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DEFECTS OF WARSHIPS
Newport Conference Substanti
ated Capt. Charges.
SECRETS ARE MADE PUBLIC
Conference Decided That Ver/ Few
Defects Could Be Remedied In the
North Dakota and Deleware.
\
Washington. D. C. —In view of the
order of the secretary of war revoking
the prohibition he recently placed
against officers who attended the New
port conference from discussing its
action, an officer who was prominently
identified with the entire proceedings
of the conference, has stated that it
had substantiated the charges of de
fects pointed out in Commander
Keye’s letter on that subject with a
few minor exceptions. This office has
been foremost in his denunciation of
naval defects.
The conference decided, he stated,
that very few of these defects could
■be remedied in the North Dakota and
Dlaware, which are now 40 per cent
completed, but suggested that if prac
ticable, additional case armor of about
100 tons be placed around the smoke
pipe and up-takes to protect them
against splinters. The armor now be
ing five inches, the additional armor
would increase the protection to eight
inches. They recommended that if
practicable, an additional fire control
mast be placed forward of the smoke
stacks so that in case the vision from
the rear mast is obscured by smoke, a
clear view could be secured from the
other position.
The conference also hesitated about
making extensive changes in the plans
of the Florida and Utah, as the plans
of those vessels required five or six
months for their preparation and an»y
change that would involve a change
of weight to any considerable extent
would require reconstruction of the
plans.
As now designed the two aft tur
rets on the Florida and Utah type are
on the same level, and it was proposed
if practicable to raise the second tur
ret from aft, so as to allow it to fire
over the aft turret. This is proposed
because in the event of the aft turret
as now designed being disabled in cer
tain positions, the firing from the sec
ond turret would be limited. The
w T eight so added to the second turret
from aft could be counterbalanced by
lowering the middle turret.
On the important subject of what
ought to be the type of the next
battleships to be designed, the kind of
battery they should carry and their
aimor, the conference has not yet
made a decision.
CORSETS 'COMMENDED BY DOCTOR.
Women Are Told That Their Torso
Muscles Need Support.
Los Angeles, Cal. —Dr. L. E. Land
one, whose plan to improve the hu
man race by applying Luther Bur
bank’s theories in the training of chil
dren by selection, has brought consid
erable attention from the scientific
world, commends the modern corset.
Addressing the members of the Hun
dred Year Club, the leading woman's
organization of Los Angeles, he said:
"Corsets, the sort worn today, are
good for the reason that the torso
muscles have been weakened for gen
erations until now the average fe
male form will not stand without
them.
“In the time of Queen Elizabeth,”
continued Landone. “they wore steel
corsets tightly buckled in back and
front. They were instruments of tor
ture. From them are evolved the
comfortable corsets of today. I doubt
if the torso muscles of women could
be supported in their weakened condi
tion after a generation of corset-wear
ing except for some artificial prop.”
CHECK TREASURY BOOKS.
Millions in Vaults To Ee Counted By
Experts.
New York City.—Following the res
ignation of Hamilton Fish as assis
tant treasurer of the United States,
in charge of the sub-treasury here, a
corps of bookkeepers under the direc
tion of United States Treasurer
Treat have begun checking over the
books of the office. The counting of
the cash in the vaults will be taken
up as soon as the checking of the
boAs has been completed. There is
in the vaults approximately $173,000,-
000 in gold coin, $17,000,0-00 in cur
rency and $80,000,000 in silver coin,
and 'all of this must be counted and
verified piece by piece. The work will
probably require at least a month. The
counting is only done when an assis
tant treasurer leaves the office. Mr.
Fish resigned as assistant treasurer
in order to accept a nomination for
congress.
USE SAND AS FERTILIZER.
Rancher Says It Increases the Fer
tility of the Soil.
Spokane. Wash.—Frank Rose, a
rancher in Columbia county, south of
Spokane, is experimenting with sand
as a fertilizer of clay soil, and the
result is being watched with interest
by his neighbors as well as the heada
of state agricultural colleges in the
northwest. The purpose of the sand,
which is being spread over the land
where there is clay, is to increase
the fertility of the soil. }lr. Rose
tried-this in a small way last fall ai.u
he says the results in larger and bet
ter crops were such as to warrant him
in extending the sand mixture ovm
his entire holdings.
LALi N m MiTEi
Mrs. Lillian M. X. Stevens of Port
land, Maine, was unanimously re
elected president of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union at the annual convention o*
that organization neid in Denver, Col.
