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- NEWS OF THE WEEK Uott Important Happening of ths Past Seres Day. fnteretting; Itsma Gathered From nil Pert of tt i Wo.-t l Condnsd Into Small 8pace tor the Ben fit of Our Reader. Congressional. Congressman Calderhead, of Kan aa, haa resumed hi eeat In the liotme after long siege of lllncse. ' Representative Miller, of Kaniaa. ha been re-elected a member of the republican congressional campaign committee. The house ha pained a resolution reding (o the state of KanA an acre of ground In the Fort Riley reserva tion on which the old territorial capl tol bullulng atanda. The minority currency bill, on which the demncrata are expected to unite In opposition to the Aldrlch bill, ha been Introduced In the house by Ren reaentatlve John Rharp Wllllama. It contain many radical change from the republican meaiure. The aenale haa paiaed the bill plac ing Gen. O. O. Howard on the retired Hat of the army aa a lieutenant gen eral. (Ion. Howard la the only officer row living who commanded an army during the civil war. Senator Stone of Missouri haa In t troduced a Joint reaolutlon authorlx U Ing the president to relinquish control of the Philippine Islauds In 1913. The aenatn committee on military affair ha decided to recommend that the government take over the confed erate cemetery at Springfield, Mo. Senator Hevorldge recently delivered an appeal to the senate to adopt hla bill providing for a iion-pnrilann tariff commission. A bitter attnrk wa made on the rule and power of the speaker In the house recently by Representative Nelson, of Wisconsin, republican. He declared the power of the house wa 'merged In the speaker. The plan of the Interior department to abolish pension agencies through out the country and pay all pension from Washington I to be vigorously opposed on the floor of the homo. The pension bill, n favorably re ported to the house, abolish nil pen lon agencies except the central one nt Washington. Ily the new arrange ment $225,000 would be saved nil 4 tiualty. The house hn adopted a reaolutlon fit sympathy with I'oriugal In connec tion with the assassination of King Carlo and the crown prince. A bill creating a bureau of postal savings lin been Introduced by Sena tor llurkett. Speaker Cannon I authority for the statement that there will be no tariff commission appointed at thl session of congress. Revision w ill bo taken up next winter. llobert J. t'onslns, now serving hi eighth term In congress from Iowa, lias announced that tie will not be a candidate again. Miscellaneous, The horpltal ship Hellef hn been placed In aervlce at the Mure Island navy yard at San Francisco. Kald Sir Harry Maclean, who has been held captive by Kalsull, the Moor.'sh bandit, for the past seven month, ha arrived at Tangier under escort. Attorney General Hartley haa filed a motion for a rehearing of the case Involving the atock hlpper' law, re cently decided unconstitutional by the tipreme court of Missouri Lyman O. White, publisher of the Alva. Ok., Itevlew, ha purchased the Alva Courier and will consolidate the two paper. Judge Jamea llargl. the notorious feudist of Ilreathitt county, Ky., was recently ahot dead by hla own son after a quarrel. Mr. O. 0. Ilurton was recently awarded 13,000 damage agnimtt I. F. Dayhoff, former Kansas superintend ent of public Instruction, at Topeka. Dayhoff had attacked Mrs. Ilurton In hi paper, the Kansaa Kducator. The operating vice president of large number of railroads held a. con firenee with I'realdent lioosevelt for the purpose of securing delay In the enforcement of certain law about to become operative. They were referred to the inlerstute commerce couinil slon. At the request of the house com mittee on printing, President Koose velt has suspended Public Printer i- Charles A. Stllllugs. pending an In vestigation of the government print ing office. William 8. Itosslter la tem porarily In charge of the plant. The president, by proclamation, has added 550.471 acres to the Trinity for- eat rvserva In California. The torpedo boat flotilla haa reached Punt Arenas, In the Strait of Ma gellan. There were IT atrlke In Kanaas laat year, Involving 3$ men, and a loss In wages of $113,010. In the Pennsylvania capllol graft trial the name of ei-Clov. Penny packer and former Attorney General Carson were brought Into the case In aome sensational testimony given by Stanford 11. Lewi, assistant to Architect Huston. A young man who formerly worked In the Kansas City street department and In other occupations throughout the west ha fallen heir to an Kngllsh title and valuable estate by