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New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
THE FUNERAL OF MRS. sTelNHARr.

Havana. May 2.-G"vernur MaGoun to-day was
present at the funeral service or Mrs I;ucini
St-iuhart. tLc n'otHcr of Frank Strnhart former
American Cousu General at Havana. who died ia
this city AptIl 80 Mr Strinuurt wilt leave h.rv
With the body th, Ward Line steamer
Havana for New ,rL.
Major General Iinu Guerra. commander i'm chiaf
Of tle Cuban army. aud his aids ad Captaiu Frauk
r. Alct'oy will also ~aI the steamer havana
ts4ptuin Mccoy ,;,u- {" Cuh;t special mis-
sion. which was believed here ju have been c.tu-
uc,-t,1 with Investigation at thr EriI contract
for the Ciruiueros waite and >cWyr sy stem.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
AFAITf MEASURES IN PORTO RICO.

San Juan j. r.. MAY The Porto Rcan Board
Of Health has adopted resolution to petition the
federal authorities establish quarantine against
Venezuelan ports ana ueighborng islands which
have not taken proper sanitary measures, and also
To furnish naval vessel for the purpose OF guard
ing the Islands Of tieques and culebra, where
smuggling is frequent Disease has been introduced
into Porto Rico previous tccasons through these
islands Mones has been allotted ~ the Beard of
Health fnr precautionary measures against the
nlssue and for tins purehase o. ssIur.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
DENY PLAGUE EXISTS At CARACAS

NilI-iG-iad. ,uI.,,.iu Alas . The American alin-
boat Paducah came in her- to-day from Puerto
,-.I.lo. Her officers declare that Ven. zuela dis
claims tH~ existence 81 The plague Al ,'irarns
Trains are running freely between Caracas and
ru.rto t.t-lIu and he P4d..u received q clean
rnl Of hc.lIn TIE suutoa1- win return a. Puerto
t'4frIio on Monday. In" plague a. Ia GurSrt l.
,..fa 20 be abatIn1. The American Minister " y
Eu>s,U j. ~tiil ~ Caracas
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
THE MoUkpEN INCIDENT CLOSED.

Moukden. May 2.-The episode of the assault at
the American consulate April has been closed
The American staff has been eXonerated and three
of the Japanese officials have been punished.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
To FINANCE HUpsON'S BAY LINE.

WInnipeg May 2-The Dominion government will
submit to Parliament next week bin providing for
In. eonst rlIciion Of railroad To- Fort Churchill
Ilulsun's Bay. 1t is proposed 10 provide money
from the sale of three million acres oI dominion
croUu lands iu the West. hitherto apart ~
railway reservation lands IL iS estimated that
proceeds from these lands would IN u few years
realize 500 prs enough 1" pay the cost sof cau-
sructIun To lIdnn's ttay and improvements to the
haIb0r--
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
BARONESS KILLS HER HUSBAND.
Fires Fatal Shot in German Chateau and
Then Attempts Suicide.

Berlin. May Baroness lido Won RueXleben
shot and killed her husband in their chateau at
Buddenberg near Dortmund. last night just he
" as about to retire She then shot herself. but
the self-inlicted wound was not fatal
No explanation has been made of the occur
renee. Baron Won RUexleben of old Thu
ringian family. He married Wanda Strom-
beck in Berlin last November. The baron was
thirty-five years Old and his widow is tventy-slx
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
ENORMOUS SHIPMENTS OF WHEAT,
Over Six Million Bushels Put on Shipboard
at Port Arthur, Ont.

Port Arthur. Ont, May The rush OF gram
here for the last two days has been unprecedented
il, the history of the port AT the head IF the
Canadian lakes there is fleet of forty-three boats
with a carrying capacity of 4.fEe1 bushels BY
the close of business to-day over 6@HG" bushels Of
wheat were shipped from here Tie elevators are
lined with vessels waiting to get under the spouts
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
COAL STRIKE I'M NOVA SCOTIA.

