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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17

columns Of good reading and attrac-
tive advertising matter.
The array Of advertising presented
in these pages today is the best and
most representative that The Journal
has ever carried and it speaks volumes
for the enterprise Of Pensacola bust
ness men. Those business men are
talking to more people through the
columns Of The Journal this morning
than they have ever done before. and
they are worthy of the patronage
which they thus seek.
In size. appearance, makeup, and
general character The Journal this
morning is the equal Of the metrOpoli-
tan papers in the big cities, and a Pen
sacolian can hana or mail copy of it
to a friend with a consciousness of
knowing that his city is creditably rep
resented thereby.
The Christmas Edition constitutes
an accomplishment in newspaper-mak.
ing which The Journal has aspired to
for a long time and which it has work
ed necessarily TO achieve. We feel
therefore, that these few words re-
garding its own efforts, and the pride
which it feels in the latter, will be
generously pardoned by friendly
public which has already been more
than generous with The Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17
By
Rev. Percival H
Whaley.

bodies which are not unlike th0s
tabled folk of the anCien-s wac dwelt
in the la2d of continued darkness.
The Old Romans had a feast called
"Lupercalia similar to our Christ
mas. which probably was kept in h0no-
of the great founder Of Tne.r race.
who was, with his brother. uO1risheI
by a wolf The word seems f0 be de-
rived from lupus a wolf Most 90
the nations of our civ.lizarior had "a
kind Of Christmas feast wien the
happiness Of children was tly chief
object
OF course. back of the festival it-
self and It's ordinary JOYS. is the vast
truth of The won lrous birth of Jesus.
the Christ. who came as a little child
TO grow up i'm His divine manhood t0
suffer and die for humanity Yet the
larger truth and smaller joys are 1.-
WAYS kissing each other. just because
OF that blessed babe in the mangor
of Bethlehem. At no other season In
all our holidays is The prophecy NJ
Isaiah so literally fulhl2d-a little
child shall lead them.
1t is indeed the repeated proclaim
ton THAI The highest. BEST mobiles
lif, can only De high and cool and
noble when the iunOc nee and white
ness of little children do the leading
Let us ever bear in mind the song
of the angels when Jesus was born.
Glory TO God In the highest and on
earth peace, good viii toward men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17

for the quarantine our contemporary
suggests, first, immtliiate publicity
where the disease appears; and sec
Ond. screen the case and fumigate and
disinfect the premises within a rea-
sOnable radius Immediately And
again we suspect that The Journal is
more than half right.
Our people are progressive in near
ly everything else and it is about time
they were getting beyond the print.
tive device of a shot gun quarantine
The last paragraph in our contem-
porary's comment is particularly well
put We have progressed in every
thing but in the matter of quaran-
tines. In the case Of yellow fever,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17

science has found a way to control
and eradicate it wherever it appears,
but the o1i-time primitive quarantine
is still with us.
We trust that conditions along the
Gulf coast viii never again be such
that the question Of cordons and quar-
antines need be brought up, but
should such conditions develop, there
can, in the light Of present scientific
knowledge and accomplishments, be
no excuse for the establishment of
any more Of the repugnant guarantees
which The public during the past sea
son was compelled to endure.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17

ing some Of our own abundance to
others whose lot is bounded by the
constant pressures Of how to get food
and clothes.
So Christmas should bring some
rays, just for its own day, 10 souls and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17

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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17

