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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-19

Al! Of these West African colon cS have
hig POSSIBLE ties. and the European ma
tons - whom they belong are inve-tisat-
ing them. In nearly every one cotton is
being planted and in seine the expert
ments are successful. Niger a. for in
stance. expects to he shipping 10000
bales to Europe by 1910. and so far the
growth of the cotton crop has been as
rapid there as il was al the start IN tie
United States. | understand that ii took
our cotton belt ten years after the first
crop was planted to reach a product OF
cocoa bales and that 1000 90 bales was
only attained at the end of thirty-iiVe
years. Cotton was first planted in Nj
geria in 1901 and the crop has doubled
each year since then. IL S only recently
that any attempt has been made To raise
/ in northern Nigeria. but experimental
stations have now been started there and
steam s:nueries are 10 he introduced.
This movement is backed by the British
Cotton Growing Association. which has "A
capital of a IN iliol and quarter col
lars and which is pushing cotton planting
both sides of The black continent. The
Germans have estaol shed cotton planta-
tons III their eastern and western African
possessions | und stand they are do
ing well in TOSoland and the kam-
eruns and | know that they are rails ng
some cotton on the highlands about Vic
toria. for | SAW the bales loaded on the
ships wnea | naNigateI that axe.
An equally great interest Is exhibited in
the timber pru,iucts of the several colo
n cs. The rubher Industry is being pushed
everywhere and nearly every nation j.
setting out rubber plantations. Tie
French have planted ten million rubber
vines III lower Guinea and Dahomey. and
they plan to set out a half million more
trees every year. The Germans are plant
ing rubber and so are the English.
| have been much interested in the ma
hogany resources. A great deal of that
wood 5 now being exported from Nj
geria Something ike 800 logs were ship
ped from Lagos last Year. and altogether
about 700 logs. containing over 4OOOONl
feet, were then sent away by the Eng
fish. Considerable is shipped from the
Ivory coast and from other localities
FRANK O.. CARPENTER
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10 German Southwest Africa. railroads
are building experimental plantations are
being set out and here and there mines
or various kinds have been discovered.
Away down near the Cape, in the Ger
man possessions, there is place called
Otavi. where valuable deposits of copper
are now being mined. The ore in sight
Is said to be 100000 tons, and ii is claimed
that it can be produced SO to net SlJ,-
UpG.GC0 clear profit. Portuguese West
Africa has copper, iron. petroleum and
salt and its oils and asphalt fields are
low being worked by British syndicate.
I-have already written OF the great IA
tauga concession. which King Leopold
OF Belgium is working in connection with
the English on the watershed between
the Zambesi and the kongo. This is TO
be reached by a railroad 200 miles long
through Portuguese West Africa to the
kongo Free State. 1t viii open up larger
copper deposits than any ever discoy-
cred. and will food the world with that
metal and with tin The tin mines run
through range of hills 80 miles long,
and the copper mountains are something
like 300 miles in length. An extension OF
the Cape TO Cairo road has just been
projected to this great mining region, ard
within a short time IL will probably be 4
beehive of industry
There are valuable minerals in the
northern part OF the kongo Free State.
and the French kongo contains gold, cop
per- and iron. Gold has been recently
found in the kanerun. belonging TO the
Germans. which lies just to the north
and q little beyond that is the famous
Gold Coast. on the Gulf of Guinea. from
which the English got the NAM OF their
81 gold pieces. The mines there have
been worked for generations. and they
are still turning out considerable. The
output is something Ike 81 .bsl.orS Il
wear which is forty times the product of
1901. In 1906 SiI 0,n ounces OF gold were
taken ou:. and there has been a steady
increase III The product for more than
1--WE years. A present both quartz and
placer mining are going on, and large
crushing mills have been Installed
As 10 the railroad development. il en-
The Germans have several large projects
unaer way in Southwest Africa They
1--we already built a line 237 miles long
from Swakopmund. their port. near Wal
fish bay TO Great Windhoek. the capital
and they have made arrangements for a
railroad 500 miles long to go from Sws-
Eopmund to OtaSi and the copper mines
This road will probably some day be
connected with the Cape TO Cairo line rum
ming northwa:d from Cape Town TO the
Zambesi: and. in that case. it will shorten
tho distance between England and Bula-
wavo by 800 miles.
The Iobito Bay railroad has already
been constructed for "A hundred miles or
So inland from the Atlantic: and there
are now several thousand laborerS work
ing upon ii. This road will be over l,ooo
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these :.pm are girls. Their expenditure
or negro education there last year was "A
quarter of mil ion dollars. They have
schools at all the towns Of Senegal: at
Dakar there is q technical school. and at
st. Louis normal training college. whera
interpreters and minor officials are taught
There are also schools in Dahomey and
French Guinea.
The Germans are beginning to educate
the natives at Togoand. and they have
esta hlislled government school or 80 in
tire kame:unS. There are 5000 children
in the mission schools of the latter coun-
try. and 1900 in the mission schools OF
German Southwest Africa
As To the Congo Free State. it has now
1n. mission stations with a little under
500 missionaries Of whom 2ii are Cath
oiicS and the remainder PTotestants. Tie
missionaries cooperate with the govern
ment. as far as education is concerned.
and the latter has formed three agrcul-
tural colonies. where negro ch ldren are
taught.
In the Portuguese possessions. notwith-
standing tn. outrases which have been
pe-petrated on the natives in the way of
slavery and forced labor. there are -
government schools and also municipal
and private schools with about 100 pu-
pills.
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PARIS. December 10. 1908.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
USED DEAD FlNANClERS
TO CONTROL PRESIDENT
Shades Of C. p. Huntington, Jay Gould
and James g. Fair Figure In
Bartnett EmbezzIement
Case