Port Hood y :, May The Port Hood coal
mine Was idle to-day 4 result Of d strike II the
mineT-. Who demand Increase In wages. The
prospective summer output - the mine is already
sold and the say that delay N opera
tIcns now > III mean serious loss them. There
vas an explosion, III. considerable loss Of life, in
THIS mine about three months ago bat the mine
MAS only slightly damaged
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
AN AERoPLANe IN COLLISION

Paris May 2-M. pelaS; augc narrowly escaped
crushing crowd cf spectators who imPrudenty
had taken puSstSsicn Il end cf the field iSsN
at an aercplanC trial day lsiagtauge vas t.tN-
tllng close 10 the ground AT speed uf about nity
kilometres al hour when the derupldue SVsrNed.
The spectators saved themselves 10y dropping To
the ground. fac downward pelasranEe. ~"t hlnS
To- avoid an accident. shat M the motor. and the
+eroplane struck automobile both machines
being badly damaged. The asTonaut vas badly
hrulsel
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
ELECTION DAY IN BOLIVIA.

La Paz. Bolivia. May 2-The Bolivian Presi-
Dental election Will be held on May /. The popu-
lar candidate is Fernando GuacAaila. formerly Eo-
Iivian Minister al Washington.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
MOROCCAN PRETENDER DEFEATED

Paris May a dispatch has been received here
from Rear Admiral Filibert the French naval
commander in Moroccan saying that. ac-
cording To native reports. Mulai Hahg. the pre-
tending Sultan Of Morocco. had been vanquIshed
by the BcuiskaroU trIbcsmeu. and that he had ned
the direction Of Mequinez accompanied by
thirty hOrSemen
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
SPANISH ROYAL FAMILY AT SERVICE

Madrid. May 2-The festivities CONNIE morating
the centenary of the for Spanish independence
were continued here to-day. and included re-
llgious service at the Church Of San Francisco
which was attended by King Alfonso and Queen
Victoria and many state diguitaries. Later there
was q grand paTade Of the troops who We're re
= ritArsH lA the King
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
FIRST RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN JAPAN

ST Petersburg May 2.-The appointment of NJ.
NaIeysky- NIalavitch to be Ambassador of Russia
TO Japan was officially announced to-day. Up TO
he present time Russia has been represented
Toxic bv "A legation. Nj. Motono, the japanese Min
lister at ST Petersburg has also been promoted to
the rank of ambassador.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
eoRTo EicANs HOLD CELEBRATION.

ean Juan Porto Rico. Man 2-'TEe eighth ami
~srssry q tie establishment Of civil government
IN The island of Porto Rico under The hnerican
regime Was Observed here yesterday. The labor
organizations pacadcd and several CONNIE inoratite
mass meetings were held
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
CHINESE OFFICIALS ENGLISH PAPER

Peking May 2-Cirdnd Councillor Yuan Shi-k
has begun the publication of national newspaper
in Peking 1t u called Chinese Public Opinion
and is published in English. This enterprise
is mar, of the general movement express in the
press the feeling China With regard to her in
formation situation.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
NOVA scoTIAN SCHOONER WRECKED.

to-day iLat the schooner Utopia had been COM
psJely wrecked q sam. Point. the entrance
10 the Strait Of canso. The Utopia registered
nnety y-eieht tons net and oRn ned in Liverpool.
T. 8 She 81. nuir az Brooklyn, y. &. IN ls54
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
SWEDISH BARK. THE svANHILo. ASHORE.

Montevideo May The SN edsh bark Svanhild
from Pensacola January II for Buenos Ayres. is
ashore on English Bank. The captain and part OF
his crew have been landed AZ Maldonado. Uruguay
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
NEW BRITISH CONSUL HERE SAILS

Liverpool. May 2.-Ths Hon Reginald Walsh
who has been appointed British Consul at New
York, in succession to Charles o. Bailey started
for his post to-day the steamer Mauretania
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
LOCK OUT 2I,OOO WEN.
English and Scotch Shipbuilders Act
Man affect 2JO, 900.

