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WALL Street.

An exceedingly buoyant tone charac-
terized early transactions In the stock
market to-day. The lie. rose rapidly
during tine FIRST half hour undo the
leadership of Union and Southern
Pacific. Both of these issues. with gains
Of l LIZ points each. rose to the highest
level recorded his y~ear-Union to 100 i-2
and Southern to 12s. A radical improve
ment In the crop country over Sunday
materially benefited stock market
sentiment.
After It's early demonstration OF
strength. the market commenced to ease
on. when speculative long accounts,
which had been carried over from Satur-
day. began to be llquldated
Afternoon price movements were
mostly toward a lower level, except
Southern Pacific, which bettered It's
morning SGT OF prices by moving up to
l26 ia. AZ this fgure the stock had
advanced 61-2 points since the merger
decision was handed down last Satur-
day.
Very little recovery was manifested
at b end, closing sales being TAO
tically at the lowest level OF the day.
Net changes were mostly fractional de-
cline
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Tho CLOSING PrSces,

Todayt hixhcs. lowest and last pr1cs q Snrks
and Of net changes. ~ compared with Yesterdays
final figures. are n follows
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TRAMP THROWS
SWITCH AS TRAIN
PASSES OVER It
Bounced From Box Car in
Lehigh Valley Yards He Gets
Revenge and Arrested.

Joe Armstrong. engineer Of a yard
yards OF the JehlRh Valley Railroad.
was backing n string OF twenty freight
cars out the Gates avenue spur Just be-
fore dawn to-day. when his fireman.
Joe Ryer. yelled TO him 20 stop nor"
There was q crash and ripping Of wood
abou half way down the train.
The train was moving slowly and
Arr trong quickly shut off his power.
Rycr slipped down to the side Of the
rack and "a toward the other end Of
the train. A. he ran ne hoard q voice
from out Of the gloom shot
~ guess Ahat will hold you for
awhile"
The fireman saw a shadowy form
running across the network Of tracks.
Armstrong from the engine saw II, too,
and footed an alarm on his whistle. A
hundred or more freight handlers and
swltchmen and other night workers
swarmed out and surrounded tho runa-
way and took him back. 1t was found
that he had thrown n switch while the
train was passing over II. derailing
three cars. which had been ripped from
their trucks and thrown across two
other racks.
The wrecker was identified by a
Waterman as ~ man who had been
pulled from a box car n which he was
sleeping earlier In the night and had
been ordered out OF the yards. Ho had
threatened revenge on the railroad
then.
Judge Farmer in the First Criminal
Court. Jersey City. held the man. who
said he was Henry Buttner and had no
home. without bail.
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than 100 other carriages containing
members Of the family and mourners.
The church was filled to overflow
ing. Outside an immense throng gath
cred. which was kept In order by In
spector Titus. with Capt. Corcoran and
his men from the East One Hundred
and Fourth street police station.
Rev. Father Kane offered the high
mass of requiem. assisted by Rev.
Fathers Hoey. o'Donnell. Burma n
Lennon. Mgr. Lavells delivered the
eulogy.
Beside the seven children Of Justice
Cohalan, who came in charge or
nurses. there were present Supreme
Court Justices Gerard. Dowline. Green
baum, Delaney. Davis. Dugro. Page
and Platzek and Judges Foster and
Swami 81 the Court of General sessions.
The interment was in Calvary Gem
etery.
To add to the ~poignancy of Justice
Cohalan's grief. to-day was the birth
day anniversary of his Oldest boy.
Conn
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ALASKA LAND GRAB
FAILS; CUNNINGHAM
CLAIMS Thrown OUT
Secretary Fisher Balks Plot in
Which Morgan and the Gug-
genheims Were Named.
WORTH MANY MILLIONS.
Decision Gives Rich Coal
Fields Back to Public
Victory for Pirlchot.
WORTH MANY MILLIONS.

