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PAIN TALK TO THE SULTAN
HE PROMISES TO ACCEDE TO ALL
DEMANDS AS USUAL .
The Albanians Still Retain the Turkish Minister
as a Hostage. The Austro-Russlan Accord Is
Considered a Hopeful Sign .
Constantinople The Italian, Rus
sian, German and Austrian ambassa
dors to Turkey have had audlouces
with the sultan, in wh'ich they urged
the imperative necessity of checking
the Albanian disorders.
Muoh comment has been raised by
the significant fact that the Austrian
and Russian ambassadors saw the
sultan jointly, as this is almost un
precedented. It is reported that the
representatives o' both these coun
tries took a very serious tone'ln speak
ing with the sultan and that that
ruler promised acquiescence with their
demands.
The Albanians at Bek still detain
the sultan's commissioner as a
hostage.
Rome Official information received
here brings , the assurance that the
Austro-Russian accord 1n the mtttr
of the Balkans continues unshaken.
This is believed to be the best guar
antee that nothing serious will happen.
According to dispatches received at
the Turkish embassy here the troops
in Albania and Macedonia are more
than sufficient to check any distur
bance, while a great majority of the
people are hostile to an agitation.
INDIAN LOSES HIS HEAD
Job of Medicine Man Equal to Death
Warrant
Redding Louis Thomas, an Indian
medicine man, met a terrible death
at the hands of his own people near
Burney Valley this county. Thomas
had been treating a sick woman near
Burney. She continued to grow worse,
and, fearing she would die if the
medicine man was not sacrificed, it is
believed his Indian companions mur
dered him.
Last night Thomas was one of a
large number of Indians who partici
pated in a dance at Indian rendezvous,
about three miles from Lltterela, near
Burney. The Indians are of the Hat
Creek tribe, extremely superstitious
and still adhering to the ancient
traditions of their ancestors. The
dance broke up about midnight and the
Indians left for their various homes.
About 1 o'clock six shots' and pierc
ing shrieks of Indians were heard by
Burney Valley folks. Several of the
residents arose and proceeded to in
vestigate. They found Thomas's body
perforated with bullets, lying in a
path about half a mile from town.
The head had been severed and kicked
several yards away. Not a red man
was about. Nearly twenty feet from
where the body lay were found several
'empty 44-caliber cartridges, and a
bloody knife that had been used. On
Tuesday the District Attorney and
Coroner went to Burney to investigate.
It was at this spot, that, two years
ago, Shavehead Bob killed Indian
Mike, for like reasons, and two years
before that Pete, another medicine
man was killed and his head kicked
through town.
CHANCES OF CANAL TREATY,
Strong Opposition in the Colombian
Congress, Says Dr. Heran ,
Washington Dr. Heran, the Colom
bian charge d'affaires here, said, with
reference to the prospeots for the rati
fication of the canal treaty by the
Colombian congress : 1
"The advices I receive from Bogota
through private sources are quite con
tradictory. They show the opposition
to the treaty to be quite strong, but
do not state who is leading the oppo
sition. I have received no official in
formation to indicate what are the
prospects for success or failure of the
treaty, and at this distance I am un
able to form an opinion as to the rela
tive strength of the friends and oppo
nents of the treaty. I am still without
information as to the exact date when
congress will be convened, except that
contained in earlier advices, that it
would be assembled about May 1."
The matters to come before the
special session are the canal treaty
and the question of the reorganization
of the finances of the government.
FIGHTING IN MINDANAO
Insurgents Scattered by Troops and
the Constabulary
Manila The band which seized
Surigoa, Island of Mindanao, March
23, is practically dispersed. The
troops and constabularly hurled the
men into the Lake Manit country and
defeated thorn five times, killing
twenty and wounding tnany others.
Most of the arms stolen at Surigoa
were recovered.
