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= K C = . ^ . _ _ _ . _ ^ _ _ _ _'at PRICE TWO%CENTS. WEDNESDAY EVBMNG, APRIL 30, 1902. 16 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK.. ON T M A L AY The U. S. Must Remain in the PhiKfcpines for "Tu- itionai^^1. Reasons. He Claims There Has Been No Unusual Destruction - of Life There. " WUT.fANG. ' W I L L COME The Chinese Minister Will ing to Make the Trip to Minneapolis. The Chinese Restaurant Boy cott Here Still Engages His Attention. .JiILLS ^BDSY DAYS He Is Putting in His Time With Congressmen and Officials. PACKERS GETASHOCK i % ' . The Philippine Question May Keep Congress in Session All Summer. - HE CAN DO AS HE PLUSES. \[} ., Will He Come Into Our Kindergarten? MORE CORN IN S. DAKOTA Xhe RECIPROCITY Senate Committee Reports Some Treaties Favorably Per Cent Larger Than ( Last Year. In the Same State, Wheat Will Show a De crease. South Dakota will have a corn acreage 21.7 per cent larger than last year, an oats acreage Increase- of 8.12 per cent, and a decrease of 0.3 per cent in the wheat acre-age in thirty-six counties. This Is on the basis of figures compiled by K. A. Burrage, secretory of the South Minnesota and South, Dakota Grain Deal ers' association. This report does not pretend to be comprehfnsire with regard to the entire state. The secretary has covered only the territory in which the association operates and in which the members of the association are directly Interested. The report is of value, how ever, as fully confirming the expectation that the South Dakota farmers would go In more than ever for coarse grains this year. Taking the previous report of the association covering Minnesota aud there Is the following showing: T H o u s e ] \ ^ About by the Financial Washington, April 30.The senate com mittee on foreign relations to-day agreed to report favorably all the reciprocity treaties except with Argentine and the one pertaining to Jamaica. The favorable reports^ are on treaties with France, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Dominica and four with Great Britain, covering Bermuda, Barbadoes, British Guiana, Turks and Coicos islands. All the treaties are to be amended by the following provision: "This treaty shall not take effect until the same shall have been approved by the congress." The effect of this is to require the house as well as the senate to act. The defeat of the treaty with Argentine was due to the large quantities of wool produced in that country, while the opposition to the Jamaican treaty was on account of citrous fruits and sugar. THE TRUST ISSUE IN '04 THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY Wall Street Mnrmnrn About Unset tling "Business Conditions," Etc.. Ktc. Wheat Oats Corn A: Ac. Ac. Dec. Inc. Inc. F Ct. T Ct. V Ct. ft Minnesota counties 19.9 8 11.14 16 South Dakota counties.. 9.3 S.12 21.17 Of the South Dakota territory covered, eight counties have not yet made returns. They are: Campbell, Brown. Walworth, Patter, Kingsbury, Aurora, Charles Mix and Lincoln. Unlike the report for Min nesota, the South Dakota report shows that there will probably be a considerab ly increased wheat acreage in some lo calities, Hyde, Beadle and Douglas coun ties reporting more wheat planted than last year. Marshall and- Grant counties have not made returns a3 yet on corn, and the corn percentage is figured for thirty four counties. The figures in detail for the thirty-alx South Dakota counties that have thus far reported are as follows, on the basis of 100 for the acreage last year: Wheat. Oats. Corn McPherson Km Marshall .' 100 Roberts *' Edmunds 100 Day SO Faulk 100 Spink v PO Codington 100 OTant 100 Sully 50 Hyde ' 120 Hand "5 Beadle 140 Clark . 90 Hamlin S5 Deuel 90 Brookings 60 Jernuld 75 Sanborn 75 Miner 100 Lake 85 Buffalo 100 Moody 7o Brule RS Davison 100 Hanson fl" McCook 1(10 Minnehaha SO Douglas ,..105 Hutchinson 100 Turner *... 80 Bon Homme 95 Yankton 90 Clay 85 Union 80 Hughes 100 WHITK STAR LINK TRUSTED. London, April P.O.The Morgans, who had until to-day the option or confirming or withdrawing from the provisional agreement by which the White Star Line was to enter the Atlantic shipping combine, have notified that line of their intention to carry through their part of the agreement. 100 100 105 100 100 75 110 100 100 100 KiO 140 1110 10n 105 120 115 115 100 115 100 100 100 1tX) 100 100 103 100 125 105 100 120 110 115 100 lo' 105 150 n- o 150 125 125 140 ICO 140 120 lir. 100 120 120 120 150 125 125 125 mo 100 110 115 105 100 12'. 