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LETHI BOOKS STOLEN Taken From His Office and Sold to Hearst Says Archbold. M’LAURIN MAKES STATEMENT Praises Standand Oil Company and Says He is Not Ashamed of His Corres pondence With Mr. Archbold. New York City.—A new phase of the discussion of the so-called “Standard Oil correspondence,’’ made public re cently by William Randolph Hearst, was entered upon, when John D. Arch bold, vice president of the Standard Oil company, made a statement set ting forth details of the alleged theft of correspondence from his tiles. For mer United States Senator John Lowndes McLaurin of South Carolina, also entered the field with a signed statement declaring his attitude in the matter of the correspondence between himslf and Mr. Archbold. Mr. Archbold said: “In response to many inquiries as to the theft of letters from my files, the following may be made known: “Over three years ago a report reached me that certain of my letters had been offered for sale to newspa pers of this city, ostensibly stolen let ters. Examination showed that some letters were missing, and that they could only have been taken by some one not only familiar with the official details, but highly trusted. The party on whom suspicion fell stoutly denied all guilt. “A little later, however, a man who represented himself as acting between the thief and those to whom*, the let ters had been sold, proposed to return some of the letters for a considera tion. His story was that the idea of the theft had been conceived by his brother, who had at one time been in the company’s employ, and that this brother had induced the employee al ready suspected, to accomplish the theft. . ; “According to the go-between’s story he had disposed of the letters, or some of them, to two men who pur chased them on behalf of Mr. Hearst's newspapers, The Journal. “Not only had stolen letters been thus traded for, but the thief was in duced to carry off one or more letter coTying books, many of whose pages ]/ claims were photographed, other m ges being removed altogether. The * ;oks in question were, the go-be /veen saiafter forty-eight to say how iany were stolen and sold in this r y. The thieves worked at their leisure. It is not thought necessary to say more at present or to men tion names. Corroboration of the go between’s story of three years ago lay in his return of some of the cor respondence at the time. The produc tion of stolen letters by Mr. Hearst is further corroborated now. Obviously, among such a coterie, authenticity of their output is not to be lightly ac cepted. The opportunities for falsifi cation, suppressing of context and dis tortions of pasasges are many.” Mr. McLaurin, who has just reached New York, gave out a signed state ment, in which he stated that all his correspondence with the Standard Oil Company, through Mr. Archbold, was along strictly business lines, and he was not .ashamed of it. He praised the Standard Oil Company and de nounces Mr. Hearst. REFUSES CROMWELL SWORD. Rockefeller Does Not Want Sword— Will Be Sold at Auction. New York City. —Unless John D. Rockefeller sends to the appraisers’ stores for an antique sword said to have been worn hy Oliver Cromwell, the weapon will be put up at auction by the government and sold to the highest bidder on October 6. • The sword was consigned to Mr. Rockefeller by an Englishwoman, an admirer of Mr. Rockefeller. In a short note attached to the sword the sender said that the relic was vouched for as having belonged to the great common influenced her indisposing of an heir influenced her in disosing of an heir loom of such priceless worth. Under the circumstances the donor of the sword expressed the hope that Mr. Rockefeller would accept the sword and send a draft for a sum commen surate with the value of the weapon. When the sword reached the cus tom house it was addressed merely to “Mr. Rockefeller, 4 West Fifth-fourth street, New York.’’ Mr. Rockefeller was communicated with, but he re fused either to accept the sword or pay the accruing duties. It was said that Mr. Rockefeller sent a representative to inspect the relic. His report is understood to have been unfavorable to the purchase of the sword. TEMPERANCE HOSTS PARADE. Church Societies anc Anti-Liquor Or ganizations Have Demonstration. Chicago, 111. —Temperance hosts pa raded the streets of Chicago in what was intended to be an annual exhibi tion of the strength of the foes of liquor. Thousands of marchers > were in the parade. Churches of almost ev ery denomination were represented, the Salvation Army and the Volun teers of America contributed almost their entire local strength, the Good Templars had thousands of members in line and scores of citizens partici pated. Scores of temperance organi zations had elaborate floats, while a score of bands were among the marchers. % INJURED BY WHIRLWIND. Cyclone Visits Palm Beach, Florida. Wes t Palm Beach, Fla.