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The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
Chinese Bomb Throwing.

Peking, Sept. 25.-At the Pel1ing
railway station, as train carrying one
of the four missions ordered abroad to
study foreign political methods was
leaving, bomb was exploded inside
e private car, killing four minor Off
'cials and wounding twenty other per-
sons.
The wounded include Prince Tsai
,Tohe, who headed the most important
of the missions. and WI Ting Fang,
former minister to the United States,
both of whom received slight injuries.
The perpetrator of the outrage. who
was in the car, was blown to pieces.
The affair has created a profound
sensation and causes apprehension re-
garding the safety of the members of
the court and leading officials of the
government.
The government Offices and railways
are now strongly guarded.
The edict appointing the missions
mentioned in the foregoing dispatch
was issued July 10th. A dispatch from
Peking August 29th said the missions
were appointed to study foreign sys-
TENS of government because the Dow
ager Empress intended to issue de-
cree at the New Year for the estab-
lishment Of parliament twelve years
hence.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
C. F. & I. Wins Water Suit.

Pueblo, Colo, Sept. 24.-Judge N.
Walter Dixon yesterday announced
his decision in the water suit of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
which has been pending in the District
Court for several weeks. granting the
company the right to change the point
of diversion of its water supply on the
Arkansas river from the present head
gate, situated two miles west of
Boone, Colorado, to Adobe, Colorado.
siding on the Denver G. Rio Grande
railroad, about six miles east of Flor
ence and about six miles west of the
Pueblo county line. The distance of
the transfer is about fifty miles west
of the present headgate.
AS soon as the court announced its
decision the attorneys for the protest
ants gave notice of an appeal to the
Supreme Court.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
Pension Bureau Report.

Washington, Sept 23.-The report
of the commissioner of pensions for the
fiscal year ending July list last shows
that during the year there were 4G.-
9s5 allowances under the old age dis.
ability order Of March Is, 1904. 1t also
shows shat 655 pensions of s72 mon Il
have been increased to 500 a month
on account of total blindness, under
the act of April 8. 1904.
There are pending only 1926 orig.
inal claims of survivors of the Civil
War. and the commissioner gives as
surance that they will be adjudicated
as speedily as possible.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
HONEST Government.
Some Ringing Epigrams by Governor
Folk Of Missouri.

Denver, Sept. 23.-At the Denver
Chamber of Commerce luncheon
Thursday. Governor Folk of Missouri
addressed several hundred of the lead
ing men of Denver. together with
number of guests from other parts OF
the state. The following quotations
embody his convictions in regard to
municipal reform:
Wherever you find gambling houses
running in open violation of the law
you cap be certain that somewhere
there is graft in the government of that
city or state"
With an executive oRcial the ques-
tion should not be whether the law is
good law or not, but 1t is his duty to
execute ii as he finds It,"
"A rascal is n rascal, whether he
calls himself a Democrat or Republi-
can; a lawbreaker is a criminal, no
matter to what party he may belong"
Every law, ] have observed, Is
blue lag to the man who wants to
break 1t. Every state in the Union,
except ten. is now engaged In prose-
cutting graft and bribery. This does
not indicate moral degeneration, but
IL shows moral awakening"
"One of the chief causes OF corrup-
tion in Legislative bodies is the free
railroad pass"
"A state canhot be injured by the en-
forcement of the law. 1t is more hon
orable to correct civic evils than 1t is
to bear them in ignoble silence"
"A half dozen brave, earnest and
honest men. working courageously for
the enforcement of the law in any
town of city in Colorado can drive cor
ruption from its bounds" =,
Americans for America, is the slo-
gan that should be sounded now"
IF there were any difference made
by reason of party ! would prosecute
the man of my own party who does
wrong first-because he should know
better"
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
Freed by woman's Confession.

