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QO BACK TO NATURE
Call It "Ono of the Greatest Steps
Forward Ever Token In United
States." Only Wny is to Conserve
Our National Resource Obllgit
tlons of the Future.
New York, May 21. James 3.
Hill said In his office at No. 32 1,1b
er street, that one of the surest
ways to Insure continued pwwerlty
In Hhe United States Is to carry on
the work of the Governors' confer
ence recently held In Washington.
"That meeting called by President
Roosevelt to Insure the conservation
of national resources was," said Mr,
Hill, "one of the greatest steps for
ward that has been taken in many
years.
"We need men at the head of this
movement who will keep on fighting
and not become discouraged by the
many rebuffs that are sure to come.
"It may be that little progress
will be shown for four or five years.
The active worker of to-day may be
eome a bit weary of not showing bet
ter results, but If we can only keep
the right kind of people Interested
I am sure the results will benefit
generations to come In this country.
"America to-day Is suffering from
too much surface work. We ns r
people have been satisfied to skim
over affairs, forgetting that we have
an obligation to our sons and grand
tons. "We have been destroying right
and left, and now that the subject
has come before the people in a nat
ural way, I have the greatest hopes
that good will come from the first
meeting.
"My idea is to make the organiza
tion a lasting one. We want yearly
meetings, oftener If need be; but
not less than once a year.
"The people of the United States
States need to get back to nature.
We want to pay more attention to
the ground and less to stocks.
"Less Wall Street and more farm
ing will be one of the greatest sal
vations of this wonderful country.
"We have had hard times and we
are not out of the woods yet. We
have been taught a lesson, and If it
la a lasting Impression then It haa
aot been in vain."
Eldy1tes Work Over Dead.
ABheville, N. C, May 20. For
Ave days Christian Scientists dem
onstrated over the dead body of
4 rank J. Carpenter, a wealthy citl
jen, formerly of Savannah, Ga., to
bring the body back to life. When
the husband died his wife refused to
allow the body to be removed, and
when undertakers came to the house
by orders of the doctors she drove
hem away. She declared that her
aueband was not dead.
She sent for Christian Scientist,
tfid declared her husband wanted to
"apeak to her." After several days
and all efforts had failed by the
Christian Scientists to resurrect her
ausband, Mrs. Carpenter shut her
ttlf up alone with the body. Car
yen'.er's body was spirited away by a
trained nurse and an undertaker
while Mrs. Carpenter was asleep, and
embalmed.
Favors Anti-Gambling Bills. -Albany,
N. Y., March 20. Presi
dent Roosevelt Is in favor of the
ibolitlon of race-track gambling and
las so expressed himself. This
jfcatement was made by Senator Ag
lew, who introduced the anti-raco-ack
gambling bills in the upper
louse. The Senator said: "One of
ay constituents has lately had a
alk with the President In relation
-xi conditions in the Empire State.
H the course of this conversation
Jhe President expressed himself as
jtrongly In favor of the antl-race-Taek
gambling bills."
To Resume Cattle Tests.
Albany, N. Y., May 20. In spite
r.t the protests from the farmers who
Java been Injured by the system, and
tlso In spite of the charges recently
aade by Governor Hughes regarding
ie administration of the State Agrl
mltaral Department, the old policy
it applying the tuberculin tests to
tattle will be continued with renew
d vigor by It, A. Pearson, the now
cattle commissioner, who succeeded
fharles A. Wieting in April. Mr.
fearson said that as soon as the
tepartment
tow appropriation for his depart
ment Is made available he will put
i work his full force of inspectors
every dairy county in the State
from which may come requests for
he test or complaint is made of the
.wsplclon of tuberculosis In cattle.
To Wind I'p Allegheny Hank,
Pittsburg, May 19. It is offlcial
'y announced that thft Allegheny Na
tional Hank, whose former cashier,
(Vllllam Montgomery, Is in Jail spe
jiflcally charged with the misappro
priation of J594.000, while officers
A the Bank and of the Treasury
apartment are trying to fathom
it ill larger apparent discrepancies
the bank's funds, will not reopen
w business. Tho Controller of tha
, reasury has token charge and will
cose up the affairs of the bank.
k luslDENT TO THE GOVERNOR.
