The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1904, Page 5

BALFOUR SCORES |INDICATIONS ARE THAT ALASKA WILL HAVE REPRESENTATION LORD HAMILTON Discussing Recent Resigna- tions From the Cabinet Speaker Uses Plain Words "REMIER MAKES DENIAL Charge That He Kept Joe Chamberlain’s Resignation seeret id to Be Silly —— n the House tion of of giving ty to relate surrounding Cabinet last ength the ax A George Hamil- for India, y the state- ntil Balfour to be ¥ c n Joseph had reached a similar the allegation that he facts from his r said he could t honor- keep- et ed Secre aid he never N were resigned and that no feeling on strain personal cor the Premier e to the Duke of Devon- resigned on otion of adj te of u nment was nega- 0 17! —_—e————— MEMORY OF LINCOLN IS EULOGIZED AT BANQUET Congregational Club Holds Patriotic Function and Martyr President's Name Is Cheered. Club held a the California resident Raymond The principal ening was made by Brown, who chose ‘for The Greatest Man of h Centu The man ry he thus eulogized was oln. Outbursts of ap- tuated his remarks. delivered a scholarly = Future of War,” sang the anvi ocod.” present Vice C. Meserve, D. D., r Hitchcock, Sec- were I Potte les M. Bufford, Rev. « « dams, D. D.; Frank D. A D. Ayres, Professor w de, W. C. Barnard, Charles R. Brown, A. W. Bush, old A. Davenport. D. e W. Dickie, S. . W. Ferrier, Dr. P. U. Fowler, Rev. Giles H. Gray, G. C. H. Ham, Hon. James ton G. Hays, Rev. J. A. . Houston, Rev. Seneca ente Legarda, Mason, Rev. Morris Mar- Henry B. Mow- C. Nash, D. D. C. Patterson, Professor W. Raymond, T. W. Read, John W. J. Professor George W. BScott, Frank er T. Stewart, Dr. Rev. H. Melville and John H. W: re, o ¥ 1 !~ Miss Hapgood fells how she escaped an awful operation by using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound. “DeAR N for four years with what the doctors ealled Salpingitis (inflammation of the fall abes and ovaritis), which is 2 most distressing and painful ailment, affecting all the surrounding parts, 2dermining the constitution, and sap- ng t 1f you had seen me a year ago, before 1 began taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and had noticed - the sallow complexion, and general iated condition, and com- red that person with me as I am to- , robust, hearty and well, yom 14 not wonder that I feel thankful you and your wonderful medicine, restored me to mew life and 1th in five months, and saved me {rom an 2wful operation.”— Miss IREXE HApsoop, 1022 Sandwich St. Windsor, Ont. — 55000 forfeit if original of above letter prosing genuincncss cannot be produced. Ovaritis or inflammation of the ovarics or fallopian tubes which adjoin the ovaries may result from sudden ctoppl of the monthly flow, from infilammation of the womb, and many other causes. The slightest indication of trouble with the ovaries, indicated by dull throbbing pain in the side, ac- companied by heat and shooting pains, should claim your instant attention. It will not cure itself, and a hospital operation, with all its terrors, may easily result from neglect. Irs. Prxgmaw:—T suffered | Friends of the Territory Ar e Active and Both Houses of Congress Are Besieged With Bills---Senators and Representatives Show Anxiety to Get Home By S. W. .« WALL. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, March 7.— The month of May is written down for the time limit for this sitting of Congress. The appropriation bills are largely in ! the hands cf the enrolling clerk. The | canal zone must be provided with a suitable machinery of government, | g to its good conduct. This is | about all the legislation of a manda- tory nature that remains to employ Congress. The disposition seems to be to get through. Although this disposi- tion is manifested about this time of | the year every session, there seems to | be little deubt that the adjournment | will be early. Kittredge has sub- mitted a bill for the temporary govern- ment of the Panama canal territory, and it Is in the hands of the Committee on Interoceanic Canals. It is not a complex scheme that it proposes, and | Congress need not delay its adjourn- | ment long on its account, giving Iit, nevertheless, the careful attention that is its due and that it will receive. In view of this situation, bills of less general but of equal importtance and interest locally in the West are thought to have a fair fighting chance. Among these are California’s 5 per cent and the Sequola grove. MANY ALASKAN BILLS. The great flood of Alaskan bills, daily being augmented, also stand some slight show. Beveridge, from the Sen- ate Committee on Territories, stamps with favor Nelson’s bill for a delegate to Congress from the far northern dis- trict. That is a considerable step, and