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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-30
His Honor the Judge
By AMBROSE PRATT

murmured. MY remarks, no
doubt, stung him to the quick.
The rogue was once, perhaps, a
gentleman. Who knows?"
Some two years later a paper was
brought to him to sign. His Honor
saw a pair of eyes looking up at
him from a name he read thereon.
He smiled and sighed and shrugged
his shoulders. But late that night,
when the house was still, he opened
the lowest drawer of his escritoire
and took out a revolver. :" | be-
lieve he was once a gentleman"
he muttered under his breath. If
so, he will keep his word and make
it a point to call on me-" Then he
loaded his revolver, placed it upon
the desk before him, and began
again to read the treatise on the
ologv which he had momentarily
put down.
His wife and eldest daughter
were absent, spending short holi-
day at his bungalow in the Blue
Mountains His son, rising
young barrister, had set out that
very morning to conduct criminal
prosecution in a distant country
town; and his younger daughter
earlier in the evening had retired
to her room with a headache. He
was the only man in the house, for
his domestic servants were all of
the other sex, and his gardener slept
in a room over the empty stables
at the bottom of the shrubbery.
The Judge was a man of eXtremel
who despised show of any kind. He
a carriage. He walked to whatever
to go, for the sake of exercise. Tho
who preferred to ride hired a cab ;
ranted. Many persons spoke of him
but none of his dependents had at al
the charge.
From the open doorway Gerald
attentively His Honor's profile, list
tense silence of the room, to the il
and regular breathing. In his left /
held a dark lantern, in his right a &C
was masked to the eyes, and he wo
His thoughts were curiously com
the affair had been absurdly S
success too facile for his liking.
temperament which demanded obst
ter, difficulties to surmount, in ord
suit of the moment should be rer
in the undertaking. The unheard f
the undisputed acquisition of His H
-reposing at that instant at the f
in a sugar bag-were circumstance
doubt, to his predatory and profe'
but they had left his desire for W
finer sense, unsatistied
Seated unsuspecti
before him WAS the !
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THE KELLY SHORTAGE.
Little Left for Judge Dana to Decide In the Case Against the Kansas
 Treasurer.

Topeka. Kan, July 7.Judge A. w.
 ma, in the district court Friday sus- tained the demurrer to the third count in the case Of the state against State Treasurer r T. Kelly This is the charge of s6.s6S shortage on account of loss of Interest on Oklahoma war rants sold Judge Dana holds that Treasurer Kelly had the right to dis pose of the Oklahoma warrants at any time he saw ht
 The second count In the states ease was withdrawn by Attorney Gen. eral C. c Coleman when he found shot the state had no evidence to sustain 1t This connt relates to a shortage of s9a in coupons owned by the state aericultural college fund
 The sole 'hin~ l~fl os the case to
 decided by Judge Dana Is the lia-
 itv ot Mir. Kelly for two charg s under the first count, Mir Coleman pins his hopes to an alleeed shortage of s427.50 in Butler county bonds, an
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A,fonso.s New Cabinet.

Madrid, July liking Alfonso Fri day sanctioned the appointment Of the following ministry 10 succeed the cab. inet headed by Moret Prendergrast, which resigned Thursday: Premier and minister of war, Field Marshal Lopez Dominguez; minister of foreign affairs, Senor Gullon; minister of the interior, Bernabe Davila; minister of finance. Navarro ReverteF; minister of public works, Garcia Prieto min ister of marine, Senor Alvardo min ister of instruction, Amalio Ciemento; minister of justice, Count Romana- nones.
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rHle YEse,s RECORD.
Chicago Trib.upe's Figures or Fourth of July Casualties hcw 5i Dead and
 3.A5I Injured.