Striking Points In Speech to Notable
(lathering of Executives.
Washington, May 21. With a
plea for the preservation of tho nat
ural resources of the country, Pretd
dent Roosevelt opened the confer
ence of Governors called by him to
consider the subject.
Facing the President when he call
ed the conference to order was the
most notable gathering that has ever
assembled In the East Room of tho
White House.
The President delivered the first
and principal address, the striking
points in which were as follows:
This conference on the conserva
tion of natural resources is In effect
a meeting of the representatives of
an the people of the United States
called to consider the weightiest
problem now before the nation.
W hea the founders of thin union
met at Independence Hall in Phila
delphia the conditions of commerce
had not fundamentally changed
from what they were when the Phoe
nician keels first furrowed the lonely
waters of the Mediterranean.
Our position in the world has
been attained by the extent an1 thor
oughness of the control we have
achieved over nature; but we are
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; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT,
more, and not less, dependent upnu
what she furnishes than at any pre
vious time of history since the days
of primitive man.
The wares of the merchants of
Boston, of Charleston, like the wares
oi the merchants of Nineveh and
Sldon, if they went by water, were
carried by boats propelled by sails
or oars; if they went by land were
carried In wagons drawn by beasts
of draught or In packs on the backs
of beasts of burden. The ships that
crossed the high seas were better
than the ships that had once crossed
the Aegean, but they were of tho
same type, after all.
In Washlngtons time anthrac'to
coal was known only as a useless
black stone.
Now all this Is changed. On tho
average, the son of the farmer of
to-day must make his living on h's
fathers farm. There is no difficulty
in doing this if the father will exor
cise wisdom.
When the people of the United
States consciously undertake to raise
themselves as citizens, and the na
tion and the States In their several
spheres to the highest pitch of ex
cellence in private, State and na
tional life, and to do this because It
is the first call of all the duties ot
true patriotism, then, and not till
then, the future of this nation, in
quality and In time, will be assured.
Root for Chief Justice.
Chicago, 111., May 19. A special
dispatch from Washington says there
Is an understanding at the capital
that Secretary of State Ellhu Hoot
Is slated for tho place of Chief Jus
tice of tho United States Supreme
Court, provided the appointment
comes In the way either of Mr.
Roosevelt or Mr. Taft. Chief Jus
tice Melville W. Fuller of Chicago
may take advantage of the law and
retire on full pay In the next few
years.
Clergyman Kills Wife.
Fairmont, West Va., May 20.
Temporarily insane according to hia
own statement the Kov. S. A. Coft
man, agec. CO years, a pnmlrent
Methodist Episcopal clergyman, kill
ed his wife by cutting hor throat. A
moment after the crime he says, ha
regained his senses and realized
What he had done. He surrendered
himself and was locked up.
Confetmed Killing Three.
Freehold, N. J., May 19. The
county authorities have announced
that Frank Zastera the Hungarlnn
farm baud who gave the alarm that
William .B. Sheppard, his wife, and
maid servant, Jennie Blendy, had
bepn murdered, has confessed that
he himself fired the five shots by
which they were killed.
Dr. Wilbur Now a Catholic.
St. Louis, May 19. Tho Rev. Pr.
Russell A. Wilbur, formerly Arch
deacon of the Episcopal Dlocete of
Fond Du Lao, Wis., was conflrniGd
here by Archbishop John J. Glennon
as a member of the Roman Cattio
11c Church.
Huuail for Bryan.
Honolulu, May 20. The Demo
cratic Territorial Convention elected
delegates to the National" Convention
and Instructed them for William J.
Bryan. .
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THE COLUMBIAN,
II Illlflll
Covering Minor Happen
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed tor the
llusy Reader A Complete Record
ot European Despatches and Im
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Iloatf Pcroaal.
William K. Marsh, a rich inventor
of Flatbush, N. Y., put his business
affairs in order, when he was told
by hlB physicans that he waa dying
of hydrophobia.
