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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14
PLAINTIFF FAVORED.
License Tax of j. Edward Chapman
Must Be Refunded

Justice Barnard in Circuit Court No l.,
today rendered a decision in favor of the
plaintiff in the case of j. Edward Chapman
against the District of Columbia. Mr..
Chapman, who is a local coal and wood
dealer. filed suit against the District of
Columbia to recover So alleged to have
been wrongfully exacted from him as a
license tax as contractor under the pro-
visions of paragraph 46. section I, of the
personal tax law enacted in July. 1902 The
paragraph referred to sttpulates that
building and other contractors shall pay
an annual tax of SIS" In accordance there
with. Mr.. Chapman about a year ago was
required to take out such q contractors IL
cense for the reason that in the course of
his bushes a retail dealer he sometimes
made contracts with the District of Col
umbia and the United States government
for the sale to them of large quantities of
coal and wood
After refusing to procure Il license. be-
cause, he maintained he was not affected
by the law. Mr.. Chapman was arrested and
taken before the Police Court and there in
formed that he would be fined unless he
took out license. In order to avoid the
threatened action. Mr.. Chapman paid the
license tax under protest and then insti-
tutod proceedings before Justice of the
Peace Webb, to recover the amount paid
The ruling OF the Justice of the peace was
against the plaintiff. who thereupon APP
pealed to the Supreme Court of the Dis
triCt of Columbia.
Justice Barnard today held that Mr.
Chapman was not a contractor within the
meaning OF the law and. therefore. not sub
tect TO the tax. as explained. 1t was fur
Their held that having paid the license under
protest in order to release his person from
arrest. the payment was made under duress
and the plaintiff was entitled to recover 1t.
The decision OF Justice Barnard is con-
sidered to be an important one. 1t was
argued that IL a retail coal and wood dealer
who sells to the government Is thereby a
contractor within the meaning of the per-
sonal tax law then every local retail dealer
in furniture typewriters and the like, who
may sell to the government. is likewise
amendable TO the law and subject to tax.
Attorney r. s. Key Smith appeared for
Mr.. Chapman, while Assistant Corporation
Counsel F. II. Stephens represented the
District of Columbia.
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Filipinos Inspecting PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA. June 4.-Accordine to
the members of the Filipino commission
now visiting this city, their mission here
Is to set in motion public sentiment favor
able to self-Sovernment of the Philippines
Dr. I. II. Pardo de Tavero, one of the
prominent statesmen of the islands, said
According to the law which provides for
popular assembly in the Philippines, it is
left to the President of the United States
to say when the condition of the islands
warrants such an election. Secretary Taft
will shortly visit US and make report on
conditions, and we expect their impressions
will be such to bring about the estab-
lishment of popular government"
Today the commissioners visited indie
pendence Hall. Cramps shipyards, the
Baldwin locomotive works, the navy yard
and the new city filter beds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14
CONSUL ESCAPES AMBUSH.
An Attempt to Capture italian IN
Morocco Fails.

A cablegram from =Tangier last night
says: An attempt has been made to cap
ture the italian consul at Larache. The
consul resides a mile outside town. and
bold mounted horsemen set an ambush for
him. The consul fortunately was warned
and had time to take refuge Inside the
town.
Two private American gentlemen attempt
ed to enter into negotiations with Raisuli.
They were unauthorized by their govern
ment, but evidently were actuated by good
intentions with the idea of procuring the re-
lease of the captives. 1t was feared this
act might cause serious confusion and de-
lay in the negotiations between Raisuli and
the native officials. Raisuls decision to
negotiate with none except native officials
was received with satisfaction.
A cabIegram from Paris says: There Is
reason to believe that the Sultan of Mo-
rocco has not accepted all the conditions
STIPULATED by RaIsuli for the release of the
prisoners. The choice Of suitable ennis ennis
and possibly caused little delay, but in
ali probability there will not be long 70
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14