Chicago, July 7.-Fifty-one lives thrown away and 3,55l celebrants maimed or injured, some of them ia tally, is the record or this years
 Glorious" Fourth. as compiled by cor respondents of the Tribune up to an early hour Friday. The loss of life all most equals that of last year. when 59 persons were killed, while every record for the number of injured WIS broken Almost 100 more in hospitals Thursday or swathed in bandages than on the day following the Fourth last year
 That the death list will continue to grow for several days is indicated by a large number of dispatches record Ing injuries believed to be fatal. The deadly toy pistol was responsible for a
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NInyor Rose in Cnnten,,,,

Topeka, July 1.-The supreme court 2l kansas handed down an opinion rIllay morning in which it found w ". Rose, mayor of Kansas City Kan sull'y of contempt for holding office rom which he had been busted by inc sourl For this breach of respect to the highest legal tribunal in the state ne court fined Mayor Rose S1 GOO to oe paid within 20 days If the fine IS not paid within that time Rose is to oe committed to the Shawnee county 'all at Topeka and be kept there until the fine is paid.
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Japan in 1885. stayed there three years, re-organized the Japanese army and wrote noted book on tactics. Field Marshal Oyama, after the battle of Mukden, telegraphed to Gen. Meek el ascribing the formers success to Meckel's instructions. The emperor of Japan conferred the grand cross of the order of the Sacred Treasure on the general after the battle
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neetion with her sons death had been Kept rom her, but she grew suspi- cious and recently slipped away to New York, where she learned all that had happened The shock was so great that her return home she be- came aiarmingly i'll and has rapidly grown worse. She is 80 years old
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white,s Mother Learns of rrar,,,,.

St. James, L. l., July G. Mrs. Richard Grant White, the venerable mother of Stanford White, who was murdered by Harry K Thaw, is crit ically i'll at the home of her daughter
 in-Iaw here. The true facts in con-
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Saginaw, Mich, July 7-Three persons were killed and sin injured, two of them seriously by the explo- sion of large gasoline tank at the Cosendai dye works here Friday. Every window in the bloek was brok- en by the explosion. The building was consumed by the flames which followed the explosion Loss $30000
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We have divided our Ladies' and Children's Hats into just three lots. and they will be sold as follows
 LOT l, will include all of our S1.O0 and SIPS Hats, Eno Sale price. JUU
 Lot 2. Every hat in our house that we have sold all season at S1.5O to S2.00 each, cf m Sale price each ..... 0IlUU
 Lot 3. This lot will include all of our very fine Pattern Hats. in fact every hat in our house that has sold at S2.5O, ss.s' Sale paiss. 9ss sass' ss.S'' .$l.5O
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Prof. Lan rdeil Dead.

Cambridge, Mass. July 7.--Christo. 9her celambus Lugael. Ll. D pro- 'essor oi law, enilitns. at Harvard ni ef'i'f and al authority on law iea dAeny his home in this
 NAAa hair esse He was born ai ''s .''v9s'tUeA \ aaty N. H.. in 1926
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Rebuilding Sale of
 Umbrellas
 One lot of very best 75c Ladies Umbrellas with natural wood, pearl and horn han Eno dies, Special Rebuilding Sale price, each JUL One lot of finer Umbrellas with cover, extra fine line of handles, never sold Ct IF under l.50 to S200, Special price OIsZJ
 25c Silk Mitts Ioc
 Ladies Black Silk Lace Mitts, never fflo sold for less than 25c Sale price per pair lUC
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biz per centage of the iniuria and six of the dead How many of the injured are infected with the germs of tetanus can not be estimated
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day
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alie~ea el's~.r~e er e0o ss cf or9v 'awnsh'n hense. nof-ev co''~t~ Ind nana will anaoun ' hi9 decision Mon day.
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Noted German omcar ne.. i

herlin July 7.-M Maj. Gen. Meckel formerly professor of military tsrtics IT Japan died Friday He went to
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BAKED IN O|L LAND GRAB
Plan of Standard to Control Indian Territory Field Exposed by
 Secretary Hitchcock.
TRIED TO INFLUENCE TIE PRESIDENT

Gvv. Higgins. of New York Induced to Complain to Mir. Roosevelt of the seere- fary's AttatusIe Regarding Oil and tas Leases Scheme Fell Thrugh When the Prsfdent Heard the Truth.
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Rebuilding Sale on
 COrSetS soc to SI.oo Corsets 25c

