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Show : r: RUSSIAN ANARCHIST TO MURDER CHIEF ATTEMPTS MSI PUPILS PERISH Of POLICE Three Hundred Qiildrea Become Panic Stricken in School Houm Fire and Many Meet Death. Ths Mina Oparators' Aaaociation Will Not Grant the Advance, But a Numbar of Leasers Hava Agrtad to Pay tha Bcala. Sickening Disaster at North Collin, wood, Ohio, Caused by Over-heateFurnace, and the Fact That Rear Exit Wao Locked. Japs Are Very Angry Over the of tha Steamer Tatau. t y Brand aa Bass Slandsr Stories of Peonage end Misuse of Laborers. Washington. An investigation try the Immigration committee on labor conditions In tbe turpentine camps, plantations and other Industries of the south, especially the existence of peonage, Is provided for In n resolution taken up by the house on Monday under suspension of the rules. 51 r. Williams of Mississippi said tbe circulation abroad of torlea regarding peonage had done harm to the south, and he desired an Investigation. He said he believed the stories had been put out by labor agents In New York In order to divert Immigrants to other sections of the country. Accuses Attorney of Accepting Hush Money, New Xork. A charge tbat he agreed to pay 91,600 to Nathan an attorney, last November to Bring about a cessation of newspaper bank attacks upon the Hamilton after Vldaver had anld, "he bad no doubt he could fix It with Jackson to have the attacks wtopimd," was made hy William R. Montgomery, former president of the Hamilton bank. In an affidavit Bled In police court on Thursday. The affidavit wu a part of tha complaint agalnat Vldaver, who was arrested on a charge of extortion preferred by Mr. Montgomery. Fell Over Precipice. was discovered. Senator Proctor Field. tazarua Chicago. The body of Averbuch, the young Kuaslnn Jew who tried to take the life of Chicago's chief id police on Monday, was burled Thursday night In the potter's Bold. The assassin's slater, Olga Averbuch, her resources exhausted, gave reuict-an- t consent to interment the hy county, and. In the darkness of night, with a dreary rata pouring down, unaccompanied by friend or relative, the corpse of the unfortunate youth was burled by the light of a lantern. Didnt Say It. Washington. In a signed statement, Dr. 1!. W. WUey, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture, makes a vigorous denial of statements he Is alleged to have made recently, one being to the effect that "the man who never takes a drink Is a 'mollycoddle.' " The statements attributed to Dr. Wiley In regard to wbtskey and alcohol were made In an address before the University club In Washington, and he declares they are wholly unwarranted by the facts. Tax Upon Stock Transfers. Washington. A bill to tax the aale and tranafer of stocks has been Introduced by Representative Hepburn of Iowa. The tax provided tor Is fixed at fifty cents per 100 shares. The bill does not undertake to Impose a tax upon any agreement evidencing the deposit of stork certificates as collateral security, which certificates are nut actually sold, nor upon any such The stock certificates so deposits. Mil provide that a further tax shall be lmiKised upon the delivery of the c rtificates of stock. In Honor of Dead Senator. Washington. A marked tribute of respect was accorded the memory or the late Senator Redfleld Proctor of Vermont by the United States senate on Thursday. Republicans and salon In attended the brief arch number aa Is seldom seen except on unusual occasions. All stood reverently ns tbe chaplain. Dr. Eddelivered the ward Everett Hale, player, which contained an appne priate reference to the life and work The customary of Senator Proctor. n solutions were adopted. Coloradoans Charged With Appropriating Coal and Timber Lands. Washington. In the supreme court r.t the United States on Monday, Solicitor General Hoyt moved tha advancement on the dorket of the criminal proceedings against a number of p eminent people of t'olorado on the charge of conspiracy In appropriating cunl and timber lands In that atate. In these rases the district court failed to return verdict of guilty, on the ground that no offense Imd been under smtion 54 Id of the revised statute, wlrieh was relied upon tor their .conviction. In Potter's Doe Wiley lVm-iHTa- ls coitt-nllte- narrow Dead. WasMngton. United States Senator Redfleld Proctor of Vermont died In hla apartments at the Champlain here Wednesday, after a short illness following an attack of grip. The senator's son, Governor Fletcher Proctor of Vermont, who wu summoned tc the city, wu at the bedside when the senator passed away. Senator Proo tor was 77 years old. The senator had been 111 and confined to his room at the Champlain apartments for shout a week. His ailment was diagnosed a grip. Cop 'Iso Freo With Gun. San Jose, Cal Truant Officer Frank SliaGer of Santa Clara shot and killed John lvancovlch, of the San Francisco Ann of lvancovlch ft Co., In front of the latter'a home In this city Monday morning. 