110 110 120 110 115 11.0 from Th+ Journal Bureau.. Room 4JS, Fori BullUing, ITathington. Washington, April 30.Tt is noticeable that strenuous efforts are being made by J. J. !Hill and other influential capi talists and corporation magnates to create the impression that the president's trust policy will unsettle business conditions and have a disastrous result on trade generally and that therefore he should not be. nominated in 1904. Mr. Hill has talked this a great deal since coming to Washington a few days ago, and echoes of it are heard daily from Wall street. This talk Is evidently based on a mis conception of the president's purpose and the country at large will not be misled by it. Anything that interferes with the plans of the trusts will necessarily be cons'trued "by the trusts as hostility to business interests, but it will be another thing to convince the public that the president should be punished for oppos ing those interests when they are in imical to the public weal. The president's course is highly satisfactory to western and northwestern representatives. They all see that 'they will have to face the trust issue in the next campaign. They EXPORT RATES ON FLOUR Interests of N. Y. Special to The Journal. New York, April 30.Recent protests of northwestern millers against export rates on flour are said to be in a fair way to bring about a more satisfactory condi tion. This is the result of negotiations conducted by Presidents Hill of the Great Northern and Mellen of the North ern Pacific with the management of east ern trunk lines. An understanding has practically been reached under which it will he possible for northwestern milling interests to have their export output carried to Duluth by the Northern Pacific or Great Northern, thence by boat to Buffalo and by rail to New York, where it is to be given to the steamships in th"e merger recently ef fected by Morgan. This arrangement is not altogether due the kindness of either of the rail or lake lines but to the influence of the financial interests in New York that became alarmed by the threat of the millers to find an outlet for their product via the gulf ports. Such an arrangement would involve lake and rail lines in tremendous loss. FREE FLOUR STORAGEAT BUFFALO had a warning of the coming fight in the v w | last campaign. The president is helping " them in a mosft practical way. They will be arraigned by the democrats for the failure of congress to enact anti-trust legislation. They will reply that a repub lican executive is enforcing existing legis lation. So the western and northwestern congressmen are encouraging him to go ahead wl'th the good work They say that the best thing that could happen for him would be' for the word to get around that the trusts are to attack him. W. W. Jermane. WunhliiKton Small Talk. Marcus Johnson, who had been for several weeks in Washington, left for the west yes terday and will arrive in Minnesota next It is not likely that Senator Cla-pp, in ask ing the appointment of C. C. Haupt as district attorney for Minnesota, had in mind any noiiticai advantage. Haupt was the sen ator's law partner in Otter Tall county for a number of years, and It was natural that he should be remembered. Collector Peterson was not the first choice of either Senator Davis or Senator Nelson at the time of his first appointment. It was conceded that Davis should fill the office, and he suggested J. M. Dlment of Owatonna, who, however, was distasteful to Senator Nelson. Finally Davis suggested Peterson as a com promise, and Nelson consented. The appoint ment may therefore technically be charged up to Davis, but in fact. Petersen v.a& the flr-st choice of neither senatoi When the time came to fill,the place again, the four-year term having expired, Nelson insisted on giv ing Peterson a reappointment, and now be comes Nelson's appointee. l%|il^Sl&.cLkihd*& The L a k e F l o o r Shippers Snid to Be Flghtlner the Road* on It. Special to The Journal. Buffalo, April 30.Lake flour shippers are making a strong fight against the trunk lines in the matter of free flour storage here. For a number of years previous to last season, the lake flour shippers enjoyed free storage and handling of shipments here, besides free space for their flour packers and power to run them Local millers complained of this especial ly as it wag greatly abused, the lake ware houses sometimes carrying western flour through the winter here to the amount of several hundred thousand barrels. Appeal to the interstate commerce commission was not followed by action on Its part, for the roads announced that they had granted this privilege only because they had never been able to agree on the point, but that there was now full accord to cut the privilege off. When this was done western shippers refused to store any more flour