SAN FRANCISCO. June 9.-For a
brief time today during the trial of
Banker Walter j. Bartnett it seemed
that the shadoWy forms of late Jay
Gould, Coils p. Huntington and James
G.. Fair were to be brought back from
the mysterious world to which they
have gone to hover over the witness
chair in which sat aged David f..
Walker president of the California
Safe Deposit and Trust company.
Bartnett as vice president and chief
counsel of the wrecked bank is alleged
to have had control over Walker, the
president, and other officers of the
bank, and the prosecutor attempted to
show that this control was alleged by
Bartnett to come through the spirits
of the dead f1nanciera
The court upon the objections of the
defendants attorney ruled out all the
testimony tending to show such con-
troll by the spirits and District Attor-
new William Hoff Cook stated that he
would bring in this testimony later
when the proper foundation had been
laid. Bartnett, who is accused of haV
ing embezzled the Cotton securities
while acting as administrator of the
estate of Ellen M. Cotton and which
were placed in the California Safe
Deposit and Trust company's vaults
by him, sent letters and kilograms to
j. Dalzell Brown, manager of the trust
company,-from New York in which he
directed that certain kilograms worded
according to his dictation were to be
sent back by Brown to him. These
letters and kilograms were all offered
in evidence today by the prosecution
to prove the control of Bartnett over
Brown and Walker. but after being
read were not admitted as evidence.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
LOS ANGELES AD. CLUB
MEETS AT PLAYA DEL REY
New Members Elected to Popular Or
ganizaton and Special Car Car
ries Crowd to Beach-Busi-
ness Transacted

