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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
HELP FOR SUFFERERS.

Subscriptions to the fund
for the relief of the Italian
earthquake sufferers will be
received by The Star for dis
tribution through the Red
Cross, all such subscriptions
being acknowledged daily
through the news columns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
FLOWERS FOR MRS. HARLOW.
Feature Of w. r. G. Installation
Exercises at g. A. r. Hall.

Mrs. Emma Harlow was installed as
president Of Lafayette Woman's Relief
Corps. No. 10. at G. A. r. Hall last night,
in the presence of a large number OF patri-
otto people. AS Mrs. Harlow accepted the
gavel as the emblem OF her authority
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
Special Envoy Misquoted.
FIRST NEWS OF YuAN's FALL
Daughter of Exiled Chinese Re
former Notified

NEW YORK, January j.-Twenty- four
hours before the dismissal of Yuan-Shi-
kai from power in Picking was known to
Washington officials or had reached the
ears of newspaper correspondents in Pc
king it. was reported by cable to Miss
kang Tung-Pih, daughter of the exiled
Chinese reformer, kang-Yu-Wei. Miss
kang is student in Barnard College,
and has not yet returned from Chicago,
where she has been visiting friends dur
ing the Christmas vacation. The cable
gram reached her there.
In this city man of prominence is a
friend of kangYu-Wei and his family is
on terms of intimacy with the Chinese
reformers young daughter The news of
Yuan Shi-Kai's downfall was the most
important that could come from China to
Miss kang and the followers of her IA
ther. and in her eagerness to commune
cate it to her personal friends here she
telephoned from Chicago to New York
This was last Friday. day before the
official edict was issued in Peking and
a day before any but the court circles
knew of the deposing of Yuan.
Chun Caused Yuan's Dismissal.
Miss Hangs letter states that her cable
gram was from the representative Of her
fathers party in Picking. and announced
that Yuan-Shi-kai had been dismissed
from office and stripped of all power, and
that Yuan's disgrace was attributed to a
campaign waged against him by the ad-
herents of KangYu-Wei.
Prince Chun is praised by Miss Kang as
the real author of Yuan-Shi-Kai's down.
fall. and she says it was originally in
tended by Prince Chun to delay the dis
missal of Yuan until the one hundred
days of mourning for the late emperor
had passed
This plan was changed she says, when
Prince Chun discovered that Yuan-Shi-
Kai was plotting to have the wife of the
late Emperor Kwang-Hsu installed as
regent, in place of Prince Chun, who put
a stop to the progress of this plan for
his overthrow by summarily dismissing
Yuan.
Dowager Friendly to Yuan.
That Miss Kang does not share the view
of the Chinese and foreigners who regard
Yuan as a foremost exponent of mod
ernism in China is shown by a portion of
her letter. which says that should the
new empress dowager become regent
Yuan Shi-kai would always be her ia
vorte and could succeed in all his in
trigues, thus retarding all progress and
reformation in the development of China"
The recipient of this letter was much
inclined to attribute Prince Chun a spirit
of vengeance against Yuan-Shi-Kai be-
cause of the latters conduct toward
Kwang-Hsu in issuing the latters reform
edicts, which caused the old dowager en-
press TO resume the reins of government
and suppress and even i'll treat Kwang-
Hau, brother Of Prince Chun, for the rest
| of his life, having as her intimate ad-
wiser. in this as in other matters, Yuan
| Shi-kai.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
MORTALITY ON THE DECLINE
HEALTH OFFICERS REPORT
SHOWS A REDUCTION.
Apparent Increase in Minor Con.
tagious Diseases-Detail of the
Varying Causes Of Death.

