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CONVICTED OF . A CONSPIRACY The Government Wins Its Case Against Alleged Timber Grab bers at Duluth. Head Cruiser of Lumber Concern Guilty of Frauds Under Tim ber and Stone Act. Thousands of Acres Filed Upon by Fictitious SettlersOther Ac tions to Be Tried. Special to The Journal. ' Duluth. Minn.. Dec. 11.A case in volving the fraudulent acquisition of 3.700 acres of land under the timber and stone act came to an end here yesterday afternoon by a verdict of "guilty" returned against Svend Ole son. The charge was conspiracy. Oleson was head cruiser for.the. big lumbering firm of Swallow & Hopkins. It is charged that with the con nivance of the members of the firm-he organized parties of fictitious set tlers, took them to valuable tracts of standing timber on Basswood lake, north of Tower, and later induced them to file upon twenty-four adjoin ing claims, these being later turned over in a most perfunctory manner to the firm which employed Oleson. The case was bitterly fought by the defense, which was represented by a large array of the most prominent at torneys in Duluth and St. Paul. The government was represented by Al J. Smith, assistant district attorney, who has been preparing for this trial for many months. He had a hard fight, but his persistence won out. The penalty is from $1,000 to $10,000 fine or imprisonment upon a correspond ing basis. There are other indictments yet to be tried based upon the operations of this firm, but the evidence in all is practically the same under which Ole son's conviction was secured. G00DN0W MAKES AN EXPLANATION Tells How the Report That He Wasthree to Answer Charges Originated. Declares That a Newspaper Corre spondent, with Whom He Had Trouble, Started It. From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building, .. Washington. -- - ,"- Washington. Dec. 11.John Good now was at the. state department late yesterday awl was told that charges had been filed against him. 'Gbbdnow saye that in all - probability-none will come and that the newspaper stories about charges were. the. work, of a man named Curtis, with whom "he had trouble when the Ballentine case was on trial in the consular court at Shanghai. Curtis was at one time librarian of the, United States supreme *ourt in Washington, according to Goodnow, and drifted to the orient, settling in Shanghai. When the Ballentine case, j involving the question whether a man could be extradited by consular of ficers from Shanghai to Manila, came up. Curtis "butted in" after Ballen tine had consented to return to Manila, and insisted upon a trial. H e made a poor presentation of the case, and Mrs. Ballentine. the wife of the ac - cused man, hired some one else to de fend her husband. Goodnow decided that Ballentine should be extradited after hearing the arguments. Curtis, who was present when the decision was rendered, began to blus ter and was ordered from the court. Curtis had his revenge, however. H e had a commission from a Hearst newspaper and threatened Goodnow with all sorts of things. Charges of the high-handed way in which Good now ran his court in Shanghai were made in an article written by Curtis in j the San Francisco Examiner, and he j opposed to any such action at this time States., They have good qualities, altho also wrote persons in authority here, including several congressmen, mak ing practically the same charges. An extract from one of these letters was telegraphed to The Journal last. Tuesday. The above is Good now's explanation of affairs. H e says the charges don't amount to the snap of one's fingers, and that there is no consular officer in the east who hasn't had charges made against him by adventurous Americans who are sore at them for one reason or an - other. In some instances the same .man appears as plaintiff so often that the department doesn't pay any at tention to his communications. Goodnow discussed to-day, with the legal officers of the state department, his authority to order extraditions, there being no law governing these cases, and in a general way he was upheld.' It cannot be learned that the state department regards the Curtis charges as being serious. Goodnow is still-in good standing at the depart ment, and officials there speak in-the highest terms of his work and general record. Bill Introduced to Provide for Making Homestead Entries. From the Journal- Bureau, Colorado Building:. Washington. ' Washington. ' Dec. 11.Representative f Marshall to-day introduced a bill for tho I ment of the engagement