The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1904, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1904. RUSSIAN LAND ADVANCE TO BEGIN WHEN KUROPATKIN REACHES EAST MUST ANSWER CRAVE CHARGES! Lientenants Richards and Neilson Return From Ma- nila to Face Court-Martial SSPUEE ~ MATTERS LOOK SERIOUS Cause of the Trouble Is Al- leged Irregularities in Pay Accounts in Philippines First Lieutenant George 8. Richards Jr., Twenty-third Infantry, and First Lieutenant Frederick B. Nellson, Twelfth Cavalry, came home yesterday j from the pines and, i reports be true, have come to face very serious charges. It is reported that they were | ordered back to the United States to g0 before a court-martial to answer al- leged charges of irregularities in their It is elleged that Richards, @ccounts. while in and about Mindanao, was reckless about his money matters, end that his pay eoccounts were in & wery mixed up etate. What goes to make matters worse for him is the fact that it is reported that he has had trouble before of & eimilar character, "but somehow managed to make an ex- planation that was deemed satisfactory | to Government and the matter was | “iropy The alleged charges egainst Neflson by the Government are duplicating his | pay accounts. It 1s reported that while | 1 Philippines he duplicated his ac- ess than five times in one s brother officers are at a loss | derstand his actions, for the that he belongs to a wealthy guished family in Philadel- his brothers being a high Pennsylvania Raflroad the FAMILY SETTLES CLAIMS. The different elaims upon his numer- us pay accounts have been settled by 5 ich sent drafts to cover | as soon as they learned ities. He Goes mnot owe 1 anything, but the passage accounts is still staring e, and it is upon these the Government takes Y influence is being r by influential friends with the powers at Wash- iave the matter sidetracked. s married about a year to Miss Keller in San Miss Keller cer. Mrs. Nell- 2 months old, the incoming | utenant Henry T. Bull, eenth Cavalry, came home on the t his bride, who is no r fair Miss Marie e of the famous ac- s > name. Lieutenant f his approach- secret from his | ard the trans-| 1 wondered why, he as he was not 1en questioned to America, e made the same re- g home on a little WILL WED IN WASHINGTON. | T e ceremony will take place ngton early in April. 9 py pair will then turn this to board the t sailing on May Lieutenant Bull is the nder John H. Bull, stationed at Mare mander Bull will go out in 1 of the Solace, which will ially pleasant for s Wainwright is > Jate Major Rob- inwright, Fifth Cavalry, | e Philippines about two | one of the the service esteem by the men of his nwright and the actress, most and of- regi- Miss were Jr. wag one of the pas- d yesterday from the Young ppointment & for West Point from ¥ Roosevelt, through the Secretary of War Taft. om Wessex Mili- He left last night tas, and from there ve himself for the t Point on June 4, J n Ci th to prey quarterma 1s own throughout the land for his long | ce in the army, his army career eginning at the age of 8 years. Colo- 1 Clem was a second lieutenant in COURT-MARTIAL TO MEET. | A general court-martial will assemble t the Presidio at 10 a. m. on Wednes- March 23, 1904, or as soon there- r as practicable. Following is the t court: Williamn L. Pitcher, v; Major Benjamin H. Major John Bige- Captain James T. Captain Eugene T. Captain John J. th Infantry; Captain Twenty-eighth Infantry: Cloke, Artiliery Corps; Cap- ighth Infantry; Thirteenth In. Gowen, Tenth In- . Ingram, Tenth ¥i- agelbert G, ' Ovenshine, y ‘aptain Clarence E. . judge advocate. el ally been decided upon. It will be lo- cated on Government land in Rodeo Vall sit ed about one mile north oint Bonita. The construction of the 600-yard range will be commenced 1 v and it will be ready for service April 1. The 800 and 2000 yard ranges will be constructed in the same locality later on. The Eleventh Infantry, Colonel Al. bert L. Myer, which arrived yesterday | ernor PLAN 0 SAVE FRESNO LANDS Irrigation Experts Investi- gate and Report Upon a Proposed Drainage System WATER MAY BRING RUIN Seepage From Canals Rises to Surface and Destroys Properties of the Soil —_—— Reports from the irrigation experts of the Department of Agriculture and the University of California upon the drainage systems necessary to save the vineyard and orchard lands in the vicinity of Fresno