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Show fill ASSOCIATED AeeeMeeeMMMeMeM PSESS nuciw srnict at VOL. L the ttib i; Fiir Today and I'orday Li NO. 93. OGDEN CORBETT BEATS CITY. he MUTT n wijf IN SIX Tommy was Nervous for a Atament But Stood PfoA i(ct. Ground Well Three Challenges For Corbett ml tr. ORilfa. Hlippk,r tdR- - 4 4 Celina, Ohio, A mil 2 The O 4 danger of Gr:u.ii 4 breaking its boii:.: aM he west e fur- A bank is at an i i.it. mili-stber rainfall aim a Miff wind 4 from the east sImcM again cro ato meuaciug c 'iu!i ions Celina, O bank of O situated on the tbe reservoir, no.r was iu dan- The ger from an water would hate gout- - mu at O the west bank, deluging tbe 4 4 west half of Mercer county aud 4 4 flooding eastern Indiana. 4 &. APRIL PRICE FIVE CENTS. 3, 1904. IHE REPEAL OE E TALKS OF HIS THE LAND LAWS a s English Masses do Not mb Norn Hi danger over. 4 4 FAST ROUNDS lie liffrl "f 123 n irk Stiff I lie wii i MORNING, ron-rvoi- rs intony if d SUNDAY UTAH, J. Stiff. Hurt Weather forecast dorse En- Thibet-Mission- . 4 The Country Is Afraid of International Complications and Consequent 444444444444444 44444 Existence of Big Frauds De- nied by Warren. Postmaster General Describes Preparation of List of Offices Where Clerk Hire 4 He Say a 4 Income Taxatiorw Many Irrigation Companies Are Failing and Nona Art Making a Cent. Was Changed. Aitorofy "end tha roiirt.W fn JiiMkf April r Young Corbel head with both right and left Corthe decision over Tommy bett played for the body and sent two conrights to Mowatt 's stomach. Mowatt Mowatt. ihe fighting street car retaliated with right aud left to Corlightfast of rounds six after ductor. Jaw. bett's club Athletic Waverly the ing at Round 3. Corbett .tried with left Determined If possible to win Corbett started after but missed. Then he came back with un r ly a knockout, iuowatt as soon as they shaped up for left to face and right to body. Mowatt itiu and wit. the first round and in every possible missed three times in succession and contest Corbett tore, eat way endeavored to bring the brought his right to Mowatts Mowatt appeared stomach. In a clinch that followed ter lor to a speedy end. had Corbett things Mowatt landed a right awing to CorNan out timid at first and all his own way during the first three bett's face. Mowatt landed left to i minutes of fighting, but from that time Corbett's nose, bringing blood. Cor'limit on the Chicago boy stood hia ground bett smashed Mowatt with both hands anJ swapped punches with the former on the nose, firm wit. bringing blood. In an exAlthough the latter inrbamplnn. heid Hid that followed both men landed change of each better rally, had the variably first lint repeatedly on each other. Near the still Mowatt reached Corbett Hffch pow hm then of the round Corbett sent his right end to body both 1 jlfe swings friii right In icda to Mowatt'a stomach and Mowatt came of me was stronger Corbett and Jaw. t I Mutng the two, however, and Mowatt was back with hia right to Corbett's jaw. etc Hi Round 4. Mowatt landed left to compelled to break ground in nearly of face. Corbett bored In and swung left Twflty, every rally. Corbett had the better Ino to bt every round except the third. In that to Mowatta head. On the break Moround Mowatt reached Corbett with watt landed a right awing on Corbetts be the Corbett rushed and sent hia nuineroua left and right uppercuts and head. ide, HOT. the Denverite wore a serious look as right to Mowat'a stomach. In a fierce Salt the During be weut to bis corner. mix up, Mowatt uppercut Corbett wai re. next three rounds, however, Corbett twice, bringing the blood from Coranswered unsteadily gained the upper hand and bet's nose. Corbett, in tbe meantime, rltb that, doubtedly would have finished hia opwho film played havoc with Mowatta stomach much continued contest had the ponent with short arm punches. Mowatt tried iffered to lunger. Corbett smashed him on The winner was challenged by Neary with left and n right swing; bringing nose with the Bosh of Goodman Kid of Milwaukee, blood In a stream. ton and Abe Attell of 8an Francisco. CoRound S. Mowatt Jabbed left-tIn a contest prior to the corbett-Mowa- tt rbetts face and tbe latter countered warn, fight Kid" Goodman of Bosun knocked out Joe Galligan of Chl-- ii with right to body. They weut to a tha ip clinch and both fought fiercely, Mowatt go In the sixth round. raspeetM Round 1. They fiddled and Mowatt uppercutting Corbett several times. On tricJ right, blit missed. Corbett put the break Corbett sent hia left to MonTIrCea He repealed will, watt'a face and right, to body. They left to stomach. lames lit Corbett sent right left and swung right to Mowstls ear. went to a clinch and to any ' On the break Mowatt Mowatt tried with left but missed and to the body. the On break away Corbett landed right and left on Corbetts jaw. clinched. had reached Mo watt's face with left and Corbptt sent hia right to