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BP'.' " ' Mr-;W mill MESMBES10 CBHEBESS Panama Canal, Navy Personnel and Land Law Discussed. WHAT HE SAW ON ISTHMUS May Complete Work in Eight Years ?Will Try Chinese Labor?Conditions Excellent?Promotion in the Navy. Washington, D. C.?Three special messages?on Panama, Naval Personnel and the Public Land Laws? were forwarded to Congress by President Roosevelt. The Panama message was by far the most important. The striking feature of it is the President's emphatic decision to employ Chinese lat bor in digging the canal. He emphatically commits the United States to coolie labor in these words: "From present appearances we shall, in the main, have to rely for the ordinary unskilled work partly upon colored laborers from the West Indies, partly upon Chinese labor." Divided into topics, the President entered into these discussions: The visit of the President to Panama, 27,280 words: advocacy of the passage "of the Naval Personnel bill, 1000 words; advocacy of amendments to the Public Land laws, 1800 words. Mr. Roosevelt's message on his visit to Panama proved an entertaining narrative, detailing the personal experiences and observations of Mr. . Roosevelt during his investigation of the work in the canal zone. It contains twenty-six photographs of work on the canal taken while the President wa3 on the ground. It breathes a strong spirit of optimism regarding the ability of the United States to complete "this giant feat of the ages." The President is particularly severe on those Americans who have criticised the work at Panama without just grounds, and says: "I feel for them the heartiest contempt and indignation, because in a spirit of wanton dishonesty and malice they are trying to interfere with and hamper the execution of the greatest work of the kind ever attempted and are seeking to bring to noiicy'hf + Via ofPnrfc nf fhoir nmintrv. men to put the credit of America one of the giant feats of the age." President Roosevelt makes these recommendations and announcements: A seven headed commission is a clumsy affair, and there should be one Commissioner, with heads o! departments under him. Employment of the best engineers In the country as consulting engineers should be expressly permitted. Dr. Gorgas is to be made a member of the commission if the law as to its composition remains unchanged. The President thinks Panama Canal will be completed in eight year3. Says it is no concern of American workingmen whether alien black men or alien yellow men dig canal. Says Jamaica negroes are poor "diggers," and he will try Chinese tabor as experiment. Canal work will be let out in contracts by Government. Asserts there is no evidence of frauds or irregularities. Mr. Roosevelt's message on the naval personnel is a strong argument In favor of immediate consideration of the bill prepared by the board con venea Dy tne secretary 01 me ruavy. He urges legislation that will cause officers of the line to reach the grades of captain and rear-admiral at less advanced ages and will give them more experiences and training in the important duties of those grades. The President is convinced that unlefes something is done to rectify, by judicious legislation, the condition of the higher personnel the future of the navy will be gravely compromised. In dealing with the question of ' public lands President Roosevelt makes several recommendations. He tells Congress grave wrongs are committed under the Timber and Stone act, that the Homestead act is being violated and that public lands containing timber and minerals are more rapidly than ever getting into the hands of corporations and monopolists. . ; He suggests that the leasing of BTa^insr lands hp nlarpri in the hands i o? ? ? - ? o ' ? r ? ? ? of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Roosevelt also informs Congress that the forest reserves of the country are worth one billion dollars, a'nd the stumpage value of the timber alone is worth $700,000,000. The forest service will soon be self-supporting through the sale of timber scientifically cut, and he recommends that the Secretary of the Treasury have power to advance $5,000,000 on bonds secured by the forest reserves, to bear interest and be paid back beginning in ten years. Molasses is Scarce. New crop Louisiana molasses is merely nominal in most markets. No one seems to want it, as the quality is poor and the price unusually high. | Advices from the South indicate that the present crop besides being a short one will be all in within a few weeks, and that there will be sufficient demand from manufacturers, distributers and consumers to consuine it im mediately. Driven Mad by Study. Frank Schleimann, a convict in Sing Sing, N. Y.