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ESPANO-AMERICAN TREATY.
SECRETARY HAY WILL NOT
MAKE TT PUBLIC.
Opponents of the Ratification Do
Not Anticipate a Long De-
bate Before the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Secretary
Hay to-day received visits from some
of the members and officers of the
Paris Peace Commission. John B.
Moore, upon whom as Secretary de-
volved some of the delicate and
weighty work required of the Commits
sion, is now engaged settling up with
the department the records of the pro-
ceedings and winding up its existence.
He will return to New York and re-
sumo his duties as Professor of Inter
national Law at Columbia University.
Notwithstanding the more or less ac-
curate reports that have been publish
ed as to the treaty itself, Secretary
Hay remains steadfast in his purpose
not to make the document public until
the United States Senate has authoriz-
ed it. 1t is true that no law governs
him in such cases, the executive branch
being quite as free as the legislative
to make public or to maintain as con-
fidential treaties and protocols. But
this is a privilege little availed of in
late years, and at present there are
motives of policy that operate to pre-
vent a departure from the usual prac-
tice Therefore the treaty itself re-
dents own safe.
The presence Of Senator Davis, one
of the members of the Peace Commits
sion, at the Capitol to-day was the
cause of more or less peace treaty
speculation among Senators. 1t is the
intention of Senator Davis to ask the
Committee on Foreign Relations to
take up the treaty as soon as received
from the President While it is ex-
pected that the document will undergo
careful scrutiny in committee, it is the
general opinion that this work will be
done with as much expedition as pos
sible. There will be an effort on the
part Of the friends of the treaty to have
it reported without any amendment
whatever and they assert that the
committee as a whole is favorable to
ratification without alterations.
One present plan of the Senators op-
posed to the straight ratification is to
urge the insertion of an amendment
providing in specific terms that the
United States shall not acquire sover-
eighty over the Philippine Islands un-
der any circumstances. The friends
of the treaty urge that being a peace
treaty, it is more important to have it
ratified Internationally than would be
the case with an ordinary agreement
between the nations, and that for this
reason they are confident it will not be
modified, and that in the end it will
secure the votes of a number of Sena-
tors who personally would prefer it's
amendment. The opponents of the
treaty say they do not anticipate a long
debate in the Senate
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MURDERER DUNHAM.
A Man Arrested in Ohio Said to
Resemble the Fugitive.

COLUMBUS (O.), Dec. 27-There is
under arrest in this city a man whom
the police have strong reason to be-
lieve is James c. Dunham, for whom a
reward of 1000, dead or alive has
been offered at San Jose, Cal. He was
picked up here by Detective Louis Wolf
of the local force as a suspicious char
acter, he having offered a lot of goods
for sale at about 20 per cent. of their
actual value. He gave the name of
Harry Church when arrested.
There is difference of opinion
among those who have seen Church
regarding his resemblace to Dunham,
the California murderer At first glance
there is a strong likeness between
Church and the photograph of Dun
ham in the possession of the police.
This was first noticed by one of the
detectives, whose curiosity had been
aroused by the air of mystery that
seemed to hang over the prisoner.
Church was shown the picture in
the possession of the police. and at first
glance said: why that looks like
Texas Jack When questioned more
closely about Texas Jack. he was un-
able to give very good account of
him, but simply said he knew him as a
circus hand. The smile which played
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troops, and General Ludlow Immediate
~ issued instructions TO the American
patrols when making arrests for misde-
meanors to turn the offenders over to
the civil officials.
The whole population is in a state Of
unrest-the Spanish residents fearful,
the Cubans eager to do something to
show they have gained their freedom.
Bands Of Cubans freely enter the resi-
dences Of Spaniards, call upon them to
hoist American and Cuban flags and to
shout ''Vive Cuba kbre," and terrify
them with their machetes. A dozen
such cases were reported to the Amer
lean authorities to-day. In all instances
American guards were sent to the
houses invaded, but the Cubans We're
invariably gone when the patrol arriv-
ed, nor was there any such thing as
catching the offenders.