The disorder which recently broke
out in the province of Mlsamls, Is
land of Mindanao, is spreading. The
civil authorities have appealed for
military assistance. People are leav
ing the towns and going to the moun
tains, and many are proclaiming
themselves rebels. The troops have
encountered and dispersed a band of
100, wounding thirteen men.
The government is planning to in
crease the military force at Misamis
and inaugurate a campaign. The in
surgents have a few arms, but the
movement is not serious.
THREATENED, GUATEMALA
Action Taken by Europian Powers to
Enforce Payment of Claims
Washington An interesting account
of the action taken by certain of the
foreign powers in the matter of claims
against Guatemala is given in a com
munication written by James G.
Bailey, charge for the United States
at Guatemala City, which appears in
the forthcoming volume of "Foreign
Relations of the United States."
Mr. Bailey says: "Very reliable
information discloses the fact that
collective coercive pressure was re
sorted to by the respective diplomatic
representatives here of England,
France, Germany and Belgium in or
der to bring about a payment of their
claims. It appears that they had as a
body notified this government (Guate
mala) that if arrangements were not
made to satisfy their respective credi
tors on a specific date a man-of-war
would take possession of the port of
Guatemala. '
Irrigation Reserves
Washington The Commissioner of
the General Land Office ordered the
temporary withdrawal for settlement
of about two hundred thousand acres
of land in New Mexico, in connection
with the Burton Lake irrigation pro
ject. He also ordered the temporary
withdrawal of small tracts in connec
tion with the Pecos reservoir soheme
in New Mexico, the Grand River and
Gunnison tunnel irrigation schemes
in Colorado and the Colorado scheme
in California.
Cuban Treaty Negotiations
Washington Advices received from
Cuba indicate that the treaty negotia
tions are almost at a standstill. The
nature of the obstruction does not
appear, but it is believed that fresh
instructions which are to go forward
to Minister Squires almost immed
iately will relieve the situation.
FRESERVINGCITRUS FRUIT
LEMONS KEPT IN CONDITION FOR
SIX MONTHS
Results of Trials Made by the Pomo't-jical Bureau
of the Department of Apiculture In the Pres
ervation of Citrus Emit
Washington Experiments have been
inaugurated by the agricultural depart
ment which will be of much interest
to people of Southern California. The
cold storage of citrus fruits, and par
ticularly of lemons, with a view, to
holding the crop from four to six
months, and then marketing, has been
the subject of thorough tests. The
work is carried on by the department
of pomology, under the Immediate
direction of Assistant . Pomologist
William A. Taylor. For three years
experiments have been going on in
refrigeration, but until now apples,
pears and peaches, particularly of the
eastern varieties, have been the sub
jects of study. The results were so
successful that a special appropriation
of 810,000 was made by the last con
gress. Now the department has broadened
its experiments to include plums,
strawberries, blackberries, raspberries,
cherries, - gooseberries and lemons.
Speaking of the lemon experiments,
Mr. Taylor said: "It is a popular
belief that lemons cannot be preserved
in cold storage for any length of time.
Commercial experiments have, In a
number of instances, resulted in ex
pensive failures. Our experiments
with other fruits, and particularly
with peaches, which we find can be
kept six weeks, have convinced us
that the failures were due to a lack of
knowlegde of all the needful condi
tions. We believe lemons can be
stored for periods of four to six
months; and if we can show how, we
will do a great service to the industry.
We have, therefore, sent an agent
to Chicago, where the storage will be
arranged for. We have secured the
co-operation of the Santa Fe railroad
and the California Fruit Exchange,
and the experiments will be made on
a large scale, and under regluar mar
ket conditions. In accord with our
practice, we guarantee the private
parties from loss and take full super
vision of the subject of ' the experi
ment. Peaches, apples and pears have
been shipped to European markets
under the auspices of the department,
and have brought good profits. Of
late the department has become inter
eited in the foreign exportation of
California oranges. It is believed that
certain varieties can be put into
London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin at
a fine profit.