Thanks to the courtesy of the Bal
loon Route management, the Los An
geles Ad club was afforded an oppor-
tunity to have it's annual monthly din
ner and business meeting in ban
quet room overlooking the broad Pa
cifc last evening the function being
held at the Hotel del Rey at Playa
del Rey.
A special car was furnished gratis
by the Balloon Route management to
take the members of the club to and
from the hotel, and the party left the
Hill street station promptly at 6 O'Clock.
On the way to the beach the appli-
cation for membership of nineteen new
men were acted upon, every applica-
tion receiving favorable action.
An excellent dinner was served, after
which DR.. Hibbard, vice president, who
was acting chairman and toastmaster,
introduced In a few we'll chosen words,
including a bit of verse William A.
Mears, a newly elected member and
the Pacific coast representative of the
Collins Wireless Telephone company,
as the principal speaker.
The subject of Mr.. Mears' address
was Experiences 1 Have Had With
Advertising Men, Mr.. Mears made
a most eloquent, educational and in
teresting talk, verging at times upon
the sublime, and then descending by
easy and natural stages to the ridlcu-
lous. He carried his hearers with him
at all times and was given a great
round of applause when he concluded.
Joseph X. Lotus of the real estate
firm of Lotus & Burnham was the
next speaker. His address was both
eloquent and witty.
air. Hale, manager of the Abbot
Kinney company, made a short ad-
dress in which he invited the Ad club
to have it's next monthly dinner and
business meeting at the Ship hotel at
Venice, an invitation that was unani-
mously accepted.
Several other short speeches were
made, after which a few stories occu-
pied the attention of those present.
The meeting adjourned after singing
the "Doxology." the wording Of which
had been changed by DR.. Hibbard.
The names of the new members elect
ed are: William A. Mears, Joseph r.
LOTUS, J. w. Allan, Stanley Hale,
Douglas White. Paul II. Bowman, A.
j. Frankland, NJ. f. Hills, A. Carman
Smith, Frank c. Ayers, Joseph Sat
tier r. G. Hyatt, c. l.. Perkins, f. G.
Witt, Fred Muenz. Philip Falter, w.
C. Lally, C. p. Connell and G. V.
Allen.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
HOLD EIGHTH REUNION
Commander of Alabama Division Pre-
sides at Meeting Which Seven
Thousand Persons
Attend

CUNNINGHAM Ala, Juno 9.-Amid
great enthusiasm and before 1000 peo-
pie in the Birmingham Hippodrome
auditorium the eight annual reunion of
Confederate veterans was called TO or
der today by Maj. Gen. George p. Har-
rison, commanding the Alabama di-
vision of the Confederate Veterans.
The invoca ton was delivered by Rev.
DR.. J. w. NJ. Jones, chaplain general.
The chldren's chorus followed, 200
children accompanied by the reunion
band rendering southern airs.
Major General Harrison, on the
stage, was surrounded by Gen. w. l..
Cabell of Texas, Gen. Clement Evans
of Georgia, General Tyler and other
prominent officers and by representa-
tives of the local Sons of Veterans,
Daughters of the Confederacy and To-
cal citizens committees.
The days program includes an ad-
dress of welcome on behalf of the Con-
federate veterans of Alabama by
Brigadier General w. Bush; on behalf
of the Sons of Veterans by Gen. Rufus
n. Rhodes; on behalf of the Alabama
Daughters OF the Confederacy by Mrs.
Charles c.. Brown and reading of the
address of Gen, Stephen d. Lee. de-
ceased.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
SENTENCED TO HANG, CONVICT
APPEALS TO SUPREME COURT

SAN FRANCISCO, June 81 w.
Finley a life-term convict in Folsom
nenitentiary, who was condemned TO
death and sentenced to hang Friday
under the new state law making II
canital offense for a convict sentenced
for life to assault any person WIN IN,
tent to commit murder, has appeaie1
to inc supreme court of the United
states and was today granted stay or
execution by the supreme court OF Call-
fornia on his petition for a VIII Oh
error before the higher court
FINLEY participated in the outbreak
of Folsom in 1903. and was the first
convict to be tried and convicted under
the new law, jury at agsa,;Ifins sa1ramen'o o
guard. His appeal to the supreme
Court of the state was denied; denied, In In ms ms
petition to the highest tribunal III the
land Finley makes the point that the
law under which he was convicted is
reDuenant to and in violation OF the
fourteenth amendment of the constitu-
tion of the United States. and that ne
has been denied the protection or the
laws which is enjoyed by other persons
under the same circumstances.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
FAILS TO SHOW UP;
ACTORS GET ANXIOUS
Suddenly Disappears with Costumes
and Salary Money and Is Located
at Late Hour In Pasadena.
Wife with Him

