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LOOM DISPLACES
DURHAM MACHINE
Weaver's New Cabinet Will Still
Be of the "Practical Poli
tics" Variety.
T&vw York Sun Special Service.
Philadelphia, June 3.A' new politi
cal machine was born today when May
or Weaver introduced Thomas L. Hicks
and Thomas W. South to his cabinet.
"Judge" South, as assistant director
of the department of public safety, will
have control of the policemen and fire
men who have been heretofore the con
trolling factors in Philadelphia politics,
and Mr. Hicks, as assistant diuector of
public works, will find himself able to
hold in check the men directly con
trolled by thp city contractors.
These officials, with an advisory
board to be named by Mayor Weaver,
will carry out the high ideals formu
lated for the civic betterment of Phil
adelphia.
This is tho first time in municipal his
tory that practical politicians of the
Hicks-South type have been called upon
to carry out plans for a model city.
Aides of Dave Martin.
Both of these men are best known as
active lieutenants of Dave Martin,
whose political star is now in the as
cendeancy. Martin will be recalled as
the man wham Senator Quay denounced
as a locaiboss who wears a dollar
mark branded on his brow," for which
expression he apologized to the senate.
It must be understood that these ap
pointments were made to make possible
the radical reforms proposed. Mayor
Weaver and all his four directors admit
frankly that they do not know the pri
xnarv principles of practical politics.
All men interested in cleaning up the
town" have demanded that practical
men be entrusted with the subduing of
tho ten regiments of officeholders who
have dominated every election held
here during the past six years.
Mr. Hicks has made a life study of
municipal affairs and has been aggres
sive in politics for more than twenty
years. "Judge" South has never had
any seiious occupation other than prac
tical politics. Both men have been
openly hostile to the Durham-McNochol
organization.
Sinecures Abolished.
Mavor Weaver intimated today that
more than forty high salaried physicians
employed by the city are to be dis
missed, along with more than one hun
dred other officeholders who render no
material service to the city. Several
'Costly sinecures are to be abolished en
tirely. The entire police force is to be
reorganized on a quasi military basis
and rigid economy will prevail in every
department or the chief thereof will
resign by request.
Following up Tiis call for information
as to tho status of all affairs relating
to the United Gas Improvement com
pany, the mayor proposes, it is under
stood, to order an exhaustive inquiry
into all contracts for work and supplies
involved in the building of the filtration
plants, which have cost $25,000,000, and
which have been notoriously rich in
Taft. Penalties amounting to more
$3,000,000 have never been col
lected from the contractors engaged
this work. Mr. Hicks is intimately fa
miliar with the facts.
Great Names Mentioned.
Scores of names have been suggested
for the proposed board of advisers to be
named by the mayor, the most conspicu
ous among them being Wayne McVeagh,
John Wanamaker, William Potter, John
C. Winston, George H. Barle, Jr., Rich
ard Y. Cook, Francis B. Beeves, Bev.
Charles Wood, William A. Carr, Edward
T. Stotesbury, Nathan T. FolwelL Sam
uel Fels, George Burnham, Jr., Bussell
Duane, Thomas Baeburn White, George
S. Graham and Charles Emory Smith.
The personnel of the board will not be
announced until acceptances have been
received.
Break in Stocks.
As a result of the changed political
conditions in tins city and the fear of
unfriendly moves against the local
street railway and gas companies, there
has been a bad break in the stoek of
these concerns on the Philadelphia Stock
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exchange. Today United Gas Improve- which the weaker nation has risen and
ment company, whieh two weeks ago defeated the mighty, and the ereat un
was quoted around 118 and which had lest felt by the diplomats of all the na-
ipreviously sold up to 125%, dropped tions. These are all signs that we may
from 95%,
yesterday'ss
Bolla Dance, secretary of the civil
service board, today, at the request of
Mayor Weaver, tendered his resignation.
Dance is a close friend of James Mcr
Kichol, one of the republican' leaders of
Philadelphia.
TORTURED HIS TOTS
TO DISCIPLINE THEM
New York Sun Special Service.
New York, June 3.Cruelly burning
and searing the fingers of his two little
children as a punishment for playing
& with matches, resulted in the arrest to-
*V day of William J. Glover of South Or
ange, N. J. The punishment inflicted
by the father on Muir, the 5-year-old
toy is severe that
theof
Saturday Evening,
LIITLE ANTONIA
WANTS TO DIE
Sad Case of the Child Murderess
at WheatonCoroner's Jury
Verdict.*
Special to The*Journal.
Wheaton, Minn., June 3.The coro
ner's jury at the inquest over the body
of Herman Schoff has brought in a ver
dict of ''murder in the first degree at
the hands of Antonia Seidensticker."
The self-confessed child murderess
waived a hearing in the municipal court
and was bound over to await the ac
tion of the grand jury, which sits
June 19.
