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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
KANSAS TO FIGHT
 TO THE BITTER END
Governor Hoch Signs Dill Appropriate ing S2oo,0o0 for State Oil
 Refinery.

Topeka, Kan. February Ex-Governor Hoch at noon today signed the bill passed on Wednesday appropriating s2OO,Oe0 for the erection and maintenance by the state of an oil refinery with capacity of 2000 barrels a day.
 The signing of this measure will make it possible for Kansas to begin in earnest the fight started in this state recently against the Standard oil company. In signing the bill Governor Hoch sent a lengthy message to the legislature re- viewing the fight which has ended in the present legislation and giving his reasons for signing the refinery bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Sent Directly Into Conference.

Washington. February f7.-In order to facilitate action at this session on the statehood bill the House today passed a resolution sendng that measure as amended by the Senate directly into con- ference without an opportunity being offered to debate it. With the exception of MT. McLachland of California. who voted with the democrats, party lines were strictly drawn.
 After several hours discussion the naval appropriation bill was laid aside and the House entered upon the exercises ap- propriate to the reception and acceptance of the statue of Frances F.. Willard pre- sented by the state of Illinois.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Nominations Sent to Senate.

Washingon. February 1.-The President today sent to the Senate the following nominations: Surveyor of customs, Fenton w. Gibson. for the port of New orleans. La. Postmas- ters: Alabamc-J. w. Clayton. Ems ley; James l.. Davis, Lafayette. In dian Territory-George s. Gray, Coal Gate. Mississippi-Harvey E. Fttts, Aberdeen. Tennessee-William l.. Green. Springhill. 1exas-Thomas J. Epperson, Livingston; Thomas H. Darforth, Goliad; William s. Strain. Lancaster; John W. Johnson, Rock. wall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Moroan Has an Amendment.

Washington, February 17.-senator Nor gan today introduced the following amendment to the Panama canal bill ..It the President in the exercise of pow CTS conferred upon him by law shall re- move all or any members of the Pan- anna canal commission, or If any such office shall become vacant for any cause, the appointment shall be made to fill such vacancies during the recess of Congress. gress'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Strike Is Extending.

St. Petersburg. February 17.-The strike Is extending. About 240O employees or the Nevsky thread works joined Tn the movement today. The strikers now total about sO,o0o. The temper of the men is more threatening and cossacks and other troops have again been drafted into the city. The police are arresting the ring leaders The employers regard the situa- ton as critical.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
DOOMED TO DIE.

St. Petersburg, February IT,, 7.30 D. m.-The sentence of death on Grand Duke Sergis was contained in a proclamation issued by the social revolutionists of Moscow af- ter the demonstration of December Il of last year at St. Petersburg was put down. It read: If our demonstration at Moscow Decem- Der IS and 19) is crushed in as bloody a manner IS that of our brothers of St. Petersburg then the guilt therefor is upon the head of
 Grand Duke Sergus and General Trepoff and we. the committed, in that event have ordered their death."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Hanged in Louisiana.

Alexandria, La, February 17.-Tom Underwood, aged 51, paid the extreme penalty of the law for the killing or Policeman Aymond while trying 10 arrest Underwood for killing the negro woman, Iretta Parker. The trap was sprung at 1925, and Underwoods neck was broken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Valuable Horse Is Killed.

New Orleans, February l7.-DicK Bernard. one of the most valuable horses at the Crescent track, with Jockey J. Hennessy up, was Killed .o- day during a preliminary gallop. The jockey was unhurt. M. L. Haymah owned the horse, which was worth between S800O and s1000O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Other Prominent Men Arrive.
Mr. Spencer and the rennessee.

