II I !lit I ' II '1¸ II
HAWAII LEGISLATURE ASKS
GOVERNOR DOLE'S REMOVAL
Honolulu, May 4, via Sau Francisco,
May 11.--The first tertrtorial Legisla-
ture of Hawaii came to an end on the
evening of April BOth, according to
Governor Dole, and on the next night,
according to the majority ill both
houses. The Legislature ended its ex-
istence at loggerheads with the gover-
nor, and without having passed a sin-
"gle one of the impol.tant measures to
which the home rulers were commit.
ted, except the county government act,
which the governor has killed by a
pocket veto.
The last act of the House on the ev-
ening of the 30th was to pass a con-
current resolution containing a memor-
ial to President McKinley asking for
the removal of Governor Dole. It was
introduced by Representative Beckley,
one of the native home rulers, and con-
rains a long indictment of the execu-
tive. Dole !s cbarged with having him
doted the work of the session In refus-
ing to co-operate. The President is
asked in the resolution to use his in-
fluence in behalf of an extra session
of the Legislature to transact general
legislation, which Dole refuses to
grant.
The concurrent resolution passed
through both houses by large majori-
ties, all the native home rule members
voting for it.
Governor Dole created a sensation in
both houses by informing the commit.
tee, sent to ask him for an extra ses-
sion, that one of his reasons for not
granting an extra session, was that he
had been reliably informed that brib-
ery was taking place. Both houses
passed a resolution demanding proof.
In reply the governor stated that gen-
eral charges of bribery had been made
in the local papers and on the floor of
the Senate, but had not been investi-
gated in spite of the appointment of
committees, and that tile matter was
being investigated by the government
with a view of punishing the offenders
if evidence against them could be ob-
tained. The governor issued a procla-
mation, calling an extra session for ap-
propriation bills only, to commence
May 8th.
A review of the work of the Legisla-
ture shows that the most important
laws enacted were ar~income tax lab-,
assessing two per cent. on all incomes
above $1,000, and an act providing for
a court to hear claims for damages re-
sulting from the Chinatown fire, appro-
priating $1,500,000 to pay claims that
may be allowed. The failure of the
loan bill will tie up public improve-
ments for two years unless there is an
extra session.
Circuit Judge Humphreys is about to
call a special grand jury to investigate
the charges of bribery in the Legisla-
ture.
DATES OF THE PRESIDENT'S
ARR|VAL AT COLORADO POINTS
Denver. Colo.. May ll.--When Presi-
dent McKinley takes breakfast in the
state of Coloh-ado. he will be greeted
by Governor Orman and the escort
committee, appointed ¢o accompany
the President and his party through
the state. As the schedule now stands
the presidential train will a:rive at
the state line about 5 o'clock in the
morning of June 5th. At the meeting
of the governor's committee in his of-
flee last night it was decided that it
would not be good form to insist upon
welcoming the honored guest at that
nnseemly hour, so plans were made to
meet President McKinley at Glenwood
Springs at breakfast time.
The itinerary of President McKinley
in Colorado has been completed by Su-
perintendent Martin of the Denver &
Rio Grands. It is possible that there
will be ~me slight changes made in
the time, but it was said at headquar-
ters )esterday that they would be so
sligh~ as to make no material differ-
ence. The railroad company will send
a pilot, an engine and one car, ahead of
the presidential train in the state, so
that the safety of the ~ain will be as-
sured. This is the schedule:
Arrive Salt Lake City, June 2rid, at
t~ a. in, remaining In train on sidetrack
until 9 a. m.
Leave Salt Lake City, June 3txl, at
12 noon.
Arrive Ogden, Utah, 1:30 p. m.
Leave Ogden via Rio Grands West-
ern railway, 4 p. m. Pass Salt Lake
City without stopping.
Arrive Grand Junction. Colorado,
June 4th. at 5:15 a. m.
Leave Grand Junction 5:30 a. m.,
via Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
Arrive Glenwood 5:15 a. m.
Leave Glenwood 11 a. m.
Arrive Leadville 8:30 p. m.
