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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
THE SUNDAY STAR.
Some of the Contents of TOnlOr.
rows Edition.

The big Sunday Star will ap-
pear tomorrow in four parts,
containing the news of the
world, and particularly the Dis
trict of Columbia, an editorial
page, a page OF religious mat
ter, a page of society, pages of
sports, page OF humorous pic
lures by Life artists, pages of
fashions and other matters of
special interest to women, spe-
cial local illustrated articles of
great interest, plenty of enter
tanning fiction.
The Sunday Magazine will be
part 8 Of The Sunday Star.
This Magazine will contain
twenty pages Of interesting
reading matter, and "cut-outs'
of United States artillery SOL
diers in colors, and attractive
picture postal cards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
THE VENEZUELAN TROUBLE.
Cancellation of Cable Company's Con.
cession-Appeal to Castro.

PARIS, April 1.-Official advices from
Caracas say that the decision of the Vene-
zUelan supreme court cancelling the French
Gable Company's concession, was accom-
panied by a recognition of the principle of
paying an indemnity for the cancelled in
terests. This is considered as relieving the
courts action from arbitrary confiscation.
The view prevails that while Venezuela is
recognized as a sovereign state she can
supervise or acquire cable rights.
This would not permit the seizure or cut
ting of the cables or other acts of confisca-
ton, but so long as Venezuela pays an in
demnity for the cables taken the question
is considered to be mainly one of fixing an
adequate indemnity.
In the meantime the company has cabled
to NJ. Brun, its manager, at Caracas, to
appeal to President Castro within five days.
The company asserts that it has not given
assistance to the reyolutionists, but that
following the advice of the French govern
ment it issued a circular to all agents or
dering them to keep clear of revolutionary
entanglementS.
The company adds that the cables linking
Carenero and La Guaira and Coro and
Maracaibo, which President Castro SEEKS
to acquire, cost 81, ,000000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
COMMITTEE ROOM CLOSED.
Inaugural officers for 1905 Wind Up
Affairs.

The inaugural committee of 1905 has
passed into history, the headquarters main
tanned by the chairman of the committee,
Gen. John NJ. Wilson, have been closed.
and the records have been stored away for
safekeeping until December, 1903, when
they will be brought out for the guidance
and information of the next committee OF
citizens charged with the arrangements for
inaugurating another American President.
For three months Gen. Wilson and his
corps of assistants worked early and late,
often far into the night, completing the ar
rangements and plans for the Inauguration
OF Theodore Roosevelt. For the past month
the ii emhas been taken up with conclud-
the time has been taken up with conclud-
the loose ends, as it were.
Immediately after the inauguration Cen
eral Wilson announced that it was Ills de-
sire to close the headquarters by March
81, and in this as in every other instance,
he mas achieved success. The furniture VIII
be returned to the firm which loaned it,
and the room at the north end of the New
Willard Hotel hasSbeen relinquished. There
are a few outstanding bills which have not
been paid for the reason that the vouchers
have not been presented ana payment
asked. These accounts will be settled later.
General Wilson will go to Atlantic City
for the Easter season, and hopes to obtain
the rest which his four months hard work
makes necessary. Although having enjoyed
his 1ull tnree-ScOre ana ten years, General
Wilson did not falter in the performance
Of the strenuous duties incident upon the
Inauguration, and he retires from the chair
manship with the personal thanks of the
President and the commentator and graft
tude Of the members of the inaugural com
mittee and the public in general.
Next month General Wilson will finish
the preparation of his report.
In this report will be contained a COM
plete financial accounting and reports of
all the chairmen of the different commit
tees, as well as of his own general duties
This will be bound in book FORM will con-
tain some seventy-f1ve pages and will be
sent to the larger libraries of the country
and be properly distributed in Washington
for guidance in preparing for the future
inaugurations of Presidents. The last
pages were completed yesterday.
We have found, in completing our ac-
counts, that several items not mentioned in
the original estimates of the chairmen of
the committees have been presented for
payment, and, therefore, the surplus we had
expected is not SO large said General Will
son. Il believe that in the future the chair
men should restrict their work to the estt
mate submitted to the committee, and, If
necessary, cut out some of the items. This
would expedite the financial work consider
ably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
RECEPTION AND BANQUET.
Michigan Social Club Function at Hotel
Dewey.

