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6c a week VEATHER FORECAST: TOMORROW: FAIR. SURVIVORS REACH SEATTLE Those Who Escaped Terrible Fate of the Valencia Praize Bravery of Pass* engers and Crew-Women Refused to Go on Life Raft SEATTLE, Jan. 26—Bringing 23 survivors of the Valencia, the steamer City of Topeka arrived at 6 o'clock this morning. Besides 17 men who were picked up on a life raft Wednesday afternoon, the six men who escaped in a lifeboat were returned. They were picked up by the steamer yesterday after noon and transferred to the Tope ka. Seven survivors were taken Immediately to the Rainier Grand hotel, others scattered to other ho tels or went home. When the To peka left the scene of the wreck shortly before dark yesterday eve ning nothing could be seen of the Valencia. COLLIER'S EDITOR FOUND NOT (Brrtpps News •unoclntlns.) NI3W YORK, Jan. 26.—1n the suit charging Hapgood with crimin al libel, Jerome this morning took up the case and discussed the al leged libelous article from a legal standpoint as to justification and excuse and sold: "We deal with the case as ."developed by the testi mony." Jerome said further the course of Town Topics should net as a warn ing to many newspapers in this city. He warmly attacked local papers as containing "some vile PRESIDENT RETURNED THE BOOKS t mimmm —— (Bcrlpps News Association.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 26.— A statement was given out at. the White House this morning in view of Mann's testimony yesterday. It includes copies of correspondence of the president with Mann in which the executive returned a copy of Fads and Fancies, with the declaration that since he had nol given tho photographs for publica tion he could not accept the vol umes. MORE ABOUT STANDARD MSTHODS (Bcrlpps News Association.) CLKVELAND, 0., Jan. 26. — B. W. 13rown, nrt--iii. nl of the Great Western Oil company, was the first witness In the Missouri inquiry into Standard Oil today. Ho told how the Republic absorbed the company of which ho was formerly a member. LATE ENGLISH ELECTION RETURNS LONDON, Jan. 26. — English election returns to date are: Lib erals, 338; unionists, 143; national ists, 81; laboritos, 48. PLAINS FOR CAR SHOPS Attached to a deed Just filed in the office of the county auditor, Is a map which shows the ground plan' of the terminal shops and barns of the Spokane Terminal company in Dennis & Bradley's ad dition. The deed In question con veys property along the southerly and easterly sides of Superior and Olive streets from W. G. Davidson to the company. Yesterday the Topeka cruised around the straits looking for the other life raft reported to have left the Valencia. Nothing could he seen of it and dispatches from Vic toria this morning state the raft finally succeeded in reaching the shore and that five out of ten on board had been saved. No stretch of ocean was ever more carefully searched for sign of life than tho sea about the mouth of the straits yesterday. Hour after hour was spent by the Topeka cruising here and there within the scene where it was probable some of these un fortunates might have been cast by wind and wave. Every bit fioat IS GUILYT [scandal clothed by some clever artist." He declared New York pa pers are almost without exception run from the counting room. He said such a course could not be pur- I sued with Impunity. "What happened to a 10 cent [ weekly may happen to a 1 cent I daily." j The justice in his charge said the press was free to print the truth, provided the end be justifi able and without malice. The jury found Hapgood not guilty. HE RECIEVEO STOLEN GOODS A. W. Fodtor, who owns a sec ond hand store on Front street, near Division, was arrested this afternoon by Detective Miles and booked on the charge of receiving stolen goods. He is accused of having bought for a small sum five stolen sleds. The sleds were bought from Claude Helshaw, an old of fender, and Lawrence Nelson. Fed tor's bond was fixed at $200 in cash. smoot Represents whole people (Scrlpps News Association.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 26.