The District of Columbia is getting
healthier, according to a report OF
Health Officer w. c. Woodward covering
the state of the public health in the Dis
trict during the calendar year 1908.
During the twelve months just closed,
the report states, there were 6.126 deaths.
or PIT less than during the preceding year.
In view of the increase of population, it is
pointed out, this marks a favorable con-
dition for the past year. The death rate
in the District declined from 1926 per
1000 inhabitants in 1907 to 1905 in 1908.
For white population the death rate de-
clined from 1885 in 1907 to 1856 in 1908.
and for the colored population there was
decline from 1922 to 264S
The report shows an apparent increase
In minor contagious diseases, such as
whooping cough. chickenpox and measles,
but it is explained by officials of the
health department that the law reouir
ing that these diseases be registered did
not go into effect until 1907, and the fig
ures for that year include only a portion
OF the cases in the twelve months
Discussing the varying causes of death
during 1908, the report says:
tuberculosis Cases.
The mortality from pulmonary tubercu-
losis fell from 74S to 100. and deaths from
pneumonia fell from $50, in 1907, to JO7
in the year just past. The typhoid fever
situation shows decrease from 945 cases
reported in 1907, to 936 in 1908, but there
were 10 more deaths from this disease in
the latter year-namely, 124-as against
III for 1907. The percentage of cases in
1908 that proved fatal was 1872, while the
corresponding figures for 1907 were 1905
There was during 1908 an increa sed
prevalence of both scarlet fever and diph-
iberia. The number of cases Of diphthe-
ria reported during 1908 was 4S1. as
against All for 1907, and the number of
cases of scarlet fever increased from 1853,
in 1907. to 326 in 1908. The deaths from
diphtheria, however, were reduced from
30, in 1907 to % in 1908, and those from
scarlet fever were increased from 2, in
1907, to in 1908. The percentage of ia
talities to cases of diphtheria reported in
1908. was 4.j7. The percentage of deaths
to cases of scarlet fever during 1905 was
ZIG. There was a marked increase in
the prevalence Of smallpox throughout the
year 1905, and there were 1873 cases Of this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
Big Fire at Brandon, Manitoba.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba. January g.
The large warehouse of Codvil,e G. Co..
grocers at Brandon. Manitoba. was DAM
aged by fire last night to the extent oe
100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
FEW SEE HIM LEAVE
Prince Yuan Departs From
Peking Without Ceremony.
CAUSES OF HIS DISGRACE
Different Reasons Ascribed for
Statesman's Downfall.
OPPONENT OF THE REFORMERS
Daughter of Kang-Yu-Wei, Now in
This Country, Gets First News OF
Sensational Event in Peking.
CAUSES OF HIS DISGRACE
OPPONENT OF THE REFoRMERs

PEKING, January 5.-Yuan-Shi-kal
the dismissed member of the grand
council, accompanied by the members of
his family, left here this afternoon on a
special train for Weihwei, in Honan
province There were only a few rail-
road officials at the station to see him
off.
Immediately after his dismissal, Yuan
Shi-Kai, fearing that the members of
his family would be seized. fed to Tien-
tsin, taking his family with him. Only
his eldest son. Yuan-Tai, stayed in
Picking. Yuan-Shi-kai was at Tientsin
for fourteen hours. He reconsidered his
fight, and in the light of calmer judg-
ment and because Of certain reassur-
ances, he decided to return to the capital.
The fate of this dismissed statesman
is still regarded as problematical.
Effect of Liang's Appointment.
The action of the Chinese government
in appointing Liang-Tun-Wen, the GUS
toms taotai, to succeed Yuan-Shi-kai as
grand councillor and commander-in-chief
of the forces, has removed to some ex-
tent the fears expressed by high officials
of this government that reactionary
policy was to be followed In the future
administration of affairs. LANG is de-
scribed as a semi-progressive statesman,
and his designation to the high office of
grand councillor shows that ChinaS
action is not an entire reversal Of policy
in the line of progression. as was sup
posed when the announcement of Yuan's
dismissal was first made. Iiangs name
was prominently mentioned as minister
to the United States when WI was ap-
pointed. but it is said that he did not
desire to come here.
Meanwhile Minister Rockhill is keeping
the State Department informed of de-
velopments in Picking and of the doings
of the diplomatic body in relation to
the change in the Office of grand council
or. 1t is possible representations may be
made to the foreign office against what
some members of the corps regard as an
unwise step. but it cannot be learned that,
so far as this government is concerned,
any protest will be made.
Special Envoy Misquoted.
The State Department on behalf of Tang
Shao-Yi enters an emphatic denial of
the statement attributed to the ambas-
sador that he suspected Japan of partial
responsibility for the dismissal of Yuan.
He declares he has never made any such
newspaper reporters, on the subject. The
ambassador is said to be very much dis
turbed over the incident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05

disease reported to the health office. as
against but cases during the preceding
year. There was, however, no deaths
from this disease either in the year just
closed or the year before
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
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Chiefs,
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These rugs made by the we'll known Alex Carpet
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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
FAXED STORY OF AN
EXPRESS ROBBERY
Agent Takes Money, Sewing It Up in
His Coat and Is Caught by
Police.

