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SAVE ROSS FACE osevei It Suggests Plan for .1 Honorable” Peace. OVERCOME DEADLOCK dings of Envoys Postponed Penci¬ hg Cz: ls Answer to Proposition. A Strenuous Day cf Intense Anxiety at Portsmouth, Portsmouth special says; It is ; cssibie to reveal substantially > suggestion of President Roosevelt ! breaking the existing deadlock in > peace negotiations and rescuing . conference from failure. His su O gestion would permit the [isfaciiou of the Japanese' demand i reimbursement for the cost of the r and at the same time enable 3 issia to face the world with the claration that she had not ceded a Pi of territory or paid a kopeck of r tr: ibute to the victor. The solution one which has heretofore been de Ljbed as the natural and logical com lomise. Tersely sta'ed, it consists in an reement by Russia to re-purehas3 issession of either all or half of e island of Sakhalin, now in the ilitary possession of the Japanese, r a sum, the amount of which, if tn» ro countries cannot agree, shall be jcided by some method of arbitration ereafter to be determined. The pur iase money, together with the sum e Japanese would obtain from the tssion of the Chinese E'astern rail aad, and the maintenance of the Rus ian prisoners in -Japan, would, it is stimated, about equal the amount lairned by the Japanese as her bill >r the cost of the war. Possibly, therefore, the solution of ered by the president involves re ession by Japan upon Article V (the ession of Sakhalin) and i e-cession y Russia upon Article IX (indem juty). It seems practically certain, (hough this cannot be affirmed posi ;:vely, that the president was able to »ive Mr. Witte substantial assurance hat Japan would be willing to accept inch a compromise. This is apparently supported by the authoritative Japan kse statement made to the Associated Press in the reply to a question as ko whether Japan had not decided to foiake substantial concessions. Ail Depends on Russia. “It all depends upon Russia,” was the president's message to Mr. Witte, which caused the sensation of the day. Early Tuesday morning had come the official announcement that! the meeting of the conference which was to have been helJ during the day Lad been postponed until Wednesday morning at 9:30 o'clock. The public reason assigned was that the protc* cols for submission at the sitting had not been completed. But a few hours later the true reason leaked out. I. L McGrew, one of the stenographers attached to the executive offices at Oyster Bay, had arrived with a com munication from the president for the Russian plenipo entiaries. Mr. Witte and Baron de Rosen had left the ho tel ostensibly for a ride in an auto mobile car to York beach, but in stead had quietly stepped over to the conference building at the navy yard to receive the message from Assistant Secretary Pierce. Long Message from Czar. A long cable message from St. Pe¬ tersburg, which is believed to be the Russian reply, arrived about 10 o’clock Tuesday night, and Mr. Witte’s secre¬ taries, Mr. Nabukoff and Mr. Planeon, immediately began deciphering it. Considerable excitement was a?par ent in the annex where the, Russian headquarters are located. Sheet by sheet the translation was taken to Mr. Witte’s room. The rumor is that the message was a refusal—a nop pos simus—a reiteration of the Russian po siflon that she had given • ample Proof of her desire for peace in the articles already accepted, and that more she could not yield with dignity anfl honor. martin HOLDS SENATORSHIP. Virginians Also Nominate Gubemato r iai Candidate to Succeed Montague, In the Virginia democratic state primary Tuesday, Thomas S. was nominated to succeed himself, in the United States seriate, and Kepro sentative Claude A. Swanson, to sue ceed Andrew J. Montague,, as the gov finer of the s ate, by large majori ties. Chairman J. Taylor Ellyson. of the democratic state committee was nominated for the lieutenant govern orship by an overwhelming vote. Wil liam A. And erson was chosen for re election as attorney general. TELEPHONE BILL SIGNED. Measure Approved by Governor Des pite Strong Opposition. Although a strong effort was made to induce Governor Terrell to veto the Ml granting the right of eminent do ffia in, under certain restrictions, ’elepbone ouipaoies in Georgia, on ground that-.'it is unconstituoinal •e governor ned the bill Tuesday af -moon as soon as it reached him. georg,a growers meet. State Cotton Association