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METTENHAM 01)1
RUMOR SAYS GbVEiiNOR (IF
JAMAICA HAS RESIGNED.
Kingston Citizens Believe Governor
Has Resigned—Population Is Re
lieved From Taxes for 15 Montes —
Most Rev. Ei os Nuttall, Archbishop
of the West Indies, Complains.
Kingston, B. W., Jnu 20.—It is un
derstood that Governor Swettenharr.
tendered his resignation to Lord El
gin, secretary for the colonics, a few
days ago in consequence of the Ad
miral Davis incident and his inability
to solve tbe problem created toy the
earthquake.
On Saturday the governor visited
the temporary offices of the municipal
council and informed the vice chair
man, who i« acting in the absence of
Mayor Tait, who is injured, that the
government had decided to relieve the
people of Kingston from ail rates and
taxes for a ported of 15 months, be
ginning the first of January. This
announcement has been received with
gratification by the residents of the
city, who will be encouraged to start
the work of rebuilding as early as
possible.
The Most Rev. Enos Nuttall, arch
bishop of the West Indies, in an inter
view said that the municipal council
was unable to deal with the present
extraordinary emergency and should
be aloINhi d a.Tl a commissioner with
full powers should be appointed to
govern the city during the period of
reconstruction. He also declared that
in addition to the generous contribu
tions from the United Slates and Can
ada and elsewhere it was absolutely
accessary to obtain an p- ri'i grant
end a Hr^e imperial loon to rebuild
Kings'on, more particularly in view of
the attitude of the English fire in
surance companies, which have dis
claimed all liability for losses sus
tained in the earthquake and lire.
THE GOVERNOR
HAS APOLOGIZED
It is said that the International pha^e
of the Kingston incident has been final
ly closed by Governor Swettenham
formally withdrawing his letter to
Rear Admiral Davis and expressing
his regret for having written it.
Swettenham's withdrawal of his let
ter and his apology followed volumin
ous telegraphic communications to him
from the colonial office. The dispatch
which has now closed the incident was
sent by the governor to the colonial
office in London,whence it reached the
state department at Washington, D C.,
through the foreign office in the usual
course.
YELLOW FEVER IS WIPED OUT
Shonts Says D anama Is as Healthy as
America.
Theodore P. Shouts, whose resigna
tion as chairman of the isthmian canal
was announced recently,
commission
says;
"From a sanitary point, Panama is
just as good as any place In the United
States that I can think of.
»ration of governmental and sanitary
functions Las revolutionized conditons
so far as health is concerned,
people who have feared yellow fever
the isthmus need not worry about
I would feel just as
The sep
The
on
it any longer,
safe in going to Panama as 1 would
in going to Texas.
"I am a convert to the theory that
osquitoes have been responsible for
The sanl
1 .;
the spread of yellow fever,
tar y authorities have coped with the
situation successfully and now there Is
nothing to fear."
MESSAGE
CASTRO SENDS A
Tells His People He Will Never Be a
Dictator.
Caracas, Venezuela, Jon.
first public utterance of President Cas
tro since the beginning, last August,
of his present Illness was printed yes
terday in El Constitutional. In it the
president declares he has returned
from death's door solemnly to proclaim
that he neither is nor ever will be
a dictator. He says the happiness of
Venezuela depends on adhesion to the
constitution, which does not permit
him or the first vice president, Gen
eral Gomex, to resign.
27—The
Will Sue Dyer's Bondsmen.
The secretary of the treasury has
directed that suits be instituted on the
surety bond furnished by D. P. Dyer,
Jr., until recently teller in the United
States subtreasury at St. Louis. The
bond was for $20,000 and the amount
alleged to have been lost through Dyer
was $61,000. Dyer recently was tried
at St. Louis and
acquited on the
charge of being concerned in the dis
appearance of the money from the sub
treasury .
TWELVE MEN PERISH IN MINE
Italians |
Americans and £;ven
t e Victims.
W'oston, W. Va. —Five Americans
and seven Italians are known to be
(lend as the result of an explosion of
fire damp in the Pennsylvania company
mines near Buckhannon, V/. Va., which
occurred Saturday. Immediately fol
lowing the explosion the mine caved
in and narrowly escaned causing the
entombment of ail the miners, estimat
ed at TOO.