Peoria, Ill.-Driven by sudden i'm
pulse to get rich quick, James Mahan,
aged 25, night agent of the American
Express company at the union station
here, originated fake holdup story
after robbing the company safe of
$4,000 in currency. After sewing $1,000
in large bills in the lining of his coat
sleeves and scattering the remainder of
the loot about in obscure places
throughout the union depot he called
for the police and declared that he had
been held up at the point of a revolver
and robbed.
During his investigation of the al
legged holdup Detective Wombacher had
occasion to grasp Mahan by the arm.
The crinkling of the bills in the coat
sleeve under the grasp of the detective
led him to suspect the agent. With the
assistance of fellow officers Wombacher
overpowered Mahan and the money was
recovered. Mahan then led the officers
to the places where he had hidden the
remaining $4,000.
He admitted that he had opened two
packages, one of $4,000 and the other
of $1,000. He destroyed the wrappers
and could not tell just where the money
was addressed. Mahan was charged
with embezzlement.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
THREW Two BOMBS
AT VICEROY AND WIFE OF
INDIA, BUT MISSED.
A Dragon Riding Alongside Used His
Saber to Intercept First Bomb-sec.
ond Bomb Struck Umbrella Being
Held over Lady Mimic, but Did Not
Explode Throwers Escape.

Ahmedabad, British India, Nov. IS
Lord Mimic, viceroy of India, and Lady
Mimic had narrow escape Saturday
from being killed by bombs. They were
driving in a street when two bombs
were thrown at their carriage. A
dragon riding alongside spurred for.
ward and with outstretched saber inter
cepted the first bomb, hurting it some
some little distance into a sand heap.
The second bomb struck the viceroy s
jemidar, a native lieutenant, holding
an umbrella over Lady Mimic, and fell
harmlessly to the ground. Neither
bomb exploded as the soft sand acted
as a buffer.
On examination they. were found to
contain ammonium piriote. just prior
to this, as the carriage passed through
a street, bomb exploded some distance
away. Police and others attracted by
the explosion ran up and found man
on the ground with his hand blown off.
He proved to be an innocent bystander.
The bomb thrower escaped in the ex-
Ecitement.
Attempts have been made in India
against Lord Mimic, Lord Kitchener
and Sir Andrew Frazer, lieutenant
governor of Bengal, and many other
officials, and for a year or more there
has been fear of an uprising against
British rule.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
RAPS CHURCHILL
WITH Housewife
Take That, You Brute" Says Theresa
Gurnett, Smartly Gowned
Suffragette in Bristol.

Bristol, England, Nov. 13.-Theresa
Gurnett, a smartly gowned sutfragette,
armed with horsewhip, attacked Win
ston Churchill here this afternoon, and
it was only after struggle that she
was restrained. Churchill and his wife
had just arrived by train and were
leaving the railroad station when the
woman broke through the police line on
the station platform and, bringing
down the lash of the whip on the min
lister S head, shouted:
"Take that, you brute.'
Churchill s hat broke the force of
the blow, but the lash curled about his
face and left a red mark Churchill
promptly seized the assailant and sue
ceeded in wrenching the whip from her
hands after sharp struggle. A mo-
ment later, as the police seized the wo-
man, she pointed scornfully at the min
lister s denied hat, and while her face
flushed with excitement, cried:
That's what you we gotten, and
you will get more of the same from
British women.''
The suffragette was arrested and i'm
prisoned
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
LATE SPORTING NEWS.

