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PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS FOR THE SALE OF
FLOUR AND CORNMEAL-Head-
quarters Pacific Division. Presldio.
San Francisco. Cal. June S. 1905
Sealed proposals. in triplicate. for
the purchase of approximately H.
500. 200 pounds surplus Flour. more or
less. and 100000 pounds surplus
Cornmeal. more or less. from the FL
nance Committee. Relief and Red
Cross Funds. san Francisco. Cal. will
be received at ONCE. Oficer in Charge
General Relief Depots OF Subsistence
Supplies until 12 m. June IS. 1906,
and then opened in the presence OF
bidders. Information and blank pro-
posals furnished on application 10
MAJOR c. p KRAUTHOFF. C0mmis-
sary, FolsoE-st. Dock. or to the Pur-
CHASING CommisSary. L 5 Army. az
Seattle. Wash. or Vancouver Bar
racks Wash Envelopes containing
proposals should be indOrsed. Pro-
posals for the purchase of Flour and
Cornmeal." and addressed or deliv-
cred 10 MAJOR c. r. KRAUTHOFF.
in charge. General. DepOts of Relief
Subsistence stores. Folsom-st- Dock.
San Francisco. Cal A W. GREELY.
Major General L. = Army. Command
ing Pacific Division e7-9-11-l3-15-18
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
FOR STANDARD OIL PROBE.
Railway Men Summoned for Chicago
Hearing Monday.

CHICAGO. August 4.-Henry c. Barlow,
former president of the Evansville and
Terre Haute railroad. was summoned to-
day to appear before the grand jury. which
Will begin an investigation next Monday
into the Standard Oil Company's relations
with various railroads centering in Chica-
go. Among other railroad men summoned
today were F. z. Austin. acting auditor OF
the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad,
and John ]. Duck, assistant auditor of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad.
For nine years Mr.. Barlow was president
of the Evansville and Terre Haute rail-
road, which railroad. it is claimed. Is large
Iy controlled by Standard Oil interests
He was also traffic manager OF The WIS
consn Central railroad, which, II Is SAID.
is practically owned by the Standard Oh
Company.
Mr. Barlow's knowledge of the transport
tation of oil, at least by the two roads
mentioned. II is believed. will be or great
value to the government in the FORTH
coming investigation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS.
Next Meeting Most Likely at suenos
Ayres

Specin' Cabirgram to The Star.
DO DE JANEIRO, August At has been
virtually decided, although the plan has not
yet been presented to the congress, that the
next meeting of the Pan-American congress
shall be held at Buenos Ayres in 1910. This
would involve a change in the arrangements
for the observance of the hundredth an
nfversary of the declaration of Argentina's
Independence.
The Argentinians in the congress are
working quietly and Their success seemingly
IS assured. The congress reconvened this
morning. The report of the Pan-American
railway was presented. On motion of Will
ham /. Buchanan. head of the American
delegation, the representatives of the coun-
tries directly interested were appointed to
consider the railway committees report.
President Nabuco announced that should
any of the committees fail 10 make prog
with the matters in their special
charge their business would be taken UP
and disposed of in open congress,
The congress is trying to finish in time
for final adjournment by August %. 1t
win hold its next meeting on Tuesday.
RIO DE JANEIRO. August 4.--The in
ternationaI American congress today re-
ceiVed the report OF the committee on PAN
American railway. The committee includes
representatives OF countries Interested in
the road.
The congress then adjourned until Tues
day. when the report of the committee on
arbitration will be received.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
AT THE JEWELLERS WINDOW.
The Constantly Changing Crowd That
Chances at the Chronometer.