A sssmbles in Atlanta and Passes Important Res. o.utionc—Firm Stand is Taken. Important resolutions outlining the plans of the Georgia division, South¬ ern Cotton Association, were adopted at Tuesday’s convention of the state association held in the hall of the house of rc Oreseatatives at Atlanta. Among the actions taken were res olutions declaring that the price of co::on seed should be fixed at 30 cents per b el throughout the state; pro viding for the appointment of a com¬ mittee to bring about closer relations between the cotton growers and cot t0n spinners, and with a view to elim¬ inating the speculative feature; de daring that all cotton producers in ' Georgia should hold their cotton for ! llie minimum price to be fixed by the executive committee at its com ing meeting in Asheville, N. C.; de daring the growers of the present cr °P of sea island cotton should re <eue - 0 cents per pound for their product; providing for the' appoint¬ ment of organizers to go into each county and militia district in the state; providing for an assessment upon each county in the state of 1 per cent per bale of cotton raised in 1904 for the purpose or paying the expenses of the state division, and urging that provision be made for a national organ for the association. President M. L. Johnson of the state association presided and after brief ly addressing the members, congrat ulating them upon the great success whxfh the association has already at tained and pointing out the import ant work to be done in the near fu tore. Hon. Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton Association, ! was then introduced. : President Jordan spoke of the great work which the association has- sec¬ cessfully prosecuted in putting up the price of cotton. It has demonstrated its ability to do this, he said, and the foreign spinners know it. The executive committee of the as j J sociation. he said, would meet at Asheville, N. C., on September 6, for the purpose of preparing its report on the status of the cotton crop, based on reports from the entire south an August 25. The committee would at that time also fix the minimum price at which cotton was to be sold this fall, and he had abundant assurance that the southern planters would hold , to the price fixed at the New Orleans I convention. He had received numer • ous requests from different sections of the south, he said, to put this miu inrum price above 10 cents. The ac tion of The executive committee in j this matter would depend, he said, on the conditions which confront the south’s cotton producers at that time. ----- LIQUOR PROFITS HELD OUT. More Sensational Testimony Before Dispensary Investigation. There were no developments of any great importance at Monday’s session in Columbia of the legislative com niittee, which is making an investi gation into the South Carolina dis pensary, though the foundation was laid for even a greater sensation than developed at the Spartanburg hear¬ ing. statement The sworn financial bringing the accounts down To March 31 of this year shows that the dis pensary owes $500,000 and still had $200,000 worth of supplies on the or d er list. Although the law reqiures that the profits be turned over to the state treasurer- quarterly, a witness from that office testified from the books, giving the amount pf cash on band as $1,200 and said that, the last remi r - 1 tance was made January 10 last, no profits accruing since last November j having been turned statement in. the^bookkeep After this - of the state board sent m a n heca er tieas f or $26,000, which enabled the urer’s office to take up a drafi $',000’, w rhfch had bfeeh turned down | durin the day. The draft was for dis g pensary supplies. ROADS ignore COMMISSION. Refuse to Put on Reduced Rates on i Stoves as Ordered. Officials of two more railroads, Gen eral Agent a. G. Jackson of the Geor railroad a nd General Freight a ' a A « ent H F ith of the Nashville, ' ' Chattanooga ami St. notified the | Georgia railroad commits Tuesday j they would not P u ^ that duced rates on 309, on the ground that ^ t 1 ered by the in j unc i n s grioi Judge Cann in a su ! court at Savannah. RUSSIANS SLAY SEALERS. Shipwrefked Crew of a Jap Schooner Foully Murdered. received at Victoria, B. .Vews was Shawmut C„ Tuesday by the steamer ■ ! of the ifeftirn to Hakkodate of f ** a ‘ '• iron* schooner Torn. ««. Mr aneso and witn dead $nd fo” r wounded, : 'murder of fourteen other ; news of the Matsu Mo to sealers of