( sought an education to be worthy of his girl bride, who wed him in prison. He committed suicide when driven mad by his vain study of fractions. ; * Bank Directors Liable. Directors of the Saybrook Bank, of Essex, Conn., which loaned $48,000 to a man whose estate was only worth $9000, had to guarantee depositors to stop a run on the institution. Labor World. Pennsylvania is first and r.Iassachusetts is second in the employment of child labor. According to the last census there are eleven female well-borers in the United States. Toledo (Ohio) City Council will introduce an ordinance to compel employers to pay their men in cash instead of checks. TQe COSt Oi ixvmg iu oau nautasuu has advanced forty per cent, since the fire, and as there are 20,000 idle men in that city employers are taking advantage by keeping wages dcwft. .. - WOMAN FUSSED US II f? Identity of Deraylan Revealed by Death in Arizona. Married Once Before and Divorced by AVoman Who Refused to Talk. Chicago.?One of the most remarkable cases of double identity in the history of Chicago wa& revOsd when it was announced in a dispatch from Phoenix, - Ariz., that Nicolai Deraylan, known In Chicago as a man for more than a dozen years, was in reality a woman. There ensued evidences of some mystery in the offices of the Russian Consulate in Chicago, with Baron Schlippenbach, the Czar's representative, telegraphing to Phoenix for full information on the death of Deraylan and the details of the discovery of the deception successfully maintained in Chicago during years of work as a clerk in the consulate. With word of the discovery by an undertaker that Deraylan had concealed his true sex from his acquaintances in Chicago came denial from Deraylan's wife, who lives in No. 592 California avenue, of the report from Arizona. Miss Lillian Sweeney, for five years Deraylan's stenographer, refused to believe the report that her employer was a woman. Deraylan was always well dressed, careful in the selection of his companions and friends, neat in appearance and particular in the care of his hands and hair. He never shaved, and he spoke in a high pitched, treble voice, peculiarities which often caused good natured comment by his friends. He smoked constantly, seldom being seen in business hours without a cigar or cigarette, and his friends say he was possessed of a discriminating taste in liquors, with ability to withstand the effects of drink better than most other men. Deraylan was last in Chicago about six months ago. Dr. W. C. Rowe, of Canyon City, Col., accompanied him to Phoenix. Mrs. Deravlan said she was married to Deraylan twelve years ago. She has a son thirteen years old by a former husband, whose name she declined to give. Mrs. Theodore Shangenberg, of No. 700 California avenue, where Deraylan lived for four years, confirmed the statement that he was married once before and divorced, marrying the present Mrs. Deraylan only about three years ago. Neighbors of the Deravlans assert that after his second marriage his first wife created scenes at his home several times by quarrels with the second Mrs. Deraylan. Deraylan was the husband of Mrs. Fraiicis P. Bradchulis, No. 3112 Halsted street. She divorced him in Chicago three years ago, but* was noncommittal on the subject of the divorce. RIVER PACKET BLOWS UP. "" Ten or More White and Negro Victims of Steamboat Disaster. Vicksburg, Miss.?One of the most disastrous accidents in the history of the Mississippi occurred when the steamer W. T. ScoMil, plying in the Vicksburg and Davis: Bend trade, was destroyed by an explosion. Owing to the large number of negroes on board it ia impossible to ascertain the exact number of dead and injured, but officers of the boat who arrived here state that no less than ten nor more than sixteen were killed. The probabilities are that a like number were injured. The white dead are as follows: Captain John Quackenboss, master of the steamer, Vick3burg, Miss.; Wade Quackenboss, clerk, Vicksburg, Miss.; Lavel'l Yerger, commercial salesman, Jackson, Miss.; Joseph. Smith, clerk, Yazoo City, Mis3. FOUR DIE IN BUFFALO FIRE. Husband and Wife and Child Arc Among the Victims. Buffalo, N. Y. ? Four lives were ended and one person fatally burned in a small fire in the Zenobia apartment house on Prospect avenue. Other occupants had narrow escapes, half a dozen being rescued by the firemen. The dead are: F. M. Lambrecht, of No. 40 Elmwood avenue; Mrs. Lambrecht, his wife; Ruth Crumlish, three years old, daughter of Mrs. C. Crumlish; Mrs. J. J. Fischer, of New York, whose husband is said to be a theatrical man. Injured: A. Charles Beam, salesman for Weed & Co., of Buffalo. The blaze was small and brought under control quickly. HOLD UP BANK IN DAYLIGHT. Two Men With Pistols Cow Cashier and Ride Away. Tesarkana, Ark. ? The Bank of Horatio, at Horatio, was looted by two robbers. They entered the town on horseback, and after hitching