iwuay treat ue ooitouctui t a V kau railroad uatu, Uat a me da l lit slduaptitf a tiuiiutui li.o utiitmcu ami a nutn siia.rering tnc uodertpuou ot Bam Turin! look a train to t hicao. x'ua ewiuueten Vraiik U; Wood, uid liiui the watuau aud fciuln:eu redo iurJn'. tuc man leniaiuittg tu me siuokit. coiupuii uul vt Ui sank cart 'ili ualu am t ed In ChWage at M o'slsvh li Ui evening: Ths udu la described as haUtc stout. Leaden of Employen and Employe! Consulted Without Result. PRINTERS WILL STRIKE TODAY Non-Union Driven of Wagons Will Not Be Allowed on Streets. WIRE WORKERS WILL STOP WORK Thousand Telegraph and Telephone Operators Will Go Out Wednes day Strikers netting Aid From Abroad. STOCKHOLM. Aug. 8. The tie-up of the business life of the country, as the re sult of the general strike, 1 so serious that King Gutitav intervened In an en deavor to secure a compromise. His majesty today sent a message to the par ties of the conflict, exhorting them to come to an agreement at the earliest mo ment possible, and advising arbitration of the disputed questions. It was after King Gustav's message had been read and approved at a cabinet meet ing Saturday that his majesty summoned to the palace the two leaders of the war ring factions. Director Von Sydow of the employers and Senator Llndqulst, presi dent of the federation of trades unions, for a conference. The result of this conference has not yt transpired, but, apparently, his majes ty's efforts for a peaceful solution of the trouble was without result, for tonight It was announced that the printers would strike tomorrow, and the National Labor union issued a proclamation that, begin ning tomorrow morning, every dray or other wagon whose driver is not wearing a union permit badge will be stopped by strikers. No exception, It wss stated, will be made for owners driving their own wagons. The union further threatens to frustrate the attempt of the Stockholm Street Car company to start its cars tomorrow on the important lines with the aid of the com pany's officials and strike breakers. Over 1,000 telephone and telegraph employes will strike Wednesday. The Employes' asso ciation Is paying out $40,000 daily to sup port its weaker members. The cash' in the association's treasury Is sufficient to keep up this support .for three weeks, and when the funds in the treasury are ex hausted, the association has a reserve fund of M. 500.000, which may be used. The strikers dally are receiving large con tributions from Denmark, Norway, Fin land, Germany, Roumanla, and Bulgaria. -A prominent Journalist. Oustafaon, has been summoned to court by the public prosecutor, charged with a crime against the penal code that of exhorting the em ployes of the state railway to strike. Auto Plunges Over High Cliff Lumber King of New England and Chauffeur are Killed By Fall. TURNER FALLS. Mass., Aug. 8.-George Van Dyke of Lancaster, N. H., one of the best known lumbermen In New England, and his chauffeur, Frederick B. Hogden, were fatally Injured when an automobile In which they were riding plunged over a seventy-foot cliff In the Connecticut river at Riverside, opposite here, today. Both died of their injuries at the hospital. Mr. Van Dyke was known as the lumber king of New England. eHwas president of the Connecticut Valley Lumber company, owned the Moose River Lumber company In Maine and was president of the Brompton Paper company of Brompton. Que. He had been watching the work of run ning logs down stream from an automobile on top of the cliff. When ha was about to return to the lumber camp the chauffeur touched the wrong lever and the machine went over the cliff. FIVE AEROPLANE FLIGHTS Golden Flyer of Charles F. Wlllard Does Successful Btunta at New York. NEW YORK. Aug. 8.-Charles Foster Wlllard, a young New Yorker, made five successful flights in the aeroplane Golden' Flyer of the New York Aeronautic society, near Mlneola, L. I., at dawn today. The length of the flights varied from seven tenths of a mile to two mites. In the fourht flight Wlllard successfully accomplished his first turn, swooping over the field at a forty-mile clip at a height of thirty feet. eH made three complete tudns In all. covering two-thirds of a circle. His feat Is considered remarkable In that he has made but eleven flights.' Wlllard's success Is attracting attention. Two hun dred persons, many of whom came In au tomobiles, witnessed his flight. W. K. Vanderbllt. jr., was among the spectators, following the areoplane in his motor car. of dark complexion and about 55 years old. This is a general likeness of Mrs. Rosls Ricardo, mother of Vlnceuxo R Lear do, on of the men sought In connection with the case. Woods' story reinforces that given yes terday by C. F. Bauer, whose clothing establishment Is near th Union station. Bauer said that he sold a "wash' sailor suit and boy's shoes and stockings to two Italians, who wars accompanied by a boy and a girl resembling the missing children. Bauer added that after clothing the boy in his new suit the party entered ths depot. This occurred shortly before 1 p. m. on August 1 Fifteen minutes later Wood says his mysterious pasaongar boarded th trai tor Cbioago. '(O'l ! J. B.-"I From the New Tork Herald. GOVERNOR IS READY TO ACT Ouster Proceedings Against Omaha Officials Await Evidence Filing. IT IS NOW UP TO PATRICK Attorney General Will Be Instrncted to Start Suits as Soon as It la Shown That Law Is Vio lated By Board. iFrom a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Aug. 8. (Special.)