The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 7, 1905, Page 4

bt RFRA Ts GUNES Both Houses Hold Brief Session on the Opening. Day After a Nine Month’s Rest. ANY IMPORTANT MATTERS PCNDING Malltoad Rate Legisiation Will Easily Leac ie Public Interest but Many Other Mat: ters of Equal Importance Are to be Cou Sidered—Many Changes Noted iu Capr tol Batlding—Fiowers Tabooed. Washington, . Dec. 4.—Congress con- wened Monday at noon with the usual formalities, The sessions of the twc Sodies were brief. In the senate new members were sworn in and the rottine’ fmcident to the first @ay transacted af-} ‘er Which an adjournment was taken @ut of respect to the memory of the Rte Senator Platt, of Connecticut, In the house greater interest attached to the proceedings because a complete or- ganization was necessary, This in- eluded the election of a speaker and ether officers and the drawing of seats by the members of the house. The first session of the Fifty-ninth fongress has been looked forward to &s one likely to be more than ordinar- dy eventful. Pending matters of com- mercial and political. interests have proved intensely attractive dering the long recess, Columns of news- paper space have been devoted daily for many weeks to predictions of legis- Native battles that may be fought by factions interested in the outcome ot @emands for railroad rate* regulation or legislation or on any one of a dozen public questions of equal importance, ‘The matters to be urged upon the at- fention of congress include the ques- tions of protecting the interests et policy holders in insurance sompanies, statehood for the re- maining territories, Panama canal sonstruction, immigration and the treatment of the Chinese under the present exclusion law, raising revenue against a possible deficit, control of torporations engaged in inter-state business, corrupt use of money at slections, the Philippines, Santo Dom mgo and other republics tariff questions and commercial vom western erelal competition With Germany, as enlivened by mar \ folds were paring to g the s the and the crowd on all ‘directed toward onildin the hill mission to the this did not sightscers on ad galleries card pres from rndering of through he corridars and the com points from nerai public was. not new but 1 by interior of the bni te Took is cnuse la and dome have Leen seoured until nothing is left stains of age that have been ae- eumulating for 50 years. White gran- ite and marble stand out with a boldness that almost repel, © Bright aew carpets have been laid on the floors of both chambers. The ceiling lighting arrangement for the senate also has been enlarged No flags had floated over the cap- ital for nine months, save on national holidays, but early Monday they were ‘raised over the east and west entrances, As soon as the sessions were called to - order, flags were shown over the sen- ate and house wings of the buildings and were lowered when adjournment was taken, Regular attendants at the opening sessions of congress ‘missed the usual tributes of flowers with which friends of members have testified their ad- miration and esteem. These offerings frequently had been made with such generosity that piled high upon the desks they hid from view the states- men receiving them. A year ago a cesolution was adopted prohibiting the bringing of flowers into the senate chamber and the rule has had the eff- ect also of stopping the sending of such testimonials to the honse. rhished ' Senate Called to Order. ft was a familiar scene at 12 o'clock Monday when Vice-President Fhir- banks called the senate to order with two strokes of the gavel, There were a few changes in the membership. Death had taken away Senators Bate ef Tennessee, and Platt, of Connecti- cut.” There were no changes among the senate officials. , In ‘the meantime” the galleries had ’ filled. The public galleries were well occupied as early at 10 o'clock. The reserved galleries were opened at 11:20 bul the waiting crowd had taken nearly every seat within five minutes. In the andience were the families of Mauy sena’ nd men in public Cake ‘fe, Mrs, Fairbanks and her daugh- = ter, Mrs, Timmons, were early arrivals, 3 They occupied the vice-president’s se°- tion of the members gallery, in