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WILL SUE INFRINGERs.
Bowers Will Punish All Who Tres.
pass on His Rights.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21-.Inventor
A. b. Bowers, of dredger fame, is de-
terTnined to punish all who are using
his patents without paying for the
same.
To-day, on affidavits presented to
Judge Morrow by Bowers and his at
torneys, an order was issued citing
the Pacific Coast Dredging and Recla-
nation Company to appear in court on
Monday next to show cause why its
members should not be punished for
contempt.
Bowers recently, after long litigation,
secured an injunction against all par
ties using certain dredger invented
ana patented by him, and it is alleged
that the Pacific Coast Dredging and
Reclamation Company have ignored the
order of the court by using a dredger
on Stockton Slough which infringed on
the rights of Inventor Bowers
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occupy the bed for the night, and that
it was ready for me whenever saw fit
to turn in.
Naturally protested against taking
the only bed in the house, and declared
that could sit in a chair and sleep as
well as hot, but no amount of protest
could move these hospitable people, and
at last I reluctantly turned in, leaving
my host and hostess nodding by the
open fire. had been made dead tired
by the long walk of the day before, and
the soft bed was very seductive / did
not wake until day was breaking, and
then l encountered the most astonishing
thing I ever met with in my life
what was it?" chorused the boys
who had been listening to Steve's en-
trancing story.
II found the man and woman in bed,
and / was sitting with the kids along
the wall. .''-Kans City Journal.
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TO CARRY THE DEAD.
Transport Roumanian to Be Fitted
Up for That Purpose.

SAVANNAH iGa.), Jan. 21-Word
was received by Colonel Beilinger yes
terday that the transport Roumanian
would not come back to Santiago from
her present trip to Matanzas. Instead,
she is to go to New York
There she will be equipped as a
transport for the dead. Taking with
her large force Of undertakers and
helpers and large supply Of coffins
and other supplies for that purpose, the
Roumanian will go to Santiago There
the bodies of the American soldiers who
died from yellow fever or who fell in
the battles, will be disinterred and pre-
pared for removal on the transport to
this country. The Roumanian, it is
understood, win go to New York from
Santiago, the bodies being distributed
from there to the relatives or friends
throughout the country.
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GOMEZ INDoRsED.
Cespedes Sustains Him In His Ef-
forts for Unity.

HAVANA, Jan. 21.-A meeting of the
Cuban Executive Committee was held
to-day at Ell Carmen, at which many
representative persons and Generals
were present. General Cespedes sus-
tanned General Gomez in his activity in
pursuing his policy of uniting the cuban
and Spanish elements in the island.
He stated that it was necessary to
officially convoke the assembly in
order to direct the Cuban policy and
that the presence and influence of Cen
eral Gomez would be needed at the
meeting, which would occur on the re-
turn of the plenipotentiary committee
from Washington.
General Pedro Betancourt, with a
force of 200 Cubans, is encamped near
Matanzas. He has his. troops under
perfect control and is discharging his
men as fast as they can find work.
The railroad employees have gone on
strike because of the failure of the
company to keep it's promise to in
crease their pay after the war. Freight
trains are not being run, though mail
and passenger trains are still being
moved over the line. The people are in
sympathy with the strikers.
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FIRE AT SALINAS.
Several Persons Narrowly Escape
With Their Lives.