Representative Hobson, after a
conference wlt.h the President, came
out enthusiastically for two thirty-thousand-ton
battleships in the next
Naval Appropriation bill.
The Republican party was given
a verbal trouncing by Senator Rob
ert L. Taylor, or "Fiddling Bob," aa
he is known in Tennessee, in the
course of his maiden speech in the
Senate. He sustained his reputation
as a humorist.
Dynamiting has been resorted to
in the Cleveland street car strike.
One car was practically wrecked and
another lifted from tho tracks.
Two thousand steel cars have been
o-dered by the New York Central
Railroad for its Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Division.
Captain Samuel Samuels, who
commanded the famous clipper ship
the Dreadnought, and who sailed the
Henrietta in the transatlantic ytcht
race of a866, died in his Brooklyn
home.
Addressing a New Thought meet
ing in New York, Mrs. Caroline Foot
marsh said she had thrown away a
lot of useless furniture and pictures
and advised her hearers to rid their
homes of superfluous articles.
It Is announced that the thirteenth
annual convention of the National
Association of Manufacturers Will
be the most important in its history,
because of the efforts to obtain tar--lff-reform
legislation. '
R. C. Auld said he would soon
publish a book entitled "The Soul of
Society," in which he tells the secret
of discovering your true soulmate,
thus enabling you to avoid the di
vorce court.
J. Byard Collins In Christ Presby
terian Church, New York, delivered
a socialistic address In which he said
that John D. Rockefeller, Andrew
Carnege and others are ready to
turn their property and their money
over to the state.
A prominent paper manufacturer
declares the Congressional tariff In
vestigation has shown the good faith
of the trade and predicts the retreat
of complaining publishers.
At a mass meeting of the unem
ployed it was voted to appoint a com
mittee to enlist the aid of John D.
Rockefeller.
Washington despatches estimated
that W. J. Bryan's strength in the
Denver Convention would 'rrobably
reach 800 delegates.
J. H. Conklliig died in Middle
town, Conn., of blood poisoning as
a result of the suicidal act of pour
ing hot lead into his ear months be
fore. Representatives of eighty-five col
leges and universities attended the
dedication ceremonies of the new
buldings of the College of the City
of New York.
The HouBe of Representatives
passed the Vreeland Currency bill by
a vote of 184 to 145.
The United States District Court
dismissed the petition of one of the
negro soldiers discharged at Browns
ville, Tex., holding that President
Roosevelt had ample authority for
giving him his discharge.
A three-year-old Italian boy who
was kidnapped and held forty-three
days for a $5,000 ransom, was mys
teriously deserted in a hallway In
New York City.
Grover Cleveland was too 111 to
reply to a message of sympathy from
the conference of Governors.
The conservation conference ad
journed sine die and the Gover
nors laid a foundation for an organ
ization of their own.
Robert W. Fullerton, son of a St.
Louis merchant, was arrested in
Seattle on charges made by a New
York girl.
Martin Van Buren, namesake and
favorite nephew of President Van
Buren, died in penury at Albany.
Cardinal Loguo wainod Americans
against a great army and navy.
FOREIGN.
The British Government has re
ceived from Washington an invita
tion to attend the Internatlon Tuber
culosis Conference to be held in
Washington next September,
A Dutch schooner arrived at Cur
acao from Puerto Cabollo, where it
had been feared that the bubonic
plague had made its appearance, The
captain of the schooner declared the
sanitary conditions thore were good,
Tho coming Pan-Anglican Con
greos in London is expected to be
notable for practical results as well
as for world-wide attendance.
j Pekln is alarmed says a special
cable despatch from Shanghai,' by
the military strength of the rebel la
Yun Nan Province. ,
BLOOMSBUROPA.
MAE WOOD TESTIFIES.