We have accumulation of small lots in Corsets from ? to of kind, any style in them -Girdles, short or long hip, high or low bust, nothing in them that has ever been sold for less than soc and most of them are 75c and $l % Corsets Find your size and you have the greatest Corset bargain you ever bought 1En
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independents aLaeriotIa d~lsadyantaae The
investigation has only Incidentally touched
stats shipments from distributing ccn'res,
particularly In les thar carloads The few
i~natancrs examined suEgca, the probability
~ determinations On such ahipmenta Which,
taken IN connection with Through tmfhc,
may RESULT In determinations on Interstate
business.
I have cited thesc pnr'io lar instances
to show the various methods by which dis
ordinations are obtained, and To call par
ticular attention 10 methods which, IL legal,
are nero devices to obtain exactly the
same result "a would b, obtained by re-
bates paid on Interstate business. Any
freight discrimination. whether II be State
OF interstate. tends to give control Of mar
kets TO the preferred shipper and mako
monopoly possible n existing law merely
prohibit n special device for obtaining
discrimination, ond permits the same re-
suit to be accomplished In a direrent way,
then the Legislation il TO that extent n sham.
This investigation has shown very clearly
one GA airing defect In the Interstate commerce
law, viz. the method Of fling and publishing
tariffs. Although a tariff, or n rate, has bee n
filed with tho commission. In compliance
with the terms Of the law. none but the
favored shipper may know Of its existence.
Tariffs may he made and rates may tie COM
bined in such manner as to make II practi-
cally impossible for the ordinary shipper
to find them. As long as the State rates arc
not required to he made public, and ship pers
Use such rates in combination with inter-
state rates. all manner OF devices to evade
the purpose Of the law are possible. All
State rates used in connection with inter
state shipments should be fled with tho
Interstate Commerce Commission. and a
radical change should be made in the dirsc-
ton Of simplify ing tariffs and in methods
Of posting and fling them.
JAMES RUDOLPH GARFIELD,
Commissioner Of Corporations.
THF President.
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from dui'iss f0r lbp fnrss rufbr-ss ~
htys very unwtpif pf1hihttsi 'hsGt from
uaiiing nv nfpf~g taifpsvsss thtf 10, for
PURPOSES ~ proisr'b,n ~ themselves sNi
Il, ~ n'rrr,i puhl,c - sa,insi 'hs ppwer
n ttr sret' corporations fhsv shotild
rnftnlnly ~ given nv, p1Wef tirfa ~ units
or conditions lsli dr'sn ~ roasr~ss, ~ioh
N,ndtioua to incluie th- sp-ciAc spprovai
~ tho in'srsafs C%otunsfcn Commission
" any ~nsrreuent ~ which tho railroads
nav cnute IN addition ~ this ma OoT.
ernmeni must interiors through w. agsnts
to dppfive Tho milfuaI NJ M abtlity 10
make 10 ih~ bis corporations Tho con.
osssipna witch otlprWias " - pD~erisss
Nv refu~e.
The Government should have power
by its agents ~ examine into tho conduct
81 tho ~railway--that h. the examiners,
under tho direction ~ the Interstate ON
rrrrcs Comm. taion, should b. able to az
aminc ~ thoroughly into the Affairs u tho
milrnad NJ bank examiners now SAmin
into the Affairs ~ banks.
II Il impossible 20 work n material Inn
provcnent In conditions such as above
Described merely through the instrument
tally n a lawsuit. A lawsuit IL often .
necessary method; hut by itself Il u an
utterly inadequate method, What u
needed IL the comforting upon the COM
mission 81 ample affirmative power, 40 con-
ferred "a 70 make its decisions take effect at
once. subject only to such action by the
court NJ is demanded by the Constitution
The courts have the power To, and will
undoubtedly. interfere II the action Of the
commission should become in effect con-
fscatory Of tho property Of an individual
or corporation, or II the commission should
undertake q do anything beyond the
authority conferred Upon IL by the law
under which II IL acting. l am we'll aware
that within the limits thus set the commission
may at times be guilty Of injustice; but far
grosser and far more frequent injustice.
and injustice OF a much more injurious kind.
now results and must always result from the
failure to give the commission ample power
10 act promptly and effectively within these
broad limits.
Though not bearing upon the question OF
railroad rates, there are two measures con-
sideration Of which il imperatively sug-
gested by the submission of this report.
The Standard Oil Company has, largely by
unfair or unlawful methods, crushed out
home competition. 1t is highly desirable
that an element OF competition should be
introduced by the passage Of some such
law as that which has already passed the
House, putting alcohol used in the
arts and manufactures upon the free
list. Furthermore, the time has come
when no oil or coal lands held by the Gov
eminent, either upon the public domain
proper or in territory owned by the Indian
tribes, should be alienated. The fee to such
lands should be kept in the United States
Government, whether or not the profits
arising from 1t are to be given TO any Indian
tribe, and the lands should be leased only
on such terms and for such periods as will
enable the Government TO keep entire con-
troll thereof. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The WHITE House, May 4. 1905
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MIR. GARFIELD'S LETTER.
o ecrct Rates and Other Unjust iscrimina-
lions In Favor OF the Standard.