of Robert Goelet, secession of tho Devils 1-akc Indian reser- j brother of the Duchess of Roxburghe, to ration. It provides for opening to set- j Miss Elsie Whelen,. the Philadelphia beau- tlement and entry under' the homestead j ty, says a private letter to Newport, will be made as soon as the "J. Ogden Goelet" matter is cleared up. At Newport last, season Robert Goelet and Miss Whelen were so much together and he showed her such marked atten tion that their engagement was several times reported. law by proclamation of the president. Settlers are to pay ?3.50 per acre for the land in installments $1 to be paid the first year and 50 cents per acre each year thereafter. The bill also provides for the payment of $50,000 to the Indians for sec tions JC and 36. which are to be patented to the state. Under this provision the slate Will get iand which Will net $150,000 when sold under the state laws. Another provision is that the bill shall become lav: immediately upon its passage and approval by the president, thus doini? away with the necessity of securing thy j Hew, York Sun Special Service consent of the Indians. i Trinidad. Col.. Dee. 11 W PREPARED FOR WAR IN PANAMA Marines Ordered to Colon as a Pre- . cautionary MeasureAdvices Are Pacific. Representative Government to Be In augurated on the IsthmusCo lombians Getting Apathetic. $- I Elections in Columbia. . Bogota. Dec. 11.The presi j dential elections have passed off quietly thruout Colombia. Gen- [ erals Reyes and Gonzales Valen j cia are considered as leaders in the contest. It will be some days before the result can be an - | nounced. $ OPPOSITION TO REYES Fears that H e Will Acquiesce Panatnan Independence. New York Sun Special Service. Galveston. Texas, Dec. 11.A pri vate cable received from a Colombian official says: Jealousies and a fear that General Reyes will be. won over by the United States have prompted other Colombian army officers to urge the recovery of Panama by force o f arnl who were willing to sacrifice their all to ' production in countries other than tho, Pr-eserve the republic a month ago are ! states or she might, use it to pave the way growing indifferent and some even are in- j for a trade alliance between the English- clined to side with Panama. Plans have, speaking people. Such an alliance would Vee perfecting to land troops on the Atra- } mean a world-wide dominion of the i to river and hotheaded leaders have lish-speaking peoples! We may live to see stirred up a sentiment in favor of this. two great world empires, the Russian and { propoBe d Had a Bad Night and the Operation Was Only Partially Successful. Special to The Journal. New York, Dec. 11.Senator Clark is reported very much worse to-day. After the operation of yesterday, the senator rallied, but during the night was restless, and his temperature went up. ! sent from the United States. Dr. Curtis, after an examination of i "Last year." he says, . "we raised the wound to-day. decided that it must sixty million bushels of. wheat, and be reopened at once. Curtis was in Clark's apartments several hours and no definite statement of the patient's condition could be obtained. How ever, there is believed to be cause for serious anxiety. ' W. W. Jermane. CASS LAKE RESERVATION ANOTHER GOELET ALLIANCE Robert Goelet's Engagement to a Phila delphia Beauty Likely to Be Announced. Newport. R. I.. Dec. 11.The announce- , STRIKERS ARE ARMING Further Conflicts with Guards May Occur - at Any Time. W. Jermane. j and'-Sicilian strikers are in town buying' g{ep over you people when'"we"want' to ' I revolvers and ammunition, and threaten- I WILL CONTEST BEQUEST TO HAEVAED. ling further assaults. Conflicts between j.,,- Rnston. I)f" 11.(Jordnn MoKny of Xpuport. I the strikers and camp guards may oecur _ " . : ' ' / R. !.. boqiiPHthod scvr-nl millions to Harvard I AMMift. Hlfi-Hntuiind willb"ip , fi],,,) | n th cmiiiti iuioit M'sten'av. .