Describes In Court o Brief Ceremony
Performed in Secret,
New York, May 21. Wisdom an
of the serpent alternating with the
doting of a pantaloon shone forth
In Justice O'Oorman's part of the Su
preme Court as belonging to the
character of United States Sonator
Thomas Collier Piatt, according to
the testimony of a woman suing him
for divorce. . Mae C, Wood-Piatt, as
tho plaintiff called herself, or Mao
C. Wood, as the dofendant insisted
SENATOR T. C. PLATT.
she was', painted the Senator as at
one time writing to her In terms sug
gestive of a schoolboy's calflsh In
fatuation for a divinity in pigtails
and pinafores, and at another show
ing enough shrewdness to lull her
acutest suspicion. She pictured him
as addressing her on the glit
tering veranda of the Manhattan
Beach Hotel, with endearments,
as making her his wife on Novem
ber 9, 1901, and inducing her to
keep the marriage private on the
plea that it would hurt his chance
of re-election to the Senate; as call
ing her "Baby," and "My Little
Brlde-to-Bo" and "My Dear Little
One," and "My Dear, Dearest May
June-November Bride." The spright
ly statesman in his papers denied
ever having gone through a wedding
ceremony with the plaintiff, and
said the co-respondent, Lillian Jane
way Piatt, was his lawful wife.
Mrs. Wood-Piatt said she had let
ters from tho Senator supporting
her assertion. She Identified a type
written sheet, as in substance a copy
of the letter, as nearly as she could
remember. The alleged copy was aa
follows.
"Friday, November 8, 1901.
"My Little Drlde-to-Be I have
made all arrangemenets. You are
not to say anything to anybody nor
do anything but obey Implicitly my
Instructions. You are to b here at
4 o'clock sharp. I Inclose a card
for you to give to the hotel clerk,
who will look after you and show
you to room 158. You need not
register.
"I will care for you when every
thing Is ready, as per card lnclosod.
Please do not keep us waiting. I
am an old fool, but you will never
regret the step, for you shall be as
free as you are until the proper
time comes.
"Believe me, lovingly, TOM."
Thaw Refuses to Pay Debts.
New York, May 19. It has been
learned that Harry K. Thaw, who Is
fighting for his freedom from the
Matteawan Asyum for the Criminal
Insane, has unpaid bills agalnBt him
amounting to approximately $200,
000, and that he refuses to pay out
a dollar to his creditors as long as
be is officially insane. The creditors
number about one hundred and for
ty, and the amounts of their Indi
vidual claims range all the way from
$35,000 down to a comparatively few
dollars. They include lawyers, doc
tors, alienists, and a horde of trades
people in fact, nearly everybody
who had rendered service or sold
any thing to Thaw, since his first
trial for the killing of Stanford
White.
Canes Congressman Clark.
Jacksonville, F'.a., May 19. Con
gressman Frank Clark and ex-Gov.
William Sherman Jennings were In
a fight at the Aragon Hotel here.
Jennings Is a cousin of William Jen
nings Bryan and a candidate for
member of the National Democratic
Committee. In a recent speech
Clark declared that Jennings was re
puted to be on the threshold of pau
perism when olected Governor, and
at tho expiration of his term of of
fice he was reputed to a very rich
man. Clark was standing in the
hotel lobby when Jennings enterod
from tho rear, and seizing Clark's
walking cane, inflicted ugly wounds
upon Clark's head boforo any one
coud Interfere.
For War of Insects,
Boaton, May 19. Within a few
days 100,000 European parasites
will have been let loose in Massachu
setts to exterminate the gypsy and
brown-tt.il moths. One variety a
big beetle, climbs the trees, Beizes
the moths and never lets go until it
has devoured the wriggling Insect
Another lays Its ggs on the outer
skin of the moths, usually close up
to the head. The larvas that hatch
penetrate the skin and feed upon the
moth's intestines.
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In Command of the Fleet
for Homeward
Cruise.