Mowatta jaw fambten right to hia body. Mowatt tried and the latter staggered against the u bant, left Jab but missed and clinched. Corropes. . .Mowatt was weak at the end of niihbalf bett sent two lefts to Mowat'a face tbe round. rd't pro. Round 6. Both landed lefts and then without return. Corbett led with left and rushed Mowatt to the ropes and Corbett brought his right to Mowatta taeisHi j landed a aeries of blows to Mowatt'a jaw. Corbett then played for the 9 to him" stomach and landed several blows Imdy. m oaeet Hound 2. Corbett landed a left to without return. Mowatt tried for an ' it and Mowatt 'a Jaw. Mowatt came bark with uppercut and Corbett swung a right to i of thorn a left and right to Corbett's face. In his body and a left to hia jaw, which the bum a qilx up both landed glancing blows staggered Mowatt Mowatt tried with hit oai to head. Corbett swung his right to left and mlased. Corbett countered neckud Mowatt'a Jaw. then crossed left to the with right and jabbed left to Mowatta 11 hia t same place and Mowatt slipped to the face. Corbett sent another right to Motm Hour. When be got up they went into watta stomach and they clinched. In i efotMij a clinch and Mowatt uppercut Corbett. the mlx-u- p that followed, Corbett landCorbett swung hia right and went to ed right and left on Mowatt'a head. a clinch- - Mowatt reached Corbett's Corbett given the decision. tneaeud ixaiMloB. i'Iob. At. lion uk. forhi.Uf, (tty. ud ne ihould Chicago, was given it. ovtr-nite- Li the Cm-ia- pherd LEGISLATION QUICK-FIR- E Scott t eancb; OUN Iota to a tta House Passes Pension and Minor Bllia and Adjouma on No Quorum Vote. CAUSE CAPTURE Waehlngtorf, April 2. Three hundred and nineteen pension bills were paused by the House today in two hours. Another hour was devoted to rapid fire legislation by unanimous Robbers Held consent, in which a large number of Redding bills bridge and other matters of Up Saloon. minor importance were disponed of. Ai the expiratlen of this time, Mr. Maddox, of Georgia, who had threatened to atop the proceedings by a Redding, Cal., April 2. The trip of Point of "no apormn" when the pension legislation was finished. Insisted the officers north on the railroad this on the point, and aa there were few afternoon resulted in clearing the skies of some Train suspects and proving to the members present the House adjourned. satis faction of the detectives that the bandits who held up tbe Oregon exJIMIflEZ 18 ACTIVE. press at Copley Thursday night ana killed Messenger O'Neil were the same Kt. Thomas. D. W. I.. April l.-- Dr. men who held up fifteen men hi Dave Jimlnez. revolutionary leader, started Endlcott's saloon at Kennet, twenty tonight, for Porto Rico, whence he will mile north of here, on March 20. The proceed to New York on a secret mis officers say that a dozen different inion. formants had told them circumstances that seemed to point strongly to three SPANI8H MINISTER TO CUBA. men living near Kennet being the train robbers, but an investigation today Havana, April 2. Gay lan De Ayala, showed that the suspects the first Spanish minister to Cuba, ar- could notconclusively have been the robbers. Derived today and was shown special at- tective Ahern said this that tention. He was brought ashore in he is confident that the evening crimes were ihe President's launch. A luncheon committed by the same gang. There a given to him by prominent Span- are a number of reasons, he said, for iards. he being conveyed to the funcarriving at that conclusion. Chief tion In President Palmas carriage. among them is the abundance of that the men used In both holdRECEIVER APPOINTED. ups. I: Nothing has yet been learned, acMankato, Minn., April IrrThe fedcording to Mr. Ahern, as to where the eral court has appointed B once Cum-t- rs bandits secured the giant powder with receiver of tbe Alaeaf'Flsh and which they blew up the express car. company. The liabilities are If that could only be learned the idenunsecured, and $60,000 secured tity of the fugitives might easily be on th companys plant established. A point not heretofore at Sv.,ortwe Shaken. Alaska. The amount of made public is that the officers have the assets is unknown. one of tbe guns of the bandits. It is a rifle. The manner in which it was KILLED BY TRAIN. secured brings out a new Incident of the train hold-u- p. It seems that when Boise, Ida.. April 2. Charts the gun of Frank Rockwell, the guard, Jack. Jk"on county, failed to explode a cartridge and he killed yesterday while Wisconsin, trying to was compelled to surrender the banboard a moving train. dits stood Rockwell against the wall of the express car while they made prepaILLINOIS MINERS SIGN SCALE. rations to dynamite the safe. One of Springfield, III., April 2. The Joint tbe robbers leaned his rifle against tbe scale commiltee of the coal operators wall near Rockwell. The guard caund miners of Illinois tonight tiously moved hia foot along until It the scale. The