From the New York sun
Few of the show windows of the town
attract more people than does that of the
jeweler who keeps, where 1t can be con-
suited by the passersby. a chronometer:
and at few Is the throng more constant
At the windows of some such jewelers. in
the buster streets down town, there are
always people looking, and sometimes so
many that they have to look over one an
others shoulders 10 see the cf1ronometer
Many OF these thus assembled might be
described as Irregular regulars-men who
know the chronometer, and who stop here
every now and them but there are some
among them who have just CHANGED to see
1t. and there are still others who were
prompted to halt by seeing others looking
In at something.
There are jewelers. who keep in their WIN
dow two chronometers, to accommodate
a greater number OF people
OF those who stop to consult the various
chronometers thus placed, Some are old and
some are young men. some well dressed
and some in clothes that never did cost
much, and the watches they bring out to
compare with the master ttmekeeper are
aa various az their pussessorss but 1t would
not do to assume that the watches always
correspond with their owners For the very
trinity dressed elderly gentleman may draw
out 2 very modest timepieee. while the man
next him. In rouugh coat may produce
ticker far more imposing to the eye
There are plenty OF men who may be
only moderately circnmstanced who like a
good watch or who ind such watch use-
ful IN their work or business, or who con-
slider good watch as good asset
We are all interested In our watches. and
we are all or almost all of u.s. anyway
likely to think we have good one II IT
was q costly watch we know ii; and II it
was cheap watch we think we've got
the one In ten. or q hundred. or q thousand
such watches that turns out to be q good
v,oE-o 4va5 70
sionAlly ana compare her with the ciiro-
npmater ard see how she's running; and
that Is the simple motive, probably, that
prompts the majority OF those who stop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
IN MANCHURIA.
Good Country, but Not Flowing With
Milk and Honey.


From the Journal OF the American Asiatic Associa-
AS general proposition 1t may be said
that the Chinese business men will under
existing conditions. continue to transact the
bulk of the business of Manchuria, assum-
ing that they are allowed free hand For
eigners may bring capital or goods in un-
limited quantities, but the Chinese will
conduct the d., g of barter and trade with
the consumer. Foreigners may cooperate
or divide profits through them; they may
operate through them, but for the present
and with no prospects of material change
in the near future. the Chinese business
men of Manchuria will continue to do the
business. AS the Japanese population in
creases the scope Of the Japanese business
man will, of course. be enlarged.
With an estimated population of 20,O00 900
to 10000 600 in Manchuria and with large
areas Of fertile lands yet to be taken up
by Chinese from the overcrowded provinces
of the vast celestial empire; with one man
required to till an average of five acres,
and a growing demand for foreign manufac-
tured necessities, the Manchurian market
promises to increase steadily in Importance.
Judging from Inquiries, some Americans
imagine Manchuria to be land fabulously
rich In gold. fine furs and silks of rare
beauty land Of unknown wealth now for
the first time to be opened to the outside
world as the result of the late war between
Japan and Russia. Manchuria is good
farming country, to China proper sort Of
American ''out west and equally fertile
in it's extensive agricultural areas as the
garden state of Iowa; supporting millions
of Chinese. who have come from the over
crowded adjoining provinces. There are
numerous good and some superbly beauti-
full furs but prices now range high. The
Manchuria or Korean tiger skin is probably
the finest in the world. Such skins are
scarce and cost a small fortune. however.
Ten twenty years ago beautiful tiger
skin might have been had for $23 or $50
gold, or even less. Now they cost five or SIX
times that amount at Mukden. the fur
center of this part of the world. Red and
silver fox skins are also costly. A fur re-
sembing sealskin sells for about so per cent
of the cost OF real seal
Gold mining has been carried on in
small way for many years in Manchuria.
Scientific prospecting and examination by
experts. however will develop what of real
or extensive value the district possesses,
not only in gold, but in other metals, in
Guiding copper. In coal there are a number
of good properties already sufficiently de-
veloped to establish their claim to perma-
nent workable value.
Silks are freely imported into Manchuria.
Raw silk. the product of the wild silk worm
industry OF thrifty peasants, Is exported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
WORLDS WIRELESS STATIONS.
Catalogue Made by the Navy De
partment.