No attention whatever is paid to the
order against the discharging of fire
crackers and pistols, which are fired in
the streets continuously. Three persons
have been killed and twenty-nine
wounded, among the latter three wo-
men and two children The shooting
has been for the most part indiscrimi-
nate.
As General Ludlow was standing on
the balcony Of the hotel at dusk to-day
watching the scene in the Plaza. a man
waved Cuban flag. Another cried out
An insult-an insult whereat the
man who was waving the flag fired
upon the objecter. A Spanish company
that was retiring from Fort Principe
was deliberately fired upon from a pri-
Vate residence. Lieutenant Blount an
American officer, who was escorting the
Spaniards, broke into the house. but
the occupants fed to adjoining roofs.
While Brigadier General Clous and
captain Hart We're returning from the
Pahace to-day, after an interview with
captain General Castellanos. they met
a mob Of Cubans carrying flags and
shouting. A minute or two later the
crowd would have encountered a de-
tachment of Spanish troops. The Sit
uatlon called for prompt action. and
captain Hart leaped from the carriage,
raced the mob and ordered everybody
10 go home Immediately
Major General Brooke has this even
ing formally taken command of the
United States forces in Cuba, and has
issued the necessary orders.
A crowd Of negroes entered a Spanfsh
cafe on the Gale Villegas, corner of
Bomba street, late this evening and or
dered drinks. They refused to pay for
these, and in the dispute which followed
the proprietor Of the cafe and his as
sistant We're stabbed. Sergeant Adams.
with fifteen men of Company M of the
Tenth Regiment hurried to stop the
row. On entering the cafe, however,
they found no one in the room, but a
minute or two later they were fired
upon from a room in the rear of the
cafe, one bullet cutting the coat of
Sergeant Adams. The Americans then
broke into the rear apartment, firing as
they entered, and chased the negroes
out Of the building and down the street.
arresting four. Sergeant Adams says
none of the negroes were hit by his
men, but according to other reports, one
was killed and six wounded.
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about his mouth when looking at the
picture was peculiar one, and fur
ther excited the suspicious Of the Of
ficers.
Chief of Police Kelly is Of the opin-
ion that the prisoner is not Durham,
for the reason, chiefly, that the pic
ture of Dunham shows him to have a
square jaw, while that of Church is
somewhat pointed In the absence of a
minute description of Durham, he does
not say positively that the prisoner is
not the California murderer. A pho
tograph of Church will be forwarded
with a description to San Jose, Cal.
Church is about 80 years of age, is
5 feet 10 inches, and weighs about 155
pounds. He has dark complexion,
dark hair tinged with gray, dark NOUS
tache, dark eyes, prominent straight
nose, rather thin faced and slightly
pointed chin. Three Of the upper set
of teeth have gold crowns.
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PUERTO PRINCIPE PROVINCE.
NOW UNDER CONTROL OF
AMERICANS.
The Last of the Spanish Forces
Have Gone, and People Enjoy
ing Blessings Of Peace.

NEW YORK, Dec. PA correspond
ent at Nuevitas, Cuba, who writes to
the New York Times" says:
The last of the Spanish forces in this,
the province of Puerto Principe. has
left, and the Fifteenth United States
Infantry has arrived Our flag has been
raised with much ceremony by two
daughters of the Alcalde, a Cuban, for
merly of the Autonomist Government,
who was reappointed by General Car
penter Governor of the province.
Yellow fever and typhoid is said not
to exist here, though severe malarial
prevails. The soldiers are provided with
large hospital tents and cots. The tents
are f1oored. The extremely dense and
impenetrable underground on the hill
where the camp is situated was cut
down by ex-Cuban soldiers with their
machetes, the great quantities Of
gunao, a poisonous plant closely re-
sembling in appearance the holly, rem
dering it dangerous for our men to do
the work The Cubans, however, are
fearless, although showing the effects
in terrible scars on hands and legs
The plant usually. found growing near
the gunao is claimed to be an antidote
for the poison. Several of the men
have been bitten by scorpions, but the
insects here do not seem to be as dan
gerous as elsewhere. A few drops of
ammonia applied to the stings remove
further trouble.