Other officers elected were as fol
lows: Vice president-at-large, Miss
Anna A. Gordon, Illinois, re-electeu;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Francis
P. Paiks, West Virginia; recoiling
secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Preston,
Anderson, North Dagota, re-elected;
treasurer, Mrs. E. P. Hutchinson, Kan
sas; general biancti secretary, -ui&a
Khena E. G. Mosher, New bcork, re
elected; Loyal 'temperance League
branch, Miss Maigaiet \\ iutringer, Il
linois, re-elected.
President Roosevelt celebrated his
fUtieth birthday on October 27, in lue
midst of a political campaign winch
he is directing with all the force of
his strenuous nature. He was born a
28 Last Twentieth street, New lork
City, on October 27, lasß. The oiu
house still stands, and is usually the
scene of some kind of celebration on
| his anniversary. The president
i crosses the half century maik as
| vigorously as a man of tnirty.
In an endear or to establish his con- j
temion that all persons connected
witn the night rideis’ association are .
responsible tor ravages maue oy any
member of the organization, Henry j
Bennett of Louisville, Ky., lias filed a
suit for SIOO,OOO damages in the Unit
ed States circuit court. The plain
tiff, on February 4, was set upon aiid
terribly beaten with clubs and thorn
ed switches by a band of night rideis.
At the same time his stemmery and
tobacco factory and other large and
valuable buildings were destroyed by
the night liders.
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of
Emperor William, made an ascension
in the reconstructed airship of Count
Zeppelin. A great crowd witnessed
the start of the flight.
Deprived of his honeymoon clothing
and rigged out in the uniform of a
musician of the United States navy,
in which he first met and fell in love
with Miss Ada Gorman, daughter of
the late Senator Arthur Pue Gorman,
Charles J. Magness, dubbed by his
companions as "Millionaire Musician,’
is chafing in the brig of the receiving
ship Lancaster at the Philadelphia
nacy yard charged with desertion.
While plowing, Jasper Welch, a
farmer of Sergent, Ky., unearthed
SBOO in silver coins, some of which
are rare specimens. The place was
once occupied by a miser.
Nearly a hundred cottages of Salis
bury, Mass., a seaside resort were de
stroyed by fire. The loss,, is sloo,ooo^
Union county, South Cartlliba. £gain
voted for prohibition by a*three hun
dred' majority out of one thousand
five hundred votes cast. During the
pats three years of prohibition the ar
rests for drunkenness have decreased
fifty per cent and property valuation
in the county is said to have increas
ed $2,000,000.
The result of the recent election in
Canada shows that the Lauriier (Lib
eral) government has been sustained
\yith a majority of fifty, with seven
elections yet to be held. All the min
isteres were re-elected, while sevn
of the opposition’s chief lieutenants
were beaten.
Charged with conducting the most
extensive matrimonial agency swindle
ever unearthed in Pittsburg, James L.
Leclair and Miss Lena Miller are pris
oners at Pittsburg, Pa. More than two
thousand letters from men and wom
en were confiscated, and the police
say close to five thousand, from every
state in the union, paid a dollar after
being promised to be introduced and
wedded to an affinity.
The Statue of Liberty, which illu
minates New York harbor and wel
comes the immigrants who seek the
lands of the free, was twenty years
old October 28. The gigantic young
woman —for Liberty iis always young
—is as youthful and beau ufitlsagkq
■—is as youthful and beautiful as she
has been always. # The work of Bar
tholdi, the celebrated French sculptor,
Miss Liberty was unveiled October
28. 1887. President Cleveland and his
cabinet, the governors of many states,
Americans noted in every walk of
life, and many distinguished French
men and other foreigners attended
the bronze young woman’s debut.
Washington.
The Spanish debt of $599,850 award
ed to certain citizens of this country
under a treaty of February 17, 1834,
with Spain, has been finally liquidat
ed, according to the annual report of
the registrar of the treasury. Spain
has been paying annual interest on
the amount since the treaty, and this
year the Spanish government trans
mitted $570,000 in liquidation of the
debt. The principal has been paid
over three times in interest.
The civil service commission has
decided that there was no foundation
for the charges that custom inspec
; tors of New York are compelled to
see a Mr. Plummer in the office of
I Treasurer Sheldon, of the republican
! national committee, at No. 2 Wall
I street and there contribute $25 each.