W101ue0roN. June 3-rhe famous
Cunningham Aiasisan coal land claims,
through which II hss been alleged that
the Norgan-0ugsenheim syndicate hsd
planned to extend their vast interests
in Alaska and TO control one of the
most valuable coa fields in the world.
were to-day entirely disallowed by the
Department OF the Interior.
These lands. OF fabulous value. said
to be worth from sioo.ooo.oo up. which
caused the Baliinger-Pincho feud.
splitting the Taft Administration into
bitter factions and resulting IN the dis
mtssai by President Taft OF chief For
ester Oxford Pinchot. Field Agent Louis
r. CLAWS and several others. win be
restored to the public domain and later
w1l b opened for ~re-entry.
The Pinchot adherents in the conser-
walton nGht look upon the decision a.
. great victory for them. as they
fought ex-Secretary Richard A. Bal
hnger TO the end on this issue until.
after Ballinger's resignation from the
Cabinet. tho President named as his
SUCCESSOR ~ Secretary OF tho Interior
Walter L. Fisher Of Chicago. Fisher
10 vtce-president Of Plnchot's National
Conservation Association and a con-
servationist OF the Pinchot school.
CLOSES LAST DOOR TO THE
CLAIMANTS.
Secretary Fisher. having approved the
departments decision. as handed down
by Fred bennett. Commissioners of the
Land once, the last door u believed
to have bee closed to the Cunningham
claimants. Their attorneys have
threatened an appeal "a the United
States Supreme Court. but such an
appeal can be based only OF some point
Of law involved. and not on the ind
ings Of fact as announced by the de-
partment. The Cunningham claims
have been in the public eye constantly
for more than two years past.
In announcing the decision OF the
Department to-day Secretary Fisher.
who succeeded Mr.. Ballinger In March
last declared that new coal land laws
are needed in Alaska II that Territory
IL to BE- developed properly. In . state
meat the Secretary said
This 10 . ANAL decision OF the Cum
ningham claim 20 far Al the Depart
ment Of the Interior Is concerned. Any
further proceedings will be merely
formal for the purpose Of perfecting the
record In case the claimants think
there are questions OF law which thoy
desire TO present to the courts. II Is
my understanding that II Ia conceded
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that the findings upon the facts By the
Department are conclusive.
TT is tho intention OF the Department
TO proceed at once to a final determine
ton OF all the remaining Alaskan coal
claims so far as his can properly be
done. denying those that should be de-
MED, and granting those that should
be granted as rapidly as possible.
BIG DEAL CHARGED IN THE
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OENC CHT,HJEO TN Id
CUNNINGHAM CLAIMS.

NtInN,AnIAn ~ ne
S@N'"o'
i do not believe the present laws APP
p~licaole TO coal lands II Alaska are wise
or practicable "a ws. Nevertheless. their
provisions must be enforced, frat. be-
cau.. they ars IN. Iau ana sccond. no.
causs ,b.v anord Tho n,Iy nrotac,In, y,
Tho nubllc welfare aYalnsi tho abuses 81
monopoly ana unrestrIc,ed nrIvate OK.
pIoitation. I slncerely trus, ma, .bese
Il avs viii be modified ,t ia. ,..t sosgio,
% Conyress an az 20 ncrm,, ,no dcycI,n.
men, or The AIaskan coal aelds under
provlsIons that viii moro adoouateiv
nro,ec, ana nromo,e tho nubIIc ,ntor.
as,. 7, hovsyor ,hero arc cIoIns 60,
nendIng whicb. under The existing lao
arc entitled 20 patent. I soe No ius,inca-
,ion Tor not taxing action upon tbom as
nron,n,iv n. tho aepartment can no as.
s,red TIM, 4, IA In no session n, Inc
sac,s unon which such action mus, MI.
meteIy bc taken"
Comm,s.ioner Dennett IN bts asc,.,o,
holdlns thu claims for oanoellaton on
th> sround az fraud. dccis rss that ssch
az fhs th,rtv-,hree entrie. wa. i'm
pyoneriv allowed beoause 81 fs,si 40.
seets appsrent on their ssce. ~. a..
aeyts thst the aovern usnt us,vsiv
established the charge, brousht arains,
tho claimants, ana that there is no
DOUBT hut that an agreement existed
amons them in viola lion a, inv.
The th,rtv.three claim. ,rvo,vea
amounted 10 an aggregate area ~ : o,o
ac,es The coai embranea IN tho c,a,rs
1. sa,s N no among Tho ones, In ,ba
World.
Tho roun,s,.on.r ns,,o. re,or.,o. -
,ho ,,ort n, C,oyI, IN nro,ocn,,,g ,b.
C-overnm.nt,a ESQ ayains, mo run.
n,r,hom claimant. JIe aiso r.,.r. -,
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GUESTS OF {. n. MACKAY.
Cable branch Officers Enjoy Their
Annual Outing.