FIRST AUSTRALIAN
PARLIAMENT OPENED
Melbourne, May lO.--The opening of
the first federal, Parliament, which
took place at noon, was a mast Im-
pressive ceremony. The exhibition
building, the scene of the ceremony,
sea~ 12,000 people, but the available
space was taxed to the utmost. The
decorations consisted of regimental
standards, trophies of arms and floral
festoons.
In front of the royal chair was a
small table on which was a telegraph
key, by which the Duke of Cornwall
and York was to flash "the opening sig-
nal th~oughout the commonwealth,
when t~e union Jack was to be simul-
taneously raised in every settlement in
the federation.
The Majority of the audience was
coml>osed of ladies. Brilliant. scatter-
ed groups of army and navy uniforms
gave color to the scene.
The duke, through the black rod, then
summoned the two houses, in accord-
ante wit~ tl~ attest" formula of the
British ParlLament, and the members
filed in.
The hundredth psalm was sung with
al~ l~esent standing, and the Earl of
Hopetoun read a ptwyer, after which
the Duke of Cornwall and York made a
le~la.v addre~ and declared Parlia-
ment open- In the coarse of his re-
marks he referred to the wishes of the
late Queen, who. before her death,
signed, his commission to open Parlia-
ment He paid a tribute to the gener-
ous aid rendered by the colonies in the
South African war, .the splendid brav-
ery of the troops uad the services of
the squadron In China, and expressed
the interest taken by King Edward
VII. in the Australian people.
Prolonged cheering greeted the con-
clusion of the speech, which was re.
hewed when a telegram of congratula-
from King Edward was read.
The entire audience thereupon rose
as the first bars of the "Hallelujah
(Tnorus" were played by the orchestra,
and the chorus was sung by an opera
company. "Rule, Britannia" followed.
aRd finally the whole assemblage Join-
sd in singing "God Save the King." A
fresh blare of trumpets f~llowed, the
royal Warty retired and the ceremony
was over.
EnEi~nd's GrowLng I'opulsUon.
London, May lO.--Aecording to the
returns of thisyear's census, the total
Imputation of England and Wales is
~,526,191, or In other words an in.
erase of 12.15 per cent. in the last ten
years. The Increase for the decade he-
tw~ 1@1 was 11.~ per c~nt. Ac~
cording to the census, ferty-e/,ght court.
ties show Increases, while fourteen
Show decreases.
Leave Leadville 3:45 p. m.
Arrive Salida 5:45 p. m.
Leave Salida 5:50 p. m.
Arrive Canon City 7:45 p. m.
Leave Canon City 7:50 p.m. _
Arrive Pueblo 9:15 p. m.
Leave Pueblo 9:20 a~ m.
Arrive Colorado Springs 10:45 p. m.
Leave Colorado Springs 10:50 p. m.
Arrive Denver. June" 5th. at 1:30 a.
m.. remaining in train on sidetrack
until 8:30 a. m.
Leave Denver, via Union Pacific rail-
way, 12 noon.
Arrive Cheyenne, Wyoming, 4 p. m.
Leave Cheyenne 7 p. m.
Arrive Denver 11 p. m.
Leave Denver, via Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, 11:10 p. m.
Arrive Colorado Springs June 6th. at
1:40 a. m., remaining in train on side-
track until 8:30 a. m.
Leave Colorado Springs, June 7th, at
3:15 p. m.
Arrive Pueblo 4:30 p. m.
Leave Pueblo, via Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railraod, 5 p. m. mountain
time. AtTire Emporia, Kansas, June
8th, at 8:05 a. m.. central time.
Mayor Wright yesterday received a
letter, in verse, from Dr. Rufus G.
Wells of St. Louis. suggesting that an
incident of President's McKinley's vis-
it to Denver be a ride in an enormous
gas ballon, from which he might be
seen by all beholders. The letter was
referred to the transportation commit-
me. There have been other extrava-
gant propositions, as is usually the
case on such occasions. The "unwrit-
ten law" which prevents a President
from leaving the United States during
his term of office--to say nothing
about common sense--would probably
prevent his trying to get too near
heaven.
Gr~nd County's Big Trees.