here and last season the lake warehouses were empty. Now the roads have granted twenty days free storage. As they will cut off all through billing, the shippers still refuse to hold any flour here and are trying to boycott the roads and break down the new rule.' As Buffalo sometimes handles more than 12,000,000 barrels of lake flour fn a season, anything like- a successful effort to reduce this amount materially will be very injurious to the roads. West ern shippers are already calling atten tion to the fact that the lake trade is very dull, and say they will do what they can to reduce the Buffalo handling. WHIST CONGRESS OPENS T w i n City "Women Are E n t e r e d In Contents nt Boston. Boston, April 30.Nearly 400 women, from all parts of the country, are as sembled in this city for the fifth annual congress of the Women's Whist league. Play will continue all this week at the Hotel Somerset. Miss B. Lane and Mrs. A. J. Loescher of St. Paul are paired as No. 12 team in the Philadelphia cup contests. Their trick score for the first session was minus seven, the winners standing 7.1 tricks plus. Mrs L S Gillette and Mrs. G M. Gil lette of the Ladies' Whist club of Minne apolis, are No. 1 team in the Philadel phia cup contest. Their trick score foi the session was plus 2.7. I i ! Washington, April" ^30.The senate Philppines committee, :* a strict party vote to-day, refused to subpoeria Major Cornelius Gardner, Aguinaldo, Sixto Lopez and Mabinl. Vj Washington, April 30.Major-General MacArthur, to-da.y gave further testi mony before the senate committee on the Philippines. He explained his statement made yesterday that absolute chaos would result shoul independence be granted the Filipinos and the United States forces be withdrawn, by saying that hte unaided ef forts of the people of the Philippines to accomplish self-regeneration would in all probability prove aibortiTe, as they were less prepared for se^lf government and administration than any of the Latia Amerioan republics at tihe time of their emancipation from Sjiain. The people of the Philippines, he said, have rudimentary Ideas and aspirations and are therefore in an essentially plastic condition which under the tuitionary con trol of the United States would, in Bis opinion, admit of a rapjd molding -f the body politic into a consistent, self-sup porting commonwealth. , Even the best thinkers amnng the Filipinos, he saidy have no concept loo. whatever of the prac tical, mechanical efforts whereby the re sults they are alt anxious to attain can be successfully accomplished. American withdrawal from the Islands would, in his opin'o, result in the perma nent failure of republican institutions in tho east, and a fratricidal war which -would continue until suppressed by some exterior force. The broad generalization, he said, is readied that the United States must retain the archipelago as a tuition ary annex that we ttnuet plant our in situtions there, that we must contend, for commercial supremacy and perhaps com bat for political- sirpreinacy to overcome the inherent. ^^Bculties of the situation which will n&quireihe most profound ef forts of const,l'uctHe statesmanship. Senator Pafjtgfsoft asked if he would ap ply ,the Jtame VicigK^Tl^j^ansct to Japan feka&GNwiWif^^i^WSiei* *K'x -4ha* if Japan should come, into ouv:''bands* in'% clean' manner, with a ^olru ^ w n ^ W o e , purT morals and with the" same definite, purpose we have in the Philippines we should by all means keep it. He gave it as his conscientious belief that the presence of the United States in the Philippines is an unmitigated benefaction to the Filipino people. "Do you mean the Filipino.people that are left alive after they have been subju- gated?"' Inquired Senator Patterson. General MacArthur declared that there had not been any unusual destruction of life in the islanda "The destruction," said he, "is simply incident to war and of course embraces a very small percent age of the total population, which is dense.". "Thirty-three and a tihind per cent in one province," remarked Senator Patter-, son. Replying to this statement General Mac Arthur informed Senator Patterson that if he preferred to believe that, he (Mac Artihur) could not help it. "We have as much right to believe that from an American officer who is the civil governor and who is there In the province as we have to believe you," replied Sena tor Patterson, which brought the retort. "You can believe what you wish and I will believe what I wish." D i s c u s s i o n Late Yesterday. In the senate late yesterday Mr. Teller said that if It be truo that General Smith issued the alleged order to kill and burn he ought to be dismissed from