WASN'T NoToN, May 4.-In his letter TO
the President, transmitting his report. Com
missioner Garfield says:
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR,
BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS,
WASHINGTON, May 2, 1905.
SIR: have the honor TO submit the part
Of the report on the oil industry which has
to do with the subject Of transportation
and freight rates.
House resolution No. 400, passed February
IS, 1905, directed particular attention to the
condition Of the Kansas oil field. The
study OF the oil industry which had there
tofore been made by the bureau showed
that a special report upon the conditions
In the Kansas field would not be advisable.
A report on any special field would of neces-
sity be unfair TO both the producers and the
r%efners, for the reason that the purely local
conditions do not by any means deter
mine the price OF either crude oil or its prod
ucts or afford a proper basis for under
standing the conditions Of the industry.
Therefore a general and very extensive
Investigation has been conducted, cover
ing the following subjects;
/. The crude oil production In the United
States and its relation TO the worlds supply;
the prices and methods OF purchase.
2. The use, development and control OF
pipe lines.
8, Refining OF oil: the control OF reineries;
the cost Of refining and marketing; the
prices Of petroleum products.
4. The organization, ownership and rela-
ton Of the companies engaged in the pro-
duotion, manufacture and distribution Of
oil.
8. The competitive methods used In the
production n sale Of oil.
q. Transportation and freight rates.
4. Foreign trade and conditions and their
relation to the domestic industry.
/ have personally visited nearly all Of
the great fields and have beer in COM
munication, either personally or through
the agents Of t., bureau, with many hun
dred producers and practically all the re-
finers and transportation agencies engaged
in the distribution Of oil. A special agent
OF the Bureau was sent to Europe to study
at first hand the conditions in foreign pro-
ducing fields and distributing markets.
The facts obtained have In every feasible
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the rates from the shiprina points I.s
ntrltsiyriv. - almost eSslu ivsly. bv 49,
Standar 49, relatively lower 'hH.
The rn',,s from the shipping poir'.
~ n. ~cninTrftprI RI'es have leer
made loN ia ie' tho STANDARD into marie
~ they have bcrn trade lifh ~ leo-
W. Compoiiior out ~ marl etc
Different methods are tnsd in different
plar~a and unGer different oonditione
hut tho not result u that from Maine ~
California 'hr general arrangement ~ iron
rates uh petroleum oil IL s'lch ~ IN give
the standard m unreasonable advantage
over its romp,titorr Tho concluaior "a
Unavoidable that the standard OIL Com
plnv has had an inf ortant voice IN tho
construction n such rates. and this con
clusion h SUPPORTED bv specific eVidcnce
develonel hv the inve~ttgation
II il Mao alleged nv Commissioned Gar.
field that
"Aside from DETERMINATIONS in rates
v neither secret or Oxen there nro In MANI
rnrts NJ the country less important dis
ordinations With res-eCt to the classified
ton of petroleum and the rules under which
" IL transported. in many cases
there are unreasonable differences betv cen
the rates on oil In carloads and In less than
carloads. There are also unreasonable
rules with respect To the charges on oil In
different kinds Of containers; and with ~
srrct 70 %-hirrant ~ mixed carloads Of dif-
ferent kinds If oil rules which have been
applied against inderendent ~refiners are
sometimes not ist the Standard
Among the natural advantages" OF the
Standard Oil Company, Commissioner Gar
field slvs the chief one. aside from present
railroad DISCRIMINATORY" consists In its
immense live line systame. concerning
which the Commissioner says:
The great ma ioritv of the competitors NJ
the Standar I'd are located in. or very near
to, oil producing territories and are thus
dependent upon railroads fort he ~transporta-
ton Of oil almost the entire distance from
the wells TO the final consumer. The Stand
ard Oil Company, on the other hand, often
transports its crude oil hundreds Of miles
In pipe lines in order to refine II at points
much nearer to the great oonsum-
ing markets. The advantages OF a pipe
line over a railroad in the t~ransporta-
ton OF oil can hardly be. overstated. A
liberal estimate of the cost Of piping crude
oil from the fields Of western Pennsylvania
to the Atlantic seaboard, for instance.
would be not more than 10 cents q barrel.
including int rest and depre ciation, whereas
the railroad charge is more than four times
that amount, An illustration of the oon
omy Of this method Of transportation is
seen in the fact that to-day the crude oil
of Indian Territory is piped underground
more than 500 miles to the Standards
great refneries at New York harbor. The
cost OF transportation by railroad for such
q distance would be prohibitive."
In respect to the various natural ad-
vantages" Of the Standard OH Company
Commissioner Garfield says that thcy would
alone give it a highly favorable position in
the oil industry.
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House Applauds the Message.

