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" > ?;?^ j /THE RIVER-DRIVER. \ 1 | ? SMBftl*? I 1 Told by T. J. Davis and Set Down 3 \ by Ralph stock. J ^^ One hears a great deal of the dangers of sports such as mountain climbing and big game shooting, and of trades such as that of the steeplejack, but very few Wide World read- , T imorrinn Vi O TO QT1V V n AW 1 Orl ?T O CU>1 i nim.6mv., ' V. , of what is, perhaps, the hardest and ! j most hazardous occupation on earth ] . ?"river-driving." Mx. T. J. Davis, who now resides in the Northwest Territories of Canada, knows, perhaps, as much as any . man living of the dangers and fascinations of this trade, which should ' more properly be called log-driving. Born as he was on the shores of one of those vast inland seas that so . belie their insignificant title of . ""lakes," and that, joined by rivers, J form a chain across Eastern Canada, he early acquired a love of the water , -only known to those that have to de- j - pend upon it for a living. Gigantic floating islands of logs, . sometimes nair a mne in lengtn, lay ] moored to the shore almost at the j v -door of his home, awaiting the , floating village of "river-drivers" to j > steer them to the mills, where they ^ are sawn into timber. Here is the story of Mr. Davis' evolution as a ( -driver, told to me by himself. ( It is a life that seems to get hold of one after a year or two. You are ; generally wet through for twelve ( hours out of the twenty-four; ten of you sleep in a twelve by fifteen foot shanty, you live on fried everything, j ""black strap," treacle, and stewed ( tea; you go to bed at 10 and get up , at 3; you are everlastingly cursed ^ and never praised by the foreman, your life is in danger more or less ^ all day long, and you never get more than $35 a month for work that is { worth $100. "Then why stick at , it?" you say, and all I can answer is, ( ""Just give it a fair trial for a year -and then you'll know." t ' As children we used to run out across the booms of logs, which is a j good deal harder to do than you t might suppose. One of us, perhaps, ( "would fall through, but such an acci-dent never a-oused any comment ( from onr companions. They would , riish on heedlessly, hopping from j log to log like a lot of monkeys, and , leaving the unfortunate one to sink a couple of feet below,the surfacc of "the water, bob up, hit his nead ( .against an unresisting log, and gen- ( orally scratch and bruise himself ( fhnrrmtrhlv fcpfnre nrrsmhliner like a "half drowned kitten to the surface once more. That is how we learned not to mind a duckins, and also to shift for ourselves when we did get one. ' Have you ever tried to stand up. Tight on a log perhaps a foot across the butt, out in an open lake, keeping your balance to every roll and dip of the log? Well, if you had you would realize better the marvellous "balance of the man who not only has to do this, but also maneuvre other logs down the current with a long pike pole, chain booms together with numbed fingers-, and, in fact, do the whole of his day's work while balancing on a twirling, twisting, halfsubmerged tree trunk. At the ape of thirteen I had tj get , out and earn my own living. Times were hard, and every one who has a t sound pair cf arms and legs has to , "work for tM right to occupy the | earth down on those Eastern lake j shores. t One morniig along came an ' alligator boat," towing a floating colony t of river-drivers to work the boom of { logs that lay moored out in the lake. ^ Here was my chance. My brothers . and sisters hat", been packed off to t school, and I was left to chop wood. Why should I chop wood for love when I could drive logs for $35 a ( month? I was off across that boom j of logs like a jack rabbit, and soon , found myself surrounded by a good J natured ring of grizzled faces. "What's the matter with the kid?" , asked the foreman, a gigantic, bearded man in long leather boots, as he , surveyed me from head to foot. "How's chances of a job?" I asked, j with as much dignity as I could assume. A roar of laughter floated over the . lake and echoed through the maples ^ far up the banks, but it didn't abash , me in the least. "You all think you're awful ' smart," I remarked, scathingly, "but , I'll stand.on a log with any one of . you for the job. If I'm put off I'll ( go back home and sit down, but if , you can't put me off I want work at $1.2 a month for a start." - 4?iu. Jf ' xucic was a. Lniunit; ill iub lure- j mail's eye as he said, "Done! Jack, , try him a twirl." ! The next minute I found myself , standing on one end of a small pine ( log, and my adversary, a hulking ( "driver" with spikes half an inch in , length on the bottom of his boots, j on the other. Slowly at first the log began to j turn in the water, in answer to the ] pressure of my adversary's spikes, then quicker and quicker, till it fair- . ly spun rouna, with my naked feet ( pattering nway on the hard