— Supplementary testimony In the Smoot case will be taken Feb. 6. Smoot in dlscusttng his case de clared he represents no faction of the state, but all tho people in Utah. He says he is tinder no in fluence of the church or party. WERE NOT WHAT THEY CLAIMED TO BE Laura King and Fred King were fined $100 this afternoon by Judge Hinkle. The two have been living In a little house behind the River side hotel, Riverside avenue, for the past four months. They claim ed to bo man and wife but admit ted this afternoon that they were not married. Where is now the middle of the roadways of Cincinnati and Super ior streets will stand the repair shops, while a short distance east and occupying the roadway of tho present Superior street as well as other land will be tho huge car barns. From this point to the place where the bridge over the river is being built will be the yards and tracks of the terminals. The Spokane Press. ing wreckage, every speck on the surface of the water that came into view of the powerful glasses was overhauled and examined carefully, but outside of the raft first picked up nothing was seen. Survivors united in commending bravery of those aboard wrecked vessel. The assertion wag made that because of the wact no women or children saved, they were left to fate by men is branded as libel on sur vivors. Women and children wero not on life raft because they did not want to go. Captain Johnson asked them several times if they wanted to take their chances, but feeling that it meant certain death, EIGHT HOUR DAY APPLIES ONLY TO ALIENS WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 26 — In the house today Dalzell offered a rule providing that the urgent de ficiency bill be so amended as to except aliens from eight hour work day established In the canal zone, thus making the eight hour law ap ply only to the American laborer. The motion carried. GOT HIS MAN AFTER THREE YEARS Tommy GrGant, lord high con stable of Justice Stocker's court, (this morning distinguished him-\ solf by capturing James O'Donnell, who since Aug. 7, 1903, has been wanted for stealing $21150 from C. Harrington. The complaining wit ness read of the arrest of a man named O'Donnell. Today he called at the county jail and Identified his man. Grant forthwith served the warrant. MUSICM.E FOR A SANITARIUM Wednesday evening in Masonic temple for the benefit of the Lidg erwood sanitarium. Some of the best local talent has been secured for the occasion, though as yet the program lias not been definitely ar ranged. CAN'T AGREE ON THE FACTS (Scrlpps News Assoclntlon.) CHICAGO, Jan. 26 —The packers case was again continued this morning until Monday at 10 o'clock. Tho conference seeking an agree ment on facts continued among at torneys. It may take weeks. GEN. WHEELER'S FUNERAL WILL BE SUNDAY (Bcrlpps News Association.) NEW YOHK, Jan. 2(l.—Gen. Joe Wheeler's funeral will be held at St. Thomas' Episcopal church on Bu uday. MINERS TALK Of OPEN RUPTURE (Bcrlpps News Association.) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26. — Tho mnhTR this Boning discussed in executive session the advisability of breaking relations wth the opor aton* -. — a.l*.tt m. 4 JAM* (Bcrlpps News Association.) SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, FIJI DAT, JANUARY 26, I9OG. they preferred to stay upon the doomed vessel. VICTORIA, Jan. 26. — The tug Lome went close to the wreck and the Egeria's boat crew rowed to within 50 yards, finding the vessel entirely submerged and consider able wreckage and debris scattered about, but no bodies were seen. The last step has been taken in making cheap gas in Spo kane a possibility. Mayor Daggett this morning signed the franchise granted the "dollar gas" people by the council Tuesday night. The franchise ordinance Is now in force. Mr. Kyle, applicant for the franchise, says it will be ac cepted and the plant installed. The franchise is the most favorable to the people of all the franchises ever granted by the city council. The franchise and its subsequent operation mean more to the common every day citizen than anything that has trans pired In this city in months. It means a 20 candle power fuel within the reach of the humblest citizen of Spokane. With wood advancing 10 per cent annually this is an all important item. Competition in gas has been fought for by this paper alone for months. It has had no assistance from public bod ies or other newspapers. It is proud of the results thus far achieved and wishes the new company God speed, for it suc cess will be for the common good. WOMAN WROTE A DIARY COVERING HER MISDEEDS BhMonthly Divorce Me* lange Opens at the Court* house** Forty Odd Cases of Woe Occupy Judge's Attention. The bi-monthly divorce matinee at the court house had made little progress up to noon today. Of the 40 