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DORINIi PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week—National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs for the Busy.
Speaker Clark of congress is suffering
with a severe cold.
A coal famine threatens Minneapolis
if the cold weather continues.
Uncle Sam has officially placed the
ban on baldheaded men for service in
tho army
it is said Colonel Bryan resents hav
flled in Nebraska as a
ing his name
presidential candiate.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy has been filed against the Fed
eral Biscuit company.
Charles Taylor Catlin, prominent for
30 years as a dramatic reader and re
citer, is dead at his home in Brooklyn,
aged 77 years.
The state department is taking no
further steps to have the war depart
ment embark troops now in Manila for
duty in China.
Governor General Forbes of Manila
' denies that he has any intention of re
signing, but intends to visit the United
•States in March.
Fred Plougher, a conductor of a New
York trolley car, was killed and five
others wore seriously hurt when the car
was derailed Saturday.
A settlement of the strike of the laun
dry workers in New York city, which
has involved more than 20 ( 000 workers,
is expected this week.
New Mexico, the 47th state to enter
the Union, ceased to be a territory Sat
urday, when President Taft signed the
proclamation of statehood.
The federal government is now ready
to begin the construction of the Grand
Valley irrigation project in Colorado.
The project will irrigate about 33,000
acres.
W. H. Taber, president of the Ameri
can State bank of Terre Haute, lud.. is
in jail charged with embezzlement of
the bank's funds. The shortage is
$25,000.
Buildings of the Industrial Cotton Oil
company, containing 10,000 tons of seed
and other produce, were burned at
Houston, Tex., recently, entailing $650,
OOO loss.
Two very high personages^ one Ital
ian and the other Turkish, met in
Baris Monday to discuss the question
•of opening peace negotiations between
Italy and Turkey.
At Wickliffe, Ky., Saturday, Frank
Turner shot and killed John Clay, 41
years, old. Turner said he killed Clay
. because he had given Mrs. Turner a
]wir of shoos at her request.
Schedules in bankruptcy of William
J. Cummins, former officer and director
of the Carnegie Trust company, filed in
the federal court, show liabilities of
$4,680,000 and assets of $135,000.
George W. Wickcrsham, attorney gen
eral of the United States; J. J. .Tusse
rand, French ambassador, and K. Have
nith, Belgian minister at Washington,
with their party, are visiting in Cuba.
Professor Frederick Starr of the uni
•versity of Chicago has been appointed
commander of the Order of Leopold If.,
the highest honor in the way of deco
ration given by the government of Bel
gium.
Wholesale registration irregularities,
involving probably 20 per cent of the
democratic voters of Acadia parish, \m..
are alleged in a series of 800 suits the
filing of which is under way in the cir
cuit court.
Tho case against Barney Steveus, a
wealthy real estate dealer of Kansas
City, Mo., charged with receiving nearly
$2000 worth of plunder from Henry
'Barr, confessed Spokane burglar, has
been dropped on account of the great
expense.
The possibility of an eventual inter
vention by the powers in China in sonic
form is an absorbing topic of discus
sion in diplomatic circles at Paris. The
feeling, however, is that nothing of a
concrete nature is justified or can be
carried out at present.
When the American - Hawaiian
freighter Nebraskan arrived in San
Diego from Salina Cruz, tho master,
Captain Knight, reported to the collec
tor of customs the discovery by him of
54 tins of opium, valued at $75 each, in
a storeroom of the ship. He threw it
■overboard.
30,000 CHINESE PARADE
STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
Celebrated Sunday in Honor of New
President in Native Land—Typical
American Style.
San Francisco.—China's rejuvenation
Was observed in Sau Francisco Sunday
by a celebration participated in by
nearly every person in Chinatown. The
celebration was the result of much prep
aration, and the main purpose was to
honor the election of Ur. Sun Yat Sen
to the presidency of China.
fair today bore none of the character
istics of celebrations of former days.
