The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 13, 1905, Page 2

L GEORGE D. COLLINS IS ARRESTED IN RGE OF PERJURY. Mrs. McCurdy City on S Attorney Says He Was Forced| Into Bigamous Marriage. | e PR SR . Page 1, Column 6. Continued From Officer Will Be Sent to Vietoria for the Bigamous Attors An officer He 2 e Bj nraged over the escape ot I will have George D he! f there is any means to bring him st believe in al- to escape from the law to protect us with- « ; every effort to bring 1 e y word, 1 will mar and before time, either. I sure ion gi out in yes- Call that he is in pon as I receive pri- from the police I will very vigorous straight to the Gov- nis case in a I will ernor and t him to issue a de- or Collins from the Canadian Gove ment on the charge of perjury. we will swear out a new warrant for his arrest. notify the police up there to hold with the papers for k tail officer to the him back at once.” Call representative, ow you to punish t know whether it will or not,” District Attorney; “but rned the tel 1 this much, Collins will ch wanted d in O'Donnell ““Bogile” Vallejo. e Collinx" Qualifi s Will Not Avail Him in Mritish Territory. Co n gain a livelthood from | ocation than that of the law f he remains in Canada. The following ion explains the obstacles be- Editor The Call I infer | m some expressions used or quoted in D. Collins in t you, like most of my friends | onal brethren, have misun- requirements of the Cana- «pplicants for admission the British nor the | >cognize admissions or | practice law given in other The standards of re- different. | s (as the attorney whom you | “one of the smartest lawyers George * it will avall him nothing a passport to the prozession In Can- Whether he secks to enter the up- or the lower branch of the profes- hat is to say, whether as barris- he mus through the E of le ation and L and afford rescribed of learning and moral charac- | and learning are not| meaning, and it is the former, that is the test| ree years is the minimum pe- rind over which the course of study and pination must extend, and even that ly to umiversity graduates. hers the minimum period is five | und wntil the whole course of | is completed, a succession of ex-| passed, and satisfactory ev of moral character received, a can- | te cannot be heard as an advocate ny British or Canadian court, what- | iis reputation for “smartness’ else- i | | dnce Collins will have to pursuve msl derings a good deal farther before he ibit his “‘smartness” in a British or Canadian court. Besides which, that | kind of smartness Goes not stand for | much in the criminal courts of those | countries. For merely technical objec- tions there is but little show. The pow- ers of amendment ‘‘before. during or after” & criminal trial render technical @hiections of littie avail, unless they go w unday Night. — { when | of Marine Thorson left | Minister | vage steamer Berger, which has taken | Mar, | about twe years, where her husband held | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1905. UICTORIA ON CHA Flees From the , or morals, of the charge, | answer of the court is “leave and, in fact, to amend there and then. So Mr. Collins’ prowess as a criminal lawyer will be of littie o him in Canada, or in any British peatedly suggested such an | of our penal code here as the technical obj which of just b been 1 the miscarriage thus far the suggestions aval and the techn! ave lawyer is accounted ‘the of men. Your most respect- | DIGBY JOHNSTON, LL.D. | 1905, tual Savings Bank Bl SN Judgment Against Collins. R. H. Pease, owner of the premises forme occupied Attorney George and his t wife, idgment torney | f eviction. due $510 rent and a dec for HONEYMOON BEGINS WITH A RUNAWAY | Bride and Groom Injured in! Accident in Los Angeles. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, July 12—While on their way to pass their honeymoon at| Catalina Island, Harold C. Chapin and h bride and groom of an hour, we! e viet of a runaway :A(-mdsnli to-night in which they narro escaped | with their lives. The horses attached to | their carria became f ately after the bridal party left t Lovejoy, where the wedding cere- | was performed, and an down enue toward the sharp decline ourth street. At the corne tver, Joe McGee, pulled the animals just in time to turn them west on Fourth | ar Bunker Hill avenue the | s crashed into the sidewalk, up- ting the vehicle and throwing out the | \ts. Mr. and Mrs. Chapin were | ; injured. McGee fared worse, x»" age toppled over on him. His are serious. The carriage Wwas Chapin is an employe of Barker Bros, i his bride was Miss Louise Hage of ¥ City, Mich., which was Chapin’s former home. They were sweethearts children and recently Miss Hage journeyed to Los Angeles. with, her| mother to wed. MOB TRAMPLES OLD GLORY UNDER FOOT Canadians Resent Insulting | Remark Made by an American. | LONDON, Ontgrio, July 12.