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MRS. ROOSEVELT SAILS
TO MEET Ex-PRESIDENT
Leaves New York for Naples En-
Route to Khartoum, Accompanied
by Miss Ethel Roosevelt.

NEW YORK, February 1a-Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt and her daughter, Miss
Ethel, sailed today on the Hamburg
American Line steamer Hamburg for Ma
pies, en- route to Khartum, where they
will meet Col. Roosevelt and go with
him to Europe on his way back to the
United States from his African hunting
trip.
\ numerous party saw the travellers
off and wished Mrs. Roosevelt and her
daughter Godspeed.
On their arrival at Naples Mrs. Roose-
welt and her daughter will await the de-
parture OF the steamer. Schleswig, when
they Will sail for Cairo, and. arriving at
the Egyptian port, will at once proceed
UP the Nile to Khartoum. meeting ex-
President Roosevelt there march, Definite
arrangements for the return journey, in
GLIDING the European itinera of the
trip, have not been made except their
present plan to go TO Naples, reaching
there about April j.
Ex-Pres.dent Roosevelt will reach the
United States some time between June 1
and June Is next.
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TO PROBE DISASTER
Ugly Rumor Regarding Ex-
pIosion on the Hopkins.
WARNING LETTER RECEIVED
Naval Constructor Evans Told to
Look Out for Vessel
BOILER TUBES WERE STUFFED
Mare Island officers Are Reticent.
One Man Dies From Injuries.
Extraordinary Heroism Shown.
TUBES WERE STUFFED
Speclal Dispateb to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 15.-Dis-
closures at Mare Island navy yard today
indicate that an inquiry into the cause
of the explosion on the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Hopkins at San Diego may re-
suit in a sensation that will shake the
Navy Department. Six weeks ago. be-
fore the Hopkins sailed for San Diego.
Naval Constructor Evans. according to
information obtained at the navy yard,
received an unsigned letter telling him to
''look out for the Hopkins"
Evans had the Hopkins overhauled and.
it is said the discovery. was made that
some of the boiler tubes were stuffed
with wood files and other rubbish. The
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governed. the rights which they are
bound to observe and the limitations of
their power. upon which they may not
transgress.
I'm the first place. if We are really a
nation. if this whole country belongs TO
us, IL there are certain rights which every
citizen OF this country may exercise, then
the right of free and unrestricted inter
course BY any vehicle which is lawfully
upon the highways is one of such rights.
The highways are the highways of the
. nation. 1t is only in restricted sense
that they are the highways of a state.
What We need in this country is not
more lawmaking. but more law enforce
.nent. / venture to say that every nm
propriety of the highway, whether by
mo tor vehicles OF other vehicles. every
bit of unlawful conduct in the use OF
the roads, could be adequately dealt
with and properly punished if there
we're no motor vehicle law on any stat
ute book and probably more effectively
dealt with: but hysteria and prejudice
have been at work and have accom-
plished great results in the wav OF an
noyances and unjust inlpositlonS OH
motor vehicle users. and with little or
no results in the way Of Increased pro-
lection 10 the users of the roads
Senator Taylor's Remarks.
Senator Taylor of Tennessee made a
humorous speech. He declared that he
favored uniformity of automobile laws
in the states. but that as democrat
and a states right man he was not
willing to commit himself 10 the pro-
posed federal license law.
I'm glad I'm living in this age, said
Senator Taylor when" dropping into
rhyme. ships are on the oceHn- ShiDs
are in the air. when automobiles are
scooting everywhere. Senator lay or
paid tribute to the great advance which
has been made with the automobile de-
claring that this was an age of won
derful inventions and achievements.
II expect some fellow will invent the
kissophone before long. and then young
man will be able to kiss his sweet
away from him. Perhaps the electro
scoot will be another invention by which
a man may start on his way to San
Francisco from Washington and arrive
there two hours before he sta.ted
Representative Cocks of New York, au-
thor of a bill providing for federal
license for automobiles which is now be-
fore the House committee on foreign and
interstate commerce. said that he had
much to do with framing the New York
automobile law. He explained the pur-
pose of his bill, and declared that the
automobile would be one of the great
common carriers of the future and would
do much more than anything else to
regulate freight rates. He pledged his
aid in bringing about the enactment into
law of bill for federal license for
automobiles.
Representative James Francis Burke of
Pennsylvania also addressed the conven-
ton He said that the questions of in
terstate commerce were becoming greater
all the time, and that the. elasticity of
the interstate commerce provisions Of the
Constitution might lead much farther
than any one had expected in solving the
problems. An adjournment was taken at
noon.
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very much larger than the importations.
In fact. We are exporting now abroad
4.co0 machines a year, and they go TO
every civilized country. and even to
France, the home of the industry.
Two interesting questions have arisen
by this enormous expansion of the auto
is interstate. Nothing which has &C.
CURED in recent years has done so much
10 stimulate an interest in good roads
Good roads in their relations to the
farmer and the farmer to the market
have been better understood since the
automobilists have necessarily entered
upon campaign of education than ever
before.
Our tourists in their cars have learned
much from going through France over
their splendid roads, of which they have
28.OOO miles macadamized- They have
been built and are maintained by the
government. OF course, in our dual sys-
tenn that would be impossible. neverthe-
less the states might adopt the French
system. There is an inspector for every
mile of road in France. whose duty it Is
TO go over his section every day and re-
pair those breaches, which left to the
next rain make hopeless conditions.
But the compelling question now is
legislation. II Is not the mission of this
convention, as j understand il, to inter-
fere with the laws of the states or with
local communities. II is the business OF
the automobile associations in the sew
eral states to see after their state laws
and their local regulations. But the hope
of this convention, with delegates from
all the states, is to secure, as has been
done for the boats travelling on inland
waters and crossing state lines and for
continental railroads. a federal recogni-
ton. which viii permit free and unob.
structed travel across state lines"
Chairman Terry Explains Purposes.
The purposes of the convention was the
subject of an address delivered by Chair
man Terry. He said:
Probably there could not be found any
legislator in any state who has given
the subject intelligent study who would
not concede at once the soundness of the
principle of uniformity in state laws on
the subjects of interstate interest: and
Yet. when II comes to the actual test of
proposed legislation. many of these same
legislators ignore the soundnesS of the
principle, settle back into narrow self
ishness and take refuge behind that much
abused phrase states rights. Any law
maker who is so blind that he cannot see
beyond the boundaries of his own state is
of too limited r@-~rntion for the desig-
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missing tug was brief message from tho
scout cruiser Salem, which, after search
ing for fifty-siN hours in a rectangular
course directly off Hog Island. Va. re
ported mo news OF the Nina" The Salem
is today making further search for the
Nina on rectangular course off Winter
Quarter shoal and Fenwick Island light
ships.
Warships Return to Brooklyn.
NEW YORK. February 15.-An the gov
eminent vessels that were sent from the
Brooklyn navy yard TO search for ~,
missing naval tug Nina have returned
to port, and, under orders from Wash
ington, the hunt for the Nina in the
waters between Cape May and Block Is
land has been abandoned.
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FIGHT WITH OUTLAWS.
One Man Killed and Two Others
Wounded in Gun Battle.