None of the more than 30,000 per
sons in the parade that wound its way
through the city's business district
wore a queue and the gaily hued silk
robes of other days were replaced by
the garb of the occident.
The faomus dragon had been relegat
ed to seclusion, and the tomtoms and
other music-making instruments of old
China were- replaced by the strident I
The af
brasses of American bands and the I
tunes were ragtime and American na
tional airs.
Chinese women shared with the men
positions of prominence and in the ma
jority of cases the gowns of the women
were as much American as the clothing
of the men.
More than 100 automobiles conveyed]
participants in the parade, and the ban-[He
ners that snapped in the breeze were of
the red, white and blue of the new re
Orientals Ride in Autos.
public.
Aviator Robert Fowler will continue I
j
The celebration was bold under
auspices of the Young China associa
tion, the Chinese Free Masons, the
Chinese chamber of commerce, the 1
Chinese Native Sons of the Golden
West and the Chinese Six companies. I
Nowhere could be seen the yellow flag
of the empire, and if there are any
Manchu sympathizers in San Francisco
they kept discreetly in the background.
The celebration came to an end with a
banquet.
LATE SPORTING NEWS.
his coast-to-coast flight, which lie said
at New Orleans lie would abandon.
The Genesee high school basket ball
team beat the University of Idaho
team recently by a score of 17 to 11.
Spokane wrestling fans are
eally assured of the
match, the biggest mat
the history of that city.
High school athletics in Wenatchee
will be under the watchful eye of Prin
cipal W. O. Dow during the coming
rear. Sievers has flown.
practi-1
Berg-Zbyszko I
attraction in
Joe Seaton, the former City leaguer
of Spokane, will wear the uniform of
the Vancouver club during the coming
season, instead of Seattle.
Joe Carney of Sau Francisco, chal-1
longer for the world's three-cushion
Sam Mortes, an oldtime National
league player, has been named as one
of the umpires who will officiate in
the Pacific Coast league during the sea
son of 1912.
billiard championship, in a practice]
game with a player in Denver, recently
bettered the world's record by scoring
50 points in 31 innings. *
"Billy" Kramer, indoor champion,
won a three-mile ract, a feature of the
A. A. games in New York, in remark
able time. Kramer, with 35 yards
handicap, won the race in 14 minutes
and 26 seconds, and continuing to the
full three miles made it in 14 minutes
and 34 seconds.
Jack Johnson and Jim Flynn were
matched in Chicago for a finish fight
to be held in Nevada next July. The
city iu which the fight will be held will
be selected later. Johnson was guar
anteed $31,000 and one-third the mov
ing picture receipts for his share. Both
men agreed not to be engaged in other 1
contests between May 1 and the date
of this fight. This means Johnson's
fight with Sam McVev will be post-lerly
poned.
Intercollegiate Champs.
Football, Princeton; baseball, Prince
ton; rowing, Cornell; track athletics,
Cornell; cross-country, Cornell: hockey,
Cornell; fencing, Cornell; association
football. Haverford; cricket, Pennsyl
vania; golf, Yale; Lawn tennis, Har
vard-Princeton; swimming, Yale; water
polo, Yale; wrestling. Princeton; bas
ket ball, Columbia; lacrosse, Harvard;
shooting, Yale.
Received in Boiler Explosion at Los
Los Angeles.—W. A. Weaver, the en
ENGINE TENDER DIES OF INJURY
Angeles Recently.
gine tender injured by a boiler explo
sion at tho Southern Pacific roundhouse, j
which caused the death of Roundhouse
Foreman H. R. Dixon, also, died a few
hours later. Weaver injected cold water
London.—President Sun Yat Sen has
sent a message to Yuan Shi Kai, accord-lage_
ing to the Peking correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph, commanding him per
eraptorily to overthrow the Manchus
and end their reign.
into the overheated boiler.
"End Reign of Manchus."
All THE SETÜEW
SAÏS Ml FISHER
OF INTERIOR DEPARTHENT IN
HIS ANNUAL REPORT TO
THE PEOPLE.