Kid Mccoy is to train Jim Jeffries
for his championship fight with John
son.
Reggie Walker, South African sprint
champion, was refused permission to run
in Australia.
The annual California racing season
will open on Saturday of this week at
Emeryville, Oakland.
Whitman college managed to hold the
muchly touted Whitworth college leven
to to 0 score, Friday.
Dan A. Stuart, one of the best known
sporting men in this country, died at
his home in New York Sunday.
Archer Christian, a university of Vir-
ginia football player, injured in the
game with Georgetown, died few hours
later.
Abe Attel, feather-weight champion,
and Jimmy Moran, formerly of England,
have been matched to fight eight rounds
November %.
'There is no chance for a game in
Spokane between the University of
Washington and the W. S. c. this sea-
son Salu C0acn D0Dle.
Buffalo, N. Yin the "a hour bicycle
race, at the end of the ~ hours riding
the contestants were all tied for first
place with 247.7 miles.
By winning Saturday s game from
Wisconsin, Minnesota is practically as
sured of the football championship of
the western conference colleges.
One of the best football games ever
played at Colfax took place when the
high school team lost Friday to Occur
d 'Alene high school by score of to
0.
Will s. MacRae, who was the bust
ness manager of the Portland North
western league baseball club during the
last season, will become private secre-
tary to W. w. McCredie when he goes
to congress next month.
Would it not be a good plan for the
conference committee to get together
and fix the schedule for the northwest
collegesg If this were done, the cham
pionship would not be matter of
doubt as the championship each year
Another Tom Longboat has been dis
covered in Canada by the Marathon
fans, and according to reports, Jimmy
George is in line to step into the shoes
of the other great Indian runner
George is Canadian Indian and a
member of the Beaverton Athletic club
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
SUGAR TRUST FRAUDS TO
BE DRAGGED TO LIGHT
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh
Says He Will Probe to Bottom
the Scandal.

Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh
has come out with the fate statement
that he will probe to the bottom the
scandal growing out of the frauds com
mitted in the New York custom house,
by the so-called sugar trust, said to have
been engineered by Adolph Segal, pres
ident, and Washington B. Thomas, vice
president of the American Refining
company, and their agents, but he in
tends to renovate the entire service.
He declares he will shoulder all the
responsibility for such campaign, and
that the investigation will be thorough
and vigorous.
1t has developed that the department
of justice is working in conjunction with
the teasury department.
Secretary MaeVeagh, however, indi,
Gates that he is going further than
merely seeking to discover and punish
those who have been guilty of wrong.
doing. 1t is understood to be his pur-
pose to reorganize the force of inspec.
tos, who keep check on the general
force.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
Saturday Football Games.

At New Haven-Yale II, Princeton O.
At Philadelphia Michigan 10, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania 6.
AT Cambridge = Harvard 10, Dart
mouth 8.
At Annapolis-Navy II, Western Re-
serve 6.
AT Corvallis, ore.-oregon Agricul.
tural college 0, University of Washing
ton 10.
At Seattle-Lincoln High (Seattle)
81, Spokane High o.
At Portland, Ore.-University of Ore.
gon %, University of Idaho 6.
At Tacoma-U. P. s. Is, Bellingham
Normal 6.
At Standardization Is, Colville O.
At Hillyard-North Central (Spo.
kane) IS, Hillyard 0.
At La Grande-La Grande %, Union
s.
At Rosalia-Garfeld 81, Rosalia o.
AT New Orleans-Fulane 10, Texas 10
The 10th annual football game be
tween Stanford and the University OF
California, played on Stanford field, re
sulting in a victory for the state uni
versity by the score of 10 to IS, and
for the first time in seven years the
Californi varsity football team serpen
tined on their rival s field.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
news OF The WORLD.
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL OVER
THE ENTIRE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

King Manuel of Portugal is visiting
King Edward.
The recent hurricane that has swept
over Haiti has wrought immense dam
age.
President Taft has returned to Wash
ington from his brief visit to Connec-
ticut.
A drouth of several months duration
in Texas has been broken by snow and
rain.
Three thugs Saturday shot and killed
p. A. Widdell, coachman, at Los An
geles.
Raymond Patterson, for many years
head of the Washington bureau of the
Chicago Tribune, is dead.
The Edgemont Springs distillery at
Carthage, suburb of Cincinnati, was
destroyed by fire recently, cost $500, 900.
DR.. Charles P Grandfeld, first as
sistant postmaster general, has been ap-
pointed city postmaster at Washington,
d. G.
Evangelist Billy Sunday is credited
with 1716 conversions in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, up to the close of last Sunday s
services
Sanitary Sunday" is announced by
the tuberculosis and health authorities
for Sunday, November 2Sth, in North
Carolina.
The rank of major general has been
conferred upon William H. Carter, in
command of the department of Luzon,
Philippines.
A model of the new battleship North
Dakota, one of the all-big-gu gun vessels
of the navy, has been placed on exhibit
ton in the corridor of the navy depart
ment
The fist birthday of President Joseph
+. Smith Of the Mormon church, was
observed informally Saturday by mem
bers of his family and dignitaries of
the church
Mombasa, British East Africa, Nov.
13---News of the American hunting ex-
pedition has been received direct from
Colonel Roosevelt, which states that
there is nothing whatever wrong with
the party.
hazeltoh, Is. C.-Ihree rlng-leaders of
the Northern British Columbia Indians
were sent to Jail for terms of five
months each for assaulting Road Fore
man McCully and ordering his men out
OF the native country.
Stephen Valley, young rancher liv-
ing at Feast Robson, B. c., was seri-
;. ously hurt recently while keeling be-
g,side sack of gunpowder when it sud
denly exploded. He was not smoking
and the cause Of the accident is un-
accountable.
At Lawrence, Kash., Saturday, curl
GUS throng viewed the body Of Earl Bull
lock, the boy bandit, who committed
suicide after the robbery of the State
bank at Eudora. William Mckay, the
l5-year-old accomplish, is in Jail at Jack
sonville, Fla.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
Again quiet At Cairo, Ill.