ba,k . like a woodpecker's bill. Then, suddenly, my wily foe would stop it almost dead, and I had to wave my arms like a windmill to keep my bal- 1 ance, but I kept it. All the time shouts ~?re going up from the camp raft, "Go it, kid! Stick to him! He can't get you!" First this wry, then that, the log twirled; next, by way of variation, the lumberman would take a play- 1 ful jump and send me and my end of the log clean out of the water. And then?well, I don't know exactly how it happened, but there was a frantic waving of long arms, and six feet of river-driver splashed into the lake, to reappear more in the ssm blance o? a playful hippopotamus! Roar upon roar of laughter went Tip from the raft, and half an hour later I found myself installed in a very smelly shack as "cook's devil" at $12 a month and board. I stayed with this outfit for three years, log-driving in the spring and V summer and bush-working in the winter. At the age of sixteen an opportu ' VV'- /' ' .... '-sf. nity hardened my way that helped J me out of the beaten track of riverdriving. Every dog has his day, and this particular one was mine. You must know that, to get the logs over rapids, the big lumbering companies have to build large dams at the edge of the fall to hold back the water, leaving a narrow passage way in the middle, through which the water rushes like a mill race, carryir- the logs swirling r.nd tumbling ov? the rapids to the next lake. The greatest care has to be taken in sending the logs through this channel, and as many as fifteen to twenty men are required to keep them from "jamming." With all our care on this particular day a "jam" occurred. A. log became wedged with one or two others right across the "chute," as the passage is called. The result was the same as invariably is. Hundreds of logs came floating slowly but irresistibly toward the chute with the current and found a renting place behind each other, with tho lam as their foundation. Hundreds more came sweeping on, and, finding the current too strong to allow them to rest behind their forerunners, piled themselves J.n a muddled heap on the top. The water began to rise, and more and yet more logs piled themselves up, till a solid wall of timber at least twelve feet fcigh stretched across the chute behind the dam. Meanwhile the river-drivers boundid from log to log, risking their lives jvery second in the vain attempt to lisengage the jammed logs, for if :he jam had given way it would have carried every man to almost certain leath. "Somebody'll have to find those iammed logs and cut them," said :he foreman, quietly, knowing full veil that he was asking some one to ;empt death. "Of course," he continued, "I can't make any of you do it; unless some )ne offers I'll have to do it myself, )ut I'm kind of heavy for the job. There's $10 in it and drinks for the :rowd." Six of us stepped forward simulaneously. "You're all wool, boys," said the 'oreman admiringly, "but I'm glad :he kid offered, 'cause he's the lightist of the crowd." A thick rope was promptly tied securely round my body under the irms, by way of a belt, two longer jnes fixed to it on either side, and I >vas ready for work. Sixteen of the heaviest men were picked from the gang, and eight :limbed up on to.the dam each side )f the jam. An axe was then handed ;o me, and hand over hand I was let jut on one side and drawn in on the )ther till I hung suspended in midlir half way across the current. Then, in answer to a shnrp order !rom the foreman, the two sides simultaneously commenced to pay out ope, and I began to sink lower and lower toward the jammed logs, vhich creaked and rasped ominously jnder the strain of the water behind :hem. I cannot remember any other sensation than tfcf.t of suppressed excitement as I reached the level of the vater and finally stood on the trending, groaning mass of logs?a mass hat might sink from beneath my :eet at any moment. I was only sic :een, and $10 was a lot of money to me, apart from the glory of the luuievemeuu. For several seconds I stood on ;hose logs without moving, fascinlted with the delicious possibilities )f the thing, till at last a gruff shout :rom the foreman-reminded me that here was work to be done. Carefully I crept to the edge of ;he mass of logs; then I slowly slid !rom log to log down to the seething vater below. Where were the ammed logs? That was the ques;ion. Above me rose the butts and tops )f innumerable logs. What ir they jave way now? I should be hurled :o my death at once. Hastily put;ing the thought from me, I felt beneath the surface of the water witti :he axe handle. Yes, there they svere, firmly wedged a foot down. Then I set to with a will, the water splashing all over me. With each stroke of the axe a tremor went ;hrough tne pile on which I stood. It seemed as if I had been chopping an hour. My her.rt was thumping against my ribs with the exer:ion, and I gasped for air between :he douches of cold