their horses near the bank walked in, held up the cashier with pistols and took all the cash in sight, about $4000. Then they mounted their horses and rode away. The alarm spread while the robbers were in the bank, and by the time they -had remounted a number of citizens were running toward the bank armed with rifles and revolvers. They fired several shots at the fleeing robbers, and it is thought wounded one of them, as he was seen to reel in his saddle and almost fall. Western Wages Advanced. In the last five years the price of wages paid to labor in certain Western States has increased four times as fast as the per capita circulation of money. Absence of Prime Mutton. There were no lambs in the market good enough to bring over $7 and sheep sold from $4-50 down, indicating that there was an absence of top kinds. The Field of Sports. Soccer, which was practically unknown in Baltimore three years ago, has had a wonderful growth there, ten teams now playing the English football game. A. G. Vanderbilt's 200 horse power racing car of eight cylinders may be entered in the Florida speed tour-i nament by a Boston automobilist who is negotiating for its purchase. Ferdinand Garcin, the French champion, conceded fifteen to Roberi Moore, Jr., in a court tennis mate!) j at Tuxedo, and defeated the lattei I two straight sets by a score of 8?6' I ft?5. J V V -M ' T ' '.V}vV": 4 ' . ... f"' : * r [1y<\ * KIT ON GROUND ji 'FOB HIT OF CK : Western Farmers Are Unable to > u Market Their Grain. ] ? F 7 5* ,,/je USING OUTBUILDINGS FOR FUEL L?ck of Material and Labor Impedes i Manufacture of New Rolling : Stock?President Roosevelt In- : terested. 1 Minneapolis, Minn.?The second day of the Interstate Commerce Com- , mission inquiry into Northwest trans- ( portation conditionsbrought out facts of first importance relative to the < effects upon the country of the grain 1 blockade. The commission had given over the first day largely .to the fuel inquiry, with the idea of relieving dis- < tress, and to this end had sent out telegrams of inquiry to many.points J asking as to the coal supply and how i long it would last. * 1 Telegrams began to pour in and < When representatives were in irom over twenty towns it was clear that 1 the commission had acted none too quickly in securing the promise of 1 co-operation on the part of the coal 1 companies and the railroads in relieving distress, for. in some localities - < farmers have been burning their J fences and outbuildings, and in other 1 towns piles of valuable lumber were < cut up into fuel to keep people from' 1 freezing. The farmers got into the inquiry later. They came in numbers from 1 North Dakota and told the commission the story of the effect of the 2 blockade upon the price of wheat. < They said prices have been depressed j abnormally because elevators were full; that wheat lay on the ground 1 at many points; that tnere was no ' open market and the farmers had 1 either to sacrifice in price or haul I the wheat back home again after 1 having offered it, in some cases two < or three times. E. J. Weiser, vice-president of the 1 First National Bank, of Fargo; A. E. j Swenson, president of the Security State Bank, of Barlow, and other ' North Dakota bankers and farmers, 1 gave testimony to show that failure 1 to move the crops put the country ' commercially in straitened condi- J tions. Farmers who had ample 1 means to meet all obligations if they 1 had been able to turn the product J into cash could not market their j grain, and so the effect was felt all 1 along the line. The commission gave much atten- J tion to car service and competing and j < non-competitive points, also to ' further testimony respecting time in J transit on shipments. Many more ' instances of cars in transit for a month or more, over a short haul, were offered. The commission expressed itself as ? startled at some of the reports sent to it, upon inquiry, from localities bare of fuel, and said that the inquiry had opened up much new information and ' has so far shown a situation more serious in every respect than they ! had expected to find when they de- ! clded^o begin the investigation. 1 The President Determined. * i Washington, D. C.?That President ' Roosevelt has taken a determined in- : terest with a view to finding legisla- < ti<e rehiedy for the car shortage.in the Northwest, which now threatens 1 the people with freezing and starvation because the railroads are unable 1 to transport fuel and food to them, ! was indicated by a conference at the i White House. The President sent for Senator Hansbrough and asked him < AM iU A 4 r? na flfwaof < \y ucluci iuo auiuai uaugci 10 ao gicab ? as has been reported by press dispatches and telegrams from Indi- ] Tiduals. The North Dakota Senator re- ] ported that from dispatches he has received the statement of conditions in his State, Minnesota and South Dakota has not been exaggerated. T^e 1 President promised to give the ques- 5 tion his personal attention with a view to alleviating any immediate J suffering, and said he desired Senator < Hansbrough to devote time and i thought to some remedy to avoid a recurrence of present conditions. . 