The bodies of 12 men have
been recovered, and it is not known
at this time whether any others met
death.
The Americana who were killed:
Charles Boserman, William Bailey.
James Scoit, Charles Johnson, Glen
Miles.
The explosion occurred just as the
day force was leaving the mine. Only
a few of the men had reached the sur
face when, with a terrific report, the
fire damp exploded. The mine eleva
tor had just started for the top, carry
ing about 20 men, and almost kO men
were still at the bottom of the shaft.
Men on top risked their lives to save
panic stricken fellow miners at the
bottom.
1DAHO NEWS.
A short meeting of the slate land
board was held recently in the office
of Governor Gooding, all members be
ing present. It was decided at this
meeting to ask the legislature for an
appropriation of $70,000 for this de
parlaient f»r the ensuing two years, it
being figured that that amount would
carry on the work of the land depart
ment without it being necessary to is
sue deficiency warrants.
R. Copeland Rohiabacher, secretary
of the publicity committee of the Spo
kane Chamber of Commere, has been
elected permanent secretary of the
l^ewislon-Clarkston promotion bureau.
St. Aloysius Catholic school building,
one of the landmarks of Lewiston, was
practically destroyed by fire recently.
The building was owned hy A. T. Mc
Carty, and was insured. It was valued
at about $3,000.
The annual reunion of the pioneers
of the Coeur d'Alenes took place Sun
day afternoon at William Osburn's at
Osburn. The reunion was under the
management of "Captain" A. P. Hor
ton.
H. A. Harvey, one of the best known
mining men in the Coeur d'Alcnes,
died recently at Mullan. He was ill
five days with pneumonia.
At a public meeting in Oroflno it
vas voted recently to boycott the mer
chants of Lewiston if Lewiston and
its interests continue to oppose the ef
forts of Orofino and that portion of old
Shoshone county, which was attached
to Nez Perce county two years ago,
to secure a county division at this ses
sion of the legislature.
Plans are almost completed for the
construction of what may prove to be
the largest sawmill in the United
States at the confluence of Whisky
and Orofino creeks, three miles above
the little town of Oroflno, on the Clear
water river, about 50 miles east of
Lewiston. It Is to be built by the Wey
erhauser interests. The assertion is
made that before the mill is running
the company will expend more than
Î2, 000,000. The proposition includes
a mill larger in capacity than the one
now in operation by (he Weyerhauser
interests at Potlatch, a log storage res
ervoir that will cover more than 300
a mill site that will include a
acres,
mile square, provided the fourth of a
section can be secured, and the build
ing of two pieces of railroad tracks,
about eight miles long and the
one
other about 45 miles. The timber to
be cut by this mill and transported
these two lines of railroad both
over
of which will connect with the North
Pacific. is estimated to be in the
neighborhood of 3,000,000,000 feet.
• : 'I
Doctor Mysteriously Shot.
York.—Dr. Charles W. Town
New
send, one of the best known physicians
and surgeons on Staten Island, was
shot and probably mortally wounded
at his home In New Brighton. S. I.
The ease is surrounded with mystery,
but from the meager details which
have been permitted to leak out by
the officials, it Is believed the doctor
was the victim of a man who sought
veage ir.ee from some real or fancied
wrong.
The Reason Why Russia Acted.
The Associated Press learns that the
decision of the Russian government
to withdraw Its troops from Manchuria
Immediately, instead of waiting until
April 15, tlie date fixed for this step
in the Russo-Japanese Portsmouth
treaty, was made at a veiled request
from the lapanese government which
apparently foresees trouble in the mat
ter of the internal administration of
certain provinces of China.
Buffalo Defeats a Bull.
El Paso, Tex.—Ten thousand people
gathered at the Jaurez plaza de tor
reos Sunday to witness a fight between
buffalo and a bull, in which the buf
falo was the victor. During the pre
liminary bull fights, Compleo, a mata
dor, was tossed over the fence by a
bull, which then jumped the fence,
landing on the matador, who was seri
ously hurt.
