Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

A decree has been issued by the
government recalling its consuIs in
France and Withdrawing the exequat-
eurs OF the French consuls in Vene-
zuela.
Secretary Taft appeared before the
house committee on ilsular affairs in
the interests of a pending bill for the
coal lands to enable the United States
to mine fuel for its own use in the
fast mail
General Manager Pearce, of the Pa
cific Coast Steamship Company, says
that the Valencia is insured for ap-
proximately $4,000, of which
amount three-fourths is carried by
English underwriters and the re
mainder in San Francisco.
Combinations: Luke E. Wright,
Tennessee. ambassador to Japan;
George Cabot Ward. New York, audi
tor of the island of Porto Rico: Oil
yer r. w. Robinson, receiver of pub
lie moneys at Los Angeles; Fred G..
Havemann, postmaster, Samon, Ida
no.
The wrecked SteaEer Valencia now
lies submerged and broken but a por-
ton of a mast stands above the wa
ter and the feet of steamers and tugs
have been turning their attention to
patrolling the vicinity in the hope of
finding boats, RATS or wreckSge still
afiOat with survivors, though the
chances are small.
President Loubet presided in Paris
at a cabinet council held in the Ely
see palace at which Premier Rouvier
announced that he had received a
communication from Ambassador JUS
serand to the effect that the United
States did not consider a French ma
val demonstration against Venezuela
to be violation of the Monroe doc
thine.
Governor Carter of Honolulu, is
seriously i'll. He is suffering with a
high fever with some indications of
typhoid. Secretary Atkinson, who is
in New York, has been notified not
to leave for Europe for the purpose
of seeking immigrants for the island
which is the object of his visit. 1t is
said that he may not return to act
as governor.
The finance minister, NJ Sakatani,
said in the house of representatives
in Toxic that he proposed to con-
vert sS,0OO.000 of the war taxes into
permanent imposts and to establish a
debt with a consolidation fund for the
service of which sos, 900, 900 would be
devoted annually in addition to the
$1S,000,OOO hitherto assigned for the
same purpose.
Ministerial circles in Paris are
much annoyed over the published re-
ports relative to Frances alleged
hesitation and nervousness regarding
the Venezuelan question. A highly
placed official of the foreign office
protested energetically against the
statements made on the subject
The G--nd Harbor. of Masters and
Pilots of Steam Vessels of the Uni
ted States, the supreme body of the
Steamboat Mems Association of the
United States, is holding it's annual
session in Washington. Delegates
representing the steamboat men of
every important port in the country
and from ST. Michacls, Alaska, and
Honolulu are present.
Felix Gaidst, Russian, who was a
cabin passenger on the steamer Mo-
eye, was arrested upon the steamers
II,
The arrest was made at the instance
of the project of the secret police of
St. Petersburg. A charge of embez-
element was made against the man,
but it was said by friends that Gaidsi
is wanted in Russia for political rea-
sons.
The government through District
Attorney Morrison made, its opening
statement in the packers case in Chi
cago. The district attorney entered
upon his address to the jury with
such vigor that the attorneys for the
defense at once interposed objec-
tions
Stephen Decatur, great-grandsOn of
Commodore Decatur, first class Uni
ted States naval academy, was dis
missed from the navy by Secretary
Bonaparte in conformity with the
sentence of the court martial in his
case on The charge of hazing.
A requiem mass was celebrated in
the Westminster Roman Catholic ca
thedraI in London in memory of Ray
mond Prefontaine, the late Canadian
minister of marine and fisheries. who
died in Paris December % last, and
whose body has been taken to Can
ada on the British battleship Do
minion.
According to Official accounts the
Baltic provinces are now almost
pacified" 1t is alleged that 23O of
the US townships of the southern
province of Cou-land are now occu.
pied by troops