Glasgow May = The Clyde sh1pbuilders 'his
morning locked out six thousand woodWorkers from
their wards. This measure is an outcome OF tle
dispute between the Shipbuding Employers Fed-
oratior and the shpworkers of the Northeast coast
who struck rather than accept reduction In wages
and who have not been able TO get the federauoh
10 arbitrate their demands
Lockouts have been decided upon al an tle sH'p-
I,lirdine wards in the United Kingdom, and Work
men in other branches will gradually be locked ou'.
There seems every prospect of complete stop
M ge Of the shipbuidng industry. condition that
will affect directly not less than 2sVv" men
Tordon Nav 2-The woodwOrkers in all the ship
,.,;l5iro Yards of the country. totaug about ff-
teen thousand men, were locked out to-day IN pur-
s,snce of the determination of the masters to close
the wards unless the Northeast coast strikers
aoreed 10 their terms. The Workmen In Cthor
,.a.t,,. +,toIIng many scores of thousands. will
have 10 cease work before long unless settle
noent of the dispute is reached
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
RAPE
CASE COMES
FOR HEARING

An order for a change of venue in
the case of Rachel Allimand against
Ferdinand Sechier, brought for the re-
cOvery of damages in the sum of $10,-
900, was issued in the superior court
of Yakima county December Z, by Su-
perior Judge E. B. Preble, transferring
the case to the superior court of Walla
Walla county.
The complaint in the case recites
that ION or about November s, 1907, in
the city of San Francisco, DEFENDANT
for the purpose of destroying plaintiff S
good name, happiness, reputation and
future comfort, did, under promise of
marriage, seduce the said plaintiff and
cause her to be pregnant" all to the
plaintiffs damage in the suf of $10,-
000
Sharpstein & Sharpstein are attorneys
for Sercnier, and JOHN HI. Lynch and
J. B. Roche represent Miss Allimand.
The case has attracted considerable at
tentiOn since being instituted in the
superior court of Yakima county and
the various developfents in the pro-
ceedings having resulted in the accu-
mutation of an enormous amount of
papers in connection with the suit.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
Ole Still Working for
Passage of Racing Bill

telling qualities Of the public press
Let US see what the public press Of
that state said in regard to the gam
blers help in making the state fair
success
"Now 10000 people paid admission
to the Puyallup fair and was a
splerIlid success and not a single
race track gambler or thief, sure
thing man or tout was present.
"As far as am concerned I earn
estly believe that after the agitation
which l am carrying on not only will
my race track gambling bill pass, but
I believe the agitation will leave the
legislators in such frame of mind
that they will vote large increase for
the benefit of state fair. I, for one,
standing ready to champion such leg
islation. Also I would absolutely re-
fuse to vote one dollar to any firm or
association who farm out privileges
to skin the unwary and advertise a
state fair in order to draw crowd
for the worst gang Of sure thing black
legs outside of the penitentiary of this
state"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16

Councilman Fred S. Hull tipped his
hand at the meeting of the city coun-
ell last night, and shortly after. Dur
ing the somewhat heated discussion
relative to the plan of laying off one
man in the street department Mr.. Hull
made it a point to tell the council and
spectators that he was advocating the
policy of retrenchment only because
it was for the best interests of the
city; that there was nothing personal
concerned in his attitude; that the
expenses of the city in all departments
should be reduced to the minimum at
this season, for the good and future
welfare of the city.
After the meeting adjourned, how
ever it is said that Hull made his
way to the police station and there
exutantly told how he had "got" j.
NJ. Rose, foreman of the street depart
ment, and related the events of the
incident which won for Mr.. Rose the
enmitv of the WatertoWn mayor and
the Walla Walla councilman. Accord
ing to the story, some time last fall
Mr.. Rose, who was a walking delegate
for some labor organization, took Mr..
Hull to task for employing nom union
carpenters on sofe work he was hav-
ing done at his place. The owner of
the property strenuously objected at
the time telling Mr.. Rose that If ne
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
81 Knew I'd Get Him And
Ibid" Said The Councilman

was walking delegate" he had better
keep on walking.
Since then the transaction has evil
IDENTIFY ranked in the bosom
of Mr. Hull, and he is said to have made
the following statement at police head
quarters last night:
II knew I'd get him, and I did"
In speaking of the action of the
council in releasing Mr.. Rose, Street
Commissioner Dion Keefe said this
morning:
''Mr. Rose was no more Of foreman
than a number of others who have been
working in the street department. He
has paid especial attention to the side
walks, and as a result of his work we
have put in a great many walks. Peo
pie will talk in a town like this, and
1 suppose some of them, especially in
the upper end of town, have entered OBJ
jections to Mr.. Rose because Of his ac-
ton in forcing them to construct side
walks. He was a good man, but if the
council doesn't want him, it's all right"
Mr. Keefe's monthly report shows
that "a men are employed in the street
department last month and that the
total salaries paid amounted to little
more than $1177. AS much Of the work
has been done, it is said that the num-
Der employed next month will be con-
siderably smaller
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
AUCTION SALE OF
YERKES HOUSE