\*rtl" S. i p n rcldn i uf e liTUiusluio Int-.'uus to coutesl it. Lie Sffoikw THE ZOLLYEREIN AND RECIPROCITY Canadian Minister of Trade and Com merce Says One May Lead to the Other. Predicts the Rise of Two World EmpiresThe Russian and English Speaking. , , --$ George Poster Declares Canada Will Soon Supply British Empire . with Wheat. / 4 Washington, Dec. 11.Preparations are being made by the war and navy departments to meet the possibility of hostile demonstrations by Colom bia against Panama. Orders were is sued yesterday for the training ship Prairie, which has 250 marines on board, to proceed from Guantanamo, Cuba, to Colon, and these orders were followed by others to the command ant of the marine corps to assemble another battalion of marines as quick ly as possible. According to the- Colombian repre sentatives here, none of the telegrams received by them indicates that Col ombia contemplates any hostile move ment. They assert that, on the con trary, dispatches received to-day from Bogota are of a "pacific" nature and are, therefore, inclined to believe that the final instructions of General Reyes, the Colombian special envoy here to make no movement against the isthmus until further instruction from him had been obeyed by the Col ombian troops of which he was thcv actually and is now nominally the commander-in-chief. GUNBOATS TO MAINTAIN PEACE Panamans Assured of Co-operation of United States Forces. Panama, Dec. 11.Preparations are being made by the junta to call a con vention and to proceed with the elec tion of members of the house of rep resentatives, etc. Efforts are being made to hold the convention Feb . 3, months after the declaration of the independence of Panama. . Fed ej'ico Boyd, on his return from the United States, resumed his place on the junta, Senor Espinoza, temporarily appointed in his stead, retiring. Sev eral of the Pariaman scouting par ties have gone to watch the move ments of the Colombians. A Panaman gunboat and a United States gunboat have proceeded to gether to David, near the western end of the Isthmus of Panama, for the pur pose of giving the people of that dis trict evidence of the fact that the United States forces areco-operatihg with those of Panama in maintaining peace on the isthmus. Toronto, Ont., Dec. 11.in a speech to the Young Liberal club, Sir Rich ard Cartwright, minister of trade and commerce in the dominion govern ment, said: "I think Chamberlain "means more than his critics give him credit for. He sees the extraordinary power the selfish policy of the United States has placed in Great Britain's hands. Three courses are open in Thes'e officers do not GeneraKl Reyes hono r and loyalty to hi country, but fear he is being influenced to delay decisive action until too late. The Bogota government is doing every thing in its power to prevent a conflict until official advices have been received from the commissioners at Washington tiiat their mission i hopeless. While dreading United States interference and protection for Panama, Colombia will, without, question attempt to force p return of the rebellious isthmus. The long delay is working against Co lombia with her own people, and many questions campaign, but I do not think it i the English-speaking. wi U be carried out. The government is! "I would guard against -th e United and is discouraging the scheme. SENATilLABK A VERY SICK MAN BRITAIN'S BREAD BASKET George Foster Says That I s to Canada's Destiny. more than one hundred million bush els of grain. We have how undei cultivation three million" acres of wheat land and still have one hundred million acres, just as good, which will be grain producing land in the near future. No Country in the world will take the. place of Canada as a food producer. This is due to the richness of her soil and the climate. United States Is Narrow-Minded. .\ "We Canadians think -th e United States in all its relations with us has been a very insistent nation. Your people are the best.in the .world, but we do not look upon your government as the broadest-minded in the world. "We import from the yhj ted 'States a large number .of agricultural prod ucts but from us the United States im ports very little..- In manufactured goods our tariff runs about 28 per cent while that of the United States is about 45 . per cent. Th e disparity seems too great. ?3$f TQu won't = let us in on a fair tariff , we'll have to. raise the tariff against you. "We think our country, is just as good as the United States. There was a feeling of disappointment among us concerning the Alaskan award.. but that is passing away.. You see the United States stretches-'' Many Italian 11 am time The double funeral of Vol-' * , - - -,- - d Uosnt P Jfefi .Ji ^ h o VA,lf nitlo Monday night, passed without trou- I ,, in Ooto'.^ la*t by the legislative\ouncli f the Mor o provinces . l4, ,ed a t g.a_J Mjnili -WyJor wr. I.