scale agreed on signed at In- came in contact with the butt of the weapon, causing It to fall to the floor. dianapolis, 5 cents, was adopted. After the fuse was lighted and all were filing out of the car the robber CECILIA LOFTIS ILL New Tork. April 2. Miss Cecilia Lcf-t- who had laid down his gun picked up i which was still leaning Is ill with scarlet fever, and her Rockwells, The temperature la 10S tonight. When she against the wall, by mistake. arr.vrd on Thursday, she was ill. l,ut lmndlt's gun survived the explosion l' aye.1 the night. .Miss Loftls did not and is in the hands of the officers. It is said to be an ordinary rifle, but its iM'lwar today, and an understudy took TNiesessinn may lead to Ihe Identity her part of its owner. pro-faul- ty I ."I, ie City iliettf. eater III enrbff MoaW 2 Ire w ea Set. Avc. The slaughter of such kills Tibetans waning interest as still exists in London in the Japanese and Russian struggles. The news of the wholesale bloodshed excites, as a general rule, a feeling of depression, because the average Englishman scarcely sees that it was necessary n and because there was general that it may lead to complications with Russia. The last thing the British public wants at present is another war, and what is most dreaded is a rise In the income tax. Hence the tragic events in Thibet are especially unwelcome at this period, when the tax payer Is nervously waiting to see how he will he called on to pay off the national deficit The extreme liberal papers seised on the slaughter at Gnru as one of the worst blots on the history of England. The News declares that no more wanton or discreditable business has been brewed by our proconsuls In India since the Jameson raid. The government organs, while expressing the regret felt in official circles that such an event occurred at this moment, reiterate foreign Secretary Lansdownes assurances to Russia that Great Britain has no Intention of annexing Tibet The text of those who defend Colonel Younghusbands action is Lord Lansdowne's statement in the House of Lords, that all Great Britain desires is a new convention with the Tibetans and with China as the suzerain of London, April 2. appre-hensio- Tibet The opposition, however, points out hu repeatedly protested against the strength of the escort with which this political mission" is accompanied, and declares that as a mat ter of fact Great Britain is now nl war, not with Tibet, bqt with China, thereby endangering Chinas neutrality toward Russia and Japan and risking the peace of the world. This extreme view is ridiculed In official dr. cles, where the case of Cuba la instanced as a parallel. It is held in Downing street that Tibet, by refusing trade privileges, returning official letters unopened and not respecting boundary rights, has become as dangerous a neighbor to the Indian empire as Cuba In her unrest was to the United States. Much stress is laid on the fact that regrettable bloodshed was only due at first to a hostile act emanating from the Tibetans, but this defense is not likely to have much weight In the agitation which the liberal party doubtless will foster against the motivA that prompted the expedition. Lord Cureon of Kedlestone, viceroy of India, Is soon likely to share with Lord Milner, British high commissioner In South Africa, the bitter personal hostility aroused among the opponents of the government by the Introduction of Chinese labor in the Transvaal. In the minds of the masses, who have shown In the by elections that they have lost faith in the present government, the slaughter at Guru is likely 's to be regarded as a stain on Lord administration which only the defeat of the responsible ministers can wipe out. The Indian secretary, Mr. Broderick, the least popular member of Mr. Balfour's cabinet will again be In hot water aa the minister who must explain to Parliament Lord Curxon's recent speech at Calcutta, which, the Associated Press St. Petersburg dispatches say, has created so much feeling, was not warmly welcomed here, and at the time it was thought he had indulged in a dangerous wealth of Oriental Imagery suitable for the consumption of native princes, but eminently unfitted for perusal at 8L Petersburg and Paris, in view of Great Britain's determination not to become involved In the Far Eastern struggle. The government has done everything In its power to belittle and keep quiet its plana In regard to Tibet Indeed, if the war between Rue-siand Japan had come earlier. It is likely that the Tibet expedition would have been postponed. Though apparently Colonel Younghusbands mission is mainly timed at destroying alleged Russian Influences in Tibet, this is not regarded aa vital when compared with the paramount importance of keeping war. It dear of the la not regarded aa likely that serious International complications will follow this affair, but China's action will be rather anxiously awaited. The Russian minister at Peking is not expected to let the incident pass without drawing some comparisons I hat will scarcely be favorable to British policy toward the Chinese government. Colonel Younghuaband has seventy-fiv-e miles tn travel before he reaches Glangtse, where he has been ordered to atop to parley before actually demanding entrance into LHassa. It. ia possible that he may not be permitted to proceed even to Glangtse. which is 160 miles from LHassa. But in any case, it can be taken for granted that the government, will do everything In its power to prevent a repetition of the bloody scenes at Gnru. Colonel Younghusbanda escort, however. 