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A HOBBY OF HOBSON.
Hero of the Merrimac Proposes That
Uncle Sam Run a Weekly News¬
paper of Free Circulation.
A Washington dispatch says: An
journal to be published weekly
the government, and oftener If nec¬
and which shall contain brief
notices of the work of the various ex¬
ecutive departments and independent
bureaus of the government, of the su¬
preme court of the United States and
of the proceedings of congress so far
as they may be of general public in¬
terest is provided for in a bill which
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson
of the sixth Alabama district proposes
to introduce after the holidays. The
sum o-f $75,000 is appropriated for the j
equipment and $275,000 for the ex¬
penses of issuing the publication.
Captain Hobson has gone to some
pains to properly convey his idea of
what the journal should be, and has
printed a number of specimen copies
containing just such matter as would
be expected to fill its columns.
In ispej iking of his bill, Captaii?
Hobson said:
“The official journal Is intended to
make a connecting link between the
government and the public, and will be
in effect a periodical report to the peo¬
ple of the work done by all branches
of the government. The project grew
out of my having ascertained that a
vast amount of visible material did not
reach the people for whom it was in¬
tended. I believe this journal will be
a means of familiarizing the people
with the really stupendous work that
their government is doing and will re¬
move distrust and suspicion and cre¬
ate renewed interest and confidence
among the masses in governmental af¬
fairs.
“It cannot help but aid the press of
the country, not only in furnishing a
ready index, but in creating a taste
and demand for reading matter ana
for additional information upon impor¬
tant subjects that can only be touched
upon in the journal.”
It is provided in the bill that the
journal shall be non-partisan, and shall
contain no editorial comment. In case
it should be deemed advisable provis¬
ion also is made for the simultaneous
publication of the journal at one point
In the middle west and at one point
on the Pacific coast. The journal is
to be distributed free.
TAFT UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED
By the Kansas Republican State
Central Committee.
At a strenuous session of the Kansas
republican state central committee at
Topeka, Secretary of War William H.
Taft was unanimously endorsed as the
choice of the party in Kansas for pres¬
ident.
Ths state convention is called for
March 4 at Topeka. The resolution to
nominate state officers by the primary
system was tabled bv of 13
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ed with officers and men of the fleet,
together with a holiday crowd from
the city.
Th# American horses carried off the
honors,
MINE IS BEING CLEARED.
All Bodies Will Soon Be Taken from
Explosion-Wrecked Pjt.
Rapid progress r .s being made in the
removal of bodies from the Darr mine
at Jacob’s Creek, Pa. All of the en¬
tries except No. 27 have been cleared,
and a total of 124 bodies brought from
the mine. A number of other bod*
ies have been located.
MV. SPARKS YIELDS
Will Call Special Session of
Nevada Legislature.
TAKES advice OF TEUDY
Determination Assures the
Covirnot’s of United States Troops
Retaining Nevada, for Some
in Goldfield,
Time to Come.
president Roosevelt Saturday indt
telegram to Governor Sparks
cated by federal troops now
Neva da that the
ot be ordered to re¬
Goldfield will
at further period of
main there for a
weeks provided the governor
three call for a
five days issues a
within the state legisla
special session of
ture. president was in
The telegram of the
to one from the governor in
response the need of aimed
ffhi ,h he sets forth
intervention and the doubt that to call
legislature would result m the nec
t h e body for ted
essary request from that
^ Sparks, which
The letter of Governor
' made public at the white house,
was
was, in part, as follows:
"Carson Nev., Dec. 26 .—The Presi
dent, Washington, D. C.: As chief inag
ate of the state of Nevada I have
ist; for the past year
been of th( i opinion
that a condition bordering on domes
tic violence and insurrection has ex¬
isted in the Goldfield mining district,
"Without considering the merits ot
any of the controversies it is only nec
essary to state that the entire district
became divided into two hostile camps.
One on the one hand the miners, with
their adherents and sympathizers, and
on the other mine owners, with their
adherents and sympathizers, The un
ion jilone claimed a membership of
3,000 and fully one-half of the mem¬
bership was constantly armed. Arms
and ammunition were purchased and
kept by the union as a body.