Denver. Colo.. May ll.--Forest Su-
perintendent W. T. S. May has re-
ceived directions from Washington to
proceed at his earliest convenience to
Grand county, this state, for the pur-
pose of examining a remarkable grove
of spruce trees to which the attention
of the Department of Forestry has
been called by H. Micheisen of this
city. Michelsen says that the forest
of silver spruce trees is second only
to the big trees of the Yosemite In in-
terest. The trees are six feet in di-
amter and the grove covers an entire
township of thirty-six square miles.
He requested the department to have
the region examined immediately with
the object of setting apart the entire
township as a forest reserve. Mr,
Mlchelsen, as a forest expert, has ad-
vised that a large tract north of the
Grand river reservation be set apa~
from entry and retained as a pexma-
nero forest reserve.
ashley Coming Home.
London, May 11.--Admiral Schley,
who arrived yesterday, says:
"I am here for a little rest and pleas-
ure. I have not been in Londmt fen+
twenty-five years. I had an enjoyable
cruise in the South Atlantic and the
visits of our ships have done a lot of
good to American relations there, and
our reception was certainly most cor-
dial."
"No," said the admiral, in reply to a
question, "I have nothing to say re-
garding the Wee admiralty, or the pol-
icy of the navy. I have kept my
mouth shut and I intend to d~ so.
When I get back to God's country I
will make my will and prepare for my
retirement In Ot'tober."
Rae~d With ~t Cyetone.
Hastings. Neh. May ll.--Thls vicin.
ity was yesterday visited by a genuine
cyclone. It tore up trees #nd demol-
ished butldings. An engineer on a
moving freight saw it coming, with
trees and buildings in the air, and in
a few minutes there was a wild race
between wind and steam. ~ fortun.
ately the twister changed its c~wme be.
fore overtaking the train. It Is the
first cyclone that ever made its appea~.
once here. Hdavy hail followed.
I~arge Colmalst M~ovememt~
San Francisco, May lO.--The South-
ern Pacific passenger ~epartment re-
ports that during the westbound colo-
nist movement which began February
1st, and concluded May 5th, the num.
bar of people from the East, both colo.
nist and second class, was 20,434, as
against 8.005 second class passangers
for the same period of 1900. Of this
number 16~45 traveled on colonist
rates,
NI II I I I Ill NIIII I[ [
COLORADO'S CAPITAL.
Secretary Shute of the Horticultural
~ociety has arranged with the weather
bureau fore supply of weekly crop
bulletins, supplied by F. H. Branden-
burg, local director, and will send them
out over the ~tate regularly.
C. P. Gillette, state entomologist,
who has been working on the western
slope, gives it as his opinion that the
only way to exterminate the codling
moth is to spray the trees seven or
eight times a year instead of three
times, as the fruit growers are now
doing.
Governor Orman has appointed the
following water commissioners: Dis-
trict 24, Melton Albert, Costilla county;
District 24, Lewis Jarratt, Montezuma
county; District 35, Charles MacMullan,
Costlila county; District 37, A. Kal-
quist, Eagle county; District 38,
George XV. Hull, Eagle county.
~l~txe following timber patents have
been issued: William W. Rickle, Frank
G. Neville, Patrick Early, Alpheus B.
Daughtry, P. Morris Winzie, Barbora
A. Deans, Joseph L. S. Jackson, Bron-
islaw Knott, William Sniff, William G.
Mellen. Albert French, David Reed,
each 160 acres, and Caleb K. Essing-
ton, eighty acres.
Senator Henry M. Teller, who was a
caller at the office of Mr. Holland,' su-
perintendent of fish hatcheries, an-
nounced that one of his private lakes
near Boulder will soon be stocked with
channel cat and small-mouth bass. ,B.
U. Dye of Rocky Ford will present the
senator with the fish. Senator Teller
is deeply interested in the fishing lakes
and streams of the state.
Hereafter visitors to the capitol
building will find directories m the
building on the walls of the vestibule
at each of the four main entrances.
These are in the form of a series of
marble tablets, bearing the names of
the several departments having offices
in the capitol, framed in an elaborate
bronze moulding indicating the floor
and room number where each office
may be found.