SALINAS, Jan. 21.-This morning at
4 o'clock a, fire broke out in the kitchen
of the San Juan Hotel. The flames
spread with great rapidity, soon invo1v-
ing three other houses in the rear Dur
ing the progress of the eennagration
the proprietress of the house appeared
at front window, apparently dazed,
and with her night dress in flames
The firemen quenched the burning
clothing and threw her into a blanket
held by others twenty feet below. Two
n1en jumped from the same window as
the roof fell in. A woman in the build
ing escaped with her hair burnt off.
The loss on the building is 81, ,75O, in
sured for 81, ,2JO.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.-Califor-
MAS commercial, industrial, agricultu-
raj, mining and horticultural interests
were well represented in the convention
which assembled to-day in the Cham
Der of Commerce to adopt means for
the better conservation of water and
preservation of forests in the State
Almost every county had a voice in
the proceedings.
United States Surveyor j. NJ Gleaves
was unanimously elected temporary
Chairman, and A. H Benjamin tempo
rary Secretary.
In stating the object of the assembly,
chairman Gleaves said that at its last
convention the association had adopted
rules calling for concerted action by
the interests most affected by the waste
OF water ,and timber in the State. 1t
mad been proposed that a committee of
seven be appointed to obtain State and
National aid in the conservation of
water and the preservation of timber,
but it remained for the convention to
discuss and show other suggestions as
might be submitted
When suggestions as to the best
means of attaining the desired end
We're invited, Colonel J. P. Irish re-
sponded with an extended advocacy of
the establishment of a Department of
Forestry by each of the universities.
the students thereof to act with the
stare IN preventing waste.
On motion of Judge Walling of Ne
vaoa, the following Committee of nine
on Order of Business and Permanent
organization was appointed: Judge J.
M Walling, Colonel j. P. Irish. Judge
=. Il. Lindley, Edward F. Adams. Hor-
ace Wilson, julius Sonntag Abbott
Kinney. NJ. B. Kerr and E. w. Britt.
1t was decided to call the organiza-
tion The California Society for Con-
serving the Waters and Forests" The
Ioilowlng permanent officers were
elected: President, J. NJ. Gleaves: Vice
PRESIDENTS, ]. NJ. Walling, w. H. Mills
and Abbott Kinney; Treasurer, E. A..
Denlcke; Secretary, E. H. Benjamin.
An Executive Committee was appoint
ed as follows: ]. NJ. Walling. Colonel
John p Irish, - C. White. George
Davidson, William H Mills. A. P.
Maginnis, A Sbarboro, c. Fl. Lindley,
f. W. Hilgard, Elliott McAllister. Ju-
han Sonntag, Cralgie Sharp, f. w.
pohrmann,. E. ALlams- NJ. Theodore
kearney. J. NJ Gleaves, President; E.
H. Benjamin. Secretary.
This committee will prepare a. con-
stitution and bylaws, and submit
measures to be presented to the Leg
islature.
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Alleged Embezzler Arrested.

STOCKTON, Jan. 21.-Chief Gall to-
night arrested A. H Morgan as he was
boarding a steamer for San Francisco.
Morgan is wanted in Calaveras County
for embezzling about $50 in cash from
the Pacific Coast Stage Company,
whose stage between Angels and Milton
he had been driving for about FIVE
months. He not only got away with
the cash collected from the passengers,
but succeeded in drawing full salary
to date from the agents of the stage
company here,
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LONDON, Jan 21. - Great Britain
seems to shake to its foundations
whenever Cecil Rhodes sets foot on the
island. He is the biggest man in the
kingdom to-day.
The popular mind credits him with
being the potentate of the African con-
tinent-
The Cabinet met yesterday to dis
cuss Mr.. Rhodes scheme for guaran-
tees of the Cape Town-Cairo Railroad
and telegraph. Mr.. Rhodes afterward
conferred with Joseph Chamberlain,
the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
and Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr..
Rhodes says f1OOOO,OO0 will cover the
entire cost of the work, and there is
little doubt that he will carry his point
with the Government and raise all the
money he needs in the city.
Samoa commands but small interest
in Great Britain, and the belief seems
to prevail that the dispatches magnify
the Importance of the Consuls' battles,
and that Germany will manage to
gracefully disavow the acts of her
agents.
A diplomat remarked that Germany
Russia has played in the eyes of the
Anglo-Saxon, the conspirator to be
looked for behind every war cloud. The
British Government, however, well
comes the Samoan incident as another
link of the Anglo-American under
standing which they are SO desirous of
fostering.
British investors in the Philippines
are curiously ignorant of American
politics, and are seriously discussing
the possibility of President Mckinley
appointing an Englishman to. govern
the islands They argue that it is i'm
possible to find in America an exper-
fenced administrator acquainted with
the character of the Filipinos, and sug-
gest the name of Ex-Governor Creagh
of British Borneo, who is now living in
England, as being eminentiy qualified
and willing to take the post.
Some financiers are beginning to
take gloomy view of the future of the
Philippines
Ernest Ruffert, the head of a Lom-
bard-street house who bought large
tracts of land about Manila, said to a
representative of the Associated Press:
'The land is useless under the present
conditions. We could not plant crops
with the possibility of the natives de-
stroying them overnight The United
States will be unable to rule more than
the fringe of the islands without an
army of 100000 men, They might buy
the natives leaders, but they would not
stay bought, and the United States
must rebuy them periodically The end
of the matter will be that the United
States will sell the Philippines
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And Beautiful Results Surely
Follow.
There is One Thing You Want
Badly and Must Have.
Even If You Have Given Up
Possessing It, This Will
Give You Hope.

