BAGUAOm~ . - OOLOKAI~.
The fact that we have altogether too
many magazines is demonstrated by
the caliber of the men now being dis-
cussed in their pages.
General Delgado, who recently re-
tired from the insurgent business, is
-to be governor of the lloilo province
~t an annual salary of $3,000. Thus is
~Another lame duck provided for.
The emperor of China is now said to
!be suffering from the effects of too
much tobacco. According to reports
~ae smokes cigarettes continuously, and
as many American cigars as he can
get.
• As a result of a wager M. Canello, a
.Frenchman, representing a German
automobile manufacturing firm, will
undertake to construct a machine of
seventy horse power and weighing but
1,200 kilogrammes (about 2,647
pounds).
The mother of Gov. Beckham, of
Kentucky, has a remarkable record.
.She has the unprecedented distinction
of having been the mother of a gov-
ernor, the daughter of a governor, the
sister of a governor, and the cousin of
a governor.
Montana's new senator, Paris Gib-
son, is a popular man in Minneapol/s,
Minn. He started the first woolen
mill in that city, but failed in the
panic of 1877, owing his employes
nearly $10,000. Soon after Gibson
went to Montana, and a decade later
returned to Minneapolis and paid off
every cent of his indebtedness, with
interest at 7 per cent.
Fifteen bushels of flax from Argen-
tina, South America, were sown as an
experiment in North Dakota last year,
and the result was so satisfactory that
6.000 bushels will he sown this year
on about 12,000 acres of land. This
flax is larger, plumper, and is said to
contain several per cent more of oil
than the native flax. The seed used
,in Argentina came originally from
' Russia.
Mrs. John King van Rensselaer has
=given to the New York historical so-
ciety the marble slab that formerly
marked the spot at Weehawken where
dklexander Hamilton fell in his duel
with Aaron Burr. It was removed
~about 1815 because it was thought to
• encourage dueling, and for many years
Jt was lost sight of. to be discovered in
~.850 in a New York saloon. The West
Shore railway passes over the spot
wLere Hamilton fell.
Among the peasants of southern
>Italy, Sicily and Sardinia, a curious
malady has been noticed by physicians
which is caused by eating beans. One
of the most remarkable effects of the
"malady has been noticed by physicians
.sembling that produced by alcoholic
drink. In some cases persons predis-
posed to the malady are seized with
~he symptoms of intoxication if they
prom a field where the bean-plant is in
;~ower, the odor alone sufficing to ale
: ~eet them.
A woman of Paris, named Bm'blere,
~qba$ found a new way of paying old
• ~e~. ~he has many creditors, mad
,one day they all received a circular in-
~viting them to attend at the house oi
.~Madame Barbiere at a certain hour.
~rwenty of them responded. They
*~were horrified to find the body of ~-
~lame Barblere • hanging from a gas
~racket quite dead, and with a IntI~
~ln~ed on her breast, Jtm~g1~hese
words. "Haw ,In, aged myself in full
eettlelme~ of ~ll my debts."
The San Franelseo Call in a recent
~ssue said: The new schooner W. J.
~PatterSon, arrived from Grays harbor
~ay evening with the wife of the
mRl~tin in charge. When the eehoonez
was three days out from Grays har-
Sher, Capt. We/tkunat was taken dan-
gerously ill and had to take to his bed.
~Fhe first and second mates were not
ig~od navigators, but Mrs. Wettkunat
q~ad studied with her husband and can
~ake an observwtion with the best
,man a~ioat ~lze took command Of the
~big nehooner,and between attendi~ on
her sick htmband and nay|gaWking the
,~hlp she hgd a ltvety time.
A man In Philadelphia wears a corn-
tnon looking little ptn as a watch
,ebsrm, on the" head of which ~ ~-
~graved the E~lglish alphabet in oM
English lettering, and in the esnta~ it
~t the year when it was done, "190~."
The naked eye cannot dl~ti~dz s
~er~teh on the pin's head, but a pew-
~'fu| ma~t~ gla~ auch as is mind
bY a watchmaker, reveals the
~)f the ~lphabet in proper order armmd
43~e edge of the head, every e~
~eparate mad perfectly formed. T~t
~ver, August Sta~elm, who md t~
work, ~ one year at it, mzd m}
tediou~ was it that he could emit w~k
at it a few mtnute~ at a time.
THE NEW NATIONAL BANKS.
