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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27
DISTRICT BUILDING "
MR.. MACFARLAND so DEsIG-
MATES NEW BUILDING.

SO far as the three members of the
board of Commissioners and the other
officials of the DISTRICT government are
concerned, the new home of the local
government. which is ready for occu-
pancy. and which is to be formally dedi-
Gated next Saturday, is to be known as
the District building"
In the act of Congress providing the
structure 1t is designated 1.-The munich
pal building" but the Commissioners do
no construe the act as intending that
such should be the official permanent
name Of the building, as acts providing
appropriations for schoolhouses. stables.
storehouses, etc, refer to the same as
municipal buildings.
Commissioner Macfarland said today
he has always referred to the new struc-
ture as the District building, and ex-
poets to continue to do so. He added
that although no official action has been
taken by the Commissioners he is salts
fled his colleagues will continue to use
the name District building" He further
said he does not recall having received
inquiries from citizens" with sugges-
tions that it be called the "city hall"
Mr.. Macfarland remarked that because
he and the other Commissioners propose
calling the building by the name men
toned it does not mean that other per-
sons must follow suit
They may use any designation they
may DESIRE" he said.
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REACH NO AGREEMENT
North Carolina Democrats Still
in Deadlock
OVER THE GOVERNORSHIP
Continuous Session of Twenty Hours
Through the Night.
FIGHT GROWS MORE BITTER
Most Remarkable Convention for
Persistence, Enthusiasm and
Disorder.
OVER THE GOVERNORSHIP
FIGHT GROWS MORE BITTER
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLOTTE, N. c.. June 27.-After be-
ing in session since Wednesday last the
North Carolina democratic state conven-
ton was still deadlocked at daylight to-
day, ballOting the selection of a
gubernatorial candidate
The thirty-fifth vote, taken at mid
night. stood as follows:
Kitchin, 385; Craig, 332; Horne, 13S. AS
it seems impossible to reach an agree
ment the question was broached of pass
ing over the nomination for governor and
leaving it to state primary. There was
bitter opposition to this, but there seemed
no chance of nomination by convention
until new men are presented to be voted
for.
One hundred new men from Craig's
county came into the convention after
midnight to relieve the regular wornout
Craig delegates.
This is the most remarkable conven-
ton ever held in North Carolina. Moth
ing to compare with 1t in PERSISTENCE
protractedness, enthusiasm and especial
ly disorder has ever occurred before in
the history of democratic conventions in
this state. Even the disreputable mobs
of the post-bellum period. held back in
Tie seventies, ana yClept republican"
conventions. that assembled the Carpet
baggers" from the north and the newly
enfranchised ex-slaves of the state to-
gether for the purpose of dishing the
public offices, were hardly more noisy
and unwieldy and disorderly than this
convention has been at times.
Chairman Begs for Order.
"Gentlemen, I beg you." exclaimed
Chairman Parsons, "to cease this dis
orderly conduct and let us have some
semblance of order. Don't conduct
yourselves like mob of prizefghters
But he was unheard and unheeded by
most Of the delegates present.
For the first time in this state women
have taken prominent parts in aiding and
abetting and actually joining in the
marching and yelling and general disor-
derly conduct. against which the presiding
officer so loudly complained. Some of
these women are prominent socially
This looks like there is no more prospect
now of settlement of the gubernatorial
nomination than there was when the
first ballot was announced. But the man.
agers of all three candidates declare that
they will stay here all next week if neces-
| sary. to nominate their man. Because of
the deadlock the convention has trans
acted no business delegates to the demo-
|
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been selected.
RECESS THIS MORNING.
Storm of Disapproval Over Motion to
Adjourn.
By Associated Press.