A native daughter. Mrs. Lee Wood, who
was born in Sacramento of pioneer par
entS and reared In California, who has
passed through the vale of despair and
gloom and has recently been raised to
the sublime ~egree of hope, health
and comfort, has this to say;
II was at least thirteen years
came from colds. My head was ak first
affected. I had severe pains across my
forehead, over my eyes; often causing
pains in the eyeballs. My eyes would be-
come weak and watery. My nosttils
would at times discharge watery mat
ter and at other times become clogged up
50 that l could scarcely breathe through
them. Constant ringing and roaring
noises in my ears distressed and annoyed.
me and made me fear that my hearing
was becoming impaired The mucous
from my head would drop back into my
throat, and keep me constantly hawking
and gagging and raising. Gradually the
catarrh which at first affected simply
my head and throat, extended until my
whole system was undermined. 1t was
catarrh of the head, throat and stem
lungs and heart seemed to be involved
also. Sharp shooting paints would take
me in the chest, running through to the
shoulder blades. l had difficulty in get
ting air enough into my lungs. My breath
ing was labored. 1t seemed as II was
drawing air through sponge and there
would be wheeling, whistlng, kind of
ly nervous and had little appetite My
stomach was weak and what food ! man
aged to eat would lay like dead upon ii.
My sleep was fitful and broken. / lost
flesh and became very lean. 1 had al
most despaired of ever getting well, when
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SCHEDULE OF RATES.
What Klondike Adventurers Will
Have to Pay Hereafter.

steamship companies Of the Pacific
Coast have agreed on a schedule of
rates for freight and passengers to and
from Alaskan ports, which will be en-
forced during the coming season. The
rate from San Francisco to Puget
Sound points will remain as at present.
From the sound to Fort Wrangel, the
rate will be S17 irst class, SO second
class; to Juneau, $50 first class, So
second class; to Skaguay, $50 first
class, SIS second class.
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sPREcKELs VS.. HEARST.
Police Judge Morgan Dismisses the
Criminal Libel Suit.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.-The
charge of criminal libel preferred some
time ago by Claus Spreckels against
william r. Hearst of the Examiner
was dismissed by Police Judge Morgan
to-day.
The court delivered written decis-
ion which discusses the points involved
and cites numerous cases to sustain his
conclusions.
THE defendant may be held civilly
liable to damage, hesaid, "but 1 donot
think a criminal prosecution will lie.
The charge against the defendant is
therefore dismissed"
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No Material Change In the Situation 4
Olympia.
A Tie Ballot in Montana for Com
rad and Clark-Quay il Far
From Success In Pennsylvania
Contested Election Cases Will
Cut a Figure In West Virginia
and Republicans Will Re-
taliate.

OLYMPIA 1(Wash.), Jan. 21.-Three
ballots were taken for United States
Senator to-day in joint session with
no. material change in the situation.
The last ballot resulted: Foster ",
Wilson q, Humes p, Ankeny 8, Lewis
"a, Bridges 1.
IN MONTANA.
HELENA (Ndont.), Jan. 21.-The fea-
ture of the eleventh Senatorial ballot
was tie vote Of 33 each for Conrad
and Clark. The Republicans cast their
votes for Marshall. Others scattering
or absent. Necessary to elect 45.
IN UTAH.
SALT LAKE, Jan. 21.-The Legisla-
ture took four ballots for Senator and
adjourned until a o'clock this after
noon.
The Republicans voted for Judge
Miner On the second ballot Samuel
Newhouse CD received five votes.
The last ballot was as follows: Nc
Cune CD 20, King CD 13, Powers CD
is, Cannon CD Z, Neber CD l, Suth-
erland R-) l, Miner (R.) IA; not vot-
ing /.
IN DELAWARE.
DOVER, Jan. 21.-The eighth ballot
for United States Senator taken by the
Delaware Legislature in joint session
to-day resulted: George Gray (D.) 10,
J. E. Addicks (R.) 10, Henry A. Dupont
CR.) 10, Francis G. Dupont (R.) 1, Will
lam A. Shiles R.) 1, J. B. Pennington
(R.) 2, Handy CD 2. Absent six The
joint Assembly then adjourned until
Monday.
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 21.-The fourt
ballot in joint session for United States
Senator was taken to-day and resulted
as follows: Quay 55, jerks II, Dalzell
II, Irwin 3, Stewart 8, Huff 3, C. w.
Stone 5, Tubbs 3, Crow /, Markell ] !;
paired II. Absent, with pairs, Z. No
election.
IN NEBRASKA.
LINCOLN. Jan. 21-The vote for
Senator to-day showed no change of
consequence. Hayward secured one
less than yesterday, owing to absentee.
OF those present he gained one and lost
one. The vote is as follows: Allen 81,
Hayward 80, Webster 10, Thompson Z,
Lambertson 2, Field 2, Reese 2. Hin
SHdW b. weston =, ross z, ADAMS =,
Van Duzen 4, Hainer /, Cornish /.
Necessary to a choice SO.
IN WEST VIRGINIA.
CHARLESTON. JAN 21.-No action
was taken by the Senate to-day in the
contested election cases that were
brought up yesterday. Another rese-
luton was introduced declaring Senator
Marcus seat vacant pending a contest
and referring the entire matter to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections.
1t will come up in regular order for ac-
ton on Monday together with the other
resolutions of yesterday, relative to
contests.
1t is now stated that the Republi-
cans intend to maintain their original
majority on joint ballot as shown by
the rolls prepared by the Secretary of
State. instead Of letting the present
standing remain. Since the House has
unseated two Republicans, the Repub-
lican majority on joint ballot is only
one, and with an epidemic of grip some
some one or more is daily absent on
account of sickness.
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GAVE HIMSELF UP.
A Defaulter Asks to Have the Au-
thorities Notified.