Lying in the hospital, rapidly recov
ering from two bullet wounds in the
abdonuen, self-inflicted, the 13-year-
year-old child, who has brought grief
and sorrow to two homes, shed her first
tears this morning as the bars were
being fastened to the windows of the
little room where she 'now lies under
arrest.
Abnormally developed, appearing
more like a girl of 16 or 18 than, a
child scarcely her teens, she steadily
refuses to show any signs of regret for
taking the life of her lover, and appar
ently without the least particle of reel
ing, reiterates her statement:
"'We kissed each other and I shot
him thru the heart. Then I shot my
self. I thought I would die in a few
moments and I wanted to be buried
in the same grave with Herman."
This statement explains the^lirection
of the shot that killed Scheff.^he post
mortem examination showing the bul
let to have entered the left side below
the collarbone, severing the pulmonary
artery and causing almost instanta
neous death. The girl, sitting on the
right-hand side of the buggy driving,
had risen to kiss Seheff, and was thus
facing him when she kissed him and
fired. The other four shots in the re
volver she used on herself, two taking
effect.
The attendants are keeping close
watch on her, as she declares that at the
first opportunity she will kill herself,
the failure to do which is her only re
gret. Otto Scheff, father of the dead
boy, took the body to Cokato, the fam
ily home, for interment.
A Oigaret Victim.
Floyd Bock, who was serving a sen
tence for aseault in the county jail
at this place, undertook to warm things
up some and set fire to the mattresses,
bedding and loose material in the celi
this week. The fire was extinguished
before any great damage was done. The
following morning Eock was adjudged
insane and taken to Fergus Falls. He
is another victim of cheap novels and
cigarets.
WAR A HOLY OMEN,
SAY ADYENTISTS
Second Coming of Christ Is Ex
pected Within a Few Years,
Says Elder.
New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, June 3.The annual Illinois
conference of the Seventh Day Advent
ist church began last night in the big
meeting tent at Cottage Grove avenue
and Seventieth street. Besides the
large meeting tent there are sixty tents
which will serve as dwellings for dele-
farge
fates to the conference, ana there is a
dining tent, where vegetarian
meals are served.
Three meetings will be held daily. In
a talk last night Elder Bernstein' of
Minneapolis said:
"We are told in the Bible that when
certain signs have come to pass Christ
will return within a generation. We
feel that these signs are before us now
in the great unrest thruout the world,
the great struggle n*ow taking place in
this city between capital and labor, the
was between Japan and Bussia, in
close, to expect the second coming of Christ
wa on buying92.yThe in within a few years."
yestors and speculators who believed the
stock would be much more valuable aft
er the new lease of the city gasworks
had been consummated. The failure of
this deal caused heavy selling, culminat
ing in a decline of nearly $10 a share
yesterday and today.
Other stocks which suffered were Phil
adelphia Bapid Transit company and
Union Traction company, the companies
which own the street railway lines. The
former dropped to 26 today, a decline
of 6 points within a week, and the lat
ter to 58%, as against 62% last Satur
day. There were especial declines in
both stocks today.
This decline is traceable to the an
nouncement by a reform councilman
that he will introduce an ordinance call
ing for 3 cent fares and the placing of
trolley wires underground. Coupled
with this announcements is .the declara
tion that Mayor Weaver favors such
legislation.
Another local utility company stock
to decline is that of the Philadelphia
'Electric company, which sold at $8 a
share today compared with $12 recently.
This company has a monopoly of the
electric lighting privilege, and there has
recently been talk of depriving it of its
valuable contracts for city street light
ing.
Another Gangster Out.
attending
physiciaso says the fingers the child
will be shortened. The burns on the
fingers of Lucille, a 3-year-old girl, are
not BO serious. Giover was formerly su
perintendent of the Sunday school of
the North Baptist church of South
Orange.
Grape=Nuts
for breakfast and never
before did I know what
charming flavor a break
fast food can have."
The concentration of
rj nourishment and. a cer-
*-t tain health-maker.
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ALL HIS ROMANCE
AND $11 ARE GONE
Clementine de Vere's Coarse,
Rude Agents Showed Mis-
souriWooing Is Costly.
New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago June 3.Charles Summer of
Mauley, Mo., stepped off an Illinois Cen
tral train at the Park Bow station yes
terday. In his buttonhole he wore'the
red ribbon which Clementine de Vere,
with whom he had been corresponding
thru a matrimonial agency, told him to
be sure to display, that she might know
him.
Clementine wasn't there, but two men
said they represented her and asked him
how much money he had.
"Eleven dollars," said Charley, "and
a ticket back to Mauley, "Mizzury."
"You can keep the tickete" said one
of the men.^ Give us the eleven bones
and we'll have Clementine here in a few
minutes.''
Mr. Summer gave up the money and
sat down to wait. After three hours a
cloud of suspicion about the size of $11
began to loom on the horizon, and he
spoke to a policeman. Other policemen
are now looking for Clementine and the
two men.