While there have been persistant ru- mors for several weeks past that Samuel Spencer would enter the Tennessee com pany's board President Don H. Bacon, who is fin Birmingham. said last night that he had no information whatever or the subject of what MT. Spencer might do. All he knew was that Mir. Spencer was not now member of the hoard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
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ship in the social revolutionary organi- zation, but refused to give his name, and at the jail his papers were found to be forged.
 The revolver with which the assassin was armed was an automatic magazine pistol of the same type of weapon em- ployed by Hohenthal, the assassin of Socialin Scoinen. the procurator general of Finland, at Hesingfors. on February 6. His injuries are not serious.
 The grand dukes coachman, who was badly injured. was removed to a hos pital. Late last night he was still liv- ing.
 The news of the tragedy spread rap idly to every quarter of the city, as- sisted by extra editions of all the news papers, which appeared with deep black borders.
 Theatres All Close.
 Theatrical performances and all forms of social observance were immediately abandoned and theatres were ordered to remain closed until further notice. The affair created the deepest excitement. 1m- mense crowds gathered in the vicinity of the Kremlin, where some factions be- gan an attack on students and other representatives of the liberal movement, while others eagerly gasped and read revolutionary proclamation which had appeared as if by magic. So threatening became the attitude of the crowd that the authorities felt obliged to order the Krem lin cleared and the gates locked. The gates remained closed all night obligiF- pedestrians and carriages to take round- about routes instead of the direct route to the Kremlin precincts. The police measures to preserve order have proved effective up to this hour and the city Is reported perfectly quiet
 Early accounts of the tragedy at tributed the crime to three men in sleigh, but later it was developed that the three men were police agents, ap- pointed to guard the Grand Duke.
 Shortly after the murder, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, the two adopted chill dren of Grand Duke Sergius, his staff officials and immediate servants assem- bled in the chapel, where solemn re- quiem was celebrated. There was another service in the evening. A military guard of honor kept watch during the night.
 No arrangements have yet been an- nounced for the funeral services.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Clayton is Appointed.

J. w. Clayton was today appointed post master at Ensley. He was endorsed by the referees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Work of Social Revolutionists.

St. Petersburg, February 1s B. m- The assassination of Grand Duke Sergius undoubtedly was the work of the fighting organization of the soealistic revolution ary party, which condemned and executed Count Bobrikoff, Governor General of Finland and M. Sipiaguine and von Plehve, ministers of the interior. It is re- garded as a direct challenge from the terrorists to autocracy. and a revival of the famous duel between the nihilists and the government of twenty-five years ago.
 Opinions differ as to the political effect of the tragedy, some inclinlng to the view that the killing of member of the i'm perial family may cause Nicholas II to revive period of reaction, but this opin- ion is not generally shared.
 The murder of Grand Duke Sergius just at the time when the forces of llb- eralism were again in the supremacy and when the summoning of the zemsky zabor was assured, meets with universal con- demnation, even by extreme social dem ocrats. who denounce the crime as strong ly as do the liberals and the eonserwva-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18

Chicago, February no. w. Crawford is wanted here on charges of embedding y3500 from Mrs. Mary Schwingel five years ago in land deal. He was arrested few weeks ago in St. Louis but secured his release and went to New Orleans, where he was again arrested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
Crawford Turned Over to Police.

New Orleans. February To. w. Craw- ford. wanted in Chicago on charges of embezzlement. who has been resisting requisition, was turned over to Chicago detective today and will leave here to- morrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-18
zemsky Tabor Will Be Called.

According to high authority the decis- ion had been already taken officially to proclaim the zemsky zabor on February 22. M. Souveorin. editor of the Novoe Vreyma, said to the Associated Press last night:
 T do not believe this crime can now interfere with the carrying out of reform to which the government is too far com mitted. I am certain the zemsky zabor will soon be announced, and assembled without awaiting the termination of the war"
 Prince Shirinsky Schahmatoff. who had an audience with Emperor Nicholas at Tsarskoe-Selo yesterday, was frankly told by the Emperor that zemsky zabor would be elected under a class franchise by the nobles. clergy, merchants and peasants, but that all the deputies would sit together, and the committee of min- isters the Associated Press is informed. was yesterday charged by the Emperor with the appointment of a committee to work up the details of the electoral ma- chinery.
 The news of the tragic death of his uncle was brought to the Emperor while he was giving an audience to General Grippenberg, and caused him a great shock By the Emperor's direction the members of the imperial family. who are at Tsarskoe-Selo. in connection with the visit of Prince Frederick Leopold of
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The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
Rest the Bones of Pocahontas