odd cases on the dockets of the two departments, only half a doz en had been reached by noon, and of those two were hung tip for fu ture argument and investigation. In Judge Poindexter's court was dire distress and many mutterings of disconteut, arising out of the loug drawn out work entailed by tho very first case on the docket, which held the attention of the court up to 11:30 o'clock. The case presented unusual feat ures aside from that of its unusual length for a default case. Arthur F. Tero, a commercial traveler, wns suing for a divorce from his wife, Alfreda, and the chief founda tion of his case rested upon the contents of an alleged diary, said SUCH A BUSY YOUNG ONE! ANOTHER SHIP IS MISSING (Scrlpps News Association.) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26—Ma rine exchanges and ships agents aro still without tidings of the steam schooner Santa Barbara, whlhc left Seattle Saturday with 19 passengers for San Francisco, and which should have arrived here Wednesday. All ports are advised to keep a lookout. to have been kept by the woman. At the outset the proposition that a wife should enter record of her al leged misdoings and leave it behind for tho inspection of her husband after the separation was something to attract the attention of Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Pugh, acting on behalf of tho state. Spectators in the court room also considered it queer that a diary should be writ ten on what appeared to be detach er sheets of paper. The husband found this in a room in Toronto which had been occupied bY the couple. Inasmuch as the pair were wed ded in Butte, Mont., it was con sidered for a moment that tho diary might have been something on the order of Mary McLane. It told of the desire of the writer for excitement, for the company of men other than her husband, of ESCAPING GAS NEARLY KILLS POWELL FAMILY Jap Servant Accidently Turns on Jet Endanger* ing Lives in Prominent Household and Almost Causing His Own Death. E. L. Powell, manager of the Powell-Sanders wholesale grocery company, who lives at 1728 First avenue, awoke yesterday morning just in time to save himself, his family and Japanese servant from asphyxiation. When he awoke he was so nearly overcome that he could scarcely get on his feet. They had been breathing the gas fumes from an unlighted jet. All the family, sleeping on the lower floor of his home, were in the same her appetite for sparkling wine, etc. It also related how she had on one occasion gone to Port Huron, Ont., with one McKinnon. Up to the time of tho cross-ex amination few considered hut that the defendant was now in Toronto, but it developed that the plaintiff did not know but that she was liv ing in his own house on Hamilton street in this city. The pair once lived on a ranch at Liberty lake, and parts of the diary related to things there. Plaintiff's counsel argued that if the diary did not establish actual adultery it certainly gave evidence that the mind of the defendant was of a character tending toward the adulterous. The court took the voluminous letters and the diar/ under advisement, to which will be added letters tending to establish that it was the defendant who wrote the diary. In determniing to hear further argument as to the drunkenness of Will Page, Judge Huneke, by Im plication at least, settled the ques tion that people may marry on $14 per week. Mrs. Grace Page told a story of non-support, of the receipt of necessaries from her parents and other relatives, of her hus band's appetite for liquor. She said he received $14 a week and that she saw little or none of it. Judge Huneke set the. 30th for argument on the point of drunkenness. FOURTH TEAR. NO. 67. PRICE: ONE CENT condition as himself, and the Jap anese cook was almost dead. How the Jap escaped death is a mystery. In was in his room that the deadly gas was escaping. He was unconscious for an hour and only for the work of Mr. Powell the man would be dead at the pres en time. On awakening, Mr. Powell found that gas was escaplngg somewhere in his home. He staggered out of his room and went to the room of SHONTS GOT MONEY FROM CLOVER LEAF (Scrlops News Association ) WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 26 — Shouts was before the senate com mittee on canals today and admit ted drawing $12,000 from the Clo ver Leaf. He told of conditions on the isthmus when there in July. He described what had been done since in building hotels and board< ing houses for laborers. OUTLINE PLANS FOR VENEZUELA (Scrlpps News Association.