All wireless telegraph stations in the
world have been located and catalogued by
the bureau of equipment Of the Navy De-
partment. and will be published in small
book in a few weeks. The systems of wire
less are also given The number of sta
lions in each country is:
Belgium. 1: Denmark, 4; Germany i3:
France. @. Great Britain and Ireland, 43;
Holland. S: Spain. 4; Portugal, L Gibraltar.
2; Italy Is: Malta 1: Montenegro, I: Nor
way. 1: Austria Hungary, 2: Roumania. 2;
Russia In Europe. s.: Sweden. 8; Turkey. 9:
Argentina. s. Brazil. 5: Canada, 8: Chile, 1;
Costa Rica, 1: Mexico. 2: Panama, 2: Uru-
gCsy. /: United States. So. of which 10 ara
in the possessions of the United States. 81
being directly under the control of the
navy: Trinidad. l: Tobagol. Andaman Is
lands. q Burma, l: Hong Kong, 1; China.
.: Hawaii. 5: Japan. .: Dutch East India.
5; Russia in Asia. /: Egypt, 2; Morocco. 2;
Mozambique. 2; Tripoli, 1.
The compilation also gives the names Of
all the merchant ships and the flags they
fly which are equipped with wireless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
Late Army Orders.

Leaves of absence have been granted
as follows:
Major Henry c. Davis. Artillery corns
one month; Capt Edwin p Wolfe ss'
sistant surgeon, one month
Lieut.. Col. Benjamin p. Runkie United
states army, retired, has been detailed a
superintendent and professor of military
science and tactics at the Miami Military
Institute. Germantown, Ohio, relieving
Capt. Robert B. Powers. 7th Cavalry.
Capt. Robert B. Powers. 7th Cavalry. has
been detailed for general recruiting duty
at Columbus barracks, Ohio.
Maj. George J. Newgarden. surgeon, has
been relieved from duty In the Philippines
and ord,sred to San Francisco, Cal.
Capt Leo +. Foster. commissary in this
city, has been ordered to Camp. Gretna.
Pa, for duty.
Maj. Henry C. Davis. Artillery Corps, has
been ordered to proceed to Fort washing
ton. Nd. for temporary duty and upon
the completion OF that duty to proceed to
mand OF that post.
First Lieut.. Francis B. Eastman, e5fh
Infantry, has been transferred TO the 10th
Infantry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
Boy Reports at Police Station.

AT the request of Capt Doyle of the
eighth precinct station, Ira Mcguire, eleven
years old, of sos S street northeast, was
surrendered at the station house this
morning. He was wanted by the police
In connection with the injuries to six-year-
old Violet Herbert on Thursday, described
in The Star yesterday. He was left In
charge of his mother until the character
of the child's injuries are determined
The accident to little Miss Herbert was
particularly sad. her six-months-old sister
being dead in the home Yesterday the
two children lay in adjoining rooms. one
dead and the other in precarious condi-
ton. The accident to the six-year-old
girl came when the parents were grieying
for the death of the baby
1t is reported today that the little girl
is improving and that while the injury Is
still serious, it is believed she will re-.
cover
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
Servant Problem at Norfolk.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NORFOLK. Va. August 4.-The servant
question has reached an acute stage here
The women servants are reported TO have
held meeting In one OF the coiored
churches at which II was urged to make
a general raise demanding 81 per day fiat
instead OF weekly and monthly pay as at
present, and Sl.25 per day when working
out by the day at washing. ironing and
cleaning. This, they say, is because of in
crease IN the rent by the white owners and
the general increase in cost of living 1t
is announced that after October 10 1t viii
cost - cents to get a shave at Norfolk
barber shops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04

Fast Trip From This City to Camp
Roosevelt stopped.

HARRISBURG. Pa. August ION trial
long-distance speed trip from Washington
d. c.. to Camp Roosevelt, Mount Gretnas
one OF the new automobile amhulances Of
the United States army was today held up
in Shiremanstown. six miles from Har-
risburg and one of the operators, Thomas
Shea, a private of Company A. Hospital
Corps, was arrested and taken to Mechan-
icsburg for exceeding the speed limit while
passing through the borough. Shea Is being
held in the Mechanicsburg loclnp till word
is received from Gen. Fred d. Grant. at
Camp Roosevelt. The trip OF the motor
ambulance was not long delayed, as 1t car
ried an extra operator.
The motor ambulance was one of the
type recently adopted for tests. and Is to
be tried out thoroughly at Mount Gretna
and later at western camps. 1t started
from Washington under the charge OF
Sergt. Thomas. Company Al. Hospital
Corps. with Shea and another private. All
the way the car was hurried. and It whix-
zed through MechanIcsburg at a speed es-
timated at twenty-five miles an hour. J.
c. Hooper. chief of the fredericksburg po-
lice force. telegraphed to a Shiremanstown
constable. three miles away. to stop the
ambulance and arrest the operator. which
the constable did without much trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
News Briefs.