Ninety new applications for national
bank charters have been app~)ved by
the Treasury Department since the
14th of March, 1901. The approved ap-
plications from March 14, 1900, when
the gold standard law took effect, to
the 27th of April, 1901, were 774, rep-
'resentlng proposed capital of $40,i65,-
(DO. Of this number 563 applications
were for banks of less than $50,000
capital, with aggregate capital of $1i,-
505,000. All these banks first became
possible under the law of March 14,
1900~ which reduced the minimum
capital from $50,000 to $25,000. The
number of larger bank~ for which
plications have been approved within
the period named has been 211, with
aggregate capital of $25,960,000. The
banks actually organized during the
period have been 529, with aggregate
capital of $27,387,000. The number of
small banks authorized under the new
law has been 369, with combined capi-
tal of $9,702,000; while the number of
larger banks has been 160, with com-
bined capital of $17,685,000. These a~-
dltions to the system, after allowance
for banks which have failed or goue
into liquidation, make the total num-
ber of active banks 4,098, with au-
thorized capital of $643,161,695.
It Is evident that the main purpose
of organization under the natlonal
banking law is not to gain circulation.
With organizations involving a capital
of $27,387,000 and permitting a circu-
lation to the. whole of that amount, if
the proper bonds were deposited, the
minimum circulation required under
the law was about $6, ~850,000. The
actual deposit of bonds for circulation
strands at $7,985,600, or only about $1,-
135,000 above the actual minimsm re-
quirement. The country, however, is
not in want of large additions to its
circulating medium. When there ts
so much gold there is less need of pa-
per. Never before has the per capita
clrculatlon been so large as now, and
never before have the facilities of ex-
change been so highly organized. In
other words, there is more money than
formerly, and every dollar of it can,
by reason of the leverage which banks
and clearing houses afford, be made to
perform work in the facilitation of ex-
change than was possible of yore. This
is no doubt the real reason why the
new national banks take out only a
part of the circulation to which they
are entitled under the lab.--Evening
Wisconsin.
The ]['resident at ]El l~so
Pleasing indeed, and auspicious in
promise of not only a continuance but
a strengthening of the friendship be-
tween the the ~wo great American
republics, was the Interchange of cour-
tesies at Ela Pas~, Monday, on the
part of President McKinley and the
representatives of President Dlaz of
Mexico. The admira~ion expressed by
our honored chief executive for the
illustrious statesman, who, with such
consummate skill, has guided the foo~-
steps of the younger republic along the
paths of progress and in the direction
of a higher civilization, was heartily
sincere and thoroughly deserved. The
trl~Sute paid us by President Dlaz,
through his eloquent spokesman, was
equally genuine and significant. Only
beneficent results can follow so felicl-
tous an episode.
But, aside from its evidences of in-
ternational gee4 will, the event was
one of notable importance in having
been made the occasion by President
McK~uI~ ~r mt ~mtal xrttmmnce hi
which was clearly set forth the posi-
tion of the administration with refer-
ence ~o the "imperialism" and "mili-
tarism" bugaboos. 8aid he, in his
speech: "Here we are on the border
line between the United States and
another great republic, and on this
~lde of the line we have thirty-five
American soldiers and on that side
of the Jlne there are less than 150
Mexican soldiers. So that we are
dwelling in peace and amity, and caus-
ing ~Jeace on earth and goo~ will to
men.' We want to settle our differ-
ence%.If we ever h~ve any, with the
powers of the world, by arbitration.
We want to exhaust every peaceable
means for settlement before we go to
war; and, while we have authority to
raise 100,000 troops, the necessity does
not exmt for that number, and we do
not propose to raise but 75,000. So
don't be alarmed about mflltarism and
imperialism. We know no imperial-
ism in the United States except, the
imperialism of a sovereiffn people."
Surely, with thia declaration before'
them, and with the knowledge that ev-
ery ~ act or word for which
President McKinley and hi~ asso.
elates are respo~slbl~ is of ~imtlar
Import and in harmony #therewith,
the l~owlers and unfriendly critics can
scarcely emmpe the conviction that
thelr~occupation is gone. At any rate
theY are without a ~toBowlng. The
people real~ and rejoice in the fact
that trader no other administration
have they enjoyed in greater degree
to turns deaf ear toward the maleon-
will disfranchise the colored voters.
An election was held about two weeks
ago to decide whether a convention
should be called for the pu~ of
amending the constitution in a man-
ner similar to that in which the con-
stitutions of Mississippi and other
southe~ s£ates have been amended
and the result of the election was a
triumph for the revisionists.