Asks Congress to Change Many Laws
public domain, especially a
i
Considered Inadequate—Urges Devel
opment of Alaska Resources, Points
to Need of'Water Power Control and
Washington.—Enlarged application of
Asks Congress to Act at Once.
the leasing principle as applied to the
liberal leas
of tin
law for the development
ni g
particu
mineral resources of Alaska,
larly its coal lauds, and immediate con
sideration by congress of the whole sub-1
ject of water power development and I
control, are the most important recom
mandations contained in the annual re
port of Secretary of the Interior Fisher.
A general overhauling of conditions I
in Alaska is needed, the secretary says. I
favors a law for the retirement of
government employes, placing it on the [
ground of good business policy. He I
urges the creation of a bureau of na
the|tional parks, each of them at present
"a separate and distinct
There is 1
[for administrative purposes."
also serious need, he declares, for the
enlargement of the work of the bureau
of mines. •
being
"The great public movement for the
conservation of our national resources,"
says Secretary Fisher, 'is not in any
way opposed to prompt' and wise de
velopment of the public domain. The
essential thing is to see that under the
guise of settlement, wc o not permit
more exploitation, which in the last I
analysis retards both settlement and de
velopment." He recommends, there
fore, certain modifications of existing
Exploitation Retards Growth.
laws relating to the public domain, so
as to permit its proper development.
Many of the restrictive provisions
which now irritate and hamper the bona
fide settler and industrial pioneer should
be removed, he says.
Protect the Homesteader.
"The man on the ground should be
the object of our solicitude,
should protect him against those
would place upon bis shoulders any inl
and
we
die
In regard to agricultural land set-1
tiers, Secretary Fisher holds that the
■U
(necessary burden,
- ■
law should insist absolutely upon cul
tivation, but "should permit the relax
ation of the rule requiring residence
during the first two years ' ' in some
cases on account of conditions, there
being "no reason whatever for insist
ing upon the requirement of actual res
Science at the outset."
More Liberty for Settler.
Some modification of the law in re
Igard to repayment of reclamation |
charges is recommended and a change
in the law is proposed to permit the
settler at any time after five years from
the date of entry and after ho has
lived for three years upon his land, to
acquire title to the property.
"No land should be open to home-(Him
stead entry," he declares, "except that
which is really suitable for homes; and
then the homemaker should be aided in
every proper wav.
~ Art
Repeal Timber and Stone Act,
"The timber and stone act should be
immediately repealed and also the act I
authorizing the cutting of timber on
mineral lands. They holdout a constant
invitation to abuse and to mere ex- 1
ploitation.
"The public range cannot be prop
administered under the existing
law. It should be leased for grazing
purposes under the broad administra
discretion of the secretary of the
he
tive
adapted to actual conditions and The
legitimate interests of the sheep and
cattle men. At present the range itself
« being destroyed and both sheep and
-ttle men are conv.c
will b.
interior, so that the leases
can
tion that own
|better subserved by a leasing law.
Change Leasing System.
the enlarged application of
"In fact,
the leasing system principle to the pub
(lie domain generally will, in my judg
ment, more effectively promote de
(velopment and protect tho public in
Cer
(terest than the present system,
tainly coal, oil, gas , asphalt, nitrate
land phosphate lands can be more ap-|
propriately developed by leasehold than
by the present system of classification
and sale of the fee, which prevails
with respect to coal.
In respect to such leasing in Alaska,
(the secretary recommend "tho pass
of a liberal, but carefully guarded,
• •
leasing law for the development of its
mineral resources and especially for
its coal lands. Alaska's greatest re
I sources are her minerals and in the
precious
these the
development of
metals still hold the predominant place.
Plans Changes in Bills.