—An Ameri- can flag was torn down in front of the City Hall and trampled under a hundred feet to-night, as the result of a remark made by an American visitor at the | Orangemen’s demonstration. About 800 Americans came over from Michigan and during the day carried the | Stars and Stripes through the street withcut unfavorable comment being ex- cited. To-night the Americans gathered in front of a hotel, when some on cried: To hell with Canada! She never showed us yet!” Instantly the American flag, owned by the Port Huron (Mich.) lodge, was torn from where it waved in the breeze and was ripped into shreds and trampled un- der the feet of an angry mob. The Port Huron Orangemen say they did not resent it, as they believed the insult to Canada was uncalled for. ————————— SUNKEN SUBMARINE BOAT MAY SOON BE FLOATED ¥Farfadet Ix Now Fast to 350-Ton Dry- dock, Which Is Expected to ift Derelict. BIZRRTA, Tunis, July 12 —Minister Bizerta for Paris to-day after a final visit to the | spot where efforts are stiil being made to raise the submarine boat Farfadet. The Minister thanked Admiral Jaubert and the laborers, who have worked days and nights in the attempt to res- cue the victims of the disaster. The notably comp!imented the health equipment of the German sal- the chief part'of the work of relief ana salvage. A floating dock weighing 350 tons has been sunk over the Farfadet ana the boat securely fastened to the dock. | The latter {8 now eriployed with the view of lifting the submarine to the surface;, which, it is noped, will be ac- complished in.six hours ——————— MRS. GEORGE M. MALCOLM EXPIRES IN SINGAPORE SANTA CRUZ, July 12—Mrs. E. J. Thomas, who is in charge of the Catholic Ladies' Aid Hotel at Santa Maria del has received a cablegram from Singapore afinouncing the death of her daughter, Mrs. George M. Malcolm. No particulars were received in regard to the cause of death. Mrs, Malcolm was for many years a resident of San-Rafael and San Francisco, and was especially well known in Catholic circies. She has resided in the Btraits Settlements for a very responsible position. PATIENT LIVES WITH HIS BRAIN EXPOSED SANTA CRUZ, July 12.—Julius Ja- cobs, who was fatally hurt in an explo- sion of a gas tank in the Santa Cruz Soda Works yesterday, is still alive, al though he has been unconscious for thirty hours. The doctors took out a number of small pieces of bone which were embedded in the scalp, and several larger pleces from the left frontal bone this morning, but they fear that Jacobs' injurfes must necessarily prove fatal, as his brain is exposed. e State Buys the Bonds. HEALDSBURG, July 12.—The $30,000 school bonds voted for the ecrection of a new grammar school buflding have been purchased by the State. The bonds bear 4 per cent interest. | the | Chamber of Commerce in Los | He UNEARTH A PLOT TO NEW YORK, July 13.—A World dis- patch from London contains the follow- ing from the Vienna correspondent of | the Daily Telegraph: “Private letters from St. Petersburg that the police.have discovered elaborate preparations for blowing up castle of Ilinskoje, near Moscow, where the Czar, with the imperial fam- ily, intended to take up a brief resi- | dence “Beneath the apartments destined for his Majesty's use, a subterranean pas- sage is said to have been found, lead- ing to a cellar, where 250 pounds of dynamite lay concealed. The police have made many arrests, apprehending, among others, two engin- who conducted ‘the cleaning and deccrating of the apartments at the castle. “This intelligence, assoclated with the murder of Shuvaloff, has made a deep im- pression. The Czar has now given up all idea of staying at Ilinskoje.” PLAN T0 SAVE MEN ON DESERT L Gty 5% e eers Angeles Takes Up Question With Counties Conecerned O L8 LOS ANGELI July 12.