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Show I FULL TBvertise in examiner PRESS ASSOCIATED DISPATCHES the UTAH WEATHER FORECAST MICK IT CHARGE. IT IS ADVERTISING MEDIUM TMeSciTT. THE EXAMINER AS WELL "t.rMlS iiTV. CGUNTY SUS8CRIR. OUR THAT ARE INDICATIONS WILL BE THE WEATHER SNOWY AND COLDER ON THURSDAY WEDNESDAY; FAIR. FOR arw VfRTlSERS. VOL IV '" NO- - OGDEN 8 CITY. UTAH, arose whether fee announcement of dividend should be made public ai once, feus giving tbe London mar- ket fee full advantage of fee situation. or whether it should be deferred until fee following morning, and the New York market gives fee advantage. It was decided to adopt thr latter course, and tbe committee did not make fee announcement until tbe following morning. Mr. Harriman proceedid in his narrative without interrupt loa until this point. He spoke deliberately and without hesitation. Mr. Kellogg questioned him closely in nn apparent effort to elicit some admission of motive la the delay In tbe announcement, but Mr. Harriman'a replies were direct He admitted that the delay In the announcement was unusual, but said that the occasion Cast on Former President of Illinois Central Commission Attempts to Show the U. P Charges Unfair Rates. Reflections we FEBRUARY MORNING, usual. It was staggering, said Mr. Harriman; it marked an epoch, but if I could have been present at the hour executive committee 26. An assertion of a pool or private understanding aa for which the Nw ywk, Feb. to stuck la the Illinois Central. meeting sraa scheduled, the announcethat Harriman StuyvMant H. E. by The moat in objection waa ment of the dividend would have been the presidency as 'u deposed frombecause possible speculation in Union made in tha usual manner the morntj misof Pacific stock in July and August last, ing after the director's meeting. the Illinois Central com-poCommissioner Lane asked what Mr. and particularly on the day the anconduct as to the funds of the of the dividend was held Harriman knew about the buying of ess a letJlng feature of today's nouncement up. Mr. Harriman first testified that Union Pacific and Southern Pacific at the IntorsUte Commerce he knew of no speculation and ex- stocks on tbe market between fee Mr. Harriman was the plained that the directors of the road time the directors decided on the divieuaiKisslon. day, and the already held muen of the stuck. Com- dend and the time it waa announced. oaly witness of the Mr. Harriman declared he did not hla testimony missioner l,ane wanted to know if the out. by ersats brought had himself bought any stuck know of any unusual buying of Union witnesa one. memorable a lieariJ nuke the after he knew that there waa to be a Pacific stock, but when the question Other features of Mr. liarrlman's was applied with direct reference to dividend. fellow: testimony Mr. Mllhurn, hie oounael, obO. Mllhurn himself, John hues-tioiAttorney quickly answer to refusal A continued and Mr. Harriman refused to en blocked with the objecjected, question stock individual to relating tion. The wltneas created laughter answer. tmnsactlons. Did you or your associates tray any when he declared he had bought Explanation of the transfer of Union Pacific at 25 to tuck then in anticipation of this expec-stoc- k Southern Pacific , PM), Din) shares of UJJh dividend? persisted Mr. Kellogg. to William G. Rockefeller dnr- - Dillon of the dividend I have always bought Union PaThe objection waa renewed through-- o lnx the attempt of Jamea R. Keene . day whenever Mr Kellogg re- - cific more or Ini," replied Mr. Harii-msnsecure control of the road, and of wheeled he Then Mock of the transaction. Ue suddenly th. delayed announcement of the divlln the railroads under ln- - around and said: Union Pacific and Southern dnds I bought Union Pacific atock in quiry, and so all expectation along line waa blocked. No steps have J89M for 25 a share ln anticipation that to show the government by Attempts been taken yet for testing the ques- of that dividend. I bought it at the that the Union Pacific chargea unfair tion in fee courts, but Chairman time uf fee panic when one of my vast in the stifles competition rates, Knapp has shown great care in lay- associates declared 1 had more nerve and Its traversed lines, by territory