It was charged that the four hundred
and fifty inspectors were assessed
that amount to help the republican
1 campaign that many had already con
tributed. Commissioner Greene went
i o xew York to investigate, examined
forty or fifty employes and reported
that he had no traces of coercion or
assessmen', or even of a very general
! systematic voluntary payment of con
•ributions to the campaign fund.
ALL GERMANY AMAZED 1
At Autocratic Manner in Which
the Kaiser Acts
VON BUELOW’S RESIGNATION
Rifussd—Chancellor Raspomiblefor Al
lowing aa Interview Which In
turi&ted Five Nations.
Berlin, Germany.—Chancellor von
Buelow’s position appears to be al- j
most untenable. Far and wide through
out the empire the newspapers of all
parties discuss with varying degrees
ui mockery, amazement and regret the ;
government’s explanation of how what!
purported lo be enormously important
utterances of the emperor, affecting :
three great powers, passed through I
the hands of the chancellor and a
long line of foreign officers without j
seemingly' having been considered by j
any of them or read by most of those j
lcsponsible for the delicate foreign
relations.
In addition to the semi-official ac
counts already published, it is learn
ed that the emperor handed the manu- '■
script of the interview, which appear- j
I ed in the London Daily Telegraph, and
the authorship of which is still undis
closed, to Baron von Jenisch.
The chancellor described the note
from von Jenisch, which accompanied
the manuscript, as referring to the
enclosure as an article, not as an in
terview, so that the chancellor did not
consider it necessary to give it his
i personal attention. The manuscript
j consisted of a number of small, flimsy
like sheets, the handwriting being dif
ficult to decipher, and the chancellor
referred it to Herr von Mueller, the
minister at The Hague, who was act
ing as the chancellor’s private secre-
tary.
The latter, in his turn, and without
examining the document, sent it to
the foreign offices, where, in the ab
sence of Herr von Schoen, the escre
tary for foreign affairs, it was read
by subordinate officials who did not
attach importance to its contents, and
returned through the proper channels
without further examination until
transmitted by one of the imperial
secretaries of England, where, as the
Tagliche Rundschau, one of the news
papers that is read in court, aristocrat
ic and military circles, describes it
“emerged gaily into tjlle world, infu
riating the French, Russians, Dutch
and Japanese, chilliqg the British, ex
citing bitterness and-nervous irrita
tion on the part of our own people
and undermining our neighbors’ be
lief in our reliability.
' London. —The expiring flame of sen
sation started by the Dally Tele
graph’s published intetvifiw .with Em
peror William has been tanned to
fiercer heat than ever by 'the an
nouncement of Chancellor von
low’s resignation and the emperor’s
refusal to accept it.
With even the pro-German radical
papers emphasiing the impossibility of
a British entente with a “personal au
tocracy” imbued with Bismarckian
tradition,” it is plain that Anglo-Ger
man friction will be renewed more
fiercely than ever in consequence of
the latest developments in Berlin.
LITTLE COTTON IN FILLDS.
Picayune Report Says All Will Be
Ginned by November 15.
New Orleans, La.—The Picayune
says- Very little cotton remains in
the field, and it is said that all will
have been picked and ginned by No
vember 15. The damage from the
boll weevil in some sections is reflect
ed in the short yield, many of the Red
river lands producing only a bale to
six acres. Those planters who have
decided to cultivate cotton anonther
years are adopting heroic measures in
an effort to allay the ravages of the
pest. These precautions include the
early burning of all stalks in the
field in order to destroy places for hi
bernation, as well as a thorough turn
ing over of the soil and preparations
to plant an early maturing variety of
the staple.
BURNED GOVERNOR IN EFFIGY.
The People of Larkinsville, Ala., Are
Indignant at Gov. Comer.
Scottsboro, Ala. —The people of Lar
kinsville, a small village near this
place, had a meeting there and burn
ed Governor Comer in effigy. Their
indignation was aroused over the re
fusal of the governor to appoint Mr.
Walker McCutcheon, son of the late
Judge W. W. McCutcheon, to the pro
bate judgeship, made vacant by the
death of Judge McCutcheon.
Probably two hundred people, work
ed up to 'a high pitch of excitement,
participated. Larkinsville had been
almost unanimously for the appoint
ment of McCutcheon. hut Governor
Comer named J. J. Williams of Sec
tion as his appointee.
Naval Memorial Park.