—Three per sons were injured and considerable nronerty damage done by a whirlwind which swept in from the sea and iTassed over the town. The injured Mrs potter and her small son, thn were blown down on the Casino „reh and a colored hostler at a sta whtch was demolished. Trees bl Q Grinned and several houses blown frortf their foundations. LATE NEWS NOTES. i General. A band of thirty train robbers held up the St. Petersburg express, near Vilna, Russia, shot down the train guard of six men, robbed the express car of nearly $lO-0,000 and escaped. John F. Spencer of Leister, Eng land, a Sunday school teacher, serv ing a sentence in the pen, has con fessed to the burglary of Brooksby Hail. Gems valued at $200,000 were taken. Charles Boyle, son of a San Francis co miilionairie and ex-Stanford uni versity student, is alleged to have con fessed to several crimes committed in the west last spring. • Seventy-two men were injured, sev en fatally, as the result oi a iroiiey accident caused by a damaged signm box on the Scuuiwestein Traction company s line near Tmicum, Penn. Two trolley cars heavily loaded wiu workmen, lunning at high speed, col lided head-on in a dense fog and in stantly the dying and manned were scattered about tne road or buried un der the wreckage. After being separated nearly a quar ter of a century, Mrs. Cnristian Oli ver of New Oneans, and Sylvester Oliver, now residing in France, wni be re-united within a few weeks, in in ISB6 the husband took a boat from .\evv Orleans, stating that he was go ing to France. From the time the ves sel left the docks until a few days ago nothing had been heard of tne husband, and Mrs. Oliver mourned him as dead. Laniel J. bully, who twice won and lost the crown, of ’ Cotton King” in Wall street, has resigned the presi dency of the Cerro-Coiurado Mining company and gone to work as a cfern for a cotton brokerage house to give Ins clients the benefit of his expen ence. Power generated at Niagara Falls is to be distributed ail over Canada. Bids nave been asked on 10,000 tons of structural steel ior the Canadian gov ernment. The steel is to be used for towers which will support the cables used in transporting tne current. Al ready power generated at Niagara is being sent a distance of more than one hundred and twenty-live miles, and it is the intention of the Canadian government to increase this distance. i owns in every direction about Niag ara will be supplied. Gustave Eberhardt, who has been on trial in Hackensack, N. J., for the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Ottilie Tb erhardt, whom he lured from Austria, together with her daughter, Miss Ot tilie, for the purpose of robbery, has been sentenced to thirty years in the state’s prison at hard labor. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria- Hungary, has sent a sum of money for the benefit of St. Stephen’s Rom an Catholic church of South River, N. J. Rev. Victor Von Kubinyl, a no bleman, is the rector. He is the au thor of a' book entitled “King of Rome,” a copy of which was sent to his majesty some time ago. The rec tor was formerly a subject of the Aus trian emperor. The automobile driven :by Otto Brodie of Chicago, while making a turn in Sterling, 111., toppled over, turning once and a half and landing upside down. Two of the party of eight were probably fatally injured and the other six injured. The ma chine was badly wrecked. Manuel Messaguer, an importer of Santo Domingo lottery tickets was ar rested at San Juan, P. R., by United States Deputy Collector Peter Math eson and held. One thousand tickets, representing several thousand dollars, and also letters and a book contain ing the names of lottery ticket dealers were seized. Washington. Accidents in coal mines in the Unit ed States last year resulted in 3,123 deaths and injury to 5,316 more, an increase of 1,033 in the number of deaths of the previous year, according to a report issued by the geological survey. Joseph Stewart of Missouri superin tendent of the division of railway ad justment, has been appointed second assistant postmaster general, succeed ing James T. McCleary, of Minnesota, who resigned to become a candidate for congress. The navy department is negotiat ing with Charles A. Logue of Charles town, Mass., for the right to use a new torpedo that he has invented. Logue is a third-year student at Bos ton university. Ever since the inven tion of the