CHARLOTTE, N. c., June 27.-After a
continuous session of twenty hours and
a record Of fifty hours balloting the dem
ocratic state convention took recess at
$40 O'Clock this morning until 10 o'clock.
The final ballot, the forty-sixth, brought
the convention no nearer the nomination
of a governor than when the first ballot
was taken Wednesday night. The dele
gates raised storm Of disapproval when
the final effort to adjourn was made. and
would have defeated the motion on a roll
call. but upon the agreement of the MEM
bers of the three candidates the chairman
Although prolonged deadlock is posi-
BILE, caucuses were held early today with
the Idea of bringing about nomination.
ference reached an agreement for all
three candidates to withdraw and allow
the convention to nominate a dark horse
but the Kitchin forces refused to agree
to this plan.
The first effort to introduce a dark horse
came yesterday. when the name of State
Senator Mason of Northampton was
brought in, but he was dropped on the
next ballot.
The effort of an Asheville citizen, not
delegate, to address the convention
nearly precipitated a row at midnight
but the interloper was elected before
trouble came. The few efforts to adjourn
have been hooted down, and with fresh
arrivals of delegates the convention is
prepared for a long siege.
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and half carats each. seemed to furnish
the captious citizen with ground for COM
planning that all was not right.
Inquiry of Lieut.. Col. Hodges at the
office of the commission today, however,
elected the information that the dla-
monds advertised for are black, and SO
shaped as to permit proper setting and
present good cutting facets for diamond
drills that are to be used on submarine
rock excavations in connection with the
isthmian canal
The bids will be opened in the office
of the assistant purchasing agent of the
isthmian canal commission. "a state
street, New York city. Monday, June 20,
at $50 o'clock pm.
Lieut.. Col. Hodges says that he will
soon ask for proposals to furnish the
commission with another seagoing tug,
the sixth called for during the present
year.
The tugs are used to carry the rock that
enters into the concrete foundations in
the big canal.
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MONUMENT TO HOAR.
Tribute to Late Senator Unveiled at
Worcester, Mass.

WORCESTER. Mass, June 27-The
people of the city of Worcester paid
tribute yesterday to the memory of Sen
ator George Frisbie Hoar, who for over
half century was citizen Of this place
when, on ground near the city hall, they
unveiled and dedicated a monument tc
the memory of the statesman.
The monument was provided by the
people of Worcester, who raised the So
coo which it cost by public subscription
Some 3o.oD people contributed. large
crowd attended .he exercises.
The program included prayer by Rev
Edward Everett Hale, memorial oratior
by Justice w. H. Moody of the United
States Supreme Court and an address by
Gov. Curtis Guild, jr.
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RATES DECLARED ILLEGAL.
Departure From Interstate Commits
sion Requirements.

The interstate commerce commission to-
day issued an order declaring unlawful
the Kanawha dispatch east-bound freight
tariff issued June l and effective July l
next under powers of attorney for the
Chesapeake and Ohio and the Louisville
Henderson and st. Louis railway COM
panies.
The order was issued because of alleged
numerous and important departures from
the requirements governing the construc-
tion of tariffs adopted by the commission
The commission announces it will prose
cute any cases OF use of such tarin.
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ILL FOR THREE WEEKS.
Death Of Representative Parker of
South Dakota

Representative William H. Parker of
Deadwood, S. D., died at his home at
that place yesterday after an illness Of
three weeks. He was seventy-one years
old. Funeral services will be held at
Deadwood tomorrow afternoon, and will
be attended by committees of the House
and Senate. regularly appointed for the
purpose. The House committee will con-
sist of all of the Nebraska delegation,
Hall of South Dakota, Smith Of Iowa.
Anthony of Kansas and Steenerson of
Minnesota. and the Senate committee of
Senators Kittredge and Gamble of South
Dakota, Hansbrough and McCumber Of
North Dakota, Brown of Nebraska and
Stone of Missouri.
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BRYAN DECLARES HIS
NOMINATION CERTAIN
Expects Hundred Votes More
Than Needed at Denver.
WILL NOT BE STAMPEDED
Counts on Victory at the Polls in
November.
REGARDS PEOPLE AS RADICAL
Platform of the Democrats Will Be
Drawn to Meet the Supposed
Popular Demand of
the West.
Counts on Victory at the Polls in
November.
REGARDS PEOPLE AS RADICAL
Special From a STAFF Correspondent.

Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
LINCOLN. Neb.. June 27.-"I will have
at least 100 votes over and above the nee
essary two-thirds on the first ballot"
said Mr.. William ]. Bryan to me yester-
day as we sat in the sun parlor of his
charming home, Fairview, overlooking a
magnificent expanse of prairie wheat
fields. ripening under the warm June
sun. They talk about breaking that
phalanx." he continued. They will find
it pretty difficult to stampede instructed
delegates.
Mr.. Bryan is assured of his nomination
and feels certain of victory at the polls
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J.Y. POTTS IN STUPOR.
Aroused With Difficulty and Symp-
toms Considered Alarmipu

There has been no change in the con-
dition of Joseph Y. Potts. clerk of the
Police Court. 1T was announced at the
Providence Hospital. since the relapse
yesterday. The patient is critically i'll.
The heart depression was successfully
checked late yesterday evening. Stimu-
lants are still administered today.
The patient has sunk into a semi-con-
scious condition. from which he is
aroused at times with difficulty, and
then only by the attending physicians
The present mental condition of the pa
tient is considered an extremely unfavor-
able symptom, on account of his great
physical weakness and the fact that
there is little recuDerative power re-
naming
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ADvERT1sEs FOR DIAMONDS.
Canal Commission Needs Them TO
Use With Drills.

1t is said to be seldom that the general
public interests itself in the proposals
which are from time to time called for
to furnish different branches of the gov
ernment with necessary supplies. but the
recent request of Lieut. Col. Hodges of
the isthmian canal commission. that btis
be submitted the commission for furnis \
ing thirty diamonds of not less than cne
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ON ROAD TO RECOVERY.
Representative Sherman's Condition
Remains Almost Normal Today.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. June 27.-Con-
gressman James S. Sherman's condition
remained at almost normal today. He is
making rapid progress in regaining his
strength. Plans for the republican vice
presidential candidate leaving for his
home in Utica next Friday are going for
,rd
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GOULD-SAGAN NUPTIALS.
Wedding to Take Place July z With
Two Ceremonies.

PARIS. June 27.-The Mathis London
correspondent telegraphs an interview
with Prince Helie de Sagan, in which
the prince said that his marriage to Nine
Gould will take place about July Z. and
will consist of a religious and a civil
ceremony. Only four witnesses will be
present, two Germans for the prince and
two Americans for the bride.
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Are You Going Out of
Town This Summer ?

TT you are, be sure to have Tho
Evening and Sunday Star fot-
low you. In most cases The
Star will be at the breakfast
table the next morning and al
ways give all of the latest news
from Washington Of the day be.
fore. The address may be changed
as frequently as desired by giving
the old as we'll as the new ad-
dress. The price OF The Star by
mail daily and Sunday 10 60 cents
per month, In advance.
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Three Drowned in River Overflow.

MANKATO. Mimi. June 2I.-Miss Eva
Ehler. aged sixteen: her guest. Miss Maud
Worlds aged nineteen. of ST. Peter and
Max Sues. aged twenty were drowned
Thursday in the flood waters caused by
the overflow of the river here. The girls
had gone in bathing in Cornelia street.
which was overlooked. Miss Ehler sank
and Miss Worlds went to her rescue. She.
too went down and Max Sues then dived
for them. He did not come up.
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Usurper Orders Caids to Raise Army.

FEZ, June 21.-Mulai Hafid. the usurp-
ing sultan OF Morocco, has summoned the
caids to his palace here and peremptorily
instructed them to raise an army of $1,000
men from the neighboring tribes.
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Teachers Arrive From Porto Rico.

NEW YORK. June 2I.-The steamer
San Juan. which arrived today from
Porto Rico. brought fifty teachers from
the island who are to spend their vaca-
tions at their homes in the United States.
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johnson Men Cheered Up.