com- pany with some friends. Several mem- bers of ive diplomatic corps were present, the first arrival being Mia- ister Obaldia, of Panama. The hum of voices ceased when the tice-president’s gavel sounded and Chaplain Edward Everett Iale made ‘he opening prayer. He referred briefly to the months since the senate had eee: :3 <caslon and to the work before ’ Pf ¥ present to caney j phon responded tc vic? -president eady | nt senators j} the roll call and the announced that the senate to transact business At 12:20 the senate adjourned as & mark of respect to the late Senator Piatt, of Connecticut. Hoase Members [ndustrious For an hour preceding the opening of the 59th congress there were scenes of increasing animation on the floor and in the galleries of the house of representatives, Legislative veterans exchanged cordial greetings and new- ly elected members made acquaint- ances. As early as 10 o'clock the gal- leries began to fill. Admission was by card only and the many who came tc the capital unprovided thronged the corridors in vain efforts to gain ad- misston. An index to the business of the ses- jlon was the industry of members in introducing bills. As many as 100 ‘public bills had been placed in the basket on the clerk’s desk before 11 o'clock these were measures of legisla- ton affecting the general government Speaker Cannon arrived in his office early and for an hour and a half be- fore the session began he held an en- thusiastic reception in his office ad- joining the hall of the houses. Mem- bers of both political parties went to see him and extend congratulations, Half hour before noon there was not an empty seat in the gallery, and long lines had formed in the corridors, MUTINY AT KEIFF, was Two Thousand Russian Soldiers Battle With Loyal-Croopa—Seventy Dead and 300 W Berlin, Dec. 4.—A dispatch to the Lokal Anziegier from Kieff via Podwo- loezska, December 3, noon, says One company of a pontoon battalion mutinied Monday, and fully armed, marched through the streets trying to persuade other troops to join it, Only an engineer corps did so. The muti- heers, then 2,000 strong continued their march. Two hundred Cossacks Were sent to prevent their advance, bui Gen, Drake in order to prevent blood- shed, subsequently withdrew the Cos- sacks and permitted the mutineers to pass. Gen, Drake made repeated and Kindly efforts to persuade the muti- neers to abandon ‘their foolhardy A part of them had complied n mmiloft tele- | tic meas: | t e mulinee course, when. Gov ! \ oppurtunity, The a rs halter | before the barrack Aaolt resd-} ment which was enlled upon to join the marchers, During tion at the barrack: fired, wounding an o: three soldiers. s of an the demonstra 1 mutinee: ‘er and two or The troops then fired npon the mutineers who returned the fire and fled away after several more \olleys from the troops. The casualties m both sides were about 70 dead and} ww wounded, Two hindred mutineers | snrrendercd ‘ Drake has been] > he shops tys and in It reat) = mars olytechnic insti caused 1 writies 2 the Intter, Alt are subject to the str censorship and the radical publications conse. quently are not appearing. SANTA FE WRECK, newspaper Fast California Express Leaves the Track Near La Junta, Col..—Two Passen- gers Seriously Injured, Topeka, Dec. 4.—The local Atchi- son, Topeka & Santa Fe offices in this city report the wreck of number nine, their fast California train Sunday afternoon at Timpass, Colo- tado, about 18 miles south of La Junta. The train was going about 40 miles per hour. From some unknowr cause, the engine, the mail car, the tourist sleeper and a standard sleeper le! track. Only the—mail tipped over, the others bumping along on the ties. Two passengers were seriously in- jured, Mrs, Coulter bound for Los Angeles, California had her chest and Shoulders badly crushed. Mr, Axlerod had his head badly bumped and one of his ankles broken. Two mail clerks whose names were unknown received slight injuries, The other passenger: were more or less jolted and shaken up, but not seriously hurt. Bristow Called to Washington, Topeka, Kan., Dec. 4.