have so far matured that actual work. on the systems may now go forward at any time. These reports are embodied in a bulletin writ- ten by C. G. Elliott, agent and expert on irrigation investigation, which was issued at the university to-day. The experts found from the start that they would have to contend with the alkali, which the abundance of water dissolves from the soil in the vicinity of Fresno and by the process of evapora- tion concentrates at the surface. Not alone is this alkali injurious to or- chards and vineyards, but so is the excess of water that fills the soil. The evil has been growing so that it threat- ens to end in the final destruction of thousands of acres of producing land. During the investigation the irriga- | tion experts examined some 300 square | miles of land, the design being to se- which to predicate cure data upon | plans for draining off the surplus un- derground water. It has been found that the shallow drains used In some places do not pre- vent the rise of the alkali to the sur- face. Instead of two and three feet deep, the drains should be five and seven feet deep. These drains will be most effective when laid one-half mile apart in east and west parallel lines, as they may thus be accessible to the owners of land on either side. The surplus water that drains into them, it is found, may be used again for fir- rigation purposes, instead of being al- lowed to run to waste. According to the estimates, the cost of a proper system of drainage for the | @istrict will be about $260,000. ————— PERSONAL. F. M. Buck, a fruit man of Vacaville, is at the Lick. D.. E. Liewellyn, a8 manufacturer of | Los Angeles, and wife are at the Pal- ace. H. F. Anderson, a capitalist of Ben Lomond, and wife are at the Occlden- tal., J. W. Marsh, a prominent business man of Pittsburg, is a guest at the St. Francis. Mrs. Burrows, wife of former United States Senator Burrows of Michigan, is a guest at the Grand. Colonel J. Jackson, U. S. A., retired, and wife are down from Portland and staying at the Occidental. Rev. Canon French of England ar- rived from Australia yesterday and is registered at the Occidental. C. H. Zeederberg, who is interested in the transportation business in | Rhodesia, South Africa, is at the Pal- | ace. J. Aguirre Acha, the newly appointed Bolivian Consul General to this city, has arrived from South America and is | staying at the Occidental. A. Woodbury, former Gov- of Vermont, and wife and daughters, who have been spending several weeks at Coronado, arrived in this city yesterday and are at the Cali- fornia. Lawrence W. Manning of Lexington, who for the last eight years has been private secretary to Governor Wright of the Philippines, returned from the Orient on the transport yesterday and is registered at the Grand. He has been invalided home after an extended iliness. James L. Flood, Miss Cora J. Flood and Major Jared Rathbone arrived yesterday in a private car from the East, whither Mr. Flood and Major Rathbone went two weeks ago on a business trip. Miss Flood had been spending several months in New York, where she was joined by her brother. W. H. Bancroft, the new general manager of the Union Pacific Com- pany, who passed through here on his way to Los Angeles several days ago, returned yesterday and paid his re- spects to General Manager Krutt- schnitt of the Southern Pacific Com- pany. He departed in the evening for Omaha. George Cameron Jr.,, nephew of Alexander Cameron of Petersburg, head of one of the largest tobacco firms in Virginia, arrived yesterday from Australia and is at the Palace. He went to the colonies to consum- mate a deal wherein his uncle’s firm has agreed to turn over to the British- American Tobacco Company its entire tobacco product. - D. P. Markey, supreme commander of the Knights of the Maccabees, ar- rived in this city last evening from Lbs Angeles, where he attended the session of the State convention of the order and instituted the Great Camp ot California. To-night he will be tendered a reception by the local Mac- cabees in Golden Gate Hall and to- morrow a banquet at thg California. "He is staying at the Palace. M RO 51 Californians in New York. NEW YORK, March 15:—The fol- lowing Californians have arrived in New York: From San Francisco—S. H. Owings, at the Broadway Central; J. A. Beritzhoff, at the Everett; H. Dechart, at the Belvidere; and T. S, Lowell, at the Rossmore. From Los Angeles—Mrs. Croft, at the Imperial, and Mrs. Garty, at the Grand Union. P + from the Philippines, has temporarily gone into the Model Camp at the Pre- sidio, where they will remain for four or five days, and then proceed East, Dr. U. General Goes 8T. PETERSBURG, March 15.