the death of hi father, Sir Uenile ','ave-llrowne-Cave. Warrensburg, Mo., voted "dry" re cently by a majority of 143 vote.' Ten men are dead a the result of an explosion In a coal mine at Port Hood, Nova Scotia. Charles W. Morse, the multi-millionaire who disappeared from New York recently, ha arrived at Liver Jiool on the liner Campania. (lov, Hoch ha refused to accept the bond of State Dairy Commissioner Wilson, given by the Culled States Fidelity and Guaranty company, which la fighting a suit by the state relating to the First National bank bond of ir.O.OOO. The act of congress of June 1, 1898, prohibiting railroad companies from discriminating against member of labor organliatlona In the matter of employment ha been declared uncon stitutional by the United States su preme court The Northern I-nclfle Railroad com pany haa been fined $100 at Helena, Mont., for violating the 10 hour law by compelling a crew to work S3 con secutive hours. The case will be ap pealed to test the law. The Santa Ke has annulled ten of It principal local passenger train In Kansas. Increase In the road's earn Inga I given aa the cause. John Mitchell, president of the Culled Mine Works, declare there I little possibility of labor organizations entering the political field lu the com ing campaign. The Hiitish foreign office officially denies thut a squadron of war vessels I to be Kent to the Pacific. A receiver ha been asked for the Notional Hollow Itruke Ileum com pany of Chicago. The president hn nominated (leorge L. Crlgshy to bo Culled State attorney for the district of Alaska. The "Hobo" congress at St. Lout ha adopted resolutions demanding that the government provide national Insurance for litlxens against enforced Idleness or "Involuntary unemploy ment." Kansas prison twine will be sold till year for T', cunt a pound In order for S.nuo pound or over. Opposition haa developed In Penn sylvania to placing a statuu of the lute Senator M, S, Quay In the rotunda of the new state capltol at llarrlsburg. The coldest weather In five year was recently experienced lu eastern Pennsylvania and New York. The national convention of the so cialist party will bo held lu Chicago on May 10. A dispatch frntn the Spanish fron tier any that a Portugese republic ha been proclaimed at Oporto and Hint a prodtilonal government lias been established In that city. The Indiana republican have se lected their district delegates to the national convention. The delegation will be a unit for Vice President Fair banks. The First Natlonnl bunk of Prook lyn, which suspended several months ngn, lias resumed business. Tulsa, Ok., has adopted the com mission form of municipal govern ment. The crulier South Dakota built at Die I'nlon Iron work In California ha been placed In commission. Coal operator In the Oklahoma field have ao fur refused to grant an In crease In wage to miner and unless such action la taken before April 1 strike of lo.ono will result. Harry K. Thaw haa Instructed til counsel that they must take some ac tion at once looking to bis release (join Matteawan asylum. Personal. William J llryan addressed the Civ ic Forum at Carnegie hall, New York, recently on the subject, "Thou Shalt Not Steal." Kx-Pi cinler Franco, of Portugal, who fled from Lisbon after the as sasslnatlon of King Carlos, haa ar rind lu Purls. Hla ultimate destina tion Is Switserland. Charles II. Danner of Fort 8cott ha been chosen president of the Kansas State Society of Labor. Dr. W. H. Carruth ha returned to the Kansas university after six months spent In Germany. E. 8. D. Bhort ridge, former gov ernor of North Dakota, Is dead, at Devil Lake. Gen. O. II. t-agrange, governor of the National Soldier' home at Saw telle, Cal., ha resigned. Joseph (1. Ilurton, the last survivor of the Orel abolitionist organisation In Illinois, Is dead at Alton. The president ha named Itenjamln F. Thoinae a poatmaater at Omaha, Neb. . Judge John M. Stewart, a prominent lawyer and democratic politician, Is dead at hi 2 me In St. Joseph, Mp. THE BUREAU OF FORESTRY FIFTY-SIX NEW FORESTS PLACED IN ITS CHANGE LAST YEAR. NO EXTENSIVE FIRES FORESTER PINCHOT'S REPORT TELkS OF THE WORK DONE AND PLANNED. Washington. In hla annual report for the last year Chief Foreitor Gilford Pinrhot raid: At (he end of the last fiscal year all the natlonnl forests In the I'nlted State and Alaska were under organ ised administration. They comprise 183 administrative units, under the super vision IIS officers In charge. Fifty six new forests were put under admin istration (luring the fear. The ItrI administrative un. protec tive force on the national forests on June 30, l!u7, was 96 supervisors, II deputy supervisor, t39 ranger and 461 gnnrla. Kach field offlc--r engaged In putrol covered on the average 142, 23! acre. Aid In technical matter v n given to aupervlHor by twenty rive forest as sistant ind ten planting assistant. The trtnsfcr to the loral olllees of admliilstintlve detail fonneilv ban tied In Washington, together with the routine work arising from the lamer use of forest resources made It luces amy to Increase the number i.