1 SUICIDE FOR LOSING SHIP. j Skipper of Wrecked Liner Blows Out j His Brains. i * 5 4 Kingston, Jamaica.-~Shortly after < his vessel, the Hamburg-American < liner Prinzessin Victoria Luise went J ashore off Port Royal, Captain Bru- j inswig, who was in charge, went to ' hl3 cabin and blew out his brains. The vessel, which was engaged in tourist voyaging, sailed from New York on December 12, and was on 1 her way back to New York when she struck on a rocky ledge. All her passengers were landed safely. . In accounting for the stranding of < the steamer it is explained that she was without a pilot, and the captain * In charge. He followed a wrong < course and piled her up on the rocks just under the lighthouse. Two , hours later the captain locked him- ' self in his cabin ami blew out his j brains. , ' A Forced to Candles and Wood. ] A famine of fuel oil prevails at ( Phoenix, Ariz., and the gas and elec- ( trie light companies have shut down. < The people must resort to wood for ^ heat and use candles. * t Former Actress Dead. Sylvia Gerrish died alone in the Hilton mansion, on Morris Heights, j New York City, recalling the infatuation of Judge Hilton's son for the actress. * !,. ' j Justice Brewer's Warning. I Justice Brewer, of the United ] Snni'Amo Hnnrt cnoolr incr of 1 New Rochelle, N. Y., said the nation i everywhere is running heavily into debt. , . . 1 Prominent People. Former Governor George W. Hen dee, of Vermont, died at Morrisville, Vt.,jaged seventy-four. Lord Curzon, after attending to the adjustment cf his late wife's estate, sailed from New York for Eu rope. Pope Plus directed the Catholic clergy in France passively to resist 1 the enforcing of the Church-State : Separation law. General Ignacio Mejia Is dead at ' the hacienda of Ayotia Mejia, Mexico. He was one of the most noted men in recent Mexican history, and was ; almost ninety-three years old,. > ?; < " ' '?v; ." < 'i ' BID BUI MBE ALARMS State May Lose by Collapse of Waynesburg (Pa.) Institution. Pennsylvania's Deposit of $73,000 is in Danger?Depositors Not Alarmed ?Many Wealthy Men Liable. Pittsburg. Pa.?Benjamin F. Measey, cashier for State Treasurer William F. Berry, reached Waynesburg, having been hurriedly sent there by the State Treasurer to try to ascertain whether the bondsmen of the defunct Farmers and Drovers' National Bank will make good the $75,000 of State funds on deposit there. Much alarm is felt for the safety of the deposit, and the indications a.re that the State' will have to take r>hnnr>oa wirh the nthpr riennsitnrs. In that case, criminal action will be begun at once against the bank officials by the State. It was found that the minute book of the bank, containing the names of the bondsmen, had disappeared. The bond on file at Harrisburg contains the names of fourteen men: M..Sayars, George W.. Gordon, Samuel Harvey, G. H. Moredock, George N, Rinetiart, J. B. F. Rinehart, Daniel S. Walton, Samuel M. Smith, C. H. Bowlby, A. B. Reese, W. A. Hook, J. B. Donley, S. W. Scott and John I. Worley. How many of these are still on the bond can only be told by the missing minute book. Of the fourteen men J. B. P. Rinehart is the cashier under arrest. Daniel S. Walton is the president of the bank, and John I. Worley is dead. The State rreasurer's cashier will try to learn p;ho the present bondsmen are. It became known that there were rumors of crookedness in the affairs 3f the Waynesburg Bank more than i year ago, when the fight for State rreasurer was on and when many banks were being attacked from the stump. At that time its affairs were In such serious shape that it might have been forced to the 'wall, and it tvas not brought publicly into the controversy. Six months ago the Government tvas cognizant of the affairs of the bank, it was said. Previous to June 1 the Controller of the Currency demanded the resignation of Rinehart is cashier. The resignation was handed in, and Harry George, assistmt to National Bank Examiner Cunningham. was placed in the bank tvith the title of assistant cashier, the position of cashier being held open. Rinehart continued as vice-president, md . the ^public never knew that he had ceased to be cashier. The people of Waynesburg are not ilarmed over the failure, as prominent and wealthy men are behind the Institution. The shopkeepers are cashing checks on the closed bank in the belief the paper will be redeemed. DISCHARGED, HE ENDS LIFE. Joseph Sherwood Laid Off Because of Failing Eyesight and Hearing. Waterbury, Conn.?Joseph