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Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-08-25
INTERESTING EVENTS IN
AMERICAN HISTORY
Events which have occurred Dr. this
country ln past ages. on the hrsi three
DAYS OF the present week.
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Events which have occurred Or this
country IN past ages. on the hrsi three
days Of the present week
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August ie--
fbio--podro Arls establishes his scat
81 government az Panama.
iSt2--Americnn naval victory of tao
coast OF Massachusetts; British
ship Ouorriero surrondors 30
Captain Isaac Huh. OF the frig-
ate Constitution
isit-Brltish fleet IN the Chosape1 We
day begins attack on Wash lB-
ton. General Ross lands . 300
British soldiers az Bono .ict,
Nd.
1876 Commodore stockton hlocindes
Mexican ports on tho Pacific
%
August 60
i6is-Dulch war ship lands twenty
African negroes 90 jamestown,
Va. the hrst African slaves Ia
the American colonies.
i62O-pllgrims snll second time In
the Mayflower and Spoedwoll;
unaeaworthlnoas OF the Speed.
well compcls them to return to
Plymouth.
1894 wiliam Penn rclgstated IN hls
province. which had been an
nexod 10 New York.
fT93-Genorai Wayne defeats the
Miami Indians NJ the Maumco
Rapids. IN Ohio.
iSiT--Balllos OF Contrcras aud Churu-
busco, near Mexico City.
tS6i-Goneral George y, Mcclellan
assumes command Of the Arm.
OF the Potomac.
1896 President Johnson restores the
writ of haheas corpus IN al the
states.
1ssG--soven anarchists sentenced "a
death Ia Chicago for murders
committed during riots.
| t868-The senRi9 ratlhcs the treaty
with China fofbldding Chinese
immigration for twenty years,
D.
August 2t--
fg5l--la Sale sent from France d
establish q colony az the mouth
Of che Mississippi tfmtramct
10 yer missed, sd, Louis Bot-
tied and then anandoncdl
/ t72i--The New Englaud Courant hrsl
Issued as Boston.
I17TO-New York royaligiH erect an
equestrian statue Of George ~
IN Bowling Green.
Continental Army arrives al
Fort Ticonderoga
/ iS8l-Nat Turner's negro inaurroctior
breaks out Ia Virginia.
liSi7--Moxicana propose an armialico
with y Wow 20 ending the war
IS50-The Charter Oak, az Hartford
Conn.,, blown down.
is58--LincOln and Douglas hold th'
first Of their series OF joint de-
/ bates.
Installation forces lombard Charles
ton, S. q.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-08-25

Joseph r. johnson was born Ia
Laurons county. South Carolina. in
1858. some seven months before The
0d0re Roosevelt was born ln New
York ne was a poor boy, hut not
frlondleaa indeed. ne had some ex-
cellout and powerful friends sobfl
ETY., morality, industry. frusaliiy. hon-
esly, among them The companion
ahip Of these qualities "a worth more
than the influence of q thousand in-
nuential friends az court Daily young
Johnson earned his living 30 tbe
sweat Of BIS face end ihp Industry
and prompillude Of lhe boy 20 this
dag charHiodre the man. ie man
AGED 10 make his way through college
az dhecame q lawyer in 1883. He kept
aud became a lawyer in 1853. he kept
him. Iia nevor tfickcd q cfuFt OF a
client. and ho never lea % a jury.
He was always where his duty beck
one1. ana o. 1900 BE WAS returned io
the Fity-segonth coegrcsg and vas
twice reelected
Evening star., 1906-03-15
COLLEGE ATHLETICS REFORMS.
Significant Remarks at Alumni Din
ner at Chicago