( clerks In the oillres of supervisor from six to twenty nine. Protective measure against foret fire on Iho national founts were highly effective, says the report. The aiea burned tvr In the calendar year limrt was lestiicted to 115,41'i ucies les than 7.7 acre In lo.ooo. a uitulnst 20 for the preceding year. The num bers of flies repoited waa 1.133 and the uver-igo burned aren leas than 102 acre. TIk estimated value of the tim ber ileal rnyed was $Tl!,ls3, as attains! $1.2'2 tor the preceding year. The cost of fUhMng Area, exclusive of the salmlc of forest officers, was Js.Ttis. This inn ill damage from fires, many of which were started from lightning and other unavoidable causes, In immense slrelehe of mountain count ly, I evi dence, continue the report, tliut Ihe liicauure adopted for detecting an I ex lliiKiilshlug tire on the national forest ure efficient. It Is certain, Mr. Pin- hot adds, that loss by tire can be vir tually eliminated If appropriation for iho forests provide adequate means of communication uud sufficient protec tive force. The national forests will be redls trlited during the year 190 with a view to their more economical admin istration and to making the headquar ters more accessible In urn IS. This re districting will Involve I lie creation of many new administrative unit. The forest will be divide, I lv water nIiciU and natural boundaries, i.i'hcr tliau by legal subdlvlxlolis. The work planned luiiu-ld the con truction of over S.fiiiu mile of tele phone line, S.ooo miles of trail, 200 tiule of road, 250 bridges, 500 mile of drift and boundary fences nn-l 6t0 cab ins and 1'iirr.a. The lame number of forest upon which ihe work will be carried in MlmiilinneouHly will make necessary a large Inert sh.- lu the force of supervising engineers A number of roads will bo built In ro oiieiatlon with states ami counties. In Idaho, for instance, $t "no will be ex pended tn cooperation with the state to build a road from llolse to Atlanta, and $3,000 to open a wagon road from Harpster to Klk City and to construct Ihe old nud well known Salmon river trail. About $4,000 will be ient In re opening and repairing Ihe i-olo military trail, which many years ago made ac cessible a country rich in ixisslbllitlos, and which will shorten the route be tween the eastern and western por tions of the Hate by many miles. Itoad work In cooperation with counties will be undertaken In Colorado. Oregon and Idaho and prmslbly oilier stale. An annual statement was prepared for ihe accounting officers of the treas ury showing receipts fiom sales of products on Ihe different national for ests. This statement Is used by the secretary of Ihe treasury In determin ing the ten per cent, required by law to be deducted and turned over to the slates and territories lu which the for ests are situated for the benefit of pub lic schools and public roads. The amount to be paid 10 the date and territories, a shown by the state ment ore as follows: Alaska t M715 Arixona 17.107.92 California 18.064. 2K Colorado 15.791 67 Idaho 19,68168 Kansas 11919 Mnntann 10,655.43 Nebraska 1.017(1 Nevada LIMBS New Mexico 1,914 0 Oklahoma 115 50 Oregon 11.980J9 South Dakota 1.751 13 Ctaii 13.657.31 Washington 1,731.65 Wyoming , K.22149 Total $153,031.19 DEMOCRATIC CURRENCY BILL. Framed by Minority Members of Hous Commutes on Banking, Washington What will be known aa "the minority currency bill," wa Introduced Friday by John Sharp Wil liam of Mississippi, Democratic leader of the House, who drew the measure a a result of a harmonious conference of Democratic members of the house committee on bankir.g. The bill will come before Ihe house In the shape of a minority report from the banking and currency committee In It preseut form. Among the provls'ons of the bill are the following: It repeal all lawa permitting na tional banka to keep three-fifth of their reserve In national bank of re serve cities and similar lawa per mitting inch deposit of one half of the reaerve amount. It provides that not les than one half of the reserve now required to be kept In lawful money In ctnlral re aerve rltiea shall bo