The Postal Telegraph Cable company's
Branch Office Managers Association Of
Greater New YorH held Its fourth an
nuai outing at witxei's Point View ISL
and, College Point. Saturday as guests
Of President Clarence II. Mackay. The
steamboat Orient Of the Montauk Steam
boat Company tool the party TO and
from the grounds.
More than two hundred men attended
the dinner, after wnioh several short
speeches were made touching on the
conduct Of the telegraph business.
President Mackay's health. coupled
with the toast Prosperity to the Pos
tai Telegraph Cable Company and con-
fusion to our enemies" was enthusiast
tically received. A vaudeville perform
ancc concluded the day.
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Victim Of Epilepsy Ends Life.
Joseph DisanEa, aged ~thirty-six. shot
and killed himseif to-day In his homo
at No. $50 East Eleventh street. He
suffered from epilepsy and TOR more
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SHIPPING NEWS.
PORT OF NEW YORK.
ARRIVED.

INCOMING STEAMSHIPS.
vi TODAY.
ahirs. Rotterdam. Idaho. Hull.
vsnn.w.sts london. America. Naples.
Ryndam, Rotterdam City OF Monteomey.
Niagara, Hare. Savannan.
Finland. Antwerp. Alamo. 'acksonVule.
Agentins. Patras.
OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS.
SAILED ID
Marowijne, Paramsrbo. Duoa deah Abruxzi.
Princess Anne. Norfolk. Naples.
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400 IN STEAMER WRECK.
Liner Carrying Stockholm EIcur
%stOnfsta in Trouble,

HELSINGFORs. Finland. June Do
The Finnish Swedish mail steamer Bor
I. with 400 Stockholm excursionists on
board was wrecked OFF Korpo Island,
in tho Outer Skerries. to-day. II is not
known whether there was a loss OF
life.
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than Q year has been unable TO work
His wife supported him and their two
chaldren. She came home at moor 70 get
dinner and discovered the tragedy. DIS
ansa rent his children out to play BE-
fore shooting himself.
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NED" HARRIGAN AN INTER-
PREFER OF HIS TIME.