Cairo, In.-only three companies of
militia were on guard here Monday
night, and there was little surface in
dication of the excitement that on
Thursday night last week resulted in
the lynching of Annie Pelley's negro
murderer.
The citizens of Cairo are showing a
disposition to congratulate themselves
at the swift justice melted out to
" Froggy" James, who killed Miss Pei
ley, and Henry Salzner, the wife slayer.
This attitude is hindering State IS
Attorney Wilson and the other Off
eials trying to fix responsibility for
the lynching. 1t has been impossible
to unearth positive evidence regarding
the leaders of the mob.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
THE CUNNINGHAM CASE
STARTS THIS WEEK
This Is the Alaska Coal Company Case
Involving Secretary Ballinger, and
Cause of CLAWS Dismissal.

An inquiry started by the department
of the interior concerning the validity
of the several coal land entries in AL
aska, known as the Cunning ham cases,
will begin November IS at the federal
building in Seattle. Over these entries
a controversy arose between Secretary
Ballinger and CLAWS, and resulted in
the latter S dismissal by President Taft.
Testimony will be taken before Spe-
cial Commissioner MCGEE, appointed to
the duty by secretary of the interior.
The government will be represented by
Attorneys Sheridan of Denver, Pugh of
Washington, members of the board of
land review. A score of defendants are
represented by John Gray Wallace of
Idaho and E. G. Hughes of Seattle. The
coal lands involved lie in the juneau
land district and aggregate a acreage
of $3.50.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
DRY FARMING CONGRESS.
Delegate Praises Its Work and Urges
More Farmers to Attend.


Claude Hollingsworth, the Whitman
county delegate to the recent dry farm
ing congress at Billings, Mont, where
two samples of spring bluestem wheat,
grown this season on his farm, four
miles north of Colfax, took first and
second prize, is enthusiastic over the
benefit that the farmers of the west will
derive from the meeting, particularly
those in the semi-arid sections, and pre-
diets that the next congress, which will
be held in Spokane, will be far better
attended than the one held in Billings.
81 would earnestly advise every
farmer who can to attend the next
meeting at Spokane, next year, for, no
matter whether he lives in the dry
farming districts or not, he will be
amply repaid for his trouble and ex-
.pense. The men who are in charge of
these meetings are not theoretical Wis
lonaries, but intelligent, practical agri-
culturists, and no matter what branch
of farming man is engaged in he will
find something worth while to study
and think about"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
eft Is False,o Saws Bidder.

Herman Ridder of the New York
Stats zeitung, having had his atten-
ton called to a statement attributed
to Speaker Cannon to the effect that Mr..
Ridder had promised Mr.. Cannon the
support of certain prominent New York
newspapers, including his own paper, in
the national campaign, provided he
would see that the duty on wood pulp
would be removed, says:
"The story is absolutely false. Can
non must be crazy to make such an alb
surd statement"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-19
Mystery in Los Angeles Murder.

Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. ia deeper
mystery than ever surrounds the murder
here Friday of August Peter Carlson,
who was known for 10 years as Peter
Widell, coachman. Carlson was shot
down on residence street and as an
attempt at holdup had been made in
the near vicinity but a few minutes
before by three men, it was at first
supposed that he fell victim to high
waymen.