C. 7. Wippern, who has been director
of the musical comedy company at the
Unique theater for the past three
months, failed to appear at that play
house last night for the evening per-
formance. His bride, known profession
ally at Kate Carlson, who has been
playing soubrette roles in the company,
likewise was among the missing.
Announcement was made that MIR.
Wippefn and Miss Carlson had been in
jured in an automobile accident. This.
however, was merely an excuse, as no
one connected with the theater knew
what had become of them.
Wippern was engaged by Hentz d
Zallee, proprietors of the Unique. to
engage his own company and present
tabloid opera at that theater. He was
paid a lump sum and himself engaged
and paid his employees on the stage
Yesterday afternoon he called at the
theater box office and drew what money
was coming to him, 1925. Previously
he had drawn s205. making total OF
$3.50. Then he disappeared.
Tuesday is pay night for members OF
the company, and they waited anxiously
for Mr.. Wippern to show up with their
money When s o'clock arrived and he
was still absent they began an investi-
CATION which resulted in the discovery
that the musical director and his wife
had removed all OF tneir peioiSihSS
from the theater, even to the costumes
Miss Carlson wore upon the stage.
Wippern's engagement at the Unique
was to have terminated in four weeks.
He had expected to take his company
with him to Denver where he Is said
to be under engagement TO John Cort
for the Davis theater. Most of the
players whom he approached on the
subject, however, elected to remain at
the Unique. This caused some i'll feel
ing and consequently when Wippern
absented himself from the theater last
night the impression at once gained
credence that he had skipped out,
leaving the actors in arrears one week
for salaries.
Late last night, however, Mrs. Wip-
perm called up her mother from Pasa-
dena, explained that she and her hus-
band were in that city and promised
that Wippern would be at the Unique
at IL o'clock today, to pay up.
The performance of "Babes In the
Woods" was given as usual last night,
Miss Mae Taylor assuming Miss Carl
sons role on a few minutes notice
and playing it very well.
Walter Frederieks will succeed Mr..
Wippern as director of the company.
There will be a few changes among the
principals, but for the most part the
present company will be retained in its
entirety. A new soubrette will be en-
gagged in the east.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
WANTCORTELYOU
TO ENTER RACE
SECRETARY CHOICE OF TAFT
AND ROOSEVELT
CONSIDER HIM AVAILABLE FOR
VICE PRESIDENT
Advance Guard VIII Start for Chicago
Today to Begin Proceedings
Cornelius Bliss FaVors
Candidacy
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, June 9.-Indica-
tions are multiplying that Secretary
Cortelyou will be advanced by Roose-
welt and Taft at Chicago as their can
didate for vice president. Secretary
Cortelyou himself naturally declined to
discuss the matter of his candidacy
for the very sufficient reason that ms
native state has already in the held
a candidate for the presidency In the
person of Governor Hughes.
That fact has so far operated 10
prevent any open exchanges petWeeIi
the friends of Secretary Cortelyou ana
Secretary Taft's managers. But IL
can now be stated as a fact that IN
the opinion OF his friends the time mas
come when Secretary Cortelyou should
be placed in position to be recoS-
nized as New Yorks candidate Tor the
vice presidency in event of the eIim-
ination of Hughes from the presldeh-
tial race.
AS a necessary step to a successtul
campaign in that direction there had
first to be ascertained the attitude tnat
president Roosevelt and Secretary Taft
would assume toward secretary Cor
telyou's candidacy. The secretary hlh-
self has declined to make any move
in the matter. but his friends have not
felt restrained by that fact, and al
ready they feel they have received en-
couragement and are prepared TO move
in force upon the convention delegates
at Chicago. +
One reason for their confidence is
asserted to be their belief that py
strenuous opposition offered by the
Fairbanks contingent to the recogni-
tion of southern Taft delegates in the
battle before the committee now IN
progress the coupling of the names OF
Taft and Fairbanks or of Roosevelt
and Fairbanks on one ticket has be-
come impossible.
Therefore tomorrow Secretary Cor
telyous advance guard starts for chi
cago led by Assistant Secretary Louis
Coolidge, a Bostonian of long expert
ence in public affairs and of wide ac-
auaintance with the various managers
now in Chicago.
Cornelius N. Bliss, one time mem
ber of McKinley's cabinet and treas
,rer of the last Republican campaign
committee. is also said to be bound
for Chicago in Secretary Cortelyous
interest, while among other political
leaders expected to espouse his cause
is said to be Senator Murray Crane OF
Massachusetts. whose support is most
anxiously desired by the administra-
ton forces.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
WILL BE BURIED BY
SIDE OF COMPANIONS
Board of Inquiry Completes Investlga-
ton Of Tennessee Dlsaster-Water
in Boilers Ran Low After
the Accident