The reception and banquet of the Michi-
gan Social Club at the Hotel Dewey, Thurs
day evening last, most enjoyable af-
fair, and in point of numbers was regarded
as highly satisfactory. nearly one hundred
members and their friends being present.
The company sat down to the tastefully
decorated tables at $3.50, and after an fnvo-
cation by the Rev. Henry N. Couden did
justice to the excellent menu.
President Wilson addressed the company,
told them of the aims and objects Of the
club ana introduced the toastmaster, Mr..
j. s. Lacey. Among the speakers We're
Frank H. Thomas E. c. Madden, B. A.
HarlaetRev. DR.. Couden. w. w. hidridge,
w. E-s1gnew and DIR. Nancy Sherman. A
piano solo was given by Miss Berda Will
son and she also played the accompaniment
for Miss Emojean Newlanos in a beautiful
vocal solo. IAN Open Secret" Mr. Walter
F. Smith, assistant leader of the Marine
Band, gave two selections on the cornet.
which were highly appreciated Among the
people present We're the following:
>, Mr.; and Mrs E: c. Madden. Mr.. and Mrs.
Judge and Mrs. B.A. Harlan, Jas C. Wheel
er and daughter, Mrs. Wiley Reynolds. John
q. Morrison, Mr.. and Mrs. Burridge Will
son, Mr.. J. s. Lacey. Mr.. w. F. Sherman,
N MI w; w Eldridge, Mr.. J. P. Auer, Mr.. J.
Wolcott. Mr. w F. Smith. Mr.. F. A. De-
Groot. Mr.. d. A. Edwards Mr.. J. E. Nichol
MI II. ]. Washburn, Mr. Fred Arends, Mr..
t. Hicks, Mr.. VIM. Quinn, Mr.. H. E. Pott-
mer, Mr. II. E. Williams, Mr.. s. l.. Newn-
ham. Messrs. L. e. Gridley, j. P. Will
son, I. Edwards, Edward Andrews, Dom
aid Mclean, E. ]. Brookings, A. NJ Rus
sell. Louis Stark, DR.. eraser, w. L. Agnew,
Fred p. Sherwood Mrs. A. E. Gridley, Mrs
j. X. Spencer. Mrs. F. B. Church, Mrs A.
A: Agnew. Misses Gridley, Hill, Park. Ber-
WICK Bisbee, Newlands McTavish Wilson,
Spethmann, Tice. Mosher and Wood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
REPUBLICANS IN EARNEST.
New York Legislators Working to Pass
Stock Bill.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, April 1.-Speaker Nixon of
the lower house of the New York legisla-
ture, came to town today. He stated to
The Star correspondent that the republi-
cans of the legislature were in dead earnest
about passing the bill to tax transfers OF
stock
1.-THE bill will pass the senate next Tues
day and we will have 1t in the assembly
by Wednesday. 1t will pass. We estimate
that it will raise from 100000 to 100000
annually, according to the ease with which
it is avoided. 1 know there is great
howl against the bill in Wall street, but
we regard it as good measure People
who can afford to risk money in stocks can
afford to pay the tax. Suppose 1t does cut
down the speculation. What Of it? 1t
might be good thing. If the Wall street
folks would content themselves with skin
ming each other it would not be so bad,
but when they rope in cheap clerks and
small-salaried people all over the country
the public will not have much sympathy
with their cries of distress over this tax"
N. o. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
WILL LOSE NO RIGHT.
Assurance to Mr.. Moore of the Santo
Domingo Improvement Company.

1t is learned that In answer to the rep
reservations of John Basset Moore in the
nature of a protest against the interference
with the execution of the award in favor of
the Santo Domingo Improvement Company
he has been informed that, though under
the operation of the new agreement all of
the customs collections at the Dominican
ports. save the 40 per cent going to the
support of the government are to be kept
on deposit in New York, the company will
lose no right it now has, and that the
question of the distribution of the money
supposing the treaty is ratified, will not be
settled in advance. Relative to the COM
pensation of the American customs coilec-
tors, it Is expected that they will be paid
by the Dominican government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
RIGHT TO CAMPAIGN BADGES.
It May Be Forfeited by Subsequent
Discreditable Conduct.