—Joseph L Bristow, formerly fourth assistani postmaster general, left Salina, Kan., for Washington Sunday in response to a telegram from the attorney gen eral of the United States’ Mr. Bris. tow will testify in the Crawford case which is in the United Sfates supreme court this week and which is on@ of the most important cases growing out of the postal investigation con- ducted by Mr. Bristow while in the government service. Government Report on Cotton. Washington, Dec. 4.—The cotton crop report issued Monday by the de- partment of agriclture estimates the crop at 10,167,818 bales 6° “°° »ernds gross weight not iaciud u, iiucers. The area picked and to be picked iq estimated at 26,117,153 acres, a re- duction of 882,399 oor 3.3 per cent re- duction from the acreage estimated as UN) FRAUD IN KANSAS Edward Letson, of Horton, Arrested Charged: with Acting as Agent for Maragraves‘Bros, eZ” STARTLING EVIDENCE 1S UNEARTHED Land Oftice Offcl sis in Nebraska tela th oe Implicated in serluas Irreguiarities— Perjary and scbornation of Perjury Charged ie the Procering of Pubiic Lands in the West. Topeka, Kan, Dec. 4.—Edward ietson, a son of W. W. Letson, mayor of Horton, Kan., alleged to be the agent for a number of land companies of western Kansas and Nebrasiia, was placed under arrest Sunday. Afi- davits have been filed alleging that he has been the Kansas. agent for the Maragraves brothers and a num- ber of large ranchmen in Nebraska for years, United States Marshal W. H. Mackey produced 22 affidayits tending to prove that Letson has induced widows of old soldiers to homestead Jands in Nebraska and western Kansas, on which they never expected to live. These lands, it is claimed, were sold to the Maragraves brothers. It is al- so stated thai these brothers had near. ly 200,000 acres of land under their control when the government began the investigation which resulted in the arrest of Letson, : Mr, Letson, in explaining his send- ing of women to Nebraska and to western Kansas to. file on government |' property, said that he believed the sovernment would not charge him with a crime for that act. Washington, Dec. 4.—Special agents of the interior department have un- earthed a mass of evidence of Startling character in relation to fraudulent ap- propriations of public land in Nebras- ka by perjury and subornation of per- jury, and the facts are to be brought before the grand jury at Omaha, Many thousands of cres in the state will be thrown open again for homesteaders when, the investigations are completed, it Is asserted, Even some of the land office officials in Nebraska are said to have been reported guilty of serious i them havin acquired a traet of govern ! istvlor nt on Saturday ot the apne ene. William (, Bristol : eostrict attorney for t of Oregon . led u Franeis J, Heney, ssfully — prosecuted ut Portland, was ' work, Such is not to Secretafy Hitch. prosecute the re- of which there are n 100 in Oregon, Nevada and other far western states nany to boieve t who has so. sue will maini more t} Montana 1 0 ohn W. Yerkes They must be 25 years old and not i} more than 50; must be at least five | feet nine inches in height and weigh | not less than 170 pounds, They | of the internal re me bureau treas: that the re- \ over the collec: 1904. Using collections for the first three months of the current fiscal year, the commissioner esti- mates that ike receipts from all ins ternal revenne sources for the fiseal year ending June 30, 1906, will aggre- gate $242,000,000 or nearly $8,000,000 in excess of those for the last fisval year. tion for t fiscal year us a basis the Making Demonstrations at Dresden. Dresden, Dec. 4.—The social demo- crats held several largely attended meetings here Sunday morning to pro- test against the electoral law-of Sax- ony. After the meetings the pro- testants paraded, but the parade wat interfered with by the police, who finally had to use their sabres, wound. ing a number ofthe and making several arrests. Later there was an attempt to make a dem- onstration in front of the Schloss, but the crowds were dispersed at the point of the sabre, Commissioners Entitled to Mileage Topeka, Kan., Dec. 4.—Attorney Géneral Coleman has rendered an opinion that county commissioner: are entitled to five cents a mile for ev- ery mile traveled in going from thei homes to the county seat to attene official meetings or for traveling over the country on official business, In the past commissioners haye not drawn mileage for the trip to and from home, but after this they will all do it, ‘ 4 Seven Schooners May Be Lost. St. Johns, N. F., Dec. 4.