wireless telegraph he has been at work on the torpedo, his idea being to devise one that would be con trolled by wireless waves from a wire less station on shore or from a ship. The cruiser Milwaukee, after a cruise of two months in southern wa ters and a stay of fifteen days at Amapala, Honduras, has arrived in San Francisco. Captain Rogers stat ed that everything was quiet at Ama pala when he departed. Governor Magoon of Cuba has is sued a decree fixing November 14 as the date for holding the general elec tions for president, vice president, representatives and senatorial elec tors. Two mine planters will be sent to the Pacific coast to augment the coast defenses there, according to the pres ent plans of the war department. The mine planters tentativesly selected are General Henry J. Hunt, now at Fort ■yVadsworlh, and Colonel George Arm istead, at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook. Definite decision of the United States forestry service to establish forest service district quarters in the national forest states has been an nounced. The forest states will be divided into six districts. A dispatch to the war department from Hechuca, Ariz., says that Colo nel Stewart, who has been practically in exile at Fort Grant, will not take the ninety-mile ride, as ordered by the war department. He has been or dered back to Fort Grant without taking the test. The navy department has announc ed that an invitation has been ex tended to the Atlantic battleship fleet by the government of the Netherlands to call at Landjong-Priok, Java. Reply has been made declining the invitation owing to the desire to maintain the prearranged itinerary. TO FI6HT TUBERCULOSES Great Consumption Fighters of World Meet in Washington. WELCOMED BY CORTELYOU Secretary of Treasury Speaks for Presi dent Roosevelt— Session Marked by Simple Ceremonies. Washington, D. C. —This city wit nessed one ot the most notable gath eiings ever assembled in the national capital when* n*edical scientists rep resenting every Civilized nation united with their brothers in America in an effort to solve the problem of how best to cope with tuberculosis. The great auditorium of the new national muse um was tilled with men who have con secrated their best talents to the study of tuberculosis, representatives of the sovereigns of foreign countries, high officials of government. The keynote of every utteiance reflected the hope that the day is not far distant when medical science shall triumph over the great scourge. When Secretary of the Treasury Cor telyou, as the personal representative of the United States, officially declar ed the congress opened there were grouped on the platform such distin guished men as Dr. Robert Koch, the discoverer of the tubercle bacili; Dr. A. Calmette of Paris; Professor Ber nard Bang of London; Dr. G. D. Sims Woodhead of Cambridge, England; Dr. Clemons Von Pirquet, Dr. R. W. Phil ip of Edinburgh, founder of the first tuberculosis dispensary; Professor L. L. Landousey, Dr. N. Tendeloo of Lon don; Dr. Simon Von Unterburger, hon orary physician to his majesty’s court of St. Petersburg; Dr. Camilo Callaja of Madrid and many others. Among the members of the diplomatic corps present was Wu Ting Fang, the Chi nese minister. The official welcome on behalf of the United States government was ex tended by Secretary Conelyou. Then followed the responses of the official representatives of thirty foreign coun tries. When Dr. Koch arose to respond in behalf of the German government there was a remarkable demonstration in his honor, men and women waving hats and handkerchiefs for nearly five min utes. At the conclusion of the responses to Secretary Cortelyou’s addresses the congress adjourned, and will not again meet in general session until October 3rd. GOCTGR GIVES WARNING. America in Danger of Being Infected With Bubonic Plague. Washington, D. C. —That the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States are in danger of an infection of the bubonic plague was the serious note of warning issued by Dr. N .K. Foster of California before the dele gates in attendance upon the twenty third annual meeting of the confer ence of the state and provincial board of health of North America. He ex pressed the belief that such an infec tion already may have taken place. The address of Dr. Foster, who is president of the organization, startled the delegates. “I firmly believe,” said Dr. Foster, “that the United States will become generally infected, not from California, but from ports hav ing communication by water. My ob ject is to sound a note of warning and to put you on your guard against a dangerous foe.” He said no effort should be spared to guard against its introduction and warned his hearers that ..every city and town on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts should begin now to destroy the rodents which carry infection, and prepare for the invasion threatened. NATION’S IDLE IN CONVENTION. Great Gathering of Unemployed in Session at New York. New York City.