Washington, D. C Secreetaries
Wright and Metcalf have approved a
site and design for a naval memorial
in Vicksburg national military park,
and congress, which authorized the se
lection last May, will be asked at next
session to appropriate $200,000 for the
project, that being the maximum con
templated by congress. The memorial
design is for a granite obelisk, two
hundred and two feet hhh, with
bronze statutes of heroic size at the
base and four descriptive tablets on
granite w'ing pedestals. The statues
will represent the famous naval
squadron commanders, Farragut, Por
ter, Foote and Davis.
CONDEMNS NIiHT RIDING.
Statement Made by President Barrett of
the Farmers Union.
New Orleans, La.—Night riders and
their depredations will be taken up
at the meeting of the National Farm
ers’ Union in New Orleans, Novem
ber 11 and 12.
The price of cotton must go up,"
says President C. S. Barrett of tho
union, in a statement given the As
sociated Press, "but the union repudi
ates the insinuation that it in any
manner countenances the deeds of
night riders which may seek to shield
themselves under our name.
"The National Farmers’ Union ut
terly condemns such scoundrelism as
the so-called night riding,’’ says Mr.
Barrett further. “The union has an
economic fight, to wage, but it must be
done in the open and within the law.
Should any of our members be dis
covered as night riders, we would be
the first to turn them over to tho
law. We will deal with this at our
forthcoming meeting at New Orleans,
which, however, is primarily for the
purpose or devising ways and means
for getting a better price for our
cotton.
"The Progressive Union and com
mercial interests of New Orleans
have assured us they would rally to
the support of the growers of the
staple, and New Orleans has been
chosen for the place of meeting on
this account and because of its im
portance as a cotton market. We ex
pect a large attendance of delegates,
representing over 2,000,000 members
in every state in the cotton belt.’
CHINAMAN HAH TWO WIVES.
Was Forced to Send One Wife Back
to China.
San B'rancisco, Cal. —When Robert
Hutong Bosnian, the Hong Kong mil
lionaire, arrived from China on the
steamship Korea he defied the laws
of the United States which distinctly
provide that this country is no place
for any person who believes in poly
gamy.
Bosman not only publicly proclaim
ed himself to be a polygamist, but
emphasized the fact .by bringing two
wives with him. The local board de
nied him a landing and he threatened
to appeal to Secretary Taft, whom he
claimed as a personal friend and who
had partaken of Bosnian’s hospitality
in Hong Kong. Wires were pulled and
Commissioner North allowed him to
land, accompanied by his two wives,
Margaret and Clare, and their two
children.
Later word came to Commissioner
North to allow Bosman and a portion
of his family to remain for six months
longer. He was to give a bond of ssoq
| that they would return at friat time.
The dispatch also instructed that one
j of the wives must return to the Ori
! ent immediately. Bosman selected
the younger one and Margaret* wife
{ No. 1, goes back to Hong Kong. Wife
No. 2 is to remain. It is true that
she, according to the law's of the
United States, is not a wife, but she
is permitted to remain and pose as
such. Under the laws of California
she is liable to arrest.
SOCIETY (JF EQUITY FORMED.
Representatives From a Number of
States Were Present.
Indianapolis, Ind—The Farmers’
Society of Equity was organized here
at a* convention of representatives of
a number of states. The constitution
of the society embodies practically all
of the basic principles of the Ameri
can Society of Equity, the only chang
es being some few of minor import
ance that will remedy defects, the
principal change being that all dele
gates to the society must be produc
ing farmers. The following officers
were elected:
J. A. Averitt of Indianapolis, pres
ident; W. E. Greilick of Travic City,
Michigan, vice president; J. C. Rous
of Indianapolis, treasurer, ine direc
tors are: N. M. Ashby of Sebree, Ky.;
J. A. Myers of Ramsey, N. J.; I. S
Herd of Keosauka, Kas.; L. H. John
son of Attica, Ind.; and F. W. Morris
of Rochester, Minn.
STUDENTS BRANDED COMRADES.
Initiatory Ceremonies of Los Angeles
High School Fraternity.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Six students of
the Polytechhnic high school have
been suspended and three others are
in danger of sharing the same fate
because they had branded the fore
heads of two students of the Los An
geles high school with nitrate of sil
ver during the initiation ceremonies
of the Kappa Delta fraternity, a for
bidden high school secret society.
The boys who were branded and
whose condition for a time alarmed
their parents, are Frank Rouse and
Edgar Lusk. On Lusk’s forehead the
letters "K. D.” were branded. On
Rouse’s forehead were the figures
“ ’09.” Ugly red scars were made,
butlt is not believed they will be per
manently disfigured.
VIRGINIA COLONIAL DAMES.