inasmuch as it provides for an elective and not an appointive delegate, and in | | Game | State. ! winter a large number of elk on the a Senate bill, the indications are all in | favor of its passage. If it gets through the Senate it is not likely to fail in the House, The bill provides for an | election this summer—the first Tues- day in _August. The door is thrown | wide open to candidates. The delegate | must have been a citizen of the United States seven years, be not less than 25 years of age and a qualified elector of Alaska. A qualified elector of Alaska {1s one who is of age, who has lived a year in the district and sixty days in his precinct. Each town Is made an election district. elected will, under the bill, serve un- til March 3, 1905. An election will be neld in August every year when thers | is a general election for Representa- tives to Congress. The delegate, in lleu of mileage, receives his actual traveling expenses from his home to Seattle and return, and from Seattle to Washington and return mileage. As showing how the Interest In Alaskan affairs is spreading, the most important bill amending the mining laws as affecting the district has been introduced by Senator Foster of Wash- ington, who was not a member of the Senate commission that visited the dis- trict, and members of which have been responsible for most of the bllis re- lating thereto. Senator Foster’s bill en- larges the surface area of claims to 1600 feet square and does not allow the owner of the claim to follow the dip of the vein beyond the vertical planes of his boundary line. A five. foot shaft must be sunk on the claim within ninety days after recording. On placer claims $100 worth of work must be done within 90 days after recording and as much more every twelve months as “assessment work.” Of this work affidavits must be made. ing is made a criminal offense. MNo man may stake more than one claim on a creek either for himself or others in any one year. This bill is before the Committee on Territories. Senator Ankeny of Washington has a bill directed at the oil interest of Alaska and provides that where oil {lands are located in the district of Alaska as placer mining claims the an- nual assessment of labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group lying contiguous and owned by | the same person or corporation, pro- viding said labor will tend to the de- velopment of such contiguous claims or the determination of the oll bearing character thereof. A .PREPARE MILITARY TRAIL. Cushman of Washington has a bill providing for the appointment of road | overseers having authority to summon | all able bodied men between the ages of 18 and 50 years to work on the roads in the precinct for.two days each year. Cushman also has a bill authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to survey and construct a military trial | commencing at or near the intersec- tion of the Orazek and the Yukon River to Coldfoot on the Koyukuk. Ten thousand dollars is named as the ap- propriation for the purpose. Jones of Washington is the father of | several Alaskan bills, the latest of | which is one granting to the Valdez, Copper River and Tanana Railroad a subsidy of $5000 per mile of track con- structed, trunk line or spurs, provided the work on the road is actually begun prior to July 1 this year. Finally, among the Washington dele- gation, Humphrey has submitted a bill looking after the fish industry of the district. It makes it unlawful to build dams and fish traps in any stream above the limit of ocean tides and re- quires that all those so built must be removed. It is made unlawful to fish for red or king salmon except with rod or spear or gaff hook above the mouth at mean low tide of any creek or river less than 500 feet wide in Alaska. Re- | strictions are laid about the setting of | nets in the mouth of rivers so that they | shall not interfere with other nets, and it makes it unlawful to take salmon in | any manner whatever except in waters tributary to Bristol Bay, Bering Sea, between the hour of 6 p. m. Saturday and 6 a. m. Monday. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is empowered to fix the line of mean low tide at any place where a doubt exists. He may aiso prohibit fishing with nets in any estuary or lagoon, and may set aside spawning grounds—not, however, until full opportunity has been allowed 3l parties interested to be heard. The secretary is also empowered to estab- lish .and promulgate regulations gov- The first delegate | quartz | Claim jump- | erning and controlling all fisheries in the district and to send a staff of men from his department to investigate and report annually upon all work required | for inspection. The following streams are excepted from the regulation making it unlawful to fish above the line of mean low tide: Yukon, Kuskokwim, Nushagak, Chig- nik, Sushitna, Naknek, Kvichak, Knick, Ccpper, Alsek, Taku, Speel, Whiting, Stikine and Unuk rivers and Broadfield | canal stream. MAY GRANT A DELEGATE. It will be seen from all this proposed | legislation that the vast and varied i sources of wealth in the almost unex- | plored reaches of Alaska are coming to be, in some measure, realized in Wash- |ington and this realization will no | doubt secure for it a delegate on the | floor next session. A bill to make a game preserve of | the Olympic forest reserve in Wash- | Ington, introduced to-day by Humph- | reys, is explained by an interesting let- ter to Senator Foster from the Fish and Protective Association of | are given, one of a bunch of eight and | another of eleven elk killed in the deep | snow and their bodies allowed to re- main where they fell, thelr teeth being removed—carried away as trinkets for gentlemen. Senator Foster, to whom an appeal was made, had to reply that regulate the game laws of the State, and even in case of a game preserve the United States could not exercise police authority other than to put the | hunter off the grounds. Humphreys' | blll 1s an attempt at a corrective. | _The number of biils being introduced | daily does not diminish out of respect imr the manifest desire of Congress as a body to adjourn. But the desire of | individual members to get home to their districts, where there is o much to in- terest them all just now, will override regrets over the submersion of any but ‘bllls of paramount importance. | —_———— IOF INTEREST TO PEOPLE | OF THE PACIFIC COAST Many Orders Made by Washington Departments Concerning Post- offices, Army and Banks. WASHINGTON, March 7.—The fol- lowing changes in fourth-class post- { masters have been made: California | —Doble, San Bernardino County, James C. Johnson, vice L. J. Adams, | resigned. Idaho—Basalt, Emma Firth, Marion Kerr, resigned. ‘Washington — Hillhurst, Pierce | County, R. D. Spray, vice Mrs. Susan R. Benson, resigned. The appointment of C. M. Grifith as assistant cashier of the First Na- tional Bank of Visalia is announced. W. C. Pidge, San Francisco; Eu- gene Larue, Riverside; W. K. Brown, Hollister; E. F. Tabor, National City; Walter S. Russell, Vallejo, have been appointed assistant engineers or aids in the geological survey service. The following special orders have been issued by the War Department: Captain John S. Kulp, assistant sur- eon, is relieved from duty at®Phila- | delphia, to take effect upon the com- | pletion of his examination for pro- | motion, and will then proceed to Fort McDowell, Cal, and report to the commanding officer at that post for duty and by letter to the commanding general, Department of California. —_——— KAISER TELLS OF LOSS OF A CHERISHED FRIEND vice | | German Emperor’'s Message of Con- dolence to Countess von Walder- see Made Public. HANOVER, Prussia, March 7.— Emperor William's telegram of con- dolence to Countess von Waldersee on the death of her husband was as fol- (lows: “Royal Schloss, Berlin.—In heart- felt sympathy I and the Empress feel for you in your bitter loss, for we know what you have possessed and have now lost in him who has gone to God. My grief is shared by the army, which looked up to him as the cho- sen warrior in time of serious war. In him I lose an old and cherished friend. May God comfort and strengthen you. “WILLIAM R.” _—e——————— Geronimo's Fifth Wife Dead. LAWTON, O. T., March 7.—A-Tep- Pa-Ta, aged 42 years, the fifth wife of Geronimo, is dead at the Apache hospital bn the Fort Sili reservation, where the tribe is held by the Gov- ernment as prisoners of war. Geron- imo is 92 years of age. ———— ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON NEW ZEALAND. A Beautiful Country of Which Little Is Generally Known. New Zealand is a country of which comparatively little is known, and many seem to think that it is a part of Aus- tralia, whereas the journey from Aus- tralia to New Zealand is five days by steamer. The country is most beautiful and there is scenery of all descriptions, from the beautiful Cold Lakes, with ele- gant wooded country surrounding, to that termed the Thermal Region, abound- ing in boiling lakes, awe-inspiring gey- s%rs and features similar to the Yellow- stone. » Mrs. Kate Janisch, a writer of promi- nence in that country, has completed a tour of both the cold and hot regions, and with the assistance of some first-class artists has secured a magnificent collec- tion of views, plain and colored, besides some fine motion pictures, and will give two illustrated lectures on the scenery and natives of New Zealand at Lyrl Hall. The lectures will be divided into two parts, the West Coast and the East Coast, and the views of the Thermal Re- gion will be shown at each lecture. The course of two will be given twice, Mon- day and Wednesday evenings, March 14 and 16, and iday matinee and night, March 18. The matinee will be given at the United States had no authority to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH &, 1904 SAYS OFFICERS |SENATORS ARE ENLIGHTENED ARE DISTRUSTED Report of Bonaparte and Woodruft Show Deplorable Affairs in Indian Territory PEOPLE ARE SUSPICIOUS PRSP ENE Commission Recommends a Change of Form in the Ad- ministration of the Laws WASHINGTON, March 7.