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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
JAPANESE
Those in Hawaii Say Exclusion En-
slaves Them to Capitalists.

Honolulu-At a a meeting of
Japanese, the following cablegram was
ordered sen to President Roosevelt:
"The Hawaiian Japanese respectfully
protest in the name of humanity and
civilization, and also in the name Of
liberty, against the prohibition of their
emigration to the United States. 1t
enslaves us permanently to Hawaiian
capitalists"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
Awful Scenes of Suffering
In Famine Districts of Russia

Kazan, Russia, Feb. 21.--A CORE
spondent has returned here after a
% days trip through Kazan, Samara
and Ufa, three provinces of the 20 af-
fected by famine.
The population everywhere was
found to be absolutely dependent on
outside relief. The present state of
affairs is characterized by slow starva-
ton and extreme misery.
The relief machinery organized by
the government, the Red Cross. the
zemstvos and private societies is work
ing with reasonable smoothness, and
few localities are utterly neglected.
But the governments allowance of sc
pounds of rye per person a month is
most inadequate, and this amount is
cut by Is or 20 pounds by the cost
of transportation and milling. Men
and even women between the ages of
IS and SIS are excluded from receiving
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
THE IMMIGRATION BILL.
Signed by the President, and Il ID
Now a Law.

Washington-The president has
signed the immigration bill. The bill,
which was passed by the senate Sat
urday entirely On a party line, with
two exceptions, and the house on Mon
day, gives the president the power to
place restrictions ON the recognition
Of passports and is intended as a solu-
ton Of the Japanese labor and school
problem in California.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
CON SHEA NOT GUILTY.
Transfers President Released by .
Jury in Chicago.

chfcago-President Cornelius p.
Shea of the International Brotherhood
OF Transfers and his fellow defend
ants. who have been on trial on a
charge Of conspiracy committed during
the teamsters' strike against the de-
partment stores in Chicago two years
ago. were found not guilty by a Jury
in the criminal. This was the second
trial.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
THE GOVERNMENT ROBBED.
Big Money Disappears from TeIler's
Gage at sub-Treasury In Chicago.

Chicago-Although a score of detec.
tives are at work on the case, the
theft of $4,000 from the s~ub.treas.
ury In this city seems as far from q
solution as the day the robbery was
committed. The general impression
prevails that the thief must have been
a government employe. and several Of
these men are being very closely
watched.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
Honduras Stronghold Taken.

Managua, Nicaragua-San Marcos
de Colon. a well-fortified Honduran
town, which was defended by Solo.
Ordonez, the Honduran minister
of war, at the head of a strong army,
was captured by N~icaraguan forces at
4 o'clock Monday afternoon.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
LIED IN THE NIGHT TIME.
Senator Delivers Brother Passed
Away While Asleep.

Fort Dodge, Ia.-Victor B. Deliver.
4G years old, a brother of Senator
Dolliver, Of Iowa, was found dead In
bed. He was found In his room, ly-
ing on the bed as though he had died
while asleep. An inquest will be held.
Dolliver was known in Iowa as a cam
paign orator, a business man and o
b%eenfactor Of Morningside college OF
Sioux City.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
SEVERE STORMS IN GERMANY.

Snow Reported Six Feet Deep In the
Black Forest.
Berqfn-Reports Of severe storms,
snow and rain. are received from vari-
Gus points. There has been a heavy
fall Of snow for several days past In
south Germany and in some parts of
the Black forest the Snow is six feet
deep. There has been a heavy fall
OF snow In the Rhoen and Thuringian
mountains. Several cases are report
I'd OF people losing their way In the
snow and being frozen to death.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
sANTo DOMINGO TREATY.
Ratified by Senate With One Vote to
Spare.