-It will not be necessary for anyone to go to the trouble of getting up a large petition to get Gov ernor Shallenberger t ask the attorney general to bring proceedings to oust Mayor Dahlman and the Boarjl of Fire and Police Commissioners of Omaha, notwithstanding Senator W. R. Patrick or Sarpy county, who was defeated for re-election last fall, had the Epworth assembly pass such a resolution. While Governor Shsllenfcerger Is out of the city, from his of fits, the' Information was secured that whenever a statement Is made to the governor, backed up with ev idence that the law Is being violated by the police commissioners of Omaha, he will take action without anyone going to the trouble to secure a petition of signers. In other words. If Senator Patrick filed real evidence with the governor and asked that action be taken it would have the same effect as though he secured the signature of every woman who heard his speech yes terday. The fact that ex-Governor Sheldon voted for the resolution has caused some talk, inasmuch as the governor' was constantly besieged by persons who wanted his Omaha police board fired, but after repeated hear ings Governor Sheldon refused to give the board members their walking papers, but, on the other hand, upheld the board in its actions and refused even to accept the resignation of one of them for months. In his talk yesterday Senator Patrick said the state of Nebraska is lined up against Douglas county, "and the state should be against Douglas county," he said, "until the decent people of that county send bet ter men to the legislature and to the state conventions." The passage of the 8 o'clock closing law did not represent the sentiment of the late legislature, he said, but the bill was passed In order to get even with the Douglas county delegation. Most of the senator's speech was a wall over his own defeat for election to the senate. in his speech ex-Governor Sheldon said he was not taklug the stand he did because of any political ambitions he might have, "for." he said, "I have no political ambi tion." POSITION OF POLICE! BOARD Member Law Ha Not Been Vtolatad and Will Not Be. "To oust the board." said W. J. Hunter, one of the tire and police commissioners last night, "It would have to be shown that the board wilfully violated the law or wilfully refused to enforce a law. "We Intend to enforce the law. We are now awaiting an opinion from the city lenl deDartment regarding the Dinuixo case and have cited Dlnuaxo to appear to show cause why his license should not oe revoked. "There Is not th shadow of a ground for complaint against the oard of Fire and Police Commissioners." Do you want a girl for housework? Phone Douglas 238 and get one. That is the "Want-ad Num ber." If you are without help, go do it now. No use drudg ing this hot weather when you can get help so easily. Girl looking (or work know that The bee publishes practically a com plete llat of people who want help, ao they look to the Bee Want-ads when looking for a place. Better step to the phone and put in the ad. WAS NEVER MADE FOR FLYING." Will Set Free Innocent Man Deputy Sheriff Osborne Goes to Georgia to Procure Release from Penitentiary of J. H. Davis. Deputy Sheriff Osborne has gone to Ma rietta, Ga., to free from the state peniten tiary J. H. Davis, whose Imprisonment there makes a strange story. Davis was arrested In Omaha, September K, 1H0R, as a suspicious character, by De tectives Maloney and Van Dusen. He was thought to be a bad man and one wanted by the government, so he was placed In the county Jail September 28, where he re mained until January 1 of this year. No case having been made against him by that time he was turned free. At Marietta, Ga., Davis was arrested a few weeks ago and declared to be the thief who stole a valuable package from an ex press office' In that 'town on 'December 22, 1908. December 22, 190S, Davis, of course, was resting behind the bars of the Doug las county Jail. After his arrest Davis tried to send word to the Douglas county officials about his Imprisonment at Marietta, but the officers there, it Is said, would not permit him to write any letters, nor would they telegraph the local officials. Last week Davis, after a trial in which several witnesses Identi fied him as the man who stole the package, was sentenced to serve seven years in the Georgia state penitentiary. When the sentence was Imposed upon him Davis made a strong plea with the Mari etta officials to notify Sheriff Brailey at this place, so that evidence could be pro duced to show that the crime was com mitted by some other man. Finally the hard-hearted men of Georgia yielded and the sheriff of Douglas county was told of Davis' case. The Douglas sheriff does not want to see any Innocent man go to prison, so Deputy Sheriff Osborne has gone to Marietta with affidavits and the Bertlllon measurements of J. H. Davis to establish, if possible, the Innocence of the man now ready to begin serving a penitentiary term of seven years. The Marietta officers are not convinced yet by what Davis has told them that he is Innocent. If he Is they think, perhaps, that he was aware of the crime and has a twin who Is guilty of stealing the pack age. Four or five