This province is especially valuable
as pasturage for cattle Most of the
animals were killed off during the war
There are many large sugar plantations
sadly injured by hostilities The own
ers, however, are now busy rebuilding
machinery and planting, and the rich
soil, with American money, farm impli-
ments and industry, will very soon
show the richest sort of a country.
Lands are cheap, $50 being the price
for thirty -three-acre lots, but expe-
rience is necessary to cultivate them,
and the ways of the country must be
learned
The town Of Nuevitas is old and
quaint and dirty, the Spanish garrison
giving no attention to sanitation, or,
indeed, any cleaning of the streets or
barracks. This will be attended to
hereafter by the army officers in CO.
operation with the Alcalde, 81 900 in
gold from the custom receipts having
been allotted by General Carpenter for
the needed work. As the American dol
lar is worth from 33 to 35 per cent.
premium on Spanish silver and labor is
obtainable at 81 per day in the latter
currency, much may be accomplished
when there is no waste allowed. The
living expenses are high. Eggs cost
from ; to 10 cents each: meat, princf-
pally goat, 80 cents a pound; kerosene
OIL 50 a gallon; rum % cents a quart
Oranges and lines are cheap, and ba-
nanas very cheap, but dangerous OF our
people.
The only style of carriage in town is
the OK cart, and a bicycle could not
be ridden on the street. There is much
suffering among the people of the
province for want of food. We are
completely cut off from communication
with the United States. There is no
regular mail and the soldiers have re-
ceived no letters since leaving Savan-
nah December 7th. There is no tele-
graph except to Puerto Prince, forty
five miles distant.
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FATAL ACCIDENT.
A Young Attorney Meets With
Death While Out Hunting.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Pc. K.
Blades, a young attorney of this city,
was shot on the preserves of the Ala
mitos Gun Club yesterday, and died at
II o'clock last night. The accident
was not known here until to-day.
Mr.. Blades had gone to Alamitos
Slough hunting ducks with friend. It
is reported that he was alone at the
time of the accident, and it is not
known just how it happened. His com
panion attracted to where he lay by
the barking of the dogs, found him with
a terrible wound in the groin, where a
full charge of duck shot had entered.
The inquest has not yet been held.
The dead man was brother of Paul
Blades, the well known newspaper man
of San Diego, Los Angeles and San
Francisco. He was a noted rifle shot
and had handled firearms all his life
He was about 35 years old. and leaves
a widow and children.
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Those Who Secured Return Permits
Prior TO Annexation
Are Permitted to Disembark at Ports In
Hawaiian Islands.
Chief Justice Judd Renders a De-
cision on the Question, Which
Was Brought Before the Su-
preme Court of the Islands on
Writ of Habeas Corpus.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.-The
steamer China, from the Orient and
Honolulu, brings the following advices
from the latter place, under date of
December 10Th:
Chief Justice Judd has decided that
Chinese who secured permits previous
to annexation may land at this port.
The question was brought before the
Supreme Court on a writ of habeas
corpus. The petitioners were recently
refused landing by Special Agent j.
K. Brown Of the Treasury Department.
The decision is long, and recites all
the briefs and arguments presented, as
we'll as a number of authorities bear
ing upon the case. Referring at length
to the present political anomaly, the
Chief Justice says: 'I feel constrained
to hold that the clause of the resolution
forbidding further Chinese immigra-
tion has virtually repealed the Ha-
Waiian statutes :
Special Agent J. K. Brown, expressed
it himself to-day as follows: Il am an
administrative officer. My instructions
are explicit and imperative. They are
the instructions of a. department of the
executive branch of the Government.
Whether those instructions will be
modified when the decision is made
known at Washington, I cannot tell.
But I cannot assume that they will be,
and until they are I shall follow those
L have"
All the Chinese who were discharged
by Chief Justice. Judd had authorize
ton to land issued prior to July Sth
the day the Coptic brought news of
annexation, and of course prior to Au-
gust 18th, the day the sovereignty of
the islands was transferred. It is the
opinion of those who have given the
subject attention that the decision
may not have decided the right of
those Chinese to land whose return
permits were issued after July Sth, and
when information of changed relations
was first received, or after August
18th, when the sovereignty was actual
ly transferred.