the schooner oft 7 the Kamchatka coast. by Russians HYDE OIVES To Racket Raised Over Dis¬ covery of Cotton Leak. STATISTICS ARE USELESS Ex-Statistician of Agricultural Depart¬ ment, Now Sojourning in Eng¬ land, Gives Out a Satir¬ ical Interview. John Hyde, former statistician of the United States department of agrt culture, who at present is in Lon don, England, has been under the care of a physician for several weeks, and is still prohibited by his physician from attending to business. In an in¬ terview Monday night he said: “I have just seen for the first time the revised cotton -acreage report, is sued by the United States department of agriculture cn July 26. The crop estimating board reduces the official estimate of June 2 by more than 1,- 100,000 acres, and even goes so far as to say that I made the estimate higher than the reports received from official reporters employed by the bu¬ reau warranted. To this statement I give unqualified denial and assert that the most trustworthy of the various sets of figures on which the report of June 2 was based afforded the most ample warrant for my estimate. “It, is only by an entire disregard of the reports of county and township correspondents that the department's acreage reports can be prevented from once more becoming the laughing stock of the world. When concerned only with the condition of the growing crop, except under special commis¬ sions, the reports of county and township correspondents are without value. When, however, these corre¬ spondents report either upon the acre¬ age or upon the size of the crop in bales, their reports are absolutely worthless. I-’or instance, the crop last year was estimated by township cor¬ respondents at less than 12,000,000 bales and by county correspondents at less than 11,000,000 bales. Failure on the -part of the board to recognize the widely varying degrees of reliability which characterizes the reports of its different classes of corespondents I will inevitably destroy the value of its reports for general statistical pur pose3.” Mr. Hyde said that he gave this in terview against the earnest protest of his physicians and that he had for warded an affidavit to Wjishiugton covering his connection with the coi ton report, H-o said that he expected to return to American about October first. WOULD MAKE HER SULTANA. Sultan of Sulu Offers to Add Miss Roosevelt to His Harem. A Manila dispatch says: Secretary Taft and party arrived in Jolo Mon¬ day and immediately proceeded to the parade ground to witness an elaborate program arranged for their entertain ment. The sultan of Sulu, with his retinue anl other Moro dignitaries, occupied seats on the grandstand along with Secretary Taft and Miss Roosevelt. Thousands of Moros, resi¬ dents of Jolo and from the neighbor ing dsliands, were present to\ take part in the festivities, which were wonderfully picturesque. In the at ternoon there were carraboo and bud fights of an amusing but not blood¬ thirsty character. Secretary Taft and Miss Roosevelt were presented with many Moro pres ents by the sultan, who offered his hand in marriage to Miss Roosevelt and would make her sultana of the Sulu archipelago, saying that, his peo¬ ple desired her to remain among them. The sultan already has a large number of wives. THREE. TOWNS ARE SHAKEN. ggpthqyage p e lt at Owensboro. Hen dersonviile and Evansville. Q^-enboro and jHenderson, Ky., and _ j Evansville, Ind., were visited -by an earthquake at 11:05 o’clock Monday night. Two distinct shocks were felt. Citizens of Owensboro were greatly frightened. Many rushed from the'r homes. No damage was done. MAYOR DUNNE ARRESTED. Taken by Police for Violating Auto mobile Speed Ordinance. Mayor Dunne of Chicago was arrest ed Sunday afternoon in the suburb ot 1 Evanston for viola-ing the ordinances | latlng the speed of automobiles, At the police station the mayor said: “I do not know about the speed of j these t hings, but I don’t think we were may going very fast. However, we have been, and I guess we will have to pay our fines like anybody else.' MURDERED FOR REVENGE. Conductor Killed by Man Whom He Had Ejected from Train. Julius T Lansberg, Jr., a conduc t Line railway. tor on the Seaboard Air shot by William S. Sims at Ella | was and died whi.c belle na.. Monday, be | , carried to Savannah. Lansberg ng his train Saturday. had put- Sims off well Sims escaped. Lansberg was a known sout rn football player. ARBITRATION Roosevelt Steps Into Breach to Prevent