Ian. the Potsdam and the Philadelphia, the
first three ships to bring immigrants at
the new low figure have been interviewed
to learn If the cheap rate was responsible
for their coming here.
The results are startling, the official de-
tailed to the work reports. There is already
a lowering in the moral, physical and finan-
cial standing of the immigrants. This is
not the worst of it, for the news of the SO
fare has not yet had time to spread through
Europe. During the next ten days half a
dozen ships will arrive, crammed to their
full steerage capacity with what the in
spector describes the scum of north
ern Europe
Most of the new arrivals had only from
50 cents to $50 apiece. Many had not
even one penny. About fifteen per cent
of the latter are held for special inquiry.
Since January / there has been total of
72S alien paupers, against 52s for the first
half of 1903.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14
Court Disapproved of Practice.
DISTRICT MAN FOURTH IN CLASS.
Additional Candidates Admitted to
Annapolis Academy-Post Released.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
AM Polls Nd Innn Il 10

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
ANNAPOLIS, Md. June Ii, 1904.
The following additional candidates have
been admitted as 'dshipmen: Guy c.
Barnes, Georgia: Francis T. Chew, Mis-
souri,; r chard c. White, New York
George II. Mchin. Illinois, Harold d. f.
Burdick, Kansas, Howard NJ. Lammers
Minnesota; Eugene ID. Mccormick West
Virginia; James W. Mcdonald Wisconsin,
William E. Pashley, Illinois; Frank w
Sorak, New York; James S Spare Mich
igan; William w. Turner, Ohio; Richard E.
White. California; Eugene w Wilson
Washington Cat largo; William w Wilson
Delaware; Richard w. Wuest Ohio; Robert
S. Young. jr.. North Carolina L. G. Stark
Missouri.
Mr.. Edward r ode Padgett of Washing
ton is among the graduates of St johns
College. Nh. Padgett W II receive the de-
gree of bachelor of arts. His relative
standing is fourth in a class of nineteen
The commencement lakes place Wednesday,
and the graduates will be addressed by
Gen. l.. Allison Wilmer of La Plata Md
The medical board of examination, which
has been in sess son, has now completed the
examination of nearly all the candidates
that have been brought before it. There
are a few WHO Will be examined later for
special reasons. w men THESE are completed
there will be further tess until after
the mental examinations, which begin on
June 21.
+. +. McMilen, a graduate of the Naval
Academy of the class of 1894, has been APP
pointed Instructor in the department of
English and law of that in stitution. Mr.
McMlllen failed to pass his physical exam
inatiOn at graduation, and has since been
acting in the capacity to which he has now
been regularly appointed. He will resign
from the navy at once so as to accept the
appointment as civilian professor.
George Post, who has been under arrest
charged with completely in the murder of
Private of Marines James Ward. which took
place by drowning on the night of Friday
June B. had a preliminary hearing before
Justice Charles G. Feldmeyer this after
noon, and at the conclusion of the testi-
mony States Attorney Edward c. CAN'T
announced that he would not ask for the
holding of Post, as the case brought out
did not warrant it. He was therefore re-
leased. The testimony of a number of
marines showed that a crowd of marines
had been drinking up to midnight on the
night in question, and had started to re-
turn to the barracks. Ward went back
after more whisky and far as known
was not seen alive again.
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A MISSING CORRESPONDENT.
Hector Fuller Departed Last Week fol
Port Arthur.

kilograms have been received at the State
Department from Senators Fairbanks and
Beveridge asking the department to exert
itself to find some trace of a missing Amer
lean war correspondent, Hector Fuller of
the Indianapolis News, supposed to have
been captured either by the Russians or
Japanese. Fuller left Chefoo last week In
an attempt to reach Port Arthur. He was
last seen Friday, June 10. at the Miautau
Islands and his friends fear for his slfety.
The State Department is asked to request
the Russian embassy and the Japanese 1e-
CATION here to cause their governments to
make search for the man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14
DIED FROM STARVATION.
Mother and Child Die Alone in Berke
ley, Va
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch To The Evening Star.
NORFOLK, Va, June l4.-Mrs. Annie
Hansbury and her three-year-old child are
both dead in Berkeley, Va. from starva-
ton. The Hansbury family came here
from Baltimore two years ago. The wife
was seized with consumption recently, and
her husband, becoming dissipated the
family was reduced to want.
Mrs. Hansburys self-respect prevented
her from asking aims and she and her
child were today found dead by Rev. L.
X. Watson, Presbyterian, who, hearing OF
the case. went to investigate.
Church people will give the mother and
child Christian burial.
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PLEADED NOT GUILTY
MRS. MAN" PATTERSON ENTER
ED HER PLEA IN COURT TODAY.
Made With Leave to Withdraw by
Next Friday-Proceedings
Very Brief.