One more step In the litigation over the
Oyster Bay On. " water front was taken
yesterday, when Constable McQuade served
restraining orders issued by the town board
on the proprietors of four estates on which
piers and walls were destroyed Thursday.
Frank Bohannon. the negro who on Tues
day last shot and killed j. T. Beachman.
Southern railway foreman, employed near
Greensboro, N. c.. was arrested last night.
and is in jail awaiting Instructions for his
disposal from Greensboro. After being
questioned. he admitted that he was the
man who shot Beachman, but stated that
he did not know Beachman was dead
Each OF them wearing a tag marked
Portland Ore. u. s. A." three little girls,
the eldest not more than twelve years old,
arrived at Boston unaccompanied yesterday
on the Cunard line steamer Ivernia. from
Helsingfors. Finland, the present seat of
serious revolutionary disturbance. The
girls were given over to the railroad off,
Gals for their journey across the country.
They go to their father, Peter Westgard of
Portland Ore.
The arrest In Tampico, Mex, of Raoui
Auerbach. wanted In New York to explain
an alleged shortage OF $4,000 In his books
at the wholesale drug house of Lanman &
a confidential bookkeeper. was made known
to the district attorneys office in New York
yesterday.
The Florida board OF pardons committed
to life Imprisonment the death sentence
OF Caldwell and Larkins. sentenced to hang
for the murder of N w. Eppes, county SUI
perintendent of public instruction. Sam:
Edwards was hanged last November Tor
this crime stay of execution being grant
ed to Caldwell and Tsarkins on the claim
of new evidence.
Jeremiah Wilson WAS killed and Charles
Parrish fatally injured by an explosion In.
the North End Coal Company's colliery at
Scranton. Pa, yesterday. They had pre-
pared blast. and, lighting the fuse, START
ed TO retreat TO place OF safety. They ran
into blast in an adjoining chamber. VIII
son was frfghtfufiy mangied. Both of Par
rishss legs were blown on.
Four strong earthquake shocks were felt
at Fort de France. Martinique. Thursday
Bound for South Manftou Island, where
they win be tlIi about August IS. the
United States steamer Essex. with lie men
aboard. left Toledo Thursday for tho an
nual maneuvers. On the way up the Essex
will be Joined by the Fahtic OF Detroit and
the Hawk Of Cleveland. The Dorotlea Of
Chicago viii join the boats ut the island
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
AN HEIREss SELLS HARDWARE.
New Type Of Female Drummer Has
Struck Denver.
frcm The Denver Republican.

tton, the Denver Republican.
There have been drummers of the female
persuasion in Denver before, but Miss
sally Whitaker of st. Louis is the first OF
the family that ever struck town selling
heavy hardware. Heavy hardware Is made
up OF ugly pieces of steel and long strips
OF steel and chunks of iron and the like
MISS sally Whitaker thinks there is moth
ing quite so cute heavy hardware. She
just loves 1t. She says so herself. She
would rather sell man seven carloads or
heavy hardware than go to the SWEETEST
junction In her home town, in the SWEETEST
gown that the SWEETEST modiste in town
could make. Miss Sally makes this re-
markab!e statement In great earnestness,
but 1t cannot help being noted by any one
within sight, that Miss Sally believes in
pretty dresses built In the latest mode
Selling heavy hardware Is Just the best
OF fun ever had" continued Miss Sally.
You see. l began IL all in a Joke. and
since have more than made good as you
men say. And as l like the experience
travelling around the country for once
without a chaperon. and ! am at the same
time making good salary. 1 just
keeping it up.
ut was the greatest Joke, the way 1
started. You know. my papa is director
in a hardware company In St Louis He
has charge OF all of the road statesmen.
One day he came home ali out of humor.
| wanted a new hat and didn't dare ask
him for it. In the course of the dinner talk
he said something about one of his sales-
men resigning at the very last minute be-
fore going out on a trip. The trade all
along the route had been informed that on
such and such date a representative or
the firm would be in to them.
Papa, why not let me go In his stead7
I bet / could sell as much as he would
said /. Papa wouldn't hear of such thing
at first. Neither would mamma. But 1
just argued them into 1t and left the very
next night. Papa says / ma de high rec
ord for the western territory. 1 felt pretty
proud OF myself. and when papa asked me
if wanted to make another trip this time
east / said yes. And so that is the way 1
started. won't keep 1t up always; but 1
haven't grown tired of the life 80 far, ana
probably won't until have seen most OF
the country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
A Mysteriously Powerful Ring.