Peace Rupture. HIS TASK DELICA'.E ONE Portsmouth Negotiations A.re Virtually Transferred to St. Petersburg and Tckio—Secret Conference at Oyster Bay. A special from Portsmouth says : Suddenly the eyes of the nations have been t:iruod by a mys ious midnight dispatch fi-cm Portsmouth to Oyster Buy from the -peace plenipoentiaries to the president of the United States. With the early departure Saturday morning of Baron Rosen for Oyster Bay, President Roosevelt once more became the central figure on the world's stage. The long message re¬ ceived afrer midnight by Mr. Pieree, the assistant secretary of state, was from the president. It was an invita tion for Baron **nsen to come there immediately for a conference, The invitation was to Russia’s ambassador at Washington, because as Russia’s accredited representative to this coun¬ try, it is entirely proper for the pres¬ ident at any time to summon him to a conference. President Roosevelt is exerting ev ery particle of his great influence to prevent a rupture of the peace confer¬ ence at Portsmouth. In this effort he has the active and cordial support of Great Britain, Franoe and Germany. Tremendous and world-wide pressure is being brought to bear on the governments at St. Petersburg and Tokio not to permit the Washing on conference to fail of affirmative result. After hi3 conference with the president, Baron Rosen left immediately for his sum¬ mer home at Magnolia, Mass., where he and M;r. Wfttte, the plenipotentiary, spent Sunday. Neither President Roosevelt nor Baron Rosen would di3 cuss, even in the most general terms, the details or result of their confer e nce. The Associated Press is able to an¬ u ounce that the feature of the prop¬ osition of President Roosevelt com¬ municated through Baron Rosen to Mr. Witte and transferred by the latter to Emperor Nicholas was based upon the principle of arbitration. Whether the proposal contemplates arbitration of ail the articles upon •which the plenipotentiaries have failed to agree, or only upon the question of indemnity, cannot be stated with pos itiveness, but it is more than proba¬ ble that it relates only to indemnity or to indemnity and the cession of the island of Sakhalin. Neither is it possible to say whether the president has yet made a similar proposition to Japan. To Emperor Nicholas, the -author of The Hague peace conference, the sug¬ gestion of arbitration which will nec¬ essarily immediately command the sympathy of public opinion of the world will be particularly hard to re¬ ject. If he agrees, Japan, if she has not -already done so, will be all the more bound to submit her claim to the decision cf an impartial arbitrator. Acceptance by both sides would in¬ volve a great extension of the prin¬ ciple of arbitration as nations have heretofore declined to arbitrate ques¬ tions involving their “honor and dig¬ nity.” According to current gossip, Baron Kaneko told the president that Japan would yield upon Article X and Arti¬ cle XI. Tnat Japan would yield on these two points, if Russia would ac¬ cept V and VIII (indemnity and Sak¬ halin), is considered certain. . A St Petersburg special, under Mon. day’s date says- Russia’s official at * be *■« tilde regam -line the final reply to LJ made to Japan is unchanbed. The impression prevails as Heretofore that only a very great concession on the part of Japan on the question of in demnity and the cession of Sakha r-f will make peace possible. JACK BONE ESCAPES GALLOWS. Georgia Prison Comm.ss.on Recom mends a Life Sentence. The Georgia prison commission Fri¬ day heard the application for olem ency in the case of Jack Bone, under sentence to hang in Floyd county, on August 25, and, after the bearing de¬ cided to recommend a commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment. Bone’s two sisters were present dur¬ ing the hearing. The petition request¬ ing executive clemency on his be half was signed by about 1,300 cit¬ izens of Floyd and Fulton counties. EXONERATION FOR MOORE. Ex-Scientist cf Agricultural Depari ment Not to Be Prosecutsd. Acting Attorney General James Mc Reynolds has reported to Secre’ary Wilson of the department of agricul¬ tures cn the charges made aga.ns’ l’r. George T. Moore, a s entist of the bureau of plant industry, whose re.tig naticn was recently accepted. Mr Rey¬ nolds -’ays no basis for prosecution exists. WASHINGTON EXfKINS Colored Educator Denies Feature of Wanamaker Episode—Practices So¬ cial Equality Only in the North. A New York