Lieutenant General Chaffee, chief OF stan,
has issued a circular calling the attention of
officers charged with the preparation Of the
lists of officers and enlisted men entitled
to campaign badges to the requirements OF
paragraph 1885, army regulations. which pro-
vides that neither a medal of honor nor
certificate of merit shall be awarded In any
case where the service of the person recon-
mended subsequently to the time he dis
.tinguished himself, has not been honorable
The Secretary of War decides that this
paragraph applies to the award of cam
paign badges. and therefore directs that
where the service of person who has
been listed for campaign badge has not
been honorable subsequently to the date
when he was so listed the proper command
ing officer will promptly notify the military
secretary of the army, in order that the
badge may be withheld.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
THREE MEN INJURED.
Quarrymen Badly Hurt in Collision of
Runaway Cars.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.


Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
BOYD'S. Md, April 1.-Three white
men, William Redmond, Eugene Lainhart
and Charles Selby, were seriously injured
at the government siding quarrtes at
Dickerson's, at $50 o'clock yesterday
evening RUNAWAY cars running into
cars which men were working. The men
were hurled from their feet into the
bottom Of the cars in which they had
been standing and were afterward picked
up badly hurt, bruised and bleeding, and,
while seriously hurt, some hopes Of re-
covery are entertained.
The siding is a long one that runs into
the quarries and a steep grade has to be
descended to the plant.
There were ten empty gondola cars for
loading standing half way up this heavy
grade five Of them were cut loose and
dropped down by hand brakes to the quar-
ries and the other five were left standing,
which afterward came down the grade
at terrific rate of over thirty miles an
hour and struck the cars which three men
were engaged in loading.
Redmond had one ear severed almost
from his head and received bad body
bruises, and the other two Lainhart and
Selby. were also badly cut, bruised and
shocked. Redmond and Selby were the
worst injured. Several of the cars were
wrecked and thrown from the tracks
These quarries furnish stone for the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
SLEPT ON THEIR POST.
Dismissal and Reduction in Grade
Imposed on Department Employees.

Peter Lamb, watchman employed by
the Post Office Department at the Busch
building, has been, by virtue of an order of
the Postmaster General, dismissed from the
service for fragrant violations of the rules
and regulations appertaining thereto.
A. S. Belote fireman employed at the
same building, and also by the Post Office
Department, has been reduced from his
rank and pay of fireman at $500 year to
laborer at $500 year, for violations of the
regulations He will be transferred from
the Busch building and put at work some
where within the jurisdiction of the depart
ment.
The offenses of these men consisted prin-
cipaly in sleeping while on watch and thus
exposing the property of the government
which they were employed to protect, to
damage from burglary or fire. Belote dis
tinguished himself two winters ago by saw
ing a number of lives at the tidal basin
when the ice broke and precipitated the
skaters into the water, some of whom were
drowned. 1t is thought that this action
was recalled to the memory of the Post
master General, who used 1t as a basis for
clemency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
Mrs. Maybrick's Legal Status.

Mrs. Florence Maybrick, accompanied by
her counsel. called at the State Depart
ment yesterday and had long conference
with Acting Secretary Adee. 1t appears
that in the course of the legal proceedings
now in progress here to which she is a
party, involving considerable property in
terests, some obstacle has been encoun-
tered in availing of Mrs. Maybrick's testi-
mony because of her peculiar legal status,
and she is seeking the good offices of the
State Department to procure from the Brit
ish government the papers necessary TO
completely rehabilitate her in the eye of
the law. The State Department probably
will take up the matter with the authori-
ties at London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
FORMALLY ARRAIGNED
SMITHS IN COURT AT CINCINNATI
HEARING MONDAY.

CINCINNATI. Ohio, April III. Morgan
Smith and wife, arrested and held here
under an Indictment in New York for con-
spiracy with Nan Patterson, the actress,
who is charged with the murder of Caesar
Young, the bookmaker, were formally ar
raigned in the police court today. Detective
McNaught of New York, who yesterday Sc
cured the extradition papers at Columbus,
arrived during the night and was present
in court. The writ of habeas corpus, which
was sworn out yesterday, are not return
able until Monday.
Today's arraignment was simply a for
NAL matter. the hearing. being at once ad-
journed until April in order to await the
action of the common pleas court on the
writs of habeas corpus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
DEATH OF MRS. BLACKISToN.
Sister Of Rep preventative Pearre Sue
cumbs to Neuralgia Of the Heart.