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THE ORiOiRON CLUB
HELD ANNUAL MID-WINTER
SESSION, SATURDAY.
Most Prominent Men of Public Af
fairs of the Country Present to
Watch the Fun—Principal Skit of
Evening Was at Expense of Presi
dent Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan.
Washington, Jan. 27.—President
Roosevelt was so overcome with mer
riment at tlie annual midwinter din
ner of the Gridiron club Saturday
night that he nearly fell off his chair.
J. P. Morgan and H. H. Rogers, the
victims of a prank, enjoyed most
heartily the shout that went up at
their expense. President Roosevelt
has in his official capacity been at
daggers' points with the "dictator" of
Wall street and the oil trust magnate.
But Saturday night these notables and
ninny others, cabinet officers, diplo
mats, literary lights and business men
from all parts of the Uniled States
met in the spirit of camaraderie that
marks the meetings of this famous din
ner club of newspaper correspondents.
The incident just related occurred duo
ing the carrying out of the principal
skit of the evening, which was based
upon President Roosevelt's centraliza
tion idea.
The year was 1917, an empire was
erected in Washington, and a cere
monial session was held at the court
of "His Gracious and Imperial Majes
ty. Emperor of all the Americas,
Champions of Centralization. King of
Kings and Monarch of the High, the
Middle and the Low."
The room was darkened, and after
the 10 strokes on a gong the lights
came up and a gorgeous gold throne
was discovered. Beside It stood a
herald, who looked more like "Happy
Jack Falstaff" than anything else,
who announced the members of the
court as they came in. There were
four officers of the king's privy coun
cil, courtiers, pages and jester, and all
the panoply of a court.
A spirited colloquy was interrupted
by the entrance of two ragged and
woebegone men, both of whom pros
trated themselves before the king.
One said: "Be merciful, for I once
owned all the railroads in this land."
The other exclaimed: "And 1 con
trolled the oil productions." They
were identified by a courtier as H. H.
Rogers and J. P. M*-gan. This was
when the shout of merriment went up.
It was declared by the court that in
as much as these men had been de
prived of all their profits they should
be given employment. Rogers was
billeted "first oiler of the imperial so
cial train" and Morgan was made "of
ficial photographer of the Panama ca
nal," with instructions to "get in all
the steam shovels." The laugh was
long and merry at the jesting which
followed at the president's expense
between the king and his courtiers.
Courtier: "Your majesty's ambassa
dor at the court of St. James reports
hy submarine telephone that the Right
Hon. James Bryce did six feet four
inches in the pole vault yesterday."
The King: "It is not enough. Seven
feet, or wo won't receive him. Wasn't
the French ambassador to be here at
this time?"
Courtier: "Yes. sir; he is in the gar
don putting the 12 pound shot."
The King: "Inform him that 1 will
not sign the treaty of alliance un
less he does better than he did yes
terday."
The skit ended with the recital of
an epilogue and the "Star Spangled
Banner" from the orchestra,
body at the table rose, cheering and
waving napkins at the president, who
immediately introduced. He made
Every
a speech which was received with tre
mendous enthusiasm.
v ;t.
Some of the Guests.
Follewing is a partial list of the
guests :
President Roosevelt, Vice President
Fairbanks, Chief Justice Fitzpatrick of
Canada, Justices Brewer and Harlan of
the supreme court of the United
States, Secretaries Root, Taft, Wilson
and Straus, United States Senators
Aldrich, Beveridge, Blackburn. Clay,
Clapp, Crane, Foraker, Nixon and Pat
terson, Speaker Cannon, Representa
tives Bartholdi, Bede, Burleson,
Champ Clark, Cushman, Lowden,
Shirley. Sibley, Stevens. Tawney, Un
derwood, Wadsworth and Watson,
Captain Jack Crawford, I>eadville;
James H. Eckels, Chicago; John T.
Melville E.
McCutcheon, Chicago;
Stone, the Associated Press; George
Harvey, Harper's Weekly; Arthur W.
Little, Pearson's magazine; George
Horace Lorlmer, Saturday Evening
Post; James D. Wheipley, London
Tribune, and John O'Hara Cosgreve.