The Restoration of Old Washington
Graveyard Reported.
Richmond, Va—At a meeting of tie
Society of Colonial Dames in the state
of Virginia held here the complete
restoration of the old Washington
graveyard at Wakefield, in Westmore
land county, where are interred the
father and grandfather of George
Washington, was reported.
Relic hunters had committed many
depredations which have been cor
rected, as far as possible, and the
yard is now inclosed by a concrete
wall with iron gates and is ia charge
of a caretaker, the society i i Virgin
ia bearing the expense.
Statements of Leaders.
The first comment by Judge Taft
for publication on the result of tho
election was given to the Associated
Press at 8:45 p. m. Tuesday. With a
broad smile Judge Taft remarked:
"Just say that everything looks fa
vorable.’’
The candidate indicated that he
might have more to say lated.
Judge Taft at 9:fio sent the follow
ing telegram to Frank Hitchcock;
"I am delighted to hear the favor
able returns from all parts of the
country, especially New York, and 1
wish to express my gratitude to you
for the work which you have done
and felicitate you on the accuracy
with which you foretold the result, in
dicating a clear grasp and wondeiful
political knowledge of the situation.
"WILLIAM H. TAFT.”
James S. Sherman, the republican
vice presidential candidate, received
the election returns at his home, sur
rounded by a company of relatives
and friends. Mr. Sherman said: “Tho
result of the national election does
not surprise me. For the last month
I have been as sure of republican suc
cess as I am tonight. The republican
party, platform and candidate stood
for stability, order, confidence, a con
tinuance of prosperity based upon a
continuance of protection and the gold
standard; stood for the equality of all
men and all interests before the law.
Mr. Bryan and Bryanism attempted to
array class against class, to stir up
hate, to confuse the voter, by a mul
tiplicity of minor alleged issues and
to draw attention from the tariff plank
of their platform! Mr. Taft's cam
paign was dignified, straightforward,
manly. He met every issue squarely,
justified by clear argument h*s past
acts and his expected administrative
policies. The result justifies the con
fidence in the ultimate wisdom of the
people’s decision.’’
Chairman Hitchcock of the republi
can national committee, met the news
paper reporters in his rooms at. na
tional headquarters in New York city
late Tuesday night, and made the fol
lowing statemnet; "The returns speak
for themselves. There seems to he
no longer any doubtful states. The
electoral vote will show that my esti
mate was correct. It looks now, I
think, as if I must have underestimat
ed it. The returns have exceeded my
expectations. The plurality in Indi
ana will be less than I expected. That
in Illinois is far more than anticipat
ed, and so it goes, where one state
has not quite come up to the figures I
had expected, some other state has
gone far beyond. The latest returns
from 'Maryland indicate that we have
carried that state by about 7,000 to
10,000, and that is more than I believ
ed it would give. I predicted early
that Governor Hughes would be elect
ed. To Mr. Hughes we owe much.
As a campaigner he has helped won
derfully in the national contest. All
of us here at headquarters were great
ly interested in the fight. He has
earned his victory, and we are glad
for him and grateful to him for tho
help he has given* u?.” When Mr.
Hitchcock was asked what he at
tributed the victory of the national
ticket to, he replied: "The people
have explained it. It is not for me to
say anything more except to thank
the people.
Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota. ’
Charles K. Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall, in a statement, made on
Tuesday night, said; "I confess very
great, disappointment on the result of
the election, with regard to both Mr.
Bryan and Mr. Chanler. Every indi
cation before the election convinced
me that Bryan would prove a much
more popular candidate than he seems
to have been when judged by the vote
at the polls. Governor Hughes can
find but little comfort and no endorse
ment of his policies in the result.
There can be no question that with
the same elements in opposition in
any other year than that of the presi
dential campaign, and with political
conditions normal, he would have been
buried under an adverse vote of at
least 100,000.”
Clark Howell, national democratic
committeeman from Georgia, conced
ed the election of Taft early Tuesday
night. Mr. Howell gave the Associat
ed Press the following statement: "It
is a landslide for Taft. Mr. Bryan has
made a wonderful campaign, but he
could not overcome the previling idea
that business conditions would be ad
versely affected by republican defeat.
It is now up to the republicans to
make good their pledge to restore
prosperity for to that pledge they
must attribute their success more
than to anything else. Mr. Taft is a
big. broad, patriotic American and he
will be fair and just to the south. As
to Georgia, it is safely {or Bryan by
about 20,000 majority.’’