The proposition to bring back to the
ancient city of jamestown the body or
Pocahontas, in connection with the ex-
position at that place. has aroused con-
siderable indignation, both in England
and in America, by people who believe
that such n step is nothing more than
a move intended as side-show feature
of the exposition. While it is true
there have been instances of a disturb
ance of grave made hundreds of years
before, as in the recent case of Ad-
miral John Paul Jones, still the cases
cannot be compared. One is a man who
had much to do with the preservation
Of the American nation and navy; the
other was the central figure in bit of
fiction surrounding the settlement of
this country by English settlers. Po-
cahontas. it is true, was a native Amer
Jean, which John Paul Jones was not,
but Pocahontas married an English
man, lived ard died in England, and
the traditions of her later life were sur
rounded by all that is English.
The London Standard, in comment
ing on the movement to bring her body
to America, cites pages from book by
an American writer tending to show
that the life of Pocahontas was ira
dition and poetical version and add
ing: ''If the original myth is really
believed by the people of jamestown,
we only hope they will do something to
answer the audacious skeptic that has
impugned it."
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
Toothachc or Appendicitis? /?

A movement looking to the better
care of children is spreading. 1t is
proposed now that the tooth brush
drill be part of the curriculum of
our schools, and that dentists should
visit regularly the children attending
them. Doctors have spoken very
strongly on the usefulness of taking
tonics and similar medicines in order
to promote better digestion, or to
purify the blood, when constant
system of poisoning is going on in the
mouth. 1t is claimed that much poor
blood and weakness in children comes
from dental decay. A noted physician
declares that appendicitis is caused by
bad teeth. Take your choice-either
have your teeth extracted or your ap-
pendix cut out. The doctors get you
either way, going or coming.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
How TO Tell COunferfeitS.

ANY visitor to the Bureau of Engrav-
Ing and Printing where Uncle Sam is
printing the much sought-after green
backs. comes away impressed with the
intricaCiCs of the manufacturing of
paper note. Few, indeed, understand
the rule of four adopted b. the Govern
ment as an aid in thwarting tile plans
of countcrfciters. Acquaintance with
the rule of four. might help many peo-
pie of the outside world in detecting
counterfeit money. Every note printed
by the Government-nationa currency
and not bank notes-contains a number
and a letter, no two bills having the
same number. These are printed, as
the visitor can see, in the blocks Of
four as they leave the plate printers
table. For instance. a number Will be
found on u note, 5S.3S3 with the letter
C in the upper left hand and lower
right hand corners: another bill bears
the number 79,9SS d; another 1856 B.
These numbers and letters have re
lation for each other and are easily de
tcrmined. The last two numbers on
the note determine, when divided by
four, the letter to be found in the two
corners. Should. the last two numbers
be divisible by four, with a remainder
of one, the letter appearing should be
a; if two remain, b if three remain,
c.: and if the last two numbers are
exactly divisible by four. with no re-
mainder, the letter appearing should
be d.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
The Modern Rush.
,hIcago TImes.IeraId.

