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f Wt '*v!s* " . V "** v W r,' THE 7' ' MENT^EjiBiliS PRICE TWO CENTS. TRAIN WRECKED WEAR FT, SCOTT Ten Persons Killed and Twenty Injured, at LeastSwitch Was Open. Train Running at Full Speed Jumped Over Sixty Feet From Track. Wrecking Crew Was Delayed Several Hours and the Utmost Confusion Prevailed. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 21. The Meteor, the fast train on the St. Louis & San Francisco railway, which left Fort Worth yesterday afternoon for j Kansas City, was wrecked at God- j frey, fifteen miles south of Fort Scott, ' Kan., this morning. The train ran into a switch, and all except the j sleeper was derailed and turned over. ! Ten persons were killed and over - twenty injured. The dead and injured were taken to Fort Scott, and arrived In that city at 11 o'clock. The dead: GEORGE HOTT, conductor, Sapul pa, I. T. . B.A. DEWEES, engineer. Fort Scott. THEORDO RE BISHARD, fireman, Fort Scott. JAMES H. TWYMAitf, (colored) Fleming, Kan. ASA MOR E LAND, Lenexa, Kan. LON CORBIN, Bessie, Okla. JOE CORBIN, Bessie, Okla. JOHN BRUBAKER, news agent, Kansas City. JOHN BELL, express messenger, Kansas City. ONE UNINDENTIFI ED MAN, body was thrown sixty feet into a cornfield. Fatally injured: Sheridan Kenable, Hoopertown, Okla. B. F. Garroway, Jonesboro, Ark. Seriously injured: Mrs. E. E. Call, Hobart, Okla. Henry McKinley, Snider, Okla. Thomas Kent, Mountain. Okla. J. W. Guill, Ottumwa, Iowa. Henry M. McDonnell, Lodi, Ohio. L. Howard Lee, Oklahoma City, Okla. Joseph H. Donohue, Franklin, 111. "Walter Godsby, Kansa's City. J. D. Bryant, Davenport, Iowa. W. R. Farmer, Blackwell, Okla. Elmer Corbin, Bessie, Okla. Jacob Roesseler, Parker, Okla. C. J. Donovan, Snyder, Okla. J. W. Adamson, mail clerk, City. Fifteen others were hurt slightly. Most of the injured were badly burned as well as being maimed. The responsibility for the wreck is laid at the door of a brakeman of the freight crew, who failed to Hag the passenger train. He has disappeared. Brakeman's Neglect. The engine on the freight had be come "dead" and tne crew was or dered to remain on the main track and turn the switch for the passenger, then about due, the braEeman being ordered to flag the Meteor. This he neglected to do. In the crash the bag-i gage car telescoped the engine and landed in a corn field, while the smoker and the two chair cars were piled in a mass on top of the engine. Most of the injured were in the chair cars, which took fire*" soon after the wreck occurred. When the, train reached Godfrey it was behind and running at full speed to make up time. The crew of a freight train that had preceded the Meteor left the switch open, and the passenger train jumped the track and rolled down a slight embankment All save the sleeper turned over, aiid so fast was the train running that the engine and the forward baggage car landed nearly sixty feet off the road bed before it stopped. The sleeper remained upright, and none of the passengers in this car was injured. The baggage cars were completely wrecked, and the smoker was badly damaged. Five of those killed were in the forward end of the smoker, and four of them were killed instant ly. A news agent, who was badly mangled, died on the relief train that carried the dead and injured to Fort Scott. Dead and Injured. Engineer B. A. Dewees of Fort Scott, Conductor Roy bf Topeka, and Fireman Bishard of Fort Scott were all instantly killed, and Express Mes senger John Bell of Kansas City was seriously injured. Others of the crew and almost every passenger on the train, except those in the sleeper, who escaped with a severe shakeup, were injured, some of them seriously. It was still dark when the wreck occurred, and the utmost confusion followed. It. was some time before those of the crew who had escaped injury were able, with the help of the passengers who were unhurt, to aid the injured. A wrecking crew, car rying physicians, could not leave Fort Scott for the scene of the accident until several hours after the wreck occurred, and it was 11 o'clock be fore the dead and injured were brought to Fort Scott. KING MENELIK RECEIVES ENVOY Consul General Skinner, Escorted by Native Troops Reaches the Abyssinian Capital. The King HimselfDelivers a For mal Address of Welcome to the Americans. Adis Abeba, Abyssinia, Friday, Dec. 18.By Courier to Jibutil, French Somaliland, Dec. 21.Escorted by several thousand Ethiopian troops the mission of the Americans to Menelik, headed by Consul General Skinner, en tered the