-oiard V-Zood , CAMPAIGN FOR IflNISf BUTTONS ' -I 1 I,)" ' I ChicagrUnionists WiU Refuse to Pay , Car- Pare to Mn Not Wear- ^v ing Them. - f This Provoked Yesterday's Riot and " Ettrther Serious Trouble - /*&' Is Expected. , * New York Sun Special'Bervice. Chicago, Dec. 11.At the close of a day marked by a more violent out break, against non-union employes of the diicago Citr-H&ilway than at any time sinqfc the strike ended, the Chi cago Federation" of Labor issued a call last Tjight to #i e mnons of the city as follows: "Resolved, That the Chicago Fed eration o Labor hereby recommend to all union men'of the city of Chi cago to ride only on cars where the conductor, and motorman wear union buttons, thus showing to the employ ers class^that we- not only wear the A Pleasing Picture by John Charlton, the Optimistic Canadian Artist. *- to-Great Britain. She can use her power] union button but patronize its wear- rell, 1911 Fourth avenue S. an ele to force reciprocity on the states she x-an I use it to stimulate emigration and food they have sometimes descended to sharp j practices. Long and often I have advo i cated a friendly alliance between Great j Britain, Canada and the United States and j that is why I advocated reciprocity with j the United States, and I desire the Brit I ish zollverein as a step in that direction." From Tho Journal Bureau, Colorado Building, Washington. 1 r :v -: Washington, Dec. 11.The Univer sity of Wisconsin alumni of this city had a reunion last night in honor of Charles R.' VanHise, the newly elected president of that institution. At the business session which preceded the feast Senator Spooner was elected president of the association. :.-., Fra nk McNulty, formerly of Sioux City, Iowa, and now of Nome, Alaska, is here for a short visit. Dr. John C. Greenfield of Avon has been recommended for appointment as pension examiner surgeon at Tyn - dall. S. D., vice Dr. H. B. Scofield, re - signed. B e v New York, Dec. 11.George E. Fos ter, formerly finance minister of Can ada, who has just returned from Eng land, where he has been making speeches in favor of a preferential tariff and assisting in the campaign of former Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, declares that within five years the Dominion will be able to j supply Kngland with the wheat now - The. fololwing fourth class post masters were to-day appointed: .Iowa-Metz, Jasper county, Peter H. Farley, vice J. H. Clement, re - moved Otho. Webster, county, Darwin Green, vice Mary A. Fortney, resigned. South Dakota Artas, Campbell county, Earl T. Atha, vice Frederick W. Boettcher, resigned. WisconsinPeet, Burnett county Annette, Chare, vice Id a M. Nichols,' resigned. At to-day's meeting of the house committee on irrigation arrangements were made for a joint .meeting of the senate and house committees on irri gation to hear F . H. Newell, chief of the reclamation service, explain the progress pf the work of his serrvice j from the passage of the law to dat^. It is expected a stenographic report 6i the hearing will be made and printed for the use of members. Fire in the basement of Senator Al lison's house last night did slight dam age. _:The- senator put out the fire himself =before the fire department ar rived.- Unexpected opposition developed to day.aj the meeting of the independent tobacco -manufacturers against the Tawney-Otjen bill prohibiting the re itsv,e | across our front door. We ' proclaimed in Morolnna an BJiti-Srlaverj 1H'~ carcass demptlori of tags, wrappers aiid bands. ! get got to out to sea-that is if vou will let i^^v^i^'-ii^1^ HAD DEBRALLS ^ TWO OFFICES? Incident Which Indicates That * He Had a Second Office in the , Globe Building*w Elevator Man in Globe Building / Thought He Recognized Him as a Tenant There. If He Had Then the Question Is, Had He Still Another Alias? RECIPROCITY. MMMetMHeteMweMieiMit4HMteMetMMei*MteMMfMtflMe e rs." The resolution was sent to every | ehiployed in the Globe building, was trades union in Chicago, 454 in'num-j riding with him. her, and is expected to cause trouble. . A man came into the elevator and It may result in the refusal of union! was delivered at the fifth floor of the Eng-conductors,ywhicr men to pa thei fares to non-union h yesterday led to a serious rio,t WASHINGTON NOTES Wisconsin Alumni 3IeetsSenator Spooner Elected President. 