8hafter had gone to the house to see why Ivanravtch'a son did not attend school, and put Mm under arreat. In the quarrel which followed Shatter drew his gun and killed the man. Feeling runt high him In Santa Clara, and against Shatter had a narrow escape from lynching. Body of Anarchiot Burled In self-pon- Ten Thousand Employee Laid Off by Missouri Railroads. St. Louis, Mo. According to a recapitulation of statements of Mlsaoun railroad officials, published here oo Monday, about 10,000 employee In tbi operating, mechanical and clerical do partments have been dismissed recently to offset heavy revenue lusset suffered by the roads. It is estimated by the state railroad commission that probably 8,000 of the unemployed torre have 'wen laid off during thi past fifteen lays. Avalon, Catalina Island, Cal. Mutilated almost beyond recognition, bootless, and with clothing tom to shreds, the body of U 1 Watson, a guest at the Hotel Metropole, who laa been mining several daya, was Bread at noon. Thursday by two guides on a ledge 1,200 feet below the top of a cliff, and 450 feet above the beach. The position of the body Indicates that Wllaon, while climbing the cliff, fell from somewhere along Its fare to the ledge where hla body Penned wood, were killed by fire, by s moles and beneath the grinding heels of tbetr panic stricken playmates. The awful tragedy occurred Wednesday morning In the public school of North Collluwood, ten miles east of this city. At 10 oclock Wednesday night 165 corpses were In the morgue at Cullinwood, six children were still unaccounted for, aud an the hospitals und homes for two miles around contained numbers of children, some fatally and many lew seriously injured. AJ1 of the victims were between the ages of 6 and 15 years. The school contained between 310 and 325 pupil! and of this entire number only about eighty afe known to have left the building unhurt It will be several days before the exact number of killed la known, aa tbe ruins may still contain other bodies and the Hit of fatalities may be Increaaed by a number of deaths among the children who are now lying In the hospitals hovering between life and death. The school house was of brick, two stories and an attic in heighL The number of puplla was more than normally large, and the smaller children had been placed In an attic of tue building. There was but one fire escape, and that was in the rear of the building. There were two stairways, one leading to a door in front and the ni her to a door In the rear. Both of these doors opened Inward, and tt Is claimed the rear door wu locked, as well. An attempt wu made to have the children march out, but a panic ensued. Mlu Catherine Weller, one of the nine teachers in the school, lost her life In a vain effort to marshal the pupils of her clau and lead then to ufety. She died In the crush at the rear door. Her room wu on the second floor, and when the fire ahra sounded aha marched her puplla out Irto the hall, thinking It was onXs fire drill. There tbe truth darned upon both teacher and puplla andton-tro- l waa lost. The children In Heir frenzy plunged Into the atrugflhig mssa ahead of them. Miss Weller attempted to stem the rush, but sent down under It, and her body vaa found an hour later piled high vtlh those of her pupils. Miss Fisk, another teacher, was taken out alve, but she ran not live. When teh (tames were discovwed the teachers throughout seem to hive acted with courage and slon, and to have struggled herolctlly for the ufety of their pupils, and marshalled the little ones into column for the "fire drill, which they had often practiced. e a - Cleveland. O. hallway, Jammed up agalnat doors that opened only Inward, 170 chip dren In the suburb of North Collin, Bays Charges Against Justice of U. 8. Court for China Are Unfounded. Washington. President Roosevel's defense of Ielibous K. Wllfley, based on an analytical review by Secretary Root of tbe charges against him, wai made public on Monday. The charges were preferred by lorln Andrews, and have been repr-atetin by him I ume committee on Judiciary as the lists of Impeachment proceedings. They relate to Judge Wllfley's admin-1sration or the United States court for China at Shanghai. After disposing of each of the seven charges by allowing that neither of them Is the proper basis of criticism against Judge Wllfley, Secretary Root reviews