PENSACOLA FLORIDA, SUNDAY MORNING DECElBER IL 1906
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
STANDARD OIL
IN new FIELDS
Manager of Big Corporation
Seeking to Get Control of
Gas Companies in South
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8.-Henry H.
Rogers, manager of the Standard Oil
Company, is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the various Lowe gas COM
panies of Southern California. Leopold
Wallach, who effected the sale of the
San Francisco Coke and Gas Company
"a Lowe concern), has been in Los An
geles comforting with the Lowe people.
He has made a proffer to some of the
heaviest stockholders and this is now
under consideration.
There are three Lowe companies
operating in Southern California. the
Independent Gas Company, capitalized
at $4,000, 900, and proposing to sell gas
at wholesale: the Los Angeles Sub
urban Gas Company, capitalized at
$4,000, 900, with about ten miles of
mains, now doing business with retail
customers, and the California Coke
and Gas Company. capitalized at ST.
000, 900, supplying customers in Pasa-
dena, South Pasadena and Long Beach.
II the Standard Oil succeeds in it's
ambition here, or rather, If the Lowe
people succeed in selling to the Stand
ard Oil, the Los Angeles Gas and Elec
trio Company will have rival worthy
of its steel. The Los Angeles Company
has hitherto bought or beaten out its
rivals with ease, and the Lowe COM
panies, though now operating, have not
proven formidable competitors.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
In the Cars Cap
itdl Peace Talk
IS Heard.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 9, 2:10 a. m.
The conference when Emperor
Nicholas has been holding with
Empire and other advisers on the
internal and external situation has
been concluded, but nothing has oc-
Cured which would indicate that the
Government is prepared to depart from
its present programme of continuing
the war to the bitter end. Neverthe-
less, talk of peace was heard on Sun
day in many quarters, the foundation
for 1t being ascribed to Foreign Min
lister Lamsdorff's alleged position in
favor of such a course, on the ground
that, aside from the humiliation to
military prestige involved, it would
only mean the REIMBURSEMENT of Man
churia. to which Russia already is for
mally pledged.
There is no confirmation Of this
statement of Count Lamsdorffs posi-
ton, beyond the general knowledge
that he always has belonged 10 the
peace party. 1t is quite probable that
the peace talk has been produced by
the arrival of foreign papers, as 1t re-
Ceives no encouragement in RESPONSE
BILE quarters here.
The belief which existed in well-in-
formed diplomatic circles that Japan
would follow the fall of Port Arthur
with moderate peace propositions has
not been realized. Up to the present
time nothing has reached the Govern
i2ent either through the United States
OF other channels. Diplomats here can
not figure out the general lines OF a
treaty at this juncture which both bel
ligerents would accept, but realize that
Ii Japan makes any sort of offer un-
less it is rejected outright as not en-
tertainable, negotiations would be
opened, and. negotiations once entered
upon, friends of both parties could use
their good offices and bring about good
terms This is the only hope for ter
mination of the war which diplomats
can see.
Solemn services in honor of those
who fell in the defense of Port Arthur
were held on Sunday in the Kazan ca
thedral and the Troitka monastery
The service passed off without demon
stration of any sort. Neither the En-
peror nor any member of the imperial
family was present. A requiem was
held simultaneously in the chapel
Tsarskoe- Selo.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
MARIE CORELLI AGAIN
SCORES ANDREW CARNEGIE
Says He Should Have Shown His
Philanthropy at Time of Home
stead Strike.

LONDON, Jan. SIN letter to the
London newspapers Marie Corelli re-
peats her remarks on Carnegie's policy
in connection with the Homestead
strike and intimates that she would
like to see a strike at each one of his
new library buildings. She says:
There was plenty of time for Mr..
Carnegie to forego his quiet holiday in
Scotland and attend to his duty, which
was to take a weeks easy journey
over the sea and boldly confront the
situation in person. So might he, if
he Is indeed a philanthropist, have
saved unnecessary bloodshed and truly
earned the right to be considered a
friend of the people.
THAT he remained quiescent, in
active and only expressed regret when
the mischief had been done implies
that all the cruel business was carried
on with his tacit knowledge and con-
sent, for in the course of four months
he must certainly have received both
letters and kilograms disclosing the
real state of things at the works.
1.-The part he played in the affair is
openly set forth in a volume giving
complete history of the struggle by
Arthur Burgoyne. I should like to see
a copy of that book in every Carnegie
free library"
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
BUSINESS Men
URGE new LAWS
Long List of Suggestions
to Be Taken Up by the
National Board of Trade
INTEREST IN SHIPPING
Various Bodies Desire Some
Legislation to Help Build
Up the Merchant Marine