NEW YORK, Dee. 16.-This is the
date set for the sale at auction of the
Yerkes library and art gallery build
ing, at Fifth avenue and Sixty eighth
street. and the ground on which it
stands. under foreclosure proceedings
brought by the Mutual Life Insurance
company Real estate experts value the
property at nearly a half-million dol
lars.
The Mutual several months ago
obtained a supreme court order to
foreclose a mortgage for $225.OO0 and
making total of $242.296.90.
which the company held on the art
gallery. The mortgage was made On
January 25, 1904. 1t fell due shortly
after Mr.. Yerkes' death, but no action
was taken until last February, when
the suit to foreclose was begun.
The art gallery is one of the con-
Joined houses. Mr.. Yerkes' will, drawn
da year after the mortgage was put o.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
will See if Char9>A9f "Juice"
RedIIV Hills Condemned Nan

formed by DR.. E. A. S. Spitzka, Of
Philadelphia. Next time, however, DR..
Schammel. the county physician, will
insist on being allowed to take posses
tion of the body. With the assistance
of DR.. Mackenzie, he will then apply
all the methods Of resuscitation known
to medical science. If the experiment
fails an autopsy will be performed to
determine the exact effect of the e.ec-
trio current on the human body 1t
also expected that this will show If
death was instantaneous, as advocates
of the electric shair aver to be the
case.
If the two physicians should sue
ceed in resuscitating Mantassanna, or
any other convict, nice legal ques-
tion will be raised. Officially he will
be declared dead before the current
is turned Off Therefore he will have
paid the full penalty for his crime,
and if he be restored to consciousness
he cannot be subjected to the current
again. There are many persons here.
including officials, who say the state
will, not permit the county physician
to carry out his proposed experiment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16

"Retrenchment" was the password at
the meeting of the city council last
night. and the way those city dads did
dispense with expenses was nothing
short of a marvel. AS had been -x-
pected. Councilman Fred S. Hull was
there" with both feet, and his recon-
mendatfons that men be fired" here
and there promiscuously, although ev-
identity not approved by some of the
more conservative members of the
body, were taken for what they were
worth, and as a result two men, Fore
man j. M. Rose, of the street depart
ment and G. w. McKelvie, of the water
department, were let off.
1t was a comparatively easy mat
ter for MT. Hull to introduce a mo-
tion authorizing the clerk to notify
Street Commissioner Dion Keefe that
he would have to dispense with the
services of Mr.. Rose, but when it came
to cutting down expenses in the de-
partment presided over by Water Su
perintendent E. A. Knight, there was
room for debate, and after Mr. Knight
had informed Hull for a number of
consecutive times that he had no 'fof-
flee men," Councilman Fritz Lehn came
to the rescue of his colleague with the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
Council Cuts Down Some
OF the Oty'S Expenses

motion that the man who had hereto
fore been employed to tap the services
be instructed to take charge of the
shut-off work in addition The motion
was carried without any names being
mentioned, but as the intent of the ac-
ton was to "can" the Shut-Off man, G..
w. McKelvie, and give his work to
Philip Weber, the public was not kept
long in suspense.
Not only was Councilman Hull after
the scalps of certain employees of the
city, but the retrenchment mania took
on still another form, and he intro
duced the suggestion that the brush
wagons be dispensed with; on motion
of Councilman Bachtoid the street
committee was instructed to draw up
an ordinance providing for the elimin-
alton Of brush and garbage wagons.
1t is evidently the intention of the city
fathers to have property owners pay
for the removal of their brush and re-
fuse, as garbage will bel included after
the citys contract with John Hogue
expires in May. -.
Just what will come up next along
the line of retrenchment is not known
but it is said that the work has fairly
started.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16

Although the Walla Walla CONNER
oial club saw it to disregard the COM
munication of Ole Hanson, represent
alive Of the 43rd district, by placing
il on the table, he is not discouraged
in his work to enact a law which will
do away with the practice of selling
polls at race tracks in the state of
Washington, and in the following let
ter to the Evening Statesman, in
which is contained a number of
newspaper extracts, Mr.. Hanson says:
'T see by your paper of Dec. 10th
that number of Walla Wallans will
appear before the Commercial club
and set worth facts as to how the
passage Of the proposed law would
work hardship upon the annual
fairs. / know not what arguments
we're made but | do know that the
Commercial club laid the whole matter
on the table. Of course. a defeat in
this fight simply means leday but I
can see no reason why an erroneous
and unfOunded claim could influence a
single representative or senator.
II am a great Deliver in the truth
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16