the service. Mr. Lodge said nothing was known here of General Smith's order until it was pleaded 'by Major Waller as a defense for his action in Samar. As soon as Waller !bad pleaded that order as his defense, the president himself had de cided that General Smith be court-mar tialed. Mr. Carmack (Tenn.) insisted the evi dence indicated that orders of a very severe character issued In the Philippines were being suppressed, not by the war department, but by the. military authori ties in the Philippines. In calling attention to the report of the secretary of Batangas province that there had been so great a mortality in the province as to reduce the population from 300,000 to about 200,000, the mortality be ing due to disease. Mr. Tillman inquired whether the Philippine committee had in vestigated that matter. When inofrmed that it had not, he ex claimed: "Well, how long are we going to hold on to this bag of oats? Wha/t benefit is it to the American people to pursue this infamous policy?" As the running colloquy continued, Mr. Culberson asked Mr. Lodge if he indorsed the order issued by General Bell. "No," replied Mr. Lodge, "I do not in dorse cruel methods of warfare. General Smith's order is one which every Amer ican should regret. On the surface these orders seem to me to be revolting." Mr. Teller, in conclusion, declared that this government could not escape the con demnation of the world and of every right thinking man for "this miserable, wicked attempt to compel these people to accept our government, whether they desired it or not." The house committee on military af fairs has ordered a favorable report on the resolution of Representative Burle son, of Texas, requesting the war depart ment for copies of the orders, etc., tp General Jacob H. Smith, relative to the campaign In the island of Samar. f front The Journal Bureau, Room dS, Pott Building, Waehington. Washington, April 30.Minister Wu Ting fang informed^ The Journal corre spondent to-day that in all probability he would accept the invitation of the John A. Rawlins post to visit Minneapolis. He is in doubt, however, regarding the best time for the visit. During May he will be very busy with official matters, and in June the weather will probably be too warm for receptions and indoor speeches. It Is his judgment that he should go in the fall, although, of course, he will be open to suggestions on this point from members of the post. It is not true that he has declined an invitation to deliver the commencement oration at Milledgeville, Ga.,. college. He did write a facetious letter to Senator Clay' regarding a certain speech in the senate by Mr. Teller, in which he was held up to ridicule for going about the coun try speechmaklng, but that does not mean that he will not go to Milledgcville, or that he will stop making speeches. Minister Wu would be glad to have some definite word from Rawlins post re garding the best time for him to go to the northwest. He has had several communications from the state department regarding the Chinese restaurant boycott in Minneapo lis to the effect that the matter is being investigated and that satisfacory prog ress Is being made. The matter Is In the hands of Governor Van Sant, who is di recting the inquiry. In a later interview (Minister Wu says foe will write a formal acceptance of the Minneapolis invitation as soon as official business will permit. He says there is no hurry and assumes that Rawlins Post will be. (satisfied if it (hears from him within the month. Incidentally it may be said that the re-enactment -of the Geary law means the retention of Wu as the Chinese minister. Had congress passed the drastic bill pro posed by the house, Wu would probably have been iheld accountable by his gov ernment and called home. It is now cer tain that he will remain indefinitely. He came to the United-States in 1897. - W^ W. Jermane. Meat Business Is Given aRe- , markable and Gratify- ., ing Setback. r. V * - * * i% Dressed The Demand for Meats Falls Off 33 1-3 Per Cent in a Few Days. M IN COUNCIL Standing Rock SiSux Meet the Commissioner at Fort Yates. From T/ie Journal Bureau. Room -4S, Post Building, Wu-hitigtoti. Washington, April 30.James J, Hill is a busy man in Washington, if the cur rent newspaper rumors -may be trusted. He denies himself to all reporters and correspondents and puts in his time visit ing preeminent members of both house of congress and interviewing officials. Every night he gives a dinner or is himself dined. Yesterday in these dispatches it was said that his chief purpose in coming here was to see what could be done to "get together" with the administration on the merger .question. There is to-day no reason for thinking that the statement is incorrect. ...!