hereafter held In gold or gold certificate. It doe away with the payment of national bank examiners by Hie fee system, and substitutes aalnrie not les than $:l,Oiio nor In execs of $5, 000 yearly, with actual expenses. It provide thai Ihe total liabilities of any national bank, Inclusive of the liabilities of It member, shall not ex ceed one-tenth of the bauk'a paid In and unimpaired capital stock and one tenth of It Impaired surplus funds; and that in no event shall. the liabll itlea exceed thirty per ci III of the tap Ital atock. No national bank shall loan In ihe aggregate more than seven times the amount of Its paid up capital plus ti unimpaired surplus. Any national bank may keep fifty per cent of lis reserve In l ulled State bonds or bonds of state or in the bond of certain municipalities, but not more than one fourth of iho total reserve may be kept In slate or muni cipal bonds: mid the bond.-i shall bo nc ceptuble only of such tininlcipallltc us have tnnlutiiliicd their bonds nt or above pur for nix year preceding, and Have been ill rorpmu'e existence ten years and have never defaulted In llulr funded debt. Hie comptroller of the currency, Im mediately after pu-tMlne of Hie bill, shall furnish u ropy of the new lew to each hank lu the country and in quire If It will aeii pt Ihe pritviHlons. Consent hhall be binding and I lie li t blip les attaching to t'iicnt may be en forced by the eonipliolh r Agreement lo incept tin. provision shall eniiilo state banks and trust l oiiipuuo to the benefits of the new , The elaallc ruireney feature of iho bill Ih contained in a seitloii wlilch provides that these liitcrconvciiihlc bonds may be l imslteii "in ihe near est sub ireiiHiny, and the ilcpnsliinu bank shall receive lu lieu tbi i.-ot I'liltcd Ktatc cmciKciicy tieusury notes" subject to luxation, redeemable nt tiny lime and legal tender. Fur the creation of u fund of 115, iiuo.iioo fur the payment nf depositor of failed banks operating mulct Hie piovihlons of this law, there Is auiboi l.od the Imposition of a tax of one six teenth of one per cent on iho depomla if bunks so operuluig and whose con lit to be so taxed bus been obtained. The Una I section of Ihe bill pro vid that no bank officer hhall make a loan for the put pose of stock f ain blltig. Land Claims and Crating Permit. Wasbliif.ton-Chief Forester Pin ehot In his annual report says that a! tliiuiKll 'uiids witlilli national forests are withdrawn from nil forms of entry oi filing i xicpt under the mining laws ami the lonlcultnial settlement ucl of June II, I noil, munv claims are vutld because lull luted pi lor lo the creation of Iho national f rents All aliened claims muni be examined ami reported upon in order that the commissioner of Ihe Hern ial I. ami Office u i.y be In formed if there appears to be any lea son why patent should not Issue. Iteporta on 2.473 claims Inside na tlonnl forest boundaries were received from examiners of ibis number I .i!:l mining. !.". homestead. 50 d-sorl land. 42 timber ami stone and 29 mlscellu neons claim were transmitted lo die tleneral l.nd Office for final action; 200 mining, loo homestead, 10 deseri land ami 20 timber and stone claims were held for further report and 2l-"i required no act Ion. The I'.oncrnl I .and Office ordered 01 heatings on recommendations of the forest aervlce that claims bo rejeeled The average number of cattle ami horsi grsxeil under euch permit wu (17 head nnd Ihe average nuinber of aheep I.74H. Thl show conclusively, say the report, that the am ill ow ner have preference In the use of the na tlonnl forest ranges. The to'al receipt on account of the above permit were $67.f57.ti3. Only eight per rent, of the applicants failed lo pay Ihe grailng fee and lo ac cept the permit applied for, and with out doubt many of these will accept their permit before the close of the season Thl I exactly the same per centage aa butt year. Predict Portugu Republic. Lisbon, Portugal, via lladajo. Spain. The Republican leaders In Portugal are in extremely high spirits. They assert confidently that republic I now a matter of month, not of year. A competent spokesman aays: "The end of the monarchy la near. It will coma as unexpectedly as did lha murder of the king and the crown prince, and the world will wake up one morning to find a republic In Por tugal. We are convinced that the rev olution will be a peaceful one. It I e mistake for foreigner to Imagine that the people of Portugal are uot awake." PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT HAS NOT USED FEDERAL PATRON AGE TO FURTHER NOMINA TION OF TAFT. EXPLAINS HIS COURSE TELLS