NEW YORK. June 14.-Mrs. Nan Patter-
son, the former actress. against whom an
Indictment for murder in the first degree.
In connection with the death of Bookmaker
Caesar Young. was returned by the grand
jury yesterday, today entered plea of not
guilty before Judge Newberger in the court
OF general sessions. The plea was made
with leave to withdraw by next Friday,
and in the meantime her counsel will serve
notice on the district attorney that he will
move to inspect the minutes of the grand
jury.
The proceedings in court were very brief,
occupying hardly more than two minutes,
and not one word was spoken by the pris-
oLer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14
Sc. go Immigrant Rate Alarms officials

dispatch from New York says:
Commissioner Williams and his STAN
are alarmed over the class of immigrants
induced to come to this country through
the ''two-pound" $500 rate established by
the North Atlantic conference In Its fight
with the Cunard Company. An investiga-
ton by a special Inspector is now being
made. Steerage passengers from the kroon-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14
Mackerel Licenses Void.

Americans engaged in mackerel fishing
will be interested in a recent decision OF
the supreme court of Nova Scotia declaring
that the dominion government has no pow
or to grant licenses to catch mackerel. and
that all licenses heretofore issued have
been without legal authority" says w. r..
Holloway, consul general. Halifax. Nova
Scotia. in report to the department dated
May n.
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Marconi Returns to Europe.

NEW YORK, June 14.-Charles T. Yerkes,
the street railway owner, formerly of Chi
cago. now of London, and William Mar
conf were passengers on the steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm II. which sailed today for
Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14

Fries to be captain, and Second Lieut. II g
Grant, Sd, to be first lieutenant
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wait for definite issue to this somewhat
serious matter. at all events as to the fate
Of 10 Mt

of the American captives.
1t is unfortunately no means certain, even
in case of release, that the difficulty of
the situation is at an end. Diplomatists
at Tangier appear to foresee that d state
of anarchy is not improbable after the
present incident Is disposed Of All sides
of the question have been mooted.
Military intervention has been spoken of
in one two directions. Neither the
French government nor the chambers are
likely to take that idea into consideration.
The disturbed regions have too interna-
tional a character and the ground is too
| dangerous for the French to be anxious to
engage themselves In an enterprise which
might oblige them to go good deal fur
Their than they consider consistent with
their interests.
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Col. Sharpe's Orders.

Colonel Henry G. Sharpe, assistant COM
missary general, who is on his way home
from the Philippines, has been ordered to
this city for duty as assistant to the COM
missary general Of the army.
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Walked With Jaunty Air.

Attred in deep mourning with heavy
black veil, which she was not compelled to
raise, Mrs. Patterson entered the court
room with her father, Miss Martha Nc
Laughlin. a friend. and her counsel, just
before the clerk called the case. With a
jaunty air she walked up the aisle to the
bar and when asked to plead to the in
dictment she turned to Mr.. Levy, her at
torney. who said:
THE defendant pleads not guilty, with
leave to withdraw by Friday"
Court Disapproved of Practice.
THAT is a practice 1 don't approve Of"
the court replied, but l will give you until
Friday in which to plead
This ended the formal arraignment and
the prisoner was at once taken back to the
Tombs. AS she was led from the court
room she bowed and smiled toward her
father and friends sitting at the rear of the
court room.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-26
DAVIES COMPASSION YORK.
Partition and Allotment of Land in In
 dian Territory.