—An extraordinary gathering made up of delegates from various parts of the country met here. They came on the brake beams of freight cars, on the “blind” baggage of the swift express or straggled in over dusty roads. They profess to represent the country’s workless and to constitute the “first national con vention of the unemployed.” “The National Committee of the Un employed” is the official name of the organization, at the head of which is J. Eads How of St. Louis, known as the “millionaire hobo.” Many prominent men were invited to deliver addresses before the conven tion, among them* President Roosevelt, William J. Bryan, Judge Taft and Jno. E. Redmond, the Irish leader, who is at present in this country. All the gentlemen named have excused them selves on the ground of other engage ments. Yacht Sinks; 250 Rescued. Dover,^England.—The steam yacht Argonaut, London to Lisbon, went to the bottom after being in collision with the steamer Kingswell. Two hun dred and fifty passengers were taken off the Argonaut in small boats and brought safely to shore. The Kings well is damaged to considerable ex tetnt. Cruiser Yankee Deserted. Newport,. —Foundered by huge waves rolled up by the northeast storm, the strande<| cruiser Yankee has been deserted by all the crew who had been striving to get her off the Hen and Chickens reef, where she gi ounded * some time ago. Hundreds Perish in Storm. Bombay, India. —Thousands of na tive houses have been washed away and there has been a heavy loss of life in the Hyderabad and Decean districts as a result of the floods which follow ed an unprecedented rainfall. The river Musi rose sixty feet; all the bridges were carried away and the country was devastated for many miles. Corpses are strewn everywhere and scores of bodies have been found in the branches of trees where they were lodged by the swollen waters, POLITICS CAUSE RIOTS. Cuban Liberals Break Up Rdeeting of Conservatives. Havana, Cuba. Poetical disturb ances have begun to assume some gravity in Cuba. A conservative meeting at Sancti Spiritus was the occasion of a riot, at which many were injured, and in Havana a meeting of the new party, headed by General Es teroz, was broken up by liberals. Sanc ti Spiritus is the home of General Jcse Miguel Gomez, the former gover nor of the province and the present candidate of the Miguelistas and the Zayistas for the presidency. The mayor of the town and the po lice are members of the liberal party. General Mario Menocal, a former lib eral, but recently nominated by the conservatives for the presidency, ar rived here on a special train accom pnaied by a large number of follow ers. Thousands of men, many of them on horseback, met the conserv ative leaders, and it was estimated from the start that trouble was brew ing. The police approached General Menocal, and demanded that he give up his pistol ,which he was presumed to carry. As he had a license to car ry a pistol, which he showed, he re fused to be searched. Within a brief period the fight became general and one of the conservatives was mortal ly wounded by a "policeman. Many of the members of both sides suffered from wounds from knives and clubs, and it was a long time before order was restored. Conservative leaders of Santci Spir itus recently sent a request to Gover nor Magoon at Havana to put the ru ral governor in charge of the meeting for fear trouble would be caused by the police on account of their political affiliations. Before the riot was quell ed the rural guard had to take con trol of the situation. - WARSHIPS’ VISIT POSTPONED. On Account of Cholera Fleet Will Not Visit Manila. Manila, P. I. —The effect of Secreta ry of the Navy Metcalf’s order, that in view of the presence of cholera in Manila no shore leave was to be grant ed or visitors from shore allowed on board the battleships when the Atlan tic fleet arrived, has been largely dis counted by the realization that it would be impossible to cleanse the city before the arrival of the fleet about October 1. People fully realize the necessity of the situation, but they are bitterly disappointed at the out come. Thousands of dollars have been spent in preparing for the reception and entertainment of the officers and men. The decorations have been prac tically completed. The majority of the sentiment now favors a