In Alabama, even more than In the
other states mentioned, it is clear
that the ~bject is solely to disfran-
chise the ~@-lored voters. The Demo-
cratic cancus which recommended the
holding of a special election passed a
resolution pledging the Democratic
party as follows: "We pledge our
faith to the people of Alabama not
to deprive any white man of the right
to vote, except for the conviction of
infamous crime."
In the other sta~es, the conventions
have kept within bounds by passing
a, mendments which are nominally in-
tended to disfranchise illiterates of
both races. The real purpose was~
plain enough, but it has not beeu
avowed so openly as in this case.
Of course, this amendment to the
constitution of Alabama is in direct
confiic~ with the fifteenth amend-
ment to the constitution of the United
States, and will be so Pronounced if
it ever gets before the federal Su-
preme Court in a concrete case. It
also brings into operation that pro-
Vision of the fourteenth amendment
which directs the Congress, when any
state makes a distinction against any
class of voters, to reduce the repre.
sentstion of that state in Congress
proportionally.
The last Congress evaded the re-
sponsibility which was cast upon it.
and in the new reapportionment bill
allowed to all the southern states rep-
resentation in Congress In proportion
to their population. In the next Con-
gress, however, the question can no
longer be evaded. There will be a
demand that the provisions of the
fourteenth amendment be applied. It
is not fair that states which cast 10,-
000 or 20,000 votes in all for repre-
sentatives in Congress shall have as
many representatives a~ states which
cost 200,000 or 300,000. Colorado will
have three representatives, and in or-
der to elect them will cast more than
200,000 votes; Mississippi will have
seven representatives, elected by a to-
eat vote of possibly 15,000. Even mak-
ing allowance for the doubling of our
S~iffrage by the voting of women, this
is manifestly unfair, and it ought to be
remedied.--Colorado Sprlngs Eveuiug
Mail.
The Pmldent i~ C~Alfo~t~.
If there ti$ any one grate In the Un..
ion that ought to give to the Presiden~
a welcome beyond that of any other,
that state is California. It has been
fhe good fOrtune of President McKin-
ley to inaugurate a new era in our na-
tional affairs and as a result of the
events that have taken place in his
term of Office and the policy which he
has been Instrumental in promoting,
the United States now faces westwar(
as well as eastward, and the Pacific
oven more than the Atlantic has been
brought under our dominion and con-
trol.
A few years ago Californla wa1~ the
western Hmlt of the United States; now
our territory stretches across the Pa-
cific; Hawaii, Guam and the Philip-
pines are the outp~ of American
power and-commerce, and California
is already pro~ting in a large measure
from the increased interest in Pacific
and transpacific affairs. -
It is true beyond a~l question that
what helps one part of the country t~ of
benefit to all of it, and the advantage
that has come from t~e expansion of
our Pacific trade is not confined to the
states of the western coast But, as ls
natural, they have felt it more promtyt-
ly and to a greater degree tha~ others.
President McKinley la the first pres-
ident of the United States who ha~
visited the Pacific coast While in office.
The reception to him will be more en-
thusiastic and hearty, hut it will have
an added warmth because his name is
identified with a paltry which has aL
readlf done much for Celifornla and
which in the [t~t~l~" will contribute
much more pawerfully toward~ the
realization of the greatness of the
West.--C~lorndo Springs Gasette.
except theimpcrialism°fas°vereIg° KANSAS VERSUS COLORADO COLORADO
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peopte.,'Kansas City Journal, [Mrs. Mertle Burger, the
Suffl g®lnAlsb m. [ SUIT INTHE SUPREME COURT ,oo,
Alabama is the latest southern state I peared some two weeks ago, has
to follow the example of Mississippi] ~ ~ . yet been found.
An attempted auction of real e~
and South Carolina in preparing forI Washington, D. C., May 14.--Colora- beast is injuriously affected; that the,in Denver a few days ago did
a constitutional amendment which do secured a decided advantage in the cities on the Arkansas are deprived o~ prove successful. Only two lots
P~4e~l l~kn~er~
Hill and Bryan declining the presL
dential nomination at this time re-
minds one of the refrain, "Nobody asks
you, sir, she aald,"--Syraeuse Poet.
Standard.