—Gen- eral Kuropatkin expects to reach Muk- den on March 26. Everything will be sidetracked in order to get him to the front on schedule time. The gen- eral may proceed on a flylng visit on his duties as commander in chief of the Manchurian army. He be_s_r_s an autograph letter from the Emperor to Viceroy Alexieff, to whom he will report. It is understood that the Viceroy then will turn over the entire direction of the land operations to General Kuropatkin, who will trans- mit his reports to the Emperor, through the Viceroy, but practically this is the only point on which Viceroy Alexieff will maintain superiority. CAMPAIGN PLAN COMPLETED. | General Kuropatkin had his plan of campaign practically completed before he left here for the Far East. He re- turned to St. Petersburg quietly from CERMANS-MOB AN KUBELIK Drive Bohemian Violinist From Concert Hall at Ling, Capital of East Austria VIENNA, March 15.—German-Czech race hatred led to a serious riot at Ling, the capital of East Austria, to- day, when a mob of infuriated Ger- mans in revenge for the ill treatment of their compatriots at Prague, storm- ed the hall in which Jan Kubelik, the Bohemian violinist, was giving a con- cert, compelling Kubellk to seek safety in flight. Before the doors were open- ed the mob attacked the carriage of the ¢District Governor, Count Wicken- burg, with stones. The police had dif- ficulty in protecting the Count from personal injury. The mob then forged the police cor- don, invaded the hall, smashed the mirrors and threw missiles at. Kubelik. The concert was then stopped and the audience dispersed amid a fire of of- fensive epithets. The demonstrations were continued outside the hotel where Kubelik was staying and the police had some difficulty in dispersing the mob. —_——— BAUER REACHES HIGHEST ACHIEViLMENT IN FANTASIE Each Recital Only Further Convinces Hearers of the Great Pianist's Powers. I have changed my mind. Not Beethoven, but Schumann, is Harold Bauer’s alter ego. Last night, at the pianist’s last recital but one, he gave the Schumann Fantasie in C, that was absolutely the biggest piano-play- ing that has been heard here. Each recital only further convinces of Mr. Bauer’s powers. He is a giant, a thick forelock, if not a head, taller than the rest, and in the fantasie the pianist touched his highest peak of achievement. His art is supremely in- tellectual, and its brilliant sanity, its superb balance, its moving lyrical quality, made a Schumann of a not- to-be-described beauty. There was the Bach Italian concerto, a laughably lovely rendering. There was a Chopin group, with the C sharp etude that followed as encore, taken at a tempo not more than three times that of any one else—yet limpidity itself—a stu- pendous performance, So also the Alkan study in unison, in which for a moment Mr. Bauer beeame the virtuoso for virtuosity's sake. His pyrotechnics are just as magnificent as his poetry, and both the best the years are likely to bring us for long. To-day is the last recital, this af- ternoon at 3:20, at Lyric Hall. What particular penance Lent involves, let it not be abstinence from this. It were better to go without an Easter hat than a Bauer “Carnaval”—with the assistance of Mr. ~ Schumann. Friday without fish were better than this Wednesday without Chopin, served by Mr. Bauer. It will be the B minor sonata. Then there is a Bach toccata, a fugue .discovered two years ago that may not be missed. Mr. Bauer plays also his own ar- rangement — unaccredited — of the ‘Wagner ‘Walkurenritt."” And I would not wish my worst enemy to miss a note of them. BLANCHE PARTINGTON. —_————— CABINET-MAKER GLUECK * DIES IN THE STREET Edward Barry, an Almshouse Inmate, Expires From the Effects of a Broken Leg. George Glueck, a cabinet-maker, 62 years old, expired. suddenly at 11:30 o’clock yesterday forenoon on the side- walk opposite 965% Harrison street. He had been under medical treatment for Reart disease for the last month. Mr. Glueck was a native of Germany and resided with his family at 13 Madison avenue, Edward Barry, an aged man, who had been an inmate of the Almshouse for the last ten years, died at the