From the Chicago Times Herald.
lie didn't have time to chew
The food that he had TO eat;
But he washed it into his throat
As if time was thing to beat.
At breakfast and lunch and dinner
Twas a bite and a gulp and go
Oh. the crowd is SO terribly eager,
And a man has to hurry so!
\ bite and Il gulp and away
To the books and the ticker! A bite
And n drink and smoke and seat
At card table half of the night ;
\ pressure, click and a pallor,
4 cloth-covered box and a song;
\ weary old fellow at forty,
Who is deaf to the noise Of the
throng.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20

President HiII,of the Great Northern
Railroad, ais Attention to Enor-
nous DisposaIs OF Government
Land Without Settlement Into
Homes.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
There will be people ill-natured
enough to charge that President Hill,
of the Great Northern Hallway, did
not come into court with entirely clean
hands i'll the vigorous denunciation OF
the land-grabbers contained i'll his re-
cent speech before the National Irriga-
tion Congress at Portland. This, how
ever. does not necessarily detract from
the truth of his charges. Perhaps few
men in the country are better qualified
to speak upon the blighting effects of
the dishonest policy which has appro-
priated millions of acres Of valuable
lands, only to exclude from them the
actual settlers who would have devel-
oped them.
President Hill is railroad manager,
and railroads depend for profit upon i
traffic afforded by populous and we'll
cultivated country. A railroad o-tend-
ing through territory without farms or
farmers, towns or industrial communi-
ties must suffer serious disadvantages.
Where great tracts of land are owned
and controlled by mere SPECTATORS, de-
vclopment is impossible. 1t is very
likely that President Hill spoke by the
card when he charged that those who
go upon Government land at this time
for the purpose of making homes are
only handful.
RAPID Cispcsals Of Public Lands.
His figures, showing the rapid In
crease in area of public lands which
have passed into private ownership
since 1898, possess n Significance that
is startling. Nearly 90,OUU.0O0 acres. 4
total area equal to three times that of
the State of Pennsylvania, have been
awarded TO private owners in the six
years from 1898 to 1908, inclusive, very
little of which-according to President
IIill-has become the property of home
stead seekers. The bulk of it has be-
come the holdings of the lumber kings,
cattle barons, and spectators pure and
simple. 1t is evident that there are
more men who deserve the penalties of
the law which have lately been inflicted
upon Senator Mitchell. of Oregon.
The duty of Congress in this connec-
tion is unmistakable. The laws under
which this vast domain has been Sc
cured by private interests with no in
tention of opening it TO development
should be repealed or amended to pre-
vent any further looting Of the public
lands.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
Enormous Salt Beds.

Under an almost tropical sun the
sea evaporated, uncovering a great
level plain over large portions of which
was laid a deep deposit of rich river
sediment wanting only irreSation TO
produce abundant harvests. At the
lowest depression in the valley, where
evaporation has not yet carried OIL
all the water, the salts were deposited
thickly and large works have long
been established there marketing
thousands Of tons Of this mineral.
For centuries the Colorado has been
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20

building up its delta, higher and
higher until today the bed OF The river
is above the valley on cltic- side.
Once let it cut its banks and the
stream spreads out all over the cOun-
Try. About four years ago a large
cOrportion, imbued with the laudable
purpose Of making homes for settlers
in the SaltOu Desert, completed big
canal heading in the river below Yu-
ma and almost on the international
boundary. The canal was a large
one, 60 feet on the bottom, and carried
Il great amount of water through
Mexico into California on to the area
now called Imperial Valley. The
canal heading, owing 10 the character
Of the banks Of the stream, was lpse-
cure. Il has always been a source Of
trouble and annoyance. The river
resented it as an obstruction in its
course and deposited great loads Of
silt in front of it and then proceeded
to cut n channel around IT, Drcdges
We're used constantly to keep the canal
heading open.
The last great food in the stream
simply wiped away the head gates
and opened way for a large part Of
the stream TO flow into the valley.
Just below this point the stream
spilled over the banks again and fol-
it finally began to pour its whole vol
ume in to Salton Sink. Only the high
banks of the Imperial canal prevented
larger areas of irrigated lands from
being inundated and millions of dol
lars in crops from being destroyed.
Great difficulties are presented to
the engineers who are trying to isduce
the stream TO so back to its old chan
mel. \ new heading is projected.
Thousands of feet of lumber have
been ordered and steamboats, are
awaiting its arrival. If these means
prove ineffective there is danger that
5000 families now residing in the I'm
perial Valley, may be rendered home
| loss. Competent engineers are in
clined to believe that the task is be-
yond the strength of the present COM
pany TO perfom and that measures
now being undertaken will not prop
erly nor permanently safeguard the
| property of the people in the valley.
J This is question for the engineers
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
CHINESE GRATEYARD CUSTOMS.
Peculiar Custom of Placing Cooked
Food on the Graves of the
Departed.