water that splashed me from head to foot. Sudienly, without the slightest warning, there was a report like a muffled revolver shot, a stream of water shot Into my face, a hoarse cry came from somewhere above, and I felt myself jerked from my feet high Into the lir, sinking, rising, and again sinking like a bouncing ball. Then, with a. roar and a mighty splash, the whole structure of piled up logs on which I had been standing three secands before collapsed like a house af cards, and log after log went sweeping and eddying through tho :huce and over the rapids to the lake below. Either the jammed log had broken or I had chopped it through; no one ever knew which. I don't quite know how they got oae back on to the dam, for the first thing I remember after that was seeing a green piece of paper in my left hand that I knew to be the promised $10 bill, and a ring of perspiring, grizzled faces close to mine, braathing gruff congratulations.?TheWide World Magazine. A Useful Witness. A witness was being examined as to the sanity of one of the inmates of the asylum. "You hold that this inmate is insane, ao you: a lawyer asKea. "I do," was the firm reply. "Why are you so sure?" "The man," the witness said, "goes about asserting that he is Santa Claus." "And," said the lawyer, "you hold, do you. that when a man goes about asserting that he is Santa Claus, it's a cleai proof of his insanity?" "I do." "Why?" "Because," said the witness, in a loud, indignant voice, "1 ItnmnAri IA Krt Cqnto Plnno " Liappcu tw uc vjauta viauo mjacu. San Francisco Argonaut. William street, in New York City, was known as "Horse and Cart street" back in the eighteenth cea? turjr. 1 * ' ?KE F08 23 ~~ TOLEDO 1S1SS lie I Convicted of Pooling Agreement to Maintain High Prices. SIX MONTHS IN WORKHOUSE Sentenced Men Are All Wealthy and Prominent in the Commercial Life of the Ohio City?Lumber and Brick Men and Bridge Agents. Toledo, Ohio. ? Some of Toledo'u wealthiest citizens, and the most prominent socially, were sentenced to the workhouse for six months for being members of the lumber and bridge iMictc nnH fnnrtuptine their business enterprises in restraint of trade and competition. All had pleaded guilty. Twenty-one members of the Lumber Dealers' Credit Association, nine members of the Brick Dealers' Association and two bridge agents were lined up before the bar to hear their fate. The sentence created more of a sensation than that imposed a year ago on the Ice Trust men. In that case the hired agents were punished. The court has now landed the capitalists themselves. Judge Lindley W. Morris lectured the defendants before Imposing sentence, saying: ( "What does a nominal fine signify? It is wrong that you men of means, with capital back of you, can so control prices that the poor are compelled to pay more than you have a right to ask, and more than you would have to pay yourself. It is time the courts of Ohio impose such punishment as the offense merits. "Fines are only makeshifts, and do not bring prominent citizens to a proper realization of their positions. After full consideration I've determined that the proper punishment is imprisonment in the workhouse. The sentence, therefore, on those who have generally pleaded guilty will be that they be confined in the workhouse." The brick men pleaded guilty to an indictment under a different section of the Valentine Anti-Trust law and the penalty could only be a fine, the maximum being $1000. The Judge gave the maximum. Marcus V. Barbour, of the lumber firm of Barbour & Starr, counts his fortune in excess of half a million dollars. He is one of the men who must go to jail. George L. Freeman, of Kelsey & Freeman, lumber dealers, is a local social lion. His partner, Hiram Kelsey, is equally prominent. John H. Fuck, vice-president of the TIT VC Ponfurln r? pAmnflTlV id weaid u iuauuiav/Luiiug wuipuu.,, ?w wealthy and a widely known politician. Frederick E. Wilker, president of the Wilker Manufacturing Company, is also a big hotel owner. Harry G. Hammond and W. N. Cleveland are well known bridgemen, the former with the Canton Bridge Company, his home being in this city. Mr. Cleveland's home is in Cleveland, and he is president of the Cleveland Bridge Company. The sentences to the workhouse were suspended for ten days owing to that institution being quarantined against smallpox. Having pleaded guilty, the defendants are, according to the rules of customary criminal procedure, denied /vf ?nnaal fA fho VltoVlAr tut: 1 IgUl KJ JL a^;pc ?A bv wuv w. courts. SWEPT OVER DAM TO DEATH. Tragic Termination of Pennsylvania Week-End Party. Warren, Pa.?A gasoline launch was swapt over a dam on the Conewango River, which was very high owing to rains. Of nine persons on the launch six were drowned. They were: Mrs. George Baker, of Warren, Pa.; John Best, of Warren, Pa.; Mrs. John Best; Violet Best, aged eighteen, daughter of John, Warren, Pa.; O. F. Butts, traveling salesman, Philadelphia; Mrs. Hilda Knox, Warren, Pa. , Mr. and Mrs. Best had invited a -c ?