-'',''-.. - ~ It is also said, and perhaps with some truth, that while here he is booming irri gation matters and quietly knocking the pending bills to increase the powers of the interstate commerce commission. The railroad world is sadly divided on this question and Mr. Hill represents the wing 'that believes in letting well enough alone. The P h i l i p p i n e Question. Senate democrats, under the leadership of Senator Dubois, are trying to force the administration to summon Aguinaldo and other Filipino leaders to the United 'States for the purpose of testifying be fore the senate committee now Investigat ing Philpplne affairs and failing that to have a committee visit the islands for a more thorough investigation than can be had at home. The Philippine question may keep congress in session most of the summer. All the - appropriation bills will be put of the way before June 1 in fact, most of them are now passed but con gress will be kept in session because the democrats want to make good their effort to galvanize the Philippine question into life as the political issue for 1904. Senator Dubois has precipitated his scheme on the Philippines committee of the senate, but no action will be taken until the republican members of it have opportunity to, confer. Should the com mittee by a party vote, as is' likely, refuse to grant Mr. Dubois's request, it is said Dubois will carry it to the floor of the senate. He may ultimately carry his point In favor of summoning Aguinaldo and his friends to the United States, be cause a committee would not care to brave the hardships of 'the long tKip -to the far east, moat" of its members be|ttg old men. Obviously it would be easief in the end to grant Dubois' request than to give satisfactory reasons for refusing. Aguinaldo is under restraint in Manila, Mabini is a prisoner in Guam, and # Sixto Lopez is supposed to be near Boston. , W. W. Jermane. Chicago, April 30.The business of Chi cago packers has been staggered by the refusal of the people of the country to eat meat at the prevailing high prices.'. The demand.for dressed meats In the last few days lias fallen off 3S1-3 per cent and the discharge of men in the packing houses is general. Packers are forced to admit that th government agitation of "the dressed meat combination, backed by the consumers in all parts of the country who refuse to pay the high figures,is already proving disas trous. The shipments of dressed beef from the yards have decreased during the last ten days that cars are piling up in tho railroad yards with alarming rapidity. ft " n M THE V. S. GETS CHEAP MEAT i S The P a c k e r s Uncle W h e n :m Special to The Journal. Fort Yates, N. D., April ' 30.Three thousand Indians are here to council with Commissioner Jones concerning land leas ing and allotments. A big feast was held yesterday. Mr. Jones interviewed the chiefs and others regarding their grievances. He is popular with the Indians. Inspector Nesler has completed the in vestigation of the charges against Agent Bingenhelmer. General opinion favors Bingenheimer. , CANADA'S N. W. Its Phenomenal Growth Told in a Consular Report From Montreal. THE CURTAIN ^ALLSlif F u n e r a l of Sol Smith R u s s e l l at Washingrton To-day. From The Journal Bwreau, Moon* dS, fil Building, Washington- Washington, April 30.The funeral of Sol Smith Russell to-day was largely at tended, a large number of actors now playing at the lofral theaters attending., The wife and daughter of Mr. Rus sell will take up their permanent resi dence in Washington.* His son, who lives !n Minneapolis, was anxious to have them .eturn to that city, but they preferred o stay in the east. From Th .Journal XZu.reu.-u, ltoon% 4U, JPom* Building, Washington. Washington, April 30.Consul General Bettinger at Montreal in to-day's "ad- vance sheets of consular reports," has an interesting report on the development of Canada. At no period, he says, has it received so many immigrants as in the last two years. No country in the world during the past ten years has gone for ward so rapidly and substantially along all lines as Canada. In 1867 'there were but 2,000 miles of railway. To-day there are 18.000. In 1901 the country reached high-water mark in commerce, trade and internal improve ments. Compared with ten years ago her exports have doubled, and last year were ?190,000,000. Last season's grain crop in Manitoba alone was 85,000,000 bushels. The value of the produce of Manitoba farms last season was $40,000,000, exclusive of the revenue from hay, stock and the root crop. . "The" demand for land is rapidly in creasing. Last year the Canadian Pa cific sold 830,000 acres for farm purposes and the Canada Northwest Land com pany 120,000 acres. * v W. W- Jermane. GENERAL SMITHES TRIAL Lncbnn F o u d toMalaya B e Very - ':-/ '.