C. M. THOMAS RETIRES
New Commander Ilecelvea Willi Sa
lutes niid Other Nuval Honors IV-
" fitting Hie Position Has Chnrjto
of Strongest Force of Fighting
Ships in History of Notion,
San Francisco, May 21. Rear Ad
miral Charles Stlllman Sperry, who
returned six months ago from a mis
sion of peace as ono of tho Anierlcnn
delegates to the conference at Tho
Hague, assumed command of the
strongest force of first class ripMIng
ships assembled in the history of
the Nation. Rear Admiral Charles
M. Thomas, who succeeded Itar Ad
miral Evans as commander-in-chief
of the Atlantic fleet, hauled tlown his
flag from tho truck of tho Connecti
cut, and ten minutes later Admiral
Sperry was received on board the
flagship, with the salutes and other
ADMIRAL SPERRY.
naval honors befitting his position.
Tho ceremonies were carried out In
the briefest possible fashion and In
strict accordance with naval regula
tion. Rear Admiral W. H. Emery trans
ferred his flag from the Georgia to
the Louisiana, the new flagship of
tho Second squadron, Third divis
ion. Captain Richard Wainwright
gave up command of the Iulslana
and hoisted the triangular blue flas
of senior division officer on the Geor
gia. He commands the Second di
vision. Captain Schroeder, com
manding the Virginia, assumed com
mand of the Fourth division and
took up his quarters on tho new flag
ship Wisconsin. Both Captains
Schroeder and Wainwright will bo
promoted to the grade of rear ad
miral in July.
Rear Admiral Dayton, commander-in-chief
of the Pacific fleet, out
ranks Admiral Sperry, and as soon
as Admiral Thomas's blue flag was
run down on the CnnnooHrnt ho ho.
came senior officer, in command of !
the combined fleets. It had been
intended that the Pacific fleet should
Bail at once and thus avoid the en
suing complications of change of
command, but under orders from
Washington the cruisers were held
hero to await further instructions.
Under orders from Admiral Sper
ry, the bronze battleship target prac
tice trophy was transferred from the
battleship Illinois of the Atlantic
fleet to tho armored cruised Mary
land of the Pacific fleet.
Mrs. Gunness Dead.
Laporto, Ind., May 21. The up
per and lower plates of artlflcinl
teeth from the mouth of Mrs. Belle
Gunness were found In the ashes of
the Gunness home. Dr. L. P. Nor
ton, who made tho lower plate posi
tively identified them.
"The finding of the plates proves
beyond the shadow of a doubt," said
Sheriff S. SmuUer, "that Mrs. Gun
ness was burned to death in the
fire."
The body of Jennie O'.sen has been
officially Identified. Prosecuting
Attorney Smith said that Ray Lani
phere, now held in Jail horo on the
charge of murdering Mrs. Gunness
and her children, will not bo tried
before Sept. 1.
Mercury Cures Tuberculous.
Washington, May-19. Recent ad
vices from the new naval hospital at
Fort Lyon, Col., confirms tho prom
ising report made by Surgeon B. L.
Wright, on duty at the sanitarium,
regarding the result, of treating
tuberculosis by the use of mercury.
Naval surgeons at tho hospital have
boon closely observing tho thirty
cases subjected to this treatment,
and the progress It Is said has been
such as to add to the confidence that
they have made an important dis
covery. li ght to Seize Liquors.
Albany, May 21. Important
amendments are made to the liquor
tax law in a bill of Sonator Raines
which was approved by Governor
ITuchos. Amnnir nth or v.ir. u
. tll.SB luB
1 now law gives the right of search
and seizure to special excise agontg
and forfeits to the State all liquors
! solzod by guch officers. Liquor so
wHw& 1 Mitt
KILM.ll FATHER THEN HIMKiap,
George K. Sferry, Wealthy i,ru
Merchant Killed.
New York. May 21.- George R
Pterry, Jr., Secretary of the v,.tt
er & Bterry Company, Limited, n
of the oldest drug firms In the conn
try, with offices and warehouses for
fifty years at 79 Pine Street, shot
and killed his father as the p(i,.r
man snt nt hla desk, and then put
bullet into his own head at exactly
tho same point In tho right temple
where he had shot his father. Dotli
died Instantly. Tho father wM
President of tho drug company, was
Interested In a number of other,
and was accounted a millionaire.