-;* foTfo en v>r\or company ui meuus iu tum. u ^ ^. with them at their cottage on the Conewango River, and had come down to the Russell Boat Landing to meet them. The visitors were in one naphtha launch and Mr. Best and his party in another. The boat containing the visitors become lodged on a pile a short distance above the dam and Mr. Best went to assist them, when the engine in his launch broke and the boat, containing nine persons, drifted toward the dam without an oar or stick to stay them. TEXAS OUTLAWS TRUST GOODS. New State Law Makes Selling Them a reiouy. Austin, Texas.?The most drastic anti-trust law enacted in any State has gone into effect in Texas. It provides, in substance, that any person who represents a trust as agent, or sells goods made by a trust or combination, shall be deemed guilty of felony", and, upon conviction, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for from two to ten years. The law's provisions apply to all merchants who sell trust made goods and all persons who may be directly in the employ of such concerns in the State. Attorney-General R. V. Davidson and his assistant, J. P Lightfoot, declare they intend to enforce the law to the letter. ? 1 Ki'ivn T Of Aft AAA I uasruer Jtiau $t>ouu jjcil ui <pj.wfvw? The police of Palermo, Italy, arrested the cashier and two of his accomplices who were concerned In the recent robbery of a bank at Kieff, Russia. When taken into custody the cashier declared he had only $3500 out of 1100,000 left. New Director For Mint. Secretary Cortelyou recommended to the President the appointment of Frank A. Leach, the present superintendent of the mint at San Francisco, as director of the mint. Women In the Day's News. Square parasols fringed with little silver novels are fashionable. The idea comes from the Riviera. Mrs. John Hay, widow of the former Secretary of State, and her sister, Mrs. Samuel Mather, have given to Adelbert College, Cleveland, a memorial chapel in memory of their father, Amasa Stone. In Belgium girls are expected to give five weeks out of each school year to learning housework. The girl is required to know not only how to cook a dinner, but to clean up and care for a kitchen* dA marketing, wash and iron. . ..... ... IEW SIN FHCISCfl HAYOR nM rj I r* T ! - - PI - r I ui. tuwara k. iayior, uean ot Law School, Succeeds Schmitz. > Eminent Citizen Will Endeavor to Stamp Out the Municipal Grafters?Committee of Safety Retires. San Francisco, Cal.?Edward Robeson Taylor, D. D., LL.D., Dean of Hastings Law College, In this city, was elected Mayor of San Francisco by the Board of Supervisors, to succeed Charles Boxton, appointed to the place temporarily after the conviction of Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz of extortion. Mayor Taylor is one of the fore most of the city's legal authorities 1 and has achieved some distinction in literary pursuits. He has never figured as a politician, belongs to uo class or faction, and his selection was a big surprise. He was selected for i the position by the graft prosecutors after the refusal of the commercial labor union bodies to participate on an equal basis in a convention to se- 1 lect Boxton's successor. Dr. Taylor is one of the city's best citizens and has the esteem of all classes. He is a man of brilliant intellect and high ideal3. With the election of Taylor the graft prosecution will retire from the conduct of municipal affairs and devote itself exclusively to the prosecution of bribe givers and bribe takers, frfayor Taylor will select a new Board of Supervisors to replace the confessed boodlers and will ms.ke a clean sweep of all municipal commissions and departments. Every one con neciea wun me ocumicz s regime is expected to take the count. Schmitz, endeavoring to act as Mayor from his cell in the county jail, refuses to recognize the election of his successor. He announced that : he would at once remove the present Board of Supervisors and appoint a new one selected from the ranks of union labor. Dr. Taylor is a physician as well as a lawyer. He is sixty-nine years of age and was born in Springfield, 111. He took his degree in medicine at the Toland Medical College, which is now the medical department of the University of California. He went | to California in 1862 and was ad- j mitted to the bar ten years later. He ; was private secretary to the Govern- | or of California from 1867 to 1871. , COWICT 18 YEARS BY ERROR. j Girl's Plight Not Discovered Till She \ Was Dying. ( Montgomery, Ala. ? Rena Rivers, J who died a few days ago in the prison at one of.the mines, had served as a 1 convict for nearly twenty years on a sentence of only twenty months. A 1 clerk in making out the papers made ' the mistake of writing years for ] months. The girl was twelve years of age J when arrested for larceny. She had almost served "out her long term when she