Denver, Sept. PA Canon City dis
patch last night says: Spencer Dicks,
who shot and killed o. r. Miner near
Greenland, Colorado, over five years
ago, was released from the state pen
itentiary this morning at IL o'clock and
left for the home of his aged parents
in Riley county, Kansas, with his sis
ter.
AT Dicks trial in Castle Rock he
testified to having found his sweet
heart, Miss Minnie Hutchinson, now
Mrs. Thomas Bowen of Florence, in a
compromising petition with Minor. At
the coroner's inquest Miss Hutchin-
son testified that Dicks had no cause
for shooting Minor, but she left the
state before the trial and it was not
until recently that, stricken by re-
morse, she made the confession that
freed Dicks, confessing the truth OF
his story.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
NEGRO RESOLUTIONS
oENouNclNe jim CROW LAWS
Negro Press Association Announces
Its Attitude on Questions A.
fecting the Race.

Muskogee, l. T.. Sept 23.-The West
ern Negro Press Association, In an
nual meeting here yesterday, adopted
the following resolutions:
1T being considered the settled pol
icy of the white people of the southern
states 10 abridge the political rights of
the colored people. and thereby nuulify
the fifteenth amendment. memorial
shall be presented to the President
and to Congress opposing statehood
for the two territories Qndian Terri
tory and Oklahoma) unless an abso-
Lutte guarantee can be given that there
will be no Jim Crow coach laws and
other laws discriminating between the
races in public places"
The resolutions endorse the admins
tration of President Roosevelt. and he
is spoken of as "the greatest chief ex
ecutive since the great emanclpator,
Lincoln" Negroes are urged to acquire
land; lynching and the perpetrators of
crimes leading thereto are denounced,
be they white or colored; 1t Is de
clared that separate schools should
not be established in states where
slavery never existed. and that In the
states where both races favor separ-
ate schools they should exist as a
means to an end. rather than as an end
themselves. Booker r. Washington's
industrial policy is endorsed. Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary of the In
terror Hitchcock are to be informed
that the rights given the freedmen in
the territory to sell their lands without
restrictions are being abused, and If
the evil is not stopped they will soon
dispose of their homes and become
paupers and wards of the Nation.
The Western Negro Press Associa>
tion elected the following officers yes
terday: President. w. II. Duncan, Cot
orado Springs; vice president. c. N.
Sellers, Buxton, Iowa: corresponding
secretary. w. H. Twine, Muskogee.
Indian Territory; recording secretary,
f. J. Mordon, Muskogee, Indian Terri.
tory; treasurer, Miss s. Tidley, Guth-
rie. Oklahoma.
The association will meet next year
at Colorado Springs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
AmitY Colony All Rinht.

Denver, Sept 23.-Some apprehen-
sion has been expressed that the very
laudable work the Salvation Army is
carrying on at Amity, Colorado,
through its colony, might be crippled
and hampered by the dragging into
the Equitable nlixup of the Amity
Land and Irrigation Company, which
it has been alleged owes the Equitable
the sum of S2S09,633. The Salvation
Army, says the News in explanation of
the situation, through its commander,
Booth Tucker, bought the land and
water rights for the Amity colony
from the Amity company and incurred
only a few minor obligations in doing
so, obligations which could be readily
met IL stress were brought to bear
by the Amity company being forced
TO make a hurry-up call against all
loans and notes. That there is small
danger of this is to be taken from
statement made last night by Plat
Rogers, attorney for the Amity com
pany.
To begin with" said Mr.. Rogers,
the company is not involved with the
Equitable in any way, its officers and
stockholders all live in New York and
other eastern cities and the company
owes no debts that it cannot meet i'm
mediately. The Amity company is a
separate and distinct institution from
the Amity colony, which simply stands
as purchaser of lands and water
rights from the Amity company" Aside
from Mr.. Rogers the only Colorado per
son identified with the affairs of the
Amity company is w. II. Wylie. who
resides at Holly and is the manager
and cOmDauV agent
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
To Change Inauguration Date.

Washington, Sept. 93.-District Com
missioner McFarla-l chairman OF the
national committee to consider the ad-
Visibility Of changing; the date of the
ceremony foi the Inauguration of the
President of the United States. has Is
sued call for the meeting of the com
mittee November Sth. The committee
is composed Of the governors of all
states and territories and fifteen resi-
dents of the District Of Columbia.
Among the dates suggested for the
ceremony are April 30th and the last
Thursday in April The change rs
urged by reason of the inclement
weather that usually prevails in Wash
ington March 4th.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
Murderers Saved by Arson.