—The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce has taken action looking to the ameliora- tion of the conditions on the deserts of Southern California and Nevada, which are again causing the deaths from thirst of many prospectors and trav- elers. The chamber has twice before memorialized the various county gov- ernments in which these deserts are located In’ an eftort to save the lives of travelers, but so far there has been no action looking to relief. As the heated season approaches deaths on the desert are again becoming frequent, and within #he past twogweeks it is stated upw of ‘ten pe have per- ished from thirst. he sceretary of the local body was directed to prepare a letter to the Su- pervisors of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo and Kern counties, in Californa, and Lin- coln, Nye and "Esmeralda counties, in Nevada, calling attention to the fatal conditions on the desert and the pre- vious efforts of the chamber to have remedies provided. Sign posts and maps wer: suggested as remedies. RIVERSIDE, July 12.—Matt Riley, a miner, is the latest victim of the desert. left the O. K. mine in Dale district on July 3 and yesterday his corpse was found and buried where two desert roads meet midway between the mines and Mecca. Riley was accompanied on his trip from the mines to Mecca by James Kitte, another miner. They started for a sixty-mile walk with only a gallon of water between them. Twelve miles our Kitte became sick and went back to a water barrel and laid down until he re- covered sufficiently ;to return to eamp. Riley's tracks indicate that he traveled for fifty miles, a large part of the time in search of Cottonwopod Springs, where he knew there was water. There were no sign boards on the road and finally, giving up in despair, he lay down and died of thirst. TRAIN DERAILED TO AVERT WRECK Catalina Flyer Ditched to Prevent Collision Near Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, July 12.—A wreck of the Catalina flyer on the Salt Lake road, northbound from San Pedro to this city, was narrowly averted at Hobart station this evening by the use of a de- railing switch. The locomotive of the train, baggage car and ..e front trucks of one coach took the derailing switch and left the track. No one was injured, and the property loss was Small. The derailing was caused by a Santa Fe freight train from San Diego stand- ing across the Salt Lake tracks, and the flyer failed to take the air brakes in time to stop. The towerman, seeing a colli- sion was imminent, threw the derailing switch and the passenger train ran off the rails. SAN FRANCISCO GIRL . IN BIG PRODUCTION Miss Carol McComas Is Cast for Star Part in New Piece. BOSTON, July 12.—Miss Carol Me- Comas, who is the Jimmy Gingcrbread in. Klaw & Erlanger's big production of “The Pearl and the Pumpkin,” which will be seen at the Colonial Theater beginning July 17, is the daughter of Judge McComas of San Francisco. Miss McComas began at the lowest round of the theatrical ladder and has worked her way by hard, conscientious effort until she now occupies an en- viable position. In San Francisco she [ was a member of a prominent amateur dramatic organization and distinguish- ed herself for clever work. Her special talents lie in musical comedy. ——————————— Coast Druggists to Unite. PORTLAND, July 12.—~The most im- portant work of the Lewis and Clark Pharmaceutical Congress meeting in Portland will be the formation of a Pacific Coast pharmaceutical associa- tion, an organization planned to do for WOULD KEEP - QUT COOLIES President Roosevelt ~ Dis- cusses Chinese Immigra- tion With Labor Leaders CARE WHL BE TAKEN pENe i Any Government Officer Is- suing False - Certificates to Be Severely Punished TR Lo OYSTER BAY, N. Y., July 12.—Im- migration to the United States and its relation to the lator problem formed the subject ©f u conference this after- noon between the Fresident and two of the most important jeaders of organ- ized labor, Smmvel Gompers of Wash- ington and Jumes Duncan of Quincy, Mass., respectively the president and one of the viee presidents of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. The confer- ence was devoted particularly to a consideration of the order recently is- sued by the Fresident regarding the enforcement of the Chinese gxclusion law. An impression had been gained by many members of labor organiza- tions that the order, to an extent .at least, let down immigration bars so far as Chinese are concerned. The Pry dent assured his callers, however, that 1o such construction properly could ba placed on the order, and that he was | just as yigorously opposed to the ad- mission to this country of Chinese ¢oolies as they could be. Gumpers urged upon the President the desirability tor an intelligent, prac- tical and humane consideratton of the general question of immigration by the people and by Congress. The people ot | this country and of the whole civilized world are entitled, he maintained, to Such a consideration of the preblem. After the conference