month’s postponement of the programme, or until the return of the fleet from Ja pan. The only criticism heard of Secre tary Metcalf’s order is his inclusion of officers in the embargo against landing. It is pointed out that they run no danger providing they exercise ordinary care in what they eat and drink. womaninvents airship. Russian B&’-ids Rudderless Machine That Has Many Virtues. St. Petersburg, Russia. —A Russian woman, Mme. Poppova. has joined the ranks of inventors with a rudderless airship which she has christened “The Annulated Dragon,” in virtue of peculiar shape adopted for the of the airbag furnishing the liftings power. Mme. Poppova’s aim has ibeen to abolish the inconveniences arising from the attachment of rudders of the ordinary type, whose action, together with that of variable gusts of wind, endangers the balloon’s eqilibrium and safety. ‘‘The Annulated JDragon,” it is claimed, “adapts itself naturally to every variety and strength of wind by a system of hoops, which also serve to steer it.” POLICEMAN TOO CURIOUS. Wanted to See Dynamite Cap Explode. Four Are Injured. Philadelphia, Pa. —Four police offi cers were seriously injured by the ex plosion of a dynamite detonating cap left by burglars yi their hurried de parture from the diamond store of Jo seph H. Deschamps. Reserve Police man Beaumont and Detectives Wil liams, Brown, Long and Reilly of the city force, Moffatt of Camden and Sharp and Campbell from the Burglar Alarm Company’s offices, went to the building. While examining the burglar tools, Beaumont satisfied his curiosity as to igniting battery worked by connecting the positive and negative wires. The cap exploded, blowing out the officer’s right eye. Detective Campbell’s tongue was split from end to base and his teeth were blown out. Mof fatt’s nose was lacerated and his face cut, as were the faces of the others. FIVE KILLED IN dWaHITE EXPLOSION Victims Were Literally Torn to Pieces and Blown 200 Yards. Scranton, Pa. —Three Americans and two Italians were blown to pieces in an explosion of dynamite while working at Cross Keys Cut, along the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad near Tobyhanna. The five men were tamping a hole containing eighteen inches of dynamite, when it prematurely exploded. John Walsh’s legs were split apart, one leg going to the right bank of the track, three hundred yards, and the other two hun dred yards to the left. Shreds of flesh still clung to the telephone wires. The bodies were assembled by means of matching the clothing of the victims. LIEUT.TIOOM HILLtD. Private Suttfes, His Slayer, Cuts His Own Throat. Manila, P. I. —A tragedy occurred at Camp Jessman which resulted in the death, of Lieutenant Edward J. Bloom of the Fourth infantry and Pri vate Suttles of Company K of the same regiment. Suttles, for some un known reason, shot Bloom and then cut his own throat. Suttles died im mediately, but Bloom lingered two days. An investigation of the affair is being made by the military authori ties. FIGURES OF INTEREST Issued By the Bureau of Census at Washington, COST OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS Report Compares the Aggregate Per Capita Cost of Maintaining Schools in Cities of Over 30,000 Population. Washington, D. C. —The bureau of the census has just issued its annual repoi t on the statistics of cities hav ing a population of over 30,000. This report covers the year 1906, and in cludes financial statistics. A considerable portion of the ini re duction to the report is utilized tor presenting definitions of the account ing terms employed by the bureau of the census, a statement of the princi ples upon which governmental ac counting rests, and a brief resume of the systems and methods of account ing made use of at the present time by the various government of the United States and Great Britain. The number of cities included in this report is 158, of which fifteen had over 300,000 inhabitants, twenty seven between 100,000 and 300,000, forty-eight between 50,000 and 100,000, and sixty-eight under 50,000. Of the 158 cities New York had the largest land area —209,248 acres; New Orleans stood second, with 125,600; Chicago third, with 114,932; Philadelphia fourth, with 81,828, and Duluth, fifth, with 40,556. The cities having the smallest land area was West Hoboken, N. J., which had 546 acres. There is often great disproportion between tfie area cov ered by a city and the number of its inhabitants. Duluth, Minn., with 67,- 337 inhabitants, takes in more terri tory than St. Louis, with its 649,320 inhabitants. Salt Lake City, with a population loss by 5,487 than that of Hoboken, includes an area thirty-five