Such Johnson men as are on the ground
expressed themselves today as being
greatly cheered by reports from the east
to the effect that Bryan would not be
able to control votes from there. The
Bryan people, on the other hand. merely
laughed and asserted that all opposition
to their man will not total more than 125
votes.
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Astor Donates for Excavations.

LONDON, June 27.-William Waldorf
Astor has given 5000 to assist the Brit
ish school at Athens. in carrying on its
excavations at Laconia, Greece.
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SPIKES ON THE TRACKS
ENGINEER KILLED AND PAS
SENGERS HURT IN WRECK.

HAZLETON. Pa, June 27.-One man
were injured at Lofty, on the mountains
twelve miles from here, early today, by
the wrecking of a Pennsylvania passen-
ger train. which Is believed to have been
deliberately derailed by the spiking of
the tracks. The dead man is the engi-
neer Aaron Raub of Pittsville The in
jured passengers were brought to the
state hospital here.
The Pennsylvania uses the Lehigh val
ley railroad tracks between Delano juno
ton and this city. The superintendent OF
the Lehigh Valley and his men found two
spikes on the tracks placed in such a
way as to leave no doubt that they had
been put there to deliberately wreck the
train.
Alongside Mountain.
The Pennsylvania train was composed
of a combination car and one day coach
and left Pottsville, Pa, for Nescopeck al
5:35 am. The train is used principally
by workmen, most of whom are miners
The tracks where the accident occurred
extend along the side of a mountain
When the cars left the tracks they top
pied over on the mountain side of the
roadway. Had they fallen on the oppo-
site side they would have gone down a
steep embankment of more than fifty
feet.
The place where the wreck occurred is
sparsely settled and it was some time be-
fore physicians could be communicated
with to look after the injured. They
were placed on a special car sent from
here and brought to this city several
hours after the wreck occurred.
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Weather.

Fair tonight and Sunday.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-04
SNOW BLINDNESS

Snow blindness is an affliction little known through description, though not very difficult to describe, for here the strongest adiectives need few qualifications, writes V. Stefansson in Harper's Magazine. The pain does not follow immediately upon the straining which seems to be its cause. After long day of haze the traveller finds when he gets into camp that his eyes are little itchy, and that they water if he comes too near fire or any source of heat. Later they feel as if there were trace of smoke in the tent, then as if glain or two of sand had gotten under the eyelids, and finally, as if the sockets were lined with sandpaper. Every move ment of the eyes causes pain, and then the pains begin to come without a provoking roll of the eyeball. At first there is dull ache, growing gradual ly sharper, until toward morning of a sleepless night it throbs through the eyes every few seconds, with twinges comparable to, but not equaled by, the shooting pains of toothache.
 It is the only affliction with the pain of which the ordinary Eskimo cries out. The severity of the attack dimin- ishes toward the end of the first twen- ty-four hours; for the larger part of that time the sufferer usually keeps his tent, moaning and occasionally crying out sharply, lying on his face, with both hands covering his closed eyes to keep out the faintest possible light; on the second or perhaps third day he is able to travel, but is very near-sighted and sees everything double. In a week or so, if the wealth CT is hay or he has no goggles, the same individual may have another at tack-but the first attack of the year is the most severe, apparently. Every attack weakens the eyes and predis- poses to further attacks, which (so, al l ledSl, tiio EIoh iuOo DcIICNOJ hhdliS IS"s to total blindness, an affliction rather common among the Eskimos. Keep ing the eyes from strain and, if possi' ble, focusing them continually or some dark object (such as black dog in one's team), is believed by the na tives to be the chief safeguard. The same view is held by many of the Royal Northwest mounted police whose duties within the Arctic ant on the plains of the Northwest ire quently expose them to snow-blind ness.
 Nothing, perhaps, could more clear ly bring out the trying nature of tht af1liction than the fact that one ol more suicides among the policemen on spring duty in the Northwest art attributed to inability to bear tht pam of snow-blindness. Occasonally the police employ tine amusing, bu apparently rather effective device 0 painting the nose black and trying tt focus the eyes upon it. The type 0 nose may have something to do witl the effectiveness of this scheme.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-04
WITH ALASKA EXCHANGES