conditions In the forelga quarters at Shanghai, showing that because of the heretofore lax American administration of Justice there, affaire had grown disgraceful. Judge Wllfley was sent there for the express purposes of reversing these conditions. has len Toklo. I'ubllc opinion the aroused In Japan concerning el xu re of the steamer Tat sir by the Chinese authorities at Maco, February 7. Special cablegrams publlahed In an extra edition of the Jljl. state that China oiler to relcane the Talsit hold and apologize, blit propoaca the ruptured munitions perilling sn Inveallgulion hy a mixed tribunal. Minister Haysahl, it la reported, the positively refused to consider proiMMltion. and aald that I he veasel and her entire cargo must be restored. It la further aald tbat Minister 'Ilayaahl, acting under Instructions from the home government. went the Brat secretary to the minister of foreign affairs with the statement that, In view of the attitude of the Chinese government, It only remained for Jaian to proceed At such manner that would uphold ,her dignity and protect her Interests. iThe Toklo newspapers In thrlr editor-dalurge the government to stand firm. uncim-ditlunall- driver, James Foley, were wounded by an anarchist who attempted to assassinate the police officer In the hall of the latter's realdenre aliortly after V o'clock Monday morning. A deaper-at- e struggle, In which Mrs Shippey and her daughter, Georgotta, Joined, was terminated when the chief drew tia own revolver and killed Lis assailant. The would be assassin has been identified as a man named Lazarus Averbuch, who, for the past three weeks, has lived at 218 Washburn avenue, on the west aide of the city, ills Identification was established through a slater of tbe man, who was taken by the police to the undertaking room. Averbuch was 22 years old and occupied rooms at the above addresa with hla slater, Olga. lie was a Rujslan student. He came to America three months ago from Austria, to which country bo fled two years ago, following the masuacre of Jews In Klahl-nef- f, Russia, where his home had been prevloi ily. His plan to kill Chief Shippey Is believed to have been formed as a direct result of the latter's interference with a parade of unemployed men through the city' streets several weeks ago. ROOSEVELT SUSTAINS WILFREY. Sals-ur-e SUITES SEIZE JAPANESE SHIP Being Goldfield Western Federation Men Hare Decided to Accept the Chief of Police George M. Chicago. Tonopah Scale of Wages. Shippey, bin son, Harry, and hla TROUBLE IN THE ORIENT. BAT BE Start on Longest Lap of Long Voyage, Mvadcs Homs of Chief Shippey of Chicago, and Is Killed by the Man He Had Intcndsd ts Murder. - CALLAO FOR MAGDALENA UNITED Goldfield. Nev. IK-a-l 220, Western Federation of Miner a. on Thuiuday, ty a referendum vote of 455 to 256, decided to accept the Tonopah scale of wages, and declare the uirlke off at- to those propertlea which will pay the Touuiali acale. Some daya ago rcpreaenlallvea of thirteen different leases agreed to pay the Tonopah acale, whlrb is 6U eents per day leaa than the former Goldfield scale, but GO cents more than the scale recently adopted by the Mine Operator's' asKorlution. The Mine Operators' association will not grant the advance. Tbe association companies Include all tba fci( mines of the camp and against thvae latter the atrtke la still In effect. Tbe miners elected an ultra conservative president by a vote of 4 to I against the radicals. FLEET LEAVES DEFIES Telegraphers Are Satisfied. San Francisco. A compromise wat effected by stipulation on Wednesday between the attorney for the South ern Pacific Railway company and the Order of Railway Telegraphers, and the cases afiectlng the at Issue, which was taken to tlu United States court of appeals front the United Slates circuit court, was withdrawn. The compromise measure Is to be effective from February n, 1908. The telegraphers claim to have gained their point, which had to do with hours and wages. nm-stlo- d n May Stop Mining Coal. Dea Moines. la. A complete shutdown of the coal mines In Iowa, worked by 15.000 miners. Is threatened. The agreement now existing bet ween the mine operators and the miner expires Mnrah 31. and because of the failure of the miners amt operators in eastern slate to reach an agreement last week. It is probable that the mlnera and operators, who have heretofore followed the example of the euslern states, will not be able to make a new agreement before March 31. Hartje Acquitted of Compiracy. Pittsburg. Pa. Augustus Hartje. John L. Weishons. a hardware merchant and friend of Hartje, ami Clifford Hooe, the negro coachman, who have been on trial In the criminal wurt. charged