WILBCRTON. Okla, February 10
Thomas Coley, supposed outlaw. was
killed another robber was wounded and
David l.. Newin, city marshal. was shot
through the lung in a fight between
Sheriff John Lawrence and his assistants
and two robbers.
The two men were sighted under a
cliff. When the fight began NeWlin shot
and killed the first man that came into
the open. The other escaped after shoot
ing Newlin
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g1nia shore, where the little tug was last
seen. All the territory from that point
IN the coast as far as Fenwick Island
will be thoroughly explored in an effort
TO find some trace of the missing craft
Report From the Louisiana.
A search of many hundred Square miles
by the Louisiana in the zone where IT is
possible that the Nina foundered reveals
no evidence of the missing tug. wire
less dispatch from the battleship reports
absolutely no trace Of the vessel in the
great expanse of water which It has
natroued. 1t is continuing the search,
49, vide in the daylight at speed of
twelve knots, and a zone five miles wide at
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night at the rate or eight knots an hour.
The report yesterday that the tug Wa
sighted n.ne miles southeast Of Hog Ia
land. battling with the weather and sea.
few hours after she left Norfolk iS the
only positive information that has bee
received by the department since she
started on her stormy VOYAGE. As tn
whole Atlantic coast and many miles -
seward have been Thoroughly scarce
and no sign Of the tug has been reported
not even vestige q wreckagc. tie
search beyond the Toint where she Nds
last seen Was deemed futile and oil hope
or finding her in the northern ATTITUDES
has been abandoned.
The search cf the Virginia capcs an
al the sea as far north as the Delaware
shore will be prosecuted with vfgor. how
ever. until the solution OF the problem
has been given M ard the theo~N ac
cepted that the little craft with all her
men on beard Went to the bottom OF tiia
ocean in a moment OF sudden peril. wit
all its hoatabie paraphernal'a.
The Salem has vis:ted Fenwick lslanf
and Winter Quarter shoal lghtship.
neither OF which has any knowledge -
the Nina.
The Apache Reports.
The Apache reports having searched tie
coast of Long Island and Block Island
without results.
An atmosphere OF gloom still pervaded
the Navy Department TO-DAY when tho
messages received overnight failed 70 dis
close any word regarding the whereahouis
Of the missing tug with its human burden
OF thirty-two souls
mo News" Reports the Salem.
NORFOLK. Va, February f5.-Thc Nor
folk navy yard was today still without
tidings of any kind from the missing tuG
Nina. which sailed from this port week
90 Sunday for RoSton The only thing
that has been heard here bearing OF tho
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RUSSIAN EMPRESS BETTER.
Rosen Gives Out an Of.
cial Statement.