New Madrid, Mo-, Sept. 25.-Indict-
ments against six men charged with
murder, many true bills against per
sons alleged to have been implicated
in the Henderson Mound race riots
and in minor crimes, and all of the
county tax books and drainage papers
were lost in fire which destroyed the
court house here yesterday morning
and which the authorities are CON
vinced was of incendiary origin. The
blaze was first discovered at o'clock.
1t was then confined to the loft, in the
north end OF the building directly over
the judges bench and the pigeon
holes containing the legal papers.
Efforts were made to extinguish the
flames, but they spread beyond control.
and within an hour the entire building
was in ashes.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
BUTTE BADLY BURNED
FIRE IN MONTANA MINING CITY
Damages Estimated at More Than
Million DolIars-Great Public
Library DESTROYED.

Butte, Mont, Sept. 25.-Butte was
visited yesterday by the worst fire in
its history. The flames swept
through the central business portion
of the city and destroyed property to
the value of about s1.250,O0
The heaviest loser is the Symons
Dry Good Company, the entire build
ing and its contents, valued at about
10000. being total loss. Nothing is
left to mark the spot but shoulder
ing mass of timbers and twisted iron.
Flying embers alighted on the roof
of the Butte Public Library building,
four-story structure and one of the
finest buildings in the city. This
building, too. was reduced to ruins.
The loss on the library, together with
a million volumes, is about 100000,
Several firemen were painfully but
not seriously hurt by falls and were
taken to hospitals.
All the fire departments at the
mines were called into service and all
OF the miners on shift at the time,
about 5000, were sent TO the scene
when it was feared that the fire would
sweep the business section of the city
The fire department of Anaconda was
summoned. and Anaconda firemen
with several hundred smeltermen
We're soon on the spot.
The Helena and Missoula depart
tpents were also asked to hold them
selves in readiness, but were not
needed.
Some Of the losses follow:
Blocks Totally Destroyed-Maule.
York, Barrett, Woodward, Ogden and
Public Library.
The following are among the esti-
mated losses, given by the parties af-
fected by the fire:
Symons store, Maule and York
blocks, owned by the New York Realty
Company; loss 100000.
Library building, $4,000.
Baltimore block, 100000
Washington block, 100000
Barrett block. owned by A. H. Bar
rett; total loss.
George Woodwork block, owned by
Rose and Pearlson: total loss.
Walkover Shoe Company. $4,000.
Clark block, damage $1,000.
Goldberg block, damage $1,000.
Renshaw block, damage $500.
Ogden block, total loss.
Atlantic saloon, $11, 900.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
New Secretary of the Navy.

Washington, Sept. 25.-George Won
L. Meyer, United States Ambassador to
Russia, is being talked of as a prob
able successor of Charles Bonaparte
as secretary of the navy. Mr.. Bona
parte is slated to become attorney gen.
eraI next spring. when William H.
Moody returns TO the practice of law
in Massachusetts. There was a time
soon after President Roosevelt entered
the White House when he would have
been pleased to see Mr.. Meyer, then
ambassador to Italy, step out. But Mr..
Roosevelt's opinion of Mr.. Meyer has
changed upon better acquaintance.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
Cyclone Follows Earthquake.

Rome. Sept. 25.-Another cyclone
yesterday caused enormous damage in
Calabria. A gradual clearance of the
buildings ruined by the recent earth
quake shows that the number of per-
sons who perished was greater than
given in the first estimates. Large
numbers of bodies are being discov-
cred daily. The work of constructing
wooden cabins under government SUI
pervision is progressing rapidly. Two
thousand have been completed and
1000 more will be necessary to shell
ter the homeless people who are sleep
ing In the railroad depots.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
Riot at Bull Fiuht.

Mines, France, Sept 25-Twelve
thousand spectators of bull fight
here yesterday broke up the chairs,
other seats and boxes and set fire to
the barriers surrounding the arena be-
cause the matadors refused to kill an
other bull as an encore after they had
dispatched five.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
Earthquakes and cloudburs.s.