from lie Crl ue IArfs
The statue of the Virgin in the cathedral
at Madrid wears on its finger ring which
is the subject of a popular legend Alton
so XII gave it. it is said. to Queen Mer-
cedes. She died one month afterward The
king then took the ring and presented 1t
to another member of the royal family.
who succumbed Immediately TO a stroke
Of apopiexy. Two other persons. who af-
terward wore the fatal ring. met a like
fate. Alfonso XII did not then dare pass
IL to other hands. He kept the ring him
self Three months later the throne WAS
vacant
The people OF Madrid say this ring of the
Virgin has double power 1t kills almost
Immediately those who are not absolutely
worthy to wear IL: or, on the contrary.
assures the happiness and long life OF the
sovereign who will restore to Spain It's
former glory. II Is believed that the pres
emit king. Alfonso XIII, before his marriage
piously touched and kissed this mysterious
ring, and because he did 80 was spared In
the recent attempt at assassination.
This conviction has taken root at Madrid.
where the people are extremely supersti-
tious. But persons In the immediate en-
tourage of the young king would dissuade
him from following In the footsteps OF his
father
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
THE HARTJE DIVORCE CASE
Conspiracy Charges Only Suspended to
Await Arguments.

PITTSBURG. Pa. August Admission
was made today by detectives employed on
the Hartje case that the conspiracfes
charged against at least two prominent
men as result OF the divorce trial had
not been dropped. but that proceedings
merely had been suspended to await the
conclusion of the arguments which Will
start before Judge Robert Frazer next
Monday
Mrs Mary Scott Hartje's attorneys are
refraining from any move, II is understood
In order to avert a continuation OF the
case Arrests at this time il is said. might
hinder the ending of the case and cause
complications not desired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04

always to the chiefs. who owned not only
tae soil but the people who cultivated II.
ana not only the fssh In the sea but the
fishermen and their nets and canoes. these
We're able to revel II. the luxury OF import
ca goods. and at the time OF the mission
ares arrival the costumes OF the royal
S,nrt insiuded all styles, from the reguia-
ION military and court costumes and silk
and velvet gowns TO the malo and pau.
while the calabash and wooden spittoon
STOOD side by side with cut glass and fine
With sandalwood the King WAS enabled
10 buy vessels for his fleet and arm these
with cannon and also supply the royal
treasury so well that excursions to Europe
were INDUCED in
Establishment Of Harbor Fees.
The dispatch OF a vessel loaded with
sandaiwood for Canton by Kamehameha l.
who thought 10 secure for himself all the
Profit OF the business without the use of
paiddiernen. resulted In the imposition Of
the nrst harbor and pilot dues here The
vessel. which had been sent manned and
coni i n oy whites. returned with bill
LOT 1Oo0 as the returns for the venture.
result. 1t Is recorded, of a conspiracy TO
discourage the innovation OF the king TAX
ing a hand in the trade, the explanation
oeing given 70 the royal merchant that the
alnounts realized by the sale OF the cargo
had all been expended In harbor fees,
wharfage and pilot charges
Inc Idea of charging vessels for anchor
age had never before presented itself to
hamehameha. but the plan OF raising q
revenue tn this way commended itself to
nim. and for some years thereafter no was
charged Tor an anchorage in the outer har-
DOT ana $50 in the inner harbor and q
pinot Zee or 81 per foot on the draft of a
vessel was scheduled. These fees stood
until the visit of Lord Byron In 1925. who
came IN command of III. NJ. s. Blonde.
bearing the remains of King Liholiho and
his queen. who had died during their visit
to England