1 prepared for all eventualities, and if the step is considered advisable, that. China Cur-xon- n Rnsso-Japane- (Continued on Page Three) Chicago, April 2- - A special cable from a Chicago Daily News from the correspondent at Tu!:iu. says: Field Marshal Yamagaia who, after the Emperor, Is first in command of the Japanese forces ami was the original organiser of the Japanese army, said today that the Japanese may have to fight odds of two iu one, and that the clash may come at the Yalu river. The marshal said: Russian troops have been coming outh for a long time and It is evident that a conflict must result. Aa matters have turned mil. It would have been belter if thewar had occurred when the Russians first occupied Manchuria, because ever siucc then they have been strengthening their position in that province. Our statesmen, however, wished to preserve peace aa long aa possible. It is difficult to say where the first big land battle will lake place. The Russians seem to lie in force between Liao Yang and Kaiplng on tbe Manchurian railroad. They may cross the mountains and possibly meet us at the Yalu. 'Bridges and roads north of Anjn have been destroyed by tbe Rnsalan troops and therefore the Japanese advance will be difficult No doubt if the Russians destroy the Manchurian railroad it may be difficult to repair it for the use of the Japanese troops. We might even replace old material with new; but the difficulty is to reach the railroad. Five months ago the Russian generals planned to put 350,000 men in tbe field. They must have contemplated supplying them with ammunition and food. Two rivers that empty into the Arctic sea run near Lake Baikal. They are navigable in summer and can be need for transport ate m. The Russians in this way need not rely entirely on the railroad. Large Buppllea of am' munition have been going into VladT vostok for years, and we must expect r to meet a and ished army of 350,000. It is a difficult matter to fight a nation with 3,000,000 soldiers. There la no dmitit that the Cossack cavalry will worry the. Japanese army, which waa originally Intended for home defense In the mountainous country and is mainly composed of infantry. We must work with the material ws possess. d well-nou- April 2. Tbe Economic Military society has made arrange manta to establish branch stores wherever detarhmenta of Russian irooiis operate in the Far East, which will sell articles of personal need to officers at cost price. Moscow, ICE RAILROAD IS NO MORE. Irkutsk, April 2. The railroad acrora Lake Baikal has ceased In consequence of the breaking up of the ice. Its assistance to the government In the transportation of supplies has been incalculable. It Is said that between March 2nd and March 28th Uteres passed over it 1,682 freight cars, 673 troops cars, 25 passenger coaches carrying officers and 650 locomotives. Tbe cost of the ice road was $360,000. Men are now tearing up the track. THE VICKSBURG INCIDENT. Odessa, April 2.' Before departing for Sevastopol with the survivors of the wrecked Russian war vessels. V aria and Koriet. Captain Stepaaoff made a statement to the Associated Press regarding the United States gunboat Vicksburg incident at Chemulpo. He said: All the time the Vicksburg was stationed at Chemulpo her captain held aloof. He took no part in the of protest preceding tbe fight for the reason that he was not Invited to do aa After the fight, like the others, he sent a surgeon with a boat to the rescue: As regard his not taking Russian seamen aboard the Vicksburg, this was unnecessary and it la more than probable that Captain Rudineff, commanding tbe Varlag, did not ask for it. . The celebration ii honor of the survivors from the Varlag and Korletz was concluded today with a great banquet to the officers of tbe ships in the city hall and to the seamen in the barracks. At. the conclusion of the banquet tbe guests were escorted by bands and cheering multitndes aboard the steamer Nicholas, which sailed this afternoon for Sevaitapol. RUSSIAN TRANSPORTATION. SL Petersburg. April 2. General Levaskoff, director of military communication of the general staff, in an interview gives interesting forts about the Russian line of communication. He says: The transports' ion of troops over tbe Siberian and Manchurian railroads worked without