died. The white man for J whom her mother worked became interested in the case and discovered i the,mistake,xbut too late to help the woman. Her mother, who is old and j needy, has asked the Legislature to reimburse her for her daughter's services: 1 SAY HE TOOK $10,000. i City Council Accuses Dr. Ira C. Leedom, Treasurer of Bordentown. ] Bordentown, N. J.?Dr. Ira C. Lee- i dom, City Treasurer and Collector of Bordentown, left his wife and young son recently, and no one, except his lawyer, seems to know where he is. The Finance Committee of the City Council charges that Dr. Leedom is $10,300 short in his accounts with the city. If this be true, he has left only $78.41 rattling in the bottom of Bordentown's coffer. Dr. Leedom has been highly esteemed by his fellow citizens, but circumstances hitherto unknown now lead them to believe he has been leading a double life. A warrant was issued for his arrest. BOMB REMOVES ALIKHANOFF. General Glieboff's Wife and Coachman of Party Killed. AlexandropoU Russia. ? General Alikhanoff, former Governor-General of Tiflis, and Mine. Glieboff, wife of General Glieboff, together with the coachman who was driving their carriage, were blown to pieces by bombs flung at them in Beboutoff street at 2.30 a. m. A son of General Alikhanoff and a daughter of General Glieboff sustained serious injuries. 1UC yCLl Lj WC1C 1CIU1111U5 IU LUC r residence of Alikhanoff from fiis club. t General Alikhanoff was nicknamed "the wild beast" by the Caucasian members of the Duma on account of his cruelties in the Kutais district. ^ SENATOR BACON LOST FORTUNE. \ 1 Failure of Macon Bank Takes About All He Hail Saved. Macon, Ga.?About half of United States Senator Bacon'a small fortune was swept away by the failure of the Exchange Bank last week. The Senator was worth about $75,000, half of which was represented by Exchange Bank stock. This stock is not only worthless but it is said the Senator and other stockholders will be assessed heavily to pay depositors. j. It is feared that when the affairs I of the bank ar9 wound up Senator t tjacon s ionune win De ennreiy gone, i Black Hand Secret Service. Because of the large number of Black Hand crimes In New York City, Police Commissioner Bingham de- 3 cided to ask for an appropriation of 1 $25,000 with which to establish a 1 secret service devoted to detecting * Black Hand offenders. J W. R. Hearst Wins. The Appellate Division in Brooklyn decided that W. R. Hearst is entitled g to have the ballot-boxes of the May- t oralty contest of 1905 opened and j the ballots recounted. 1 Cranks After Roosevelt. Two cranks tried to get at President Roosevelt, in Oyster Bay. One., "! a woman, wanted $10,000,000; the j other said he was Satan. c Corn Backward, Wheat Good. v Corn is backward?two weeks late and half the usual height. Wheat c yields in the Southwest are light, but quality is good. Plot to Smuggle Russians. The United States immigration au t thorlties discovered a plot to smug c gle Russians into this country. -i iii ' . < ' FORBIDDEN TO SELL MADE D80DS Texas Merchants in Danger of i Term in Jail if They Do. OTHIiR RADICAL LAWS IN FORCI Insurance Companies, Railroads, Bro kers, Gamblers and Pistol Deal ers Axe Affected by Them?At torney-General to Ih-osecute. Austin, Texas.?Radical laws which are intended, among othei things, to drive trusts, bad men gamblers, and brokers out of .Texas have gone into effect. Some of these laws provide:That any person who acts as ar agent of a trust or combination tc destroy competition or any persou who sells eroods made by such s concern, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be sent to prison for frorr two to ten years. That Insurance companies must invest seventy-five per cent, of theii Texas earnings in the State. That wire service shall not be given to brokerage offices, bucket shop: and exchanges., That no free passes or franks shal be given. Tliat no liquor shall be drunk or trains. That all persons who sell pistols Bhall be taxed fifty per cent, of th* gross earnings on all their business That cock-fighting shall be illegal That no negro shall hold the ofllc< of School Trustee. That trafficking in human bodies by medical colleges shall be lawful Most of the interest attaches tc ?he anti-trust law, which is one of i series of measures passed by the last Legislature. These bills were pre pared under the direction of Attornej General Davidson and his assistant J. P. Lightfoot. Before the enact ment of these supplemental laws Texas was said to have the most ef fectlve anti-trust acts of any Stat* In the Union. The first of these acts authorized Lhe Attorney General to make ar nramlnnHnn nf all hnolfs. records, and documents, wheresoever situated, ol every corporation doing business ir Texas. The second authorized hire to take depositions in any State ir a case brought against any corpora' tion for the violation of the anti trust laws. The courts were empowered to