STOCKTON, Jan. 21.-This morning
Lawrence Pulliam Of Asheville, n. G.,
walked into the Sheriff's Office and ask
ed that he be locked up and telegram
sent to the Sheriff at Ashevilie an
nouncing that he was here and ready
to return.
He wanted everything done quietly
and without his name or offense cons
ing to the surface at all. He, therefore,
told little to the officers and refused to
see any, one else. On the meager IN
formation secured Sheriff Sibley telc-
graphed to Asheville and was somewhat
surprised to receive word that the man
was right, and that he was wanted. A
private dispatch states that Pulliam is
q defau1ter
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Was ON JEFF Davis staff.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.-General
S. S. Bamberger, who has just died in
this city, at the age of 81 years, was
on the staffs of General Joseph E.
johnson and Jefferson Davis during the
civil war, and for a time was Secre-
tary of the President of the Confeder-
acy He was well known here as To-
cal politician and expert penman
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SUGAR BRETs.
Large Acreage in Solano, Yolo and
Contra Costa to be Seeded.

SUISUN, Jan. 21.-About 5000 acres
of land in Solano County will be de-
voted to raising sugar beets this year.
A large acreage has also been leased
in Contra Costa and Yolo Counties by
the California Sugar Beet and Refining
Company of Crockett.
The mammoth establishment at the
latter place will be run in full blast this
year. Judging from the acreage in
tended to be devoted to the sugar beet
industry there are prospects of an es-
innate yield of 100000 tons of beets.
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Tribes Make. Peace.

SEATTLE, Jan. 21.-The greatest
gathering in the history of Alaskan In
dams is scheduled for August 10th
next at Klawan, on the Chilcat River.
At this grand potlach the tribal war of
the Wrangel and Chilcat Indians,
which has been raging for many years,
will come to an end. 1t is estimated
that over 1900 Indians will be. present.
The proposed peace has been arranged
by Chief Shakes of the Wrangels.
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A Little Grab Game.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 21-The Kansas
Legislature, now in session at Topeka,
will be called upon before the close OF
its present session to pass bill au-
thorizing Attorney General Goddard to
institute proceedings in the United
States Supreme Court for re-survey of
the boundary line between Kansas and
Missouri, with the idea Of securing a
goodly slice of the latter State for
Kansas
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Sale Of zola's Furniture.

S PARIS, Jan. 21.-TheTe was another
sale of. the furniture Of M. Zola, the
author, here to-day, for the purpose of
defraying the $500 francs costs result
ing from the first sale. His friends
tried to settle the matter, but the
Magistrate refused to allow them to do
so. The first lot offered was a looking
glass. It was bought by NJ. Zola's pub
Usher. M. Fasquelle. for the full amount
Of the claim.
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Twentieth Infantry Coming.

LEAyENWORTH (Kas), Jan. 21-
The Twentieth United States Infantry,
1.30O men, Brigadier General Lloyd
Wheaton commanding, departed from
Fort Leavenworth to-day for San
Francisco, whence they are booked to
sail on the Scandia for Manila on jan
uary 26th-
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w1LIrAMy LIBEL SUIT.

Stipulation Allowing Five Days
For SpreckeIs to File an Answer.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.-In the
damage suit for libel brought by
Charles A. Williams against John D.
Spreckels for $250,O00, Attorney Pres
ton to-day entered an appearance in
the United States CIRCUIT Court. BY
consent of counsel on both sides stip-
ufation was made that five days ex-
tension of time be granted by the court
in which the defendant may file his
answer.
Williams, who is reported to be a
wealthy South African, was engaged
to be married to Miss Genevieve Goad
of this city, but on the eve of the
ceremony the Calf printed an expose
of Williams. which resulted in the en-
gagement being annulled.
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A PERILous TRIP.
Disabled Ferryboat Swept Down
the Niagara River.