BISHOP POTTER BACKS
GERMAN BEER GARDEN
New York Sun Special Service.
New York, June 3.For the first
time in its history New York is to have
a real German beer garden, patterned
after the Cafe Deutscher Art, of Berlin,
and if it succeeds the institution is to
be made permanent. The refreshment
end is of secondary importance. Wag
ner, Mendelssohn and Strauss will be
served at popular prices, with beer and
sandwiches and by the best virtuosos
and soloists obtainable. The backers
include many men well known in New
York. The movement was started by
Bishop Henry C. Potter, Coadjutor Bish
op David S Greer, Bev. Ernest M.
Stires, George Poster Peabody, Spencer
Trask and Seth Low.
DUBUQUE AND HEE NAMESAKE.
Special to The Journal.
Dubuque, Iowa, June 8.The gunboat Du
buque was put -into commission at the Brook
lyn navyyard today. Former Speaker Bender
son sent the commander st the yard, the follow
ing telegram this morning: "Oity of Dubuque
sends congratulations to the commanding officer
of the Brooklyn navyyard on account of the
gunboat Dnbuque."
IT&A^ KILLED BY X1GHTNIKO.
Special to Hie Journal.
Le Sueur, Minn., June 3.Albert Gutzmer,
ALL THE POWERS 3
"PRESS FOB PEACE
Roosevelt the Real Head of the
Movement to Induce Czar
to Yield.
St. Petersburg, June 3.The
sports of President Boosevelt's
a
farmer living west of Le Sueur, was kUled today
cabled
reports or Presiden JXooseveit' con
versation with Ambassador Cassini at
Washington yesterday, implying that
the president had practically tendered
his good offices to Bussia, created a sen
sation in diplomatic circles. The news
was received with unconcealed satisfac
tion in the belief that it would hasten
the decision of Emperor Nicholas, the
European powers being more or less em
barrassed, no matter how ardently they
desire peace.
There is good reason to believe, how
ever, that the reports did not correctly
state the president's attitude. He had
already made known to the emperor, in
a personal message conveyed oy Am
bassador Meyer, his willi'n'gness and
desire to promote the cause jof peace,
and his conversation with Cassini is be
lieved to have been in' the nature per
haps of a stronger reiteration of his
receptive attitude, without being a for
mal tender of his good offices, which
might subject him to a rebuff.
Cassini's report was cabled to For
eign Minister Lamsdorff by whom it
will be laid before the emperor. Prac
tically the message has the moral sup
Eort of all the jgreat European powers,
eaded by Bussia's ally, France, which
have conveyed in the' most delicate
manner an intimation of their convic
tions of the fuitlity of further warfare.
Emperor William is known to have con
veyed such information thru Grand
Duke Michael, who arrived in Berlin
yesterday, and Foreign Secretary Lans
downe, in behalf of King Edward, is
reported to have conveyed Great Bri
tain's views thru Ambassador Benken
dorff.
Emperor Nicholas' ministers, with
two exceptions, are earnestly in favor
of peace, but the emperor himself has
not yet bowed his head.
POLITB TO OASSINI
But Roosevelt Is Acting Thru Meyer at
St. Petersburg.
New York Sun Special Service.
Washington, June 3.Count Cassini,
the Bussian ambassador, paid his de
layed visit to the White House yester
day afternoon and talked with the
president for half an hour. Their con
ference related to the war, which prac
tically was the only subject discussed,
but it had no direct bearing on the ef
forts Mr. Boosevelt is making to bring
Bussia and Japan together on a basis
from which terms of peace satisfactory
to both nations may be evolved, for
the reason that Count Cassini has no
past in them.
They discussed the war, its cost in
men and money and its probable end
ing, but only in a general way. The
president submitted no proposals to the
ambassador for transmission to his
government and Count Cassini had
nothing from St. Petersburg to com
municate. Their discussion was purely
informal and was rather an exchange
of individual ideas, tho the president
impressed on Count Cassini, as he has
on all of those high in official life and
diplomacy with whom he has talked, his
firm belief that Bussia should end the
war in her own interest.
Cassini Expected Terms.
The ambassador evidently delayed
his call on the president in the hope
that Mr. Boosevelt w6uld have some
thing to communicate from Japan, unof
ficially or otherwise, as a result of the
frequent visits of Mr. Takahira, the
Japanese minister, to the White House
but if this was his expectation, he was
disappointed.
The only thingthe president did tell
him is that if Kussia was ready for
peace, he was confident he could so
arrange things that Japan would meet
her on a footing which would not hu
miliate Bussia nor put her in the atti
tude of suing abjectly for peace, which
has already been made known at St.
Petersburg.
Meyer Is Peace Agent.