compel corporations to produce any of their officers and em ployes and any of their books anc documents. A third act provides that the State 3hall have a lien upon the propertj 3f all corporations that are convicted af violating the anti-trust laws of the State. The court may appoint a receiver for a corporation whenevei the interest of the State may seen to require such action. The State 3hall also have the right to issue writs of garnishment, sequestration attachment and Injunction. These far-reaching bills were passed in the closing days of the Leg Islature, and in the rush of work ol that body they escaped general at tention. It is only recently that theii full import is being realized. Now that the most extreme of the lot has gone into force, there is widespread apprehension among bust ess men as to its effect, because any one of theija who sells any goods made by a trust Is liable to Imprison merit. This law applied to all merchants who sell such goods, and all persons who may be directly In th( smploy of such concerns in this State The Attorney General's Depart ment is preparing to inaugurate the most vigorous campaign against trusts that has ever been attempted in any State. It is asserted that the 3vidence is almost conclusive thai most of the commodities handled bj merchants are manufactured bj trustn. Merchants do not care to run the risk of a term of .imprisonment for selling such goods, and many ol them have already taken steps tc lult handling trust-made articles. The aw does not recognize ignorance as in excuse. The merchant is required :o make investigation. Mr. Davidson feel3 certain that a !ew successful prosecutions wii] jtrike terror into the hearts of the representatives of every trust dong business in Texas, and that it will then be a comparatively easy matter to drive the objectionable joncerns out 'of the State. Chief imong these are the lumber trust, the :otton seed oil trust, the beef trust, ind the oil trust. It is understood ;hat Mr. Davidson will soon file suits igainst the lumber trust and the coton seed oil trust, and will also start :riminal prosecutions. WHOLE STATE DRY TWENTY DAYS 'exas Law Providss It, But Salacru Refuse to Close. Dallas, Tetas.?The new State l.iqlor law, which practically provides hat the State shall go dry for twenty lays, became operative. It revokes ill licenses, and while getting new ines saloons must close for the tweny-day period. Liquor and brewery interests claim his closing clause is unconstitutional, is it enforces State prohibition with?ut the consent of the people.. Threeourths of the saloonkeepers defied he law and remained open. The beter class closed. Yamamoto Meet3 Roosevelt. Admiral Yamamoto and President loosevelt had an interview at Saganore Hill which, it was officially anlounced, "confirmed the fundamental rlendliness" between this nation and rapan. j Indian Cliief Claims Montauk. Chief Wyandunk Pharaoh, representing the last of the Montauk Inlians, sued to recover the tribal lands it Montauk Foint, now worth milions. Newsy Gleanings. Pminf TtoornVI rohlort tn tllfi TCpw fork World that the Japanese believe >eace will continue. The $4500 surplus of the Jerome :ampaign fund, in New York City, vas given to charity. Nine out of thirty-eight autu racers :ompleted the course at Dieppe. Secretaries Metcalf and Straus are joing to Hawaii' to look into the forifications and Japanese immigration. The Japanese are becoming more md more convinced that San Fran-; :isco merely reflects race hatred la MSirlSk- " " ' -V . .. i Jpi***weelg WASHINGTON. I It was practically decided to erect the statue of Christopher Columbus, which will cost $100,000, in the centre of the plaza in front of the new uhion railway station. ">> - u ? a .1 /~>l?x? T>... ; ino rresiueut, at v^jaiei oay, signed the treaty with Santo Domingo. The formal order placing Rear Admiral Sands, superintendent of the Naval Academy, on the retired list, " has been issued. There is much speculation ih Washington over the route and time neces sary for the cruise of the battleship fleet to Pacific waters. . Secretary Taft denied vigorously , that there was dissatisfaction at , Washington with the Canal Commission. Naval officers are fearful that the i battleship fleet will be unable to read> ily obtain coal on its cruise by the L Magellan's Strait route. , T'Vi? A floor frr Vi irtVi fl/\n f nrl x uc Aiu^i iuau UU5 ii uivu uvavcu over Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, in 1814, and which prompted Francis Scott Key to compose "The Star Spangled Banner," has been received at the National Museum. After a bitter arraignment of the man who would deliberately attempt to defraud the public Judge Kimball fined Henry J. Rice $150 for selling strawberries in boxes with raised I bottoms. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The controversy over property of the Catholic Church in the Philippines has been settled by Secretary Taft. Monsignor Averso, the Apostalic Delegate to Cuba, received a treasury warrant for $1,387,083 in payment for land bought by the American Government from the Catholic Church. The strike of the Havana cigar; makers has been on for about six months. Unless it is soon brought to an end the stock of Havana cigars must be exhausted. Some brands and, sizes are already out of the market. Faustino Ahlen, the Pulajane leader, who was wounded and captured on the island of Leyte on June 6, is recovering. He advises his followl ers to lay down their arms, i Roland P. Falkner, Commissioner I of Education in Porto Rico, has reC signed. Prof. Dexter, of the University of Illinois, will succeed him as Commissioner. Registration for the Philippines elections closed with only 7500 voters registering in Manila, when 13,600 were expected. Only one resident out of thirty-five qualified. [ Six hundred Japanese laborers on the Honomu plantation, island of Hawaii, have struck because of differT ences with the Japanese overseers. DOMESTIC. . The White Star Line* Adriatic, on 'her arrival at New York from Queenstown, reported running through a snowstorm in mid-ocean on July 4. Pinkerton detectives were notified , that $20,00 worth of diamonds had disappeared irom tne sale 01 j. m. Ceballos, in New York City. Edward M. Shepard addressed the Illinois Bar Association in Galesburg In favor of removing the dollar mark from capital stock of corporations. By the capsizing of a rowboat Misses Nellis Noe and Mary Cornstock, Jacob Pargiew and a negro boy were drowned at Springfield, Ky. Extensive exceptions were filed in Concord, N. H.f by counsel for Mary Baker Eddy and the trustees under her deed of trust, which probably will take the case to the Supreme Court. Attorney-General Jackson, of New York, began an action to annul the charter of the Interborough-Metropolitan Company, alleging that it is an illegal monopoly. Judge Parker declared that the common law was adequate to cover all present Federal prosecutions, but that officials were inactive before Mr. Roosevelt's time. al ruuu jju j-iac, wis., iuur uim? dren of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Field, * ranging from eight months to four ' years, were burned to death by the ' explosion of a gasoline stove. The National Educational Associai tion declared in favor of peace and simplified spelling. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad was indicted at Chicago on ' sixty-five counts on ttoe charge of rebating. ! American coal dealers declare bati tleships taking the Magellan route to , the Pacific will find coal scarce and [ very high. i Fire destroyed two hundred houses and devastated an area of ten acres ; in Bisbee, Ariz. FOREIGN. The French Minister of Finance, 1 M flaillan*. snoke in aimnort of the income tax bill before the Chamber i of Deputies. An open attack on the French Government and on M. Bompard, the French Ambassador to Russia, was . printed in the "Nove Vremya," at St. Petersburg. Major Lemair, a Belgian, who , served eighteen year3 in the Congo, has published an exposure of alleged revolting conditions in the local army. A coroner's jury in London exonerated the Rev. W. S. Hancock, formerly of Chicago, of poisoning his wife. English papers in China upheld the right of the Americans to send their fleet to the Pacific. The French Parliament has adjourned. The authorities of the Congo Independent State have requested the immediate opening of negotiations for annexation, and will appoint a commission to meet representatives of the Belgian Parliament. 1 At Madrid General Primo de Rivera was appointed Minister of War in the Maura Cabinet to fill the portfolio made vacant by the death, on June 30 last, of General Lono. The economic war between Greece and Rumania has ended and diplomatic relations will be at once resumed. 1 According to a special Antwerp despatch the law of desertion has done much to discourage the Belgian stokers' strike. The strikers in the Transvaal mining regions will appeal to Premier Botha to force arbitration. i The Canadian Railway Commis sioners have ordered freight rate discrimination abolished on traffic from uetroit ana otner American -ones as u compared with rates from^Westorn. Ontario frontier noints. iiwraircLis, 1 was. BOWIE AND HER SOW | Justified in the Murder of Posey, Which They Acknowledged. MARYLAND INDORSES VERDICT Priseflla Bowie, For Whose Vindication the Crime was Committed, Weeps in Court?Jury Reached Verdict in Five Minutes. \jjgjj La Plata, Md.?It took the jury in -j| the Bowie murder trial only five minutes to decided that, in Southern Maryland the "unwritten law" is the law to which the betrayer of a woman must hold himself answeraole. Both Jury and people acquitted Mrs. Mary E. Bowie and her son Henry, of all blame for their acknowledged slaying last January of Hubert Posey, the betrayer of their daughter and sister, Priscilla Bowie, who had made a pathetic