HOW AND WHY APPOINT MENTS HAVE BEEN MADE. Washington. President lioosevelt haa mudo answer to the recent public alulemen.a that be has made use of federal patronage lo further the presi dential Interests of Secretary Tafl. Th answer la In the form of a letter ad dressed to William Dudley Foulke of Itlchinond, Indiana, and Inc ludes a let ter from Foulke to the President sug gesting the need of such a statement. The President begin bv character izing the charge as "(nlse and malt clous. He follow thl with an anal ysis of all appointment 'in by him to) ihe Senaie for Its action, lo show that In no tuxc ha the proximity of presidential coutest Inlluiiiced his ac tion. Foulke' letter, dated February Jth, say. In pail; "On litnu.iiv 1.1th I laid before y.m an niib le In the Indian. ipotta News I pl'.pcr suppoillng Ihe cuuilnl o ) of Mr. Fiililuink.o, licensing you of uxlng tho federal patronage to secure the Humi liation of Mr. luff iiinl naming the iihI offices In piiriiciilur. "I spoke of Ihe fnct that certain Taff men bad been nominated In Ohio, ami you unsweri'd thai Ihat wus true: that ot would be Very weak If y til allow c! Ihe power of BIMMiliilnn nt In thai slalo to bo used only us a lueun of iiHuck iiui the MdiuinlHlratlon. "On my return home I obeie, o h r at tlclt s iMiklug stiiill.il (hinges In va rious pn;iei-H. "I'ht-He charge uIho continue tn ! circulated by other tiewspupei lu all parts of the country. "hi view ol ihifo Kit rtcd ctil plaints, would not ll detailed toalelilellf f your recent iipxttnliiiciln. ihe tuctt by whom tl ev . i iritud. your ten son and the i!mip!cs up n whleli Mil have luted in li.iiMnt. tie in. in wi ll lis n M'.itetiM III In tiuaid to lite allege I eociclon, be lite lu st I'.icl'ioi of vllill lung the fuels? nuis truly, I Slum ill "WJI DCHI.KY KOI I.KK " In his ii ply to Foulke Piisldcnt KoohowI; say: "The Hiaietneiit that I have ucd tint office la the effort to nominate any preNliletitl.-l candidate Is bolli false utul malicious. It Is the usual IiiiukIiiiiIIvo Invention which flow fit m a ileaire ti say something IiiI'iiIoiin Keuictiibcr that thiise now making Ihl.i iiiciihuiIoii wen- busily i ngui'.i d two tuiinlhs ago lu hum itltiK Dial I wu ind n t lh olllei-H lit secure my own nomtliiitl-ui. "riliee the present Ciiiikicsh assent bled, I wo months a no. I have sent li the Senile ihe names of -ill Iho otll dais I have uppoi.icl fur ihe ciittit period since Congris adjourned oil till 4i)l of March luM, lb.it Ih, for eleven month. Kxi lulling uriiiy nnd nntv officers, sclent Itle expcitH, beullli offici i h ninl those of the revenue culler sen lee, I have in l ie during thl period about l,:tr2 appointments subject tucolillrma tl'tn by the Senule, I, Ml being post master. The llplHilntmellt III the ill lomatle nnd consular sonic unit lu Ihe llldla i sen Ice have been made without MVUI'd to politic In noiiilmiilng Judges I have trVuleil politics is a wholly Hccondury lonslder iilton. nud, tim'cad of relying sulci v upon the rieotiimi Dilution of either to n alius or longresKtiien, have always con llllcte.l Independent luipillil lilt Self. "There remain the great bulk of of flees, including almost all of the post office, 111" colleclorshlp of ciimIoiiin. the upprulHi-i ships, Ihe land office uml Ihe like, niiiiibei lug aome l.l'.'ill oe Ihcrenboiit. It Is, of course, mil of tlu iiictl'wi tor me lo examine or huvn kuowleilH t of such a multitude of ap pointments, and therefore, us renter, x them I generally accept the sugges tions of senators and congi oilmen, the elected representative of tin people) In the localities concerned, always re serving lo inyielf Ihe light lo IllHlst upon the li an coming up lo Ihe re quired standard of character i.ud capa city, an I i.Ihc reserving iho light, lo noiiilnole whomsoever I choose, if for any reason I am satisfied that I am not reieivlng from seu,i ir or r n gressmun mmI advice, or if I h ippen to personally know aome pecilluily fit man." Shooting at Telluhd. IVnver. A Itepubllran special from TiUuiIcIh Sunday night says: After daring Marshal Wlllnrd lteynold half way lo fight a duel, Humane Offici r S F, Austin of Ibis place wu thl morn ing shot through Ihe left elbow, the bone being so badly shuttered thai hi, arm hud lo be amputated near Iho shoulder this afternoon. So far a rait be learned there had been no prevlom trouble between the Iwj men. Mar shal Iteynold claims that hn ahot lit self defense, and av be had never quarreled with Austin, whom he be lieve wa Intoxicated thl morning. He ha not been arrested. Since Iho uoollug Austin haa refused to talk.