Governor Orman has named the fol-
lowing as the State Board of Live
Stock Commissioners: E. M. Ammons,
Douglas county; Conrad Schafer, Ar-
apahoe; Ass Sterling, Weld; George E.
Patrick. Pueblo; Samuel Hartzell,
Park; L. D. Eskridge, ConeJoe; Mar-
shall Nuckolls, Garfield; Edward N.
Bowles, Yuma; Edward M. Derke,
Delta. The appointments were made
from a list submitted by the Live
Stock Growers' Association, that only
qualified men might serve.
Governor Omnan has named ex-Gov-
ernor Charles S. Thomas and Luther
M. Geddard. formerly a member of the
Colorado Supreme Court, as special
counsel to represent Colorado and as-
sist Attorney General Post In fighting
the petition before the United States
Supreme Court, wherein the state of
Kansas seeks permission to begin a
suit to restrain the state of Colorado
from using the waters of the Arkansas
river for irrigation. Should the pet|-
tion be allowed they will assist in con-
dnc.ting the case.
When the governor first announced
tbe committee to receive President Mc-
Kinley he left off of the list all of the
state officers except Lieutenant Gov-
ernor D. C. Coates and himself. Some
of the officials took this as a slight.
The governor's action was because he
was at a loss to know how to provide
transportation for a larger committee.
Ho~,ever, to heal the wounded feelings
of "the state officerS, he has since
named the following additional mem-
bers of the committee: Treasurer J.
N. Chipley, Attorney General C. @
Post. Secretary of State David A.
Milts. Superintendent of Public In-
struction Helen L. Grenfell, Auditor
Charles N. Crouter. and Land Register
John T. Joyous. It Is sald tha~ Mrs.
Grenfell is the only woman official' in
the United States who will assist in
the entertainmeut of the President
during his tour across the continent.
Governor Orman has named the fol-
lowing delegates to represent Colorado
at the national conf+/enee on taxation
to be held in Buffalo, New York, May
23d and 24th. Senator H. H. Seldom-
ridge, Colorado Springs, 1,2 Paso coun-
ty; Wolfe Londoner, Denver, Arapahos
county; Senator James W. Bucklin,
Grand Junction. Mesa county; Andrew
Park, Pueblo, Pueblo county; Senator
John A. Rush, Denver Arapahos coun-
ty; George B. Weir, Holyoke, Phillips
county; Peter Gorman, Denver. Arapa-
hos county; Senator W. A. Hill, Fort
Morgan, Morgan county; Professor
Walter H. Nichols, Boulder, Boulder
county; Dr. Charles S. Elder, Denver,
Arapahos county. This conference
will be held under the auspices of
the National Civic Federation,
which issued the following ealh
"It Is probably not too much to say
that for over ~ years we have veen
building up in this country a system
of taxatio~ that lacks co~ Jus-
rice and in many instances common
sense. Nearly every state is fighting
with every other state until we now
have confusion worse confounded.
This conference will be the first at-
tempt to work out some uniform prin-
ciples and it is especially desirable
that the representative, practical
friends of tax reform in every ~tate
be induced to attend and participate
in this conference. It is not expected
to settle any of the many problems In
a two days' discussion, but it will be
a beginning and may result In the
appointment of a permanent commis-
,don to work out some basis for future
action." Among the subjects to be
discussed are: The interstate taxation
of quasi-public corporations; taxation
of personal property; taxation of mort.
gages; separation of state and local
revenues; taxation of the farmer;
equitable assessment of real property;
Inheritance tax; taxation Of cot,.
poratioas; franchise tax; Income tax.
Franklin. H. Head of New York Is
chairman of the conference and on the
executive committee are auen men as
Edward F. Dunne, president of the
Iroquois Club of Chicago; Edward
Rosewater. editor of the Omaha Bee;
E. P. Riley, president of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Oompa-
ny; Charles F. Warwick, former may-
or of Philadelphia, and Samttel Gem.
pars, president o~ the American Fed.
eration of Labor.~The advisory court.
oil includes several hundred of the
most famoas men In the Industrial,
professional, agricultural and seminar.
fields of the country'.