Sherwood, who at sixty was strong and aearty, Dut wnose nearing ana eyesight had failed a little, was discharged by the Menden Manufacturing Company on the score of age. ' "You have been -with us for a long while, Joe, and you have done your 3hare," tfaid the superintendent; 'you'd better lie off for the rest of pour days. You ought to have saved enough to live on." . Joe packed up his kit and went aome. "I'm too old to be any good," he told his wife; 'they've fired me. I ?uess I'm not worth having around inywhere any longer." Next day they found Joe hanging lead from his doorsill. He had made i rope of his suspenders. FORTUNE GIVEN TO CHARITY. Decisions in Yerkcs and Ship man Cases Liberate $10,000,000. Chicago.?The decision of Judge CValter H. Sanborn, of the United States Circuit Court, in the Charles r. Yerkes catfe and the will of Daniel 3. Shipman, throws about $10,000,)00 of the estate of wealthy Chicajoans into the scales of charity. In the Yerkes case Judge Sanborn leld that the $5,000,000 in bonds of ;he Chicago Consolidation Traction Company, which is said to constitute lalf of the Yerkes estate, was not the jroperty of the underlying compares. This decision leaves the execu;ojs of i.he Yerkes estate in a position ,o proceed at once with the erection jf the hospital and art gallery at STew York, and enables Mrs. YerkesVlizner t.o begin the construction of a lospital at Chicago. BURNItAM GIVEN TWO YEARS. insurance Officer Sentenced to Prison For Robbing Company. New York City. ? George Burn1am, Jr., general counsel for the Mu:ual Reserve Life Insurance Company, who was convicted of larceny, vas sentenced to serve two years in State Prison. Supreme CourtJustice Greenbaum, ifter passing sentence on Burnham, granted a motion for stay of execu:ion pending an appeal. Frederick A. Burnham, president )f the Mutual Reserve, and George D. Eldridge, a vice-president of the jompany, are at liberty under bonds )f $20,000 and $15,000, respectively, jharged with the same crime for which George Burnham was sen :enced. LEAVES $1,000,000 FOR POPE. Mgr. Adami, One of Rome's Wealthiest Prelates, Passes Away. Rome, Italy.?The death was announced of Mgr. Adami, one of the wealthiest Roman prelates. Mgr. Adami made very valuable presents to both Pope Leo XIII. and Pius X., his gift to the latter being a jold pectoral cross set with brilliants. In his will he left $1,000,000 to the Pope. Feminine Notes. Mary Anderson de Navarro recently issued her memoirs. The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst denounced Mrs. Herbert Parsons' plan of trial marriages as nothing more nor less than polygamy. The thirteenth annual dinner for the newsboys and messengers of New"D T +'n Aro Iw Mrfl pui l, xv. J.., vr ao given tiicic w; uiiw< Frederick W. Vanderbilt. The Duches3 o? Marlborough stripped Blenheim Palace o? all her personal belongings, and the Duke seems determined to air his alleged wrongs la court. BR 10 E flBR ES TEDFO R Mil R DER Husband Kiiiea in ureenwicn, , Conn, Hotel His Death Occurred Within Ten Minutes After He Announced His Marriage?Wife Arrested in New York. Greenwich, Conn.?Joseph M. Neil,, a blacksmith, twenty-six years old, ' whose parents live in New York and who had a large business on the Belle Haven Road, met death in the Greenwich Hotel, where he and his bride of a few> weeks had gone only a few minutes before. That he was killed there is no doubt. Whether it was murder, an accident or the result of a sudden quarrel are questions the authorities are trying to solve. Neil was an athlete. Last spring he was pitted against Gus Ruhlin under a fictitious name. He had a prosperous business and was supposed to be a bachelor. During the afternoon a woman about tweiity-inree years oia emereu his shop and workmen heard loud words. That night at 9.25 he entered the Greenwich Hotel carrying a suit case and accompanied by the same woman. He told the landlord he wanted the bridal chamber. Ten minutes later the woman came down stairs and asked that a physician be called. .Dr. L. O. Thompson responded. He found Nell dead, fully dressed, lying on the floor. There was a dark spot under his right eye and some blood on the floor. The woman gave no explantion, saying he had suddenly dropped to the floor dead. His face was bruised and scratched and the woman's face was scratched, too. While the physician was examining the body the woman took the suit case, and saying she would spend the night with her mother in New York and return in the morning, sh6 went to the station ahd took a westbound train. The death was not reported to the police until after she had left town. The body was removed to Knapp's morgue and next day an autopsy was made, which showed that death had been caused by the brain being pierced by some pointed instrument, possibly, a hatpin or nail file which were found on the floor. * * * ?