with conspiracy to Mucken the character of Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, were all acquitted Instructions binding bating been given to the Jury to find such a Vpr. diet and place the costs or Hie ram, upon the county. It Is now that Mrs. Hartje will push Ivr action to Obtain A divorce from her Inndiaml Due- - tt Next Stopping Place on March 14. Preside.! of VcaezueU Refuses to Listen to Demand for Arbitra Callao. The fleet of American tioa of Claims. battleships left the harbor on Saturday. The next stopping place la Magdalena bay, where, according to the schedule, the vessels will arrive on Boult of Controvarsy Will Now Bs March 14. The distance from Callao of tho to Magdalena bay la 3,013 nautical Brought to ths miles. The dates for tbe departure Benxtt, Which Has Asksd for from Magdalena bay and the arrival Information.at 8aa Francisco have not been definitely determined, as those depend Venezuela has again upon the completion of target practice Washington. at Magdalena bay, which will probably declined to arbitrate the question of occupy thirty days. which been have pet. ding controversy Thla la the longest lap of thi long for some time between the Castro new of the passadministration and the American gov- voyage, and unless of the warships Is brought ashore age This time the refusal la ernment some pasting steamer, the veasela iccJe specific with respect to each by will not be heard from again probably tin question separately, and difuntil approach Magdalena bay. fer from the last refusal, to arbitrate The they fleet left Hampton Roads DecemIn that the refusal was made aa to ber 16 and made Ita first stop In II questions cn bloc. South America at Trinidad, December It was explained at the state de- S3. Five daya Bailing from Callao partment that the presentation by will bring Panama abeam and tbe Minister Russell of each of tbe five vessels will then be practically clear point In dispute with a request for of South America. Counting the long arbitration leaves no foundation for stops made at Trinidad, Rio, Punts a future representation by Venezuela Arenas and Callao, they have made to the effect that she was not asked the .circuit of South America in apseventy-thredays. to arbitrate any of the questions sep- proximately would seem This to rlear arately. DIED WITH B00T8 ON. up the situation by making It plain that diplomacy can accomplish noth- Slayar of "Billy the Kid Shot Dead ing further toward settling those conBy Mere Youth. troversies. El Tex. Pat Garrett, known Paso, That i his deadlock win be made to the over aa the man who, continent appear to the United State senate while sheriff of Lincoln county. New when it receives tbe contents of the Mexico, killed "Billy tbe Kid, the fire of the state department respect- noted outlaw, and one of the last of ing Venezuela Information for which the most prominent gun men of fronIt asked last week there can be no waa shot and killed by J. tier days, doubt. Brazle, a youthful ranchman, In asking arbitration of the differ- Wayne near Laa Cruces, N. M., In a depute ences, the American government has over a ranch lease. Garrett had been left open the question of machinery on one of his ranches near to a visit of the arbitration to be employed. the New Mexico town, and, In a This government would have been with a friend, was returning to glad to have hrd the controversy go Las Cruces, when they were overtaken tc The Hague. Falling in this. It Is by Brazle. A quarrel between tbe believed any other duly appointed principals followed, and Garrett is tribunal would have been acceptable. aald to have reached for a shotgun. Brazle fired twice, both shots taking ROBBED OF MILLIONS. effect, and Garrett fell dead. 1 e buck-boar- Grave Charges Made by Missouri Core gresaman. Washington. The startling charge tbat the railroads of the country carrying mails had robbed the people out of 970,000,000, waa made In the house on Tuesday by Mr. Uoyd of Missouri. He declared that the new system of weighing malls waa an admission of FROM RU88IAN VIEWPOINT. Mikado Demands Punitive Metsuref and Portugal, too, is Incensed at Actios of Chinese. Was in Chines Water Awaiting a Pilot to Get to Portuguese Port, When Custom Placed Armed Officials Force Aboard. Steamer Victoria, B. C. China hat seriously Involved herself with both Japan and Portugal by the seizure of the Japanese steamer Tatau Maru No. 2, ten miles off Macao, according to advices received by the steamer Empress of Japan, which arrived Sunday night from Yokohama, and unless Immediate and substantial reparation fa made Japan 1 disposed to consider the matter a casus bellL Arrivals by the Empress of Japan sty