The form of entertainment in which
Ned" Harrigan won fame and fortune
belonged to a unique period in the his
tory of the country. Melody had not
yet been vulgarized as it since has been
by what we know as rag-time," and,
what is more, the sketches he presented
on the stage were real delineations of
racial character. Much of the success
which Harrigan attained was due to his
partnership with the inimitable TONY"
Hart, and still more to the musical
genius of Harrigan's father in law,
David Braham. And yet it was Harri-
gan himself who was the real genius
of the organization. From his father
he inherited the Celtic strain which
made him par excellence, the interpreter
of Irish character, while from his moth
er, who was a Southern woman, he
gathered the legends and traditions,
the songs and mannerisms of the typi-
cal Southern negroes with whom she
had been brought in contact.
1t was the heyday of minstrelsy, and
yet Harrigan was something more than
a minstrel. His sketches admitted of
the unfolding of real character, without
sacrificing any of the tuneful element
which appealed most strongly to the
general public. The man has lost
much who cannot hark back to the
days of "The Mulligan Guards" and
Maggie Murphy's Home" To that
period belonged a whole cycle of "whis
tleable" tunes, which are still remem-
bered with affection and bring mists to
the eyes of those who think upon "the
days that areno more"
1t is a striking coincidence that the
death of Harrigan should come so soon
after that of another star in the world
of elder amusements-the late Will
lam S. Gilbert. They wrought in two
different kinds of artistic material, and
yet each won the popular esteem in
the highest degree. A world of people
will drop tear of regret for the mem
ory of genial Ned" Harrigan. The
phase of American life he interpreted
has passed away, but the interpreter
will not be forgotten.
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THE RESULT IN IOWA'S BYE.
ELECTION.

1t cannot be claimed that any illumi-
nation was shed on the national atti-
tude toward reciprocity by the Con-
gressional election to fill a vacancy in
the Ninth Iowa district Monday.
Judge w. R. Green, the Republican
candidate, was elected by about 1900.
He ran on a platform which declared
squarely and unequivocally against the
reciprocity bill, and against Democrat
whose platform pronounced unquali-
fiedly for that measure.
But the rebuke to the President is
not so direct or effective as Judge
Green's election would suggest. This
district has in recent years been going
Republican by from 5000 to $4,000.
Last fall when Walter 1. Smith was a
candidate, his majority was cut to
1900. Reciprocity was not then in is
sue. Smith was weak because he was
a Cannon supporter, a part of the
House machine, a friend OF the Ad-
ministration. His weakness was simply
typical of the low ebb of Republican
fortunes throughout the country.
Judge Green is of the opposite Re-
publican faction. Considering the fall
ing off of the total vote inevitable at a
special election, Green's plurality is
about proportionate to that which
Smith held. Thus it appears that this
typical mid-western district is just
about as Republican today as it was
last November. A change from the
standpat to the progressive faction has
cost the party nothing, has helped it
not at all.
The logical conclusion seems to be
that the Republican party is weak in
that section. No matter what its plat
form, or in what faction its control
rests at a given time, the party is
weak before the people. The reciprocity
measure of the Administration does
not appear to have made it any
weaker than it was last November.
Of course, it is impossible to guess
what would have been the result in
yesterdays polling if Judge Green, the
Republican, had stood on q platform
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THE GOVERNMENT AND THE
NATIONAL DOMAIN.

While public attention has been con-
centrated on the recent Supreme Court
decisions in the great trust cases, there
has come from the court of last resort
decision whose Importance is just
beginning to be realized, concerning
the national power over the public do
main. 1t is calculated to strengthen
the national hand in dealing with the
difficult problems of nationally owned
resources wherever they may be.
Regulations of the Forest Service
undertake to exclude from the graz
ing areas of the national forests stock
for which grazing permits have not been
unfenced forests. Both these regula-
tions were attacked, and a determined
effort was made to break down the
Governments right of absolute control.
In deciding the case of Light VS.. the
United States, the Supreme Court says
in part:
The Government has with respect to
it's own lands the right of tha ordi-
nary proprietor to maintain its position
and prosecute trespassers. II may deal
with such lands precisely as an ordi-
nary individual may deal with his farm
property. The United States can pro-
hibit absolutely or fix terms on which
it's property may be used. All the pub
lie lands of the United States are held
in trust for the people of the whole
country.
That seems to be about the simplest
common sense that could we'll be en-
ployed in such a discussion; yet, OBJ
vious as it seems, there was serious
fear that the Governments control
might be broken.
The decisions are couched in such
terms as to leave no doubt of the
courts mind toward the whole question.
If the Government cares to fix terms
for the use of grazing areas, phosphate
beds, coal deposits, etc, in its own
lands, it may do so. The whole ques-
tion of conserving and enforcing terms
for the use of water powers is involved
intimately in these decisions, and there
is assurance that if Congress will only
give attention to these pressing issues
the court will stand ready to give the
utmost effect to whatever regulations
the laws may prescribe.
1t is the delay of Congress that
causes disaffection with the whole pol
icy of conservation. Alaska needs coal,
but, possessing the richest deposits,
must buy from British Columbia be-
cause there is no law under which
Alaskan mines may be developed. Wa
ter powers all over the West need de-
velopment, but adequate laws are still
unwritten. 1t is time for Congress to
busy itself attending to such affairs.
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REVERSAL OF POSITION
AS TO THE INTERESTS"