Mr. Boosevelt might have gone far
ther, and conveyed a good idea of the
general terms on which Japan is ready
to open negotiations, but he did not
do so for the reason that every effort
he is making toward the restoration of
peace is being exerted thru Ambassa
dor Meyer at St. Petersburg. Mr.
Meyer was transferred to the Bussian
capital in the expectation of just such
a contingency as has arisen.
The president has the fullest confi
dence in Mr. Meyer's tact and good
sense. He is relying on Mr. Meyer to
handle the exceedingly delicate situ
ation in the way best calculated to
avoid offense to Bussia and to effect
the desired conclusion, and he believes
he can handle it best in his own way
and without being interfered with.
Cassini Is Eliminated.
Another reason why Count Cassini
has been eliminated from the prelimi
nary advances which are now being ar
ranged is the fact that he will leave
Washington for his new post at Madrid
within four or five weeks. This would,
according to the president's view, pre
vent him from taking part in the final
settlement, for Mr. Boosevelt expects
that the formal peace 'negotiations will
be concluded in Washington and that,
naturally, the Bussian ambassador, who
then will be Baron Bosen', will be one
of Bussia's commissioners.
The president thinks it will be two or
three weeks before the pourparlers
are disposed of, and the foundation laid
for actual peace Negotiations. By that
time Count Cassini would, be busy with,
the preparations for his departure and
there necessarily would be a delay in
cident to the turning over of such im
portant affairs to his successor. There
fore Mr. Booosevelt considers it advisa
ble to have the preliminaries discussed
and concluded at St. Petersburg.
By the time Baron Bosen arrives the
president .hopes the first steps will be
all out of the way and that he will fin'd
explicit instructions as to his eourse in
the final negotiations.
Suspicious of Cassini.V*'',
Still another reason for the elimina
tion of Count Cassini lies in the fact
that he has not now the confide'nJce of
the president to the degree that he once
possessed it. Ever since the Kishinef
affair, at which time the president al
most openly charged the Bussian ambas
sador with bad faith and his govern
ment with breaking its promises, their
relations have beenHbadly strained. In
recent months there has been a surface
reconciliation, but it is no secret in
Washington thai Count Cassini is not
trusted by the president as he formerly
waS.
It is also well known that the ambas
sador has no sympathy with the peace
party in Bussia and is in favor of fight
ing the war to the bitter end. While
he was minister to China heopened the
door for Russia's aggression in Man
churia, and for Bussia now to confess
that she is beaten and withdraw would
be to sweep away his life work.
MONTGOMERY SEARS DEAD.
Soutftboro, Mass., June 3.J. T. Mont
gomery Sears, the heaviest taxpayer of
Boston and one of the wealthiest men in
New England died at his -summer home
_.e
er
by ligbtniiift. months.
today* has been ill for several
LONDONERS INSUREf
LIFE OF ALFONSO
Seek to Protect Themselves
Against Loss Should Bomb
Prevent King's Visit.
London, June 3.Insurances on the
life of King Alfonso, who is now visit
ing in Paris, are being effected at
Lloyd's by those who would suffer were
the festivities cut short by a repetition
of the attempt on his lire during his
visit to London in the coming week.
King Edward has especially directed
the home secretary to see that nothing
is omitted to insure the visitor's safety
and comfort. The function in which
the public iB mostly interested will be
King Alfonso's visit to London June 7.
The route the king will take is already
in the hands of the ^decorators.
King Beviews French Troops.
Paris, June 3.King Alfonso, mount
ed and wearing the uniform of a Span
ish captain general, was the central
figure of a brilliant military review at
Vineennes today, which 2&,000 troops
participated. Later he lunched with
the high military officers at the Ely
see palace. Besponding to a toast, the
king paid a glowing tribute to the
French army, adding:
"I cannot forget that your presi
dent and I have together escaped a
peril which nowadays menaces the lives
of all chiefs of state, and that it was
in the midst of your brave cuirassiers
that we received our. baptism of fire."
CHICAGO GHILDREN
COCAINE YICTIMS
12-Year*01d Boy Confesses Fifty
Mates in One School Use
Drug.
New York Sun Special Servioe.
Chicago, June 3.A war on druggists,
who sell cocaine to children, has been
inaugurated. Thru the confession of a
12-year-old boy, it is learned that the
habit has extended until nearly half a
hundred of the boys who attend the
Scanlon school are addieted to it.
The disclosure was made by Lane
Bichmond, a pupil of the school, who
said he got the drug from Harry Jones,
another boy, who has not yet been found
by the police.
I snuff it up my nose," said young
Bichmond, when asked how he used the
drug. It makes me feel fine. All the
boys I know use flake/ said he, using
the term by whieh cocaine-users desig
nate the drug. ''The boys carry it in a
little box like you get pills in, and
whenever they want any of it they
snuff it up their noses."
The Bichmond boy said that Harry
Jones had been expelled from school be
cause he refused to obey the teachers.