Ek-Senator Hill ~~ talking
abe~t presidential pe~ibl!~t!e~ three
Years hence. It'sllke m~ a busi-
ness of ticket specutat~n,--New Yorl
Mall and Express.
United @tates Supreme Court yester-
! day in the initiative proceedings of the
i suit brought against the state by the
i state of Kansas. The court, departing
from its customary practice, permitted
the defendant to file petition and argu-
ment thereon in opposition to the mo-
tion of the complainant to file its bill in
equity.
The action of the court is regarded
by Attorney General Post as a sub-
stantial victory for Colorado, and in
his opinion presages the ultimate dis-
missal of the Kansas suit.
Assistant Attorney General E. F.
Ware presented a motion on behalf of
Kansas to file a bill in equity enjoining
Colorado citizens from divert~g the
waters of the Arkansas. Attorney
General Post interposed his motion
that the court could consider his peti-
tion and argument against filing the
bill. The court made an order permit-
ring the complainant to file his motion
and argument, and also decided that"
the petition and argument of defend-
ant be flied.
Plait Rogers, representing the Great
Plains Water Storage Company of Col-
executive to Vice President Roeaevelt le taking
lmt he Is not wholly ne~
t~lltlcsl fenee~ He will
"We know open the Mlnnemm state fair at St
Unlttd state~ Paul September 2nd.--~Symeu~ Hem~ '
orado, asked permission to file an ad-
ditional brief against complainantfil-
Ing Its bill. The court denied permis-
sion, holding the company not a party i
to the proceedings, but remarked that
the brief might be left with the clerk l
and the court would read it. I
The court will sit again during the
present term, May 20th and 27th, and
will then adjourn until October. A
decision in the Colorado-Kansas case
is not expected this term.
'Mr. Ware declared that the Arkan-
sas traversed the state of Kansas for
310 miles, and that 100,000 people own-
ing 2,500,000 acres of land are affected
by the appropriatiou of the waters of
the stream for irrigation purposes. He
claimed protection" for residents of
Kansas under the common law guar-
anteeing riparian rights. He asserted
that Colorado claims the right to di-
vert the water to rlparians and non-
rlparians, whence it never returns to
.the river, thus appropriating all the
water for sewage, and that in reality
the rich valley is transformed into a
desert.
Attorney General Post responded by
calling attention to the fact that the
ditch owners of Colorado have not
been made parties to the ease, and
that the Arkansas river in Kan~.s is
not a navigable stream. He said that
no riparian ownership rights were ever
exercised or recognized in Colorado,
and also calls attention to the fact
that when some of the Colorado rights
were acquired, the territory now em-
braced in that state was a part of
Kansas. He said that each state had
the right to utilize its own waters for
the benefit of Its own people.
F~x-G0vernor Tlmmas of Colorado,
who has been employed as special
counsel on behalf of that state in the
case, was present.
The contest between C~olorado and
Kaffsas for the control of the Arkan-
sas river will be watched with intense
interest by the people of the entire
West.
It is possible that the court will de-
cide that control of the waters of
streams which are tributary to nav-
igable rivers belong to the general gov-
ernment, and such a decision will
overturn the stablished custom of the
whole irrigated region of the West.
Should it decide that all states having
portions of the same streams within
their boundaries are entitled to equit-
able division of the waters, Interstate
boards of water commissioners ,will
have to be created in the West for
such adjudication.
Should the contention of Kansas
prevail, Colorado will be In a bad way,
for not only will Kansas enjoin Colo-
radoans from using the water of the
Arkansas, hut Wyoming will prevent
them from using the North Platte and
Laramie rivers, and New Mexic~ will
enjoin use of the Rio Grande; Nebras-
ka will lay claim to the ~outh Platte,
and Utah to the Green, White, Grand
and I)olores.
On the other hand. if Colorado es-
tablishes the contention that a state
in which a stream has its source has
water which nature had intended prior claim to its waters, the state will ]
should flow down the Arkansas valley, hohl the vantage over every neighbor, I
Mr. Ware claimed that in consequence fo): nearly all the great streams of the]
of this diversion the health of man and ~ est have their sources in Colorado.
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, r T- T T T T T !- T T T T T
CALIFORNIANS RECE
NEAT PRESIDENTIAL TAFFY
San Jose, Cal., May 14.--The Presi-
dent was only In San Jose for a' short
time yesterday, running down from
San Francisco in his special car. The
formal exercises took place at St.