} PARIS, Jan. 26.—The council of ministers discussed the Venezuelan situation today but refused to an nounce the plans which were form ed and told the United States. It la said the French plan was ac cepted by the American govern ment. WIFE MURDERER HANGS JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 26.— Nicola Murdaco, who chopped his wife to death, was hung this morn ing. WASHINGTON. D. C, Jan. 26.— The senate committee on territor ies today ordered a favorable ri port on the statehood bill passed by the house yesterday. Taft cabled to Manila today a de nial that this country intended to sell the Philippines to Japan. NECKLACE ENGAGEMENT SYMBOL THE PRINCESS ALICE RECEIVED BEAUTIFUL CIRCLET OF JEWELS IS SUBSTITUTED FOR THE CONVENTIONAL RING — BUT CONGRESSMAN LONGWORTH IS GENEROUS AND RINGS FOLLOW. Special Correspondence of The Press. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 26 — Miss Alice Roosevelt chose that her betrothal gift should be, of course, a mystic circle, which sym bolizes eternity, but not a ring. The token is a magnificent neck lace of diamonds, with a pendant of diamonds and pearls. The jew els, tho size of the ordinary soli taire, are set In dull gold and hang from a fine wrought wire. Since tho giving of the nocklace and the public announcement, Mr. Longworth has given his fiancee no less than three rings. The first was a circlet of Tuscan gold with Bye large diamonds embedded, and within it bore a date sacred to tho Koung lovers. He had known Miss Alice as a child of < or 8, but it' was on a day in October, 1902, that one cent the Jap. He called the cook, but was not answered. Mr. Powell, thinking the cook would be all right, went Into the basement to discover the source of the escap ing gas. The trouble was found and Mr. Powell started to open all the windows. A few seconds after reaching the top of the basement stairs he heard someone fall. Ho investigated and found that tho Jap was lying on the floor of his room nearly dead. The gas fume? had taken effect as soon as tho man had tried to arise. Mr. Powell immediately awoke all in the house and dragged tho helpless man to the open air whero he worked over him and finally, brought him to consciousness. Tho jet in the Jap's room was found partly turned on. Had it been turn ed on fully there is no question but that he and probably the entire Powell family would have been as phyxiated. Mr. Powell thinks the Jap turned the gas off and then accidentally turned the stop cock on again. MOWS DIDS rat uiuuds tit pmumius (Scrlpps News Association.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 26.—. Official announcement was made today of the acceptance by tha Philippine government of the bid of J. G. White & Co., Vanderbilt and others forming a syndicate, for the construction of railroads in Cebu, Pan ay and Negros. . DECATUR IS PUBLICLY DISMISSED ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 26.—Decatur was dismissed today at the dinner formation of all cadets according to the order of Bonaparte. The case against George H. Melvin ot Geneseo, 111., third class, accused of hazing, began today. f Scrlpps News Association.) NEW YORK. Jan. 26. — It 13 stated Jerome will submit to the grand jury a transcript of record in the Hapgood-Deuel case in the hope that the indictment of a num ber of persons for blackmail may follow. Jerome left this afternoon for his home at Lakeville, Conn. (Scrlpps News Association.* ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 26. —• Linevitch wires that a fresh mu tiny Is on among sailors at Vladl vostock. he met her for the first time since) she had grown to womanhood. The second ring was a largo sapphire set In Roman gold, and was the engagement symbol of tho prospective groom's grandmother, and a revered relic in his family. Mr. Longworth, who is showing al most oriental generosity towards his fiancee, purchased for a Christ mas souvenir a ring with three glo rious pigeon blood rubies surround ed by diamonds. Thus Miss Alice) may be said to havo become be trothed with one diamond necklace, and three beautiful rings. Mrs. Longworth gave her son'i sweetheart a Jeweled belt buckle, and she has received some hand lome gold ornaments from his sla ter, the Marquise do Chambrun, md from his aunt, Mrs. Bellamy Storer, wife of tho American tm< Uissador to Vicuna. - v »_J