—The Pres- | ident to-day transmitted to Congress la report of Charles J. Bonaparte and | Clinton Rogers Woodruff in the mat- | ter of irregularities in Indian Terri- 1 tory. The report is accompanied by a let- ter from Secretary Hitchcock to the | President concurring as to the refer- Eences to the Fedéral officials and asking { for a conference with the President re- garding them at the earliest practical moment, and saying he will later con- | sider the proposed sweeping changes in the organization and administrative methods which require much new legis- lation and possibly the negotiation of supplemental agreements with the In- dians. Secretary Hitchcock adds that the baseless impression reported to that ' have obtained in the Indian Territory | The letter says that during the | as to the practice and prgcedure in| | the department relative to appeals, is forest reserve have been slaughtered for | not surprising in view of the “atmos- | | nothing but their teeth. Two instances | phere of suspicion and calumny which | pervades the Territory.” He says, how- ever: “It is to my mind questionable whether it were not better to bear the flls we have than to submit vast in- | terests, involving the homes and prop- erty rights of so many thousands of poor and ignorant people who are de- pendent upon and entitled to the spe- clal protection of the Government, to ! the sole and final arbitrament of a local official.” He says It is confidently expected that the Dawes commission will finish | its work not later than a year from next July, in view of which the Gov- ernment should hesitate to enter on radical changes of a more or less ex- | perimental character. LANDS ARE MANIPULATED. The report says charges that the trust companies are manipulating Indian lands were made in good faith and continues: “Conditions prevailing in the Indian Territory at the present time are alto- gether abnormal. Multitudes of cor- porations have sprung up there as de- scribed by Brosius and the purposes and methods of a large proportion of these corporations are such as to make it obviously improper for Federal offi- cers in the territory and especially for | members of the commission to hoid their stock. “There are undoubtedly other corpora- tions engaged In legitimate business, but a censorfous and uncharitable pub- lic opinion, In the territery and else- where does not discriminate accurately between the two classes, and when it is known that & member of the commis- ! sion has placed large sums of money in the stock of various trust companies and corporations of like character he becomes, however unjustly in fact, “ identified in the public mind with the principles and practices of the disrepu- table and unscrupulous speculators who have there brought discredit on all en- terprises.” Speaking of the present situation in the Territory, the report says that the | real Indians who have remained In- | aians, constituting scarcely one-twen- tieth of the whole number of the inhab- itants, are rapidly decreasing in num- bers, not dying from disease or vice, but because the future holds out no prospect for them. The report notes the profound discontent existing among the white people of the Territory and the very general want of confidence in public officials. CHANGES ARE PROPOSED. The general dissatisfaction, it is stat- ed, is aggravated further by much needless circumlocution in public busi- ness and the frequency with which bne authority_is reversed by another. The report expresses the opinion that it was an error of policy so to frame the stat- utes providing for allotment in several- ty among the Five Tribes as to permit any Indian to obtain more land than he could occupy personally with profit and to fail adequately to recognize the difference between a real Indian and a white or black man having the rights of an Indian. It is recommended that the Indian Territory be divided as soon as prac- ticable into districts which may here- after become counties of a future State, and that every such district have an officer to supervise Indian leases, per- form