a hitch except for a stoppage caused by a collision. Men, guns, ammunition, equipment and provisions have gone forward with clockwork regularity. The sketches of scenes along the route appearing in English newspapers are ludThe pictures of encounters icrous. with Chineae bandits along the line, with broken rank., tangles of tele- six-ho- ur l Continued on Page Three) Washington, April 2. Mr. Warren the greater part of the Senate's tiin today with a ieorh attacking the (ilnsuit bill to repeal most of the existing land lawa He con ten .led that, the land lawa were benefletent and in the main honestly administered and urged that there waa no demand for repeal. Air., Mallory concluded his speech on the old age disability imiston order of the secretary of the interior. The iMwtufllce appropriation bill was sidetracked for tbe day . Air. Warren declared that the movement for repeal waa due to Ihe large land holders of the west, who hoped thereby to enhance the value of their holdings He admitted that, there had been abuses under the timber and the stone ad, but said the Senate already had taken steps to check that evil. As to the charges of fraud It waa easy to make them, but not easy to atop them, and in illustration of bis contention he quoted a letter from tha secretary of the Interior, showing lui only one entry out of j under tue desert law aud only one out of every 1,000 homestead entries waa fraudulent. Mr. Gibson interrupted with the suggestion that the reason for the small number of cancellations was the government's failure to make tbe Investigation it should. Afr. Warren replied that he waa not willing to aay all the special agents of the land office were venal. Mr. Gibson said he knew of thousands of canes of fraud in Montana. Then, replied Mr. Warren, 'me one per cent of fraud under that law must all have occurred In Montana Mr. Newlands asked lf.lt were not true that there were many instances In which large bodies of land were now held Individually, and if tl was not secured true that those lands bad been through fraudulent entry.- He knew, he said, of one California rattle firm which owned a million ncrea In three or four ntatea Mr. Warren replied that he knew of no holdings so large and that the large holdings with which ha waa fomlllar were held within railroad grants Mr. Warren aaiJ that there waa more fraud rommiited under the homestead art than tinder any other land law except the Umber and stone act, because the land could be secured under that law without paying any money. Mr. Warren gave the details of the reclamation of land on which la situated the colony of Wheatland, Wya, saying that when first entered tm there had not been water sufficient for even a drink within twenty miles After more than $500,000 had been expended on the enterprise it wan held up for years by tbe government under Mr. Clevelands administration. Finally the difficulty was straightened out secwith the mult that seventy-nin- e tions had been settled and thoroughly reclaimed. The completion of the undertaking coat more than $1,000,000 and only $50,000 had lieen taken out In this connection Air. Warren, president of tbe company controlling the enterprise, defended It against Mr. Gibeon'a reflections and givinx details of the work done. He said that where there were now 3.000 persons not one family had lived before the canal, under which the colony waa lorated, waa constructed. And this explained Mr. Warren, when the reading of the letter was completed, Is the horrible example of Ihe fraud which the Senator from Montana charges against the people of Wyoming. Mr. Glheon replied that ho had no feeling except that of high regard for the people of Wyoming and that he had no desire to make any attack on them. He had based his remarks on an official report. Continuing. Mr. Warren said that he did not know of a single instance In which an Irrigation company waa making a cent, and be added that he knew of many that had failed. During the latter part of hia address, Mr. Warren was frequently Interrupted by other western Senators, including Patterson, Newlands Dubois and Teller. The discussion took a wide range, including a comparison between tbe effects of private Irrigation enterprises and those conducted under the auspices of the government Mr. Warren controverted the statement of Mr. Gibson that the greater portion of the land west of the Mississippi river waa owned by landlords and not by settlers asserting that the contrary was true. He also said that Mr. Gibson In effect had charged Congress with enacting meretricious legislation. I dont believe. responded Air. Gibson. that Congress knowingly ensiled bad laws. But 1 do believe that it has been misled and that if Cong ret now understood the subject no time would be lost In repealing the land laws.