Everybody's magazine.
Insurance Official Goes to Jail.
George A. Burnham, Jr., who was
convicted of grand larceny from the
Mutual Life Insurance company, of
which he was counsel and vice presi
dent, and who was sentenced to two
years' Imprisonment, has been taken
to Sing Sing.
ROOSEVELT AND FORAKER.
Story Told of Bitter Personalities in :
Speeches.
For the first time perhaps in Hs j
unique existence at the Gridiron rluh
dinner Saturday night the best of feel
ing g ive way, according 10 reports cir
culated widely today, to bitter person
alities between the president of the
United Stales and a nan who is con
sidered a presidential possibility, Sen
ator Foraker of Ohio.
Where statesmen and journalists
get together and talk, half in jest and
half in earnest, about national and in
ternational affairs, sometimes things
are said which should not be made
ijubl'c, and therefore h is a well
known rule of the club that its pro
ceedings are as inviolably sacred as
the executive sessions of the United
States senate. But when the annual
dinner at the New Willard broke up
with four courses still nnserved, many
o' the guests lingered downtown dis
cussing affairs. The president, so gos
sips say, in trig usual breezy, direct, un
equivocal manner, was discussing mat
ters which had been attracting more
or less space in the columns of the
daily press. As it happened, his homily
was on the test of brotherly love. His
illustration was the Japanese incident.
The president struck oat boldly on the
Brownvilie incident after proceeding
to scold California. In security of the
seciecy supposedly guaranteed by the
club, he talked "very plainly." as one
gossip puts it.
When he had finished President
Blyth called on Senator Foraker. The
senator did not disappoint his audi
tors. He told the president, it is said,
that he had convictions of his own on
the Biownsville atoair; that our negro
did not look like another to him, and
that he considered his senatorial oafh
as binding on him as the presidential
calh was on Roosevelt. He expressed
himself. It is reported, with even great
the
er frankness and vigor on presi
dent's record in the Brownsville af
fair than he did In the senate, and
finally sat down amid a painful hush;
President Roosevelt arose and essayed
to reply to Foraker. Ho did not speak
at length and evidently was taken
somewhat by surprise at the manner
in which tiis speech had been received.
LIVES LOST IN A MILL FIRE
Five Boys Thought to Have Been
Burned to Death.
Dover, N. H.—Fire that destroyed
mill No. 1 of the Cocheco Manufactur
ing company, caused the loss of the
lives of four and probably five young
mill operatives and a property loss of
half a million dollars. The bodies of
four boys, burned beyond recognition,
were found in the ruins, and as five
hoys are known to be missing, it is
believed another body will be discover
ed. The file broke out soon after the
500 or more operatives had assembled
for the day's work. Friction from a
belt generated sparks which lodged
in a mass of cotton, and the flames
quickly spread throughout the build
ing. The exists soon became hocked
by a struggling mass of mill hands,
and many were obliged to jump from
the windows. Others descended by
means of ropes.
Cure for Leprosy.
Havana.—A commission appointed
by the government has turned in a
report *o the effect that Dr. Matias
Duque, who is in charge of the hos
pital work for contagious diseases, has
probably discovered a cure or lep
rosy.
Two lepers were turned over to the
doctor several years ago for experi
mental purposes, and today these per
sons have no exterior traces of the
disease.
Pr. Deque's experiments have been
along the line of what he terms the
tree
He
treatment.
red mangrove
claims to have discovered this treat
ment as a result of nis study to find a
cine for his sister, who suffered from
leprrfy and whom he bar succeeded
in curing.
Chance for Negro Troops.
Major Goodyear, assistant judge ad
vocate general, United States army,
has gone to Fort Sill, Okla., after con
sulting with the war department, to
examine some half dozen members of
the discharged Twenty-fifth bataillon,
now at that place, who have applied
for reenlistment. It is said that less
than 20 such applications have been
received by the recruiting officers.
Baking Powder Label Law.
People in Kansas hereafter can at
least know what kind of baking pow
der they are using If the governor
signs the bill which has passed both
houses of the legislature. It requires
that after October 1, 107, the labels
on baking power on sale in the state
shall state the ingredients used in its
manufacti.(e.