Assorted foods. literally by the
wagon load. are annually taken out to
Cypress Hills Chinese Cemetery by
members of New York's Chinese col
ony, says the New York Times, and
these offerings, which are to us such
strange evidences of affection and re-
membrance, are placed with pie
turesque rites, on the graves where the
departed Celestial brothers of the
colonists are awaiting the convenient
or is it the auspicious ?-season for
transshlpment to the land which these
most stolid of sentimentalists insist on
believing to be the only one where the
dead can rest comfortably. These an
nual Illustrations of the fact that the
Chinarnan has feelings like the rest of
us, even IL he does choose different
ways of showing them, attracts the
usual amount of attention, some of it
respectfully curious and some openly
derisive, but neither variety affects the
performance of the ceremonies or
enables us to get bit nearer the mys-
terious Mongol mind 1t is hard to
believe that our far-traveled Chinese
really think that anything is accom-
plished for the dead by putting roast
pig and boiled rice on a grave, and yet
they do 1t year after year.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20

time ago the desert reigned supreme
in its awful desolation.
Glance at the map again and note
the faint line near the international
boundary, and encircling the large
area marked Imperial Valley. All the
land included within this line is below
sea level, the lowest portion situated
in Salton Sink where it is 2ST feet be-
low. To those who visit this remark
able region it is apparant that in anci-
ent geological times the Gulf of Cali
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
A Bright Retort.

The ancient story of the Chinaman
who, when asked at what hour the
spirits consumed the food thus offered
to them. replied that 1t was at the same
hour chosen by our dead for smelling
flowers We similarly place, is always
pertinent to discussion of this mystery,
and reflection on the story has the
admirable effect of giving a new
standpoint from which to study the
"ontlandish" custom of our useful but
unloved guests. In all these things 1t
is the thinking so that constitutes
right, propriety and congruity. The
Chinese ceremonies do show affec-
tionnte or pious remembrance, and
whether the dead are Indifferent or not,
the reflex action on the living Is effec.
lively brought to bear.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20

much CONSERVATION on the part of the
railroad which happens TO be located
near by, and OF some little disquietude
among several thousand settlers
whose farms are apparently tlF,a.
ened unless the erratic stream can be
induced to return to its old pathway
10 the sea. y glance at the map will
make clear the unusual conditions
which at present prevail in the Col
orada Delta.
Below the town OF Yuma, Arizona,
the stream has cut its banks at three
places and passing through old, dry
channels, is now pouring westward
and northward into Salton Sink. Aug
mented by the volume of this great
stream the Sink has already become
Il vast inland sea, spreading ont for
60 miles In one direction and 80 miles
in another, and growing daily.
The Giant Force of Nature.
Passengers on the train now ex-
claim with wonder as they look out
upon the broad sea reaching to the
western horizon, where but q short
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
C.J.DLANcHARD at Los Angeles.

The great Colorado river of the
southwest the Nile OF America, is on
its bad behavior. Like old travellers
who forsake the beaten highways, the
Colorado, grown tired of its channel.
is seeking n new route. Its desire
for change naturally is the cause of
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
To Be Reunited,

"Have you seen my poor, dear little
duckling?" asked the distressed but be-
witchipg young mother duck.
"Ah! madame" replied the polite but
still hungry fox, II have inside infor-
meet your Little one"
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-10-20
Black Friday.

"Now, children" said the Sunday
school teacher, addressing the Juvenile
class, "can any of you tell me any
thing about Good Friday"
Yes, ma'am, can," replied a boy.
He was the colored man what done
the housework for Robinson Crusoe,"