times as great. Of the cities contain ing over 100,000 population, Allegheny. Pa., had the smallest land area —4,726 acres. Paterson, N. J., had the next smallest —5,157 acres; St. Joseph, Mo., the next —6,240 acres; Dayton, Ohio, the next —6,846: Atlanta, Ga., the next —7,680; Jersey City, N. J., the next —9,163, and Memphis, Tenn., the next —9,772 acres. The report presents a very interest ing table showing the costs of main taining free public schools for the several cities, including in such costs the interest on the investment in school buildings and grounds. The relative investments of cities in school property may be noted by the varying amounts per capita allowed for interest on such investments. These ranged from 21 cents for At lanta, Ga.; 24 cents for Charleston, S. C.; 24 cents for Memphis, Tenn.; 26 cents for Elizabeth, N. J.; 26 cents for Knoxville, Tenn.; 27 cents for New Orleans, La.; 29 cents for Balti more, Md.; and 30 cents for Covington, Ky.; to sl.Ol for Springfield, Ohio; $1.02 for East St. Louis, 111.; $1.02 for Yonkers, N. Y.; $1.06 for Salt Lake City, Utah; x SI.OB for Boston, Mass.; $1.22 for Joliet, 111.; $1.28 for Spring field, Mass.; $1.28 for Youngstown, Ohio; $1.31 for Hartford, Conn.; $1.33 for Oakland, Cal.; $1.36 for Duluth, Minn.; $1.41 for Newton, Mass.; $1.41 for Tacoma, Wash.; $1.45 for Denver, Col.; $1.45 for Pueblo, Col., and $.156 Spokane, Wash. like manner the aggregate per capita cost for maintaining schools, including -the foregoing amounts for interest, varied from $1.71 for Charles ton, S. C.;‘ s2?oß.Jor Knoxville, Tenn.; $2.11 for MolrtgW ?ry, Ala.; $2.15 for Memphis, Tenn.jX-d $2.17 for Nor folk, Va.; to $7.20 lor Oakland, Cal.; $7.20 for Butte, Mont.; $7.25 for Spring field. Mass.; $7.32 for Boston, Mass.; $7.52 for Denver, Col.; $7.59 for Salt Lake City, Utah; $8.13 for Newton, Mass.; $8.50 for Spokane, Wash., and $8.76 for Pueblo, Col. LOCALOPHON FOR INDIANA. Bill Becomes Law Despite Opposition of Liquor Men. Indianapolis, Ind. Following a fight that was so close up till the last minute that neither side felt con fident of claiming victory, the county local option bill was passed by the house of representatives by a vote of 55 to 45. Governor Hanley signed the measure at once. The wildest scene witnessed in an Indiana legislature in years w r as en acted when the roll call was announc ed. Having previously passed the senate and being the pet measure of Governor Hanley, it was as good as law. Democrats fought the bill with the aid of four recalcitrant republi cans. However, six democrats left their party and voted for the bill, so that it was made a law. Deserter Heir to a Fortune. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.—Under sentence of two years in the federal prison here for desertion, which is to be accompanied by a. dishonorable dis charge from the army, Gerald Fair child, aged 23, is one of two heirs of a $300,000 estate at Duluth, Minn. Seven Men Drowned. Chicago, 111. —Seven men out of a party of eight were drowned in the Calumet river at One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, when the pleasure launch lemon struck one of the sup ports of a railroad bridge and sank with all on board. The owner of the launch swam ashore and he was the only one saved. New Head of Papal State. Rome, Italy.—According to ' the Avanti, Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary of state, is about to retire. This step is an outcome of representations made to the Vatican by American and English prelates, but particularly Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland, who objected to the secretary’s severe measures against modernism. In the event of Merry del Val’s re tirement he probably will be succeed ed by Cardinal Rampolia, who form erly held this office. OF POLITICAL INTEREST. Hoi-man Ridder, of New v,, i of The Staats Zeitung and vh ’ <KUtot man of the publicity burea’.A, lir ' democratic national committee ,' he been appointed by National Mack as treasurer of the naiio^, lrnian mittee, to succeed Governor 'r: N. HacKell of Oklahoma, wy.. ,■ signed his position. The prohibition camel has i, ~ tered in the national race aW -i7 republican elephant and the (leu '.t ic donkey, in a number of c the law requires that each paw an official emblem prii lot, that no voter may ; ticket. The prohibition pan v nounced that they have ,ie< ‘ aQ ' adopt the camel as their v? ° Among the reasons ad vain e ,? 