CHICAGO, March 15.-W. II. p. Faunce,
president of Brown University, deplored
the universal deception and trickery char
acterizing college athletics" at the annual
dinner of the Chicago Alumni Association
of that institution last night.
THE faculty of Brown University has
taken radical action to remedy these evils"
said President Faunce, but 1t has received
little cooperation from other colleges, and
will be compelled to make the fight alone.
New England colleges are too individual
istic TO unite is western colleges have done;
each New England college will have to
settle It's problems alone
LAS far as brutality in college athletics
is concerned we have seen none of 1t at
Brown. In the PROSECUTING of players and
the underhand methods used to bring them
to colleges the situation is most serious
throughout the country, and the western
colleges have been the first to come to
realization of the true state of affairs.
Members of The Brown faculty believe
they have done much toward solution of
the problem by giving the students a free
hand in forming and enforcing their own
rules. The students already have begun to
do this and the prospect is encouraging.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
THE IRON TRADE.
Prices Have Sagged but Little Since
January.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLEVELAND Ohio, March 15-The Iron
Trade Review in its current issue reports
considerably increased inquiries for iron
with the probab bility that, unless interfer-
Ell with by difficulties in the coal district,
a buying movement will shortly develop.
Prices have sagged but little through the
present period of inactivity. which begun
late in January, and already have become
more firm on the moderate buying of the
past week Basic has strengthened appre-
ciably. The Steel Corporation has pur-
chased 5000 tons at SIT furnace for imme-
date shipment and several other large in
terests are in the market for aggregate tom
nages that will practically exhaust the out
put for the first half of the year. A recent
canvass of the situation showed the avail
able supply much smaller than was gener
ally supposed and the element of weakness
in this line which developed two or three
weeks ago, has entirely disappeared. An
independent interest has taken 5000 tons
of Bessemer for early delivery and the price
seems we'll established at S17.5a. Foundry
interests pressing furnaces for ad
vaEced shipments and their filling in orders
aggregate a considerable tonnage each
week. Southern iron Is on d slightly lower
level
Except in few scattered localities struct-
ural materials are eagerly sought and mills
which can give prompt deliveries are Sc
curing generous premiums. Building opera
tiOHS generally are HedNy ana SOHle idISt
contracts were closed during the week The
scarcity of billets and sheet bars continues
and ii is announced that the Carnegie Steel
Company will soon take its Ohio works off
sheet bars and turn them onto rails. Bar
il on is slightly more active with prices vary
ing widely and little selling at more than
$34 Nils are far behind on their merchant
steel orders.
Preparations are going forward rapidly
for the opening of lake navigation, though
the severe weather of the last few days in
the Superior district threatens to delay the
opening date. Ore is moving rapidly from
the docks and furnaces are purchasing con-
siderable tonnages to fill in their immediate
needs Certain Virginia furnaces have met
with great difficulty in filling their require
ments and some have banked. Bessemer
orc is exceedingly scarce.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
BIG DEAL IN REALTY
LOCAL CAPITALISTS BUY OLD ST.
MATTHEW'S CHURCH.

Following the announcement made yester-
day of the purchase by the Union Trust
Company of the property at the southwest
corner of 18th and II streets northwest,
where building for the use of the COM
pany is to be erected, comes the statement
that a syndicate has secured an option on
the old s.. Matthew's Church property. at
the northeast corner of the same streets.
This option was secured from the pastor
Howard, the treasurer of the National Safe
Deposit Company. This latter circumstance
led TO the opinion on the part of some, be-
fore it WAS known that the option had been
obtained by other persons that possibly a
change was to be made by the National
Safe Deposit Company in its business ioca-
ton. Mr. Howard disposed of that conjec-
ture, however. this morning by saying the
company of which he was an officer had no
intention OF leaving the building which 1t
owned and where it had been located for
SO many years
There Is no definite Information in regard
to the people who are credited with ha wing
secured the option on the church property,
except the fntimation that they are local
people. Neither is ii known what they IN
tend to do with it. Mr.. Howard said this
morning they may put up temporary build
ings there merely to get an income from
them, or they may erect an office or bus-
ness building, or they may not exercise
their option at all.
The property has wide frontases both on
III and 18th streets and cont aims 20 PIP
square feet. The price fixed in the option is
not Ivn, but it is thought to be some
hgufe Letween $1o and $40 per square foot.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
STREET RAILWAY DEAL.
Proposed Scheme of Realty Syndicate
in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO. March ia big
street railway deal having for its purpose
the absorbing by the United Railroads OF
San Francisco of all the railways OF Oak
land and vicinity, owned and controlled by
the realty syndicate under the name of the
Oakland Traction Company, has been under
negotiation for some time past. The price
said to have been offered by the United
Railroads, or the eastern owners OF that
corporation, is s70o0,0O0.
This figure is reported TO have been de-
clined by the realty syndicate people, and
the negotiations were briefly suspended,
only to be resumed with keener vigor by
the fnanciers representing the great inter-
ests engaged in the game of millions.
The transact on Involves all the street
railroads acquired by the realty syndicate
during the past fifteen years. other than
the Key route otherwise the San Francisco
Oakland and San Jose ra lroad, and Its
ferry connections between Oakland and this
city The deal. it is understood, will be
consummated early in April.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
THE ATKINSON DEATH.
Indictment Against James franklin
Nolle Prosecuted