- '/- . " '.' ivBad ---"\ V ' Manila, April 30.Lieutenant George Shields, Jr., aid He camp to General J. H. Smith, testified at to-day's session of the courtmartlal. which is-trying the general. The lieutenant said he knew well the signature of Lucban, the insur gent leader who was captured Feb. 22 by Lieutenant Strebler's Philippine scouts on the island of Samar. The or der to poison the natives' spears was un doubtedly signed by Lucban. The witness also said Lucban confessed to him that he was the author of the proclamation setting forth that German warships were bombarding Vlgan and that the Filipino navy was blockading Manila, which was issued to encourage the Filipinos. The defonse then rested its case and the court adjourned until Saturday. KILLED BY FEAR "Unloosen" S a m Bnyii. - Washington, April 30.Inquiry at the war department has disclosed the fact that despite tlw great increase in the price of beef, the army is now making contracts for the next fiscal year by ''which it will get beef at a number of military poats at lower rates than it has been paying under the contracts arranged a year ago. Dealers in some of the big cities have offered to furnish beef to nearby army posts at prices lower than those of last year, and in most cases where there is an increase it is very small. In some caees the increase over last year's prices is due not to any of the causes given by the beef men, but to the fact that chilled beef has been substituted for treshly slaughtered, beef, which ia, of course, cheaper, Figures taken from the official records of the subsistence department furnish a striking comparison with the prices de manded of private consumers. Contracts have already been made for supplying with beef three posts, near New York city, and in two of thes there is a York city, and in two of these there Is a year ago. At Fort Wood, on Bedloss Island, the price for the coming fiscal year will be 7.98 cents a pound. against 8.25 cents for the year to end on June 30. At Fort Wadsworth, on Staten Island, the price just fixed by contract is 7.14 cents against 7.19 cents under last year's con tract. At Fort Columbus, N. Y., harbor, the price will be increased from 7.63 cents to 7.87 cents. In Washington, wjwre there haorbeen a ^ marked rise in th*, price of beef to private '3*.| consumers,, the -.a'ubs.Istence department of '[? j the armi has rnac contracfc v, itn- a local "A* dealer to furnish beef t o t n a ^Mblngto*.? '* barracks at- ^ c e n t a a^pound,: against 7.f ' * cents under ia^ejar'* contract. The official records show also that "Beef } dealers are now offering to furnish, sup- ,-A plies at lower rates than last year to . 5 army posts near the cities Of Atlanta. - Pittsburg, Baltimore, Troy, New Bedford I and New Orleans, while the contract prices have been Increased for posts at or near Providence, Boston, Mobile, Augueta Charleston, Watertown, West Point and Plattsburg. . Five Girls Leap From a Win dow Because of a False Cry of Fire Philadelphia, April 30.Five girls are known to have been killed and more than a score injured during a panic at the cigar factory of Harburger, H'omman & Co., Tenth street and Washington avenue, at 12:15 this afternoon. The company em ploys oyer 600 girls. At the hour above named a workman employed in the building was slightly injured by being caught in an elevator.. Some one cried "fire," and immediately, there-was a rush for the stairway of the building. The crush was so great that many of the girls turned back and rushed for the win dows. Before they could be. restrained, a score or more had hurled themselves to the street, several being crushed to death. Ambulances wore quickly on the scene and the dead and injured were hurried to the hospitals. The section of the city where the acci dent occurred Is densely populated arod nearly all the employes lived in the neighborhood. The families of the dbad and injured were quickly on the scene and the screams of the mothers and slaters of supposed victims were heartrending. The officials say those who were killed were crushed to death in the jam on the stair way as they made a mad rush to sain the street. Hundreds of girls were packed in the hallway leading to the street and those who were killed, fainted and were trampled and crushed to death by their excited comrades. Already there have been twenty girls and' one man admitted to the Pennsylvania hospital, where the physicians say several are fatally injured. Ten more girls were taken to