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
In your editorial Of June 4 entitled
President Tafts Reciprocity Argu-
ment," you say. among other things
that latest position is "a sharp reversal
of the position taken during the tarlff
session of 1909 and the railroad legisla-
ton session Of 1910. when the Ad-
ministration was willing to throw to the
winds all consideration Of the public's
feeling, and force legislation through
Congress in the form that either the
standpat managers or the Cabinet ad-
visers had framed 1t"
Why this sharp reversal of position?
Is It not a fact that last election the
people expressed in no uncertain terms
how they felt about throwing ito the
winds all consideration Of the public's
feeling?"
Why does Taft alter his position? Is
II a feeble attempt to square himself
with the American people whom he dis
regarded recently and whose good grace
he now wants to re-elect him? Has he
at last realized that the public must be
considered? Are his remarks about the
interests" fighting the reciprocity"
measure notice to the interests that he
and they have dissolved partnership?
Or Is It a cunning scheme to put the
measure through 'in the form that
either the standpat managers or the
Cabinet advisers had framed it," and
Taft's attack on the interests" Is but
a blind" to the people?
The people recall that 1t was the in
surgents who made the railroad legisla-
tton of value. It was not Taft or the
standpat managers or the Cabinet ad-
yisers who had framed It, The railroads
NOT many months ago were going to
increase freight rates, but this legisla-
tion. thanks to the position taken by the
Insurgents was so framed that they
had to "show," and when called upon
for this they were unable to do It, About
the only thing they did show was that
the railroads, poorly managed as they
are. are making money. The rate ques-
ton has been settled for some time to
come.
terests- perhaps encouraged by having
so MANY of their demands granted. have
gone beyond the limit, and 1t may be,
fhsnk God II 1t be so, that Taft has
finaIIv realized that the people are to
he considered, Or has he figured II out
that for the first half Of his term the
Interests will be the big 1T, and the
second half the people will come into
their own?
But the people will not bite at MS
taffv Taft Is a President who has no
noind of his own; he goes first this way
and then the other way, and the last
nartv To present his side is the fellow
who is liable to come out on top:
wa" H. 8. JEFFERY.
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In the Mail Bag x