NORFOLK, Va, March 15.-The case of
James Franklin, formerly of Bedford City
Va, indicted jointly with DR.. L. r. Chiles
for the murder of .uiss Sarah Atkinson.
whose death followed an alleged criminal
operation, has been nolle prosecuted, and
Franklin is now free man. DR.. Chiles,
tn principal in the case, was tried and
acquitted last month.
Franklin at that time elected to have a
separate trial and this was to have pro-
ceeded this month, but there was found a
decision of the court of appeals of Vir-
ginia holding that where the principal in
any criminal prosecution was found not
guilty this verdict carried with it a neces-
sary acquittal for the alleged accessory,
and thus Franklin, who was the former
suitor of Miss Atkinson, escapes trial.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
27 VICTIMS OF sHIPWRECK.
Heroic Rescue of 30 From Doomed
Steamer British King.

Suffering mental and physical anguish
from numerous acts of heroism in saving
life rarely equaled in the record of trage-
dies of the sea attended the loss of the
Phoenix line steamer British King, which
on Sunday last In a raging Atlantic storm
foundered about 100 miles south of Sable
Island and carried to death twenty seven
members~ef~the crew. Thirteen men were
rescued from the sinking vessel by the Ley
land line steamer Bostonian, bound from
Manchester to Boston, and eleven by the
German tank steamer Mannheim, Rotter-
dam for New York Five Others who had
been drawn down in the vortex into which
the British King was ingulfed were picked
up by the Bostonian from frail bit or
wreckage which they had grasped after a
desperate struggle for life in the whirlpool
The Bostonian arrived at Boston yesterday
afternoon and the details of the disaster
became known.
Capt James O'Hagan of the British King
died on board the Bostonian from the ef
fects of terrible injuries sustained in trying
to save his ship. The rescued who were
brought 20 Boston yesterday include James
Flanagan, the second officer; j. ID. Craw-
ford, the chief engineer; Adoiphus BECK. ne
fourth engineer, and William J. Curry, the
steward. The others were coal passers and
sailors mostly Belgians, and one stowaway,
Henry Parkotch of New York.
The boats of the Bostonian were crushed
to fragments, and the volunteer crews
which manned them were thrown into the
high-running seas while engaged In the
work of rescue, but all were safely landed
on board the steamer.
When the first lifeboat was lowered from
the Bostonian the small craft was swept
against the stern of the big ship and de-
stroyed, and several sealnen were bruised
and MANNED Yet, despite the bosterous
condition OF the sea, the volunteers were
rescued by lines thrown out from their
steamer.
second attempt to reach the sinking
ship was successful, and thirteen men, in
Guiding Capt O'Hagan, were taken from
again a powerful biIlow carried the lifeboat
against the side of the ship and destroyed
It, and the lifesavers were thrown into the
sea- to be rescued only after an hours
effort by their comrades.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
Asks for Jury of Inquisition.

Myron A. Tappan, trading as M. A Tap
pan & Company, the local sporting goods
dealer, against whom petition in invol-
untary bankruptcy was filed February 21
last has made answer to the petition de-
nying that he has committed an act of
bankruptcy Mr.. Tappan. by Attorneys w.
w. Boarman and Hayden Johnson, asserts
that his business is in solvent condition.
He asks the court for a jury of inquisition
as provided by the bankruptcy law to de-
termine whether the acts complained of by
the petitoning creditors constitute viola
tions of the bankruptcy act
Attorney Lucas Loving. who represents
the complaining creditors, stated today that
he would shortly apply to Chief Justice
CIabaugh, who presides in the Bankruptcy
Court, tc name a day when the questions
involved in the proceeding might be sub
mtted to a jury.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
Army Orders.

The following named officers of the med
ical department have been ordered to Ma
rlla for examination for promotion: FIRST
Lieuts. p. II. McAndrew, G. Med. Van
Poole, c. II. R. Gosman, ]. w. Van Dusan,
Wallace De Witt. r. NJ. Thronburgh, Rob-
ert B. Grubbs, E. ID. Shortlidse, Peter C..
field and Herbert G. Shaw.
The leave of absence granted Maj. Frank
r. Keefer, surgeon, has been extended one
month.
Second Lieut.. Vaughn W.sCooper, 12-h
Cavalry, has been ordered to the general
hospital. Washington barracks, for surgical
II eatment,
Evening star., 1906-03-15
Fearful Reprisal Threatened.