Abyssinian capital to-day. The reception of the Americans was most brilliant and picturesque. Em peror Menelik personally /received Mr. Skinner. The emperor, surrounded by the principal functionaries of the capital, delivered a cordial discourse of wel come, to which Mr. Skinner responded, presenting an invitation to tBe em J peror to visit the exposition at St. 1 Louis. . The Americans were then conducted to the palace of Rats Georges, where they are lodged. Mr. Skinner and his party are re ceiving every attention. A formal audience and conference with the emperor to discuss the pur poses of the mission will follow. ODR BIG TRADE WITH CANADA Total Now Aggregates $200,- 000,000Exports More Than Twice the Imports. Imports from Canada Growing Faster Than Those from Any Other Country. Washington, Dec. 21.Commerce between Canada and the United States shows a rapid gain both in the fig ures of the year about to end and in those of the decennial period which ends with the present year. The year's commerce with Canada, as shown by the figures of the depart ment of commerce and labor thru its bureau of statistics, will aggregate nearly $200,000,000, against less than $100,000,000 in 1893. The increase occurs both in imports into the United States from Canada and exports from the United States to Canada. Our imports from Canada, which in 1893 amounted to only $34,000,000, will'in the present year reach about $55,- 000,000. Our exports to Canada, which in 1893 were $57,000,000, will in 1903 aggregate about $130,000,000. Our total commerce with Canada has thus grown from $91,000,000 in 1893 to approximately $185,000,000 in 1903. The total commerce of the United States in the calendar year 1893 was $1,652,000,000, and in 1903 will aggregate about $2,460,000,000. Thus the total commerce of' the United States from 1893 to 1903 has increased about 50 per cent, while its commerce with Canada has more than doubled. Buying More From Canada. On the import side the increase in our purchases from Canada has been much more rapid proportionately than from other parts of the world. The total imports of the United States in 1893 were $776,000,000, and in the calendar year 1903 will aggregate about $1,000,000,000, an increase of about 60 per cent. The total exports from the United States, which in 1893 were $876,000,000, will, in 1903, ap proximate $1,460,000,000, an increase of 66 per cent, while in our exports to Canada the increase is about 125 per cent. The above figures are for calendar years in all cases, and are necessarily estimates so far as they relate to the month of December, 1903. The principal articles which form our commerce with Canada are shdwn by the tables which follow. They present the value of the more impor tant articles imported and exported in 1893 and 1903, the figures being for fiscal years, as those for the cal endar year 1903, by articles, are not yet available. iA 1 Kansas Principal, Imports Into the United States From Dominion of Canada. Total on above ar- . tides 16,741,525 23,402,801 Total $30,790,910 $54,781,41$ Domestic Exports from t he United States to Canada. \enrs Ending June 30, AitiHes 1893. 1903. Agricultural - imple ments ... ,.. $145,503. $4,022,772 Animals 410,435 3,682,217 I?ooks, maps, etc 309,935 1,608,749 Breadstuff*wheat .. 4,083,843 4,021,571 Coal 7.023,757 16,294,329 Cotton, raw 2,803,326 5,932,429 Cotton manufactures... 1,922,680 2,907,096 Fiber, manufactures.... 193,030 2,252,819 Iron and steel, manu factures "... 3,685,343 24,681,870 Paper and manufac- tures 211,132 1,348,710 Provisions (including dairy products) 2,415.270 2,773,081 Seeds 691,148 999,218 Total 23,895,402 $70,524,861 MABEL PARKER AS PLAYWRIGHT She Is Writing a Melodrama to Be Named "The Forger Queen." And the Former Minneapolis Girl Herself Plans to Play the Title Role. Special to The Journal. New York, Dec. 21.Prison life is becoming irksome to Mabel Parker. She is no longer the quiet, well be haved young woman she was before her trial for forgery. The matron in whose charge she is says Mabel acts like a spoil child. She. refuses to obey the prison rules, and as she is an unconvicted prisoner, stringent measures cannot be used to make her mind. The matron and assistants are at their wits' end to keep the woman from entirely upsetting the discipline of the female ward. Mabel is :not,un- ruly in the way other prisoners are. Her incorrigibility consists chiefly in playing jokes . on the keepers and amusing herself at their expense. When Mabel was seen yesterday in her cell she was in