1- Did J. J. Carlisle or J. J. Debialls operate two sets of offices in differ ent buildings during the early part of October? This is the question prompted by the experience of two elevator operators the second week of that month. Edwin Brenna, elevator operator in the'Bank of Minneapolis building, was at work one day when Irving F . Far- vator operator, who was at that time Bank of Minneapolis building. "Why that man has an office in the Globe building," said Farrell. "Does he?" responded Branna. "His name is Debralls and he just went into the offices he has opened in this building." L. L. Dodge, agent for the Globe building, says that he does not re member renting any offices to Car lisle, Debralls or anybody else in the "academy of occult science" business, but Miss Rehmanklau, who acted as office girl for Debralls in the Bank of Minneapolis building, says that upon two occasions Debralls said that he had'either opened offices in the Globe building or was about to. This raises the question whether the man had still another alias. It is stated by the West hotel people that the only time anj" one called for J. J. Carlisle or. sought to go to his room was whjpn he advertised for a bulldog and a dog owner-responded to it. H e apparently had no com panion and no chum and only such' acquaintances as he-picked up in the hotel. CRIMES INNUMERABLE Absconding Embezzler and Bigamist y'Pound Guilty of Murder. ] Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 11 A verdict of manslaughter in the first degree was found yesterday against Charles A. Thohi,- confidential. mail with the Radcliff-Watland Carriage . company of Sioux City, Iowa, who' absconded two. years ajgo with'ft. large sum of the firm's 'money, closer ting his wife and child. He-came here and's6on mar ried again, deserted .again, married again, and-was arrested, charged with embezzlement, desertion and bigamy. While in jail here last May a re volver was smuggled to him by a woman..-With \i hich be killed his jailer, J. J,. EJmerson. and escaped. He was shot'by the dead jailer's wife, and found suffering from the wound a. week later. -. .. ..." GRAND VIZIER COMING Persian Pay Us a Notable .."Is to / : ..- -'. . Visit."-', ..:. ^ _ _ San* Francisco 11:^General Rural free delivery will be. estab lished, commencing Jan . 15, as fol-. lows: MinnesotaHardwick, Rock county, length of route 26 miles, popu lation -330. houses 106 Reading, Nobles county, length of route 25% mile, population 503. houses 101. At Fisher. Minn.. Edward Diectrich and Oscar Olson were appointed substi tutes to fill vacancies." W. W. Jermane. SK.VC.rtSt A &- IMta f ^ saa gnished "visitor and ha .instructed ..them to see to his saf^tv while here I and en route to Washington. NATIONAL COMMITTEE IS OU T .FOR ROOSEVELT NO OPPOSITION TO ROOSEVELT Walter Wellman Says He Will Be Nominated Without Even - a Contest. : Declares, However, That His Election Is Another and Very Dif ferent Matter. And Adds That Many Republicans ^ Are Only Luke Warm Toward the President. New York Sun Special Service. Chicago, Dec. 11.Walter Wellman in a Washington special to the Rec ord-Herald says: President Roosevelt will be nomi nated for a second term without oppo sition at the republican national con vention to be held in Chicago in June next. This is almost the unanimous opinion of almost all the national com mitteemen who are now assembling here for the annual meeting of the committee to be held to-day. It may fairly be said that among the members of the committee there is no dissent whatever from the foregoing proposi tion, so far as public utterances go. Privately, a small number of com mitteemen think they see obstacles in the way, such as the fierce and per sistent enmity to Mr. Roosevelt of the great corporations in New Tork, the unsatisfactory political conditions now prevailing in the empire state and the possibility that the president may not be able to gain the electoral vote of that great commonwealth. But these private whisperings cut only a small figure in comparison with the outspoken and enthusiastic expres sions of a great majority of the mem bers of the committee who have been interviewed by members of the press. Praise for President Roosevelt and predictions that he is to be not only renominated, but re-elected, are heard from so many lips that one expression sounds almost like every other. Re - cent occurrences have served to stir the friends of the president to speak out, and: there is no mistaking the volume or the sincerity of the expres sions in his favor. As to the probable and almost cer tain nomination of the president, vir tually without opposition, a neutral observer and chronicler like your cor respondent may give his assent. Such a result: is bespoken by all ^jhe signs ol the times. His election ftf- another story:a story which will have to be fSjfttjpntlnued into many chapter^ of close *T6tudy. The admirers o&the president, are naturally optimistic and thley be right but men like the writer, haye no party' affiliations and no fa vorites, -whose only