On account of the wholesale arrests and
executions characterizng the repression OF
the revolutionists, numerous threats have
been made against the life of Gov. Gen.
Rennenkampfr at Chita, Russia, and the
latter has issued a proclamation in which
he announced that IL an attempt is made
upon his life or upon the lives of members
of his escort all the reyolutfonists now in
prison will be executed within an hour.
There are coo revoiutionists In prison at
Chita, and sixty military executions have
taken place at Chita or in its vicinity.
Evening star., 1906-03-15

Four. Lake Erie and Western. Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern railroads for gen
eral central repair shops, to employ 1900
men. The other land will be used for
model railroad city. The contract calls for
two miles of sewers. pipe systems, streets
and sidewalks this year. The New York
Central system has appropriated $4,000
for the work. and will spend 81 100000 this
year. The town will be plated and ineor-
porated under the name of Beech Grove.
There will be a capacity for 10000 cars In
the yards The present shops of the roads
will be used for divisional repair shops.
Evening star., 1906-03-15

of the committee that it will not favor
general bill for guaranteeing interest on
Alaskan railway bonds, but will probably
consider certain railways individually to
determine whether they shall be assisted.
The committee is practically agreed that
Hawaii should be granted money for public
improvements, but the bill allowing Hawaii
to use IS per cent of its revenue for twenty
years in such improvements doubtless viii
be amended as to the length of time
Evening star., 1906-03-15
Three Killed in Collapsed Building

While nine men were sitting about the
stove in a grocery store at jamestown. Ind,
yesterday afternoon. three of them were
killed and five injured by the collapse of
the Odd Fellows Hall. which crushed the
building occupied by the grocery.
The dead are: Samuel Lewis, George
Scott and Charles Hedge.
The injured are: William Mitchell, jr.,
left leg crushed below the knee: r. T. Alb
ney, right shoulder crushed; Joseph Jack
son, both ankles wrenched: Oscar Wyatt
body bruised. and Julius Underwood, leg in
jured.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
BRITISH CRITICISMS ON CONGO.
Subject of Question in House Of Com
mons at London

LONDON. March 15.-Statements attrib-
uted to the Belgian minister at Washing
ton Baron Moncheur. and the Belgian con-
sui In Chicago. c. Henrotin imputing politi-
cal and sordid motives to British critics of
the administration of the Congo independent
state, formed the subject of question in
the house of commons this afternoon.
Charles z. Trevelyan 0fberaD drew the
attention of Foreign Secretary Grey to the
alleged utterances. and invited the secretary
TO take steps to "dissipate the impression
which such statements may have created
in America
In reply Sir Edward Grey said he had not
seen the statements, but If they had been
made they were quite untrue
Evening star., 1906-03-15
proposed Lake Erie-ohio Canal.

The House bin authorizing the construc-
tioa of canal between Lake Erie and .he
Ohio river was taken up today by the Sen
atf committee on commerce. John Il. Shaw
and William A. Magee of Pittsburg spoke
Ia favor of the measure. Several amend,
ments were offered, and these, together
with the bill, were referred to a subcom-
n,ittee of Senators Nelson. Gailinger. Phi as,
Clay and Stone The. subcommittee VIII
meet Saturday.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
Lecture by Bishop Galloway.

Arrangements have been made for lee
ture to be delivered at the Mount Vernon
Place NJ. E. Church South, 9th and K
streets, tomorrow evening by Bishop
Charles B. Galloway of jackson. Missis-
sippi. He will discuss the late L. @. &.
Lamar, jurist orator and statesman SEN
ator Overman of North Carolina is to pre-
side, and Justice Brewer of the Supreme
Court of the United States will introduce
the speaker.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
PRICE OF "GRowLER" RAISED.
Chicago Liquor Men Voted Unani-
mously for Increase April

CHICAGO, Marcel 15.-After April 1 no
can OF beer will cost less than 10 cents in
chicago. The directors of the Liquor
Dealers Association at meeting yester-
day voted unanimously for the increase,
and notice of the act on will he sent to
every one of the 5000 members in the city
and county.
The ordinance introduced recently in the
council for the limitation of the number of
saloons in the city to one for every 500 of
population was indorsed Friends of the
measure explain that the ordinance is in
tended 10 prohibit the issuance of any
more saloon licenses until the population
reaches the Point where the Il to 500 rule
would apply
Evening star., 1906-03-15
Dissolution of Partnership Asked.