The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Pearre Black
iston occurred suddenly about o'clock
this morning at 1216 18th street northwest.
the direct cause being neuralgia of the
heart. Although Mrs. Blaekiston had been
an invalid for several years, her demise
was unexpected, and the news of her death
came as shock to her many friends here
and in Maryland. -s
Deceased was the widow of A. Hooton
Blackiston of Cumberland, Nd, a daughter
Of Judge George A. Pearre and a sister of
Representative George A. Pearre of the
sixth Maryland congressional district She
was descendant of noted Maryland fam
lily and was an honored member of the
Daughters of the Revolution and Colonial
Danes of that state. Mrs. Blackiston was
a woman of broad culture and was born in
Cumberland.
The remains will be taken to Cumberland
for burial probably tomorrow morning, and
1T is expected that the. funeral service will
be held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in
that city next Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
ALFRED ALLMuTH APPOINTED
To Be Private Secretary for the First
Assistant Postmaster General.

The first assistant postmaster general.
Mr.. Hitchcock today appointed Alfred ALI
muth of New York his private secretary,
his duties to begin Immediately.
Mr.. Allmuth was one of the stenogra-
pliers in Mr.. Hitchcocks Office when the
last named was chief clerk of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, entering
that department almost Immediately after
its organization. He was previously en-
ployed as stenographer in the civil serv-
ice commission through Which office he en-
tered the government service In 1902.
He was born at Germantown, Pa. in 1876,
and was educated in the schools of Stutt-
gart, Germany. and at the College of the
City of New York. His record since enter
ing the government service three years ago
has been uniformly excellent, and Mr..
Hitchcock feels that he isyweH qualified by
education and experience for the position
to which he today appointed him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
FoREsEEs GOOD FROM 1T.
Noted Portland Rabbi Discourses on
the Rockefeller Gift.

PORTLAND. Greg. April 1.-Dr. Stephen
s. Wise, a prominent rabbi, in a sermon on
the action of the prudential committee OF
the American board for foreign missions in
regard TO the gift of John d. Rockefeller
and the protest of DIR. Washington Glad
den, said
Perhaps none of you will agree with me
when l say that there has nothing hap
pened of more Importance TO the ethical
welfare of the nation than the act of DR..
GLADDEN. and the prudential committee.
1T seems to me that there Is nothing
more helpful as tonic than what is hap
pening now."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
FINNS ARE AROUSED.
Masked Men Ransacking Lodging
Houses-Suspected Police Agents.

HELSINGFORS. Finland, April 1.-The
populace has been greatly aroused by a
renewal of the ransacking of lodging houses
by masked men. who bind and gag the in
mates and search everything. On Tuesday
night these men destroyed the furniture of
one boarding house when they discovered in
II picture of Maxim Gorky.
The people suspect they are agents Of the
police, but this the latter Indignantly deny
No arrests, however, have been made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
HYDE MAINTAINS SILENCE.
Equitable President is to Issue State
ment Later On.

NEW YORK, April lat the Equitable
office this afternoon the following state
ment was given out in Mr.. Hyde's name, in
reply to a question as to whether he in-
tended to resign:
81 will not depart from my policy of 81.
lence just now. Later i shall have some
thing to say, and then what have TO say
1 shall say in full. At present. however. l
can see no reason to change my policy.
The executive committee of the board OF
directors of the Equita BILE Society has been
ordered to hold itself in readiness for a
meeting this afternoon. Whether the call
viii or will not be issued, depends entirely
on the outcome of the conference with
Superintendent Hendricks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
WITHIN THREE HOURS OF NOME.
Pe4fecting the Telegraph System Of
Alaska.

Gen. Greedy has received a dispatch
from Bayonne. N. j., saying that the
manufacture of 200 miles of cable which
is to be used to connect Valdez with Sew
ard. Alaska. has begun. Seward is west
Of Valdez, and the terminus of the line of
road to be constructed to the Yukon. Gen
Greedy says that the telegraph system in
Alaska is being perfected and is working
satisfactorily He sent a cable message
to Nome, Alaska, in three hours recently.
1t had to be transmitted over land lines
to Seattle and by cable up the coast, then
by the Alaska land lines to st. Michael
and by wireless to Nome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
DIR. GOULD DECLINES.
G. r. Cotton Will Probably Be Desig-
mated for Chief Dominican Collector.