dispatch says: Book¬ er T. Wlashington, the Tuskegee negro educator, uas made a statement in ref. erence to dining with the family of John Wanamaker, formerly postmastea general, at a Saratoga hotel. Wash¬ ington admits that he dined with Wan amaker’s family, buto denies that ha escorted, Mrs Barclay War’outon, Wlxnamaker’s daughter, to the dining room. Washington statement follows: “I have just seen for the first time the and false reports in southern newspapers referring to my escorting female members of Mr. Wan amaker’s family, but denies that ha of a Saratoga hotel. I have not re ferred to these reports because they have just come to my notice. “I did not escort any female mem her of Mr. Wianamaker’s family to or out of the dining room. I did dine j w f ith Mr. Wanamaker and members of j his family at a hotel at his request, ' for the purpose of talking on a mat ter of business, but at the time was a guest myself at a colored hotel in Saratoga. “Durlng the last fifteen years I have j been at the hotel, where Mr. Wan amaker was, on three different occa sions when I was to speak at public meetings, as I was this time, and no comment was made of It. “Wthen in the south, I conform, like all colored -people, to the customs of the south, but when in the north I have found it necessary during the last twenty years, as sta f ed fully in my book, ‘Up From Slavery,' to come in contact with white people in the furtherance of my work in ways I do i not in the south. “BOOKER T. WASHINGTON “ On Friday and Saturday The Mo¬ bile (Ala.) Herald asked by wire for the opinions of The New York Sun, Times, World, Herald and Journal, ' concerning the Booker No Washington reply sent in- j j cident at Saratoga. was j to either of the messages, whereupon The Herald then sent the following ! to each of the five papers: “Friday and Saturday we wired for your opinion on the Eooker Washing ton affair. Let your silence give rlie impression that you •are subsidized by Wanamaker’s advertising we are especially anxious to hear from you, and we stand ready to pay cost. “HERALD.” The following was also sent person ally to William R. Hearst: As one who has appealed for southern voles for president, the silence of your pa pers on the Booker Washington af fair is significant and creates com¬ ment, especially in view of the fact that, you have frequently proclaimed the pride of Virginia blocd. Answer our telegrams of Friday and Satur day. QUITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Former Mayor of Birmingham Washes His Hands of Booker’s Institute. Former Mayor, W. M. Drenuen of Birmingham, Ala., has tendered his resignation as a member of the bpafd of trustees of the Tuskegeg' Normal and Industrial .Institute, because of the recent Saratoga' affair.. . Urpunep addressed the following letter .to.Book er T. Washington: “I regret exceedingly that I cannot consistently 'serve- longer as one of the trustees of Tuskegee normal ;Pnd industrial school, and I now tender my resignation. Yours-truly, ••■■■■ “WALTER MELVILLE DRENNEN. mother CONFESSES to murder. On Dfeath Bed Woman Admits Poison, ing Little Daughter. ' Mrs. John T. Lynch of Bloomington, Ind., whom' the' attending physician has projumce^ to be in a dying condi tion, coufesse t h'er sis er and two neighbors Saturday that m 188o she kiftM hey, three-year-old daughter, by ! giving the child (uorphine. bhe said i at the same t-lme she told Jhe doctor I the baby had eaten greqn acorns and ] I there never was any suspicion of a crime. She said remorse, had., been gnawing at her'heart ever since. WAS ERROR IN THE REPORT. :__ Cotton Crcp of ig04 shows an Ex . cess cf 95,497 Bales. The census bureau Monday* issued a supplemental report on the quanti¬ ty of cotton ginnej from the crop of 19D4, showing a total growth for that year as fixed by the ginners to be 13,693,279 bales. A canvass made between July 2 and August 5, for the purpose, of veri¬ fying these reports showed that 95,- 497 bales counting round as half bales were ginned in excess of esti¬ mate published in April. PRESIDENT ADDRESSES MINERS. Speaks Before Convention Being Held in Wilkesbarre, Pa. President Roosevelt Thursday af¬ ternoon delivered an address to the anthracite coal miners at their con¬ vention in Wilkesbarre, Pa. 