foundation in the record than any speculator he ever knew, that Its dividend of 10 per cent and ing the the proposition baa re- deeming It speculation. I bought it time very beton 240 millions of Its expenditure then In anticipation of that very diviterments rame from an unfair toll on curred. dend. I bought it nn the decline nil of traced the purchase Kellogg m Its patrons. around after tha Ban Francisco fire, Pacific Union stock the Southern by of discussion academic An railway ln of that very diviand Short Pacific anticipation Line, carryOregon on authorities regulation by blgb dend." of to famous the sale down 300,. it ing ran from a either tide, tht plea for Commissioner Clement then asked combinations of railroads 000 shares to William G. Rockefeller. legalised "The sale was made on a recoprlcal Mr. Harriman why ha objected to under government supervision to ' a telling whether be bed or bed not suggestion that tha government con- agreement made with Mr. Rockefeller, said the witness, by which Mr. Rock- bought tbe etock. trol railway atock issues. On a matter of principle, simply," efeller could sell us the stock back on A charge and en admission tbat the misconduct of the railroads created May 1, 1904, If he desired, at the replied Mr. Harriman. What Is the principle involved, the asm price. Mr. Rockefeller paid six the popular anger so tbat governmillions In cash and gave good colla- reason?" Commissioner Clement perments dettnnlne their regulation. severed. A charge tbat a railroad in the teral. It was a conditional sale. Lawyer Mllhurn again put In his The sale was made na a reciprocal other world la too hostile to large and Mr. Harriman remarkobjection, been There had and simple. Interests. pure transportation I haven't any reason. I Aa sisertion that the purchase , of formed a pool to speculate in the ed aside: . Southern Pacific by the Catos Psslflc Southern Pacific atock. The pool had am In the hand of my eotmsel," Attorney Kellogg devoted much of had given the arafeweet ten yearn in acquired 300,009 shares of stock, had time during the day to an effort development, and the failure of the applied to the shareholders and tried the Union Pacific to secure the Northern , to get enough proxies to prevent us to establish the propositions that Pacific left the northwest ten yearn from continuing in the management rates on too Union Pacific end fee behind where It would have been If ' of the property. The pool planned to Southern Pacific had remained fixed, control had been obtained. veil Its own atock to advantage. We if they had not increased, over a years, during period of seyeral All this ended In a remarkable feared that they would get a temscene where the government and the porary injunction to prevent us from which time rates generally in the man stood confronted. The days voting the stock. In order to prevent country had beep reduced; that comevents gave a vivid and intimate re- this, we took this method to enable petition had been destroyed In tha alisation of the problems of swollen Vi. with other proxies, to protect our- :: territory covered by tbe Union Pacific .wealth and railway regulation. , It selves against fell speculative inter- system; that tbe purchase of stock in fee Santa Fe waa a move toward the made a notable contribution to tbe fl- - est. by that nanclal history light and dark of i Mr. Harriman frankly admitted that neutralisation of competition line and that the vast sums devoted the time. ; the transfer of the stock waa to place to betiermanta end dividend! by the Mr. Harriman'a examination - was it In fee hand, of eome one who would uken from p,clflc ha ronducted by Frank B. Kellogg. Of act against this pool. rates. unfair Bt. Louis, special counsel of tbe i the to have gv , j Mr. Kellogg endeavored The witnesa sraa not willing to ernment. witness admit that tbe Rockefeller make any concessions or any material The statement of the witnesa as to ' transfer sraa merely aa evasion,' hut and Htuyveaant Fife came ln fee middle Mr. Harriman would not do so. The admissions to those contentions was discussed of the morning seesion. Mr. Kellogg i transaction was to the prop- most of the testimony protect between lawyer and witness aa to the in reference to fee Illinois