consider able excitement prevails In Japan regarding tbe seizure, especially following upon a number of questions which have recently arisen between Japan and China. Tbe viceroy of Chntons otter of a settlement was refused by Consul Uyeno at Canton, and Minister Hays til at Pekin has made a strong protest. A British warship was sent from Hongkong to the scene and a cruiser waa being sent by Japan. The Toklo government states in a note that It will not be satisfied with less than the release of the steamer, punishment of the officers who seized her for hauling down the Japanese flag, and compensation. When the Tatsu Maru left Japan telegrams In cipher were sent to the Chinese government, in consequence of which the Chinese gunboat Po Bik, with a number of furelgn-drllle- d treopa on board, put to sea under sealed orders, and the Chinese revenue cutter Lung Tslng and three gunboats Joined her. Tbe Tatsu Maru was found hove to ten miles off Mar a cao In Chinese waters awaiting to the to port. Portuguese get pilot The schooner was seized and 1500 rifles and 40,0000 pounds of ammnnl-tlb- n which were manifested, and 570 rifles not manifested which were secreted, were taken. The Chinese commandant, Captain Wo, hauled down the Japanese flag and replaced It with the dragon flag, and placed armed forces aboard. Pekin. It la announced that the Chinese government will surrender the Japanese steamer Tatsu Maru, which was seized on February 7 by tbe Chinese customs cruisers outside of Macao while unloading a large consignment of rifle and ammunition, tbe rifles numbering several thousand. It was originally charged that an attempt was being made to bring war supplies Into China for revolu- 8oft Words Are a Corollary to tho Policy of tho Big Stick. SL Petersburg The Novoe Vremya devotes one of its leading articles to the American plans for the fortification of Manila, which it believes will convert Cavite Into the moet power the postmaster general that tha ful naval base on the Pacific and enable the United States to Insist upon weighing In the past twenty-seveyears had been fraudulent He called an actual aa well aa a theoretical refor an lnveatlgation of the posto flics alization of the open door In Manchudepartment, and Mr. Wanger of Penn- ria. Continuing, the paper says the sylvania, chairman of the committee denial of the report that It la the presto control the expense of that de- ent Intention of President Roosevelt partment promised that an inquiry to raise this question merely exemplifies its conviction that soft words are would be instituted. a corollary to the policy of the big stick. When the Manila works are MISTAKEN POLICY. completed the doors of Manchuria will tionists. of Newt fly open to Americas open sesame." Suppression Legitimate Leads to Wildest Exaggeration. THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS. EXPL08ION IN 8ULPHUR PLANT. Rome. The municipality of Rome has pursued a mistaken policy in en- Factory Is Demolished and 8ix Men Northern Portion of Tampa, Florida, Destroyed by Fire. deavoring to suppress the news of an Terribly Burned. Fla. The entire extreme outbreak of smallpox In thla city In Tampa, New York. Six employes of the Nasection of this city waa dethe tional tbe fear of frightening away northern In mill Sulphur companys broke out In spring tourist trade, which constb. Brooklyn were burned and stroyed by fire which house tutes a large source of revenue to the lacerated by an terribly a early Sunday and boarding explosion of sulphur capital. Instead of pacifying the pub- in the company's planL A driver of a raged uninterruptedly for four hours. lic fears, the method pursued in pro- passing truck was struck and his The area burned covered fifty-fiv- e hibiting the sending of telegrams re- skull waa fractured by a section of the acres, or eighteen and a half city ferring to th outbreak ha given rlae roof which waa blown off the building. blocks, and 808 buildings were deto the spread of the wildest and most The factory waa destroyed by fire with stroyed, with a total loss estimated exaggerated reports. There I prac- a loss of about 91(10,000. at 5600,000, and one woman la dead The employes were at work In the from excitement. tically a panic In Rome over thla mallpox scare. milling section grinding the sulphur The burned section Included four when. It Is supposed, a spark from and one smaller cigar factory CARGO OF POWDER EXPLODED. one of the grinding machines ignited large numerous restaurants, saloons. and the powdered sulphur, causing a se- Iioarding houses and over 200 dwellExplosion Causes a Train Wreck and ries of heavy explosions. ings occupied by clgarmakers. ( Two Men are