- .Then, said Mr. Warren, the Senator means to charge that Congress has not been venal, but merely foolish. When, at 1:50 p. m.. Air. Warren concluded, the Senate adjourned. occupied --- ARRIVE AT PANAMA Washington. April 2. The navy department is informed of the arrival at Panama yeaterday of the New York Bennington, Boston and Concord of the Pacific squadron, after a cruise as far eouth as Callao. One or more of these vessels will remain on the west roast of the isthmus and tbe remainder of the squadron will start north for San Francisco In a few days Washington, April 5. Ths statement mado by Post master General Payne today to the AtcCall committee is as follows: T have been post master general since January 9, I9U2. Shortly after the present Congress convened last November the deiianiue.it was frequently urged to make clerical allowances lo nfflrea of the third aud fourth classes where allowances formerly had been made fur clerk hire for aciiarat-in- g purposes and such had been by reason of the establishment of the rural free delivery routes emanating from such offices asid tbe discontinuance of star routes Assistant General Jtobli of the l lost office department advised me that such allowances could not le made lawfully and he subsequently, at my request, prepared a written opinion. 1 believe It fair and equitable that such allowances be made and that legislation to that effect should he enacted. I did the matter personally with Mr. Overstreet, chairman of the house committee on poet offices and poet mads Mr. Overstreet, In a conversation over the telephone, said that Mr. Waters general superintendent of the division of salaries and allowances had In his possession at a hearing before tbe committee a list of several hundred offices of third and fourth classes where the allowances for clerk hire bad been discontinued or decreased, and that the lease would be of service to the committee and asked If there was any reason why It should not be furnished to the committee. At the time the committee waa considering an amendment authorising the postmaster general, at hia discretion, lo make allowance for clerk hire at offices where additional labor had been occasioned by reason of an establishment. of a rural free delivery mule and the previous allowances for clerk hire had been taken sway because of the discontinuance of star routes, and I therefore said to Mr. Overstreet that I could not aee any reason why the commiltee should have a copy of the list, but suggested to him that be put the request tn writing, which ha did. A letter from Mr. Overstreet, dated January 23, which waa received in to my request, the original of which is submitted to the committee for Inspection, It will lie noted, does not appear in the printed raisirt of March 7, 1904, from the committee on poet offices and post mads, but a letter of request tiearlng dale of January 22, 1904, tbe original of which Is submitted to the committee for inspection, appears on page 3 of the report as of date of January 23. This letter asks that the Information be submitted by Jaiuvry 25. 'It seems proper to me ad this time to suy that the failure to priui in the reisirt the real letter of the 231 and the printing uf the letter of tbe 22d under date of the 23J Is largely responsible for the confusion that has arisen and has placed the department In tbe position of sending Information nut requested by the committee. 'The impression la still further by tbe change in the printed report of a date In the bojy of the letter from the committee to the postmaster general of January 25. appearing on page 4, front January 22 to January 23, the original of which Is submitted to the committee for Inspection. "lTMm the receipt of the real letter of January 23 I asked First Assistant Postmaster General Wynne about the list referred to In the letter and he procured the list, which 1 then saw for ths first time. It was noted that there apiiearad on the list, opposite the names of the respective o fillers the names of senators, represent at Ives ana other prominent nten. After conference with General Wynne I directed that a copy of the list be mads but to omit all names of Congressmen and Such list, with tbe others from it. names eliminated, waa promptly made and In the meantime and on the same day (January 25). I sent the following telegram to Mr. Overstreet: Expect to be able to send you thh afternoon statement of allowances for separating services which have been taken away from aliout 900 offices This telegram doea not appear In the printed reiwrt of the committee. Later in the day. In accordance wllh my telegram. 