Denial of alarming rumors regarding
the health of the young Empress Alex
andra OF Russia was given today in a
statement which Baron Rosen the cars
ambassador to Washington, gave out on
instructions from St. Petersburg The
statement follows:
Her majesty the Empress Alexandra
F'eodorovna of Russia. who has lately
been suffering from neurosis, of the heart.
is now convalescent and the Russian am
bassador is instructed TO categorically
deny the rumors In regard to the empress
health that have appeared in some for
eisn newspapers
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NO SIGN Of THE NINA
Louisiana, Apache and Salem
Report Failure of Search.
TO NARROW ITS EXTENT
Warships Will Not Look North of
Fenwick Island Light.
ORDERS TO NAVAL VESSELS
Government Ships Sent From the
Brooklyn Navy Yard Have
Returned to Port.
ORDERS TO NAVAL VESSELS

Officials of the navy are satisfied that
the tug Nina. which has been missing for
over week. did not proceed on its voy-
age any farther north than Fenwick Is
land light vessel. off the coast Of Della
ware, and orders accordingly have been
given to abandon the search OF the dis
tricts north of that territory.
The battleship Louisiana and the scout
cruiser Salem have been ordered by
wireless to concentrate all their efforts
in the vicinity of Hog Island, off the Nir-
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COST OF LIVING INQUIRY
SENATE TO APPOINT COMMIT
TEE AT EARLY DATE.
Senator Elkins Has Objections ia
Senator Lodges Appointment
as the Chairman.