"Refrigeration must be studied. In
its experiments the department follows
the fruit from its orchard environ
ments to the consumer. Irrigation is
one of the many conditions which is
found to enter Into the problem of
preservation. In the case of lemons,
for instance, it may be found neces
sary to modify certain of the practices
of irrigationists. Final results will
hardly be available for a year."
JIM M'KINNEY SHOT DEAD
Deputy Sheriff Tibbett Killed and
Marshall T. J. Packard Wounded
Bakersfleld Outlaw James McKin
ney lies dead at the morgue in this
city and the long chase from King
man, Ariz., over desert wastes and
mountain fastnesses, has ended. The
fight in which the outlaw met his
death took place in the city of Bakers
field but a few blocks from the busi
ness portion of the city in a large two-
story and basement brick building on
the outskirts of Chinatown on L
street, corner of an alley between
Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets
used by the Chinese members of the
Sul Ong Tong, or Chinese Free
Masons, partly as a lodging house,
partly as an opium den and partly as a
joss house. Here McKlnney had been
secreted for two or three days. His
partner and companion was Al Hulse,
an ex-convlct, who, being a member
of the Chinese Masons, was enabled to
enlist the aid and sympathy of the
Orientals in harboring the outlaw.
Asa result of the battle Jim Mc
Klnney 's body lies in the morgue,
his head and face shattered by a
charge of buckshot from a gun in the
hands of Bert Tibbett.
Deputy Sheriff William E. Tibbett,
brother of Bert Tibbett, whose shot
ended the outlaw's career, lies cold in
death at his home in the southern
addition of Bakersfleld.
City Marshal Packard is grieviously
wounded from a rifle ball through his
neck and his armsjshat tered by a charge
of buckshot. His condition is very
serious and his physicians consider
his recovery doubtful.
Al Hulse is in the county jail. The
feeling runs very high against him
here, as the evidence all goes to show
that he is the man whose bullet killed
Deputy Sheriff Tibbett, as it was done
by a rifle bullet and McKinney was
armed with a shotgun. Bert Tibbett
declared his intention of killing
Hulse on sight and but for the prompt
action of Sheriff Kelly in landing the
fellow behind the bars before the
brother of the murdered man, who
had already finished McKinney's
career, knew of his whereabouts,
might have done so. The murdered
officer was a popular man, a lifelong
resident of Bakersfleld and a member
of a prominent pioneer family.
THEY SAW A SEA SERPENT
Astounding Tale Told by White Men
and Indians in British Columbia
Victoria, B. C Officials of the
cable station at Bamfleld creek are
sponsors for a story that a sea serpent
from forty to sixty feet long, with a
head like a horse, has- been seen off
the station. The cable operators say,
in letters to the local newspapers,
that Indians have been telling of the
existence of a sea serpent but the
stories were not credited. David Os
borne, one of the officials, says that a
week ago the animal was seen from
the cable station to raise a big horse,
like head and swim out of the mouth
of the Bamfleld creek into Barley
sound.
Mr. Godson, of the cable staff, says
when he first saw the animal it looked
like a massive sea weed, but presently
he saw the head elevated, and the big
serpent moved off toward the sea. Mr.
Godson says it moved with the speed
of a torpedo boat. On April 10 an
Indian saw the thing and was so
frightened that he ran his canoe into
the breakers, left it and fled along the
beach to the cable station. The In
dian said the thing had a head shaped
like a horse and its body, ten feet of
which was lifted, was the size of a
barrel. The Indians in the neighbor
hood are terrified.
Increase of Three Millions '
Washington The gross receipts of
the postal service for the quarter end
ing Dec. 31, 1902, were 835,223,091 and
the expenditures $34,586,490. " The
receipts showed an increase of $3,000,
000 over, the same quarter a year prev
ious, but owing to the liberal appro
priations and extensions of service the
surplus was $350,000 less than the cor
responding quarter in 1901.