-J 4-1***+ \Trt;i it lias ueeu 1UUUU UUU LLlao Jim! deeded his property here to his sister Nellie, of New York, in November, and took tbe original deed from the Town Clerk's office, where it had been recorded, during the afternoon. It i3 assumed that when this 'deed came to the eyes of Mrs. Neil it may have led to a-quarrel. New York City.?Chief of Police Ritch, of Greenwich, came to Police Headquarters here with a warrant for the arest of Mrs. Neil on a charge of manslaughter sworn out by Prose-, cuting Attorney Henry B. White, of Greenwich. Detective Sergeant Butler was msigned to assist Chief Ritch. Mrs. Nell was arrested at her mother's Bat, 185 East Ninety-fifth street, where Mrs. Neil had told the doctor who was called when her husband was found dead in Greenwich that Bhe was going. , She was hysterical. Mrs. Nell was brought to Headquarters in a cab and her record was taken. In view of tier nysterica: conaiuuu buo dm taken in an ambulance to the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital. FORMER SENATOR BROWN DEAD. Shot by Mrs. Bradley, Who Followed Him to Washington From TLTtah. Washington, D.-C.?Former United States Senator Arthur Brown, * of Utah, who was shot in his apartments at the Hotel Raleigh by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, of Salt Lake City, died at the Emergency Hospital. Mr. Brown came to the Senate in 1896, when Utah was admitted to the Union. He served about fifteen months. He had been prominent as a criminal lawyer in Utah. It was to appear as counsel before the Supreme Court of the United States in a mining case that he came to Washington, where he -was followed by Mrs. Bradley, who, it is said, learned of his appointment to .meet Mrs. Annie Adams, mother of Maude * j. iv Adams, me iiuueoa, iu ncir iuia after he had appeared before the Supreme Court. She left home for Washington immediately and registered at the Hotel Raleigh as "Mrs. Anna Brown," and was assigned to a room near Senator Brown's. Senator Brown after he was taken to the hospital said he found Mrs. Bradley in his room going through his private papers. She demanded that he marry her at once, and when he refused she fired the shot which proved fatal. There was no eyewitness of the tragedy. STEP TOWARD CENT POSTAGE. One-Cent Rate For Each Ounce After First Up to Four Pounds. Washington, D. C.?What amounts to an initial step toward one-cent postage is represented in a bill introduced by Senator Penrose regulating rates on packages. The plan was devised by ex-Postmaster Huidekoper, of Philadelphia. The bill provides that mailed packages up to four pounds shall be accepted as first-class matter on payment 01 iwu cems iui the first ounce and one cent an ounce for each ounce in excess of one ounce. > Cigarette Smoking Fatal. Julius Persky died at Hammond, Ind., as a result of cigarette smoking. He smoked from sixty to 100 cigarettes a day. Repression Has Succeeded. 'Advices from Warsaw, Poland, say that the Russian Government's policy of repression has been successful. * Paupers in Ohio. Ohio has 18,025 paupers receiving State aid.Halls of Congress. Senator Depew introduced a biil providing for the issuance of emergency currency. Representative Bradley, of New York, has been placed on the House Military Affairs Committee. In executive session there was some opposition to the confirmation of Charles J. Bonaparte as AttorneyGeneral. An international agreement has been sent to t.he Senate by the President to prohibit the sale or importation of firearms, opium or intoxicating liauors to the South Sea Islands. COIL SHORTAGE WORSE" 8 Governors of Western States to i Compel Moving of Trains. 1 b Situation Up to the Railroads, as ? Shippers Are Unable to Obtain j3 Cars?Militia May Act. ' g Minneapolis, Minn.?With the cold 0 wave signal flying, the coal shortage y in the Northwest becomes not only a cause of severe suffering, but an absolute menace to human life. j S Glenburn, N. D., is seriously considering an appeal to the Governors of North Dakota and Minnesota to e employ the 'State militia in forcing the moving of coal trains. Eveleth, Minn., faces darkness and suffering through deprivation of coal, and apprehensive reports have come from numerous other places. The Glenburn, xs.