! s5
 Washington. Dec. 25.The annual re- port of the Dawes commission on it's work for the five civilized tribes of In4 dians in Indian territory, which was made public to-day, is a general re- view of the partition and allotment of lands of those Indians during the past six years. "The time consumed in the change from the old system to the new, the commissioners say, has been a most irksome period to the people of the Indian territory, and the cornmis- sion is not unmindful of the fact that to many candid observers the execution of the task seemed to be both tedious and expensive.'
 Of the difficulties of these various di- visions of the work they say:
 Every adult or head of a family in total of more than 100000 citizens and claimants was personally examined and his previous tribal record was looked up. Of this number, and in this way more than 100000 have been examined since June 2s, 1898. Of the above num- Der approximately 90000 will be finally adjudged to lawfully possess tribal membership and property rights.
 As 70 the appraisen.ent of the land. it was thought that tracts of forty acres or a quarter of a. section, was ls small division as could reasonably be rnade the subject of personal inspection This acreage was adopted as the unit in de- terrnining the grade and value of land; but even this required the locating, ir1- { spection, classifying and valuing of nearly 500,000 tracts of land
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-26
SEVEN KILLED IN WRECK ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY
PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE
 HEAD-oE IN ILLINOIS.

Six of the Dead Employees of the Road
 and the Other Passenger--Cars of
 East Bound Train TeIescoped and
 Catch Fire-oaiciaIa Declare Accident
 Due to Negligence of an Operator.
 Louisville, Ky, Dec. 25.--The passen- ger train which left St. Louis at 3 o'clock last night on the Southern Raii- way coIlided head-on with the passen- ger train leaving Louisville about the same hour. near Maud's station. Illinois, to day. One passenger and six en- ploycs were killed and two passengers and eight employees were slightly in- jured.
 The dead: Charles Schmidt, Centralia, Ili.; Engineer Bowen, Princeton. Ind; Fireman Charles Hut, Princeton. Ind: Mall Clerk ll D. Hogan. Georget au.a. Ind; Section Foreman Underwood, Princeton, Ind; Employe Henry UsASs.l, Tenneson, Ind; Employe John Hudson.
 Roth engines were badly damaged and four coaches destroyed.
 The collision according to the South ern Railway officials was caused by the failure of an operator at Brown s, Ill. to deliver to the eastbound train an order naming meeting points for the trains.
 The cars of the east bound train were telescoped and caught fire. The cars of the west bound train were only par tially telescoped and the passengers es- caped without serious injury.
 A wrecking crew and relief party left Princeton, Ind, at once and began clearing the track and removing the dead and injured The hardest task was to extinguish the flames which had broken out among the shatberer en- gines and coaches
 Water was carried in hats and rain coats and thrown on the flames by the passengers before relief arrived. Sew eral cars were burned before the fire was extinguished. Each train carried day coaches, chair car and two sleep CTS. The chair cars and sleepers were not injured.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-26
AGsTNA GREAT MILITARY CAMP
Thousands of Troops Mobilizing at
 Tolxio to Reinforce 0yanaa.

t. 5
 Tokio, Dec. 25.- 5 p. m Tokio is again a great military camp, and the scenes of last spring. when the first armies were mobilized and dispatched, are being duplicated Thousands of re cruits and reservists are assembled. drilling and equipping preparatory to taking the field. The permanent and temporary barracks are filled, and it is necessary to billet soldiers brought to the city. Aoyama field is the center of activity, where infantry, cavalry and artillery are constantly drilling, The batteries fire blank charges for the pur- pose of breaking in the new horses. The general military preparations are enormous. It is planned to give Field Marshal Oyama a rough total of half a million men, with heavy increased artillery arm, besides providing a de fense for Formosa and Southern Is- lands, in anticipation Of the Russian second Pacific squadron's attempt to seize a base. The port of Kelung in Formosa has been declared in state of siege, and other positions in Formosa and the Pescadoras Winter is not in terfering with the Japanese transport service. The railway between Dalny and Yentai is working well, and the running time between Tokio and Liao Yang is six days.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-26
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT OF
 THE AIRSHIP ARROW
MANoETERs IN EVERY DIREc-
 TIoN FOR OYER AN HOUR.