The Supreme Court is engaged in a
similar case. -Four Chinese who arrived
by the Gaelic sued out a writ of habeas
corpus.
The steamship City of Columbia ar
rived from Hilo on the 18th under her
own steam. Captain Turner, the un-
derwriters' representative says tempo
rary repairs can be made here which
will enable her to go to the coast,
where she can be put in as good con-
dition as when she left Honolulu. The
day after the steamer arrived she was
attached by the crew for wages due
In the meantime, two additional at
tachments have been made by men
who had provided provisions during the
vessels long stay in Hawaiian waters
Since last advices two soldiers have
died here. Private Fred James of the
18th Infantry passed away on the 10th.
He was % years of age. Private Clyde
Minnis, Company B, Twenty-third In
fantry, died the next day He arrived
from Manila by the Scandia, and was
unable to proceed further
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Body Unidentified.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27.-The body
washed up by the sea at Redondo
Beach has been buried as that of an
unknown at public expense. The corpse
when found had been in the water sew
eral days, and the features were de-
stroyed. The man was apparently about
6O years of age, weighed $50 pounds,
was almost toothless and had a slight
beard. He had shot himself in the
head and then waded into the surf,
and the body had fioated out on the
tide. There was a scrap of paper in
the pocket with &C. G. Spence, San
Francisco" written upon it.
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While In the Act of QueIIIng a Melee Be-
tween Spanish and Cuhans.
The Americans Escaped Unharmed,
but a Spanish Marine Was Kill
ed and Two Soldiers Wounded
From the Fire Returned by the
Troops-The Whole City in a
State Of Uproar, and Serious
Rioting Threatened.

CHICAGO, Dec. PA special cable
to the Tribune from Havana says:
The American troops were fired on in
Havana tonight The whole city is in
an uproar, and serious rioting is threat
ened.
A detail of Company M, Tenth Regu-
lar United States Infantry, while quell-
ing riot which broke out on Bombay
fired on The regulars returned the
fire, and sent volley after volley into
the crowd of rioters as they fled out OF
the street.
Two Spanish sailors We're wounded
and a Spanish marine was killed by the
Americans. A number of other persons
whose names could not be secured
were also wounded in the melee which
caused the interference of the Ameri-
can troops. Three Cubans were fa-
tally injured. Several Spaniards who
We're carried away by their friends were
wounded, but it is not known how
seriously.
The Cubans who were fatally injured
are: Jose Dolores, a mulatto, shot
through the stomach with a rifle bullet;
Ramon Delagaos, shot in hip and chest
and Pedro Mates, shot in the groin.
None of the American soldiers were
wounded.
In the small riots that occurred in
various parts of the city to-day twelve
persons We're wounded, several fatally
A Spanish soldier, marching with his
company to the wharf, attempted to
pull down a Cuban flag and an Ameri-
can flag over the door at 10S San Laz-
arc street. This started the fight. The
Spaniards were fired on from the house
tops and windows. They returned the
fire, riddling the front of the buildings
with bullets. The soldier who attempt
ed to take down the flag fell on the
steps of house, bleeding from wounds
in the head and shoulder. The Span
ish soldiers withdrew, carrying their
injured comrades.
Residents of San Lazaro say the
withdrawal of the Spaniards was due
to the appearance of an American Off
GER who persuaded the Spaniards to
retire.
The town tonight is practically in
the hands of the Americans. The Span
iards tonight are supposed to still hold
possession Of the strip of ground be-
tween the Prado and the port, but their
soldiers have been withdrawn to with
in a few blocks Of the port.
Three companies of the Tenth Regu-
lar Infantry, who were hurried into
town this afternoon, are on guard in
the streets tonight. It is expected that
the entire Tenth Regiment will have to
be brought in, together with the Eighth
United States. which has been en-
camped at the trocha only two miles
away, in anticipation Of such an emer-
gency as exists. =
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COMMERCIAL TEACHERS.
Annual Convention Of the National
Association Opens at Chicago.

CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-About 400 dele
gates were present to-day at the third
annual convention of the Commercial
Teachers Association, commercial
teachers being present from all parts
of the United States.
The federation is composed of four
sections, and previous to the general
meeting these sections convened separ-
ately and listened to addresses relating
to their particular lines of teachings.