Central, erty, he Insisted, against a speculative facta and conditions involved, spoke twice of the squabble" be- -' raid that threatened the control. Mr. Harriman declared Union Patween fee witness and Mr. Fish. He admitted that Mr. Rockefeller cific rates had been reduced 17 per Mr. Kellogg started to resume fee wee or cent commission, per paid j cent since he became president, and examination when Mr. Knapp leaned 6187,560, on return of the stock. I fell back on the assertion that the exover and addressed Mr. Harriman In ! pur-the testified that Mr. Harriman a low tone. His question apparently penditures for Improvements had deFe atock Bants in chase of 910,000,000 related to the Fish incident and Mr. was made as an investment. It was' veloped the country and placed the system ln condition to handle the Harriman said yea. In 1903. Mr. FUh in a competing line yet, n competing great traffic that has coma in later deposited over half a million dollars line, 1 am sorry to say. of Illinois Central fundi with the The witness said ne had discussed Trust company of the Republic. We, tbe matter wife Mr. Morewlts. of the (Continued on Page Seven) the directors. I mean. Immediately diSanta Fe, who had said that the railrected the secretary to withdraw this road should not destroy one anothmoney and it was done. er, but establish closer and better reMr. Harriman said that later in fee same year. Mr. Fish deposited with lation!. witness told of the election of The the Trust company of America large Messrs. Rogers and Frick to the Sants amounts of Illinois Central fuada to Fe ae representating certain friends "pay the trust company's statement. of Mr. Harriman. The witness averred Notwithstanding the board' action, the Santa Fe people said they were continued Mr. Harriman, in 1904 Mr. fee best director they had ever chosFife again begin to deposit money of na an evidence of their good the Illinois Central with certain trust en, and, the witnees said they had confaith, statecompanies, In older to pad cealed from him the fact that the ments." Santa Fe was to issue $98,000,000 la a "In addition to that he loaned to bonds. He learned it from the newsdurihimself a large amount of money ng that summer without the knowl- papers. Mr. Harriman, are you the author edge. j believe, of the board of direo-tor- s of the term, 'Community of inters and It waa baaed on these things estP asked Mr. Kellogg. hat the matter was taken up with th No,j I am not. I prefer common intention of having Mr. Fish deposed. said fee witness. Interest," interfered Ip the Interests of Mr. Mr. Harriman's account of last Fish, loaned Mm $1,200,000 to take up an- gust's famous delayed dividend Mr. his obligations to the Illlnoli Cen-rBounce in ent came In answer to and let it remain with him for Kellogg's question about tha failure ' years. He paid it beck gradually of the Pacific raids to reduce rates. until the securities which he bed up When he reached the matter of the appreciated In value and he eonld ardelayed dividend announcement.' Mr. range for the matter mime where else Harriman broke In: "1 will tell you Montreal, Feb. 26. Principal Maxr dispose of some of 1L well and six ter children perished In about feat, and without further "The trouble with Mr, Fish, said tloning be told the story of that epi- a fire fell afternoon in the Hocbelaga Mr. Harriman. school of the Protestant school comwas thsf he looked sode. upon the Illinois Central as his perHe eaid tbe question of earnings mission. sonal property. . first 'came up at tbe July director's ; The fire was first noticed by worklie told how Mr. Fife had contract- - meeting and the estimate of earning! j men employed nearby. The teachers 1 fur the construction of the Indiaa-oo- l was so surprising that he asked them I were notified and the work of getting and BL Louie company, and to consider the question of s dividend the children out of fee building becommitted the company, without the If fee actual figures came up to tbe gan. Tbe kindergarten department waa located on the seoond floor, end ronsent nr action of the board, when promise of the estimates. At tho Authe hoard had figures were It waa hern that the loea of life ocpreviously expressed lta gust meeting the actual Pacific meet- - curred. The