Washington.-By a vote of 43 to 10,
the senate ratified the Santo Domingo
treaty. This was one more vote in
the affirmative than was required.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01

committee believe this change will les
sen the number of cases, and prevent
the preparation of such cases for
claims of the sorts which are present
ed by succeeding generations of claim
ants.
Capitol Open on Sundays.
1t is provided that hereafter the
United States capitol is to be kept
open to visitors from 9 a.. m. to 4 p.
m. on Sundays and holidays.
The appropriation of isthmian canal
construction is S24, S79, 900. For this
purpose s~25,456,4-5 was appropriated
last year.
Other Items.
Enforcement of antitrust laws,
$3.50, 900; enforcement Of Chinese ex-
clusion act, $780, 900; expense of col
lecting customs, SO, 800, 900; engraving
and printing, $~3,122,131; fuel, light and
water for public buildings, $780, 900;
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers,
$~4,476,543; home for soldiers in states
and territories, $1,175,000 life-saving
service, $1,000, 01O; lighthouse beacons
and fog service, $1,156.4 400; lighthouse
establishments, $4,234,O 900; to carry out
convention with Mexico, s l 1000, 900; ar
tillery and coast defense, $3.50, 600;
new building for national museum, ST.
$50, 900; public health and marine hos
pital service, Sligo $50; public print
ing and binding, $5,325, 900; expenses
of United States courts, $6,507,020.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01

Investigate Italian Padrone System.
Washington-A thorough investiga-
ton is to be made by the immigrations
bureau of the alleged Italian padrone
system.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10
Army and Navy

Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans is
quoted: II have no intention of retiring
at this time and never had such In
tentions. 1 will go with the battle
ship fleet If 1 am ordered to do so,
l am ready to move as soon as orders
come"
The choice Of Rear Admiral Evans
successor in command of the fleet lies
between Rear Admiral Joseph Newton
Hemphill and Rear Admiral Charles S.
Sperry. The change will be made in
August next
Secretary Metcalf speaking of the
readiness of the fleet to move said II
am convinced from all reports coming
to me and from what 1 have seen that
the battleship fleet could have been
ordered to sail for the Pacific on TWEEN
ty-four hours notice, and could have
made the voyage in good order and
with credit to men and officers. The
efficiency of our navy is simply excel
lent"
An officer in the Porto Rico regi-
ment who served several years in the
Chilian army has furnished an inter-
esting comparison between the pay al
lowances given Chilian officers and
those which officers in the United
States army receive. Tae strength of
the standing army of Chilli is s15 Off
GERS and 10000 men. The initial pay
in the two services is as follows: I,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10
Wonan's Work

Tne American minister to Denmark, Mr..
Maurice Francis Egan, has announced the
engagement Of his daughter, Miss Patrice
Egan, and Jerome Elmer p. Murphy Of
Los Angeles, Cal. The marriage Will
probably take place in Copenhagen. This
news, already known here to wide circle
OF friends. was made public yesterday
Mrs. and Miss Carmel Egan are still in
this country. and expect to join Mr.. Egan
and Miss Egan in Copenhagen next
month
The German people are deeply interested
In new photograph of the empress which
shows her in an eighteenth century coz
tune as the wife of Frederick II of Prus-
sia. This picture is selling by thousands.
White rabbit skin coats will be longed-
for garments this winter Not that they
Will supplant other furs to great extent
FOR there Is decided return to the shawl
shaped wraps for which ermine is adapted
SO well. For evening wear they are
trimmed with knots and cascades of lace
or elaborate silk cord ornaments and tas-
sells in black or white. But the rabbit
skin coat will be 'ft."
Miss Taft's graduation from fashion,
able school last June with the highest aca-
demic honors has Inspired that very clever
young woman with further ambition with
the result that she is making record at
Bryn Mawr.
Queen Victorias letters in book form is
the literary event of the times In Eng
land. The letters show all the strength
and weakness of a woman's nature; her
likes and her dislikes are clearly revealed
and her devotion to England is shown on
every page-a devotion that is surpassed
only by her intense, passionate love for
Prince Albert.
Nine. Patti speaks Italian, Spanish, Rus
sian. German. French and Portuguese per-
fectly, and, of course, her English is fault
less.
London society is agog over the recently
divorced Countess of Rosslyn, who is to
return to the stage. She was formerly
Miss Annie Robinson, and is known as
the American countess. She has, short
time since, obtained Scottish decree OF
divorce against the earl of Rosslyn, and
he is now engaged in filing an appeal
against this protest.
Miss Lucy Davis Butler of Princeton,
ILL.,, celebrated her one hundredth birth
day recently. During her early girlhood
she met many of the distinguished men of
her time, including La Fayette, John Mar
shall, John Randolph, Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster and Andrew Jackson
OF the eleven children in Miss Buffers
family none died until Miss Butler had
passed the age of n years. There are four
still living, including herself, whose aggre
gate ages reach BAL years.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10