President Charles H. Miller of New
York called the general convention to
order. After an address of welcome by
Mayor Harrison, President Miller deliv-
cred his annual address. Matters Of
interest to commercial educators were
then discussed. Professor E. F. James
of the University of Chicago delivered
an address on Business Education
Abroad" ]. M. Mari of Moline, ILL.,,
spoke on advertising and Getting
Business" Other speakers were G. w.
Brown, Enos Spencer and B. B. Jones.
The convention will hold sessions un-
til FRIDAY
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nection with the cruise of the Petrol.
Ensign George L. Fermier, who fought
bravely at Manila, died on board the
vessel. Deceased had suffered from
stomach troubles, and the disease fin
ally developed paralysis.
Ensign Fermier was born in Indiana,
and was 20 years of age. He graduated
from Annapolis in 1889. He fought at
Cavite, and was mentioned in the dis
patches for gallantry. The alumni of
his college have subscribed for a sword
of honor which was to have been pre-
sented to him for his behavior during
the late war.
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RICH VEIN oF COPPER.
A Big Strike Made at the Leo1a
Mine in Washington.

TACOMA, Dec. 27.-News that big
strike has been made at the Leola cop
per mine has just reached Tacoma. Sew
eral days ago a solid five-foot vein of
ore was opened just a few feet below
the surface, which runs 20 per cent.
pure copper, and also carries twenty
ounces of silver and a paying quantity
OF gold to the ton. Several veins rami-
fy ON the property, which is owned by
Tacoma capitalists. The mine is To-
Gated in the eastern part of Pierce
County, at the foot of Mount Tacoma,
on Canada Creek. The formation in
the district is practically identical with
that in the Cornwall copper fields, and
the ore can be mined very cheaply.
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A Freight Warehouse Burglarized.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 27.-The Southern
Pacific freight warehouse at Mountain
View was entered by burglars between
and o'clock this morning, and about
forty sacks of flour and two large sacks
OF onion seed stolen. The burglary was
a particularly audacious one. as a
wagon was used to haul off the plum
der. The officers say they have as yet
no trace of the burglars. It is be-
lleVed there We're two men in the deed
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Transport Morgan City.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.-The
Morgan City, one of the transports of
the original expeditions to the Philip
pines during the war, has been accepted
to carry freight to the troops there. It
will be about a week or ten days before
she is completely loaded. She will take
5000 tons of commissary, medical,
quartermasters' and ordnance stores for
the use of the troops there.
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Three Children Drowned.

PHILLIPSBURG On. j., Dec 81
Grover, aged II, Lucy, aged 8, and
Pearly, aged 6 years, children of Dewitt
Geary, a railroad engineer, broke
through the ice and were drowned in
the Norris Canal at Port Golden, near
Washington, this county, yesterday af-
tarnnnn
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ENSIGN GEORGE L. FERM1ER.
The Brave Naval Officer Dies ON
Board the Gunboat PetreI.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 27.-The
steamer China brought word from
Shanghai of the arrival there on the
18th of last month of the gunboat Pc
trel. There was a sad incident in con-
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Secret Documents in Dreyfus Case.

PARIS, Dec. 27.-The Premier, M.
Dupuy, the Minister of War, NJ de
Freycinet and the President of the
Court of Cessation, NJ Loew, have
finally agreed upon the conditions under
which the secret documents in the Drey-
fus case are to be submitted to the
Court of Cessation. They are to be
taken there by Captain Guinel every
morning if the court applies for them,
and they are to be returned the same
night.
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Earnings of the Atchison System.

CHICAGO, Dec. 27-The net earnings
of the Atchison system for the month
of November were S1,434,149, an in
crease of $50, ,4S6 over the net earnings
Of the same month last year. The net
earnings for the five months of the
fiscal year ending, November Both
amount to S4,96S, 49, decrease of
S144,S77 from the net earnings of the
same period Of the preceding fiscal
year.
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Condition OF the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27-To-day's
statement of the condition of the treas
ury shows: Available cash balance,
$293, ,024,71S; gold reserve, $244, ,S25, ,152.