—Three of the ten steamers driven seaward dur- ing the heavy gale of last Thursday have reached port safely, but no word has come from the others, and fears are felt as to their safety. Reports received from coastwise points tell of many fishing vessels having been). driven ashore during the gale and al- so indicate that much damage war done to fishing property. Thomas to Enter Denver Sanitartam Leavenworth, Kan., Dec, 4.—W. E Thomas, business associate of the late C. J. Devlin, who has recovered from the effect of the carbolic acid swallowed recently while he was delir- fous, following a long iliness, left the 1 ber: Selz shoes make your 7 feet glad - Your feet are entitled to some careful con- . sideration in the matter of comfort...-When.- you think of all they do for you: carry you: ° wherever you want to go; always “on hand” ” when .you -want touse them; always ready to help you to earn a living; taking you to and from. business every day—they really ' deserve good treatnient. beg Put ’em ‘in a pair of Selz Royal Blue or Perfecto shoes and see how pleased they'll feel. Selz shoes fit feet; they are comfort- able to wear and easy to buy. The name Selz is on the sole; a sure sign of good shoe. We sell them because they’re right. . writes; I burnt my knee dreadfully, that it blistered all over, Arnica Salve stopped the pain, and heeled it without a scar,” heals wounds and sores, Frank T. Clays, druggist. Rules For New Prison Guards. : ‘i Peete 4 ‘ born in Germany, naturalized in Jefferson City, Dec. 4 —Warden | Prisoners’ cxpenses ie estimated oo | Wat oor ’ Hall of the saldtiees gave outthe 25 million dollars. 1¢ 49 pinapean [ep trick da ep : following requirement eiiployed ut taust undergo «a medical examina- | tion by the prison physician and must be pronounced sound by him |‘ : in a written statement. They wil] | 0¢e2 broken. There are twenty-six also be examined in reading, writing and arithmetic. This is one of the recent orders made by the prison board forthe management of the penitentiary. j A few countefitters been making and trying tosellimita- tions of Dr. King’s New for consumption, and other medicines, thereby de- frauding the public. This is to warn pe Se fit, through steahng th seek to profit, a? ing the been successfully curing die:-ase, for 35 years. A sure protectiun to you, is our name on the wrapper. for it, on all Dr. King’s or Bucklen’s remedies, as all others are mere imitations. H.E, BUCKLEN & CO. Chicago, Ill., and Windsor, Canada A Train Stalled Three Days. 6istent Minneapolis, Dec. 4.—Train No. i8 U Agent repro. on the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault senting THE Ste. Marie railroad arrived here three days behind its schedule. It was stalled three days on the Dakota prairies, during # vilzzard. The tem. perature was as low as 26 degrees below zero. The train was heavily loaded with passengers, but the cars were warm, and as food was sent the snowbound travelers from the near- est station, they did not suffer ex- cept from the delay. ‘ is dally enacted, in thousands of |* aac E ei ne) homes, as death claims, in each one, ‘MASS. 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The body was taken to eluria, tho morgue. that institution: | Has Stood The Test 25 Years, The old, original GROVE’S Taste- Chicago, Dec. 4. When the hunting | less chill tonie. You know what you ° }season in Wisconsin and Upper| Are taking. It is irouand buinine in Michigan closed last night, all records | ® tasteless torm. Nocure, nopay.50e 4, for casualties among hunters had Twenty-Six Hunters Killed. Woman is Burned to Death, Fort Scott, Kan, Dee, 4.—Mrs. Elmer Reid was burned to death when @ gas stove exploded in her Tone home. The stove leaked snd when ! she attempted to light it the explo- sion followed. She was h burned. Her husband, in attempt- i) ing to eave her, suffered severeburns, dead and fifty-five .wouuded, some of whom may not recover. The usual number of the wounded and killed weré mistaken for deer. CASTORIA. 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