WASHINGTON. May president Roose-
velt's message transmitting the report Of
Commissioner Garfield on the Standard Oil
Company was laid before the House Of Rep
r~esentatives promptly after it was called to
order to-day. II was received with much
the same forrnality as attends the reading
OF the annual messages. printed copies OF
Commissions Garfield's letter Of transmittal
and the summary Of the report beine placed
in the hands Of members when the reading
Of the message itself began.
There was hearty and long continued
applause all owe the hall at the conclusion
OF the reading. Speaker cannon waited for
1t to cease, holding the message in his hand
toward the Journal clerk, and then said
emphatically: Printed and Inodding to-
ward Mr.. Hepburn rep. la chairmanl
referred to the Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce"
The House then resolved itself into COM
mittee of the whole for general debate on
the Naval Appropriation bill.
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DIED.

cARY-suddenly. on May 4. In London, England,
In his sSth year. Howard Cary. younger son
of Clarence and Elizabeth N. Cary.
Notice OF the interment win be given later.
coSGRovE--Hlizabeth Jane Kemp, rtset Of
james Cost rove and mother OF Janea /. and
Henry L.
Notice OF funeral In Sundays papers.
LIvERMoRE, Very suddenly. OF heart failure. 90
Tuesday, Nay 1, at 0 East o7d st.. John r.
Livermore. son OF the late Charles Y. Liver
more.
Funeral services AZ the Church OF the linear
nation, SSth ct. and Madison av. on SATURDAY
May 9Th, 10 A. NJ.
owEN.-on May l.. 1909. william ?. Owen. age o.
years, OF New York city.
Funeral services from the Chapel Of the stephen
Merritt Burial Co., sth sv. and 10th ct, on
Sunday, az half past II. Interment kenslco
cemetery.
SKIILIN.-on Friday. May 4. 1905. Amelia skillsn
at her late resdence s17 West 9th st., PLAIN
neld. N. J.
Notice OF funeral services viii be given bet'
Philadelphia papers please COPY.
WALLACE On May 2, al Fordham Hospital.
Edward Knapp, son OF Edward Copeland and
Antoinette Knapp wallac e, In the 18th year OF
his age.
Funeral private,
WELLS. Suddenly. Of pneumonia, az Railway.
N. j., on Friday, May 4, william Edmund WeNs'
In his 18th year.
Funeral services st the Central PTesbytersa
Church. Railway. n. j.. Sunday, May Q, 1905,
ear. n. sytseuss papeu please eepH
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