City and County Hospital yesterday from a broken leg. The accident happened on March 8 while Barry was standing on a ladder stowing away the baggage of a newly received inmate. The lad- der slipped from under him, canusing him to fall to the floor with the bag- gage on top of him. ————————— Smoker on Revenue Cutter. The officers of the revenue cutter Bear will entertain at dinner on boarad that vessel to-night the officers of the San Francisco Yachf Club. After din- ner there will ¢ a smoker on board the Bear, when other members of the yacht club will attend. ——————— Recent events have shown that the most comlortat:’le h:::mel are usually the most_happy an e a gas rai San l"rnggfi!co Gas and E‘l‘ectnm.t 7{'5' Post street. % - ! to Front With Campaign Completed. his country home and his presence there was not known for four days. These four days he devoted to the elaboration of his plans, in conjunction with his staff and with the aid of the information in possession of the Min- istry of War, as well as of the spe- cial reports from the theater of war. A superstitious idea prevails here that General Kuropatkin will signal- ize his birthday, which will occur on March 30, and which is also his patron saint’s day, with some important act. On account of the difficulty of hous- ing the vast number of troops poured into Mukden, 14,000 have been forward- ed within the last few days toward the Yalu River as reinforcements for the 7000 troops already at Kusan and Anju, and the stream of soldiers from European Russia is now being held at Harbin. The housing problem will dis- appear with the advent of warm weath- er, but in the meantime the Govern- ment 48 hurrying forward large num- bers of portable wooden quarters, 1800 ! STUDENTS ARE COMPETING FOR A COVETED TROPHY Youths of St. Mary’s College Engage in Declamatory Rivalry for Cot- tle Elocution Medal. The students of the collegiate course and graduating classes of the business department of St. Mary’'s College are undergoing the annual elocution com- petition at the college for the Cottle elocution medal. During last week the Rev. Brother Zenonian, president of the college, and numerous professors have been present at the recitals of the young orators, more than twenty of whom are being heard each day. From these fifteen of the most successful will be selected and during the course of this | week the faculty will reduce the num- ber to six for a test before an outside board vet to be named. Last year the medal was won by Lot Kaulukou of Honolulu. The judges on that occasion were Victor Metcalf and Mayor Olney of Oakland, Judge Murasky, '83, and Garret Mc- Enerney, '81, both members of St. Mary’s alumni, and Fathers Yorke and Smith, C. 8. P. The general pub- lic will be invited to the final tryout, which will be held in College Hall to- ward the end of the month. PRI P R IRISH SONGS STIR AUDIENCE. St. Patrick’s Parish Entertains With Fine Musical Programme. The St. Patrick’s day entertainment given by St. Patrick’'s Parish at the Alhambra Theater last night was large- 1y attended and therg was a programme | of beautiful Irish music, songs and dances which, with a stirring address by the Rev. Father P. T. Collopy, went to the hearts of the assemblage. The programme began with an over- ture consisting of Irish airs and played with rare vim by the Pipers’ Club, of San Francisco, and then followed a quartet, “Eileen Aroon,” by the Elks’ Quartet, which was so admirably given as to win an imperative encore. Miss Etta Welsh sang “Elleen Alanna” with her usual grace, while her clear so- prano voice was never heard to better | advantage. The vocalist was rewarded | with a well earned encore. The pro- gramme was as follow: the Allen sisters: soprano M ta Welsh; violin Piletro Marin: tenor Fancy dancing, Bo, J. O'Brien; oration, Rev. P. T. Collopy; quartet, “The ance,” the FElks Quartet; contralto Kathleen Mavourneen,” Miss Genevieve Once Through itzsimons: tenor All Those Endearing Callinan; ~reading, . Hic barytone solo, Ireland,” ' Bert Murphy; O'Connor and P. Lynch} Pipers’ Club of San Francisco. Ac- Mies Mary Short. —————— MANY HONOR ST. PATRICK. “For Freedom and hornpipe, John J. Irish air: compani; A thoroughly enjoyable entertain- ment was given last night at Washing- ton Square Hall under the auspices of St. Francis Gentlemen's Sodality in honor of St. Patrick’s day. Mayor Schmitz was with Father Carraher and Father