Sails Twenty Miles With and Against
 the Wind and Responds Readily to
 Her Rudder-Fails in One Particular
 Only and That to Land at the start
 ing Point-This Due to Shortage of
 Gasolene.
 Los Angeles. Cal, Dec. Captain Baldwin's airship, California Arrow" driven by Roy Knabenshue, of Toledo, Ohio, who made several successful flights in the same machine from the worlds fair grounds at St. Louis, was given it's first trial in California here to-day and was successful. with the single exception of it's failure to land at the starting point. A landing was ef- fected half a mile away without dam age to the machine. and it was safely lowed back to its anchorage.
 The Arrow sailed with the wind north eastward for distance of between eight and ten miles, thence eastward for two miles and returned in the face .of a twelve mile gale to a point direct ly above the starting place. Owing to the supply of gasolene running short, Knabenshue was unable to effect a landing at exactly the desired spot.
 The airship was in flight an hour and thirteen minutes, and in that time sail ed distance of probably twenty miles. When nying with the wind, the Arrow travelled at a speed of twenty miles an hour, and returning directly in the face of the strong northeastern gale, was able to make rate of speed reckoned at between six and eight miles an hour.
 The airship was rnanoeuvred in ev7 cry direction, responding readily to It's rudder, circling and turning in any di- rection, sailing directly in the face of the wind or at an angle. and rising and diping as the operator directed. The Arrow rose at times to a height of prob ably 5000 feet or more with Knaben- shue regulating the height by shifting his weight and raising or lowering the bow of the craft, as he desired to as, cend or descend.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-26
CHRISTMAS DAY AYIEWAsHrNGToN
QuietIy observed at white House
 Family Dinner in Evening.

Family Dinner In Evening.
 Washington, Dec. s5. Christmas day passed uneventfully in Washington. At the White house the day was celebrated as a family holiday. The president re- nained in the house during most of the day. In the afternoon, in company with the two older boys and friend. he went out for a walk. The dinner to- night was limited to the members of the family and R. M. H. Ferguson, an intimate friend from New York, who is a guest at the White house. The members of the presidents family ex- changed gifts, but there was no Christi mas tree. Tn place of this the children enjoyed the delights of the Christmas tree at the house of Mrs. w. S. Cowies, Mrs. Roosevelt's sister, the festivities taking place there last night.
 At the home of Vice President elect and Mrs. Fairbanks three of their four sons joined the family party for the Christmastide. Mir. and Mrs. Warren Fairbanks. of Chicago, being detained in that city.
 All the cabinet officers with the ex- ception of Secretary Metcalf, of the department of commerce and labor, are passing the holiday season at their Washington homes. MT. and Mrs. Met calf are at Annapolis with their son, Midshipman Victor N. Metcalf.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-26
ICE BoATS IN FATAL CRASH

Three Killed and Three Seriously In~
 jured--Going Fifty Miles nm Hour.
 Syracuse. Dec. 25 Three men were killed and three seriously hurt iii a crash of two ice boats speeding before a gale of wind at the rate of fifty miles an hour on Onondaga lake this after noon. The dead are James Jackson, Charles Markham and George Todd, all of this city. Jackson lived only long enough to be removed from the wreck of, the yachts to the shore, while Mark ham died an hour later at St. Joseph's hospital here. George Todd was also taken to the hospital, where he died shortly after midnight. The others, all of whom are more or less seriously ifl- jured, are Frederick Warner, John Sessler and Otto Schilling.
 The accident occurred after the first of the seasons regattas of the Onon- daga Lake Ice Yacht club, which at tracted fully 1,5OO persons to the lake. Over it's smooth surface fierce gale drove the fleet of ice yachts at express train speed.
 Toward the close of the afternoon the Warner brothers, with Fred War: ner at the tiller, bore up the lake with the wind abaft, the Blitz, with Caleb Joss steering, approached in the oppo- site direction. Each craft carried five persons As the yachts neared each other and it was seen that a collision would result should each hold to its. course each turned to avoid 1t. There was d blunder, the responsibility for which will be investigated later. as each skipper veered in the same direc-. ton and then veered in the opposite di- rection The crash came in an instant. the yachts blowing into each other head-on with such force that second later they lay upon the ice in tam gle of splinters, broken cordage and insensible bodies. Other yachts started at once for the scene. Jackson and Markham were struck on the head. Todd's skull was fractured in two places, Sesslers leg and four ribs were broken. Two others were more or less hurt and the other four on the boats were seriously shaken up. The accident is said to be the worst known to the sport.