James' square. The President said:
"Mr. Mayor, My Fellow Citizens: We
have had many warm and generous
greettng~ aa we journeyed from t]~e
Potomac ¢o the Pacific slope, but notA~
have been more interesting than the
one which the people of Santa Clara
county, and of San Jose accord us to-
day. (Great applause.) I observe that
I face not only this multitude of Amer-
icans, but I face the headquarters of
a thousand of Ohioans who, with my
other fellow citizens, give us welcome.
"We have seen everything in Califor-
nia; we have eaten of your fruits and
your fishes; we have tasted tire per-"
fumes of your flowers: we have visited
the ancient mission churches, where
the altar Of religion was first raised
and whose chimes have sounded
through the centuries their message of
hope and benediction; we have heard
the dashing waves of your ocean; we
have felt the sunshine--and we have
been canned somewhat by its rays
(laughter), but we haw all the time
felt he warm touch of your hearts. Vee
saw at Redlands the other day tha~
they sprinkled their streets with oil.
and we discovered the other day they
bored for it at Los Angeles and got ~t
(laughter). We have met your people
--your brave men and women--we
have met the pioneers wha builded
and founded this state, we have met
all conditions of people, and wherever
HARVEY B. YOUNG, THE
~0TED ARTIST, DEAD
Denver, May 14.--Harvey B. Young,
the noted Colorado landscape artist,
died yesterday at his home in Colorado
Springs after an illness of about a
week of congestion of the lungs: He
leaves a widow and four chUdreh. The
eldest, George, twenty.twosyears of
~ is engaged in mining, and is also
th~gbt to possess much of his fath-
er's talent as an artist. The oldest
daughter, Miss Beatrice Young, is well
known in society In Denver and Colo-
rado Springs. Mr. Young's other
daughters are Gwendolyn and Gladys.
The Republican this morning says:
Harvey B. Young was born in Post-
mills, Vermont. about fifty-five years
ago. His first work with the brush
was the painting of designs that used
to be a feature of scales. Just when
he realized that it was as an artist
that he was to distinguish himself is
uncertain. It was his success in min-
ing ventures that first brought him be-
fore the Colorado people. He had,
however, already exhibited pictures in
the East that attracted very favorable
comment. In 1871 he went to Paris,
spending five of six years there and
In MUniCh, studying under Pelouse and
Lamblnet. He went as the protege of
the wealthy shoe manufacturer, James
H. Burr. When he returned ~ the
United States he won recognition by
his paintings.
Then he went to California, ~ot to
paint, but to mine. He-,was not very
successful in mining and devoted some
time to painting, One of his best pic-
tures is of Mount Shasta, painted aV
this ~lme.
In the early 8~Ys he came to Denver.
For many years he Hoed at the Wind-
sor hotel, and C. H. Morse, proprietor
of the Oxford hotel became one of his
best friends. Mr. Merse has several ef
his pictures, one a view of the Mos-
quito range, and another a train of
burros. Mr. Mor~ says that Mr.
Young was first. "to pen the Aspen min-
ing district. That was seem after he
we have gone we have seen smiling,
happy and contented faces, and have
heard the cheers of school children
from one end of this state re the other.
"Here, I am greeted in this, the first
capital under your constitution--a con-
stitution that dedicated the territory
of California to liberty and union for-
ever--(great applause)--whose l~ople
asked and were admitted Into the
Union of states and received the pro-
tection of the federal constitution, and
from that hour until now the people of
California have been loyal ~ the gov-
ernment and to its every interest.
(Great applause). In peace or war
you have been faithful. We live, my
fellow citizens, under a constitution
that was made for,~t,000,000 of people;
and yet it has proved adequate for 75,-
000.000 of people. (Applause.) It has
embraced within it every national duty
and purpose and has never stood in the
way of our development and expert.
SiGn."
Immeditely in the rear of the stand
was the big bouquet of which so much
has been heard. It was ninety feet lu
circumference, and stood in its frame
twenty-five feet high. The stem was
a telegraph pole sunk in the ground. It
was composed of cut flowers of every
vairiety that blooms.
The idea of presenting this immense
floral offering to Mrs. McKinley orig-
inated with the ladies of San Jose and
the presentation was made to the
President by Mrs. E. O. Smith, who
expressed tender words of regret for
Mrs. McKinley's illness and hopes for
her quick recovery, o
came to this state. He engineered the
deal which led to the sale of the
Morning and Evening Star claims to_
Jerome B. Wheeler and which turne