The probation officers will make an
attempt to find him, in the hope that
something can be learned about those
who are selling the drug to boys,
Bichmond was,sent to the boys' school
at St. Charles, wnere he will be kept un
til there is no danger of his returning
to'the use of the stimulant. The boy's
father is dead and his mother, a concert
hall singer, is now in Hurley, Wis.
SETTLES FORT'S
BEER QUESTION
Chaffee Decides Enlisted Men Can
HavfrMalt Beverages if Com
mander Consents.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, June 3.General Chaf
fee, chief of staff, has acted upon the
question presented by the commanding
officer at Port Snelling, relating to the
delivery of beer to those on the reserv
ation who had purchased that article
elsewhere. General Chaffee informed
the commanding officer:
"Deliveries of beer to commissioned
officers for their own use and for the
use of their families may continue, but
deliveries to enlisted men shall only be
made with the express consent of the
commanding officer, who will be re
sponsible that the requirements of the
anti-canteen law will not be evaded
that is, that a practice shall not be per
mitted to grow up which, in the guise
of deliveries, permits the introduction
of intoxicating liquor into the barracks
and quarters of enlisted men in such
way as to evade the requirement of the
act."
Porto Bioan Soldier.
Second Lieutenant Aristides Moreno,
Twenty-eighth infantry, Fort Snelling,
has asked that his position on the lineal
list of second lieutenants of infantry be
changed. He served as commissioned
officer of the Porto Bico provisional
regiment of infantry from December,
1901, to November, 1904, when he was
commissioned second lieutenant in the
regular establishment. He was desirous
of being credited with the service per
formed in the Porto Bico regiment,
which consideration would give him ad
vancement over several second lieuten
ants appointed from civil life.
The war department has advised the
officer that the change cannot be made
and that he Las no claim to favorable
consideration on aeeount of his service
with the Porto Rico command.
New Patents.
Washington, D. C, June 3.(Spe-
cial)The following patents were is
sued this week to Minnesota and Da
kota inventors, as reported by William
son & Merchant, Patent Attornevs,
925-983 Guaranty Loan Building, Min
neapolis, Minn.: Scott M. Abbot, Water
town, Minn., heating drum Alexander
K. Algeo, Ortonville. Minn., drafting
instrument Jacob Faust, Gladstone,
Minn., disk drill Edgar J. Hodgson,
Minneapolis, Minir., speed indicator
Alfred Johnson, Minneapolis, Minn.,
grain drver Godfrev J. Kaplan,. Owa
tonna, Minn., churn J. C. F. Malthaner,
Minneapolis, Minn.,* ringing generator
H. G. Both (2), Minneapolis, Minn., dis
play bin. and jar cover Joseph Roth
well, St. Paul, Minn., drawer support
Oliver C. Shepjmrd, enterville, S. D.,
emasculator William Smith, La Cres
cent, Minn., loop coupling Leonard
South and Eugene Pratt, Webster, 8.
D.. centrifugal hammer Milton M.
Wheeler, Deadwood, S. D., book ac
counts.
GOVERNOR ESCAPES BOMB.
Barcelona, June 3.At 6 o'clock last
evening a bomb was exploded in the
palace of the governor general, doing
considerable damage. Ten arrests baye
been made.
BLUEBEABD HANGS JTTNE 38.
Chicago. June 8"Bluebeard" Johann Hocb
is to be hanged June 23. Judge Kersten, who
some time ago sentenced Hoch to be hanged,
today fixed the date of the execution/
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MYSTERY IN DYNAMITING
Dixon, 111., June 8 A man as ret unidenti
fied was blown to pieces here with dynamite
last night. Windows were broken in the entire
leighborhood. The explosion is believed
accident. re beeA as
fHE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. June 3, 1905.
BATTLE yiCTIMS
IN YANKEE PORT
Continued from First Page.
which overtook the transport Hitachi
and Sado.
The lighthouse will be erected by pop
ular subscription.
Forts Helped Fleet.
Survivors' statements show that the
Japanese maneuvers drove a portion of
the Bussian fleet under the fire of the
forts on Tsu island, which sunk the bat
tleship Oslabya. On Saturday night,
owing to the frequent torpedo attacks
and the fact that the Bussian vessels
did not carry any lights, the fleet was
much separated and became incapable
of acting in combination. The only or
ders were to reach Vladivostok. The
Bussians were short of ammunition and
their marksmanship was indifferent.
VENT WRATH ON ADMIRAL
Bussians Would Execute Nebogatoff for
Surrendering.
St. Petersburg, June 4.Feeling in
the admiralty against Bear Admiral
Nebogatoff continues to run high, the
majority of the naval authorities being
deaf to the appeals of the few who in
sist that the admiral's action in sur
rendering his warships should not be
condemned until the circumstances be
come fully known. The majority say
they could forgive anything but surren
der, and point to the precedent set in
the case of the Bussian warship Ba
phael, which in 1829, during the Busso
Turkish war, struck its colors to three
Turkish ships which surrounded it.