The members Of the committee of the
Senate which IS to investigate the COST
Of living will probably be announced
within day or two.
It is generally understood that Sena or
Lodge is to be appointed chairman of the
committee, and that Senator'S Elkins ana
McCumber, who introduced resolutions
providing for an investigation, Will be
members. The other republican members
of the committee are expected TO be
Senators smoot and Crawford. Minority
Leader Money has suggested Senators
Clarke Of Arkansas and Simmons OF
North Carolina as members of the COM
mittee.
Objects to Senator Lodge.
Senator Elkins, the author Of the reso-
luton passed by the Senate to provide
for the inquiry, announced that he did
not care to be chairman OF the commit
tee, because Of his manifold duties as
chairman Of the committee on Interstate
commerce which has In charge the ad-
ninistration's railroad regulation leeis-
Iation But he has felt that he ought to
name the chairman. It Is known that he
does not favor Senator Lodge as nrst
choice and his opposition to the wishes Of
the Senate leaders to appoint Senator
Lodge as chairman 1t Is believed, has
delayed the appointment Of the commit
tee by the Vice President.
Senator Gallinger was strongly urged py
many senator's as the proper man to
head the committee. but the New Ramp
shire senator pleaded that his work on
several important committees. as a men,
her of the national waterways commits
sion and as the chairman OF the District
committee prevented him from accepting
the honor.
Tariff Question Raised.
The Investigation. it is acknowledged.
will have much to do with the tariff. and
on that subject Senator Gallinger is a
recognized expert.
During the tariff debates. which have
come up at intervals during his long
service in the upper House of Congress,
Senator Gallinger has been assigned
usually. to make the crucial speeches, and
copies of his addresses have been used
generously as campaign documents by the
republican managers. He is known to be
a hard worker. and it was felt in many
quarters that his appointment to head
the committee would mean a thorough
probe of the high cost Of living
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nation statesman. He must either have
the scales stricken from his eyes or be
quietly but enectuaEy informed that he
has missed his vocation.
what the rights of motorists are We
must not ever forget. nor allow any law
making body to forget There are no
more wise or far-sighted provisions OF the
United States Constitution than those
which seek 10 provide against the dis
fupt on OF he relations of the several
states Dy legislation enacted I'm any one
state against the interests and the rights
or citizens of other states.
Ignorance of the character of our in
situations. ignorance of the history of our
country, ignorance OF the laws already
on our statute books and of our own law
have led TO the enactment OF much preiu-
diciai legislation. and nowhere in gre alter
degree than in respect to motor vehicles
Prejudice has at no time been more
rampant and more unreasoning, more
persistent and more effective In the de-
structfon or rights. than prejudice in
respect of motor vehicles
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Tariff Question Raised.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.

The following were the readings Of the
thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four hours
beginning at pm. yesterday:
Observation-Disclosures II: 4 pm, 10:
pm. 3S: II midnight. 50. February 10: 4
am, 30; am. 81: l. noon. A.: > pm.
A.. Maximum. i5. at PM. February
II; minimum, So, at am, February Is.
Barometer-February IL: 4 pm, 30.21
y pm, 1910; Il midnight. 30.12. Febru-
AIRY Is: 4 am. 1900, I'm, BIZ: noon,
so. 10. > pm, 1907.
Minimum temperature past t~enty-four
hours. IS, year ago. ~.
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force upon the tube and both men stopped
to pick up the metal. As they were
bending the tube burst with a roar, and
steam poured out in such volumes that
both men were hidden from view.
Tried to Rescue Mates.
The steam enveloped all the other men
in the room except Taylor and Careti,lo,
VINO were passing through the door. Both
men were safe, but turned to give what
aid they could. Running into the thick of
the steam. Taylor and Carletillo inhaled
large quantities Of steam before they
realized their position. The steam was
shut off. and when the vapor cleared the
injured men were found unconscious on
the floor. Taylor's hands gripped Hunt,
and Carletillo was shown to have had a
firm grip on the legs of Brown. Taylor
was still alive, but died later.
Two other acts of heroism resulted in
clearing the fireroom Of the Hopkins Of
the scalding steam. r. E. Bonney, chief
water tender, was held head down on the
port side by two sailors. In this post on
he was able to start the blowers going.
A similar feat was performed on the star
board side by s. L. Almon, machinst' s
mate. 1t meant death to elmer to breathe
the steam.
Second Disaster at San Diego.
This is the second disaster to occur on
a war vessel in San Diego harbor. July
81, 1905, while the gunboat Bennington
was preparing to get under way for
run to Port Hartford, 200 miles north,
two of the vessels boilers blew UP, kill
ing or wounding nearly the entire crew.
Ensign Newman K. Perry and sxty-one
of the crew were killed and fourteen
were seriously wounded.
The accident came without warning
Some Of the men were blown overboa I'd
by the explosion, while others jumped
into the water in their agony or to es-
cape the steam which filled the vessel
The force of the explosion did great dam
age to all parts of the vessel. also break
ing sea valves and pipes so that water
came In and the vessel began to list badly.
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Education the Remedy.