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The pro-
gramme of recommendations and reso-
lutions to be considered at the thirty
fifth annual meeting of the National
Board of Trade, which will begin here
on Tuesday. January IT, has been made
public. An unusually large number or
resolutions of interest to the business
interests of the country have been pro-
posed by representative commercial
bodies for consideration, chief among
which are those relating to the mer-
chant marine, the interstate commerce
laws, reciprocity, uniform bills of lad
ing, reduction of the tax on alcohol
and Improvement of various water
ways.
Various boards of trade and trans
portation and chambers OF commerce
have presented resolutions urging Con-
gressional legislation for the upbuild-
ing of the American merchant marine.
In various resolutions enlarged powers
are asked for the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The New York Board of
Trade, by resolution, expressed itself
as opposed to the bill comforting the
making power on the commission.
The board expresses the opinion that
it seems wiser for the present at least,
to rely on the recently applied methods
of enforcing the decision of the COM
mission by Injunction rather than to
enact the Cooper-Quarles bill, the pro-
visions of which it holds may be con-
strued to be much more far-reachlng
than even its advocates are willing to
defend or consent to.
Railroad pooling is favored in several
resolutions and so is the institution by
the Government of a parcels post, such
as several foreign nations now enjoy.
The adoption of one-cent postage for
invoices and the improvement of the
Mississippi River and of coastwise
waterways are also urged The impor-
tance of international arbitration
treaties is set forth in a number OF
resolutions and an expression is made
for an early ratification of those now
pending.
The Scranton (Pa.) Board Of Trade
requests the adoption of a resolution
asking that the President join other
powers in a determined effort to COM
pei Russia and Japan to submit their
differences to The Hague tribunal for
arbitration.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce
wants reciprocity with Canada, and
other commercial bodies ask that our
foreign trade be extended by treaties
of a reciprocal character. Free alcohol
for Industrial purposes is advocated by
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
and a reduction of the tax on that
commodity by the Philadelphia Trades
League.
The Sugar Manufacturers Associa-
tion of America urges that if reduc-
tions be made in the existing tariff on
goods or articles imported from the
Philippines, there should be excepted
from such deductions such articles
grown, produced or manufactured in
the United States as would be serious
ly affected by such reductions.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
MAY END FIGHT
BY COMPROMISE
Factions on Statehood Bill
May Agree to Eliminate
Arizona and New Mexico
POSSIBLE LAST RESORT
Enemies of Measure Do Not
Oppose Admission of the
Other Two Territories

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-The state
hood bill will continue to be the prin-
cipal topic of discussion in the Senate
during the present week, but other
measures will receive attention each
day during the morning hours, includ-
ing the omnibus claims bill, for which
Senator Warren stands sponsor. An
effort will be made to get through the
bill providing for the compensation of
American fishermen whose vessels
were seized previous to the arbitration
of 1893.
The pure food bill will remain in the
background for the present. not be-
cause the friends of that measure have
abandoned it. but because they con-
slider that it's chances will be improved
by not pressing for immediate consid-
Grafton.
Discussion of the statehood question
will begin on Monday with a speech by
Senator Morgan. He will be followed
by other opposing Senators. The pres
ent plan of the opposition is to keep
the discussion going until some of the
appropriation bills are reported and it
becomes necessary to take them up;
or If this is postponed too long. to dis
place the bill with the pure food bill.
Failing in all these expedients. they
probably will seek a compromise.
The only real fight is against the
uniting of Arizona and New Mexico.
and there is talk of eliminating those
Territories entirely from the statehood
proposition. 1t is believed If this were
done the bill for the consolidation of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory would
pass.
II is the intention of the House to
begin active consideration Of appro-
priation bills during the present week.
Monday is District of Columbia day
and the resolution providing for the
ceremonies of the Inauguration of
President Roosevelt and deciding
where the Inauguration ball shall be
held will be considered.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
ROYALTY AIDS
IN CEREMONY
Beatification of Venerable
Vieany of France Takes
Place in st. Peters, Rome

ROME, Jan. 8.-The beatification OF
the venerable Vieany, parish priest OF
AIRS, France, was celebrated to-day in
ST. Peters in the presence of 1000
French pilgrims and several thousand
worshipers of other nationalities and
in the presence of Pope Plus x, twenty
two Cardinals and the Papal court.
The ceremony was rendered other
wise notable by the attendance of the
Duke of Genoa. brother of Dowager
Queen Margherita; the Duchess of Ge-
noa and her son, Prince Udine. who
were recognized by the private cham
berlain to the Pope and conducted to
special seats. They knelt in the pas
sage while the Pope made his process
sion.
This is the first time members of the
house of Savoy have assisted at a re-
ligious function in the presence Of the
Pope.
Francis M. Mutt of Washington D.
c., was present at the ceremony.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
Transfer Of Port
Arthur Armu
Completed.