anxiety the public with ti'ue inwardness of all Important ^-*Vor-lr, Ho w our political and public activities, may well reserve their judgment as to the outcome of- the campaign for many long months. . SHEVLIN'S ABSENCE IM. MARTELLS' FATE SUMMING U P B Y THE ATTOR- - NFAS IX THE MURDER TRIAL. AT GRAND FORKS. Special to The Journal. Grand Forks, N. D.. Dec. 11.Be- fore the sun goes down the fate of I William Martell will be in the hands of the twelve good men and true who for five days have been listening to. the evidence. The case has been a remarkable one in many particulars, chief of which is that the evidence of the state and defense harmonizes, the. theory $,lone being at variance. All the evidence is purely circumstan tial, there having been no eye wit nesses to the struggle. The assistant, state's attorney, Skul ason, began his address to the jury yesterday afternoon and closed at!,__v,pre 10:30 this morning. John Serlie then opened for the defense and finished this afternoon. He made a: powerful plea for the defendant, not in working | on the sympathies of the jury.men, but ! in presenting the facts as brought out j by the witnesses and in the light that j he viewed" them. He dwelt on the evi- ! dence given by Mr. and Mrs. Parsorfo and Miss Dow, whieh dovetailed with the story Ibid by Martell on the stand.. "The strong point made was that these witnesses all testified that they ha'd heard -ttyo blow's struck. Nally evidently received but one and the defense contends thit .Martell. must have received- the other. States At torney Wineman made the closing ad dress for the state and Judge Fisk charged the jury late in the after- noon.' . . * . \ . , ....-. . ". c -K-ahn. PersianDec. minister to Wash - ington, is expected here in a few days with a party of friferras to await the coming of the grand-vizier of .the Shah of Persia, who. with "his suite, is bn Jiis way from the orient and is due here on Dec'21. The government has already advised the local secret service agents of the coming of thc t -distin- Ma-.iiUliovoinor Tnft. it has lrn dfille nill onliiiue lo act in hi ofJVi.ii (M|IJ.1( until alter nis arrival in Wttshlngtou. - "lS',~.M"!rf:jC LFIVE O'CLOCK. ENTHUSIASTIC FOB PRESIDENT Talk Wherever Members of the Com mittee Met Was All for Roosevelt. Senator Mark Hanna "Stands Pat" by His Declaration of Staunch Friendship. . The Convention Undoubtedly Witfi Go to Chicago, Tho Decision Is Not Yet Made. : 1 C From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building, Washington. Washington, Dec. ll.-^Only Roose velt's name is heard in the cor ridors of the Arlington hotel to - day, where the republican national committee is meeting. Th e sudden, onslaught of the Cincinnati Commer cial Tribune apparently has failea in. its purpose. The national committee, whatever may be true of other party leaders, is practically unanimous in sounding Roosevelt's praises and say ing he must be the nominee next year. Ail members from western states say he is the only choice of their people and will poll thousands of democratic votes in addition to the solid vote of the republicans. If Senator Han na at any time recently has been privy to plans which have been under way to stampede the na - tional committee against Roosevelt and secure from its members an ex pression that the desirability of his nomination was somewhat question able, there is to-day nothing to indi cate that fact. He is "standing pat, " apparently, on his original official declaration for Roosevelt, and has au - thorized Harry C. New of Indianapo lis, member of the national commit tee from that state, to speak for him as expressing the beiief that Roose velt will and should be nominated by acclamation. The national committeemen come direct from the people to Washing ton and are not impregnated with the anti-Roosevelt poison w^hich has been so freely injected into the minds of many republican members of both houses of congress. Roosevelt's friends hope that their unequivocal stand will iuie the Roosevelt opposition perhaps for good, altho this is almost too much to hope for. T~he feeling .here is much less tense since the national committee has taken such ,a,strong stand in favor mayhrw o 3^ A idly Friendl y Toward Roosevelt. From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building, Washington Washington, Dec. 11.The fact that T. H. Shevlin, Minnesota member of the republican national committee, has given Chairman Han na his proxy for to-day's meeting, indicates that Shevlin's dislike for the president has not