Nicholas I. meted out a terrible pun
ishment to the officers and crew of the
Baphael, ordering that all of them
should be shot after their exchange, and
directing that if the ship should ever
be recaptured its infamous history
should be blotted out by the total de
struction of the vessel. The Baphael,
strange to say, was reeaptured thirty
four years later at Sinope, during the
Crimean war, a son of the captain who
surrendered her taking part in the bat
tie, and to this son fell the task of ex
ecuting the dead emperor's orderB to
destroy her.
Many naval authorities declare that
the emperor should reserve the same
fate for Admiral Nebogatoff.
It is stated that when Bear Admiral
Nebogatoff surrendered the Bussians
hoisted red flags on their topmasts, with
Bussian flags below them. The crews
were drawn up in parade order on the
deeks and some of the sailors were
waving white flags. The whole affair is
described as a "contemptible spec
tacle.
Ammunition Exhausted.
to
A statement today that the ammuni
tion on board Admiral Nebogatoff's
ships was exhausted when he surren
dered was received with some relief,
this being one of the conditions under
which, according to the Bussian naval
regulations, a commander is allowed to
surrender, the other condition being
when the crew of a vessel is so depleted
as to be unable to manage her and work
her guns and when the ship is burned
to the water's edge and is about to sink.
Nevertheless, most of the naval men
continue to be of the opinion that the
seacocks should have been opened and
the ships sunk.
Stories of mutiny on board the Bus
sian vessels continue to circulate in the
clubs and cafes, but the admiralty will
not admit that it has received any in
formation tending to substantiate them.
The officials admit, however, that some
of the sailors mutinied off the coast
of Madagascar, and that a number of
$hem were''Shot by Admiral Bojestvenr
sky's orders.* 4
Russia's Chance of Escape.
According to a dispatch from Japan
by way of London, all the Bussian sur
vivors confess that the Japanese forma
tion was never broken and that their
shooting was magnificent. Expert Jap
anese naval opinion holds that, had the
Baltic fleet made determined attempts
to force its way north, at least half of
it would have escaped, but instead of
going north Admiral Bojestvensky
turned east. This was the critical mo
ment in the battle and when the Japan
ese saw the Bussians turning east they
broke into loud cheers. The skill dis
played by the Japanese was super
human.
WHY NOT OWN SUBWAY,
ASKS BROOKLYN CHEF?
New York Sun Special Service.
Brooklyn, June 3.Borough. President
Littleton issued today a statement in
which he urges that the city build and
operate all the subways now projected.
''The city is now asked to repeat the
mistake of twenty-five years' ago" Mr.
Littleton says, "by letting go 01 these
great rights and authorizing these giant
syndicates to operate subways and col
lect fares sufficient to maintain them
and pay large dividends. The Belmont
syndicate has shown that there is big
money in the operation of the subway,
and the question naturally arises, why
should the city not get this money in
stead of a syndicate?"
EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN
KILLS 6 INJURES 79
Tokio, June 3.The governor of Hiro
shima province telegraphs that an earth
quake, which occurred June 2, killed
six persons, injured seventy-nine and de
stroyed thirty-three houses in Hiroshi
ma and Ujina.
The reports from other affected dis
tricts are incomplete, but it is believed
that the loss of life and the destruction
of property have been comparatively
slight.
The first shock of the earthquake de
stroyed the telegraph system which, be
sides making it impossible tq communi
cate with the earthquake district, cut
off Tokio from western Japan ana the
rest of the world. This created an im-
Eaken
ression that some great disaster had
place.
GOSSIPS SURE MISS
ALICE IS BETROTHED
New York Sun Special Service.
Oincinnatij June 3.Miss Alice Boose
velt has arrived here, attended only by
her maid, for a visit of a week or longer
at the Longworth home, Eoodwood.''
In the absence of Mrs. Liongworth,
who left a few days ago for a protracted
visit to her daughter, the Countess de
Chambrun, in Prance, Mrs. Buckner
Wallingford, another daughter, and
young Nicholas Longworth, congress
man from the second district, are the
hosts at Eoodwood.
Although the opinion is generally held
here that Miss Boosevelt and Congress
man Longworth are engaged to be mar
ried, it is not likely, even if such is
the case, that a formal announcement
will be made during this visit, owing to
the absence of Mr. Longworth's mother,
whose abrupt departure for Europe on
the eve of the visit of the president's
daughter'occasions much comnrent.' y~
^"^j.
New Elevator to Women's Floor
At the Plymouth Center entrance.
DISTANCE TARIFF
NOT IN RATE PLAN
Continued from First Page.
kets for American flour by requiring
Mr. Hill to publish his thru rates, Judge
Prouty authorized the following state
ment, which he dictated:
A correct understanding of just
what the president proposes answers
that question of itself. President Boose
velt proposes to confer upon the inter
state commerce commission not the
rate-making but the rate-regulating
power. The railways are entirely free
to put in effect any rate which they
choose, and the rates which they es
tablish cannot be changed unless upon
complaint and after full investigation.