children were started nt hand. The Southern 'n his explanation of this sens- - ing was held In the morning and the out, hut found the lower hall foil of '! nal Incident. Mr. Harriman for tho Union Pacific meeting in fee nfter-fir- smoke and refused to descead. They retreated to fee rooms whence they time spoke wife warmth. neon. The Southern Pacific first d v 4 I had come. Mr. Kellogg then opened fee Quee-- 'dared a dividend of W Pf to the 4 nion The fire by this time wag making km rf the Union Pacific purchases per cent of which went In Illinois of that much stock. Its way upward and the einoke growCentral, but it had not pro- - pacific, the ownerPacific dividend of 5 ing so dense that even the experiled far before there came an ob-- 1 Then the Union from trade earn-ha- enced firemen could not stand It k rtion that diverted the bearing for per cent, 8 per cent an hour. . ings and 2 per cent from investment Captain Carson tried to get Miss MaxThere was a renewal of tha flbjeo- earnings, was declared, fee directors well to go dewn fee ladder, but she ti'm to the commission right to in- - deciding to pese it to the executive refused and rushed back Into the back and announce-'"c- k part of the building tn search of the Q"ire into Mr. Harriman'e private committee for approval children. Later she was found lying transactions, and the matter jneut. which off on fee floor wife a child beside her. The dieefta ! the same eonrae as yesterday. i"? Th rommlMlon ruled that Tbe deaths were caused by asphyxm Ittee wm scheduled for 10 rclock question be answereJ: then followed a the next morning, hut Mr. Harr.man iation. There were no fire escapes in fee building. formal refusal, and the record wan in - said be could not be Present Miss Sarah Maxwell, principal of the ' ? T erh inmanep formally complied. The count of fr fee school, waa 81 Yaw old. The children l'n was against revcallr.g tbs executive girt together. By who were killed ranged from three to he amount of holdings of Mr. Hnrrl- - , time the was JtM ''lock 1,1 eight year. JJ"ti end his associates in the Bantu the matter it It la asserted at the office of the question then and the second as to the existence the afternoon and y, " jfle , - ; 5-- 8 SIXTFFN post-mast- re . u Teacher Montreal School Destroyed By and Kindergarten Children the Victims No Fire Escapes on Building. 1 e: ... - et lf - PRICE FIVE CENTS iqo7 prosecution, waa put on the stand to identify the pair of shoes alleged to have been taken from the grave when AS STEVE DICLS3N the remains were dug up in Wallace. A dispute arose, over whether the shoes bad nut been Introduced as eviWitness Says Steve Adams Was el dence bv the prosecution and the defense Insisted that all taken from fee Hie Cabin the Day of the Killing f Tyler, grave le produced. 'the defease will complete Its evidence tomorrow. Wallace, Idaho. Feb 26. A positive DESERTION FROM SQUADRON declared that Steve Adam aud Jac Blmpkiua were miles a a ay from the scene of the crime when Boule, the San Cal., Feb. 26. Officer) claim jumper, was killed, a as made of the Diego. Pacific squadron report that this morning by Newt Glover, in ihe are having trouble on account trial of Steve Adams, chatged with they of detection. Right men have left witthe murder of Fred Tyler. The the aud five are gone froia ness told of seeing a man named Steve the Charleston Boston. The police have been Dicks. n with Jack Simpkins about asked to help in the search. The men July 4. I9t4. Asked If he saw Dick- haring just come from Magdalena bay son in the court room feta morning he do not particularly relish the anpointed to Sieve Adams and declared nouncement that they are to atari Later he met bark on March 8. There is he was the man. nothing Adams several times and about Aug. at Magdalena aa to enjoyment 19 Adams and Simpkins came to his doing place and stopped thure about ten VON MEYER RETURNS. days The day after Boule waa murdered he heard of fee crime from Fiauk Price, another settler, who New York, Frh. 26. George Ym shouted across tbe river: L. Meyer, funner American ambassaBoule. tit , is killed." dor to Russia, arrived here today on Glover eaid Adams and Simpkins the steamer Kalssrin Auguste Vicwere cutting wood beside his cabin at toria from Hamburg. He