j. P. A. Carroll, one of the firemen
of the United States cruiser Tennessee
who died Sunday night in the Angelus
hospital, this city, as a result of in
juries received in the explosion on the
Tennessee last Friday off Point Hue
neme will be buried beside the other
five victims of the explosion in Harbor
View cemetery, San Pedro, at 10
o'clock today.
a telegram was received Monday
from Washington which ordered the
remains sent to Bridgeport. Conn.
Carroll was to have been inferred at
the same time as NJ. r. MaXfield the
negro fireman who died few hours
after Carroll died.
Yesterday a telegram was received
countermanding the previous order,
and Carroll will be buried in San
Pedro instead of Bridgeport, his for
mer home.
The four remaining of those badly
Injured now in the Angelhs hospital
late last night wero resting quietly,
and some hope is entertained for their
recovery.
The board of inquiry appointed by
Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree to inves-
tigate the accident on the United
States cruiser Tennessee Friday, COM
posed of Capt. C. f. Fox and Lieut..
y.
Lieut.. Com. c.. N. Offley of the West
Virginia, has practically completed Its
work and its report to the secretary OF
the navy probably will be forwarded
tomorrow.
The investigation of the boiler room
and defective tube which was respon-
sible for the explosion as well as the
examination of the survivors and men
in the near vicinity of the accident
has heen very thorough.
Immediately after the accident the
water in all boilers on the Tennessee
ran very low and the board of inquiry
today made a thorough inspection OF
all boilers on the Tennessee.
When the investigation is finally
completed the boilers will be submitted
to a full speed test and the test VIII
be closely watched by the members OF
the board of inquiry, Admiral Sebree'
Capt. Howard and other officers of the
flagship.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
WHEAT-L0ADED SHIPS
RACE FROM PORTLAND
Three Vessels Of Same Class Sail FOR
Queenstown with Similar Car
qoes and Reach Port
Same Day

NEW YORK, June 9.-News of the
ending of a remarkable marine race o.
16 900 miles, from Portland, Ore, TO
Queenstown, which was won by the
British ship Clackmannanshire' was re-
ceived in this city today. The Vessei
sailed from Portland on January IL III
company with the FrenSh bark Marina
Reux. Two days before that the
British bark Gladys had sailed 1roIIi
PortIand for Queenstown, and as all
three of the vessels were loaded with
wheat much interest was felt in pros
pective race around Cape Horn and
across the Atlantic. ..,.
tho Columbia river on January IT. Ac-
cording to information received here TO-
day the vessels were in company almost
throughout the voyage and reacnea
Queenstown in 1877 days on June = I'm
'.,,,tn they nassed several other vessels
which had sailed from Pacific coast
norts several days earlier.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
TREASURY WATCHMAN'S JOB
INTERESTS COMMISSIONERS
Civil Service Board Members Scam
ming References of Prospective
EIielbIes Closely Because
OF esponsibilIty

The civil service commission is ex-
amining the papers OF candidates who
seek appointments as Waterman Tor
the city treasury.
The position is at present being filled
by an emergency appointment. the ap-
pointee having taken the examination
also.
The commissioners say the post is an
important one.
1.-THE examination will not disclose
the honesty of applicants" said Com
missioner Ona Morton, "and we should
scan the references closely"
"That is position which ] think
should be exempted. believe the
treasurer should select his own watch
man" said Commissioners Dan Lauber-
sheimer.
Secretary w. a. Spslding said in
Chicago all applicants on the civil
service are shadowed by the detective
force there to obtain for the commits
sion accurate knowledge as to the
character of all eligibles