Show democratic CENTRAL COMMITTEE IN SESSION the democratic city central committee held a short meeting yesterday and selected as tbell candidate from the second ward for the council george H greenwell and as secretary of the campaign committee bert harris at the the declination of herbert ai acmillan to serve as chairman of the campaign committee was read and dr conroy candidate for mayor instructed to select a chairman with the exception of a candidate tor municipal judge the democratic slate is complete and tho action of tho central committee an fn passing the selection of a candidate tor that office Is taken as evidence that judge murphy will have an open field and will bo elected without opposition RUSS PRISONERS IN TRANSIT eastern siberia oct 17 russian prisoners irom the island ot sakhalin Sak halin who took refuge hereafter here after ahey escaped from the island or were landed on the mainland by the japanese and time has not expired are being forwarded in large batches to the prison at while here the nors were fed by the red cross those whose time has expired were permitted to settle in tho valls of the amur the russian halt of sakhalin Sak halin Is to be opened free to colonization it will have a military administration vessels are leaving nere for the purpose of supplying the military posts along the gulf of Tar which they expect to reach before the river becomes frozen information from st petersburg indicated the ol 01 customs along the siberian coast and rivers which had been suspended for the purpose to induce the stockade sto cRade running SMALL commissary LOSSES w washington oct 17 la the report to the secretary of war or the last fiscal year commissary general weston points out that the losses of stores and property for the use of the army has been remarkably small the losa in the united states was only 49 of 1 per cent and the loss sn the philippines per cent the total amount lost was out of the worth of subsistence stores and property supplied for the use of thearty th earmy in the philippines during the fiscal year articles amounting to were purchased in manila gen cesi on strongly advises ane erection of a school tor bakers ana cooks the only such institution now is at fort alley kan where the department has been making experiments with fireless cooking apparatus these experiments were continued at new york with satisfactory is results so tar RE APPOINTS PRESENT PREMIER budapest oct 17 the gazette tomorrow will contain an autograph let ter of the kang emperor baron fejervary fo tho premiership on the ground that his now program has been accepted by his majesty it ia understood that the cabinet will bo charged to dissolve parliament and to prepare tor a general election next summer an the basis ot tho granting of universal suffrage on the belgian system it 16 reported that the reap of baron fejervary will involve the resignation of the austrian premier baron franken there VISIT GRAND CANYON grand canyon araz oct 17 congressmen tawney dails and ot minnesota marshall of north dakota and minor of arizona today went to tho bottom ot the grand canyon while the rest ot the party drove over tho reservation and inspected the timber reserve the entire party banqueted at the el boyar hotel tonight as th gucht of the santa fr railroad company and left at midnight for flagstaff A committee of flagstaff citizens met the party here today and the prescott party returned home DYNAMITE IN BOUQUETS paria oct 17 A to the galbas from madrid abday announced that the police of barcelona have found a number of ot dynamite concealed in flowery the investigations made indicate that there was a plot to use dynamite during president loir bets approaching visit to king fodi fod i arrests have |