return to this time and he west back there and the United States to lierome told him. A couple of days later general in President RooseAdame, who had recelvad a letter velt's cabinet. from his wife, went away. Glover also flatly denied that part of Adams' confeasioa which stated ONE DEATH FROM that Tyler, Slmupktns and Adame anj hlntaelf spent a night together In LOS ANGLES FIRE Simpkins' cabin just before Tyler waa murdered. ' The defense expects to occupy three Woman Waa Ovarcomo by Bmske Whila Attempting to Warn Others days wife its evidence Md the argn-meOf Danger. may last three days, the ease gomiddle of the aliout ing to the Jury Is declares next week. The defense it certain of victory. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 26. Firs On resumption of the Adams trial thla afternoon Frank Price's examin- which had lta origin by sptitiUneona In tbe basement of tbe ation waa continued by tha defense. combustion Novelty store In tbo five story The wltneee eaid that he had met Fair Chandler at Marble creek at the same brick Germain building at 226 South time Adants and Simpkins were there. Spring street, shortly after 1 o'clock gained great headway before it Objections were lodged by fee prose- today, was extinguished, rauaed tbe death iff cution when fee defense wanted to one woman, seriously endangered the how that Price had been arrested for the murder of Bora, sad were sus- Uvea of several others and caused a tained by tbe court. Witness denied property loss of many thousands of ever attending any meeting conducted dollars. Mrs. Emma Btewari, 5631 Pasadena by Jumpers and stated feat be bad employe of the Germain never seen anv settlers carry arms avenue, ansrith offices on the fourth except ia the olrd season, while nil company w'aa overcome by smoke while the Jumpers carried heavy revolvers floor, attempting to spread the warning to and n lot of cartridges. others In the tmlldlng and was unconf rgwed-ofhe n If Simpkins had gun scious when found by K. R. Sawyer, had never seen it and never seen him a newspaper photographer, who car armed In nay way. 'He admitted that ried her to the street. Physicians failhe refused io alloy jumpers to stay ed to revive her and she died an hour at his hotel or sell then) supplies. He later. stand the repeated on The firemen prefroraed many herole strong language 4a wtilFh 4m had an- rescues. J Upwards of a docaa persoiB nounced the murder of Boule to Ma- were taken down tho fire escapee and son and confirmed dates and facta the firemen's ladders from the offices testified to In hie direct examination In the upper part or tbo building. na to where and when he had seen Haven were unconscious end with dlf-- r Adams during Adams stay in Marble Acuity revived. John G. Brubaker, a creek. mining broker, waa overcome in hie state-menconfirmed Mrs. A: Henkle office on the fifth floor. Brubaker Adame at Bt, Joe as to seeing 300 pounds and six firemen weighs on Aug. 7 and described tbe journey lowered him with ropes around hie there with Prior. body from the window. He was reWm. ONeil, keeper of the Bt, Joe vived. hotel. Identified the hotel register conMrs. Phoebe King, a stenographer, taining Adams' name under date of waa also taken out unconscious. Aug. 7. He testified tbat tbe adtrent Tbe building waa an old one, haying of tho Jumper ia Marble creek had been built seventeen years ago. It been the talk of the whole district and la valued at 6200,000 and la insured that feeling had run high, but had for 190,000. never beard of any meetings. Ell Laird testified tbat ho waa captain of the steamer Spokane and that DEBATE IN HOLSE on Aug. 8 Adams went down with him to Coeur D'Alene city In the pilot ON SUBSIDY BILL hones on the boat- - He confirmed tho hostile regulations between jumpers end settlers. If Bill le Accepted by Pacific Mall Joseph J. Russell testified to haring teamehlp Ce Means Mere 16 seen Adams In RL Joe Ang. 8. Knot Ships, O. Mason testified to Adams' presdinner father's ence at hie birthday on Au. 7. and said both Adame and his at house at tbe Washington, Feb. 26. General deSimpkins were bate on fee ship subsidy bill was had time of the Boule murder. Henry P. Knight, attorney for tho today in the house, 'Representative Cr o Tenor of Ohio opening the