Tho cause of the patricide and sui
cide was that the father, whose name
was also George E. Sterry, had de
cided to marry on Juno 3. Miss Ha
chel Blaikle, a school teacher of
East Orange, N. J. Tho four son
had known for six months about th
Intended marrlago. They all op.
posed it and the son loft a letter
saying that he woula not allow hi
father to dlsgraco the memory of
his sainted mother. He had prayed
over tho matter sometimes ng 0f(,.
as twenty times a day, he said, In
the letter, and ho felt that God had
prompted him to kill his father.
Wrecked Aeroplane Cut Up.
Manteo, N. C, May 19, Having
completely broken l.p their airship
whioh wr.s wrecked nt Kill Devil Hill,
Wilbur and Orvlllo Wright, tho Day.
ton, Ohio aeronauts, recetved at their
camp on the beach the correspond
ents who have been watchfrom a dis
tance their experiments of the past
ten days. The only vestlgo of the
airship which the Invontors saved
was tho gasolene engine. The other
parts were cut up to make it Impos
sible for their Ideas of aerial navi
gation to be discovered.
Campaign for Prosperity,
St. Louis, Mo., May 19. The Na
tional Prosperity Association of St.
Louis will send representatives to
cities, towns and county seats, to
spread tho "Give us a rest and Bun
Bhlne" movement, and induce the lo
cal business, labor r.nd agricultural
organizations to unite for promoting
tho best interests of the country.
Where no commercial or agricultur
al bodies are in existence the repre
sentatives of the association will en
deavor to organize them.
Trump Professor Dead.
Princeton, N. J., May 19. Walter
Augustus Wyckoff, assistant profes
sor of political economy In Princeton
University, is dead here. He was
fifty years old and known as tho
tramp professor. Born to wealth
and social position,' he early exhib
ited a keen interest in the laborinj
man, and took many trips as a
tramp. Young Wyckoff in two years
made his way to California, working
as a laborer and tramping. Ho
started with only a small sum of
money, and often had to go without
food.
Japan Seeks Loan.
New York, May 19. A report
has reached the city from Washing
ton that the Japanese financiers who
came to New York about a week ago
jn their way to London to float a loan
for 300,000,000 yen, were in nego
;latlon with E. R. Harrlman, Jacob It.
Schtff, August Belmont and other
for the formation of a syndlcato here
to take over tho entire loan, or
large part of It.
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NEW YORK MARKETS.
Wholesale Prices of Farm IToduct
Ouoted for the Week.
WHEAT N. 2, Rod, $1.03 $1-07.
N. 1, Northern Duluth $1.17.
ORN No. 2, 72 73.
DATS Mixed, white 56c.
MILK Per quart, 2c.
BUTTER Western firsts. 21 22c
State Dairy, 20 21c.
2HEESE State, full cream, lisS
15c.
IQ1S State and nearby, fancv.
19c; do., good to choice, IS
18V&C.; western firsts, 16V4l7c.
BEEVES City Dressed, 1011HC
CALVES City Dressed, 9 12c;
Country Dressed, 810c
SHE lip Per 100 lbs., $5.15 $5.25.
HOGS Live per 100 lbs., $5,100
$0.10.
HAY Primo per 100 lbs., $1.00.
STRAW Long Rye, 70 80c.
MVE POULTRY Chickens per lb..
9o.; Turkeys per lb., lie!
DuckB per lb., 11 12c; Fowl
per lb., 13 MiC
'JRErtSwu POULTRY Turkeys n'
lb... 12 17c; Fowls per lb., 12
14c; ChlckeriB, Phlla., per lb-.
2540c ,
VEGETABLES Potatoes, State per
sack, $2.40 $2.60.
Onions White per crate, $1.00
$1.75.
"The" Allen Dead.
New York, May 18. "The" All-
whose forty years of poolroom-keeping
brought him into hundreds of
jonfllcts with generations of Pllc
nd gained for him the title of
"the wickedest man in New York,
3ied at his home, No. 17 V3'
Eighth streot. of lecomotor ataxia-
He was 77 years old.