'The president was accompanied by his Son, Kermit, his nephews, Hall and Philip Roosevelt. Acting Secretary Barnes, Jacob Riis and Dr. Charles F. Stokes, U. is- N. CHECKING SCOURGE Authorities in New Orleans Express Hopeful Views. I FEVER IS UNDER CONTROL No Epidemic Like Those of Former Days is Feared—Situation Out¬ side the City is Not So Encouraging. Though there was an increase Mon¬ day, bc-th in new cases and fatalities in New Orleans, hopefulness contln ued to pervade the federal headquar ters, touching the local yellow fe ver situation. The Monday list is al ways large. It was so during the epi demic of 1878. This is attributed to the tact that the work of inspection is not as thorough on Sunday and only the cases which come from phy aicians are to be depended on. In the matter of deaths, uniformity is un usual from day to day, because the condition of patients Is so largely af fected by meteorlogical conditions. Monday’s fever report was as fol lows: New cases, 61; total to date, 1,- 446; deaths Monday, 9; total deaths, 205; cases under treatment, 328. An analysis of the figures shows that there is no check to the hope ful feelings which have been produced by the small reports for the past few . days. There has been a steady but slow diminution of the cases under treatment. The number of foci is mis leading also, for it equals the number of cases under treatment. A great many of these foci have been abso lutely wiped out, but they still fig¬ ured in the records and represent every spot in the city where a case of fever has developed. Of the new points of infection Mon¬ day, five were up town, ten down town and one in Algiers, across the river. Of the names on the list, there are very few of any prominence. One case was taken off the steamship Ex eelsior, which arrived from Havana Thursday and left Saturday, arriving at. Havana Monday morning, The - man is a sailor, and was taken to the . marine hospital, where his case was diagnosed as yellow fever. According lo the accepted period of incubation, the man could not possibly have con¬ tracted the disease in New Orleans if he was on the ship when she rnado her last trip. Monday night Surgeon White was willing to give expression to the feel¬ ing of hope he has of winning out in the fight. He said: “I feel very much encouraged over the situation, for I believe that prac¬ tically all the cases are being report¬ ed now, and we are able to handle •them. The low death rate is mani¬ fest, and that also is a good sign.” The situation outside of the city is not so encouraging. Surgeon Gniter- . as made an inspection of the Riverside plantation in St. Mary parish, and his report reads: • n .* "One hundred and fifty inhab'tarr s in infected sections. Estimated 100 have had fever. Of these, under treat¬ ment, fifty-five. Situation admits of very few sanitary expedients until material is exhausted. Proper meas¬ ures taken to avoid infection of the localities around.” Hanson City, in Jefferson parish, is looming up as a large foefis, eight new cases being reported Monday. Kenner also reports four cases. The health officer of Iberville re¬ ports a number of suspicious case3 among Italians on Bayou Pidgeon, at the extreme end of the parish, 20 miles from the town of Plaquemine op. the west bank. The state board of¬ fered an inspector to investigate. Two new oases have developed on Elizabeth plantation in Iberville. St. Bernard parish reports a new focus [of infection among Italians near Corlnne, two cases having come to- light with two m-ore suspicious cases. - One new case developed in Pecan Grove in St. John parish. The patients on Sarpy place were transferred to’ the emergency, hospital constructed there. Both Reserve and Diamond are equipped with tempo¬ rary hospitals, LET ALL THE PEOPLE HOWL. Is Judge’s Decision in Injunctions Against Rival Singing Schools. In sp'te of the strong efforts of Professor \V. N. Oliver, backed by the Anti-Singing League, and their attorneys. Judge Kimsey refuses to enjoin the singin-z people at Chestnut Mountain, near Gainesville. Ga There has been a very strong fight amde against rhe singing foik, many affidavits and arguments being brought before court, but Judge Krm sev refused the injunction. JUDGE BLUFFED ARIZONA TOWN. Forced Citizens of Globe to Build Him a Residence. Charges have been filed in the de¬ partment of justice at Washington by citizens of Globe, Ariz., against Associate Justice Tucker of the terri ioria) court, which, >t is said, involve his judicial and personal conduct. It is alleged that Tucker forced the citizens of Globe te build him a res¬ idence under threat that he would re¬ side elsewhere if they did not.