up by the honest effort Of an officer
to do his duty. Would 1t have caused
such a sensation had Colonel Garrard
said ''the son of a German tailor?"
the son of>a Spanish tailor?" Would
the President be willing to introduce
his daughter to young Mr.. Bloom, to
entertain him at his table? Would
Mrs. Dickinson feel honored to have
him as 4 guest? What rule has COL
onel Garrard transgressed, what Gus
tom of the service violated? Why
should he need discipline? What has
he done but his duty, and what he has
an officer is asked. officially. for his
opinion OF the ability and character of
an officer, or one who is up for a COM
mission. he is bound in honor to ex-
press that opinion to the best of his
knowledge and belief. But such opin-
ion and Endorsement, was, in my day,
considered sacred, and was TO be seen
only by those in authority. Have We
fallen so low that these things are
given out for publication? From whom
are they obtained? To whose advantage
is 1t. that the general public be taken
into the confidence of the military au-
thorities? 1t seems to me there must
be from Colonel Garrard, somewhere,
dorsements read, no doubt. with much
interest, by the city of Washington to-
night, and 1. for one. would like to see
II. Why was such reply not, in fair
ness. published? have known Colonel
Garrard for many years, and know
him to be a broad-minded, honorable
gentleman, and a most faithful and
efficient officer, and to my mind he has
been most unjustly and outrageously
treated, and It is very plain to ali,
both Jew and gentle, that he has been
made the scapegoat for politics. 1 feel
sure that this letter will never see
the light of day, for 1 do not believe
tou have the moral courage to publish
II. r. L. EDWARDS.
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nounce meetings and entertainments
in this column.)
Concert by the United States Marine
Band, Marine Barracks, 4:30 p. m.
Washington Architectural Club dinner,
Rauscher's, Connecticut avenue and L
Forty-fifth biennial convention of the
General Synod OF the Lutheran
Shurch' hurc Thomas circle. Sessions,
morning, afternoon and evening.
Commencement exercises OF George
town College, CASTOR Hall, p. m.
Sixth annual of SomptroIIsas ae Sa
and Accounting Officers, Arlington
Meeting of New Jerusalem Lodge. No. o.
F. A. A. NJ, tonight.
Ine meet toitom tonight: Columbia, No. 10. de-
gree work, and Salem. No. %. regular
The following Knights of Pythias or
ganizations will meet tonight; Lodge,
Harmony, No. 21, regular business;
i1niform rank, ]. T. Coldwell Com
nanV No. I. special meeting.
Meeting of Logan Tribe, No: 8, I. o.
r M. Wisconsin avenue and street
northwest, tonight:
as, J. o. .. A. M. Seventh and ID
Streets northwest. tonight,
Meeting of columbbiiaa Council, No. 80. J:
o. U. A. M, SZo i"ehtietn street
Meeting Of Constellation Council, No. 80,
tIo Tsnth street northwest, tonight.
Meeting Of Patriotic Order Of Ameri,
cans Camp No. 8, Third street and
Pennsylyania avenue southeast, to-
n,aafine of Camp No. I, Patriotic Order
of americans, 419 Tenth street north
west, tonight ,.-,u,
Me es Americans, Congress Heights, to-
night.
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COMPUTING WEIGHT
PER FOOT OF LUMBER

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Not having access to the proper rules
of computation of weights of the diSer-
ent kinds of lumber, write to know
the weight per board foot of the fol-
lowing:
Dry rough oak, dry rough soft pine,
dry red gum. dry hickory, dry hard
pine. dry yellRw pine, dry cypress, and
dry chestnut. 1t is necessary to know
the weights, per board foot, since rail-
roads give rates per 100 pounds and not
by the thousand feet. Answer as soon
as convenient in tue columns of the
Mail Bag department. c. A. SAILS.
From the freight rates department Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad the fol-
lowing figures have been obtained:
Dry rough oak, "A pounds to the foot,
green, 6; dry soft pine, pound, green,
4; dry red gum, 31k, green, 51z; dry hick-
ory, ~, green, 6; dry rough hard pine,
4, green 6Iz: dry yellow pine, 4; green,
511; dry rough cypress, 3. green, 5; dry
rough chestnut, 8; green, 5. Other
wood. not specified, is computed
pounds dry. and 51a green. The weight
is the same in dressed lumber.
The Washington times., 1911-06-08
Republican Insurgency Split Reciprocity, Expected
To abandon Organized Fight against 7atfs denomination
Fighting Front of insurgency Weakens As
Campaign Time Draqvs Near

Republican insurgency divided reciprocity likely fight
against Tafts denomination
Contest 1912 intended orerunner appeal for party
after Republican defeat in November.
Never felt of Roosevelt support against Taft
Reciprocity issue has broken fighting front
press support disappointed
In disagreement among Congressional proteges.
Rank file disposition Of
Wilson If Is nominated.
Insurgent leaders believe Taft will
Republican progressive running for Wilson,