Proceedings for dissolution of partnership
have been instituted in the District Su-
preme Court by Everett b. Macdonald
against George OFT. II is averred by the
complainant that he and the defendant en-
tered, by verbal agreement, into a partner
ship December Is, 1905, to conduct noari-
ing house business. In pursuance of their
house 72G 18th street and conducted
boarding house there until March II MIR
Macdonald states that the business suffered
through alleged mismanagement. The Pc
tition was filed by Attorney Walter Y.
Plumley.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
Ohio OFF for shangha, Sunday,

MANILA, March L.. = The battleship
Ohio flagship of Rear Admiral Train, in
command Of the American feet on the
Asiatic stations. will leave here for Shang-
hal on Sunday. March IS. to join the
cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati. The bat
tlcshlp Wisconsin Is now at Olongapo.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
FAVORABLE TO HAWAII.
will Probably Be Allowed to Use Reve'
gs nue for Improvements.

The House committee on territories con-
sidered government aid of Alaskan rail-
ways and the setting aside of Hawaiian
revenues for public improvements today.
Although no action was taken on the Alas
kan railway proposition. 1t was the sense
Evening star., 1906-03-15
ModeI Rai,road CITY Planned.

Options were closed yesterday on 2.46o
acres of ground adjo.ning Indianapolis on
the south at cost of $650,0o0. Six hundred
and forty acres will be used by the New
York Central system, including the Big
Evening star., 1906-03-15

President .Amador of Panama authorizes
a denial of the report that ne intends re-
signing.
Evening star., 1906-03-15
Spring OvercOats for Men.

that whether his
toward
that show the greatest development designing
Saks ability only style
the models with their well defined
and finish from anything else shown have been gayng favor
able only here, n New York
Evening star., 1906-03-15
MR., RICKETTS, RESIGNS
Retires From Position of Fore
man of Printing.
HIS DEPARTURE REGRETTED
Important Change at Government
Printing Office.
A NEW CHIEF STATISTICIAN
Russell O. Beene Appointed Member
of Mr. Stillings' Personal Staff
Possesses Experience.

Two important events have transpired
in the government printing office within
the past twenty-four hours. The first was
the resignation of Mr.. Oscar ]. Ricketts,.
foreman of printing, which was formally
accepted by Mr.. Charles A. Stiliings. the
public printer late yesterday afternoon.
The second was the appointment of Mr..
Russell o. Beene to the newly created Of
fee of chief statistician of the establish
ment.
Rumors have been current for several
weeks to the effect that Mr.. Ricketts, in
tended to resign and enter private busi-
ness. but as fast as such reports arose
they were denied.
1t was not until yesterday afternoon that
the matter eliminated. when Mr.. Stillings
accepted the resignation of Mr.. Ricketts,,
which was worded as follows:
L hereby tender TO you my resignat ton
as foreman of printing in the government
printing office In doing so desire to ex-
press my cordial appreciation of the uni
form courtesy which you have extended to
me, both as an officer and as a citizen
While the term of my official association
with you has been short, / take pleasure in
bearing testimony to your many excellent
qualities so many times made manifest in
your management of the great establish
ment over which you have been called to
preside.
II am moved to sever my connection with
the office with which i have been so long
connected solely because of a business op-
portunity, which, in justice to my personal
interests, l cannot disregard.
II bespcak for you the highest degree of
success in your administra ton, and while
fully conscious that the task imposed upon
you by the President is one which calls for
the exercise of the strongest traits of mind
and character. | am confident that in the
final analysis the wisdom of the Presidents s
judgment in your selection will be amply
eXemplifed.
If at any time in the future, as a pri-
Vdte citizen. L can serve you, / shall be
happy to respond TO the best of my abil-
ity."
Evening star., 1906-03-15
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine TsbIsea
Druggists refund money II fails to cuFA
z. W. GROVES sisnatuD Il each box. IA
Evening star., 1906-03-15
Business on Own Account.

MIR. Ricketts,. il is stated. has received
several fiattering offers during the last few
months from large manufacturing inter-
ests TO enter into engagements with them,
but 1t has been his desire TO go into busi-
ness on his own responsibility.
Several days ago he closed an agree
ment with the Union Central Life Insur-
ance Company of Cincinnati Ohio, of which
Governor John NJ. Pattison is president, by
which Mr., Ricketts, becomes the joint gem
eral representative of the company in the
District of Columbia.
He will become associated in business
with Frank X. Raymond. who has been tho
general agent of the company in Wash
ington for more than twenty years
Mr.. Ricketts, will wind up his affairs at
the government printing office on Saturday
of this week.
Speculation Regarding Successor.
The question of who will succeed MIR.
Ricketts, as foreman OF printing was geaer-