If complaint is made and the com
mission determines after hearing of all
parties that the rate complained of is
unreasonable, then and only then it
may order the carriers to charge in
place of the unjust rate one which is
.just.
What Commission Can Do.
"The act to regulate commerce now
provides that rates shall be just and
reasonable. The commission is author
ized to inquire at the present time
whether they are just and reasonable.
Its duty to inquire would be exactly
the same after the enactment of the
proposed legislation as it is now, and
the standard bjr which the reasonable
ness of a rate is determined would be
exactly the same as it always has been,
the only difference being that the com
mission could compel the observance of
the just charge.
"Now, in the past, the commission
has frequently passed upon this claim
that rates should be made according to
distance and has invariably declined to
apply that rule when competitive con
ditions prevailed. In the very last case
decided involving the rates upon export
traffic to Boston, New York, Philadel
phia and Baltimore from western points,
the commission held that the rate to
the port of export* ought not to be de
termined by distance Dut should be so
adjusted as to permit free competition
thru all the ports. In further conforma
tion of this, I may cite from the opinion
of the commission in the Denver case.
Bates to points on the Pacific coast are
in some cases lower than to Denver, the
Pacific coast rate being made to meet
water competition between the Atlantic
seaboard and the Pacific coast. Denver
insisted that inasmuch as the distance
to that city was less, the rate should be
less. In refusing to adopt this view,
the commission used the following lan
guage:
Fallacy in Contention.
'The fallacy at the bottom of this
contention lieB in the assumption that
either Chicago or Denver have any ad
vantage over New York in point of lo
cation with respect to San Francisco,
and Denver is but 1,400 by rail, yet it
is probable that most kinds of merchan
dise can be actually carried from New
York to San Francisco. These two
cities are nearer in geographical
miles, but they are not nearer of neces
sity, and probably not in fact in facility
of transportation. New York is by wa
ter perhaps 13,000 miles from San Fran-
ciscQ and eDnver is but 1,400 by raiL
yet it is probable that most kinds ox
merchandise can be actually carried
from New York to San Francisco at a
less cost than from Denver to San
Francisco. If this be so, Denver in
matter of transportation is not neces
sarily more advantageously located than
New York, nor can Denver necessarily,
by reason of its location alone, demand
a more favorable rate than New York.
As to Distance Tariff.
*We must not be understood as Bay
ing that cost of transportation alone
controls. What we do say is that in
this case distance alone cannot control.
These rates cannot be made with a yard
stick. Commercial conditions and phys
ical conditions and the condition or the
carriers themselves must be consider-
ed.'
"Few of the many misrepresenta
tions which are being made to influence
fmblic opinion at the present time have
ess basis in fact than this claim that if
a bill like the Esch-Townsend were to
become a law, it would require the mak
ing of interstate rates upon a distance
tariflV
Hill and Oriental Trade.
On having his attention called to-the
statement or President Hill of the Great
Northern before the senfete committee,
to the effect that some requirement of
the interstate commerce commission had
compelled his company to withdraw his
low export rates on flour from Minne
apolis to Asiatic ports, Judge Prouty
said:
''That statement is entirely without
foundation. The act to regulate com
merce requires that carriers shall pub
lish the rates under which their traffic
is moved. It has been insisted in some
sections of the country that this re
quirement did not apply to import and
export business.
'In the spring of 1904 the commis
sion undertook an investigation for the
purpose of ascertaining to what extent
export and import tariffs were filed and
observed. As a result of that investi
gation, it expressed the opinion that the
statute in its present form required the
publication of these schedules but it
expressed the further opinion that this
requirement might in some instances
operate with undue severity, aWd it said
that it would not for the present make
any attempt to enforce this provision of
law, in order that the carriers might
have an opportunity to apply to con
gress for some amendment of the stat
ute. Instead, therefore, of making
some requirement which has interfered
with Mr. Hill's export rate flour, th
commission1
has expresslyon refrainee
from enforcing the law in that respect,
in order that his operations might not
be interfered with. Does this indi
cate that a government commission
would be disposed to hampeT the legiti
mate operations of our railways?"
Oriental Markets Preserved.