Lagan on the platform. There was a large attendance and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. The programme was as follows: Piano duet..Miss M. Shaefer-Miss Maria Ryan Introductory remarks. Pugene E. Schmitz Selections on har; rs. J. Fitzsimmons Bagpipe solo Professor Cummins Fancy step . J. O’Connor, P. Lynch Song. ‘“The Wearing of the Green''.'B. Murphy Monols Alexander Mrs. Cecil Mark Alfred Roncovierl -Rev. Hugh Lagan .M. J. Connolly «d by Professor Sandy WAITERS WILL MOVE INTO NEW QUARTERS Two Organizations Are Opposed to Proposed Ordinance’ Prohibiting Public Meetings. = ‘Waiters’ Union No. 30 has secured new quarters at 110 Turk street. The accommodations consist of a ladies’ parlor, reading room, card room, audi- ence room, billiard and pool rooms. The Street Carmen’s Union has also secured new quarters at 310 O’Farrell street and will move in on the first of next month. Extensive alterations are now under way. Carpenters’ Union No. 493 and Fur- niture Handlers’ Union No. 1 have passed resolutions in opposition to the proposed ordinance now before the Su- pervisors against the holding of public meetings in certain districts. ' A communication has been received by the Marine Engineers’ Association from the Steam Schooner Managers’ Association relative to the demands made by the former body. The main bone of contention has been overtime to chief engineers, which is expected to be speedily settled. B A Colonel Sobieski to Lecture. Colonel John Sobieski will deliver an address before the Howard-street Methodist Church this evening. He is speaking under the auspices of the Prohibition State Central Committee. | He is an orator of note and has gained Kathleen Trombone solo . Oratlon Gaelic solo . “God Save Irel e € LS e d LA His Plan of | of these having already been dis- | patched from St. Petersburg and 5000 from Moscow. NAPOLEON TO LEAD CAVALRY. Prince Louis Napoleon has gone to the Caucasus, accompanied by Prince Marat. Prince Louis will relinquish his command of the cavalry division of the Caucasus and then proceed to the Far East, where he will take supreme com- mand of the cavalry under General Kuropatkin. The Dowager Empress to-day in- spected her own Red Cross detachment, which is proceeding to the front. The statement of General Zilinsky that the Russians found poisoned swords left by the fleeing Japanese has aroused much comment. Similar swords were used by the Chinese dyring the Boxer rebellion, especially in Manchu- ria, and the slightest wound inflicted by them proved fatal. The use of such weapons is prohibited by the Geneva and The Hague conventions. i ROOT REVIEWS PARTY POLICY Urges Republicans to For- get Factional Differences and Be Loyal to Cause —_———— NEW YORK, March 15.—Former Secretary of War Root was the guest of honor to-n'ght at a dinner given by the Repblican Club of the City of New York. President Roosevelt's letter of regret was as follows: It 1 could go to any dinner it be to the dinner of the Republican is giving In honor of ex-Secretary of Root. I am bound to him not only by ties of recognition of his great and brilliant ser- vices to the nation and the party, but by a pecullarly close and intimate personal friend- ship. 1 wish your club and your guests all good fortune. Root, responding to the greeting of President Louis Stern, said in part: We are on the threshold of a great struggle and there are rumors about men, about or- Banization and factional strife. They tell me there {s great trouble in the Republican party in the State of New York—factional difficulties —and that we are liable, to lose the State. I take no stock in these factional differences. It seems to me that it is time for us to turn our attention from the surface question of party organization to the great issues of the conflict that lies before us and get away from the chicken feed of political gossip. We stand on a distinct foreign policy—a posi- tion that has put us on a plane so eminent that in the conflict in the Far East, over which every one holds his breath for fear there may be a general war, Germany turns to the United States and asks us to use our power to preserve the empire of China. The question for us to hammer out during the coming summer is whether the great onward march of American civilization shall go on or shall be checked and turned back in confusion and inefficiency. Let this club sound the key- note of the coming campaign—the question whether the Republican party shall continue to rule or the ultra conservative Democrats, with €leveland or Parker on the one hand, and the utl;lrn Socfalists, with Bryan or Hearst on the other. would Club War o A DELEGATES FOR ROOSEVEIT. Indiana District Conventions Indorse the President. MOUNT VERNON, Ind., March 15.