TOXIC, January S.-General Nogi's
report. received at IL o'clock last
night, announces that the transfer of
Port Arthur prisoners was completed
on Saturday afternoon. The total
number was 24,369-S7S officers and
23,491 men.
Fifty per cent of the officers will
share Imprisonment with their men.
The japanese intend to establish a
naval station at Port Arthur. Vice.
Admiral Y. Shibayama will be placed
in charge. The military administra-
ton at Port Arthur will retain only
q small garrison as soon as the pris-
oners are withdrawn and order is
restored.
The fleet is busily engaged in clear
ing mines but owing to their great
number navigation will be unsafe for
q long time. Only Government craft
will be allowed to enter the harbor.
1t is probable that Dalny will soon
be opened to neutrals. Japanese COM
panies are preparing to establish
weekly services to that port
1t is proposed TO float a fourth
domestic war loan soon, under the
same conditions as the third was
negotiated.
Lieutenants General Fock, Smyrnoff
and Gorbatowsky and Rear Admiral
Wilmann will be brought to Japan as
prisoners of war. Lieutenant General
Stoessel will leave Dalny on January
18th on a Japanese transport for Nag
asaki. He will be accompanied by
the other paroled officers. The Rus
SLAMS probably will remain in Japan
a few days and then proceed on a
French steamship to Europe, going by
way of the Suez canal.
Reports previously received were to
the effect that both Lieutenant
General Fock and Lieutenant Gener-
al Smyrnoff had bzen killed at Port
Arthur. On January 2 a st. Peters
burg dispatch denied that Fock had
been killed, ut admitted that he had
been wounded. A dispatch received
from Mukden on January 7 said
that while the death of Fock had not
been published, it had for six weeks
been accepted there as a fact. The
report of General Smyrnoff's death
had never been confirmed.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
PIONEERS PROTEST.
Arizonans Object to the Joint State
hood Bill.

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 8.-At a meet
ing of the Society of Arizona Pioneers
this afternoon an earnest protest
against the merger of Arizona and
New Mexico Jointly into a State was
adopted. In substance 1t follows
We declare that the pledge OF the Federal
Government in the enactment OF the organic
law creating Arizona into territorial govern
ment and defining the geographical boundaries,
in which II was agreed Arizona should enjoy
Territorial government until erected into a
State of the Union. was sacred compact,
which the pioneer citizens of Arizona (compris-
ing the sons and daughters of every State OF
the Union) accepted in good faith, and in con-
sideration thereof have given years of suffering
and toll enduring great privations and hard
ships at the risk of life in conquering, develop
ing, civilizlng and the building up of the pros
perity of the State OF Arizona.
We plead that the compact may be kept In
violate by the Government, and only changed
or modified upon the consent of the citizens of
Arizona, whose rights should be considered
and we earnestly pray that IL determined to
pass the joint Statehood bill now before the
Senate it be with the Foraker amendment,
leaving the question of merger to the vote of
the citizens of the respective Territories
Gratitude is expressed to Senators
Bard, Foraker, Baker and others for
standing by Arizona.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
CAPTURED RUSSIAN OFFICERS PREFER PRISON
LIFE WITH THEIR MEN TO BEING PAROLED
Surprise Attack
on KufOpdtkin
Frustrated.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. S.-General
Kuropatkin reports the Illustration of a
Japanese attempt to surprise his center
front on the night of January 6 and
the bayoneting of twenty-one Japanese
on the night Of January during cav
airy reconnaissance in the valley of the
Taitse River, in the direction of Sian
chan.
HUANCHAN, via Mukden, Jan. s.
The expected advance of the Japanese,
which the Chinese prophesied would
take place on the Russian Christmas,
has not occurred. Even the usual
cannonading has not taken place. The
troops celebrated Christmas yesterday
quietly. There were Christmas trees
in many companies and little celebra-
tions in various officers quarters.
Many men exchanged presents, mostly
their own handiwork, quaint and Gu
rious gifts, there being little obtain
able in the way of conventional pres
entS
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
LIST OF CANCER
VICTIMS GROWS
Boston Expert Alleges That
City of San Francisco Has
the Largest Percentage
USE OF KNIFE ADVISED
Report of Harvard COmmls-
sion on It's Investigation
as to Proper Remedies
USE OF KNIFE ADVISED
Special Dispatch to I'll. Call.