1 ' selection are that the camel V-' ’ lle oiiginal water wagon; that i , cern a fresh supply of W atfi than any other quadruped- t . , 1 travel faster than the elenh , key, and that it is under ’no ',C of getting a hump on itselt According to figures given u Chicago by Charles B. Jom mu, •! chairman of the prohibition • • there was an astounding decrease in the production and sale of ’ntoxica? ing beverages in the Unites * States' Nearly $1,000,000 a day w ; xhe de crease in liquor production as -in Ul . ed by the prohibition leader. Wisconsin had a political i max n which United Sttaes Senat LaFol lette first declared Judge Taft to be a radical in political ideas, and then gave him his own unqualified endorse ment. William H. Taft and his party have started on their first campaign tour through the west. For this trip the campaign managers engaged a special train consisting of the private ear, Constitution, from the platform of which most of the speaking is to be done, together with two sleeping cars and a baggage car. Mr. Taft, took also with him a throat specialist from Washington to look out for his health. There were a dozen of newspaper correspondents, along. Governor Charles N. Haskell of Ok* lahoma has resigned as treasurer of the democratic national committee. His resignation was announced by himself after he had conferred with officers of the democratic national headquarters at Chicago. In giving out his decision, Governor Haskell, in response to a question, declared that he did not desire to be responsible for any embarrassment which might result to the democratic party by re taining the office of treasurer. That his resignation is the direct result of the charges made against him by Wil liam Randolph Hearst and President Roosevelt, Mr. Haskell also admitted. At the same time, lie did not, by his resignation, intend to admit that any of the charges were true. Chairman Hitchcock of the republi can national committee has announc ed that General T. Coleman DuPont of Delaware, head of the bureau of campaign speakers of the national committee, had resigned as head of that bureau and also as a member of the executive committee of the na tional committee, and that his resig nation had been accepted. Mr. Hitch cock said he had a conference with Mr. DuPont, and the latter insisted upon the acceptance of his resigna tion, feeling that the tendency of the suit by the government against the powder company with which he is connected might be employed by re publican opponents to the injury of the campaign. President Roosevelt has issued a statement denouncing Senator Fora ker of Ohio for the senator’s alleged connection with the Standard Oil com pany, and later when charges of the same nature were brought against Governor Haskell, treasurer of the democratic campaign committee, the president issued another statement de nouncing him and the democratic par ty in general. William J. Bryan, in answering this last statement of 'he president, accused him of using ins position as president of the l nhed States unfairly to influence pul be opinion and stated that all the demo cratic party wanted from the admin istration was a “square deal.’ Ex-Senator McLaurin of South Car olina, who is also named by William Randolph Hearst as being one of the men who were in the employ of tne Standard Oil Company while holding seats in the United States senate, m an interview, stated that an an A( - to the charges preferred against him was not necessary, as he had been ou of politics since 1902. He ha’ ; been an admirer of President H° ose ‘ velt, and said in the interview ma Roosevelt ought to be unaniim • re-elected by all parties. It will w remembered that McLaurin, '■ senator, was read out of the pa . v by his democratic colleagues. The socialist party’s campaign . >ook, edited by Joseph Medill Patterson o Chicago and supervised by the ‘wc utive committee of the pai tv been issud. It is a siender, red-cov ered edition, which may easii.- carried in a pocket. Mr. Pat' 1 chief contribution to the book.’ unsigned attack on W. H. da. , ord as an “injunction” judge. v/ articles in the symposium are Clarence Harrow, H. G. Weil& ’ English novelist; John Shargo ert Hunter, Seymour Stedman Eugene V. Debs, presidential date of the party. Thomas Taggart of Indiana been appointed chairman ol t mercial Travelers’ association democratic national comm ike. William J. Bryan and his partyJ arrested in Rhode Island tecen. . breaking the automobile spot*, of that" state. They were rek - without being fined, but wen not to let it happen again. Senator Foraker gave out a •'-•/ * ment replying to the recent, un made by William R. Hearst a!1 ~ dent Roosevelt. In addition i terly assails Hearst, laf ( 1 ' ’ , . president, charging Taft vuti f ing with Standard Oil magna self and declaring that ( lfc^.m v Roosevelts’ action indicates a- -and that he has l untruth.