— Congressman James A. Hemenway was renominated to-day by the Republicans of the First Indiana District. Resolu- tions instructing the delegates for Pres- ident Roosevelt were adopted. KNOX, Ind., March 15.—Republicans of the Thirteenth Congressional Dis- | trict to-day renominated Representa- tive Brick. The delegates to the Na- tional Republican Convention were in- structed for President Roosevelt. MINNEAPOLIS, March 15. — The Fifth Minnesota District Republicans elected W. W. Heffelfinger and C. A. Smith delegates to the national con- vention. The former is the famous Yale fcotball guard. The latter is a mil- lionaire lumberman. No Instructions were given, —_— Tillman for Congress. AUGUSTA, Ga., March 15.—Ex- Governor James H. Tillman, who was recently acquitted of murdering Edi- tor Gonzales of Columbia, S. C., has announced his candidacy for Congress. He will stand for the seat made va- cant by the death of Congressman G. W. Croft of South Carelina., Secoe il - Burkett to Succeed Dietrich. LINCOLN, Neb., March 15.—At the Lancaster County primaries practically every precinct declared for Congress- man E. J. Burkett for United States Senator to succeed Charles H. Die- trich. This practically insures Bur- kett's nomination. —————— OFFERS A REWARD FOR ARREST OF MURDERER ‘Widow of Joseph Buttgenbach, Who ‘Was Shot and Killed in His Office, Stimulates Police. The widow of the late Joseph Butt- genbach, who was shot and killed in his office at Fourth and Shipley streets on Saturday night, March 5, is determined to bring his murderer to justice if it can possibly be done. Yesterday her attorney, Frank G. Drury, notified Captain Martin that Mrs. Buttgenbach would offer $1000 reward for such informatiod as would lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who murdered her husband. Mrs. Buttgenbach is steadfast in her belief that her son Albert had nothing to do with the murder, and she suffered keenly while he was under! arrest on suspicion. Her belief in his innocence has never wavered, and now she is anxious to have the boy's character cleared from the stigma by offering the reward in the hope that it will stimulate th> nolice in their search for the pernetrator of the deed. Detective Ryan is still working quietly on the casc. ————————— Investment Comnany Incorporates. The Mexican International Invest- ment Company was incorporated yes- terday with a capital stock of $1,000,- 000. Of this amount $500 is sub- scribed. The directors are Thomas H. ‘Williams, Frederick Fenchler, Adam great popularity on the lecture plat- | Andrew, G. E. Bates and J. W. Fer- Aris, form. — HAWAIL WILL BE FORTIFIED Bill Providing for Protec- tion of the Islands Meets With Approval of Senate THE MEASURE IS PASSED Solons Appropriate $526,100 to Purchase Sites for Pro- posed Means of Defense WASHINGTON, March 15. — The Senate to-day resumed consideration of the fortifications appropriation bill, the pending question being the com- mittee amendmentappropriating $250,- 000 for the purchase of a submarine torpedo-boat for experimental pur- poses. 7 In response to a request from Sena- tor Lodge, Senator Perkins explained the reasons which actuated the com- mittee in striking out the House pro- vision of the bill appropriating $200,- 000 for the purchase of sites for de- fenses in the Hawaiian Islands, say- ing the committee’s action was due to the fact that the Government had no option on the land for this purpose and that therefore it might have the effect of placing the Government at the mercy of real estate owners. He also said the amount named was not sufficient. Spooner and Foraker took the posi- tion that on account of the outlying position of Hawaii the United States should be prompt in providing for its protection and Perkins said he was willing if a sum sufficient to accom- plish the purpose sought could be se- cured. In accordance with Perkins’ suggestion Spooner offered an amend- ment appropriating $526,100 instead of §200,000. This amendment was ac- cepted without division. By common consent the Senate re- sumed 'consideration of the torpedo- boat amendment and Gallinger offered a substitute providing for competition in securing a vessel of the type desired. The amendment was defeated—17 to 26. The fortifications bill, as amended, was then passed and the Senate went into executive session. R W O T S RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS GET AN EXTENSION OF TIME PARIS, March 15.