Gompers sald: We directed the President's attention to the Interpretation paced by some persons on his recent -order, issued at the instance of the American Adfatic Association, concerning the admission to the Uniteq States of Chinese. By many of our people and by many Chinese tbat order was looked upon as a letting down of the immigration bars so far as the Chinese are concerned. The President assured us that no proper reading of the order would warrant | such an_interpretation and that nothing was further from his intention than that such an impression should be got from the order. His determination is that both, skilled and unskilled Chinese laborers shall be excluded from the United States and he says the law will be rigidly enforced. His order related only to the so-called ex- empt classes, merchants, students, travelers and the like, who heretofore have had dif- ficulty In gaining admission to this country because of the many frauduent certificates issued to them and to coolles who_are not entitied to certificates In any event. We went over the entire matter thoroughly, the con- ference belng perfectly satisactory’ to us. Tesident suggeste th in_the co of five or six montha we nmn‘s the mate ter to his attention in the Nght of the ex- perience of that length of time in working under the order, The President says he was determined that the diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States in China’ should perform their duties thoroughly and impartially and that'the law as to the issuance of certificates to members of the exempt Chinese classes should be complied with absolutely. He added that any officer of the United States who issued a false certificate would lose his official head the instant his misconduct was dis- covered. ' x We also considered with the President the eight-hour law and the difficulties which we had encountered in securing its enforcement on Government work. We Instanced viola- tions of the law and requested him to co sider them. He asked us to present the facts in a formal document, he refusing to take up the subject at once. ~Meantime he expressed himself as being in_entire sympathy with the law and {nsisted that it must be observed. We nointed out to him that officers of the War Department, under whose direction much Government work {s done, were not inclined to insist upon an observance of the law and many of them had deciined to regard it as their duty to bring suit to compel its en- fcrcement. The President agreed with us that the Government officers ought to see to it that the eight-hour law was obeyed. Our talk with the President was most sat- isfactory. We discussed generally the con- ditions ‘and interests of labor, considered the subject of more rigid regulations for the ex- clusion from this country of vicious and ilit- erate immigrants and talked of some legisla- tion along these lines which we regard as desirable. Messrs. Gompers and Duncan left on the afternoon train for New York. They had expected to be accompanied to Oyster Bay by John Mitchell, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America, but he was unable to meet the engagemerit. —_———————— TAKES BOY FROM BEER GARDEN. John D. Rockefeller to Educate a Lad 5 With a Stlvery Volce. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 12.—John D. Rockefeller has rescued Harry Evans, twelve years old, from a beer garden and will educate him and support his wid- owed mother. The lad had been sing- ing in a garden to get money to support himself and his mother. He has a fine voice and attracted much attention. Young Evans recelved an invitation to sing last Sunday before the Sunday school of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, of which Rockefeller is superin- tendent. Responding to the invitation, Harry mounted the platform and sang an old hymn. It may have been a favor- ite hymn of Rockefeller. At any rate, he bowed his head while the boy sang: ‘What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear: ‘What a privilege to carry BEverything to God in prayer. The sweet voice held the children spell- bound. Their parents marveled as the boy continued. After the exercises were over, Rocke- feller inquired for the lad with the silver voice and met him and his mother. After hearing their story, he said: “Cancel the boy's contract, madam. Do not let him sing in amusement houses again. Harry must be educated. His voice must be trained for better service. It shall be, and I shall pay all the bills and support you until Harry’s education is_complete.” B Mother and son wept for joy and ac- cepted Rockefeller's proposition. —_———————— SEVERAL INDICTMENTS MAY BE RETURNED Specinl Grand Jury' in Idaho Closes Investigation of Timber Land 7 Frauds in That State. BOISBE, Idaho, July 12.