the^Hahene miann hospital but none is believed to be fatally injured. It is now said that a deaf and dumb boy employed in the factory caught his hand in the elevator and In his effort to make his mishap known, he rushed into the midst of a. group of girls excitedly waving his hand from which blood was dripping. Then followed the cry of "fire." : 'li'^:: .' S e v e n Girls A r e D e a d , j^v&v At 1:45 p.m.the police report that seven girls are dead as a result of Injuries re ceived in the panic, three are dying at th e hospitals, and twenty are under treat ment for jnjuries. They say that 1,200 girls were employed in the factory. During the excitement the Are alarm in the corridor of tho factory building was struck and the arrival of the engines on the scene added greatly to the terror of the panic-stricken girls. -'' \ A-' :i&. DELAREY STILL FREE J L . R e p o r t T h a t He Had Surrendered ?Sfe.S' ft ' '- D e n i e d , - ^ p- . - ^ London, April 30.There Is no truth in a report circulated In the United States to-day that General Delarey with three Boer commands has surrendered to the British in South.Africa. . The war office received dispatches from Lord Kitchener to-day but he made no mention of any surrender. | ' ( Operators on the stock exchange were busy with peace rumors, but they were also very intangible. A* t THE CUDAHT CODE Secrets of the Beef Men R e v e a l e d by V 1 a New York Paper. V, ' New York, April 30.The Herald thii ' 1 morning reproduces portions of the secret' ^ telegraphic code book of the Cudahy Pack- -, j? ing company, a copy of which it has ob- "/f tained. Extracts given show new proofs % % of the operation of agreements among the ",j* beef trust houses to maintain prices in C*1 harmony with each other and to regulate % the' supply and demand by commoV con- '^ sent. The code book completes a chain of ?i evidence, the Herald declares, which 'g shows that P. L. Hughes, eastern manager i of this trust house, has acted in agree- '$$ ment with other managers of the beef * Jj trust in New York. ^ " '*'. - : / ' - ? r ^ INFJjJCTED MEAT -f"f ^ | , ' *N*$M,"r A l d e r m e n Make Serious N e w York Charge* A g a i n s t the Trust. New York, April 30.Following their ^ action of last week, when they strongly condemned the beef trust and called for the intervention of federal and state au thorities to put an end to the conspiracy, the aldermen at their-meeting yesterday ^ adopted resolutions in which the alarming1 . charge is made that not content with its extortions the beef trust (s shipping to this city carloads of infected meat. The menace to the health of. residents of New York is pointed out, and the board of estimates and apportionment is urged to set aside an additional $15,000 for tbm health department to enable it to ettgag* more meat inspectors. At present, it i* declared, the health board is seriously handicapped- in its efforts to prevent the sale of infected meat owing to the em&lU ness of its staft of meat inspectors. -- . PROOF OF THE T R V i T K a n s a s City P a c k e r s H a v e t h e B H - -dence for It. jZ^.S% . Kansas City, Mo., April 30.If Attorney General 3ro wants evidence of the ex istence of a beef trust, say the'retail butchers, he will have no trouble In find ing it in Kansas City. They hope that they, as well .as the packers who have been, summoned, will be called upon for testimony in the coming supreme" court hearing. The strongest evidence bf the existence of an agreement between the,packers, ac cording to the butchers, is the uniformity of the wholesale price of beef .at all" of the houses, and the fact that the advance* in quotations take place - simultaneooily on a certain day of the week. . Another evidence, the butchers say, Is the black- list system, under which a dealer who misses the regular weekly payment of hie bill to one packing house is unable to tiny any meat from another until that hill la paid. While his credit may be extended a short time at the house to which-he ia obligated, they say he becomes entirely subject to that house in the price he paya for meat. "" S$#ii MEAT EATERS ftUIT' * twW7 Upper P e n i n s u l a Consnmcra T r y | Get E v e n With..the Trust. Special to.The Journal. |S| ' / f , Marquette, Mich., April. 20.fteport* teem various portions of the upper peninsula show that the consumption of meat has f&Usn off from 20 to 50 per cent in consequence of the increase in prices, which, in this section, averages about 3 cents a pound. Taeiprtee of board arid meals at restaurants baa bee". M f*tV few,*,** materially raised. i' IE **&* -%\ v.*.,--_i\ ., . ." , 'ti-" -. "'/, f, - ..- .'.' 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