BOSTON, Jan. S.-Dr. Emmens
Briggs of this city. an expert, states
that there has been an alarming in
crease in cancer within the last forty
years and Boston is now the second
city in the country in point of victims
OF the scourge. San Francisco having
larger percentage. According to his
figures, the increase in Boston has been
from 2.S to each 10000 population in
1883 to S.5 for the same number i'm 1908,
while the proportion for the whole
world increased only from S.S5 to 9.95
in 10000
Harvard experts. however, who have
been investigating cancer for two
years, pronounce the disease non-in-
fectious and on-contagious.
DR.. T.. H. Nichols, head of the Har-
ward cancer commission, says that ik
is hereditary affliction. The COM
mission has prepared a report as to
the remedies, which advises early use
of the knife instead of drugs or
SerumS.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
INJURED CHORUS MEMBERS
ON ROAD TO RECOVERY

NEW YORK, Jan. S.-The members
OF the chorus of the Metropolitan
Grand Opera Company. who were in
jured last night by the collapse of a
bridge during the first act of Car
men," were all said to be recovering
to-day.
Frank f. Palmer, master mechanic
of the Metropolitan Opera House, who
was arrested after the accident, was
arraigned on charge of criminal
afternoon.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
REPLIES TO THE LETTER
OF ENGLAND'S PRIMATF,
DR.. Clifford Intimates That 1t Suggests
Much, but Holds Back Much
More

LONDON. Jan. S.-Dr. John Cliff
ford, leading Baptist preacher, in a
letter written in reply to response of
the Archbishop of Canterbury to a
communication addressed to him by
evangelical clergymen of America of
the hardships alleged to be imposed
upon non-conformists under the edu>
cation law of Great Britain, says:
"If Americans have learned nothing
else from the Drimate's letter they
would at least learn how to graduate
in the art of suggesting much and
holding back very much more"
DR.. Clifford accuses the church OF
England of not caring much for edu-
cation as Americans understand it,
but "for Roman and Anglican at
mOsphere"
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
NO LINE ON CASUALTIES.



Losses i'm the Far East.
WASHINGTON, Jan. SIN despair
the War Department has giving up try
ing to get an accurate line on the total
of casualties in the Russo-Japanese
war. At the outbreak of hostilities in
the Far East a War Department clerk
of German birth and unsophisticated
mind started to make a record from the
press reports of losses. He forgot to
take into consideration the fact that
the Russians call battle by one name
and the Japanese by another and that
official reports straggle in days after
the first news and are frequently con-
fused with later events.
At the end of 1904 the clerk began to
foot UP his figures and found that they
showed the Russians had lost 4,S97 900
men and the Japanese 5,77S,000 men.
His visions of making money out Of
the first authentic record of losses"
took wings right there and he gave up
the job.
The bureau of military information of
the War Department adopted similar
course at the beginning of the war. but
when the totals showed more men lost
than there are soldiers. non-combatants
and neutrals in all Manchuria they, too,
turned their attention to more profit
able lines.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
LONDON STOCKS NOT UPSET
By FALL OF PORT ARTHUR
Feeling of Nervousness About Internal
Situation in Russia Reported
in France.

LONDON, Jan. S.--The fall of Port
Arthur had comparatively small ef-
feet on the Stock Exchange, Russian
stocks not suffering to any great ex-
tent, and the market generally re-
naming fairly firm. In France feel
ing of nervousness about the internal
situation in Russia Is beginning to be
observed, which has had the effect of
weakening the markets the last two
DAYS.
The American market was unsettled
by the prospect of continued Northern
Securities litigation. Prices have been
unsettled and the close was rather
weaker.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-09
Japanese Attempt Surprise.

PORT ARTHUR. Jan. S.-The Rus
sian prisoners. while waiting to-day
at Changkinztzu, railway station for
Dalny, celebrated the approach of
their New Year. Religious services
were held in the morning at 10 o'clock
and the assemblage of prisoners was
addressed by a Russian priest in full
canonicals. After the services there
was music and dancing on the open
ground in front of the station.
The S-year-old daughter of a Rus
sian officer was among the prison.
ers.. Fifty per cent of the officers are
going to Japan.