discussion with a brief statement as to the merits of the bouse substitute for tbe senate bill. In answer to a charge made yesterday by Mr. Hlnnhaw of Nebraska that there had not been a single vessel added to our merchant marine since tbe passage of the mall subvention act of 1891 and that the Teasel getting a bonus from this counfry themselves carry merchandise In-to no greater extent, Mr. Groevenor sisted that Mr. Hinshaw was wholly misinformed. He declared (hat since the passage of fee mail subvention act the intenatlonal mercantile company bad built ten vessels, many of them with a speed of 2 knot. Fire Mr. Utteuer of New York argued in favor of tbe Mil bearing hie name. He aald J. J. Hill had not a ahlp feat would come In under the bill, as this MU provides for 16 knots and the Hill ships have a speed capacity of II knots. The Japanese," he said, are subsidising their lines heavily, and it is aa absolute necessity that we do what otir trade wife the we can to building commissioner that official orient on ourkeep side of the ledger. notice was served on the school com- . "There I no experiment of any kind missioners in November that not only thla bill. Of the seven thla school, but fifty others In the dry, connectedofwith this bill four apply to the must be provided wife fire recipes at projects of ua In the Amerionce. None had been built at the countries southwith whom we have a can continent school. Another to point Hocbelaga interest and be explained la why the kindergarten political and commercial Monroe docThe to orient three the taken to been nn class had upper trine Impels us In the furtherance of story. Ma purposes to cultivate relations of A pupil in the second class said and commercial Intimacy with political bell in Miss Maxwells the there was government of Central and South room, which was used when fire drill Amerira." was given and which could be heard If the Pacific Mall, Harriman'e lines, all over the building. This alarm was should accept tbe snbridy, Mr. Llttiuer My teacher, said tha said,, It would mean the building of at nut sounded. boy. went nut Into fee ball, and wa least one and probably two 16 knot all beard a greit noise. Teacher nn ships, together with regular communiback and seemed very much frighten- cation between San Francisco and fee ed end red in fee face. Bbe told us Philippines. Mr. Goulden (N. T.l In to get our things and run right opposition to the blll. said the Amerhome. ican Federation of Labor was against I ran out. and as soon a I got to the measure, as was the National the stairway full of Grange. He said feat back in the the lending I congress there bad been smoke, with hoys and girls crowding Forty-fourt- h on it afraid to tp down. I pushed chargea made iff the ure of a large through them nd ran down to the amount of money for lobbying purfront door and called to the rest to poses. come on, and a lot of them earn. The Ob, that's a last year's bird's nest," moke was to feife ln the hall down- interrupted Mr. Kahn (Cal.). Mr. Goulden, however, declared that stairs feat If wa Just like dark. conI think fee children who went into during th years he hart been in the cloakroom aft" their wrapt were gress he had recognised the presence of a powerful lobby for ship subsidy. killed." the cnee that PERISHED IN k FIRE . 27, ADAMS IDENTIFIED the FISH MISUSED THE FUNDS WEDNESDAY TRIAL OF H. K. THAW IS Jerome Practically Admits Defeat Delmas Cleverly Blocks Hummels Testimony Cross-Examinat- of Evelyn Ends. ion New York. Feb. 26. Mrs. Evelyi Neabtl Thaw's long ordeal on the witness stand at tbe trial of her husband for th killing of Stanford White, ended today. Mr. Jerome finished his which had lasted through nearly five court dava, at the and morning session. The this afternoou was brief. The district attorney will tomorrow morning begin his rroasexamlnatioa of Dr. Britton D. Eveans. on of tbe defense's alleulsta. Doctors Wagner, Deemar and Bingaman will be called In rapid order. The trial at last eeems to he entering on its final stages. The completion of Mrs, Thaw's examination followed tbe unsuccessful effort of tbe prosecution to draw from AbrabamHummel certain facts relating to tbe affidavit which la aald to have made In Hummel's law office. In thle affidavit, it