1t is quite probable that when Secretary
Taft returns to the city he will designate
Mr.. G.. r. Cotton as chief OF the Dominican
custom collection service, and that three or
more assistants who have had some expert
ence in the insular possessions will be ap-
pointed to perform the work Of collecting
the Dominican revenues under his super
vision. DIR. William E. Gould of Baltimore,
after discussing the matter with officials in
Washington, announced that he believed
better results would be obtained by the Sc
lection of a man like Mr.. Cotton for chief
of the service, because of the experience
Cotton has had in the Philippines and his
familiarity with Spanish-speaking people
similar to those in Santo Domingo. Dr.
Gould's position was that the selection Of
the man should be made with regard to the
interests of the government, and for that
reason he has declined the appointment. Dr.
Gould could have had one of the subordi-
nate positions, but he did not care to go to
Santo Domingo in that capacity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
Loss of Two Toes.

While unloading concrete at the filtration
plant this morning George Taylor. colored,
twenty-seven years old, a resident of Dean
wood, met with serious accident. A bar
rel fell upon his foot and cut OF two of his
toes. The injured man was taken to Freed
mems Hospital. where he was given sur
Gical treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
RETURN OF SECRETARY MORTON.
Will Not Be Able to Accompany the
Presidential PARTY Next Monday.

Secretary Morton has been forced to
abandon his trip to the south and west
with the President upon the urgent advice
of an ear specialist. whom he consulted to-
day. For more than a year the Secretary
has suffered from trouble In one of his ears,
and this. during his recent trip, became
acute. The specialist thinks that with i'm
mediate treatment the malady can be re-
moved.
Secretary Morton and party, includig
Senator Hale, Speaker Cannon and Rear
Admiral Rogers, who visited Porto Rico
and Cuba on the dispatch boat Dolphin,
arrived in this city last night by rail from
Fernandina, Fla. Secretary Morton spent
the day at the Navy Department disposing
Of business requiring his attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
wynne Sailed for London.

NEW YORK, April 1.-Robert ]. Wynne.
recently appointed American consul gem
eral In London, and wife sailed for his
post today on the steamer Philadelphia.
A number of Washington people were at
the dock to see them OF and large num-
ber of their New York friends were on
hand. Mrs. Wynne's stateroom was filed
with flowers, the gift Of the New York let
ter carriers, as tribute to their appre-
citation of Mr.. Wynne's efforts in behalf of
the carriers when he was Postmaster Gem
etal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
BRYAN IN DEs MONIES.
Quit His Farm Work to Attend Jeffer-
son Day Banquet.

DES MONIES, Iowa, April IT left my
plow standing in the field to come to Des
Moines and mingle with my friends" said
William ]. Bryan, who arrived from Fair
view, Nebr.. today. to attend the Jeffer-
son day banquet here tonight. The demo-
cratic leader spoke of the st. Louis conven-
ton and the subsequent election, saying
that one lesson to be derived from the de-
feat is that democracy must unite If sue
cess Is to be achieved.
He expressed great hopes for the future
declaring a belief that democracy had
united and that its unity meant everything
to the party.
At the banquet Mr.. Bryan will deliver
the principal address, his first special ad-
dress since the St. Louis convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01

News of the death Of Mrs. E. F. Hauch,
the 25th instant, has reached Washington.
Mrs Haueh was a sister of Mrs. William
Brney Of this city Though native of
Virginia, Mrs. Hauch, formerly Miss Grace
Ashby. had lived some time in Tacoma,
Washington. and was brought recently to
the home of her sister, Mrs. Blanche Ash
by Lambert, at Culpeper, Va, hoping to
improve her health, but her illness proved
fatal. She left a husband and daughter,
nine years of age
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
The Other Members.

While the personnel of the new commits
sion is not positively known, the prospects
are that five of the members will be Mr..
Shonts, Chief Engineer Wallace, Charles L.
Magoon, William Barclay Parsons and
William II. Burr.
There was a rumOr this afternoon that
Col Clarence Edwards, chief of the insuar
affairs bureau of the War Department, and
William Nelson Cromwell would be the
other members of the commission, which Is
TO consist of seven members, as at present.
There is no truth in this rumor. Neither Is
to be on the commission.