the midst of litera ry venture, which she hopes will-bring about her release. "The Forger Queen" is the title of a melodrama Mabel is writing. Speaking of the play, which will be finished in a short time, Mrs. Parker said: "I think the idea is a good one. I feel confident some enterprising man ager will hear of my play and put it before the public. It's going to be a dandy of the really sensational kind. The manager who takes hold of 'The Forger Queen' will have to go on my bond so I can play the leading, role. The Mabel Park er of the play will be a^ real forger queen,, just like Bill Peabody has tried to ma ke me but. She will* be bold, bad, cunning and clever. . ""The principal comedy part will be a detective, who is always trying to capture the. 'Forger Queen.' Hisn ame will be Bill Shamrock Peabody, and I'm going to suggest to the manager that he engage Detective Sergeant Peabody to play the part. I have reaily taken quite an interest in poor Peabody and ^think he would make a much better actor than detective. I am making a part to fit the man, not hunting for a man to fit the part." MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER 21, 1903. 20 PAGES-FIVE O'CLOCK. NECK IS BROKEN MAN- WILL LIVE Operation Said to Be Without a Parallel Performed in a - Sioux City Hospital. Portion of the Cervical Verte brae Removed, Cleaned of False Tissue and Replaced. Special to The Journal. Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 21.An op-^ eration having no parallel in the sur gical world was performed at St. Jo seph's hospital yesterday by Dr. Wil liam Jepson, who has the chair of surgery at the state university. John Norstrom of Danbury, Iowa, fell from a load of hay, striking on his head and breaking his neck. He has been almost totally paralyzed for weeks, and Dr- Jepson decided to op erate on his broken neck. Accordingly, a portion of the third cervical vertebrae was removed, the false growth of tissue was cleaned out and the bone was replaced. The pa- Years Ending June 30, Article* 1890. 1903. Animals: Cuttle $17,537 $344,8Si Horses 467,474 442.825 Sheep . 1,652.34ft 1,008,685 Abbesto* 243,76 : 709,604 UsU 2,475,624 2,769,180 Furs and fnr skins, un dressed 334,142 862,939 Hides itnd skins 438,r4 1.906,433 Ii on ore 17.186 20,2:{ Nickel ore and matte.. 280,712 1,107,330 Silk, rnw 3,741 103,482 Wood: Lumber 10,704.659 13,785,804 Timber 63,792 41,082 King Gorman I. (Democratic Leader?)A Horse! A Horse!! My Kingdom for a Horse!!! MHM^iyil tient is doing well, with every pros pect of recovery. Operations. have been performed for the relief of a dislocation of the lumbar vertebrae, but no case is known in which the cervical verte brae, situated so near the medulla oblongata, the seat-of the vital bodily functions, was successfully removed and replaced. MARTHA A. FORBES Death of First White Woman Born in Western Wisconsin. La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 21.Mrs. Martha A. Forbes, the first white woman born in western Wisconsin, died to-day, aged 71. She was a na tive -of Iowa county. PARKER WILL ACCEPT Tho H e Will Not Seek the Democratic " ' residential 1 New York Siin Special.Service. Atlanta, Ga.r Dec. 2.1.If the dem ocratic nomination for the presidency is tendered Judge A. B. Parker of New York, he will accept it, and one of the strongest forces in the conven tion toward giving him that opportuni ty -will"he the Tammany organization. This is the opinion of Burton Smith, president of the Georgia Bar associa tion and brother of Hoke Smith, sec retary' of the interior " under Cleve land. Mr. Smith has just returned from a visit to Judge Park er at his home, and says that, while Judge Park er will make no effort .to obtain the nomination, there is no prospect of his. declining it if it is offered to him. - " " INJUNCTION GRANTED Unions Are Enjoined Temporarily From Disciplining Employes. Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 21.rThe Building Trades 'council and the Plumbers' union, were temporarily en joined by Judge Hosea of the-supreme court. this: morning from interfering with employes of the Contractors' as sociation by way of discipline. T he application grew out of an as sault %said to have been made on E. M. Black, foremen, by five strikers, be cause Blacky: who- is also a stockholder in the ^company, persisted in working on-a contract. The workmen ar ranged to. contest application, but per mitted the injunction to issue tempor arily, reserving their opposition until the. case is heard on its merits. GOT $110,000 AND SEV EN YEARS. Trenton, N. J., Dec. 21.James M. Edge the bank teller who embezzled $110,000 of the funds of the First National Bank of Paterson. H*. J., was to-day sentenced by Judge rtfrkpatrick in the United States district court' to Imprisonment for seven years in the Essex.county penitentiary* " ai3_ WU VATERED Largest Project foxIrrigation in the Western Hemisphere-"* Work of C. P.rj&ailway. Main Canal Only Twenty Miles LongWill Garry 2,000 Feet a Minute. ' Construction Has Been Com menced and Will Extend Over 500 Miles. Special to The Journal. Ottawa, Can., Dec 21.Work h as begun xn the main canal of the Ca nadian Pacific railway's "great irriga tion project in the Alberta- district of the Canadian northwest- - It- is the largest undertaking of its kind on this ,side of the globe. The* scheme embraces an area of 3 000,000 acres lying east of Calgary. The soil thru out the area is good, but agriculture RICHARD III. T O DATE. ' "~ . ~ has.: not proved successful because during the dry years to which a por tion of the territories is subject, there is not sufficient moisture to mature crops or to supply surface water for stock. Irrigation is past the experimental stage in the territories. At the. pres ent time there, are 163 irrigation ditches and canals constructed - in southern Alberta and western Assini boia comprising a total length of 475 miles.. The immense area embraced by the Canadian Pacific company's scheme contains land suitable for all kinds of farming Nomination. LAKES MENAGE "THE WINDY CITY Harvard Professor Says Chicago May Be Submerged in a "Oom- - paratively Short Time." This "ComparativelyShortTime" However, Means Several Thou sand Tears at Least. New York Sun Special Service. Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 21.Profes- sor William R. Davis of the geological department of Harvard, who has been studying the geology of the great lake region especially about Niagara Palls, has reached the conclusion that if the present tendencies continue, in time most of Chicago will be submerged. Professor Davis began a lecture in the university museum with a descrip tion of the gorge hewed out by -the Niagara cataract, and then gave an account of the early character of the great lakes region, of the successive advances and retreats of the Lauren tide ice sheets and of the gradual evo i-iiiirtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii HHlMMMIMHIIIMIIIIMIIIIIIHIHMWmWMmMMWMHIMI lution of the great lakes in their pres ent form and with their present sys tem of drainage. Originally the lakes drained into the Mississippi thru what is now the Illinois river, but with the gradual physiographic changes, the northern outlet became lower than that at Chicago, and the water flowed out first thru one channel" and then thru another, finally finding its way over an escarpment between Erie and Ontario, thru which, it h as cut the Niagara gorge. Estimating that the cataract has taken about 10,000 years to cut back to its present location, altho.this es timate is uncertain^ owing to the vary ing volume of the river, with certain changes in the drainage system, he said the conclusion might: be reached that within a relatively short time the falls will make their way to Lake Erie, when that body of water will be drained' out and the falls.' will, dis appear. About this process, however, there are serious doubts. Observa tions within the last sixty years have shown that the country north of the great lakes is slowly rising. Before Niagara has cut back to Lake Erie, this rise may have progressed so far that the St. Lawrence ^outlet will again become higher than that at Chicago. Then the immense-Volume of water now pouring over Niagara will be turned back upon Chicago, and, the speaker added, St. Louis may then get some consolation for the un expected ascendency of the Illinois metropolis. t and large tracts specially adapted for cattle raising. - The company's main irrigation.' canal will head in the Bow river, three miles below Calgary. This canal -will carry 2,000 cubic feet of water per second and will be sixty feet wide at the bottom, containing water to the depth of ten feet. The main canal -will be about twenty miles long* but is simply the transporting artery, to bring the, principal body of water rom the river to the most convenient point for distribution thruout. 