Injured. Victorious. Again Japs Buries In Switzerland Avalanche An 111. A Litchfield. cargo of powder Nogales, Arlz. News just received Thirteen People. carried by a Big Four freight train from Guaymas, the terminus of tbe waa while the train Berne, Switzerland. An avalanche running Sonora railroad, exploded gives further details descended Sunday near the village of at full speed, two miles from here. of the on the ranch of descent Yaqul atsevwrecked and The enormous The train wbb badly A. Martinez, a prominent banker Noppenstein. Luis which accompaeral cars were burned. The concus- and merchant near pressure mospheric last week. nied It demolished a hotel at ths sion shook houses and battered win- The ranch Is workedthere, by dows for many miles. At a sharp curve who made a determined Japanese, mouth of the liochberg tunnel, killing resistance thirteen persona and Injuring fifteen the two cars contalnng the powder and finally drove the Yuquls away. others. The occupants-othe hotel, were blown high Into the air and the The latter are estimated at fifty In numbering eighty, were surprised whole train viz wrecked. Whole cars number. Two were killed while seated at the table, by sinister were blown fifty feet from the track and six wounded.Japanese It ts not known If rumblings. There was a rush to esand debris was scattered over twenty any Yaqula were killed, as they al- cape, but the building, which waa or a acre of ground. Two men who were ways carry their dead and wounded temporary nature, collapsed and the were cars one In of the Injured. riding away. people were buried In the ruins. Tsacher Tortures Pupils. Congo Annexation Plan. Evelyn Thaw Denies That She Is SeekBrussels. King Leopold and tha Steubenville. Ohio. Miss Clara ing a Divorce. teacher at Tuscarawas Belgian government have come to a Sterling, New York. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw decomplete agreement on the question County Children's home, who. It is al- nied on Saturday that she had deof annexation of the Congo Independ- leged. drove a tack Into manded 91,000,000 or had received any ent state. It Is stated in official dr-cl- Sampson Fowlers tongue, Is accused offer of money to Induce her to conthat the agreement was made pos- of other cruelties In a report of the sent to an annulment of her marriage sible by an important concession by county board of visitors filed with tbe to Harry K. Thaw. Mrs. Thaw aald: of probate Judge a few days ago. The "There has been no conference The king in consenting that the have control of the Congo board says that Misa Sterling forced lawyers and there will not be any. I boys under her charge to take have never been approached by any budget. In addition, the king trans- everal mustard into their mouths un- lawyers on the subject of divorce or ground the magnificent to Belgium fer and you can say positively of Cape Ferrat In the south of til their mouths were burned and sev- separation, la not an atom of troth In there that eral of were them made use himself ill. for the violently France, reserving of the rumors. any lifetime. his of It. however, during Aged Widow Murdered By Robbers. Renders Opinion While Asleep. Bank to Resume Business. Salisbury, .Mo. An atrocious mur- Judge Tenn. A remarkable Chattanooga. was der revealed here Saturday, when Kansas City. It Is announced that has Just come to light here of story of the Sirs. Daniel a Commerce of of body Bank Grisham, the National its doors Mon- widow. 80 years old. was found lying an opinion of the aupreme court of tills city will Tennessee affirming tha death senown Us In 30, quarters In In her home by her son. The crime tence of Andrew day. March Smith, colored. In was committed 96.-who with had 1870. by robbers, the new Commerce building The oulnlon was written by XV. H inflicted deep wounds on their victim Its vnulr. in cash ,0,000 a knife and fractured her skull the chief justice of the supreme court . comptroller of the currency, with Rldgeh-ywith a hammer. A strip of cloth was when he was In a somnauibulent atate. will according 1 the announcement, tied tightly around the throat. The and the remarkable thing waa that Edward the bank: of be president his opinion was thoroughly sound, was murder besome rommitted time will be cashier, tween Thursday evening and Satur- both as to the law and farts, and la Uidceley. hi brother, and George T. Cuts, the g..rernnient day. The knife and hammer are tbs one of the reported opinions being now In charge, will be first inly clues. printed as an authority to this day rice president- - The bn.nl of .rirec-tor- s technical law points Involved. men. local wlH Include many n -- f rs par-liame- do-ma- n Ci |