>u., situation is summed up in a statement from the ) Glenburn Commercial Club, as fol- j lows: \ "The dealers advise that the situa- ' tlon is entirely up to the railroads,.' . as shippers are unable to obtain cars to load with coal. We will wire Gov- | ernor Searles, requesting him to take up the matter with Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, and, if necessary, I call out the militia of the two States I to run coal trains. t "The situation all through this see- t! tion is desperate, and with the liabll- B ity of blizzards at any time many may freeze to death if fuel is not avail- _ able soon. Farmers are already coming to town with reports of burning sheds and other outhouses for fuel: We have notified the farmers that if (he worst comes they can bring their n families and bedding and camp in d our four-room brick schoolhouse. We n have sufficient coal to heat the build- ^ ing for three months at least, and it will go further in this way than it . would if distributed among those who are out of coal, as it would-not make ? a bushel each. "We will also wire our Senators at a Washington askin* their interest w with the Federal Government. We a cannot put our words strong .enough B to convey to you the importance of ? getting railroads to haul special trains of coal into the section that is . suffering. Lignite is unavailable/ as " the same handicap is met there. We telephoned the. Burlington mines and asked if they could not let us have v five cars if we sent men there to load s them. They replied they were sixty f( cars or more back in orders and could 5 not obtain cars to load. . Farmers j( cannot go to the mines and haul more than 1000 to 1200 pounds, as the roads are almost impassable." u % i ASKS ABOUT CAR SHORTAGE. - ' . q Commerce Commission Urges Rail- n roads to Relieve Suffering. . * 1 Washington, D. C.^-In view of the complaints of car shortage, result- r ing, it is said, In failure to transport jj the necessaries of life and coal for p household use, the Interstate Com- . merce Commission has sent the 'fol- ? lowing telegram to the presidents of tl a number of Western and Northwest- t: ern railroads: s "From many parts of the country, I and particularly from your section* b the Interstate Commerce Commission v is receiving numerous and importu- * nate complaints of car shortage and failure to transport the necessaries of life. In various r places in the b Northwest it is represented that peo- M pie are actually freezing because suf- p ficlent coal for household use cannot 3 be procured, owing to extraordinary 0 delays In moving that article. The ^ commission therefore urges you to . make every possible effort to meet at once the needs and relieve the suffering of those dependent upon the fa-. P cilities of your road." p The telegram was sent to the pres- d idente of the Great Northern, North- t ern Pacific, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. ... While the complaints that come f from the Western States are to the i: effect that coal is not procurable, ow- y ing to the fact that cars cannot be p obtained to transport it, the opinion 8 is expressed by Government officials j, that if the shortage continues a fam- ine in food may be expected in cer- * tain parts of the country. The con- a gestion of traffic at many points 6 throughout the United States is E worse now than at any time in the P history of the country. , t Congress Prefers Old Spelling. A large majority of the members of the House, Washington, D. C., declared themselves opposed to simplified spelling when aa amendment to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was adopted by a vote of 142 to 25 declaring that all documents ordered by Congress must conform to the spelling used by generally accepted dictionaries of the English language. *. r I Diplomatic Changes. 5 The President sent the following ^ nominations to the Senate: Ambassa- I dors extraordinary and plenipotentiary: Henry White, of Rhode Island, to France; Lloyd C. Griscom, of Pennsylvania, to Italy; John W. Rid- . die, of Minnesota, to Russia; Irving B. Dudley, of California, to Brazil. c Envoy extraordinary and minister v plenipotentiary, Leslie Combs, of c Kentucky, to Peru. \ ?I] t Lords' Amendment Rejected. p The House of Commons by a vote o of 416 to 107, the Irish members sup- e porting the Government, rejected all v the amendments of the House <of e Lords to the Education bill. f Indictment Causes Suicide. ^ Following his indictment for steal- ^ ing public funds, Matt Priestly, a E county supervisor, committed suicide ^ at Sioux City, Iowa. k Newsy Gleanings. Germany's debt is $950,000,000. * The Pure Food .Commission goes . next to Lexington, Ky., to hear the whisky interests. ? T-i n 4.1.^ ^ aisaop ueurge r. oejmuuf, 01 luo Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, 111., 1 died of pneumonia. 3 The Southern Pacific has just or- 1 dered constructed about 36,500,000 c worth of new rolling stock. t The American Public Health Asso- c ciation at its meeting in Mexico City : decided to convene in 1907 at Atlan- j tic City. c I ' ' r " " ' 'vf Ellenboroagh's Sarcasm. There are few places that haYe [iven birth to more humor and wit S han the court room. Many have $'[ ifcard of the humor of the'famous jord Ellenborough. Ana Hoir n tr/\n?r? ?vi a?pm1>a? a# 41?a viaw ua; Or jmUU5 uicmuci ui uiu ar rose to address the Court la a rave criminal case. "My unfortn- . late client"- he began; repeated T t two of three times, and then topped short. "Go on, sir, go on!'' said Eltenbofr ugh. "So far the Court is With ou/'?New York Tribune.