is declared, there waa an allegation feat Thaw had beaten the girl while abroad la 1893, when she told there waa no truth in the story shout her relations with Stanford White. Mr. Delmas. for the defense, blocked practically every question I Kit to Hummel. Tbe witness got no further than to say that he knew Mrs. Thaw; that he came to his office Oct. 37,1903, and that ha dictated to a stenographer while nhe was there. Justice Finger-elheld feat under the rules of evidence covering Mrs. Thaw's testimony fee introduction of collateral fact was not permlHMble. The district attorney Is not allowed tw controvert her testimony in any way, but may test her credibility. Mr. Jerome said in open court that he re Hied tbat even if he could show Huuiford White waa in Europe tbe night Mrs. Thaw declares she was aMiulted by him he would not be allowed to introduce neb testimony. It is reported feet Mr. Jerome has much testimony to offer In rebuttal, but ae It ia nearly of' a collateral character be will not be allowed to plane It before tbe Jury, Mrs. Thaw today was given tha opportunity to clear up fee odds and ends of her story. Mr. Jerome Introduced ln evidence her school girl dairy and read certain extracts from It. They caused many amiles In Ihe court room, reflecting as they did the young woman's views of life during that period. Mrs. Thaw again denied that she had never used penny of fee letter of credit 8tanford White gave to her under seal before she went to Europe with Thaw and her mother. Blie denied that alie bad ever been mentioned In any way in connection with the June A. Garland case. Bbe aald Htanford White paid all her brother's school expenses and Identified receipts and chocks signed by ter mother showing that the latter drew more 3.K)0 from Htanford Whites than funds during the year from May, 1902, to May 19u3. Evelyn was at school during most of tbe year. Just before Harry Thaw waa taken out of the court room he handed the reporters tbe following note: Mrs. Thaw and latdy Ashburton, formerly Frances Belmont, were wit friends. They were simply acquaintances when both were playing at the same theater." d Hetman Talks, Pittsburg. Frh. 26. Charles J. Holman Issued the following statement today on behalf of his wife, mother of Mrs. Evelyn NesMt Thaw, concerning Mrs. Thaws early training: Evelyn was always went to Sunday school as long as her mot her had control of. her. Her mother never left her daughter In rare of any man at any time. The public has heard but one side of the story. They have no right to express an opinion. We else from ignorance, but educated people are supposed to weigh fee evidence of both aides before i giving an opinion." (Continued on Page Three.) chief of the commission with Major W. J. Guethale. Ills associates will be Major Du B. Galllard sad Major Wm. U Niliert, to rank in fee order named. These officers are bH comparatively young, ambitious and energetic. Senator Joseph C. 8. Blackburn of Kentucky, who twill mire from the Vetted States senate on March 4th, la to be made a member of the reThe nominaorganised commission. tion of the present commissions now pending before the senate include Messrs. Bbonta, Bt evens, Kainee, Endt-cot- t, Her rod, Gorgaa end Jackson Smith. Their confirmation I desired In order to remove all doubt aa tn tbe legality of rertain acta they have performed in connection with the' making of contracts, Tbe retirement of Messrs. Shouts and Stevens will leave but two vacancies, o tbat there' will be two more retirements necessary to make way for the three army: officers and Senator Blackburn. The President is determined that Ihe work-o- n the canal shall proreed enntlnur. dislocaoualy, end tbe temporary tions" caused by tbe resignations of higher officials will not be allowed to interfere with progress. Tbe President is unaware of the specific reasons which have been influential in prompting Mr. 8tevena resignation. It surprised him very much, for as late as tbe middle of December Mr. Steven made no mention of his wish to retire. It has been known, however, that Mr. Stevens hat been stung very much by criticisms aimed at him hi connection with th canal work, aoni of which came out during hearings before committees of congress. It la understood Mr Stevens is