probate and notarial duties and to serve as a committing magistrate and judge of petty cases, etc. In order to relieve the dockets of the United States court, it is urged that all leases of allotted lands should be recorded within thirty days of their date, other- [vige to be invalid, and that the system of sealed bids for allotted lands should be maintained in all cases. Concluding, the report says: “The officers of the inspector and agents should be independent of each other and intrusted with greater pow- ers of initiative and determination. In general, the administration of public affairs in the Territory should be com- mitted to officers on the spot, carefully supervised but controlled from Wash- ington.” —_— Ministers Differ About Marriage. PORTLAND, Or., March 7.—After a heated discussion the Portland Min- isterial Association to-day adopted a rg¢sclution in which the ministers re- fused to marry any person divorced on any grounds save those of deser- tion and adultery. One faction stood while the other for the resolution, thought that no minister should at- tempt to judge as to the fitness to ‘marry of the couples who presented themselves before him. No End to the Big Crowds. The big Furniture and Carpet Sale that the Brosius ON RITES OF of His Forty-Two WASHINGTON, March 7.—With President Joseph F. Smith of the Mor- mon Church again on the stand for the defense, the second week of the Smoot i case opened to-day before the Senate | Committee on Privileges and Elections. | Senator Dubois put into the record the ! census figures for Utah taken in 1890, | to show that instead of only 3 or 4 | per cent in polygamy, as Smith had |said in reply, there were about 2314 per cent of the Mormon population of polygamous age who were living in a state of polygamy in 1890. Taylor questioned the witness in regard to the ages of several of the children and Smith replied: “I am ‘not in the habit of carrying birth records about with me.” Several questions were addressed to the witness in regard to the alleged marriage of Apostle Teasdale to a| plural wife since the manifesto of 1890. SMITH IS PROUD. Chairman Burrows inquired: “How many children have you now, Mr. Smith?” “Forty-two,” was the answer; “twen- ty-one boys and twenty-one girls, and I am proud of every one of "em.” The witness was asked.by Senator Burrows if Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, was a poly- gamist, and after answering affirma- tively, he said that Smith “was mar- ried to Eliza R. Snow and to Maria Partridge. His first wife was living with- him when he married the second.” Senator Overman said that he had a pamphlet saving that Jesus Christ was a polygamist. Turning to Mr. Smith he asked: . “Is that what your church teaches?” “No, sir,” was the response. “What we teach is that Jesus Christ was de- scended through a long line of polyga- mists, through David down to Abra- ham.” With that Mr. Smith left the stand, having been the only witnessin the five | days the hearing has progressed. The prosecution then called Mrs. Clara Ma- bel Kennedy of Sevier County, Utah, | to the stand, who testified ‘to having | been married into a plural marriage | since the manifesto of 1890. She said the ceremony had been performed byi’ an apostle of the Mormon church. Mrs. | Kennedy said she was born in Albany, N. Y., twenty-seven years ago and went with her parents to Utah when she was 2 years old. MRS. KENNEDY A WITNESS. Mrs. Kennedy said she was married by Brigham Young, an apostle of the church, to James Fracls Johnson, a polygamist, since the manifesto of 1890, and that she has had two children by that husband. The marriage was performed in Mexico, according to the witness, at the home of a high official | | | Joseph Smith Is Loyal to His Creed and Is Proud Admits Contracting Plural Marriage Since 1890 | faith and had been taught the propriety | MORMON CHURCH Children---Mrs. Kennedy of the church. Her parents were Mor- mons and she was brought up in that of the plural marriage, and, in fact, | never had known any different life un- | til after her marriage. The family | moved to Diaz, Mexico, when she was | about 4 years old, where she lived unti! | 17 years of age, when she was married |, to James Francis Johnson, who already | had one wife. Mrs. Kennedy said she | met the first wife and they had “a slight interview” about going into the | the discussion of the military budget family as a second wife. The first wife | gave her consent to the arrangement. “Where were you married?” asked Mr. Tayler. ““At the home of A. C. McDonald, the | counselor of the first president of the State,” sald the witness. “When?" “March 29, 1896.” ““Who margried you?” “Brother Young.” “Do you mean Brigham Young, the | apostle?” “Yes, sir.” SEPARATED FROM HUSBAND. Mrs. Kennedy said she lived with Mr. Johnson about five years, part of the time in the same house with the first wife. She said she had two children by | Johnson, one of whom is now living. | She separated from Johnson at the end | of five years and about a year after that married a Mr. Kennedy, by whom she had two children. Her present hus- band is an Episcopalian, but she re- mains in the Mormon church. Senator Foraker questioned the wit- ness in regard to the ceremony uniting | her and Johnson. She said she could not remember much about it, except | that there were present Mr. Johnson Brother Young and Mr. MeDonald. | There was no prayer, she said, but she | remembers that she stood up and an- swered yes to the questions that were asked her. | Senator Hoar asked the witness if | she had recelved any form of mar- riage certificate from Apostle Young and she repled that she had not. Mr. Worthington took the witness for cross-examination and asked her if she did not know that Brigham Young is now dead. “Yes, I heard so a few weeks ago.” “And Mr. McDonald—don't know that he is dead?” asked Worthington. “No, I have not heard that,” said she. The witness became confused sev- eral times under cross-examination and made some contradictory state- ments, which for the most part she corrected later when her attention was called to them by the attorney | for the prosecution. She was un-| able to give a description of ,Young. Chairman Burrows adjourned the hearing until to-morrow with Mrs. Kennedy still on the stand. 1 you | Mr. | POSTAL REPORT NO REFLECTION Overstreet Disclaims Any In- tent to Accuse Members in thePostoffice Investigation WASHINGTON, March 7.—Postal af- fairs engrossed the attentlon of the House to-day, practically to the exclu- sion of all else. The subject was in- troduced by Overstreet, chairman of the Committee on Postoffices and Post- roads, who submitted the report of that committee on the Hay resclution call- ing for certain information regarding the use of “influence” by members of the House to secure increases in salary for Postmasters. Overstreet, in connection with the re- port, said that in his opinion there was not a single instance ¢f any reflection on the integrity of any member. The postoffice appropriation bill was then taken up, and Moon (D.) of Ten- nessee, the ranking minority member of the Postcfice Committee, arraigned the present system employed in the Postoffice Department and made an appeal for a general investigation of the affairs of the department. Cow- herd (D.) of Missouri, also a member of the committee, followed with an analytical review of the charges made in the Bristow report, which he re- ferred to as a shameful story of fraud and maldaministration. Without debate the House unani- mously adopted the resolution of Martin (Rep.) of South Dakota, direct- ing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate the causes of the differences which exist betwen the Prices of live cattle and dressed beef. Overstreet made an elaborate expla- nation of the provisions of the bill ‘While he was, speaking a messenger brought in and llnhi on the doorkeeper's desk a bundle of the reports accompa- nying the Hay resolution. Members | crowded around the desk and business was suspended until every member had procured a copy of the report. Moon of Tennessee, the ranking minority member of the Postoffice Committee, disavowing any political purpose in view of the evidence at hand, urged it to be the duty of the House to look closely into the affairs of the Postoffice Department. The system of administration, he said, was weak, and an investigation might enable the House to revise and strengthen the sys- tem. The “slime,” he said, which had been found in one branch may have per- meated other branches. He said that the names of 150 members had been linked with the wrongdoing in the Postoffice Department, not justly, he sdid, except in a very few cases, but | he asked how this would be viewed. He exonerated the Republicans from any desire to protect wrongdoers in of- 3:15, so that school children attend. | Seems to have a strong hold on the pub- The prices for the lectures will be 50c, | lic. It is astonishing to see Mug fice, but said they were derelict in not e e e O e B Loteie ™| 2 partistn matter. ot an eue”that seatwat the Friaay matinco for soc. T | “*1500 rolls ‘of Carpets “arrived " wihion e etk e dohud 9, at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s. P i 40 n:uuuefi than regular prices, t'_‘ _ijld_not !y_hgve a right to expect g some recommendation from the depart- ment after these disclosures for a change in the methods?” asked Mr. Cowherd. “Yet no recommendations came.”” This