- ' V ':M TRYING EXPEDIENCE. . t ' ?pent Over $100 in a Vain Search For , Health. 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Honest Injun of North Country- , ^ Many curious instances of the man* er In which, the honesty of the It*-; > ians manifests itself are cited in the rorth Country of the Canadian forthwest One of the tales is of a native who, . esiring food and tobacco and . blank-.. j t8, broke into the store of a remote radlng post which had been' locked nd abandoned for a few weeks rhile the white man In charge transcted business elsewhere.-The Indian upplied his needs, but, according td 7 b.e World, he left pelts In payment j or what he took and months later [J. "~ e can j back to ascertain if he had . . jft enough. One Indian found a post closed ; rhen he went to it to dispose of his kins. Being unwilling to wait, he orcibly entered and left his pack, ut nothing witn it to indicate his ientlty. Then he retired, fastening be door as best he coold, and, not ntil a year later did he return. When he walked into the tost a^^gft aid his story the price of the skins ras handed ' over to him without j uestlon. The accounts of tie^hite lan naa Deen careiuuy jtepi, swrua . & ras certain that no claiiajinlt * ne would be made. An unusual degree of confidence to' ' ^ eposed inthe half-breeds,'?wbd are ieutenants ofthe whltetraders. In Edmonton I saw a trader -give one of Is half-breed employes $1250. to W aken to a distant post and thore dl?t rlbuted as wages to others. The two t hook hands and parted, not to meet or a year, and the White man salde was sure not a cent of the money could fall to reach its jlgttful desInatlon. ; ' ; i-*'.; In the town of Edmonton itself onesty seems to vie "with -hospital- .. ty for the credit of being the most 't romirent trait of the' citizens^ cores of thousands of dollars'- worth f furs are stored inere m wurtj- i ouses which are seldom or never ;j Dcked or guarded. .?.? Only the most valuable, pelts are ut under lock and key, and .then the 1 urpose is more to protect fronr. acclental damage than from possible-"" ' heft. Hie Domestic Hen a Wonder. Scratching a living here and there, Jlllng thousands'of bags and worms rhich would cause much loss of crops f allowed to live, the ordinary bafth a. > ard ben is a wonderful combination of 1 iroductJve forces. In five years* time be will lay 700 eggs, each contain- ^ g G50 grains of water. 125 of fat^ 08 of lime, 80 of albumen, 26 of sugaz nd 10 of.ash?the most condensed and trengthening form of food offered to nan. Every person having a little dot of ground is able to keep from talf a dozen to many dozen of these <, vonders and so add to the family in* - ^ ome. To do this to tbe greatest ad? nnrnirp nne must kbOW hOW to CUO or bis fowls?to guard against, d* I ect and care disease; wblcb fowls to ave for breeding purposes, etc. Tbs implest and moat satisfactory way of ecurlng tbis knowledge Is to buy It rom some person who bas made a uccess of fowl raising as a business., inch a book, giving tbe experience of wenty-five years, is obtainable for 25 ents in stamps from tbe Book Pub* Isblug House, 134 Leonard St, New. fork City. It is an invaluable work. \ Tbe life of one cblcken saved would >ay for tbe book several times over. Refused the Queen's Invitation. Madame Antoinette Sterling, the j/.-Lmerican singer, once unconsciously - OmmiLLyU d> U1 CAOU VI Wki^uvvvv; ' I rhich is recorded in the son's re- I eat memoir of his mother. Queen I Victoria commanded Madame StiH- I ag to sing before her. Without any >1 hought of offending, the singer re-^ 1 ilied simply that she was sorry, but " 1 n the eveniug designated she was ngaged to sing for a charity; she rould be pleased to sing tot her majsty the next week. The consternation among court; of iniota wnq erpat. What would have iappened if the singer had not been revailert upon to break her engage-1 nent and comply wi.h the queen's; lehest only a Lord Chamberlain mows. Even a Lord Chamberlain could lot prevail on her to break her rigid esolution against wearing a low iress at a concert, and court cusom had to yield to her. The queen took unconscious reenge on the American by presentng her with a tea service, for Mad- '* >me Sterling kept all her life a child? *- na?*a?* f a /I rlnlr fno SU resuiutiuu IICVCI \.\J uimu bvu MV I ause the spilling of the tea in Bos- I on harbor was the symbol of Ameri- j :an defiance of England. J I)R0PSY7JS9SS| rent out:. Cock of tntlaonUU and to Diri'lrriluit ^ iVm, Or. a. % 64U1T? 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