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I I1': II I/llfl] II I II I ~ I I I IIIII
WASHINOTON GOSSIP.
Twenty-six states have counties
named after Washington, twenty-one
after Jefferson, twenty-one after Jaek.
son, and sixteen after Lincoln.
Secretary Boot has approved a plan
by which Brigadier General Breckin-
ridge, inspector general of the United
States army, will proceed to the Phil-
ippines for an extended tour of iu-
spectlon. The start will be made about
June 20th, on the transport Ingalls,
leaving New York by the Suez canal.
One of the most interesting places In
Washington for tourists has been a
point a¢ the soldiers' home, where the
dome of the capitol could be seen dis-
tinctly eta distance of three miles
through several hundred acres of inter.
vening , forests. It has been called
"The Capitol Vista," and the guides
and hack drivers always take their pa.
trons there. Occasionally the growth
of foliage would obstrnet the view in
the springtime, but the officers of the
soldiers' home would cut the branches
away and have it kept open. When the
atmosphere was clear and the sun was
bright a good photograph could be ob-
tained, and probably no other view in
Washington has had so many films
wasted upon it. But the attraction is
gone. The capitol vista is permanently
closed, for the great frame of the new
government ,printing office has risen
immediately in front of it and, e~tlrely
I shuts off the view of the dome:
[ An extensive resume of the organlza-
[tion and varying conditions of the
[Philippine native police force is con-
talned in a s~atement by the War De-
partment. Because of the poverty of
the municipalities, the Philippine Com-
mission appropriated $150.000 to pro-
vide increased pay for the body and
offered, through General MacArthur,
further incentive in the way of in-
creased compensation for cases of
meritorious and faithful service. Late
reports indicate that an efficient and
loyal force of native police has 3sow
been organized, with prospects of fur-
there extension and increased ability.
The total force numbers 6.349 officers
and men, a great many of whom are
on the "meritorious list" and receive
additional pay. The body is concen-
trated principally in northern Luzon,
although the Viseayas, Mindanao. Jolo
and southern Luzon have police forces
of considerable strength. In many
towns the men are fully uniformed.
A committee of the National Civil
Service Reform League which was se-
lected tGtnvestigate the present condi-
tion of the federal service suggests a
change in the method of appointing
Indian agents which might be com-
mended on principle even if it were
not shown to be advisable by particu-
lar abuses of the o/flee. The appoint-
ments as they are made now are
wholly political. Senators from states
in which reservations and agencies are
located back their favorites for the
position, and the choice is decided by
the old spoils test. It may and does
happeu that good men are sometimes
appointed under this system that it is
a mere chance, as it must always be
where influence, not worthiness, is the
determining factor. The change that is
proposed is that appointments shall be
made "by promotions from the super-
intendents of Indian schools and from
other high grades of the classified In-
dian service, and by details from the
arnly."
Attorney General Knox gave his first
official opinion to the Cabinet in con-
nection with the return of the Wash-
ington relics to the heirs of General
Lee. He has made a thorough investi-
gation of the circumstances under
which these family heirlooms came
into the possession of the government,
and his report to the Presidem and his
colleagues was "that Washington did
so much for this country that we ought
not to steal his sliver." The Lee heirs
nave not yet called for the relics, and
it is hoped that they will have the
good sense to leave them in the ~a-
tlonal museum, where they have been
exhibited for the last quarter of a cen-
tury, in order that the pt~blic may
have the benefit. George Washington
Curtis Lee, to whom the President
has ordered them returned, is an aged
man, over ninety and almost blind, Iiv.
lng a retired life in a little farm house
down in Virginia. His only brothe~ is
a farmer near West Point in the same
state, and the other heirs, Mary and
Mildred Lee, have no fixed home, and
spend most of their time in traveling
and visiting friends. They have there-
fore no ,proper place in which the relies
can be exhibited and will be compelled
to store them. The most important
and valuable of the relics are a set of
china presented to General Washing~
tot£ by th~ Society of Clnctunatl, his
walking stick and his watch.