—The taking of testimony by the special Grand Jury investigating timber frauds closed to- day, and It is expected the jury will ‘close up and make a report to-morrow. No indictments were returned in court to-day, but it is belleved four or five were voted. From what has been learned of the nature of the testimony' the Govern- ‘ment appears to “have been tracing transactions with = which George H. the Pacific Slope what the American Kester and F. W. Kettenbach, the Lew- Pharmaceutical Assoclation does the nation at large. the fact that nine and a nalf two mills are shut it shut definite, owing to the poor demand for . for | {ston bankers, have been connected. —————— 300 Minne- | very %o | Daits GRSl gust ‘A iz Y i Ton E 0 HUTABLE SILIRIES T0 -~ BEREDUCED ‘Morton Announces . First Cut in Expense. i, A | Other Economies to Be Introduced by the Chairman. ' Depew Indignantly Defends His Acts as a Direcior of the Society. —_— | Special Disgatch to The Call NEW YORK, July 12—Despite the| | published demand of former Governor Odell for immediate legislative action that shall cure evils existing, Governor | Higgins declared in Albany to-day that | his opinion was unchanged in the | Equitable affair. Higgins added that| the fact that Odell, as chairman, spoke | | for the Republican State organization, | had no effect whatever on his ppsition. | In this city a report that received | full credence was one that Senntarl Depew had placed his resignation as a | director in the hands of Paul Morton, | the Equitable’s chairman, before sail- | ing for Europe. Morton declined to | discuss the report. | In a special cable dispatch to The Call and the Herald from Paris Senator Depew explains at length the loan made to the Depew Improvement Com- pany and adds that there was no pos- sibility for loss in the transaction. Fl'on? $160,000 to $200,000 a year js to be saved to the Equitable in arfes by Teductions ordered by Morton. The decrease will amount to 20 per cent | on all salaries over $15,000 per annum; | 15 per cent from all annual salaries be- | tween $9000 and $15,000, both inclusive, and 10 per cent decrease from all sal- arles above $2500 and below $9000 per year. These changes become operative on August 1 next. In the first, or 20 per cent class, will be included Chair- man and Acting President Morton and Secretary and Vice President Gage E. Tarbell. OTHER ECONOMIES PLANNED. The reduction in salarfes is only the first of a series of schemes Morton has in mind tol: reducing the expenses of the Equitable’s‘working force, it was said by those in touch with him. It will be fol- lowed by reforms in several of the de- partments, notably the agency depart- ment, which the chairman is investigat- ing now. Uniform rates of commission will be figured out for the soliciting agents, with a probable reduction for the general agents. George Westinghouse, one of the ma- Jority trustees, and Paul D. Cravath, counsel for Ryan, called on Morton to- day to tell him that the trustees had selected several more men for the direct- orate. Not all the candidates for the nineteen vacancies have been chosen, but enough have been named, it is under- stood, to carry on the work of the board without any difficuity. At the special meeting of the directors to be held on Friday, the nine men ac- cepted at the last meeting will be elected directors and the men selected by the trustees will be ratified by the board. Grover Cleveland, chairman of the tru: tees, left town to-day on E. C. Benedict's yacht Oneida, with Benedict. After a time spent in cruising Mr. Cleveland will go to New Hampshire for the summer. The trustees, it is expected, will hold no CHARLES _G. JONES OF OKLA- HOMA, WHO CALLED DAY'S CONVENTION TO ORDER. { | THE SUBPEMS Exclusive Society- Prefers Not to Testify Against an Alleged Blackmailer it Spectal Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK," July 12—Exclusive so- clety in Manhattan was invaded to-day by process servers from the District At- torney’'s office; but only silent houses were found In the effort,to discover the full scope of the operations of Charles H. Ahle in the alleged efforts to black- mail many members of the “400.” District Attornéy Krotel has not yet obtained evidence that Ahle used, as a basis to obtain subscriptions to ‘‘Amer- ica’s Smart Set,” backed by some of Town Topics' managers, scandals in fam- ilies most prominent in the Newport, ‘Tuxedo and Lenox colonies. In the line of the Investigation now being pushed, Krotel stated in open court to-day that he believed the Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Twomblys and others in the most exclusive social circle had been forced to subscribe for the book by threats of the publication of some skeleton in the closet which the blue blooded families had hoped had been forgotten. Here is a list of witnesses who would have to appear in the District Attorney’s office if they could be found: Reginald C. Vanderbilt, Newport, R. L; Mrs. Pot~ ter Palmer, Chicago, now in Europe; more meetings for several weeks. Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore; Mrs. George Westinghouse, Erskine Park, JUDGE SCORES THE FINANCIERS. Lenox, Mass.; Mrs. B. R . Th In sentencing Emil H. Neumer, an Equitable Life Assurance Society clerk, to the Elmira Reformatory for an inde- terminate period for complicity in the theft gf a policy from the Equitable Company's vaults, Justice Foster, of the Court of General Sessions, to-day com- mented on other Equitable losses. Sald he: “Your methods were very crude and bungling. If you had, instead of collu- sion with an outsider, colluded with an insider and thereby had your salary raized to $50,000, and then divided with the other man, the result would have been hurtful to policy hdlders, but pos- sibly you would not have been at thé bar of justice.” Neumer gave the policy to Samuel Loa- icy, who borowed money on it and who is now in Sing Sing for the offense. The following statement was given out to-day by Thomas F. Ryan: *The re- ports of my connection with the Wash- ington Life Insurance Company are in- accurate. When the company was on the verge of bankruptcy last December, from mismanagement, I joined Governor Morton and others in subscribing the necessary money ti put the company into the strong financial position in which It finds itself to-day. Its business is daily inereasing and the policy holders are to be congratulated on Governor Morton's willingness, wholly from a sense of duty and in spite of his advanced age, to step in to prevent impending disaster to a company of which he had been a charter member.” No. 17 West Twenty-seventh street (could not be found to-day); Judge EIl- bert H. Gary, steel trust magnate, cage; Harmon J. Drummond, not locatea in Manhattan; Willam K. Vi Newport; John Jacob Astor, now in Lon- don; H. MeK. i Lloyd "Phoe- nix, out of the eity; C. Postley, New York, now in Europe; Higgins, out of the city; A. T. Van Nest, now in Europe; W. T. Thompson, Westbury, L. L of the company. “The property was recently valued at $200,000 at the lowest, above liabilities, and others valued {t at $1,500,000, above all liabilitles. “By any proper administration of the property there can be no loss to the Equitable or other creditors. “There are between 100 and 200 stock- holders in the improvement comipany, as I am informed. “CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW." Mr. Depew was of the opinion that this explicit statement would he stucient de- fense, and declined to go into further particulars. il g BITTERLY ARRAIGNS DEPEW. R L0 DEPEW WAXES INDIGNANT. NEW HAVEN, Coan., July 12.—The New Haven Register, which last even- ing made an editorial attack upon Chauncey M. Depew, urging that he be not renominated for membership in the Yale corporation next night publishes another editorial upon the subject, in the course of which it says: We are in réceipt of a personal letter this morning, which takes us to task for so se- Defends His Course as An Equitable Soclety Director. LONDON, July 12.—Senator Chauncey M. Depew gave out an interview and a written statement this afternoon in re: erence to the attacks upon him in con- nection with the Equitable Life Assur- ance Soclety scandal. The iInterview was had in the Senator's apartment at the | verely condemning ncey M. for the Carlton. The Senator was angry at the | dissracetul part he has played in Equita- stories that have been cabled from New | ble re hat Niu mierai) York since the publication of the testi- ormance our prediction p on the mony in Hendricks' report. He sald at o orm tion will end with the expiration s term next Jume. The theory of in this affair. I have been entirely mis- | much harsher comments than e} nted.” 80 _bitterly is those whose he nas tor Depew then sat at his writing table#and himself wrote the following statement: “The Depew Improvement ‘was entirely without connection with Equitable Life Society. ' Equitable asked