TRENTON, N. j., Dec. 16.-John
Nantasanna, Of Essex county, is to
have a novel Christmas gift, if the
newest project inspired by Jersey JUS
tice is successful.
John Is alleged to have committed a
murder and just for that he Is under
sentence to be electrocuted at the state
nrison next week. But DR. Frank
scanned, county physician, and DR..
Thomas Mackenzie, prison harbor
doubts as to whether electrocution
really sends the victim to that bourne
from which no traveller returneth.
therefore, if permission can be Sc
cured and John doesn't get a stay,
thew will try to resuscitate him after
he has been duly executed
The experiment will be undertaken
in order to prove or disprove the
theory of scientists that the infliction
Of capital punishment by electricity
onlv stuns the victims, who are later
killed by the surgeons knife during
the autopsy or by the quicklime in
which the bodies of murderers are
buried
At all previous executions of SEN
fences the autopsies have been per-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
Trapshooters Tournament.

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-TrapshOOter
from all over the land are gathering
for the annual American amateur
championship tournament, which will be
held over the traps of the New York
Athletic club tomorrow and Friday.
This year will make the fifth that
the championship series for the entire
country has been held, and so popular
has the event grown with the Ameri-
can "pure" that it is confidently ex-
pected that the four sets of traps that
have now been prepared for the event
will be taxed to the limit to accommo-
date the crowd who are anxious to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-President
and Mrs. Roosevelt will entertain the
members of the cabinet at dinner TO-
morrow evening, thus opening in the
customary manner the program of Of
fetal entertainments at the White
House.
The next important event on the
White House calendar will be the New
Years reception on the morning of
January 1. The reception for the diplo-
mats is scheduled for January Z, and
that for justices of the supreme court
on January s. The congressional re-
ception will cake place on February
f. and the president and Mrs. Roose-
welt will close their last social season
in the White House with the army and
navy reception on February IS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
Captain Crosby
To Fort SlOCum

Advices from Washington received
in the city this afternoon are to the
effect that Captain Herbert B. Crosby,
of the Fourteenth cavalry, who has
been stationed at Fort Walla Walla
formerly four years, has been ordered
to Fort Slocum, New York, for re-
cruiting service. The orders have not
been yet received here yet, however,
and Captain Slocum had not heard Of
his transfer until told Of it this after
noon by the Statesman.
Captain Crosby came here in 1905
from the, Philippines, where he had
been stationed for several years. He
has been in the service some 20 vars.
Since being stationed here he has been
post exchange and commissary officer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
Spokane Wants State FEEDER alton

Spokane delegates who attend the
State Federation of Labor in this city
January to 9, will in all probability
comes with the firm determination of
securing the 1910 meeting for the
Falls City, a call having been issued
for all Of the Spokane delegates to
meet in that city next Sunday after
noon. for the purpose Of taking up a
number of matters which different
Spokane unions wish to bring to the
attention Of the state federation.
It is expected that at the meeting
the delegate from the different unions
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16

will recide just what they want to
ask for from the convention. and will
try to act as a unit in all things re-
garding the east side.
One of the important matters to
come before the meeting will probably
be the question Of whether Spokane
will make hard fight to secure the
next state convention OF the federation.
A number Of the delegates are strong
ly in favor Of such a move, and it is
likely that in whatever is done Spo-
kane delegates will put up solid
front.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-16
Senator Lodge To Rescue
OF President Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator
Lodge, Of Massachusetts, today came
to the rescue of President Roosevelt
IN the Brownsville affair in an address
In which he arraigned the methods
proposed by Senator Foraker and
emphatically declared that the
warner bill allowed the president to
reenist discharged soldiers and that
the Foraker bill made the reenlist-
ment obligatory, under easily filled
conditions. He declared that the For
aker bill would be ruinous to. army
discipline.
Lodge holds the president has
right to discharge men and that con-
gress does not have the right to re-
scind the order He said congress