'the whole area. T he secondary canals, three in number, so far as located, comprise a length of about 100 miles. The distributing canals will ultimately reach upward of -500 miles in length. I t will take several years to complete the whole system, which in its fin ished state is estimated to cost $4,000,000. . - . ' /When the scheme is carried thru to completion it will have the result ot transforming a tract of semi-arid country 150 miles east and west by .fifty miles north and south, now only the home of a few scattered bands of cattle, .into a most fertile region, which in a short space of time is ex pected to become a densely popu lated and prosperous agricultural dis trict. s WILL LIMIT OUTPUT Sash and Door Makers' Asoseiation Make Move to Prevent Over- production. The sash and door manufacturers' asso ciation at its annual meeting in Chicago last week decided to form a com pany which is expected to limit the out put of goods where there are overstocks, so as to reduce overproduction to a mini mum. The company is not a merger - of Interests except in the promotion of for eign trade and the regulation of the manu facture of different. stocks. A HANNA IS BETTER:^: Ohio. Senator Is Still Confined to His ' Bed, However. r ''^'Lu* ' New York, Dec. 21.Senator Mar cus A. Hanna of Ohio, who has been ill here at the Waldorf Astoria since Saturday with an attack of grip, was greatly improved to-day. While he was still in bed it was said that he would be able to leave his room to -morrow and that the attack 'was nyt looked upon as of-a\ serious naturei '- BIG POSTAL APPROPRIATION I t Will Reach $160,000,000, According Presidential Nomination. New York Sun Special Service. Indianapolis, Dc. 21.Congress- man Overstreet, chairman of the com mittee ,on postofflces and post roads, speaking of the expected appropria tion, said, to-day J' - "Despite the discovery of extrava gance in the, postoffice department, the appropriations-for next year will be at least,$160,000,000- Last year's appropriation was $153,400,000 and a $4,000,000 deficit -mus be taken up this year. The disclosures of - mismanagement in the postoffice investigation have shown roads to economy and will en able the committee to handle the va rious items in a better business way, but they will not effect the totals ma terially. - "- "- ^ :,-'--7-r - i - - DOG SAVES MAN'S LIFE. Lexington, Ky., Dec. 21.Walter "S. Payne, a thorobred' breeder, was attacked yesterday by an Infuriated bull in the pad dock at his Maplehurst farm. The bull knocked him down and gored him so badly that it was necessary to call in physicians. But for "Mr. Payne's huge St. Bernard dog going to his fescue arid biting the bull on *th hind legs, he-'-miff&t have been'killed. ROOSEMJ WIL L: DOMINATE FIGHT H. V. Jones Thus Sums Up a Re view of the Coming Presi dential Contest. There Will Be Many Defections on Both SidesMen, Not Measures, Will Decide. From Tho Journal Bureau, Colorado Building, Washington. Washington, Dec. 21.H. V. Jones of Minneapolis has been paying a good deal of attention to the political situ ation of late, and his recent visit to New York has brought him close up to the people of that city, both those who oppose Roosevelt and those who favor him. In discussing the outlook for next year with the Journal corre spondent to-day, he said some very interesting things, some of which I quote. His size-up, which follows, is one of the most intelligent and inter esting that has yet been made. He said: "It occurs to me' that, in the ap proaching election, we shall have less of a doubtful classification of states to deal with than in recent campaigns. The election will take on a positive | color, and the voters will be either for or against the candidates from the start. The two previous campaigns were educational, and voters were in doubt as to their action up to election day making the application general. There will be no educational features in the campaign next year, but there may be injected a tariff or reciproci ty issue that will divide voters, but on which the mind of the people is already well made up. Republicans Divided. "President Roosevelt has divided his party. It makes no difference wheth er the disaffected do business in Wall street, or sell dry goods in Chicago, I they are republicans and they count] at the polls. To say the disaffection is confined to Wall street is, of course, untrue, for the reason that some of| the president's warmest supporters are [ in Wall street, and some of his*most bitter opponents have no connection with stocks and do not live in the east. "The campaign issue will really be Roosevelt himself. All other issues will be secondary. Many who do not agree with the president as to meth ods will