"aCreful consideration of the pro
visions of an appropriate leasing law
for the coal lands of Alaska is being
continued through the director of the
bureau of mines
with a view to sug
or substitute
gestiug such changes in
for bills on this subject, which are
congrbss, as may be
now ponding in
desirable. "
The
administration and de
proper
velopment of Alaska cannot be accom
plished under existing laws, the secre
tary declares; wherefore, he urges also
the construction by the government of
:l centla ^ Uunk line raihoad from tub
water to the Tanana and Yukon; the
reservation of a sufficient amount of
the coal lands to provide for the future
needs of the navy, this coal to be mined
by the government; more liberal appro
|priations for roads and trails, and the
adoption of a territorial form of gov
ernment, a commission form being sug
gested, better adapted to its remote sit
uation and peculiar local conditions.
Calls Attention to Water Power.
"Tho whole subject of water powei
development and control should, in my
judgment, receive the immediate con
sidération of congress, says the secw
Itary, 4 'and constructive legislation
should be adopted without furthei de
lay. 1 bclicic the federal goreinmint
has adequate cbnstitutional power
control watci powei ce\eopmen , 10
* n navigab e stie.ims am upon u pu i
He domain, and to exact compensation
to
The federal government should not part
with any of its constitutional powers.
Their exercise is certain in the future
to become essential to the protection of
the public interest."
ravor8 Colorado Board.
unsound both in nrincin-il and
he ' „ that permits for
T - ,
and to impose piopti m *
unitcase. It is apparent that the federal
government can act more effectively
than the states in many cases.
"No correct or permanent solution of
the water power question can be reach
ed until the interests of the state and
of the nation have been reconciled.
ôf' water power are !
P" 6 JT™ ° pl tI e wiI1 of
I™" time^t
A modern and properly equipped
building for the patent office, additional j
mine safety cars for the bureau of
mines, the reestablishment of the board :
of pension appeals and increased re
sources for the federal board of eduea
tion to carry on its work arc among the j
(other recommendations in tho report.
The secretary calls attention anew to
(the "inconsistent manner in which the
work of the government has been di-.
vided among the interior, agricultural
and commerce and labor departments,
The patent office, he says, should be un
and
j
I
der the department of commerce
(Tabor,
W. J. BRYAN NOT A CANDIDATE
Thinks Other Men Can Polls More
Votes Than He.
Raleigh. N. C.—"I am not a candi
date for any office, and what I say now
(ought to be accepted. I honestly bo
lieved in previous campaigns that 1
would poll the largest vote of any man
in the field, but I have an idea that|
there are others who can poll more,
votes now than I can, and I can work
more earnestly for them than for my
self."
This was the declaration here of Will- i
J. Bryan in an address to an audi-l
once.
'!
LA FOLLETTE AND BRYAN MEET
. ,, __ „ _
Accidently Met at Washington, D. C.
for Short Talk
Washington.—-\Villiam J. Bryan, of
Nebraska, and Senator Bn Follette, of
Wisconsin, had a conference at the
Union station Sunday upon their ar-1
rival in the city, tho former from tho
south and the latter from the west,
The meeting between the three-time
presidential candidate for the democrat
ic nomination and the progressive re
publican who is seeking to wrest the
nomination from President Taft, was
(said to be accidental.
SNOWSLIDE BURIES FOUR MEN
canyon Accident
Three Meet Death in Canyon Accident
utah ._ A maM of snow and
K , hillside in Blacksmith
canyon, 23 miles from here, Sunday, and
covered four men who were taking out
One of the four
The
J 10 !? 3 for 3 sawmill.
managed to dig out of the slide,
dead:
John B. Miles, jr.
Fletcher Norris.
George Ellis.
A party has gone from here to recov
e f T e 0 les -
, . .
than Orth, who has been missing since
be sailed from London for Chile, 21
jycars ago, wi - ' 7ZI< ' tllr _ c • an
] actress, whom he had married, is alive
J™" Mcxico thc opinion of
W. N. Nellis, a promoter, who returned
I recently from Mexico.
Archduke John Is Found Again.
New York.—Archduke John Salvator
of Austria, otherwise known as Jona
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PARSON RICUESON
CONFESSES MURDER
WRITES STATEMENT THAT HE
POISONED AVIS LINNEL,
HIS SWEETHEART.