"On the other hand, the mine own
ers had in their employ a large num¬
ber of watchmen and guards who
were constantly armed and on duty;
in addition to those opposing forces
were an unusually large number of
the criminal element attracted to the
new and booming mining camp. Un¬
der such conditions the civil authori¬
ties were probably powerless. They
could attend to the ordinary petty of¬
fend rs from day to day, but at the
first conflict between the real armies
of labor and carntal would have been
swept away. The repeated strikes and
continued threats of other strikes ex¬
cited ’dne owners more and more. It
wa s clear to me, therefore, that when
the last strike was called in the midst
of the financial crisis spreading over
the country and with a long winter
°„ ° (,over !le nor Sparks, but the calling
R I )ec i a l session will have the
r of keeping federal troops in
G °Wfie]d for several weeks and
^ake will
the possibility of serious trouble
more remote.
three dead; DOZEN HURT
As Result of Rear-End Collision
on
Three Pennsylvania Railway,
than persons were killed and more
a dozen others were injured In
f Rack e m-end collision on the elevated
s °f the Pennsylvania railway, a
1 distance fom Cam¬
den, the station in
,\ J Friday. The cars were badly
,
sm a “ 1. Fire added the difficulitea
°£ the to
work of rescue.
A MUDDLE IN NAVY
Result of the Brownson-Rixie
Quarrel Over Authority.
ROOSEVELT IN QUANDARY
Brcwnson Defied President by Refus¬
ing to Transmit Order Assigning
Doctor to Command of Hos
tal Ship.
A Washington special says: Not
since the days preceding the passage
of the personnel law ten years ago
has the feeling between the line and
staff of the navy been so acute as it
just now, as the result of the re¬
fusal of Admiral Brownson to trans¬
mit orders from his superior officer,
the president of the United States, as¬
signing a naval surgeon to command
a vessel in the navy.
In the case of the personnel act, it
was Mr. Roosevelt, then assistant sec¬
retary of the navy, who acted the part
of the pacificator and succeeded in
bringing the two warring factions to¬
gether in support of the legislation
which for a decade past, though a
makeshift, has served to maintain
peace between the two factions in the
navy. In the present instance, how¬
ever, the efforts of the president to
reconcile the surgeons and the line of¬
ficers has failed, and it is probable
that the whole controversy will be
heard on its merits in congress. This
is much deprecated by conservative offi¬
cers in both line and staff, as like¬
ly to prove prejudicial to the navy’s
interest as a whole, for they believe
that in order to succeed in securing
from congress the four great battle¬
ships, the cruisers, scouts and subma¬
rines which form a part of the year's
naval estimates, in addition to secur¬
ing legislation that will better the lot
of naval officers personally, the navy
must present a united front, which
cannot be done if just at the begin¬
ning of a session, line and staff are
to engage in strife.
Through the published statement of
Surgeon General Rixey, the merits of
the doctors’ side of the case in this in¬
stance have been clearly set forth. Line
officers believe that in common fair¬
ness they should have a hearing. But
they are in an embarrassing position
in that respect. Admiral Brownson
preceded his resignation by a coid,
clear and logical presentation of the
reasons why he objected to command
a naval ship, even if the vessel were
exclusively devoted to hospital uses.
That statement was submitted to the
president, and, notwithstanding the
staff has had its say in print, applica¬
tions at the white house for this let¬
ter are met with refusal. Now it is
clearly impossible for Admiral Brown¬
son or any of his line officers to make
public a copy of the letter without
Incurring the event of a courtmartial
on charges of disrespect toward their
superior officer, the president of the
United States. So they can only look
for a change in the executive mind
or for the congressional investigation
which will develop all the facts.
It may be stated in the absence ot
the text ot Admiral Brownson’s let¬
ter that his objection to the execution
of the president's order to place a
surgeon in command of the hospital
ship Relief was twofold. In the first
place, like every line officer, he be¬
lieved that the subordination of any
line officer, no matter how low in
grade, to a staff officer on shipboard,
was bad policy and subversive of na¬
val discipline. But a stronger objec¬
tion in his mind was that the pro¬
posed action was clearly illegal inas¬
much as it is forbidden by law or na¬
vel regulation to assign a staff officer
to command a ship. It is only fair
to the staff to state that this is de¬
batable ground and that it would not
be difficult to construe the naval laws
and regulations in either way. So it is
not to be doubted that when the sub¬
ject comes before congress for consid¬
eration the lawyers in that body will
find material to support either contea
tion.
TAFT BACKS ROOSEVELT.
Gives Broad Endorsement of Adminis¬
tration in Banquet Speech.
Greeted with cheers as “The Next
President of the LTnited States," a
topic which he carefully avoided in his
own remarks, however, Secretary of
War William H. Taft delivered his
first public speech since his world
circling tour at the annual banquet of
the Merchants’ Association at Boston,
Mass., Monday night.