BUFFALO On. Y.), Jan. 21.-Lecked
in a huge ice foe, the Canadian ferry
Niagara, with nineteen persons on
board, was swept helplessly down the
Niagara River tonight and dismantled
by the international bridge. The boat,
which plies between this city and Erie,
Ont, left her dock near the mouth of
the river in the early evening on her
last trip of the day, having on board
fifteen passengers, six of whom were
women and two children. Her crew
consisted of four men, The river was
full of floating ice that was drifting In
from Lake Erie, but the boat, heading
diagonally against the current, made
her way to the center of the stream.
Here she became imbedded in a great
field of ice, and her engines were pow
erless to propel her. The current at
this point is exceedingly swift, and the
momentum of the ice field carried the
ferry with It,
The passengers, realizing their situa-
tion, were horror stricken with the fear
of being carried over the falls, and the
more imminent danger of being dashed
against a pier OF the international
bridge. The calls of the ferry whistle
attracted attention from the shore, and
fire tugs were started out mile above
the rescue the helpless craft.
The passengers and crew of the MI
agara put on life preservers and stood
with blanehed faces while the boat
swept onward. River navigation being
closed, the draws of the bridge are in
operative and draw engines dead. 1t
was evident that the upper works of
the boat could not clear the span, but
the great menace was the piers of solid
masonry. The current favored the
boat and swept her between the span,
little to the eastward of the center
of the river. The iron girders of the
bridge raked the boat clean of her Sec
ond deck, carrying away s1nokestack,
pilot-house and hurricane deck The
passengers and crew were below deck
and escaped injury from the wreckage.
Swinging clear of the bridge, the Nj
agara broke free from the foe and
drifted into path of clear water. A
hand gear was attached to the rtdder,
the engines, which were uninjured, re-
sumed tfleiE duty, and the dismantled
craft was EStqwly worked to the dock
on the American shore.
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Dinner to Justice Brewer.

LONDON, Jan. 21.-Henry White, the
American Charge d'Affaires, gave a
dinner this evening at the Princess res
taurant in honor of Associate Justice
David ]. Brewer of the Supreme Court
OF the United States, who is now in
London on his way to Paris to attend
meeting of the Venezuelan Boundary
Commission
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fire broke out in three-story building
on Main avenue on the ground floor oc-
cupied by Rumpler's Bakery. Miss
Rumpler, after reaching a window
where she could have been rescued by
the firemen, went back to her bedroom
to get her jewelry. She was overcome
by the smoke and perished Miss VIM
throp jumped from a third-story win
dow. but was caught in a net spread
by the Aremen. and sustained only
painful injuries.
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ADMITS HIS IDENTITY.
One Of Jesse James sold Gang il
Custody.

SPRINGFIELD (Mo.), Jan 21.-Will-
lam Jennings. one of the several men
arrested near Bacomb, Mo-. on the night
of January Sd, tonight admitted he is
Bill Ryan. formerly of the Jesse James
gang. He said that he wanted to con-
ceal his identity during the excitement
attending the recent hold-up, but now
that it has subsided, he makes the adj
mission.
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Travin win be Extradited.

WASHINGTON, jan. Platter
years hard work the State Depart
ment has succeeded in it's efforts to Sc
cure the extradition from Mexico of
Visili j. Travin, who is wanted in Chi
cago on a charge of counterfeiting
United States Treasury notes.
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No Reduction Of Royalty.

OTTAWA (Ont.), Jan Pin an in
terview Sir Charles Tupper states that
he was Informed by Hon. Clifford Sif-
ton, Minister of the Interior, that there
was to be no reduction in the 10 per
cent royalty in the Yukon. The only
change to be made is that the amount
to be exempted On each claim was to
be raised from 50, 500 to $500.
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The Final Conference.

WASIIINGTON, Jan. 21.-Secretary
Hay had what will probably be the
final conference with the members Of
the Philippine Commission to-day and
gave them full instructions on every
point that is likely to arise.
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Department has cabled General Otis,
asking IL the Spanish prisoners held
by the insurgents have been released.
It is evident from this that the Gov
ernment is moving toward the execu-
ton Of Article g of the peace treaty,
by. which the United States undertook
to. obtain the release of all Spanish
prisoners in the hands OF the insur-
gents in the Philippines, and at its
own cost to return to these prisoners to
their homes.