1 enclosed the list, with Ihe n am re eliminated, tog 6 her with the following letter to tbe chairman of the committee: Sir: Replying to your communication of the 23d Inst. I beg to enclose herewith n statement showing the reduction In allowances for clerk hire In pustofflcea of tbe third and fourth clasMM since April 1,1903. Thla shows the former allowances amounted to The present allowamva $162,966. amount to $363,600. ' 'P. 8. If It Is defdred we will ascertain and advise you of the salary or comiensat!on of lire postmasters of the offices In question.' This letter doea not appear In the printed report, nor is there any men- . TROUBLE IS BREWING Harriman Flies Petition Against North-erSecurities to Recover Stock. Russians Expect Japs to Strike on Easter Day. St SL Petersburg, April 2. Tbe ligious nature of the Russian people waa Illustrated tonight, when the peasant fairs and festivities which have been In progress during Palm Week ended and the people began to practice the rigorous abstention with which members of the orthodox church observe the last week In LenL As If by magic, the peasants booths on the principal boulevards disappeared and which for a week, have pavements been crowded to the gutters with laughing and chatting peasants, buying all kinds of nick nacks, reverently saluting the cheap prints of their rulers and evincing esiieclal Interest In tbe colored lithographs depicting war scenes In which the Russians were always triumphant, suddenly became deserted, the churches with their magnificent Interiors ablaze with lighted tapers, were thronged with devout All the theaters and worshippers places of amusement were closed and even the music In the restaurants was suspended. From Friday next to Raster every orthodox Russian, from the Emperor down to the humblest subject, will fast In the most rigorous manner, partaking of bread and water only. The Czar has strictly observed Lent. Hia table baa lieen meager, his amusements few and his work, of course, far greater. Except for one appearance at the theater bis sole amusement, has lieen driving about the capital, usually with the Czarina on bright afternoons He gore about absolutely unguarded, in a modest carriage, and but for tbe attendance of the prefect of police, In a much more gorgeous turnout, several hundred feet behind him. and the marvelous way In which streets are cleared, an ordinary observer would not know that the Czar waa passing. He finds recreation also in walking In ths garden of the winter palace. The Empress Dowager ia frequently seen on the streets 8he is very popular and graciously nods to both sides as her carriage, with her gigantic Cossack footmen, sweeps by. Preparations are proceeding for the Easter festivities, which in Rmuda ia tavwiMtrr'jfaTi (Continued on Page Three) Paul, April 2. n E. H. Harriman, as trustee for ihe Oregon Short Line, today filed a petition In the Federal Circuit Court asking to be allowed to Intervene In ihe case of the United States against the Northern Securities company with the object of compelling tbe Northern 8ccuriUes company to turn over to him the Northern Pacific railway slock original! exchanged fur Northern Securities stock. St. deep re- ; (Continued on Page Three) PAllll WEEK IN AND OF CZAR r Paul, April 2. Tills action Is . i ! i . i taken as the beginning of the contest for tbe routrul of the Northern Pacific railway between the Hfll-- organ fac- tion of the Northern Securities company and E. H. Harriman. Thla suit. It la said ,1s to compel the Securities company to return to ths origlnsl holder? the Northern Pacific shares exchanged for Northern Pacific stock Instead uf ths proposed division of Northern Pacific and Great Northern stock. The Harriman Interests prior to the formation of the securities company. held a controlling Interest In tiro Northern raclflc stock, the struggle for which culminated In the panic of May 9 on the New York Stock Exchange. E. H. Harriman and Winslow 8. Pierce, acting aa trustees for the Oregon Short Line, signed ths petition, whlrh waa filed In the United Slates court today, asking the court to direct the Northern Securities company to return to tbe original shareholders ths Northern Pacific stock exchanged for Northern Securities stock at the time of the formation of the Northern Securities company. The petition wee filed by John G. Dillon and William M. Guthrie ae attorneys for Harriman and Pierce, and notice of tbe action was served on AI. I). Grover. C. W. Bunn and George B. Young, attorneys for the SecurlUes company. The petition is returnable on April 13. The petitioners ask the court to Intervene in the suit of the United States against the Northern Securities company. The purpose of tha intervene Is to have the decree of ths court modified anJ to have the court direct that ths Northern Securities company ehall deliver in exchange fur Ita ehares the stock of the Norrhern Pacific that It acquired and to prevent a rateable distribution of tbe Great Northern end Northern Pacific stocks among shareholders, as planned by the directors of the Northern Securities company. The papers In the case were drawn late this afternoon and the filing diJ not transpire until late tonight The Hague, April 2. Queen Wilhel-min- a and her huslnd. Friars Henry, will start April 4 fur Italy, where they will spend a month for the benefit of the queen'e health. t. - i I - t |