not carry that disagreement to revolt many others will. The dem ocrats are organizing unquestionably for a clean and strong campaign. Along the seaboard the president is not as strong as he was six months ago. West of the Mississippi he is probably just as strong as he has been, at least for all practical purposes. The fight will be on the Atlantic seaboard unless, perchance, the president is not .renominated. This chance exists, as those on the inside on- both sides foresee clearly but whether this chance .takes shapes-will depend on the course of events the next five months rather than on what has happened. "President Roosevelt retains a strong grip on the people west less so on the people east. The reason is that a good many of the common peo ple, as we say, have lost thru the heavy declines in securities. At such times people do not stop to analyze and there is a disposition to charge the president with having precipitated trouble by attacking business rather than proceeding to take up in the courts by more quiet methods the same questions. Some accuse him with acting from political motive on this account. This and all proposi tions , like it are matters of opinion only, and , while some of the claims are preposterous, there is truth in others,- and they all go to ma ke polit ical., sentiment for and against. Business Men Complain. k New York retail business is dull. There is general complaint. The rich have lost heavily, while all over the country investors and estates have lost their all. The proprietor of one of the largest retail stores in New York took me to the fur department and we counted at noon twelve clerks idle. 'A year ago,' he said, 'that force of clerks could not wait on the cus- , tomers at this hour promptly/ The ! little special stores complain. The I hard - times center la in New York, i Philadelphia and Pittsburg. It scat ters Outside of those centers, and, this scattering, h as sprinkled sore spots among the people, so that it is esti mated- that in nearly, every village in New York state there is some little disaffection. - If we say it is unreason able that does not change the fact that it existSi -So I believe as a result of all this the real issue of the next campaign will be President Roosevelt himself, and party lines will be split up a good deal, especially if the democrats ma ke as strong a nomina tion as they have it within their power to make. It seems to me this is the Important analysis to apply to the po litical situation." New York Catholics Will Make Royal Crift to Rector of Colored Church. Hew York Sun Special Service. New York, Dec. 21.When the Rev. John E. Burke, rector of St. Benedict the Moor, the Rom an Catholic church for negroes of this city, arrives here from Europe an Wednesday he will receive a check for nearly $20,000, most-of which was made at the lecture by Chaplain Chadwick in Carnegie hall last night. The gift is in recognition of the quarter century of the missionary's work among negroes. Bourke Cock ran presided at the meeting and intro duced Chaplain Chadwick as "the champion of morality and the hero of the Maine." In his address Mr. Cockran spoke optimistically of the future of the negro in America. Among pther things he said: "I believe in-the future of the negro. Emancipation does not mean exter mination for him. He is full of force, provided the moral development be encouraged. There is in our country 'a race of 10,000,000, it Is an important factor in the national life and one which should receive the consideration and wise aid of every citizen." Special to The Journal. *"- Hastings, Minn., Dec. 21.Mrs. Mar garette Link of St. Paul died here to-day at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Christ Klein, aged 7.4. The remains will be for warded-to preeburg, Minn., for interment. smwsg HISTORICAL *P**:S $**$ SOCIETY. TO-NIGHT Aim TUESDAY COL D WAVE TO-NIGHT. PANAMA INVADED v BY COLOMBIANS! Troops Landed on the Island of1% Pines at Western Entrance , U- S. Cruiser Mayflower Sent to Obtain Accurate Informa tion on the Subject. Americans Ordered to Leave Darien Within Twenty-four HoursAct of War. t. Washington, Dec. 21.Official confirmation has reached Wash ington of the landing of the Co lumbian troops on the island of Los Pinos, which lies close to the coast of Panama. The troops number eighty, and they have taken up a position on this high island with the intention of mak ing paths-'thru the jungles. 