Judge Prouty not only says that the
administration policy will not mean the
adoption of the mileage basis, but as
to the oriental flour markets, he says
that the commission in reality has
winked at a violation of the law in or-
When stepping on Mat
brushes sink and
weight rests upon
scrapers while clean
ing shoes brushes
rise and same action
which cleans the shoes
keeps the brushes
clean.
iS*a4
PETESM4NS ROACH FOOD
A SOON TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
roD
POACH
(thick), a
1
The most improved method to trtt tf
hoarse of large or small roacfoos is to us*'
the contents or a box of "Fetennan's
Roach Food" at one time. Shake It on
jtolais so some-of It will penetrate and
mam to keep the premises continuously
free. Roaches at It as a food it la
the moat destructive remedy on tnie earth
to them, and tt wttl not scatter them to
father plaofls to lrveon and multiply.
te TT QyS"fetennan's
Dtecovry
mn QUicksilveri
cream, is nwiP^rafre 1 Invaluable'
to kill bed- &Ff7FB9X>* bugs. Ap-'
ply lightly yj&fjMW&br withbnLThj
of picture "^S^-N frames,!
mouldinm, etc It wiu j?etoa4n penna.nen.t,l
and is the only remedy that fhey
and kUls them that go-over'
been llgirClY brttsneoT do.. Jt
1*1? ouick application,
their egks instantjy. The tonormoaa salt
of abovi remedies' enables pvtce bang
made so that the rioh arid poof eJtk$ can
afford to UBe them. Sold Jb. evefy prin
cipal store in the wntted Stated, '-and at
the fbllowirjg ^inogappHs Btoree: Vbp
ton Dry Goods Co.. Wtn. Donaldson Oa.
WM. PETBfcMstt*, Mffe. Chemf*t.
Nos. 04, 56 and S8-JWes*--iath
BBtaWishedJL87a -JSemr Xsrk&Bab
MBS. JO HN PABBY
Writes an Open Letter To Mr. Crollus
About His Wonderful Truss.
"Mr. F. Crollus, Minneapolis, Minn:
"Dear SirI have worn your Aluminum
Truss since the 25th of last month, and
I am well pleased with it. I have not had
any trouble whatever. Have slept with
it on and sleep sound all night. If I had
been to see you personally, the fit could
not be more perfect. I am glad I saw
your advertisement and hope every rup
tured woman in need of a truss may get
yours. Wishing you every success, I re
main,
'"Thankfully yours,
"Mrs. John Parry,
"Cincinnati, Iowa.**
Note:Measurements accurately tak
en by mail and trusses fitted perfectly
at home. Call or write today, Crolius
Truss Co., 639-640 Andrus Building,
Minneapolis, Minn.
certain of cure, causing little pain, DO cat
ting, no bleeding and no chloroform.
I also treat all other forms of Rectal Di
tases, Fistula. Fi&sure, Ulcer, Proctitic,
Chronic Constipation, Diarrhea, Dysentery,
etc. My charges are reasonable. I guaran
tee a cure and ask no payment until yon are
cored and satisfied.
Call for consultation or write fuU descrip
tion of your trouble My book Bent to those
who write description of their case.
Consultation and examination free.
Hours, 9-5. Enenings, 7-8. Sundays, 10-12.
Dr.Edw. A. JOHNSTON, Specialist
710 Globe Building, Minneapolis.
der to preserve those markets. Mr. Hill
was not called upon to publish his
thru rate, and nothing whatever was
done by the government to break up his
export flour business. The issue is thus
ilill,
'oined between the commission and Mr.
and since the real facts can easily
be ascertained, the people of the north
west should insist upon getting them
before they bank too heavily upon Mr.
iHU's statements.
A distinguished member of the ad
ministration, discussing further the Hill
situation, said to me:
"Mr. Hill's railroad exists and does
business upon condition that it shall
charge the public a iust and reasonable
tariff. If he compels me to pay more
than is reasonable, or what is unjust,
he takes my property. Some tribunal
must be created which has power to
judge between him and me. That tri
bunal cannot be a court, as the attorney
general has very clearly pointed out in
is opinion before the senate commit
tee. It must be either congress itself
or some commission acting under au
thority delegated by congress. All pos
sible care should be taken to make that
commission able and fair, but it is that
or nothing. This is the whole proposi
tion of the president."
ASKED AND ANSWERED.
Detroit Tribune.
They had been trotting in raatrhnonl&l
harness for six months, and the pace waa
beginning to telL
"What," she asked, after the manner of
a woman, "ever made you fall in lov
with me?"
"Love," he. answered, -with the blunteess
of his sex, "is blind, you know,"
NOT WA8TINQ MONEY*
Philadelphia Press.
Mrs- McBluffI thought you might
least have put a dollar in the collection
plate at church today,
Mr. McBluffWhat wasuthe use? There
-wasn't anybody looking when the plate
came to me.
CHANGED.
Houston Post.
"Yes," said John's mother, **he used to
worry me nearly to death. There was
hardly a day the whole summer Ions that
he wouldn't run off and go swimming."
"It's strange how men change,'' replied
John's wife "I have to become down*
right cross and scold to get him into th
water once a week now."
MUSICAL MATTER8.
Council Bluffs NonparieL
"My bark is on the sea," sang the tenor
of the male quartet
"It oughtn't to be," said the leader se
verely. "Were singing in now.**
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