Mr. Taft's speech was in the main a
broad defense of President Roosevelt
and the administration.
NEEDLES ENDED HER LIFE.
Woman Who Swallowed 144 Eighteen
Months Ago, Finally Succumbs.
Mrs. Mol ie Desmond, who attempt¬
ed to commit suicide eighteen months
ago by swallowing a package of 144
needles, died in New York Monday,
after physicians had made twenty-five
surgical operations upon her and had
removed all but a dozen of the nee¬
dles.
deposits set off notes
Court Renders Important Decision
as
to Status of Debtors to Defunct
Neal Bank at Atlanta.
It a person has a deposit of $500
in the defunct Meal bank at Atlanta
and in consideration of a loan of an
equal or larger amount, has given hi 3
note, hi s deposit can be applied in the
payment of his note—provided the
same is still in the bank’s possession
and has not been sold to an innocent
party.
An order to this effect was issued
by Judge Pendleton at Atlanta on
application of Attorney General John
C. Hart through Candler, Thomson
& Hirsch. Judge Pendleton’s order
makes no distinction between notes
held by the bank and notes which
have been hypothecated, but those fa¬
miliar with the law declare that the
order will apply only to notes now
actually held by the bank.
This matter has been the subject of
a great deal of interesting discussion
since the state authorities took charge
of the bank. Some have held that air
obligations would have to be met and
that depositors who owe the bank
would have to take their chance of
getting their money back the same as
depositors who are not in debt to the
bank, claiming that any set-off would
make a preferred creditor of the de¬
positor who happened to owe the bank.
Others have held that a bank stands in
the same position as any individual or
other corporation and where a man is
both a debtor to and creditor of the
bank there must be a set-off, only the
difference to be paid. There seems to
be practically no division of opinion as
to the fact that where the bank has
sold a note the giver must meet it at
maturity whether any deposit he may
have had in the bank is returned to
him or not. The note having been sold
is in the hands of an innocent party,
the bank is known only as an indorser,
and the man who made it is responsi¬
ble for its payment, the fact that he
is a depositor in the bank having nc
bearing on the case.
All unpaid checks on other banks de¬
posited with the bank to the accounts
of depositors will be charged off and re¬
turned to the depositors.
This applies to similar checks not
yet reported and not on the list at¬
tached to the petition as an exhibit.
In describing the notes In question
the petition stated that there were
numerous notes and other evidences
of indebtedness signed by customers
with deposits on hand at the time a
receiver was appointed, some of
have been become due and some are
approaching maturity, that depositors
had claimed and would claim set-offs,
and it was asked that such notes
should receive the credit of deposits.
As to the checks on other banks, it
set out that drawers had ordered pay
ment on them stopped before presen¬
tation and that the order was obeyed
by the bank. This was before a re¬
ceiver was named and before the fact
of insolvency. The petitioners asked
that the amounts of these unpaid
checks be charged off the accounts
and returned to the depositors.
Deputy Sheriff Dan Perkerson took
charge of the stock of dry goods, mer
chanidse, etc., of G. G. Reid at 165-167-
169 Peters street to satisfy the chattel
mortgage held by the Neal bank and
foreclosed by the Central bank and
Trust company, receivers. The amount
of the indebtedness of G. G. Reid was
$10,999.10 plus $307.72, principal and
interest of four promissory notes
drawn August 20 of this year. The first
was for $1,000 due October 15, the sec¬
ond for a like amount due November 1,
the third for $3,000 due December 1
and the fourth for $5,990.10 due Jan¬
uary 1, 1908.
Only the stock and store and store
fixture* are involved.
RACE ROW IN OKLAHOMA.
Governor Holds Troops in Readiness
fsr Any Emergency.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma re
ceived most disquieting reports Fri
day from Henrietta and two com pa
nies of national guards were being
held in readiness to move to that town
at any moment.
Armed guards are patrolling Henri
etta streets and couriers and officers
are out endeavoring to locate an armed
body of negroes who were last re¬
ported four miles from the town.
SLIGHT SEISMIC SHOCKS.
Earthquake Tremors Felt in Four
Mississippi Towns.
Four towns on the Mississippi gulf
coast reported slight shocks
believed to have been caused by
earthquake. The disturbance was not
ed at Pass Christian, Gulfport,
Point and Pascagonia.
MINE EXPLORATION COMPLETED.
Total of 220 Bodies Removed from the
Wrecked Darr Pit.