3 Colon, Dec. 21.Information has been received here that about 100 Co lombian troops have landed at the island of Pines, northwest of Cape Tinburn, which is situated at the west ern entrance of the Gulf of Darien. The island of Pines is in Panama ter ritory and is the only island along that coast which is wooded, peaked with mountains and also watered, thus of fering every facility for camping and being used as a base of observation. It is significant in this connection that the United States auxiliary cruiser Mayflower left this harbor yesterday bound in the direction of the island of Pines, to obtain confirmation of the report. The United States bunboat Bancroft is still on that coast in the vicinity of Nombre de Dios. The United States cruiser Nashville? has returned to Colon from Bocas del Terro. Rear Admiral Coghlan has trans ferred his flag to the United State* - auxiliary cruiser Prairie. Equivalent to Declaration of War. Panama, Dec. 21.Reports fron*-- Darien indicate that Colombia has as sumed an attitude that is equivalent to a declaration of war against the United States. All Americans who arrived there yesterday were ordereo/ - to leave within twenty-four hours- - President Marroquin is said to have'' - telegraphed tp General Reyes that any a negotiations which do not look to the re-establishment of the integrity o Colombia will not be acceptable. J Warships Patrolling Coast. i "Washington, Dec. 21.There is a very formidable array of American vessels on duty at the isthmus of Pan ama. To the south of the isthmua are the Concord, the Boston, the Wyo ming and the Marblehead, to be au g mented by the New York, Rear Admi ral Glass' regular flagship. To the east of the isthmus are the Mayflower, the Prairie, the Atlanta, the Nashville and the Bancroft. Pro ceeding southward to join the other vessels under immediate command of Rear Admiral Goghlan is the Olym* pia, his regular flagship. - ^Tl UNCLE SAM IS READY Torpedo Boat^ Will Sail on Wednes* dayVessels on Duty. -.San Err-anciseo, Dec- 21.The tor I&edo boat destroyers Paul Jones and Preble are rjtag at the Mare Island * navy yard, coaled and ready for sea, awaiting the coming of officers from the east The officers are now on their wa,y to the navy yard, and it is expecte*d that the warships will sail next' Wednesday for Panama. A crew from the training ship I n dependence has been placed on the * Paul Jones, and the Preble also has a full complement. Both vessels, however, lack a number of officers. =.-J?sv of Gulf of Darien. :. ' ~-l i : .f * :$ - 4 - i Moving Colombian Troops. Washington, Dec. 21.The Colom bian gunboat Cartagena, with 500 troops on "board, is said to be bound for Old Providence island, which is 300 miles north of the isthmus and be longs to Colombia. As the island is as far north of Colon as Cartagena is east, the purpose of this movement of the troops is not plain and it has caused much speculation. TEE LAND RING IS DISRUPTED .W. W. Jermane. $20,000 FOR InteriorDepartment Removes Its Prohibition Against the Pat enting of Western Lands. . Washington, Dec. 21.The secretary of the interior has revoked the order under which final action on entries under the timber and stone act were suspended and all such entries, aggre gating a large number will now be acted upon in the regular order'by the general land office. The order involves several hundred thousand acres of public domain in the west, entries on which have been held up because of the big frauds perpetrated on the gov ernment under the timber and stone / act. The suspension which has been in ,- force many months, h as served a good purposeand in the view of the interior department has'been the means of protecting and preventing many fraud ulent entries. A rigid scrutiny of all entries under the act will be continued but the revocation of the suspension ' order will have the effect of allowing all valid entries to be patented. This was the important develop- *- ment to-day in the land fraud pro- ^ ceedings and Indicates that the gov-"\-'| ernment believes that the backbone of. ? the alleged ring that has been specu- ' - - Iating in and taking unlawful means of :.! acquiring lands under this act has been":" broken. , .& COLBY AND GAINES Arraigned in the Federal Court and '"" Released on Bonds. - - ' Omaha, Neb., Dec. 21.General L. W. Colby, indicted for the alleged em bezzlement of government funds, and Daniel W. Gaines, indicted .on charges* ^ of perjury in swearing to alleged il legal proof of homestead rights, were arraigned before Judge Munger to--- day. Each gave bond for appearance and both were released this after* noon* * ri-i "' i : t Li