leaving to accept a portion in eon-- , neci.bm wife a great engineering en- -' torpids in this country at aa annual salary more than double that he now. His friends contend that the organization cf fee force on the latbania to excellent. Mr. Btevena la made to believe that he can now terminate hi connection with this great enterpriea without In any way jeopardiilng lta unreal. Ftor several weeks it baa been rumored here feet Mr. 8tevens eras die-lifted with the plan of totting the , plan work out by contract, but. na eiplalned by a member of fee cabinet today. Mr. Btevena really proposed to fee President! th adoption of thla method of constructing the canal. Tbe probability ia tbat the administration may determine to give out the work to be done at'iha Isthmus under contract under fee general direction of the army engineers. After Major tioethal and bia army associate have been at tbe isthmus sufficient. time to become fully acquainted with fee work to be done they will submit a report on fee situation to tbe President. If they feel the work can be done better oy contract then under tbe present ay stem, the question again will be considered by the President and fee service of tbe same high class contractors who bids are now rejected, or others of similar standing then may be ine voked. The President's reasons for making the sweeping changes end In refusing all bids so far offered for building the canal are noted in hie letter to Chairman Bhnnts. at WOULD LET DAUGHTER A JAP, MARRY Widespread Interest Created by Gev. Carter's Statement Honolulu, Ppb. 19, via Ban Francisco, 26. Nothing that haa happened for a long time in Hawaii haa created the same widespread Interest ae Gov. Carters announcement la an Inter- view explaining hla attltnde toward tbe Japan: feat he had been willing tbat his daughter should marry a Japanese. It was the subject of discussion everywhere. Te new pipers were re- bombarded with cnmmunlrationa garding it, an overwhelming majority of them expressing sentiments strongagainst thla attitude of tha governFROI CANAL BOARD ly or, some of them ln violent language and some In contemptuous language. The Japanese government baa noConstrue-for The Responsibility tha tified Gov. Carter of its purchase of th tlen of the Canal Transferred Progress block in Honolulu tor n conto U. 8. Engineers. sulate end (hat trader international regulations it la exempt from taxation. STEVENS RESIGNS Washington. Feb. 26. By an orJer addressed tn Chairman Shunts ot the Isthmian Canel commission today, Prenident Roosevelt, as far as lay In his power under existing law, transferred to fee engineering branch of the army the responsibility for the further construction of the Panama canal. He also formally recorded the canal work done by contract on the Another feature percentage system. waa the announcement ot the resignation of John F. Stevens as engineer-in-chie- f of canal construction. Mr. Shont is In New York, where he will nt tomorrow preside a meeting of the directors of the Panama Rallied company, of which he is president, and will, It is expected, formally resign tbat office. The President Intends that there shell be an entire reorganization of the commission with army officers of the engineering corps as its leading members, who are to have charge of the engineering features of the renal work. Tbo chairman and engineer in NEW TERMINALS FOR K. C. Kansas City. Feb. 26. An ngree-meto bnlld passenger end freight d terminals at Kansas City at an coat to the railways of was reached late laet night at a conference between John M. Egan, president of the Kansas City Terminal Railway company, representing the leading railways entering this city, and by a committee1 of city official The headed by Mayor Beardsley. unrailways are to erect a 82,006,006 aveion passenger station near Grand afreet, five nue and Twenty-secon- d union freight house along the river front in fee west bottoms and forty street viaducts and subways, the totter to be malntnined by the railways. The city sgrees to give th railway a flftv-yegrant for their tremlneto. The estimated lutimate cot to the railroads of meeting these obligations, diverting present roads and building new rands, terminals, etc.. Is estimated at 150,000,00(1. nt cell-mate- r |