~ Is clear that the remedy for this
state OF affairs is education. The duty
lies upon us of bringing home in no I'M
certain terms 10 those who make the
laws the truth by which they should be
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Legislators Nearly Uncovered.

Miss Eliza Thompson, eighty years Old,
died yesterday at Culpeper, Va. She
was paraIyzed about ten years ago.
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tubes were cleaned out. but it is init
mated now that one of them may have
been overlooked.
The receipt of the warning letter called
to mind the fact that there had been frc-
ton between the construction and the Ell
gineering departments. The questions in
volved in this dispute have not yet be n
settled. In discussing this phase Of the
matter in come ction with the disastrous
explosion, however. no charge was made
that the stuffing of the boiler tubes was
deliberate. 1t was sugges.e ed that the ruo
bish might have been left in them by care
less workmen. On the other hand, it has
been charged in the past that effort were
being made by enemies to discredit the
heads of derartme by tampering with
work that had been done
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Other Accidents Investigated.

The explosions OF boiler tubes on the
West Virginia and the monitor Cheyenne
were made subjects of rigorous investiga-
ton, as both these ships had been p. evil
ously overhauled at the Mare Island yard.
Officers at Mare Island decline to discuss
the Hopkins explosion, but the news Of
the accident has caused immense excite
ment and the possibility that the disaster
might have been caused by men seeking
vengeance at the risk of innocent lives has
caused a feeling akin to CONSERVATION.
1t seems certain that an investigation
more far-reaching than any similar in
quiry will result.
SAN DIEGO, Cal. February 15.-As a
result of the explosion on the Hopkins
here yesterday r. z. Taylor, a first class
fireman, later died, and r. A. Carletillo
a second class fireman. is said to be
fatally injured. Those less seriously hurt
are L. a. Clary, water tender: ]. +.
Hunt, chief water tender: w. A. Neabe
first class fireman: B. B. McMcrlin. first
class fireman: T. ]. Brown, coal passer.
The diseaster occurred when the Gus
tomary tests of boilers and tubes were
about to be made. Hunt and Neabe APP
preached one tube and were examining
1t. They were satisfied with its condition,
and were about to turn away when a
small piece of metal dropped from above.
1t fell with what was believed but little
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Not Advised of Course.

III Llcf. lie cdlu, llt UdI litl fsGli -
prised of the final meeting OF the con-
mittee. at which. he intimated. the Early
investigation had been closed in secret
session before he could offer his arsn-
ments.
The majority OF the members OF tho
medical Jurisprudence society, DR..
Buckley insists. ire for him in spite
of the action of the society last night
Not only did they fail to adopt the
report against Early-merely accepting
stead DR.. Buckley said, but they. or
at least majority of the members
present, were strongly on Early's side.
There was so much sentiment. In fact.
that the meeting was cut short BY dis
order.
Had the meeting continued. and or
der been restored, l should have hal
passed by strong majority a vote de-
claring Early not to be proven a lepei
Not only partisans OF the other side
that I could were the committee and
tnelr immediate friends"
Among those who were ready to stand
M for Early, said DR. Bulkley, were
many Of the foremost medical authorI-
ties in the country.
Action of Society.
The committee of three doctors and two
lawyers appointed by the Society OF
Medical Jurisprudence last December =
the case of Early made
report at the meeting Of the society held
last night at the Academy of Medicine.
which confirmed the committees first re-
port, pronouncing Early a probable lei er
The first report % the committee Was
made January IL. but was not accepted
because of an appeal made by DR.. Bulk
ley, who has all along insisted tina:
Early is not suffering from leprosy. Thco-
dore Sutro, chairman 90 the committee,
simply said in announcing the decision:
What has occurred since the last
meeting has not caused the committee t.
change it's previous conclusion "
Dr. Buckley. who had been S Il ng in the
front row next to Early. arc Sc and a.
tackled the findings OF the committee. Ii
read 2 statement. signed by five doctors.
declaring that Early had, 1T the, time
they examined him, January II, no elm
ical evidence of anesthetic leprosy. Tie
report was signed by Drs. r. Sacll.
Graeme NJ Hammond. George ". Jacofy
William Lozsynski and Frederick Peter