territory came into the Union, and he had
two periods from that commonwealth in
the United States senate-one of ten years
and another of eighteen. For years he
lived in palatial homes. somewhat spec
tacularly. He was given to expensive
fads and to speculation and, as he says.
he finally left the senate because he was
too poor to live in Washington. Then 1t
was back to Nevada, this time to the
Tonopah fed where he opened law
office; but evidently the lure of gold at
tracted him more than the practice of his
profession for he is once more wealthy
man and can take life easy as of yore,
excepting that he declines to run with
the boys as he did in the old days. All
CT which demonstrates that this is
country of great opportunities for old
men with pluck.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10

Eoy and the Man." James Morgan calls
attention to the fact that the subject of
his sketch is the first city-born president
of the United States. All of his twenty
four predecessors were country or village
lads. He was reared in an elegant home.
Travelled in the Old World and attended a
famous university frequented by the sons
of the rich. A life of ease was his If he
cared for it, but the example of the father
devoted to philanthropcal work and in
herent force, led him to take up public
service. A disposition to asthma and
physical weakness iEnpelied him to adopt
athletic exercise early in youth, and II
this way he became interested in out-of..
door life.
As related by his cousin, John Lowell,
in sympathetic sketch. Higginson was
an opponent of Madison's war resolutions,
and was supporter, of Washington in his
efforts for preserving the peace of the ma
tion by the treaty of 1794-a defender of
the constitution in all events. He sup
ported John Adams administration and
was navy agent and acting secretary of
the navy for short time during the or
ganization of the navy In 1888 The letters
given in the Life throw many side
lights on Higginsons period. He died in
1o2S. There is q portrait by Gilbert Stu
art and reproduction of interesting docu-
rnerts. besides otheR nlustr atianx
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10
Foreign

The experiences of the late war have
convinced the Japanese government that
the general instruction of the corps OF
officers did not come UP to the require
ments of a modern army. The Japanese
war department has. therefore, decided
to make the conditions to be fulfilled more
severe as regards general instruction, not
only for combatant but also for non-com-
batant officers. With this object spe-
cial commission has been formed at the
war department to elaborate new pro-
grams of instruction for military schools
by giving greater elasticity to the regula-
tions at present in force.
There appears to be serious question of
the fidelity of the Indian native army, OF
the Sikhs, Pathans. Ghurkas and Pun
jabis, who tave long stood true to the
British raj. At the celebration of the
fftieth anniversary of the fall of Delhi
all the troops in Delhi were paraded, and
among them the Kings Own Ghurka
rifles. During the ceremony one COM
pany from each battalion marched out to
the front and repeated the oath OF loyal
ty to the lSing-emperor. Next, from each
of the two companies, single soldier
stepped forward to represent all his COM
rades, and, saluting. touched the royal
scepter which his majesty gave to the
regiment that bears his name.
Kier Hardie is preaching Socialism in
India and the London Mail says of him:
india In the present state of affairs is
no place for such a person. He has given
the Indian government good reason for
watching very carefully his conduct in
India, while the indignation which the
incident has aroused in this country
proves that the British government will
have public opinion behind them In any
action which they may take for curtail-
ing his mischievous activity"
The robbing of churches In France in
the past month has been so frequent that
the government took the matter up and
arrested one Antoine Thomas, who had
secured $1.60o,0O0 worth OF booty.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10