Thaw's Defense.
New York.— Harry Thaw's defense
for the killing of Stanford White de
pends on a tiny note which the young
Plttsburger Is said to have intercepted
while it was being passed by the archi
tect to Mrs. Evelyn Nesblt Thaw at
the Cafe Martin, four hours before the
shooting In Madison Square roof gar
den.
SAVE PUBLIC LANDS
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ISSUES
A NEW EDICT
Has Directed That Hereafter No
Patent Shall Be Issued to Public
Land Until an Examination of the
Ground by Authorized Officers of the
Government.
President Roosevelt has determined
to put an end. if possible, to frauds
in the acquisition of public, to frauds
individuals and corporations. Ho has
directed that hereafter no patent shall
be issued to public land until au ex
amination of the ground shall have
been made by an authorized officer of
the government. The president's order
is in the form of a letter to Secretary
Hitchcock and under Us provisions
orders are being sent out to officials
of the general landofflce.
Order of the President.
Following is the letter:
"The Secretary of the Interior: To
prevent the fraud now practiced in the
acquisition of public lauds of the Unit
ed States, I have to direct that here
after no final certificate, patent, or
other evidence ol title, shall fie issued
under the public laws until an actual
examination has been made upon the
ground for or by an unbiased officer
of the government, but the following
shall be excepted from the force of
this order:
"1. All claims which have hereto
fore been examined upon the ground
by an authorized officer of the gov
ernment whose report Is found satis
factory.
"2. All claims where officer of
an
the government other than officers au
thorized to take final proof, shall have
been present at the taking of final
proof to crossexamine claimant and
witnesses, if such proof Is found sat
isfactory.
"3. All claims where claimant's com
pliance with the law has been estab
lished by contest or other regular pro
ceedlngs.
"4. Entries which may have been
confirmed by virtue of ary act of con
gress.
"5. Selection and entries in which
no residence or improvement is requir
ed by law, when the lands embraced
are in agricultural districts or when
character has been fixed by investiga
tion and classification made in accord
ance with law.
"G. Cases of reissuance of patents
because of some clerical error occur
ring in the patent heretofore issued.
''7. Ail Indian allotments which
have been regularly approved, in ac
cordance with Instructions of the sec
retary of the interior.
"You will issue the necessary in
structions to carry this order into ef
fect.
"This order Is in lieu of ray order
of December 13. 1903.
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Germany Agrees to Tariff.
Berlin,—The conferences of the
American and Germany tariff commis
sioners is elided. S. N D. North, who
was head of the American delegation,
has sailed for the United States. .Ian* s
L. Gerry and Nalhan I. Slone, ihe eth
er delegates, will remain here to com
plete the translation of the protocols.
Fire in El Paso, Texas.
El Paso, Texas.—Fire has destroyed
(he wholesale establishment of Ous
Momsen & Co., hardware, and the
stores of Thorne & Co., dealers in
safes, and slightly damaged the depot
of the Texas & Pacific railroad. The
loss is estimated at $100,000.
CAR
EXPRESS HITS A TROLLEY
Young Girl Killed, 14 Others Injured
at Dayton, Ohio.
Dayton, Ohio.—An eastbound Twen
tieth Century Big Four train crashed
into a Third street car, instantly kill
ing Lilian Huber, a young girl, and
injuring 14 others, at least two of
whom are fatally hurt. The light car
was knocked over 100 feet by the
train, and the fact that there were
not more fatalities is considered a
miracle. The train at the lime of the
crash was running at a high rate of
speed. The fatally Injured were Derry
Meyer of Day ton. and on unknown
man, who received a compound frac
ture of both legs and internal injuries.
Extends Time on Homesteads.
The senate concurred In the house
resolution extending the time under
which the enlrymen under the home
stead laws may have to prove their
claims. This Is an emergency measure
Intended to benefit men compelled to
leave their homes owing to the severe
storms and lack of fuel in the north
v. catena states.
Fire which started with an explosion
in the paint shop destroyed an entire
section of the big Baldwin locomotive
works at Philadelphia, entailing a loss
of $1,000.000.