—Debates on the bill for the suppression of religious teachings by the congregations was continued in the Chamber of Deputies to-day. The Government met with a slight check, an amendment by M. Cailleaux, former Minister of Finance, raising from five to ten years the maximum limit of time for the sup- pression of such teaching being carried by the vote of 282 to 271, not- withstanding ‘the opposition of Pre- mier Combes, who, however, refused to make the consideration of the amendment a question of confidence in the Government. —_——— Trust Fears Competition. BERLIN, March 15.—The Wiener Zeitung says the German steel trust is about to begin negotiations with the American and British companies toward a delimitation of their respec- tive spheres of influence in the world’s markets, so as to avoid ruinous com- petition with each other. CANADA GRANTS HILL A CHARTER Northern Securities Com- pany May Transfer Opera- tions to the Dominion GIVEN LARGE POWERS Incorporation Effected in Ot- tawa After the Filing of the Minnesota Suit OTTAWA, Ontario, March 15.—The Northern Securities Company was granted a charter by the Dominion Government soon after the original suit was brought against the American cor- poration in Minnesota. The directors named in the bill of incorporation were Canadians, but it was understood at the time that James J. Hill was in- terested. The charter is still in ex- istence. NEW YORK, March 15.—A Montreal dispatch to-day gives R. G. Foget, vice ‘president of the Montreal Light and Power Company, as authority for a statement that the Northern Securities Company of Canada had been granted a charter by the Dominion Govern- ment; that it is backed by the Hill interests, and is intended to absorb the Northern Securities Company of the United States. The Northern Securities Company of Canada was granted a charter in 1902, Its powers are very large and include the right to buy, control and operate railways as well as other enterprises both in Canada and in the United States. In regard to the report that the Northern Securities Company of Can- ada was to be the successor of the Northern Securities Company of the United States, President Hill was quoted to-day as saying: “We have as much notion of incor- porating a company in Mars or the moon as in Canada. We intend to con- form to the law.” Later Hill gave out the Zollowing: “Uftil the full official copies of the opinions and decree of the Supreme Court have been received and our at- torneys have had an opportunity to advise us as to our ceurse of pro- cedure, the officers of the company can make no further announcement than to declare their purpose to promptly and fully follow the law as now in- terpreted.” Hill visited J. P. Morgan in the afternoon and the two conferred for some time. Both declined to be inter- viewed, but Hill stated that there was nothing new in the general situation. The strength and activity of Erie stocks in the markets revived the old story of a rew holding company to take over the Northern Pacific. The story was pronounced absurd by repre- sentatives of the Northern Securities | Company. —_— Northern Pacific Meeting Adjourns. NEW YORK, March 15.—The ad- | journed joint meeting of the North- ern Pacific Railway was again ad- journed to-day until May 17, no busi- ness being transacted. Practically all of the Northern Pacific stock is own- ed by the Northern Securities Com- pany, which has been enjoined from voting this stock, hence the repeated adjournments, ADVERTISEMENTS. LOSING WEEK of Price Reductions on ORIENTAL RUGS 100 HAMADAN and KARABAGHS Suieia e s wés swaevs o vs «SADO 10 ST O 75 SHIRVAN and BELOOCHISTANS formerly $20.00 to $25.00, now....8$15.00 75 SHIRVAN, DAGHESTAN, BELOOCHIS- TAN and KAZAKDJIE............. formerly $25.00 to $30.00, now...$18.00 Splendid values in KHIVA, CASHMERE, KIRMAN and PERSIAN, carpet sizes. This closing week reductions in we offer remarkable Furniture for Hall, Library, Parlor, Dining=Room and Bedroom; alse Uphel- stery and Lace Curtains. SLOANES 114-$22 POST STREET . "