The industrial interests of Cuba are
beginning to perceive that their only
salvation is in the annexation of their
island to the United States, writes
William E. Curtis to the Chicago Beo-
ord. They have learned of the efforts
of the secrethary of agriculture to im-
prove the, e~+~+i, li!~ot
Porto Rico, Hawaii and, th~,Plitliltllll
islands, and realize that eomPeflt~n
from those Islands is likely to prove
disastrous to Cuba in the markets of
the United States unless her planters
can be admitted on the same terms.
The United States Is the only market
for Cuban products, and it is abso-
lutely necessary m the prosperity of
the Cebans. The grave danger to
which they are exposed by the devete~
ment of the agricultural industries of
the other islands Is now n set~ .topic
of diseUssion In the Cuban I~S~. One
of the leading newspapers of Havana
calla attention to the impending da~
get: "Wtthout the use of ships or sol.
diets, attd with only a few thousan~
dollars," it says, "the Department of
A~riculture at Washington will estab-
lish over-us a terrible embargo, the
consequences of which will be our en-
stavement to destitution. Secreta~
Wilson intends that Porto
N~o and
Hawaii shall furbish those articles
which his nation now buys from us,
in order that the money now expend-
ed in foreign cotlntties may remain
within the territory of the United
States, Secretary Wilson IS estab-
lishing the experiment stations in Por-
to Rico and Hawaii to instruct the peo-
ple what to produce from the soil and
how to do it. Under his direction
Porto Rico will produce the coffee
in the United Ststes, and large
quan~ of pineappl~,__oran~m, ban-
anas, cock, aura, vegetables and frUlt~
which now come from Cuba i
W~: I~ll~k~
I FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN'
TO BE AFFECTED BY A STRIKE
Washington, May 13.--A general
stglke, involving directly 150,000 ma-
chinists, and indirectly 500,000 men In
the metal-working trades, is expected
to take place on May 20th unless some
arrangement is effected in the mean-
time. ThIs is the statement made last
night by President James O'Connell of
the International Association of Ma-
chlnists, who has his headquarters in
this city. The demands of the men,
the refusal of which threatens to pre-
cipitate the strike, Mr. O'Connell enid,
are for a working day of nine hours
and an increase of 12½ per cent. in
wages, or, in other words, ten hours'
pay for nine hours' work.
The matter, he said; has been under
consideration for some time, and ev-
ely effort has been made by the ma-
chinists' association to avoid resorting
to a strike, but such action, he says, Is
now necessary if the workingmen hope
to attain the end they are striving for.
Some time ago t~rough the efforts of
the international association and the
National Trades Association, the em-
ployers of about twenty-five per cenL
of the men who would be affected by
the strike, made concessions by which
a general workday of nine hours was
to become operative on May 20th of
this year. The question of an increase
of wages, however, or its equivalent,
the granting of ten hours' pay for nine
hours, remained unsettled. Saturday
the representatives of the metal trades'
association and the national association
of machinists held a conference in New
York, at which an attempt waS made
to reach an agreement on the wage
matter, so that the strike proposed for
May 20th could be avoided.
Mr. O'Connell, however, says that the
employers refused to arbitrate the
question of wages nationally, but that
they expressed a willingness that this
matter would be settled by employem
locally, each individual case to be treat-
ed as such. This method ~s unsatlsfae-
tory to the representatives of the ma-
chinlsts' association, who exprem the
opinion that thIs would prolong indefi-
nitely the settlement of the question.
Upon his return to the city, Mr. 0'Oon-
nell promptly prepared the order for
the strike, and it was sent out by mall
yesterday.
Mr. O'Connell says that about 20@
firms whose employes represent prob-
ably twenty per cenL of tile 500,000
men who will be affected by the propos-
ed strike, have signed agreements for
the reduction in hours of labor and the,
increase of pay, so that the agitation
on the subject already has beneflte~
them materially.
For prudential reasons ~the executiv~
committee has determined not at this
time to apply the strike order to the
railroads. Whether it will be done i~
fhe future will depend altogether o~
developments.
