The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-18
IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

tered AT the Ra4elst. Mr. Irude is in the
city to appear before the Supreme Court
in the Interest F. E. Rice, Frank Rut-
ledge. and Thomas Zones, three Americans
arrested in Chicago. charged with bank
robbery in Canada The extraGitioR Of
these men was demanded by the Canadian
Government. which claimed that they
should be given mp in accordance With the
terms Of the Blamed auaeefose Treaty OF
1889. Mr. Trude contested their removal
to Canada under the clause which provides
for extradition in accordance with the laws
in force in the surrendering State. Bal!
was denied The men. however. were not
extradited, and are stiIl neid in custody
Mr. Trude now comes TO the Supreme
Court to have them liberated on bail and
10 secure al opinion as TO whether the
laws referred to il the treaty are the laws
OF Illinois or of the United States, the State
and Federal laws being conflicting in cases
OF extradition.
Peter White. wealthy and influential
citizen Of Michigan. is az the Arlington
Mr.. White has great lumber interests in
the Middle Western State, and is close
friend Of Senator Mcmillan. He is here en-
deaToring to secure from the Treasury
Department the right for the city of Mar
quette to build q street through the light
house reservation in that town.
when the speculative habit IS once
formed there is little hope for the VIC
tim" remarked Henry J. suter, OF San
Francisco. at the Arlington. today.
Here IS a case in point: The collector
Of customs at Honolulu heard that some
-
be destroyed, because they were SO badly
damaged as to be worthless. This was
just before the issue of surehzrged 81 amps
had been made. You understand that the
Hawaiian stamps we're surchaFged and
used as United States stamps shortly after
the country became a Territory. The
stamps that were not surehaTged became
useless The collector, however, thought
he would hold them for speculative pur-
poses. This is the story he told He
proposed 70 make fortune By selling the
stamps TO collectors, but his Judgment
Eas bad. No one wanted Hawaiian stamps.
Pretty soon he found that he had a white
elephant sn has hands. He could not even
give the staEJ6 away. He at last decided
10 ask the Government 10 give him back
his money. The Government was not in
that business. He was informed that the
stamps were purchased before Hawaii
came under the control Of this Govern
ment and that he was not entitled to re-
demptiDn faroTs- he still has the stamps
unless he has destroyed them, for II IS
certainty that he cannot sell or even give
them away, unless rs a present to Queen
Lii, as a reminder Of one OF the things
that did not come under the stamp Of
Amerieanism-"
~ find that there is no appreciation in
the East of how badly Wolcott was de-
feated in the recant election. said J J.
McPheaI, Of Colorado. at the Raleigh. to-
day. "Out of the one hundred mem
bers OF the Legislature he has only ten,
and three Of the ten will be unseated-
That leaves him only seven Think Of that
for & man the Republicans thought they
could elect Two years from now Teller
is certain to be reelected I see no
chance for WoIeott unless the Admins
tration should take care OF him. I pre-
sumo there are reasons against even this.
4 man must be strong with some one TO
attract the attention OF even Mr.. Nc
KinI1y. The SenatoTship race out there
is Il close one Editor Patterson, OF the
ROCKY Nouutaia News" seems TO be in
the Ieac. Next in strength comes Gov
erHor Thomas Perhaps ex-governor Ad-
ans is next, and last is Charles J. Hughes.
the leading lawyer of the State, and by
far the ablest man in the quartette."
Dead and down timber propositions
serve to keep up interest in the North
west" said James ". Walker, OF Min
neapcIis, at the St. James today.
Just now tie interest is at fever heat
The Interior Department has been asked
to take the matter in hand, and I under
called in for conference. also under
stand that there are several Northwestern
lumbermen n the city ali waiting TO get
a chance at the ear Of the Secretary. to
tell how badly they Jared in the distri-
button of dead and down contracts But
that IS away from the story Here are
the facts about this kind Of a PROPOSE
ticn: The Indians in the Northwest own
great tracts OF timber land The storms
and high winds blow down some of the
trees. Some of the timber is dead, while
other trees are alive, but are on the
ground. This kind of timber is called
dead and down. Il is sold at so much
a thousand feet, the contract usually
being let to an Indian, who sublets it to
4 white contractor. That part of the
agreement is perfectly right and proper
The white man however. does not. as a
rule, eonflne himself to dead and down.
He cuts IN here and there, takes out q
great deal Of good timber, and realizes 6
profit The department has had the mat
ter IN hand for several years, and a strict
man was needed TO supervise the work.
The present Indian agent is an army off,
css, and I understand he mas been holding
on with tight hand That is the reason
he is opposed and the lum5ermen are here
to protest against his decisions
Rev. Thomas ]. Malone. formerly editor
of the Rocky Mountain Catholic" and
now resident OF Denver. Col. IS at
the Raleigh. In the Far West
he is q well known man of AFFAIRS taking
keen and practical interest IN public ques-
lions He says the industrial growth of
the region of the Rockies is amazing, and
he predicts great things for the immed-
late future
". F. Blake, of Saginaw, who is at the
Normandie. said today: -Pingree is
stiIl keeping the State OF Michigan stirred
up Immediately after he pardoned Gen
erals White and Marsh. who. as members
Of the military board, pIundered the State.
he called a special session Of the Lezis-
lature, which is the third special session
be has csaled within the last two years.
The estensible cause for the gathering was
10 pass measure under which the tax
system of the State would be changed as
to railroads, telegraph, telephone, and ex-
press companies. This class Of corpora
tons have been taxed upon their earnings.
and il has been part of the Piugree prepa-
Canfya tn have them taxed on ths x-af.sa Of