picture in the courtroom during the trial. That there was no demonstration was doubtless due to the fact that the verdict of the jury was announced to the judges at dinner during a recess, just prior to which the jury had been sent out of court to consider its decision. StatA's Attnrnev Wllmer'a reaueat to the jury that they bring in a verdict of manslaughter, not of murder, tnade last evening, was not more , noteworthy than the frankness with which Representative Sidney E. Mudd, -;&j of counsel for the defense, appealed to the "unwritten law" in behalf of 'i.? bis clients. Throughout his address, which evidently voiced the sentiments of most of his hearers, Mrs. Bowie and her son sat in stolid composure, while Priscilla Bowie, seated outside the rail among the spectators, wept continuously. "Gentlemen," said Mudd, "we shall claim that these defendants were justified by what the newspapers have , jjg called the 'unwritten law.' " He cited many cases in which the avengers of wronged daughters, sisters and wives have been acquitted, and continued: "Never since the formation of this Government has there been tried before a jury of American citl- , zens a single case of murder follow tng wanton seduction in which the verdict has been other than instant acquittal." He argued for the "supremacy of the law indelibly written on the quick-beating human heart over the cold type of the statute book." te cited the Biblical story of Jacob's daughter Dinah, wronged by Sheckem, whom Dinah's brothers killed, and said: "The family In this land of ours Is the nucleus and the nursery of the Commonwealth. The protection of the sanctity of the family ties, the chastity of women, the development and maintenance of a salutary and exalted respect for the honor of the mother, the sister and the daughter ' become a natural and essential feature of the law in this land. In nearly erery State of this country there will be found an exemplication and recognition of this fact and an adopUon of this doctrine. "It is in this sense that I confidently claim the protection of what I have called and claim the 'unwritten law' as an adequate defense for these defendants." At the end of Mudd's argument State's Attorney Wilmer addressed the \'M Jury, arguing against the "unwritten law" and referring his hearers to the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." He urged the Jury to give * 3 the defendants the benefit of every, possible doubt and repeated that he did not ask for a verdict of murder, but for one of manslaughter. The jurors, however, evidently took Mr. Mudd's view of the case and when they filed into court it was to declare that the killing of Hubert Posey was ;:| Justified. KILLED IN AUTO DEMONSTRATION Machine, Leaping Embankment at 70-Mile Gait, Crashes Chauffeur. Pittsburg.?Death was the winner In a daring dash against time made by J. W. Davis, a chauffeur, of this city. Davis was employed by an automobile company which had planned to sell a machine to T. C. Jenkins. Two of Jenkins' employes took seats ' ' > in'the car to see the trial run. Going out of Perrysville avenue Davis turned on all the power, determined to show his passengers that th^ car was up to specifications. Speeding seventy miles an hour down hill the machine got beyond his control. It left the road and leaped over a twenty-foot embankment. Davis sprang fr?m the machine, but the car, turning over, crushed him so badly that he died a few hours later. KILLED BY YOUTH'S FOLLY. Girl Into Whose Lap Firecrackers Were Throw "Mes. Paterson, N. J.?Fannie Turner, nine years old, died at the General Hospital as the result of burns received on July 4, when a young man threw a bunch of lighted firecrackers in her lap as she was sitting on the stoop of ber home watching the ^*$1 " *? Alnthln" ' snsht. flrft -jis-hf nrewortta. nci vwu... and she was badly bur:.^ . before her father could subdue the flames. She suffered intensely from the time she was taken to thfe hospital. The name of the young man who threw the firecrackers is unknown. Has Fit and Drowns. Thomas Smith, sixty years of age, a teaming contractor, of Chicago, was seized by an epileptic fit while riding on Spring Lake, Grand Rapdds, Mich. He fell into the lake during the seizure and was drowned. Two Painters Fall to Death. The staging from which John Baker, of Worcester, and F. B. Hanson were painting the sixth story of La France Hotel at Holyoke, Mass., collapsed. Both men were killed. The Labor World. San Francisco (Cal.) Painters* Union has a membership of 1921. France has 4625 local unions, witli; an aggregate membership of 781,344L A new union of the theatrical employes was lately formed in California. Detroit, Mich., secured the 190S convention of the Steamfltters' and. Helpers' Union. St. Cloud, Minn., ha3 a new union, composed of nearly all the printers in thnf ritv a charter has been re ceived from the international, and^ permanent organization effected.^