 Also, in the way of fruit growing, judging by the lemon which Judge Wickersham recently presented Dele- gate Gale, Alaska need take no back seat. Juneau Record.
 Since Governor Hoggatt has gotten himself married he will have to stand for home rule whether he likes it or not. Valdez Prospector.
 The many friends of Mir. and Mrs. Joe Diggs have each received an ele- gant announcement card' to the effect that there has arrived at their home in Cordova bright baby girl. With the card comes attached thereto tiny little envelope containing the card of the little miss. It is quite unique, just like Joe. Every one re- ceivipg this announcement wishes MT. and Mrs. Diggs many happy occur rences of this kind, and the Record man, although he got no card, joins with the others in hoping that Joe will keep on digging. ."-Juneau Dispatch.
 The determination of Delegate Gale to stand against the Shoup appoint IT ent in favor of H. K. Love, whose only claim to Alaska support is his represented friendship with the presi- dent, will create some surprise in this section. There can not be any doubt that Shoup is many times over more popular in this section. Further his official record is such as to recommend him for reappointment. It is prob- able that the action of Delegate Gale will not be productive of results. - Skagway Alaskan.
 Alaska does not advertise climate as her most valuable asset but if the more or less poetic newspaper and magazine writers who insistently re. fer to the territory as the Frozer North had spent the present winter on the southern coast of Alaska they would have suffered less from nippeC ears and toes and finger tips than any where in any state north of Dixie.
 The mercury has dropped below zero in Valdez on less than half doZer days this winter and each time in stil air that made the low temperature scarcely noticeable. The lowest was below zero. The wind movement has hardly been worth registering, so free has the town been from that pest 0 the Alaska coast. The snow fall Ina; been no heavier than the average along the great lakes. A late Febru ary has nearly wrecked the winter trail to the still more remote freezer north.
 While the prairie states of the mid dle west, the North Atlantic state' the British Isles have been rocked 1T the cradle of the blizzard, with trains stalled in snow drifts and telegraph lines dragged down by storms, Valdei men have walked the street without overcoats and grumbled because tht soft weather threatened to destroy tht mining operations could be hauled through.
 Some time in the far distant future the people who know it all will beg1 to know something about Alaska. - Valdez Prospector.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-04
DEFECTS OF AMERICAN LAW


 Sydney Brooks, in the London Chronicle of recent date, has severe, but not entirely unjustifable, attack on the procedure of American crimin- al courts, and the difficulties encount- cred in the due administration of jus tice in this country.
 The principal defect of the Ameri- can system of criminal jurisprudence, in Mir. Brooks opinion, although he finds other contributory causes, is to be found in the worship and perver- sion of procedure. In this Mir. Brooks voices anew opinions often expressed by leading lawyers in the United States. It is true in a considerable measure that American lawyers and judges have ''magnified the technical ities of the law until justice has been thrown into the background and lost sight of." Through this has come the abuse of the right of appeal, an abuse almost as prevalent in civil as in crim- inal cases.
 Practically the trail judge is on rial as to his knowledge of practice and procedure, rather than criminal on trial for the offense for which he has been indicted. The counsel on both sides are constantly on the alert to catch the judge off his guard. Points of practice, of pleading and of evidence are fired at the judge, which he is expected to and does decide off, hand. To every ruling of the judge, one side or the other takes an excep- tion. The exceptions taken to these numerous rulings, delivered off-hand, make up the claim of errors, on which the supreme court or other appellate court is asked tn grant new trial, on the ground that the legal rights of one side or the other were Jeopardized by the mistakes of the trial judge. In too many cases the upper court asks, as the writer assert: ''Is there error of any kind, however, technical, how ever insignificant, in the proceedings of the trial court?" If there is, new trial is ordinarily granted. "Justice and common sense are alike forgotten in the chase after an impossible i'm perfection of forms and rules. y
 No one familiar with the proceed ings of American courts can deny that there Is basis for the criticism.