New York. Sept. 23.-Earthquake
shocks continued Thursday In Gala
bria, says 4 Rome dispatch to the Her
aid. At Amantea two women were
killed At Ajello many houses fell
and twelve persons were injured.
At Bruzio church fell and there
was further damage at Cosenza, Catan-
zanaro and Monteleone
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE.

FORT WORTH, Tex, September 8.-A negro, accused of
assault upon white burned night
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
J. C. COHEN.

Cohen, agreed to take the financial
risk because he had faith in the band
and that it would make good. Mr..
Cohen was born in Buffalo, N. Y4Sand
has for several years been in the the
atrical business in Honolulu. His as
sistant manager is William Prestidge.
WARMLY GREETED IN SAN FRAN
CISCO.
No sooner had the Hawaiians arrived
in San Francisco, tired and otherwise
upset by their sea voyage from Homo
lulu than San Francisco people who
had heard the band on a previous visit
insisted that the band give at least
three concerts. .But my men haven't
recovered from the sea voyage, and we
are about due to play at the Lewis and
Clark Exposition objected Manager
Cohen, but the concerts were given all
the same, and the Hawaiians played to
that sign dear to the heart of the pro-
misunderstanding room only.
The usual curious crowd gathered
around the bandstand at Cray Boule-
ward yesterday afternoon, when it was
up to the Royal Hawaiians to begin
their first recital. Captain FL. Berger,
the white conductor, raised his baton,
and the manner in which his men
QdSn6Q at SOuS3 stars ana otIlpCS
Forever opened peoples eyes. Next
came Suppe's overture Poet and Peas
ant played with fine body of tone
and spirit. How the dusky faces glow
ed with genuine enthusiasm. Then
came the bands soloist, Madame Name
Alapai, soprano. She looks young and
plump-not stout, and for a woman
who has never received a vocal lesson
in her life, Madame Alapai sings her
native songs remarkably well. She
has a clear. natural, ringing voice, and
an archness that particularly pleases
Of course she sang in the Hawaiian
tongue, and you didn't understand
word of it--but how much do you un-
derstand when our trained vocalists
sing in French or German?
BAND BECOMES ORCHESTRA.
With a quick gesture, the male musi-
clans of the band laid aside their cor
CONTINUED on Page %
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

| From the Oregonian of August 25:-
In a picturesque, unusual class all by
itself the Royal Hawaiian band, from
Honolulu, of 33 members, has stepped
! into the limelight, and made good. The
dusky-skinned musicians made their
| first bow to a Portland audience at the
Exposition yesterday afternoon, and
began a two weeks engagement that
may be heightened to another two
weeks if negotiations are successful.
Enthusiastic crowds hung around the
bandstand all the time the Hawaiians
played and sang, and applause was
generous.
This band is notable as being the or
ganiZa ton that won the second prize in
the band competition at the World S
Fair, Chicago, in 1898. according to the
Hawaiian account of that memorable
occasion when the best bands of the
world competed. During the season OF
1S95-96 the band played at the Mid
Winter Fair at San Francisco. Moth
ing in this world can be done without
money-that is an admitted fact, and
it is we'll known that wel1-fed musi-
clans do exist who play music only
for what's in it. But not the Hawai-
ians. They are big children who play
and sing their native songs. with
their whole heart and soul, because
nearly everybody is musical in their
far off island home, the pearl of the
Pacific.
When the proposition was made to
brins tie Royal Hawaiian band to the
Lewis and Clark Exposition, the en-
thusiastic supporter was Colonel Hen
ry E. Dosch. who had previously heard
the band play at Honolulu when he
was one of the advance representa-
tives for the Exposition people. Have
the Hawaiians play against the best
American bands?" exclaimed Portland
critics, but Colonel Dosch stuck to his
point. 1t was an opportunity for
capitalist, for the mere cost of trans
portation from Honolulu to this coun
try of musicians. musical library, bag
gage, etc, was over $4,000. Then it
was that a Hawaiian capitalist, j. c.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
CONDENSED FROM THE FILES.