Explorations in the Darr mine of
the Pittsburg Coal company at Jacob’s
Creek were completed Saturday with
the exception of the numerous falls
of iBlate. A total cf 220 bodies have
been recovered from the main headings
and entries, The number of bodies.
still unrecovered is estimated at fifty.
DIE IN WRECK!
Fast Passenger Collides With
Double-Hoader Freight.
MANY NARROWLY ESCAPE i
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Killed Were All Members cf the
Train Crewe—Dense Fog Hid Sig¬
nal of Wrongly-Turned I
Switch.
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Speeding through a dense fog at
40 miles hour, Grand Trunk 1
an pae- ,
senger train No. 5, which left Port !
Huron Friday !
shortly before 7 o’clock I
night for Detroit, collided head-on with
a mile double-header north of Lenox, freight Mich. train, half a |
Five trainmen met death, four be- j
ing killed instantly, the fifth dying
three hours later. All of the passen¬
gers escaped serious injury. The kill¬
ed were Engineer Bennett of the pas¬
senger, Engineer Bohowski of the
first freight engine, Fireman Boughner,
Fireman Albert McCall, Switchman W.
C. Taylor.
The passenger locomotive plowed
under the engines of the double-header
and the trainmen were buried in the
wreckage. Their bodies were terribly
mangled and scalded by the escaping
steam.
Engineer Fred Haug and Fireman
Washburn of the second freight en¬
gine escaped death. Haug was caught
in hi3 cab, but was taken out unhurt.
Washburn jumped and was only very
slightly injured.
All the dead trainmen lived in De¬
troit.
The freight train had switched from
the main track to a siding to allow
the passenger to pass. It is alleged
that the switch was not properly closed
and on account of the heavy fog which
prevailed the passenger could not see
that the target was set against them,
MARRIES FULL-BLOODED INDIAN.
!
Denver Girl Defies Parental Opposition , :
and Takes Red Man as Choice.
News has been received in Denver, !
Cal., that Miss Cora Marie Arnold, of
that city, was married Monday, Decem¬
ber 23, in Santa Fe, N. M., to Albino
Chavarria, a full-blooded Indian. The ,
wedding ends a romance which began
five years ago during the mountain and
plain festival, when a number of In
dians were brought to the city.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Mr. Rendon, a Presbyterian clcr
gyman, and was witnessed by the sis
ters of the bride, Misses Lillian and
Geneva Arnold of Denver.
Chavarria is chief of the Santa Clara
Indians, a tribe of the Pueblos in New
Mexico. With a large number of his
tribesmen he was in camp in the city
park in Denver five years ago, when
Miss Arnold saw him and immediately
formed an attachment for him. After
frequent visits to the camp Miss Ar¬
nold invited the Indian to call at her
home. She lived at the time in a fash
ionable flat with her sisters and her
stepfather, George Wilder
The Indian’s first visit to his sweet
heart was the cause of a disagreement
and , the . . .
between her remaining mem
•
bers of her family. „ Objection . ,. was made .
oniy to the Indian race h,s character
,eH1 ^L a 0,6 rei)ror |'
Mr. Wilder jumped overboard i - from from a a
steamer in the Gulf of Mexico and was
drowned. He left a will in which he
disinherited the present Mrs. Chavar¬
ria because of her refusal to give up
her present Indian lover. The sisters
of Miss Arnold finally consented to the
marriage and one month ago they went
with her to New Mexico.
Chavarria is full civilized, religious,
fairly well-educated and well-to-do. He
owns a large farm near Taos, N. M.,
which he cultivates himself.
BOOKKEEPER AN EMBEZZLER.
M?d2 Way with $35,0C0 of Firm’s Cash
and js A rre sted. j
Q n com pi a } n t of the New Jersey j
^ oi j er CO mpany of Boonton, N. J., Sam
uel H. Debrell was arrested and placed
5n Morristown jail charged with the
embezzlemsn t of $35,000. Debrell was
employed as a bookkeeper by the com- ■
pany and was arrested his books as a Friday result of at j
an examination of
his home in Norfolk, Va.
FURNITURE PLANT BURNED.
i
Flames at Shrevepot, La., Entail Loss
of $125,000.
Fire believed to be of incendiary
’
origin ear jy Friday morning, complete
destroyed the plant of the Union
c - ty p urn }ture Manufacturing company
^ g brave port, La. The loss is placed
at $ 125 ,000. Insurance, $50,000.
BACK AT WHITE HOUSE.