Claimed So Remorseful He Was Suffer
ing All Tortures of the Damned—
Was Formerly a Pastor in Baptist
Church at Cambridge—Does Not Ex
pect Leniency.
Boston.—Eev. C. V. T. Richcson, for
pastor of the Immanuel Baptist
church of Cambridge has made a writ
ten confession to the effect that, he
poisoned his former sweetheart, Avis
nier
Binned. The statement was given intu
the hands of his counsel.
The full text of the confession fol
lows :
"Boston.—John B. Lee, William A.
Morse, Phillip R. Dunbar—Gentlemen:
Deeply penitent for my sin and earn
estly desiring, as far as in my power
lies, to make atonement, I hereby eon
fess that 1 am guilty of the offense of
which 1 stand indicted.
am moved to this course by no
inducement of self-benefit or leniency.
Heinous as is ray crime, God has not
wholly abandoned me, and my con
science and manhood, however depraved
"1
and blighted, will not admit of my still
further wronging by a public trial
her whose pure life 1 have destroyed.
"Under the lashings of remorse I
haye sufferC(1 and am 8ll ff t . r i„g the tor
tures tbe damne( l. In this I find a
measure ^ comfort . Tn mv mcnta l an
Kuiith j rocognize that there is still,
by thc mercy of the Master, some rem
Inant of the divine spark of goodness
still lingering with me. I could wish
to live only because within some prison
walla I might, in some small measure.
'redeem my sinful past, help some other
^pairing soul and at last find favor
with my God.
" You are instructed to deliver this
Eo the district attorney or to the judge
The court. Sincerely' yours,
"CLARENCE V. T. RICUESON.'
While the judges of the superior
court and the district attorney went
'into conference at the courthouse, rep
resentatives of the press were called to
i
the office of William A. Morse, chief ;
counsel for the accused clergyman,
newspaper men, while in a private office
were Mr. Morse, John H. Bee. the Vir
ginia lawyer engaged by the father of
the young clergyman, and I'hilip R.
Dunbar. After all the papers had been
In the office were nearly a dozen
found to
be
represented, Mr. Morse
said :
"Gentlemen, I now give you Mr.
Richcson 's confession."
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1,1 e J ' c . . 01 aau.ui
be called and that he will accept no
compromise m the way of a plea of sw
0,lfl degree murder. It was pointed out
that it the district attorney maintains
this attitude only an insanitary com
i mission or commutation by the
t,ve can save Richcson from the elec
Trial to Go On.
District Attorney Pelletier declares
15 will
exec ii
tric chair.
Penalty in Doubt.
Whether Richcson will pay the ex
treme penalty, which, under Massachu
setts law, is death in the electric chair,
no court official cared to predict.
For your own sake don't wait until
jit happens. It may bo a headache,
toothache, earache, or some painful ac
cident. Hamlins Wizard Oil will cure
it. Get a bottle now.
Summary of Tragedy.
October 14.
1911—Avis Linnell
of
Hyannis, Mass., once fiancee of the Rev.
C. V. T. Richcson, found dying in bath
room of Boston Young Women's Chris
tian association, apparently a suicide
by cyanide of potassium.
October 14—Medical examiner finds
that girl took poison believing it was
medicine, and declares she was mur
dered.
October 15—Richcson seeks relief
from notoriety at home of Miss Violet
Edmands, his prospective bride, a
Brookline heiress.
October 19—Police learn that William
A. Hahn, a Newton druggist, sold Riche
son cyanide of potassium.
October 21—Richcson arrested at Ed
mands home, after all-night attempts of
police to communicate with him.
31 — Richcson
October
indicted,
charged with first degree murder by
special grand jury.
November 14—Trial set for
Janu
ary 15.
December 20—Rieheson
mutilates
himself in cell at night, necessitating
serious surgical operation.
January 3, 1912—Richcson writes to
counsel, confessing his guilt.
January 6—Counsel makes Richcso
confession public.
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