Rear well of his
District may
of
Francis Union Labor
the Oakland
Lake have practically
A.
Francis can get o his bonds
hair Mrs Tile
Kug1e of kill herself
formally
insulting hosting the flag the Kings
birthday. Z
Club in Francisco
disgrunted loser did
the
accompanied Secretary Taft the Philippines
of
chuabal believes that there
all this
efec
Noe1G the
He infected the scar oy
it having beer
i'm with Flood Makay ana
Virginia the
He years
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
AFTERNOON REPORT.


oss of
Minister Finance caught stoned They
o
will
referee 7
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
HONOLULU CONCERN
FIGHTS SUGAR TRUST

Albert L. Ehrmann, of the firm of NJ
Ehrmann and Company, one of the
wholesale houses dealing in the inde-
| tions yesterday.
Before the Honolulu Plantation
Company came into the field,'' said Mr.
Ehrmann yesterday, "the combine was
able to fix prices for the Coast TO suit
themselves. If they had a surplus that
could not be placed at the trust prices,
it was dumped at Missouri River
points, but the Coast got no relief.
MAKES 10000 TONS.
THE Honolulu refinery makes 20, 900
tons this year. and the total consump-
tion on the Coast is about 100000 tons,
of which about twenty-five per cent is
beet sugar. If it were not for this COM
petition the price of granulated sugar
would be one or one and a half cents
a pound higher than it is today. The
trust jobbers have been losing money.
and the increase of ten cents a hum
dred pounds is a measure of self-de-
fense, but the competition will con-
tinue just the same
The independent refinery is doing
very aggressive business, and Mr.. Ehr-
mann showed stubs for shipments made
of cons iderable quantities of sugar to
Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington
and other western States.
At the house of Tillman and Bendell
similar assurances were given that the
on sugar would be perma-
nent and it was stated that the Homo
lulu sugar was in every respect the
equal of the trust output
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08

The Examiner says: The Pacific
Traffic Commercial Company, II. ID.
Loveland, manager. is a combination
made to control the sugar market on
the Pacific coast, organized in fiat con-
tradiction of the Sherman law against
trusts It is, in word, combination
in restraint Of trade and competition
such as that law forbids under severe
penalties 1t exists for the sole pur-
pose of putting up the price of the SUI
gar used in every household on this
coast. OF these facts there is plenty
of evidence, but the trust appears TO
have a strong pull with the Federal
department of justice, because, al
though the evidence has been fully ex-
plotted in the press, no steps have been
taken to prosecute or enforce the law
This minor branch of the sugar trust
was very prosperous until the Homo
lulu Plantation Company came into
the field, with an Independent refinery,
capable of supplying about one-third OF
the Coast demand for cane sugar.
HAS HAD TO CUT PRICES.
Since the development of this inde-
source of supply. the trust has
had to cut prices to the bone, with
the result that the jobbers in the COM
bine have been losing money. The re-
cent increase OF ten cents hundred
pounds is designed to recoup some OF
these losses. but whether it Will be
effective is a question, for the Honolu-
m peopIe continue in the field at the
Did prices. !
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08

Leading Papers Speak Highly of the Organi-
zation and Joe Cohen, Who is Manag-
ing 1t, Grows Enthusiastic.

Ore, August
Editor Advertiser: of
meeting
at thief
at
of ours
We drawing Hawaii All
IN
This will
of
I believe will he
Hawaiian
apparently
o am,
respectfully
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
JAPANESE MOB BURNS
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS

TOXIC, September 8This city quiet rioting
reported from chba where the buildings
burned
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THE SECEssION CONFERENCE.

KARLSTADT, September 8-The Swedish Norwegian
commissioners have adjourned until the rh gov
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
BAkU PEOPLE
ARE FLEEING
Oil Industry Is Ruined and the Tar
tars Are Levying BIackmaiI
on Inhabitants.
ASSOCIATED Press cablegrams.)

BAKU, September sThe situation growing worse.
The inhabitants fleeing and the oil industry
The loss millions. declared
There much destuton The demanding money
return for which they promise paging Troops
irving numbers expect situation
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
CLASSICAL TO PRACTICAL.

PEKING September aAn edct has been issued making
Of Chinese officials practical
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
TAFT FOR SHANGHAI.

Annoy September ssecetary Taft sailed Shanghai yes
terday.