President Returns from Christmas Out
ing in Old Virginia.
Looking the picture of health and
’
with every appearance of having en
joyed his outing of five days at Pine j
Knot Va where Mrs. Roosevelt has
a cottage President Roosevelt arrived j
in Washington Monday night at 8:50
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over the Southern t
barrett misquoted.
National President of Farmers’ Union
Erands Alleged Interview a Fake
Pure and Simple.
National President Charles S. Bar¬
rett of the Farmers Union is much in¬
censed at a recent editorial in the Sa
vannah Morning News, based on an
alleged interview with him at Green¬
ville, S. C.
The interview quoted President Bar
rett as stating that 8,030,000 bales of
cotton are being held off the market by
farmers generally, and The News in its
editorial drew the conclusion that if
such were the case, with the 5,500,000
bales already marketed, there would
be at least a crop of 13,500,000 bales,
n£)t including the cotton not yet ginned.
President Barrett was naturally in
di g nant) both that he should have been
quoted without authority and that a
false inte rview should have been used
as the basis of editorial conclusions,
“Not only did I not say anything of
the kind,” President Barrett said, “but
I gave no interview to any newspaper
i in Greenville subject.
j man on any
! 4<I wag bugy - n the offlce of state
Secretary . Trea8Urer B. F . Earle in
Greenville when L. A. Watson came
to me and said there were a number
of newspaper men outside who wanted
| an interview. I sent word that I was
i very busy and did not have time to
see them, and in addition that I had
nothing to say.
“That was my only experience with
newspaper men on the occasion of my
visit to Greenville, and I felt surprised
and outraged when shown by one of
my associates an editorial from the Sa¬
vannah Morning News, quoting me as
| saying that the farmers generally were
holding 8,000,000 bales of cotton off
| the market.
| “Not only was the interview false
j ^om beginning to end, but I have
never at any time given for publication
I any expression of my opinion as to
the amount of cotton being held or to
the extent of the crop.
“Why a man would be a fool to make
any such statement as that, and I can
not conceive of the writer of the edito¬
rial believing that I made any such
statement when he commented on it as
he did.
“Whenever I have anything to say
about the cotton crop or any of the af
fairs of the Farmers’ Union I shall
make the statement over my signature,
as I have consistently done in the
past.
“The trouble is there are a lot of
, newspapers in various parts of the
country which are pretending friend
ship for the Farmers’ Union, but which
are not letting slip any opportunity to
attack us — not even that afforded by
Gie interview.
“I do not know who is responsible for
the interview, but I do know that it is
a f a j ie p Ure and simple, and it ought
not to have taken any great amount
of discernment to discover its falsity.”
BEER POURED INTO GUTTER.
0ver Two Thousand Barre | s Emptied in
Oklahoma City 'barrels
Twenty . three hundred of
beer, valued , , at $17,500, belonging to
the state , . , brewery, poured , into .
new ’ was *
the sewers of . Oklahoma , City Monday ,, ,
iec[or ^ ^ ^ ^
Pl * ete d after Oklahoma became a state.
The state authorities would not permit
sale and shipment from the state,
PEACE DINNER PULLED OFF.
Delegates to Pacificatory Confe rence
Dine in Washington.
What was termed a “peace” dinner
was given in Washington Monday
night by the delegates to the recent
peace conference of the Central Amer¬
ican republics in celebration of the
conclusion of an agreement of amity
between them. Toasts were drunk to
the presidents of the United States,
Mexico and the five republics, parties
to the pact, and speeches were made
expressive of good will and a desire
for lasting peace,
GUILTY PAIR SKIPS OUT.
Parson Cooks and Floretta Whaley
Elude Officers in ’Frisco.
Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, formerly
pastor of the fashionable St. George
church, at Hempstead, Long Island,
and Floretta Whaley, the 17-year-old
heiress with whom he eloped eight
months ago, deserting a wife to whom
he had been married for nine years,
stole away Monday from the little flat
which they had occupied at 1199 Green
street in San Francisco, where they
were discovered Sunday, living under
the name of Balcom taking with them
their baby boy, born two months ago.
WHITECAPPERS GIVEN FREEDOM.
Qoy err10 r Vardaman of Mississippi
Pardons Noted Trio.
A special from Jackson, Miss., says:
Governor Vardaman has issued par
dons to Dav a> Posey, Sam ' Posey and
Oscar Frank n, the noted trio of Lin
coll > county, Miss., whitecappers sent
U P several years ago to serve terms
for murder and manslaughter.