though the Hapsburg monarch has not
yet attained the years of the Victorian
lule, he has regned at Vienna for nearly
six decades, and his fairness of temper
combined with his personal sorrows have
gained for him an unusual place. in the
affections of his people. He came to "a
throne on the verge of overthrow. His
only son died a tragic death under cir
cumstances of mystery not yet fully ex-
planned. His wife was killed by an as
sassin, his brother Maximilian was shot
to death in Mexico, his sister-in-law, Car
lotta, became insane. "Is nothing to be
spared me in this world?" he exclaimed
when he heard of the murder of the en-
press.
Capt. Roald Amundsen, who some years
ago successfully navigated the Northwest
Passage in the little sloop Gjoa, and who
is now visiting the United States, is pre-
pairing for an expedition to the north
ole, in which he expects TO use polar
bears as beasts of burden. He has two
polar cubs now in training for this pur-
pose. The captain believes that bears
are peculiarly fitted for this service, by
reason of their great strength and their
absolute immunity TO the inclemency Of
the Arctic weather. He expects to go
into the polar regions provisioned and
equipped for stay of five or six years,
If necessary.
Paul Nickel of Germany has the dis
tinction of being the first man who ever
crossed the Alps in a balloon. a feat
which he performed in May 1907. after
hazardous trip, during which the balloon
was at times 10000 feet in the air. Meckel
has also made long-distance flights of 200
and 300 miles apiece. His companion,
Baron Won Pohlenz. is comparatively
inexperienced aeronaut.
Franz Ferdinand Cor Ference, as he is
called by the Hungarians) is the heir
presumptive to the Austrian throne. He
is son of the late Archduke Carl Lud-
wig and Princess Annunciata, and was
born December IS, 1853 Though there is
doubt of his accepting the throne be-
cause he has renounced all imperial hon
ors for his wife, the Countess Crotek, and
his children, he would make good em-
peror. if character is any indication.
: Algernon b. Sartoris, grandson of Presi-
dent Grant and son of Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris, has been appointed secretary Of
the United States legation at Montevideo,
Uruguay. Mr.. Sartoris served first as a
lieutenant In the First United States vol
unteer engineers aid later as captain of
the Third United States volunteer infan-
try. He secured a commission as second
Kautanant in the Eiftaantb unitsd States
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10
Literary Notes

Writing of the wonderful versatility of
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, the poet and auth
or, Harrison s. Morris of Philadelphia,
in summing up his many -sidedness:
"When these are united at high level
they make great doctor or great poet,
OF a combination of the two in one. There
was Keats, who walked the hospitals and
was charitably told by Jeffrey to go back
to his gallipots'' and leave poetry alone,
end who has left his critics alone in comic
obscurity; there was DIR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, who perhaps diluted his gift of
verse by mixing 1t too much with prac-
tical medicine: and, to cut the list short,
here Is DR.. Mitchell. He has allowed his
poems to be overshadowed by his pro-
ductions, by his fiction and by his science,
but those who know his books of verse
and who find joy in the appeal OF poetry,
are at one voice in regarding the best of
his poems as among the best we have
had / have heard DR.. Henry Van Dyke
recently say that the ode on Lycian
Tomb Is the finest elegiac poem by an
American, and these were nearly the ex-
act words quoted to me from Prof.
Charles Eliot Norton at much earlier
period.
Jeanette Lee in her book, 'The Ibsen
Secret" speaks of that authors play,
9dDleI, as IOlOWS.
THE sheer art of the play lies. perhaps,
in the fact that she is as fascinating
to us as she Is to. the people of her own
word. We do not pity her, nor love her,
nor scorn her. She fascinates One fol-
lows her cool, quiet, unprophetic move
ments with breathless interest. The ex-
piosion comes and sets the nerves a-tin-
gle and the wits to work. Why has she
done this? What will she do next? There
is no why, no calculable what. The spark
touches the powder and 1t explodes. 1t is
easy to understand her nova pistol:
dcadly. simple, passionless and straight.
But she still fascinates-like dangerous
thing come upon unawares, on the library
table in quiet nome One picks 1t up.
examines it gingerly, peers into the bar
rel. lifts the trigger hair, lays 1t down
softly and goes away. But he never for
gets that 1t is there-lying behind his
back, silent and straight and deadly. He
comes back to 1t again"
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson is
out with life of Stephen Higginson, his
Federalist grandfather.
In his book. Theodore Roosevelt. the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10
ARcHpukg FRANCIS FERDINAND

infantry in May. 1902, and resigned April
l. 1903.
M. Padefewski the famous pianist, has
established farm on his estate in Po-
land, where between his tours he occu-
ries his time in raising livestock and ag-
ricultural products.
Gutson Borghum. the sculptor, says that
Robert Fitzsimmons is one of the best
specimens of physical manhood in the
world, and by far the most perfect rep
resentative of the fighting man that this
age has produced.
Senator Stewart OF Nevada literally
started on nothing. He is native of
New York, but from childhood to man
hood lived in Ohio, where he attended
school A friend assisted him to Yale
college, which he left a forty-niner for
California. There he went to work with
pick and shovel, and in this way ac-
cumulated some money" Fifty-five
years ago he began the study of law and
forty-seven years ago he moved to Me-
vada, where he amassed fortune in the
development of the great Comstock lode.
AS a Neveda pioneer he was member
of the constitutional convention when that
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10