MRS. NI'KINLEY TOO UNWELL
TO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY
San Francisco, May 12.--The sud-'
den illness of Mrs. McKinley has
caused an unexpected change in the it-
inerary of President McKinley. He
arrived in this city quietly this after-
noon, several hours ahead of the time
scheduled. Tho state of Mrs. McKin-
ley's bealth was such this morning
that the President decided to leave Del
Monte and bring his wife to this city
immediately, to the home of Henry T.
Scott, where she could have complete
rest for a few days and where a spe-
cialist could be consulted if necessary.
A special of two cars and a locomotive
was made up from the Presldcm's
special, and at 12:30 o'clock the Presi-
dent, Mrs. McKinley, Miss Barber, the
President's niece; Secretary Cortelyou
and wife, Dr. Rixey and Mr. H. T.
Scott and wife, left Del Monte for San
Francisco, leaving the remainder of
the presidential party at Del Monte.
Only a few hundred people greeted
the President upon his arrival in thls
city. His coming wa~ not generally
known, and only those who chanced to
see the bulletins posted by ~ news-
papers, announcing that the President
would reach the city at 4 p. m., await-
ed the train. The President, in order
to avoid the crowd that was expected
to assemble at the Southern Pacific de-
pot at Third and Townsend streets,
left he train with his little parry at
Valencia street, a station in the south-
ern part of the city.
BENEFACTION TO BE
CONFINED TO.THE WEST
Chicago, May 13.--After a tour of
the West, including visits ¢o several
colleges which had been the objects of
his benefactions, Dr. D. K. Pearsons
has returned to Chicago and an-
nounced that he has drawn a line
through ~hieago and has disinherited
everything and everybody east of that
line from any share in the money he
still expects to give away.
Not one penny,. Dr. Pearsons says,
ever will go to any institution east of
Chicago. The million or two dollars
which he intends to dispose of within
the next year is all for the West.
Dr. Pearson's statement was drawn
out partly by the visit of a trustee of
Mlddlebory (Vermont) College, who
came here to seek an addition to his
endowment fund.
"I came back from Mlssour~ with
my mind made up," said Dr, Pearsons
to a reporter. "I have drawn a chalk
line north and south through Chicago
and I shall never go east of that line.
"I have not forgotten Chicago and
I am going to do something handsome
for the city before long. I have my
plans all laid now."
Dr. Pearsous at last has retired
from business in Ohicago. Hereafter
ho will devote himself to gardening,
raising ehickens and driving about the
country near his place at Hlnsdale.
Oklahom~ Land Ol~ntng
Washington, May 13, -- Assistant
Commissioner W, A+ Rlchards
ef~ the general land office will
lea~ here to-day for Oklahoma,
where he will take charge of the work
of suryeying the boundaries and or-
gentling five proposed counties in the
Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita lands
to be opened forsettlement September
1st.
It has be~n decided to dislribute the
lands to settlers by allotment so that
the ~ettsh u~ually incident to opening
Indian reservations ~lll be avoided.
The Indians rematuing on the reserva-
tions and accepting lands in severalty
will receive the first allotments an~
will get the best lands.
Much of the remainder can he used
only for ~razing purpoees, and none
l~ as valuable as that opened for set-
tlement uy previous occasions,
• ~ Do Y/or Love Us
• New York, May 13.--Hen. Hamilton
Fish, who arrlved from ]~tWope-Satur-
day, says:
"The Euro~an nations are net in
love with this country, They are Jell-
ous of the United States +and her won-
derfu1 progre~ and development, Then
a~alfl~ there is a strong pro-Spanish
feeilnf over there. PreSident McKin-
ley, however, is looked on as a great
man, and admired."
De Wet oa a New ][kid
Lenten, May 13.--General De Wet,
according t@ a dispatch to .the Mail
from Pret0rla, has t~mumed operations,
and Is reported to have crossed into
the Transvul with 2,000 men.