people who saw the pack age stolen are so sure Davis is the man that the Marietta officers will never be lieve anything else than that Davis, or his twin brother, did the deed. GENERAL ATW00D IS DEAD Retired Officer Who Spent Forty-Two Years In Army Passes Away at Chicago, III. CHICAGO. Aug. S Brigadier General Ed win B. Atwood. M years old. who was placed on the retired list In 1908, died sud denly here today. He was taken 111 last night, but hi condition was not considered serious at that time. General Atwood served In the United States army for forty-twj years. Ho was born In Ohio and received a major's com mission in an Ohio regiment at the out break of the ctvtl war. He was mustered out of the volunteers In 1K6 with the title of brevet major. The following year be returned to the service with the rank of second lieutenant In the Sixteenth infantry. His promotion to the rank of - brigadier general followed meritorious service in the Philippines. He Is survived by a widow and four children. Grand Army Veterans Take Salt Lake City 6 ALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Aug. 8 Ths advance guard of delegates to the Forty third National encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which meets to morrow, was reinforced today by thou sands. Among those arriving were delegations from Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire, Ver mont, District of Columbia, Michigan, North Dakota, Chicago, West Virginia, Iowa, Pittsburg, South Dakota, Nebraska, Mlbsouri and Indiana. : Department headquarters were opened and tents for the various delegations pitched. The city was gaily decorated tonight. On every aid wars displayed picture of LAUNCH UPSET AT TOLEDO Three Persons Drowned When Pleas ure Boat Turns Turtle. TEN MEN HAVE NARROW ESCAPE They f ling to Overturned Boat I'nttl Aid Comes Body of Woman Who Was In Cabin Only One Recovered. TOLEDO, O., Aug. S Harry Dill and Frank Lehaney, railway employes, and Mrs. Mabel Hudson were drowned and seven men were rescued under difficult circumstances when a launch containing a party of merrymakers capsized In Mau mee bay, BOO feet off the Casino, a summer theater, this morning. All were residents of Toledo. Dili was the owner of the boat and took out the party of ten men and one woman -desplH -arte protests of hi wife... When over the deep channel of the bay near the Maumee river the launch turned turtle from the weight of ths entire party, which had collected on one side, and turned over four times. The woman was In the cabin and was unable to get out, although there were afterwards found evidences of her des perate struggle to escape. Leo Barnes swam ashore end all of the other men were able to regain the overturned boat and cling to it except Dill and Lehaney, whose bodies were not recovered. The endangered men were rescued by fishermen from the shore, who heard their cries, and ran to the Toledo Yacht club nearby, casting off four boats. One. of the rescuers dived under the overturned launch when It was towed ashore, and recovered Mrs. Hudson's body. Dill's young wife was with difficulty kept from casting herself into the river. Land Drawings Begin Today Hundred and Five Thousand Persona Registered for Homesteads in Coeur D'Alene. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. S. From a heap of more than 105,000 envelopes, drawing will begin at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to decide ths lucky applicants for lands thrown open to entry and settlement In the Coeur d'Alens reservation. Cans containing the envelope will be cut open In th public view and emptied on a big wooden platform. The envelopes will be mixed with shov els, and ths selection of ths first 100 will be made by Miss Helen Hamilton ot Coeur d'Alene. Each envelope, as drawn, will be opened by th land officers and the name announced. The drawing for th Flathead reserva tion will be mads on Thursday and Friday by Miss Christina Don lan of Missoula, Mont., and that for ths Spokane reserva tion on Monday, August 16, by Miss Har riet Post of Spokane. For the Flathead reservation about 6,000 applications will be drawn, and for the Spokane reservation about 260, in each case about twice the number of the available homesteads. The excess will be drawn to allow for Improperly filled out applica tion and for any other irregularities. heroes of the rebellion In settings of elec tric lights. Wednesday is the feature day, when from 10.000 to 15.000 veterans will parade. On Monday, Tutsday, Wednesday and Thursday nights campflres will be held, at which several national figures will speak. In the program of entertainment will be four concerts at the tabernacle, where special music will be given by the taber nacle choir. St. Louis and Atlantic City are the prin cipal contestants for the honor of enter taining th next encampment. For commander-in-chief former Governor Van Bant of Minnesota and former Attorney General William Kstcham of Indiana ars mention e4 Supervisors of the Census Through out United States to Be Appointed. PLANS FOR DISTRIBUTING PLUMS Republicans in Debatable States in South to Be Recognized. NO CUSTOMS COURT NOW Congress Failed to Make Appropria tions or Fix dalsrlea and No Ap pointments Will Be Made at Present. REVERLY, Aug. . Beverly was hot to day, almost as hot as Washington, hut Tresldent raft spent a lasy