was his reason for demanding a Congressional investigation of the de- partment. As instancing the necessity still further, he called attention to the item of $1,000,000 in the bill for separat- ing the mails in the third and fourth class postoffices. This item, last year, he said, was $1.300,000, “and it was in the disbursing of that appropriation that Bristow charged that Beavers had used it to advance his political stand- ing and to give away to his personal and political friends.” Mr. Vanduser of Nevada entertained the House with a defense of his State with special reference to fraudulent mining. Mr. Murdock of Kansas said the de- ficit that has grown up in the Postoffice Department was betause improvements in the service had been pushed ahead of the revenues. He said if there had been a Theodore Roosevelt to cut a canal across the isthmus so Columbus could have sailed through and discov- ered the United States on the West- ern coast, the people of the New Eng- OFFICER 1S General von Einem, the War Minister for information concerning the condl tions which govern the entrance of offf cers into the army. that Prince von Arenberg had been mentally and morally disqualified from duty as an officer since his childhood and that after he entered the army M committed a series of brutalities which not only went unpunished, but which resulted Southwest Africa. Prince von Arenberg's early life w entirely thorities at the time army. administration for sending the Prine von Einem's remark about the Social ists In the army Herr Bebel said thal | ploneers were nearly all Secialists. “W do not hoist the red flag,” he continued Glass Works settled and glass workers’ committee and the lead. i properly caring for certain proper J. Woifron were entitled to recove: en by Chris Floter. tion by cost of livestock and dressed beef w: Kiowa, Chickasaw and Fort Smi Railway Company to sell all its rail road and other property in Indian Ter: to-morrow. BEBEL BERATES ARNY STSTE) Socialist in Reichstag Asks Pertinent Questions Abou Methods of the Department CRITICIZED e 140 SR . Declares That Prince von Arenberg Is Both Mentally and Morally Disqualified ———— BERLIN, March 7.»-In the Reichsta; to-day the case of Lieutenant Prine Prosper von Arenberg came up durin Herr Bebel, the Soclalist leader, asked He pointed oul in the Prince being sent tg General von Einem replied thad unknown to the military au he entered the 0 blame attaches to the milita: to Southwest Africa,” Minister of War. explained th Referring to General “but you cannot take our sentiment from us. You cannot fight a successfu war without us.” General von Einem spoke again, and referring to Herr Bebel's assuranc that the Socialists would do their dut; in defense of the fatherland, he said | gave him great pleasure. —_——— Glass Workers Gain Settlement. STOCKTON, March 7.—The troubl between the glass workers and thd management of the Pacific Window in Stockton have bees the men will return t work at the end of the week. Thd matter was settled'at a meeting of the ing owners of the works Sunday. J. Dalziel Brown of San Francisco, rep: resenting the corporation, was the moving spirit in the settlement. —_————— Firm Owes Four Millions. BERLIN, March 7.—The receiv of the firm of Stephen Luhrmann & Son of Bremen, whose failure was an. nounced February 10, reports tha the firm owes its foreign creditos $4,145,100. The total estimated valu of the assets is $3,850,000. —_——— Supreme Court Ends Disputes. The Supreme Court decided yeste day that the Whittier State School must pay a reasonable amount ol damages to Lucy I. Harvey for no leased from her. The petition of E. Abbott for an injunction restrain. ing F. S. Pond from allowing wasts water to be discharged upon plain tiff’s land was denied. It was declared that J..Goldman, I. W. Goldman and the amount of a promissory note giv- The claim of J. J. Lambert to a piece of Los Angele real estate owned by John Gerner disallowed. - land States would nmow be asking admission to statehood. The committee rose and the Martin of South Dakota di recting the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate the causes for th differences which exist between t passed without division or debate. A bill providing so as to allow th ritory was passed. The House, at 5:40, adjourned until in spring hats. We have the low as $1.30. - and soft shapes in different brims. Every hat guaranteed. SN Some Spring Shapes for®1.30 You don't have to pay a big price to get the latest These are good hats for business wear. We are selling the new golf caps for 43c. Ours have indestructible snap visors and are silk-lined. Out-of-town orders filled—write us. newest shapes and colors‘as Derbies proportions of crowns and