W'htm the train, consisting of a bag-
gage car and the President's spectral
coach, stopped at Valencia s~
Mrs. McKinley was carried in
steamer chair by two colored porters
from the private car to a closed car-
rings in waiting. She was heavily
veiled and the President and Dr. Blx-
by followed close behind. Mrs. Mc-
Kinley was gent~ placed in the car-
rlage, and the President and Dr. Rlxey
took seats in the same vehicle. Th~
lh~sident was quite pale, and looke~
serious. The rest of the t~trty fol-
lowed In carriage~. Mr. and Mrs.
Scott had arrived at their residence
ahead of the President, an@were wait-
ing to receive their distinguished|
guests. Mrs. McKinley was agallt
lifted out and placed in an invalid
chair and eaxrled into the house.
~cretary Cortelyon, wbeu qne~
tloned concerning Mrs. McKinley's con-
dition, stated that there was nothing
alarming in her present i~dispositlov.
and that perfect quiet, and rest for a
few days would restm-e her to her
usual health. It was the impression,
however, of those who, saw Mrs. Mc-
Kinley that she is very Ill and that
her present state may result in an en-
tire change of ~he President's pro-
gram.
Mrs. McKinley is ssld to be suffer-
ing from nervous proMratton brought
on by the tiresome trip and a bone fed
~n one of her hands.
TftE ROCKY MOUNTAIN
CHAUTAUQUA PR0(IRA][
Denver, Colo., May 13.--Plans have
been completed for the RoCky Moun~
taln Chautauqua at Glen Path, Palmer
Lake, which will open Ju~ ISt. Many
special numbers have been added to
the program and features will be
added fromtlme to time. It is pro-
posed to have a special week of Bible
study and a conference of association
workers.
The Sunday school Normal Institute,
It is i)romised, will be much more com-
prehenaive this year than In
years. It ia specially for trainiilg
teachers of Sunday school, Y. M. C. A.
and young people's society wo~k.
The officers of the assembly me:
President, F. M. PrJ~ey; at~perinten,
dent of instruction, Robert CoRman.
D. D.; secretary, Charles F. Camille;
assistant secretary, J. C. Baker; health
commisat~ner, Dr. J. B, Kinley.
Superintendents of the department~
are: Bible normal, Ray. B. B. Tyler~
primary and Supda7 school ktndergaro
ten, Mrs. J. A..Walker; ~etence, l~of.
Ira Eugene CUtler, University of Den-
ver, and Prof. ~. Bethel, director of
department of botany in the Colorade
Academy of Science; expression of Del-
sarte culture, ~rs. Mabel W. Edwards,
instructor in oratory in Denver Uni-
versity; miseroseopy, Dr. J. B. Kinley~
kindergarten, Miss Frances Shiland;
musical director, Claude A. Rossignol;
literature, Mrs. A. E. Shlpley, state
Chautauqua secretary; of Iowa; lan.
guage, Claude A. Rossignol.
~ve ~ Life for Another*s
Indianapoll~ Ind., May 13.--While
William PbelI~ of Richmond, Kentuc-
ky, and James Staplebury of this city,
ciea~g the inside of an eight-
foot upright boiler at the Gersalin~
~lla yeaterday an empioye turned o~
the steam, thinking the ceck was fight.
It leaked, and the scalding ateam pour~
ed in on the two men. The only exit
up a ladder. Both Jumped for the
h~dder. Phelps reached It, Jumped~
~.de and Shouted:
' You go first, Jim, you are married."
Staplebury sprang up the Jadder and
escaped with slight burtm. Thongh
Phelps followed at his heel& his act of
heroism,cast him his life. Both me~
~tere being cooked when Phelps Jump+
aside. By the tlme he had followedt
Staplebury up the ladder the flesh was
dropp~g from his limbs. He lived fop
two hours In great agony. "It was
Jim's right to go first," he said quietly,
"he is married." Phelps has been
boarding at Staplebury'~ house. Rot&
men are colored.
Conf~on of Elterhasy
Brussels, May 13.--The Independence
Belge publishes affidavits ai+~ by
Count Ferdinand Walsin ]B~terlm~y,
before the French consul in London,
admitting the authm, ship of the Drey-
fus bordereaux and declaring that it
was written with the connivance of
Colonel Sandheri, ex-ehlef of the se-
cret Intelligence bureau.