NIFTY miles from the state capitol at
Albany, where Lewis Stuyvesant
4 Chanler, the Democratic lieutenant
governor, presided over Republican SEN
ate last winter, is Rckeby which is his
home, as it has been the home of the As
tors and Chanlers for several generations
1t is a large old fashioned house, mod
ernized to some extent, and overlooking
the lordly Hudson, of whose winding
coFrse it commands view north and
sodth for many miles.
Originally it was the country seat of
General John Armstrong, who was a dis
tinguished soldier in the revolutionary
army and who at the close of the long
war achieved further distinction in pub
ic life in Pennsylvania and in New York
Jefferson sent him as minister to France
and Spain. and Madison selected him to
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10
Men and Things

King Leopold, of whom it has been said
worst morals of any European ruler, has
been under heavy fire from aslarge part
of the civilized world for months past,
and has probably been very Indifferent
to it. But the king of the Belgians is now
getting kind of criticism which may
bring him to terms; it has brought him
home from his vacation on the Mediter-
ranean to face a growing discomfort in
Belgius and an acute cabinet crisis.
Bishop and Mrs. Potter of New York,
being assailed for inviting Bishop Fergu-
son, colored man, to dinner in Rich
mond, Va, recently, calmly ignore the
matter and treat it as an mpertinence.
Gen. Lord Roberts of the British army
is one of the very few public men who
ever had a chance to see statue of him
self, which is erected in London. A friend,
wishing to do the right thing said Roberts
should be proud of 1t. Lord Roberts re-
piled: Domination! 1 have to go all
around the square to avoid the ID
thing!"
A fine equestrian statue of Gen. Franz
Sigel was unveiled It New York recently.
Gen. Sigel was great favorite with Ger
Americans in the Potomac army be-
irg the subject of stirring war song.
The new lord mayor of London is a
brewer named Sir John Charles Bell and
gets $4,000 a year, the same salary that
Is paid the president of the United States.
He is allowed another $1,000 or $4,000 to pay
the income tax on his salary. And to de-
fray the cost of his robes-of which he
has three of four sumptuous outfits-an-
other $1,000 is allotted to him. For MS
official residence-the Mansion house with
which all American visitors to London are
familiar-he pays no rent.
Though he holds office for only one
year his job costs him twice or thrice
what 1t is worth to maintain its dignity.
He is the official dispenser of the city's
hospitality. In that capacity he will soon
be called on to give a banquet to the
kaiser, and that alone will make a big
hole in his years salary.
with the venerable en.peror-king APP
preaching his eightleth year, 1t is becom-
irg as difficult to think Of Austro-Hun-
gary without Franz Josef as il was TO
qnnasivA of En9iand withnut Vintnsta- Al
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10

be his secretary of war, John Jacob As
tors son and partner; William Backhaus
Astor, bought the estate, after marrying
the generals daughter, and being gen.
tleman of cultivation and literary attain
ments, he proceeded to make of it mag
nificent summer home. 1t bears today the
imprints of his refined taste. For several
years it was one of the distinguished fea-
lures of the Hudson valley, and as it has
never been neglected in all these years It
continues to be sight well worth looking
upon.
retreat, for there are messengers going
and coming at top speed and squads of
yeomanry bustling ir and out, and coun-
ellis being held on the piazza or on the
lawn. But these warlike suggestions are
more apparent than real. Such times are
merely periods of political activity, when
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10

which fasten upon the little things in
every county of the Union. They call the
lieutenant governor ring smasher
after his three years work on the board
of supervisors.
And 1 expect to be your candidate for
supervisor again. the lieutenant COVER
nor told his townsmen the other day when
they rose up and howled for him as the
next Democratic president
Any reference to Rokeby would be in
complete without the story of probably
the oldest woman in the state. Mrs. May
Sullivan of whom EIr. Chanler is very
fond She lives on the estate with her
eight grandchildren and her son, John p
Sullivan, and his wife. John and Lewis
Stuyvesant were boys together, and bare
footed most. of the time at that in the
summer. months. John mas risen after
thirty years service to be head gardener.