disappeared. It is well known that Shevlin has never been consult ed about Minnesota appointments, and that his recommendations have been ignored. The president is also said to have failed to join with him in certain matters which Shevlin wanted to g-et thru the interior department regarding timber operations in the northwest. Whenever Shevlin comes to Wash ington he calls on the president, and occasionally he has been asked to stay to lunch, but there has never been anything more than the formal courtesies which such occasions de mand. Shevlin has never felt that he was close to Roosevelt, and yet republican sentiment in Minnesota is so strong for the president that he did not want to attend the meeting of the national committee where a test of strength seemed, for a time, likely to come between the Roosevelt and anti-Roosevelt forces, for in such an emergency unless he stood by the president he would be severely criticized. This is the explanation of fered in Washington for Shevlin's failure to be on hand to-day. W. W. Jermane. r pX,. fth^p.ve^'aen eon - * t. COMMITTEE MEETS r is to servie-i' '' ^ s "'. " \'- '-'- i 3 j '4 1 1 i '"* -1 1 ever! "Won't Conie Up Until To-morrow. Washington, Dec. 11.The republi can national committee began its in itial meeting preparatory to the presi dential campaign of 1904 at the Ar lington hotel at noon to-day. The i committee, which was called to order by Chairman M. A. Hanna, represented every state and territory, either by the regular :,member or proxy, except Hawaii. The principal business to be trans acted is the selection of the time and place for holding the next republi can national convention. Neither was discussed at to-day's meeting. When Senator Hanna called the meeting to order he was greeted with a round of applause. H e expressed briefly his thanks to the committee for the work in the campaign of 1900. Perry S. Heath, the secretary, read a call of the meeting, stating its pur pose. ' Both Chicago and St. Louis, rival cities for the convention, are maintaining headquarters in the hotel. The time and place will be taken up to-morrow when the various city dele gations will be given an opportunity to be heard. Chairman Hanna, in outling the program of the committee's session, said that the committee would go in a body to. the White House at 2 o'clock "to pay our respects to the President of the United States." This, he said, would close the proceedings for the day. To-morrow the session will begin at 10 o'clock, when time will be given to the committees representing cities de siring the convention to present their claims. u r NO CHANCE FOR ST. LOUS Both' National Conventions Probably Will Go to Chicago. From' The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building, Washington. ' .-" Washington. Dec. 11.Members of the house committee on. industrial arts and expositions. have advised the St. Louis delegation^ere in the interest of that city not -to urge -their claims for the national convention.too strong ly as Chicago is certain to be selected. President Francis realizes there is no chance for St. Louis, and say.s that the delegation came to Washington because local business men demanded it. They concur in the proposition that St. Louis has all she .can do next year to handle the regular e/.position crowds. What, will happen as to the repub lican convention will a#so happen to the democratic. St. Louis will get neither, and Chicago likely will get both. The latest bulletin issued by the exposition management discusses hotel ,facilities for. next yesir 'saying that, a maximum ,of 75,000 people' a. i day can .be cared for. One national vention would bring together that m&ny 0 ple to say nothing, of the %,hKi'rt ntton**,-,** i* regular , expbsitlo n attendance . St . Louis lias booked already 240 national conventions for next year, or an aver age of nine each- week during the life of the exposition. The politicians don't want to get tangled up v, ith these crowds. .'. .'". - - -W. W. Jermane. STATE CONVENTION CALLED1 Iowa Prohibitionists Select Boone as'Place and May 24 as Date. Special to The Journal.- Des Moines, Iowa. De 11.The pro hibition state central committee, in ses sion here, decided to hold the state con vention at Boone on May 2*. The reports show $35.fl00 raised for Iowa's portion of I the national campaign fund. Negotiations J are pending for the ale of the Iowa I Commonwealth, the official prohibition or gan, to Chaiiman VV. D. K.iwell of Ames. i it ' i-* H "' . " ^ ' ',! H ti \% r IIV-i ' & M - B 'r9 i 3r$ 4 :3 ,1 f