for no guarantee or oth- erwise in connection with the loan of $250,000 made to the com; The trans- | 3 occurred . | | gate B. I. McGuire and others. W00 NG SEEK ADMISSION * INTD THE URION | Delegates From Indian Ter- | ritory and Oklahoma Meet in‘Enthusiastie Convention iyt |WANT - PROMPT ACTION {Adopt Resolutions Setting Forth Claims of the Ter- ritories to Statehood OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T., July I2 | One thousand delegates from the Indian | Territory and Oklahoma met in conven- | tlon here to-day to take some definite action looking to immediate statehood. C. G. Jomes of Oklahoma City called the convention to order in a brie eech and was accorded a tremendous ovation. I. N. Holcomb, former Territorial Su- perintendent of Instruction, welcomed the delegates and responses were made by H. P. Robbins of South Meallister, L T., and Senator T. P. George of Lawton, O. T. L. R. Williams of Durant, I. T., chair- | | man of the Indian Territory Democratic Central Committee, was elected tempor- ary chairman of the convention by ac- | clamation. Charles Hunter of Chickasha was elect- ed secretary. The usual committees were named and an adjournment taken to 3 o'clock p. m. When the convention met in the aftmr- noon none of the committees were ready | to report. Ex-Senator Blair of New | Hampshire spoke and was followed by ex-Secretary of the Interior Noble, Dele- Messages of regret were read from President Roose- velt, Vice President Fairbanks, Senator Beveridge and several other members of Congress, and it was announced that Senator Bailey, who had been expected to .attend the comvention, had been sud- denly called to New York. A telegram from the Arizona Statehood League was read, extending greetings and expressing opposition to the omnibus statehood plan. ‘The report of the credentials committee was adopted without division and the committee on permanent organization named John Embrie of Chandler for per- manent chairman and Charles Hunter for secretary. An executive committee consisting of fitty-four members was selected, from | which will he chosen a sub-committee to present the resolutions to the Presi- dent and Congress. After the cvening recess the commit- tee on resolutions submitted the fol- lowing: We, the one thousand defegates represent- ing the milllon and a half American citizens who reside in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, do hereby declare in convention assembled that sald territories are entitled to and of right cught to be admitted into the American Union @8 one free and independent State on terms of equality as between themselves and on equal footing with the other States. We have But one petition and one request to present to the American Congress, and that is_that immediate joint statehood be granted to Okla- homa and Indlan Territory on _their own merits and_without reference to any right or claim of other territories seeking admission to th" American Union. In support of this declaration the resolutions set forth ‘that - Oklahoma and In@ian Territory have & combined area of 70,409 square miles, a popula- tion of 1.500,000 and taxable préperty worth a billion dollars; and that the | character of the population is such as to warrant immediate statehood. —————— PITTSBURG, July 12.—The Board of Mis- sions of Home Missions of of the Reformed Chureh_of the United States to-day elected Rev. . Yuendt of Reading, Pa.. general superintendent. INSURANCE. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE CASUALTY COMPANY OF AMERICA OF NEW YORK. IN THE STATS OF Nmw RK, 'ON THE 31ST DAY OF DI A. D. 1904, AND FOR THE YEAR ENDIN ON THAT DAY, AS MADE TO THE IN ANCE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ANT TO THE PRO- ‘VISIONS OF SECTIONS 610 AND 611 OF THR POLITICAL m'x;m CAPITAL of Capital Stock, paid up M A eecnsanase sesssen $500,000 00 e rEam e, Cash . flg - and accrued on tg'l: oy Ty~ f 3 Total Assets .. an 1“‘ Liabdilities . 1'-'-'"""....-'.:: EXPENDITURES, Net, amount vaid for, Losses. ... $120,880 o8 wed for Commissis erage - c: o cue - dvroguds . 198,670 68 Paid for Salaries, Fees and other Pe:‘-:n- for ofgc‘e“r-. ete.. TL3S2 50 for ite, N jonal and Local A:l m‘n Fi - turks . o 115,542 58 Total Expenditures ........... $511,320 18 Losses incurred during the . $137,845 01 E. W. DE LEON, Vice President CHAUNCEY S. S. MILLER, Secretary. Subscrided and swors to befors me, this 28th day of Janua: CHAS. L Notary Publ! Liberal contracts made with agents brokers. WILLARD O. WAYMAN & €O, General Awents, and_Sacraments sts.. San e and