Sunday and did not seem to mind the more thsn 90 in the shade. He began the first Sabbath of his vacation by going to the Unitarian church. Miss Helen Taft and Captain Archibald Butt were the only other mem bers of his party. Through the early hours of the afternoon the president sat on the broad veranda of his cottsge overlooking the pall-dotted ocean and read "The Great ness and the Decline of Rome," by the his torian, Ferrero, who spent a week at the White House with Mr. Roosevelt. Near sunset the president took a long motor ride with Mrs. Taft. After dinner he again sought the cool of the veranda. Will Appoint Supervisors, Mr. Taft has several matters of official business before him during the coming week. He is going to dispose of the matter of census supervisors throughout the entire United States. Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel and the director of the census, Dm and, are coming to Beverly the latlur part of the week with a long list of nsmes and by the time they leave the president hopes to announce his position. The president has fixed upon the policy he will follow with reference to census ap pointments In the south. In the statu which are solidly democratic the president will divide the appointments equally be tween the democrats and republicans. He will Insist that the appointees shall not be active partisans, however, but capable men. From the so-called "solid south" the presl dent has picked out North Carolina, Tenne r see, Kentucky and Missouri as debatablo states and will treat them on the same foot ing as northern states, giving all of the census Jobs to republicans. Hs will Insist, however, that in these states, the same standard of efficiency and character of men shall obtain. The states in which the di vision between democrats and republicans will be made are Virginia. South Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. As to Virginia, ths president is repre-. sented as believing that the bitterness of the recent primary fight In that state be tween Henry St. George Tucker and Judge NMsnn for the democratic gubernatorial nomination will give the republicans an opportunity to make an excellent and encouraging showing at the polls next November. Anything he can legitimately do to help the party In the state, it is said, he will gladly do. Several administration officers and possibly a cabinet officer or two will probably make speeches during the Virginia campaign. Considering; Bastern Problem. The president Is giving serious considera tion to the strained situation between Japan and China over the Mukden-Antung railroad. The matter wa brought to ths preeldent's attention by Secretary of State Knox before he left Washington. In the event of a complaint of violation being lodged against either party to the treaty it Is believed the matter will become a question for consideration by all the powers. The United Slates will have a hand in whatever Is done. No Caatoms Conrt. The j. resident has about decided that hs will not make any appointment to the bench of the customs court provided for In the new tariff bill. While It authorised the court, congress fsiled to make an ap propriation for the Judge or any other officials. If the president should appoint Judges under present conditions he would have to fix their salsrle. This he does not wish to do. He has no desire to antagonise coflgress In any manner and hs believes that in both the seriate and th house the members should have the right to express by a vote their preference In the matter of salaries. A to the objection that $10,000 salaries would give th customs Judges a greater compensation than that enjoyed by the United States circuit court Judges, the president 1 said to feel that th higher figures should prevail In both cases. delecting; Tariff Commissi oa. Mr. Taft ha turned over bodily to Mr. MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury, the task of selecting five experts to form a tariff commission under the new law. Mr. MacVeagh has authority to go ahead and select the right men and the president will confirm the selection. These experts are, intended primarily to assist the president with Information and Inquiries as to tho administration of the maximum and mini mum provision of the new law. Secretary MacVeagh Is expected In Beverly the latter part of the week. Postmaster General Hitchcock, who Is to pend his summer vacation at Mr. Mac Veagh's place, near Dublin, N. H., Is ex pected to accompany the secretary of ths treasury on his visit. I.lttle Work on Message. President Taft told several of his callers today that he did not expect to do any active work on his message to congress until after he returned to Washington in November. Mr. Taft has had the general outline of his message in mind for rome time. Several of the cabinet members are working on details of the various provisions and wilt report their conclusion to the president. Attorney General Wkkercham, for in stance, Is working on the proposition of reforming the laws us to interstate com merce and violations of the anti-trust law, etc. Secretary .Nag el Ik working along the same lines. Thene tnu cabinet officers at the end of their separate studies of the sub ject will send a Joint repurt to ths president which ha will discuss In his massage. Lively Hope for rhlllnntsvas. Va Tan a bOJai lamjcA to a poriod